If you liked this video you might be interested in my brand new stereo mix of the unreleased magical mystery tour song "Jessie's Dream". Check it out on my second channel: ua-cam.com/video/2hC9S4kkm1Q/v-deo.html
To lengthen the first side, you should use the 8-minute version of It's all Too Much. That would close the time gap quite a lot. Since the extra verse was used in the film, it would make for a more logical inclusion. The last two tracks: Their timings are so inconsequential, they could also be included without extending the album to 40 minutes. Otherwise, you would have the same roadblock as Capitol's Early Beatles by unnecessarily dumping two tracks from the running order.
The only problem is that United Arts wanted at least 4 exclusive songs for Yellow Submarine, and since you put George's songs on MMT, they would need 2 more songs for YS, but I loved your song list! ❤
I think that including the singles on albums is a good thing. The Beatles didn't like it because they thought it was cheating the consumer to sell them an album that included songs from singles they had already bought. The solution to that is to release the singles either at the same time that the album is released or afterwards. That way the buyer can get the music that's on the single right away, not have to buy it twice, and have the music all together on one record. So in my ideal universe, the record company lets The Beatles release the Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane single at the same time as Sgt. Pepper and they can include those 2 songs on that album. Then 2 songs from Sgt. Pepper, maybe Good Morning and Lovely Rita, would be moved to Magical Mystery Tour. The All You Need Is Love single is released at the same time as MMT, and Hello Goodbye either released as a single later or as the B-side of AYNIL. It's All Too Much could be added. The result would be side 1 being identical to the US side 1 of MMT, with side 2 like this: Hello, Goodbye Good Morning, Good Morning Lovely Rita It's All Too Much Baby You're a Rich Man All You Need Is Love
I think it would have been good if "Octopus's Garden" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" had been written earlier and put onto Yellow Submarine along with "What's the New Mary Jane" and "Circles." I think those songs would have fit well in the film and on a Yellow Submarine album. Perhaps they could have made them sound more psychedelic in the recording. Then, in this alternate universe, "It Don't Come Easy," "Old Brown Shoe," and possibly "The Back Seat of My Car," "Goodbye," and "Come and Get It" could have replaced said songs on Abbey Road
I really appreciate your time, effort, and creativity. And you came up with a viable, sensible approach to re-working these recordings into an alternate format. My personal opinion, however, is that side 1 of the American release of the MMT LP should be left alone in terms of the track listing. The Side 1 songs are the ones specifically written and recorded for the MMT project. The side two glitches regarding "fake stereo" recordings may have been fixed a long time ago, but it's been quite a while since I last purchased MMT, so I don't know. If that major flaw hasn't already been resolved, then a refreshed, remastered, true stereo recording needs to be released without delay. The YS songs could be released on a double EP perhaps. "Hey Bulldog" is the only truly standout original song on that record, although they all deserved to be heard, especially "It's Only A Northern Song", as I believe that it was a thinly veiled effort by Harrison to express his unhappiness with the manner in which his songs were treated by Lennon and McCartney.
MMT is one of my favourite Beatles pet peeves and I've been working on a fix for this album for a while. I'll be releasing a video on this soon enough, though. Congratulations on beating me to it. Like John, I need a Paul to get me out of bed and put me to work. Cheers to you, sir.
Funny this showed up in my feed. I "fixed" the White album last week and made one of the most interesting and cohesive albums of the 1960s. It's also the best John Lennon album. 1. Glass Onion 2. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 4. I'm So Tired 5. Yer Blues 6. Long, Long, Long 7. Sexy Sadie 8. Cry Baby Cry 9. Dear Prudence 10. Julia I snuck in George's "Long, Long, Long" because it helped get to 10 songs / 30 minutes. It also fits nicely with the album. Haven't locked in the order of the last 3 songs yet.
Very nice idea, thou I think All togerther and Bulldog should stay on the album, it's within usual eclectic Beatles' style - on sgt. Pepper songs like title/reprise track and Good morning are also not really psychodelic very much) Even the lyrics of All together and Bulldog seem weird enough to go along with Walrus. And All together would be good closure for the Tour, like we've been on a tour togerher and now let's all sing along (just realized that All you need is love is such a perfect closure for the MMT)
Great job! Just make sure it's the long version of "It's All Too Much" and it's perfect. (They were contractually obligated to release that movie soundtrack, but forget that I mentioned it).
I've tried to imagine a 14 track list combining MMT and YS with other songs around that time period. It mostly involved stitching the MMT double-EP together with the unreleased YS EP. Side 1: 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. Your Mother Should Know 3. I Am The Walrus 4. Hello, Goodbye (On here for being the A-side to Walrus) 5. The Fool On The Hill 6. Flying 7. Blue Jay Way (I actually prefer this as a side closer for some reason) Side 2: 8. Only A Northern Song 9. All Together Now 10. Across The Universe (Wildlife Version) (On here because it was intended to be on the scrapped YS EP) 11. Baby, You're A Rich Man (Only really on here because it was initially made for the YS film... though it's probably the most filler pick) 12. Hey Bulldog 13. It's All Too Much 14. All You Need Is Love (On here for being on both YS and the US MMT) Definitely a work in progress, especially order-wise. I'm also not sure if it's actually better, because I think Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were a highlight of US MMT (despite their redundancy). Still, it's interesting to imagine the post-Peppers era in a more complete package.
