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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: EMI
Salesrank: 163
Released: September 9, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Magical Mystery Tour (Remastered) Track Listing:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
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 Documentary
Editorial Review:
The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the Beatles catalogue has seen since its original release.
Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. The newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.
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Description of Magical Mystery Tour (Remastered):
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 (Remastered) Reviews:
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.)
The magic was actually fading. 
2009-12-14 - I got this record when it came out: I knew MMT was a movie of some sort, but I didn't understand the Side 2 with Hello Goodbye, etc. I thought the recording sounded strange on my lil' plastic stereo: the record was in mono.
Some time in college I got to see MMT, but by then the novelty'd worn off: it looked like a movie of outtakes, what they'd call bloopers these days. But that music: now that was some serious magic.
Paul seemed devoted to writing genuine pop tunes; the kind that become standards. They did too: was it Sinatra that recorded Fool on the Hill? Lennon was busy with studio antics.
After the famous Lennon interview in Rolling Stone, we knew the magic had faded: even by late 1967, with MMT, the Maharishi, etc. Maybe this was the last Beatles studio recording: by the White Album, a year later, they were passing thru.
But I still associate Strawberry Fields with that frigid-looking video & All You Need Is Love with the end of the Summer of Love. Only the Beatles could encapsulate two eras in a single year.
great LP
2009-12-12 - This is one of my most favorite albums I think is one of the albums showing the Beatles at their best and due to the remastering it sounds like the Beatles recorded this just yesterday.
Music 50 / 50 Great to lackluster+ New Sound:Overblown Hype
2009-12-06 - It's a fun album "Weird" as Lennon said. The five songs they wrote for the film aren't great (except for " I am the Walrus") but I guess it was more like scoring a silly film so they weren't aiming high. The other five songs of course include the best from this psych/pop period "Strawbery Fields Forever" "Penny Lane" "Baby your a Rich Man" "All you need is Love" "Hello Goodbye". The sound remaster that "you won't believe your ears, we spent four years remastering these". I have to say that the Beatles catalog to my ears has always sounded great on CD. I did a heavy A/B comparison between these songs and the same songs on the Blue CD (best of 1966 to 1970) In the most subtle rare seconds of some sound there was a bit more separation/clarty. But I mean berely discernable. In fact the Blue cd has more bass punch to it, and I prefer it. I'd heard that the Blue and Red Double CDs were actualy remixed when they were mastered. The '66 and older material may actualy not sound as good as the early stuff because George Martin would fill four tracks and re-record them all to one or two tracks of another tape and kept doing that up to four times, thus degrading the sound a bit in the process. Not so with Rubber soul and earlier.
