 | |
List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 2635
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $11.00 |
| Used Price: $2.14 |
|
| Media: Audio CD |
|
Magical Mystery Tour (1990) Track Listing:
1. Magical Mystery Tour [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
2. Fool on the Hill [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
3. Flying [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
4. Blue Jay Way [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
5. Your Mother Should Know [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
6. I Am the Walrus [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"]
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're a Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love
12. Magical Mystery Tour Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1967 album from The Beatles featuring 'I Am The Walrus', 'All You Need Is Love', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Penny Lane', 'Magical Mystery Tour'' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.
Description of Magical Mystery Tour (1990):
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
Magical Mystery Tour (1990) Reviews:
Weird - Hello! 
2009-12-27 - This album was some kind of EP originally but then they added 5 songs (Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You're a Rich Man, and All You Need Is Love). Actually I knew all those songs except for "Baby You're a Rich Man" which is also the weakest song of those five. The first six songs are from a movie or something I guess. But still...they are good pieces of music, at least most of them are. The title song is a funny song. I actually sing it often when I'm alone. "The Fool on the Hill" is however a more peaceful song - not my favs but still a good song. "Flying" is an instrumental track. "Blue Jay Way" is one of the weirdest tracks I've ever heard. Some goes to "I Am the Walrus" - even name tells that it is so weird! "Your Mother Should Know" is a song about a song that it is so old that someone's mother wasn't born when it was a hit - still they think that his/her mother should know. By the Way, if you like The Beatles' (original) version of "Strawberry Fields Forever", you should also try to get The Runaways's version of it.
Stars: Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye
Upset. 
2009-12-26 - I have the DVD Anthology from the some years ago and "I Am The Walrus" has a TRUE stereo ending.It's like that on "Love" and even The Beatles Rock Band.What in the hell happened? I've waited all this time for something good to happen and,well...
Great album
2009-12-24 - I've always loved this album, even more so than Sgt. Pepper. I used to have this on 8 track tape when I was a kid, and listened to it constantly. I'm glad they did the American album version so we got some extra songs like "All You Need is Love", "Baby You're a Rich Man", etc. Not a bad remaster, but when you listen to it with head phones, the back and forth between the right and left phone gets a teeny bit annoying (but all the remasters have that). I can live with it. I do like being able to hear the bass better and other sounds I never picked up on before.
It's The Beatles!!---You Already Know It's Fabulous!! 
2009-12-18 - This marks the 4th and final incarnation of this classic album
that I will buy in my lifetime!
From vinyl (early 80's) to first generation CD (early 90's)
to 2nd generation (first digitized) CD (mid 90's) to 09/09/09...
I bought each of these new limited edition (stereo) remasters,
from "Rubber Soul" to "Let It Be", which is my favorite era of The Beatles'
stellar paradigm-changing mid to late 60's musical output!
As soon as I unwrapped them, I listened to each CD intently 1x, then smoked a
phat joint along with a strong daquiri, then listened down
to them all 3x more!! (-: Brilliantly remastered!
Flawless material to start with, but this go round I felt as if "the lads"
had actually set up camp in my music room and were giving me, just me, their best work in 3-D!!
Every breathe, syllable, finger cymbal, crash & high-hat, snare, toms, guitar lick,
bass riff, string arrangement and every other part is vivid, warm, pure and timeless!
There is no need for me to buy anymore Beatles material after this!
It can't be captured any better! (-:
I like the new fold out packaging, the booklets, rare vintage photos, the original-style
Parlophone logo on the discs, and I enjoyed the little mini-docs about each
album viewable via computer, Playstation 3 or XBOX too.
I was an 18 yr old kid in 1982 when I bought my first Beatles albums on vinyl,
age 26 in 1990 when I bought their first CD versions, age 30 when I bought the first
digital remasters in 1994 at the time of the The Beatles Anthology with
"Free As A Bird", which I now own on DVD.
Now at age 45 in 2009, this is the final frontier and I'm satisfied.
SUMMATION: Great music, great band, timeless, seamless & forever without peer! (-:
Beatles '67
2009-12-15 - Originally released as a six-track double-EP in the United Kingdom, the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" emerged as a full-fledged album in America thanks to the inclusion of the group's 1967 singles. Judged on its own merits, the "Magical Mystery Tour" soundtrack is uneven psychedelic whimsy highlighted by John Lennon's brilliant "I Am the Walrus" and Paul McCartney's dreamlike "The Fool on the Hill." Ironically, the title song captures the enthusiastic spirit that eluded the TV movie. The unfortunate low point is George Harrison's endlessly droning "Blue Jay Way." Still, the glorious addition of "Hello Goodbye," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Penny Lane," "Baby You're a Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love" place the overall record in the essential category. (A pity that "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" were dropped from "Sgt. Pepper" for the urgent necessity of a new single.)