I've reworked all the post-1964 albums. My version of MMT has the same tracks, but a slightly different sequence: Side A 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. The Fool on the Hill 3. I Am the Walrus 4. Blue Jay Way 5. Hello, Goodbye 6. Flying 7. Across the Universe (Wildlife Version-without the opening bird sounds and slowed to its original recording speed) Side B 8. All Together Now 9. Only a Northern Song 10. Hey Bulldog 11. Your Mother Should Know 12. Baby, You're a Rich Man 13. It's All Too Much 14. All You Need Is Love
it’s cool originally as a double ep, very trippy release format. meanwhile, the extra tracks have proved to be an incredibly convenient bonus over the years, particularly suitable to the cd release. nothing needs to be changed. it would just muck with the original vision.
Thanks for this, it really set me thinking and made me burn my own version. I have always found it wanting, not that it hasn't got good songs on it. The proposal of putting it's only a Northern song and It's All Too Much on the album, was startling in a good way, these two tracks deserve a place on an album and would fit perfectly. The former is the Beatles most overlooked psychedelic masterpiece and the later has exactly the right, weird vibe that Mystery Tour evokes. Previously Blue Jay Way felt out of place but with those two extra George songs suddenly they all fit and we suddenly have a weird, quirky and brilliant album. However, I thought leaving off Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane because they had been singles was a bad idea, they're great songs that feel like they need an album. I have left off Hello Goodbye which Paul wrote to show he could write a song about nothing and is suitably vacuous and dilutes the album and Baby You're a Rich Man while it's OK, I don't think it fits. Side One: Magical Mystery Tour The Fool on The Hill Strawberry Fields Forever Flying It's All Too Much Side Two: Your Mother Should Know Blue Jay Way Penny Lane Only A Northern Song I Am The Walrus I burnt myself a copy and really liked it, reminded me a little of the weirdness of the Beach Boys Smiley Smile.
Thanks for watching and I enjoy your interpretation. For me personally I feel strawberry fields and penny lane just work so well as it's own standalone thing that it would feel wrong putting it on an album.
Interesting idea!! I think the Capitol MMT is almost right - except that it is short on songs (11 instead of the usual 14 or 13). I've made my own version: Side 1. 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. Your Mother Should Know 3. I Am The Walrus 4. Flying 5. Fool On The Hill 6. Jessies Dream (which gets segued into track 7) 7. Blue Jay Way Side 2. 1. Strawberry Fields Forever 2. Hello Goodbye 3. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 4. Baby You're A Rich Man 5. Penny Lane 6. All You Need Is Love However the YS Soundtrack needed a complete overhaul. Firstly it should have been released in mid 1968 to coincide with the film. Maybe a couple of the best Martin instrumental tracks (edited) could have been added to side 1. Side 2 could have consisted of "Across The Universe" (the alternate Indian version), "Lady Madonna", "The Inner Light", "Sour Milk Sea"( the Beatles version), "Revolution" ( the single version), and maybe a couple of the early recorded tracks from the White Album Sessions.
I really like your yellow submarine ideas!! I was considering you know my name but if I'm correct the vocals weren't finished until 1969 or something like that. I think Jessie's dream would be a cool idea as well but it doesn't really contain much substance but I would understand it if it was in a mmt soundtrack type deal
Fun conceit and a valiant effort. IMO, the basic challenge is that there simply aren't enough songs for a UK-style "no singles allowed" LP. I don't think a 9 song album would have satisfied the band's self-imposed rules about album length, and if they decided to make a MMT LP, I think they would have recorded 4-5 more songs (chasing 13-14 total). I like to think John would have mustered a couple more, but who knows what they would have come up with.
Interesting idea. Curious if you could do a video about something I've always wanted to see: IF the Beatles hadn't broken up at least into1971- What would the next Beatles album *possibly* have been, using tracks from their solo albums of that time?
I love the idea but the only problem with that is- would the Beatles have written certain songs if they hadn't broken up? I guess maybe the solution to that is to do a more and less likely list of songs
@@clynaack Yeah of course it would have to be highly speculative based on what they could possibly have written for a Beatles album anyway. George certainly has a list of songs he had already written but never got a chance to do until they were solo songs. John and Paul must have at least a few, like "Hold On" by John to me always sounded like it was straight off a Beatles album to me. And perhaps Paul's "Another Day" or "Maybe I'm Amazed"?
I have the 2009 box set and ripped them to my HDD. I mixed in the singles between MMT and the white album which included Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, Hey Jude, and Revolution making it maybe my favorite album. I did that for all the albums so I could remove the past masters directory.
If you don't have the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack", beg steal or borrow to get it. Totally remixed in 1999 from the ground up using the original reduction mixes.
