Choosing just one album from the
greatest band in Rock history is a very difficult task. Yet we are
bold (or Stupid) enough to try. We chose the Magical Mystery Tour
album. For starters, the Beatles didn't hit their peak of
compositional ability until 1967 with the release of the Sergeant
Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour albums. Let's just say that 1967 was a
great year for the Beatles, creatively. Although Sergeant Pepper was
the bigger seller, all of the more popular hit singles the Beatles had
that year were basically from the Magical Mystery Tour album.
Magical
Mystery Tour opens with the title track and then goes to a spacey
"Blue Jay Way." Other great tunes like "The Fool on the Hill", "I Am
the Walrus", "Penny Lane", Strawberry Fields Forever" and "All You
Need is Love" are the radio favorites we quite often hear on classic
rock radio stations every day. But occasionally, the alignment of the
planets is just right enough for the radio stations to grace us with
the playing of the more obscure but excellent tunes like "Your Mother
Should Know" and "Baby You're a Rich Man." Your life would be richer
with the purchase of this album.
Other great albums include:
The
Beatles (A.K.A. The White Album, 1968), Revolver (1966) and
Abbey
Road (1969). There are also two compilation albums worth buying
should you decide that you would prefer the greatest hits type of
route. They are: The Beatles 1962-1966 and The Beatles 1967-1970, both
released by Capitol Records in 1973. Of those two, I would prefer the
latter. |
