Album Description: Japanese exclusive reissue of 1967 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. This album has been direct metal mastered from a digitally remastered original tape to give the best possible sound quality. Gatefold sleeve. 2003.
Amazon.com: The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." Even George's "Blue Jay Way" paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail. (I consider Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill" from Court and Spark to be a companion piece about sitting in the Hollywood Hills, waiting for somebody to show up.) And although the goofy TV movie may have been mostly Paul's baby, this album features the two 45 rpm masterpieces that sum up the quintessential best of Lennon and McCartney at this stage of their development: Paul's "Penny Lane" and John's "I Am the Walrus." --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - second cd's are no good
I ordered Magical Mystery Tour at a second-hand price. After a minimal amount of playing, it became useless. Unplayable. I will never do this again.
Rating: - Setback
The Fab Four lost their manager, Brian Epstein, in late August, 1967. Somewhat rudderless, and with time on their hands because they were no longer performing live, the group needed a new project after their groundbreaking "Sgt. Pepper" release earlier that summer. They decided to make a TV movie, and, unfortunately, decided to handle it themselves. "Magical Mystery Tour" was filmed hastily in September 1967, and demonstrates, conclusively, that, for all their musical brilliance, the Beatles themselves were no filmmakers. "Tour" is basically a nonsensical mishmash lacking "Pepper"'s unifying ... Read More
Rating: - MILES OF ENTERTAINMENT
I HAVE MOST OF THE BEATLES ON LP'S - BUT NOW THAT I AM A SENIOR CITIZEN, I GO FOR DAILY WALKS & TAKE MY "CD" WALKMAN WITH ME, THE BEATLES MAKE WALKING A "BREEZE" BY ENTERTAINING ME! GLAD YOU ARE AROUND AMAZON!!!!!!
Rating: - The Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour", The Beatles 1967
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour often is not mentioned due too the fact Sgt. Peppers came out that same year. On this album The Beatles are obviously becoming more experimental and using many more affects and trying too be more psychedelic. Well it worked on songs such as, "Flying", and "Blue Jay Way", are extremly psychedelic songs using lots of affects. This album was also the last of The Beatles making really acid rock albums and after 1967 The Beatles started too fall apart. The songs on here have all remained classics, "Hello Goodbye", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Penny Lane", and "All You ... Read More
Rating: - One of My Fav.s
A lot has been said about the Beatles, and it leaves little to add. I enjoyed this piece when I first bought it back in 1972, which was 5 years after it's initial release.
It blew me away then and it still does to this day. All ages will identify with this. Simply enjoyable to listen to.
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