Side A 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. The Fool On The Hill 3. *Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Traffic 4. Flying 5. Blue Jay Way 6. I Am The Walrus Side B 1. Hello, Goodbye 2. *Death Cab for Cutie - The Bonzo Dog Band 3. Baby You’re a Rich Man 4. Your Mother Should Know 5. *It’s All Too Much 6. *You Know My Name / Look Up The Number [vocals recorded 1969]
Side A 1. A Beginning [instrumental] 2. Yellow Submarine 3. Eleanor Rigby 4. All Together Now 5. When I’m Sixty-Four 6. Only A Northern Song 7. ^Nowhere Man Side B 1. ^Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds 2. All You Need Is Love 3. *Lady Madonna 4. Hey Bulldog 5. The Inner Light 6. *Across The Universe [Anthology] 7. *Good Night [version 2] unnumbered (end credits) - John, Paul, George, Ringo vocals
I have an analog/digital recorder and I’m now so tempted to record the audio of vignettes from my VHS copy of Magical Mystery Tour just so I can create a playlist similar to this in my iTunes library.
Nah Hey Bulldog should be the A side for both US and UK version because that’s def the more dominant song over All Together Now and would get much more radio play
I like this idea and have experimented with it myself. I would include all together now because it’s like a singalong song I imagine them singing on the bus and goes nicely with flying. My tracklisting would be something like this. I think Hey Bulldog would be a great A side with Look Up The Number (You Know My Name) as the B-Side. Side One: 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. All Together Now 3. Flying 4. Blue Jay Way 5. I Am The Walrus Side Two: 1. Hello Goodbye 2. Fool On The Hill 3. Only A Northern Song 4. Your Mother Should Know 5. It’s All Too Much (Full Version)
I generally mix everything from all you need is love to Lady madonna (including the orignal across the universe) since they're all the songs made between peopers and white. I know "release" while it wouldn't make sense since they had their films to promote, but after the band ended i strongly thing this should be the format to releasing this part of their catalogue.
I would have put Only A Northern Song as the B-side of All You Need Is Love, and included Baby You're A Rich Man on Magical Mystery Tour. That would give Lennon 2 songs on the album. George having 3 songs and John having 1 doesn't seem right.
Similiar to my suggestion way back then ! I agreed with George Martin's admission over the mistake of leaving off Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever from Pepper which is where I too would've kept it. I would've added It's All Too Much & It's Only A Northern Song to MMT with all the original others ( in fact I would've had either Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or Within You Without You as the flip to All You Need Is Love saving Baby You're A Rich Man) . I would have bolstered the MMT album with the standard 12th track with one of the lesser left over tracks from pepper and you could've used The Inner Light & Lady Madonna songs on the Yellow Submarine LP ( perhaps adding if you like the early versions extant of Across The Universe & You Know My Name'..). Don't become hysterical I just always thought this better ! 😹
If I’m honest, I am more of a newer Beatles fan (I’m in my 20s), but I have done similar things like fixing albums privately by other artists like Michael Jackson, Queen, Prince etc so this was a very cool video to see a similar concept been done by you for The Beatles 😁 I am going to be listening to the album soon in the way that you tried to fix it in this video, am I allowed to ask if there is another album that you think should be fixed?
Side A (22:26)- Magical Mystery Tour Fool on the Hill Only a Northern Song Your Mother Should Know Flying Blue Jay Way I am the Walrus Side B (21:09)- You Know my Name (Look up my Number) [Anthology version] Baby You're a Rich Man too It's All too Much All You Need is Love All Together Now
For me MMT has always been a interesting subject. Its the only Capitol release that has been kept in play. We no longer have the Hey Jude album which i loved. You make mention of Hey Bulldog missing the cut due to its early 68 time frame but having it as a single would still put it up against Lady Madonna which is what actually happened and McCartney won out. My personal wish is that they went with Its All Too Much instead of Blue Jay Way for the film. Would have been great visually of what they came up with and taking BJW and Flying of the EP would leave room for IATM. In terms of what you are putting forward regarding a full length LP with no previous singles included is that they had to hand over 4 songs for the Yellow submarine movie at the beginning of 68 so the artwork could be done in time. In other words it gets complicated. I love MMT as is but it would for me be better with the inclusion of Its All Too Much at the expense of Blue Jay Way/Flying
I actually have a 9 minute version so it could be even longer! However I don't think most people would like it that much since the song still ends at around 1 and a half/ 2 minutes
side 2 should open with hello goodbye as it’s more upbeat and it seems more likely the band would lead with a paul track. then go into blue jay way, your mother should know, only a northern song and ending on i am the walrus
Hate to be pedantic but you made a mistake by saying Hello Goodbye was in the MMT film. I understand what you're trying to achieve here but more importantly how could all these tracks be combined for box set with the normal bonus tracks, did/do Apple have a plan?
hello goodbye was in the mmt film its at the end during the end credits sequence! its right after John says "and that was a magical mystery tour. I told ya". I have an idea for a boxset and will probably make a video about it soon!
@@adrianmist6681 I agree with Adrian "hello, goodbye" - (part, finale played over end credits). It is, but it isn't, but it should be in the magical mystery tour.
Nice ideas but you obviously need another song for side one to fill out a 10-track album (the norm in 1967). Did you consider another track worked on in 1967?? YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER) might work well here ... just a thought. Go Well!
Um, it’s pretty common for people to make their own custom versions of Beatles albums. I’ve removed all the cover songs from the early albums and added the non-album singles. I’m not strutting around announcing that I’ve “fixed” them 😆
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t include “Strawberry Fields Forever“ and “Penny Lane“ on this. The album could use more heft, especially to counteract the weaknesses (sorry, George) of BJW and OANS. I approve your overall concept, though.
My goal was to try and avoid repeating songs therefore sff and pl couldn't be included. In my personal opinion anyway they don't really fit that well on mmt in the first place and having it as its own standalone thing is just what it needs and deserves. However if I had to tack it onto an album it would be sgt peppers. Also imo bjw and oans are some of the best songs the group recorded!! So I guess it just comes down to personal opinion!
Why not release hey bulldog as the b-side to lady madonna, and put the inner light on mmt? Hey bulldog was recorded during the filming of the lady madonna music video, plus, theyre more stylistically similar.
I think the US version is still fine. The better idea would have been for the US to do a similar thing with the Yellow Submarine album, by including Across The Universe to round out side 1 (as the EP would have had) and place Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and some of the discarded white album tracks (What’s The New Mary Jane, Not Guilty, ect) on side 2
It's a cool track listing, but there's no way John and Paul (and George Martin) would agree to so many George tracks on one album. Between MMT and Pepper, MMT is a lot more fun and has less Paul schmalz.
It's not about the tracks imo. It's still longer than (or around the same length as) many of their early albums with rubber soul being their first over 35 mins
I never could understand why they didn't put single releases on the albums. It was ridiculous that you had to play an entire album and then shift gears and play a 45, then turn it over and play the other side of it and then go back to the next album. All Together Now would NOT make a good A side. In fact, I wouldn't have even put it on the album at all. Finally, the movie score songs on both Help and Yellow Submarine were very annoying and once again, made you get up and skip the songs on the record player every time they came on.
The double-EP contained SIX tracks, not five. You're looking at the lyrics sheet, and one of the songs was an instrumental. Seems like you correct yourself later, but I'm not sure. "...an instrumental B-side, which, let's be real, you won't really listen to that often." Maybe YOU won't.
Yellow Submarine could have been a compilation, using previous tracks and singles from Rubber soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Maybe just psychedelic material. No new tracks.
@@clynaack I also think that MMT, the TV show should have been promoted as a visual LP, not a movie. People wouldn't have been disappointed by something that actually isn't a movie. I do enjoy being clever with hindsight.
Yeah I think people would have been more accepting of it if it was promoted that way the US version of the film could have even found a way to incorporate the sff,pl and all you need is love music videos into it
What makes magical mystery tour virtually their best album after their 5 classics is the inclusion of some of their best songs… …and you want to take those off?
Weirdly overcomplicated! I don't know why you're tryin to play this as an imaginary game of "back in time" rather than just making a good album. Your version i neither here nor there from my point of view;. I think ALL Beatle albums should have the singles recorded as part of theorsessions into them. George Martin said keeping them seperate was a his biggest mistake tht he regretted. They weren't even consistent with it -only about half the albums don't include the singles, the others (mostly which had a movie tie-in do). If you do that Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields are where they oughta be -in Sgt. Pepper.But MMT can still claim All You Need is Love and Baby You're a Rich Man.Then just take the British EP songs, Add the 4 Yellow Submarine tracks, and add Hello Goodbye.I would add You Know My Name because the music was recorded on 1967 (yes I know the vocals weren't till '69) and it sounds like it fits in here.The only question for me is whether you add on the original 1968 version of Across the Universe for another John song; it sounds good here and makes a hell of a lot more sense here than in the Let It Be album (to which I'd add The Ballad of John & Yoko , Old Brown Shoe and Don't Let me Down.) 'Nuff said.
The problem with that is lady Madonna wasn't finished until early 68 so would mess with release schedules. I also feel like it does not fit at all with the rest of the album. I understand your distaste for hello, goodbye though it is quite repetitive. I think the version with George's guitar all the way through is much more interesting
Sorry, I don't like it. The reason is I love the MMT album is I've got all 1967 singles together with the double EP - in your version they are missing. Btw Blue Jay Way is NO good opener ... I don't like the YSubmarine LP, too, best would be all 15 songs on one LP ( CD). The 1999 YSubmarine Songtrack is fine though.
I can't listen anymore... you talk too fast. But what I watched seemed to make sense. MMT is easily the best Beatles album. Pepper is overrated; they should have included Penny Lane and SFF. What a mistake! Maybe simply put all the recordings from that year onto one album and call it 1967.
Here’s the rub: The MMT album is considered to be THE BEST album that Capitol put together on The Beatles…and, since being released on CD, is considered THE version to have.
I understand why people prefer us mmt especially in this day and age (makes it easier for streaming) but it's just not for me. I would take the uk double ep plus the singles any day of the week.
@@clynaack You're welcome to it, but it is a basic instrumental with little to recommend listening to it. I didn't like it when I first heard it in late Dec 1967, haven't warmed to it in the 57 years since (27th of next month). I was 14, when I heard the Beatles in 1963, saw them in Denver, Aug 26, 1964, and I bought all the US albums and singles as New Releases. I liked Cry for a Shadow better, but it isn't anything to write home about, either.
If you liked this video you might be interested in my brand new stereo mix of the unreleased magical mystery tour song "Jessie's Dream". Check it out on my second channel: ua-cam.com/video/2hC9S4kkm1Q/v-deo.html
To lengthen the first side, you should use the 8-minute version of It's all Too Much. That would close the time gap quite a lot. Since the extra verse was used in the film, it would make for a more logical inclusion. The last two tracks: Their timings are so inconsequential, they could also be included without extending the album to 40 minutes. Otherwise, you would have the same roadblock as Capitol's Early Beatles by unnecessarily dumping two tracks from the running order.
Love the idea of using the full version of its all too much!
The only problem is that United Arts wanted at least 4 exclusive songs for Yellow Submarine, and since you put George's songs on MMT, they would need 2 more songs for YS, but I loved your song list! ❤
I'm sure they would work it out lol
@@clynaackWe can work it out
I think that including the singles on albums is a good thing. The Beatles didn't like it because they thought it was cheating the consumer to sell them an album that included songs from singles they had already bought. The solution to that is to release the singles either at the same time that the album is released or afterwards. That way the buyer can get the music that's on the single right away, not have to buy it twice, and have the music all together on one record. So in my ideal universe, the record company lets The Beatles release the Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane single at the same time as Sgt. Pepper and they can include those 2 songs on that album. Then 2 songs from Sgt. Pepper, maybe Good Morning and Lovely Rita, would be moved to Magical Mystery Tour. The All You Need Is Love single is released at the same time as MMT, and Hello Goodbye either released as a single later or as the B-side of AYNIL. It's All Too Much could be added. The result would be side 1 being identical to the US side 1 of MMT, with side 2 like this:
Hello, Goodbye
Good Morning, Good Morning
Lovely Rita
It's All Too Much
Baby You're a Rich Man
All You Need Is Love
That's really good
I think it would have been good if "Octopus's Garden" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" had been written earlier and put onto Yellow Submarine along with "What's the New Mary Jane" and "Circles." I think those songs would have fit well in the film and on a Yellow Submarine album. Perhaps they could have made them sound more psychedelic in the recording. Then, in this alternate universe, "It Don't Come Easy," "Old Brown Shoe," and possibly "The Back Seat of My Car," "Goodbye," and "Come and Get It" could have replaced said songs on Abbey Road
In an ideal world I'd have Dear Prudence replace Maxwell and Sexy Sadie replace Octopus. Just imagine that flow 🤤
I really appreciate your time, effort, and creativity. And you came up with a viable, sensible approach to re-working these recordings into an alternate format.
My personal opinion, however, is that side 1 of the American release of the MMT LP should be left alone in terms of the track listing. The Side 1 songs are the ones specifically written and recorded for the MMT project.
The side two glitches regarding "fake stereo" recordings may have been fixed a long time ago, but it's been quite a while since I last purchased MMT, so I don't know.
If that major flaw hasn't already been resolved, then a refreshed, remastered, true stereo recording needs to be released without delay.
The YS songs could be released on a double EP perhaps. "Hey Bulldog" is the only truly standout original song on that record, although they all deserved to be heard, especially "It's Only A Northern Song", as I believe that it was a thinly veiled effort by Harrison to express his unhappiness with the manner in which his songs were treated by Lennon and McCartney.
MMT is one of my favourite Beatles pet peeves and I've been working on a fix for this album for a while. I'll be releasing a video on this soon enough, though. Congratulations on beating me to it. Like John, I need a Paul to get me out of bed and put me to work. Cheers to you, sir.
Be sure to send me your video once it's out!
Funny this showed up in my feed. I "fixed" the White album last week and made one of the most interesting and cohesive albums of the 1960s. It's also the best John Lennon album.
1. Glass Onion
2. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4. I'm So Tired
5. Yer Blues
6. Long, Long, Long
7. Sexy Sadie
8. Cry Baby Cry
9. Dear Prudence
10. Julia
I snuck in George's "Long, Long, Long" because it helped get to 10 songs / 30 minutes. It also fits nicely with the album. Haven't locked in the order of the last 3 songs yet.
The John only white album 😂
This was really well thought out and would have been a definite improvement over what we got for MMT and YS.
Very nice idea, thou I think All togerther and Bulldog should stay on the album, it's within usual eclectic Beatles' style - on sgt. Pepper songs like title/reprise track and Good morning are also not really psychodelic very much)
Even the lyrics of All together and Bulldog seem weird enough to go along with Walrus. And All together would be good closure for the Tour, like we've been on a tour togerher and now let's all sing along (just realized that All you need is love is such a perfect closure for the MMT)
Magical Mystery Tour EP got to Number 2 in the UK charts, only stopped from getting to number one by Hello Goodbye..... it wasnt that odd
I love the EP set and think it's the best version of Magical Mystery Tour.
I will die a fool on this hill
Yeah I prefer having the EP plus the singles over the US version any day of the week
I think the issue here is that you are looking at this from a fan POV rather than greedy record company. It would never happen in RL.
I like it 👍
Great job! Just make sure it's the long version of "It's All Too Much" and it's perfect.
(They were contractually obligated to release that movie soundtrack, but forget that I mentioned it).
I've tried to imagine a 14 track list combining MMT and YS with other songs around that time period. It mostly involved stitching the MMT double-EP together with the unreleased YS EP.
Side 1:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Your Mother Should Know
3. I Am The Walrus
4. Hello, Goodbye (On here for being the A-side to Walrus)
5. The Fool On The Hill
6. Flying
7. Blue Jay Way (I actually prefer this as a side closer for some reason)
Side 2:
8. Only A Northern Song
9. All Together Now
10. Across The Universe (Wildlife Version) (On here because it was intended to be on the scrapped YS EP)
11. Baby, You're A Rich Man (Only really on here because it was initially made for the YS film... though it's probably the most filler pick)
12. Hey Bulldog
13. It's All Too Much
14. All You Need Is Love (On here for being on both YS and the US MMT)
Definitely a work in progress, especially order-wise. I'm also not sure if it's actually better, because I think Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were a highlight of US MMT (despite their redundancy). Still, it's interesting to imagine the post-Peppers era in a more complete package.
Imagine calling a song with as nasty of a Bass-line as Baby, You're A Rich Man filler
Interesting ideas! I am tempted it say its almost too much material 😂
I've reworked all the post-1964 albums. My version of MMT has the same tracks, but a slightly different sequence:
Side A
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool on the Hill
3. I Am the Walrus
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Hello, Goodbye
6. Flying
7. Across the Universe (Wildlife Version-without the opening bird sounds and slowed to its original recording speed)
Side B
8. All Together Now
9. Only a Northern Song
10. Hey Bulldog
11. Your Mother Should Know
12. Baby, You're a Rich Man
13. It's All Too Much
14. All You Need Is Love
And regarding length, side B is 24:29, which is long but still 24 seconds shorter than the first side of Abbey Road.
it’s cool originally as a double ep, very trippy release format. meanwhile, the extra tracks have proved to be an incredibly convenient bonus over the years, particularly suitable to the cd release. nothing needs to be changed. it would just muck with the original vision.
Thanks for this, it really set me thinking and made me burn my own version. I have always found it wanting, not that it hasn't got good songs on it.
The proposal of putting it's only a Northern song and It's All Too Much on the album, was startling in a good way, these two tracks deserve a place on an album and would fit perfectly. The former is the Beatles most overlooked psychedelic masterpiece and the later has exactly the right, weird vibe that Mystery Tour evokes. Previously Blue Jay Way felt out of place but with those two extra George songs suddenly they all fit and we suddenly have a weird, quirky and brilliant album. However, I thought leaving off Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane because they had been singles was a bad idea, they're great songs that feel like they need an album.
I have left off Hello Goodbye which Paul wrote to show he could write a song about nothing and is suitably vacuous and dilutes the album and Baby You're a Rich Man while it's OK, I don't think it fits.
Side One:
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool on The Hill
Strawberry Fields Forever
Flying
It's All Too Much
Side Two:
Your Mother Should Know
Blue Jay Way
Penny Lane
Only A Northern Song
I Am The Walrus
I burnt myself a copy and really liked it, reminded me a little of the weirdness of the Beach Boys Smiley Smile.
Thanks for watching and I enjoy your interpretation. For me personally I feel strawberry fields and penny lane just work so well as it's own standalone thing that it would feel wrong putting it on an album.
Interesting idea!! I think the Capitol MMT is almost right - except that it is short on songs (11 instead of the usual 14 or 13). I've made my own version:
Side 1.
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Your Mother Should Know
3. I Am The Walrus
4. Flying
5. Fool On The Hill
6. Jessies Dream (which gets segued into track 7)
7. Blue Jay Way
Side 2.
1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Hello Goodbye
3. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
4. Baby You're A Rich Man
5. Penny Lane
6. All You Need Is Love
However the YS Soundtrack needed a complete overhaul. Firstly it should have been released in mid 1968 to coincide with the film. Maybe a couple of the best Martin instrumental tracks (edited) could have been added to side 1. Side 2 could have consisted of "Across The Universe" (the alternate Indian version), "Lady Madonna", "The Inner Light", "Sour Milk Sea"( the Beatles version), "Revolution" ( the single version), and maybe a couple of the early recorded tracks from the White Album Sessions.
I really like your yellow submarine ideas!! I was considering you know my name but if I'm correct the vocals weren't finished until 1969 or something like that. I think Jessie's dream would be a cool idea as well but it doesn't really contain much substance but I would understand it if it was in a mmt soundtrack type deal
Fun conceit and a valiant effort. IMO, the basic challenge is that there simply aren't enough songs for a UK-style "no singles allowed" LP. I don't think a 9 song album would have satisfied the band's self-imposed rules about album length, and if they decided to make a MMT LP, I think they would have recorded 4-5 more songs (chasing 13-14 total). I like to think John would have mustered a couple more, but who knows what they would have come up with.
I mean they were satisfied with only putting out the double ep so who knows 🤷♂️
American MMT is just the same as UK version of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" with songs from the film on one side and others on Side B.
Interesting idea. Curious if you could do a video about something I've always wanted to see: IF the Beatles hadn't broken up at least into1971- What would the next Beatles album *possibly* have been, using tracks from their solo albums of that time?
I love the idea but the only problem with that is- would the Beatles have written certain songs if they hadn't broken up? I guess maybe the solution to that is to do a more and less likely list of songs
@@clynaack Yeah of course it would have to be highly speculative based on what they could possibly have written for a Beatles album anyway. George certainly has a list of songs he had already written but never got a chance to do until they were solo songs. John and Paul must have at least a few, like "Hold On" by John to me always sounded like it was straight off a Beatles album to me. And perhaps Paul's "Another Day" or "Maybe I'm Amazed"?
I have the 2009 box set and ripped them to my HDD. I mixed in the singles between MMT and the white album which included Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, Hey Jude, and Revolution making it maybe my favorite album. I did that for all the albums so I could remove the past masters directory.
If you don't have the "Yellow Submarine Songtrack", beg steal or borrow to get it. Totally remixed in 1999 from the ground up using the original reduction mixes.
Some of the greatest Beatles remixes imo
Side A
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. *Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - Traffic
4. Flying
5. Blue Jay Way
6. I Am The Walrus
Side B
1. Hello, Goodbye
2. *Death Cab for Cutie - The Bonzo Dog Band
3. Baby You’re a Rich Man
4. Your Mother Should Know
5. *It’s All Too Much
6. *You Know My Name / Look Up The Number [vocals recorded 1969]
Side A
1. A Beginning [instrumental]
2. Yellow Submarine
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. All Together Now
5. When I’m Sixty-Four
6. Only A Northern Song
7. ^Nowhere Man
Side B
1. ^Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds
2. All You Need Is Love
3. *Lady Madonna
4. Hey Bulldog
5. The Inner Light
6. *Across The Universe [Anthology]
7. *Good Night [version 2] unnumbered (end credits) - John, Paul, George, Ringo vocals
interesting ideas
@@clynaack cool topic, I really enjoyed the video.
I have an analog/digital recorder and I’m now so tempted to record the audio of vignettes from my VHS copy of Magical Mystery Tour just so I can create a playlist similar to this in my iTunes library.
Nah Hey Bulldog should be the A side for both US and UK version because that’s def the more dominant song over All Together Now and would get much more radio play
I like this idea and have experimented with it myself. I would include all together now because it’s like a singalong song I imagine them singing on the bus and goes nicely with flying. My tracklisting would be something like this. I think Hey Bulldog would be a great A side with Look Up The Number (You Know My Name) as the B-Side.
Side One:
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. All Together Now
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. I Am The Walrus
Side Two:
1. Hello Goodbye
2. Fool On The Hill
3. Only A Northern Song
4. Your Mother Should Know
5. It’s All Too Much (Full Version)
interesting, I do quite like that track listing
I generally mix everything from all you need is love to Lady madonna (including the orignal across the universe) since they're all the songs made between peopers and white. I know "release" while it wouldn't make sense since they had their films to promote, but after the band ended i strongly thing this should be the format to releasing this part of their catalogue.
Interesting ideas
I would have put Only A Northern Song as the B-side of All You Need Is Love, and included Baby You're A Rich Man on Magical Mystery Tour. That would give Lennon 2 songs on the album. George having 3 songs and John having 1 doesn't seem right.
I quite like that
Similiar to my suggestion way back then ! I agreed with George Martin's admission over the mistake of leaving off Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever from Pepper which is where I too would've kept it. I would've added It's All Too Much & It's Only A Northern Song to MMT with all the original others ( in fact I would've had either Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or Within You Without You as the flip to All You Need Is Love saving Baby You're A Rich Man) . I would have bolstered the MMT album with the standard 12th track with one of the lesser left over tracks from pepper and you could've used The Inner Light & Lady Madonna songs on the Yellow Submarine LP ( perhaps adding if you like the early versions extant of Across The Universe & You Know My Name'..). Don't become hysterical I just always thought this better ! 😹
I like your ideas!
Fire as usual
Cheers!
What a fantastic video have a great weekend also I am a fan of your channel ❤😊
Thank you!
Including Jessie's Dream would have also been cool
I think it's a bit stale for an album but I would understand it in the context of a mmt soundtrack album or something like that
If I’m honest, I am more of a newer Beatles fan (I’m in my 20s), but I have done similar things like fixing albums privately by other artists like Michael Jackson, Queen, Prince etc so this was a very cool video to see a similar concept been done by you for The Beatles 😁
I am going to be listening to the album soon in the way that you tried to fix it in this video, am I allowed to ask if there is another album that you think should be fixed?
I think most of the other releases were pretty solid but if it had to pick one it would be let it be
this is a really cool video idea!
Thank you!!
I'm not a fan of non-album singles so i like MMT the way it is.
Love this. But I, for one, would include Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, as they fit in so well with the "Magical Mystery Tour" theme.
Side A (22:26)-
Magical Mystery Tour
Fool on the Hill
Only a Northern Song
Your Mother Should Know
Flying
Blue Jay Way
I am the Walrus
Side B (21:09)-
You Know my Name (Look up my Number) [Anthology version]
Baby You're a Rich Man too
It's All too Much
All You Need is Love
All Together Now
For me MMT has always been a interesting subject. Its the only Capitol release that has been kept in play. We no longer have the Hey Jude album which i loved. You make mention of Hey Bulldog missing the cut due to its early 68 time frame but having it as a single would still put it up against Lady Madonna which is what actually happened and McCartney won out.
My personal wish is that they went with Its All Too Much instead of Blue Jay Way for the film. Would have been great visually of what they came up with and taking BJW and Flying of the EP would leave room for IATM.
In terms of what you are putting forward regarding a full length LP with no previous singles included is that they had to hand over 4 songs for the Yellow submarine movie at the beginning of 68 so the artwork could be done in time. In other words it gets complicated. I love MMT as is but it would for me be better with the inclusion of Its All Too Much at the expense of Blue Jay Way/Flying
I kind of feel your version of magical mystery tour creates a bigger problem than it solves.
You should create your own customized tracklist for the White Album since there are so many songs.
I would love to do that! This might be a future video! Thanks for the idea!!
Maybe include the 7 minute long version of Flying?
I actually have a 9 minute version so it could be even longer! However I don't think most people would like it that much since the song still ends at around 1 and a half/ 2 minutes
@@clynaack Probably just me liking John’s mellotron noodling
side 2 should open with hello goodbye as it’s more upbeat and it seems more likely the band would lead with a paul track. then go into blue jay way, your mother should know, only a northern song and ending on i am the walrus
You Know My name could be on there, maybe after flying?
The transition from flying to blue Jay way too good, you know my name would be a good closer
I like the idea but I think the vocals for you know my name weren't recorded untill 69 or something like that
Hate to be pedantic but you made a mistake by saying Hello Goodbye was in the MMT film.
I understand what you're trying to achieve here but more importantly how could all these tracks be combined for box set with the normal bonus tracks, did/do Apple have a plan?
hello goodbye was in the mmt film its at the end during the end credits sequence! its right after John says "and that was a magical mystery tour. I told ya". I have an idea for a boxset and will probably make a video about it soon!
@@clynaackI stand corrected 🙇
@@adrianmist6681 I agree with Adrian "hello, goodbye" - (part, finale played over end credits). It is, but it isn't, but it should be in the magical mystery tour.
Nice ideas but you obviously need another song for side one to fill out a 10-track album (the norm in 1967). Did you consider another track worked on in 1967?? YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER) might work well here ... just a thought. Go Well!
I did consider you know my name but the vocals on that song weren't recorded until 1969
Five tracks? SIX!
Five "new tracks" since walrus was already out
Um, it’s pretty common for people to make their own custom versions of Beatles albums. I’ve removed all the cover songs from the early albums and added the non-album singles. I’m not strutting around announcing that I’ve “fixed” them 😆
its just a title man... you gotta do what you gotta do in the world of youtube
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t include “Strawberry Fields Forever“ and “Penny Lane“ on this. The album could use more heft, especially to counteract the weaknesses (sorry, George) of BJW and OANS. I approve your overall concept, though.
My goal was to try and avoid repeating songs therefore sff and pl couldn't be included. In my personal opinion anyway they don't really fit that well on mmt in the first place and having it as its own standalone thing is just what it needs and deserves. However if I had to tack it onto an album it would be sgt peppers. Also imo bjw and oans are some of the best songs the group recorded!! So I guess it just comes down to personal opinion!
Why not release hey bulldog as the b-side to lady madonna, and put the inner light on mmt? Hey bulldog was recorded during the filming of the lady madonna music video, plus, theyre more stylistically similar.
Some people have too much time on their hands. MMT is perfect the way it is.
This is Good.
Thanks!
I think the US version is still fine. The better idea would have been for the US to do a similar thing with the Yellow Submarine album, by including Across The Universe to round out side 1 (as the EP would have had) and place Lady Madonna/The Inner Light and some of the discarded white album tracks (What’s The New Mary Jane, Not Guilty, ect) on side 2
Yeah that's not a bad idea
Only one John song on a Beatles album?
Never really thought about it like that! I guess so!
It's a cool track listing, but there's no way John and Paul (and George Martin) would agree to so many George tracks on one album. Between MMT and Pepper, MMT is a lot more fun and has less Paul schmalz.
We need more George love!!!
A nine track Beatles album?
It's not about the tracks imo. It's still longer than (or around the same length as) many of their early albums with rubber soul being their first over 35 mins
Are you forgetting that the two sides of any vinyl album must be the same length? Otherwise the one side will be louder than the other.
Not how that works. The longest side determines how loud the record can be
How is it possible that they haven't made a mistake?
I never could understand why they didn't put single releases on the albums. It was ridiculous that you had to play an entire album and then shift gears and play a 45, then turn it over and play the other side of it and then go back to the next album. All Together Now would NOT make a good A side. In fact, I wouldn't have even put it on the album at all. Finally, the movie score songs on both Help and Yellow Submarine were very annoying and once again, made you get up and skip the songs on the record player every time they came on.
Yellow submarine need the first George Martin song from side 2
The double-EP contained SIX tracks, not five. You're looking at the lyrics sheet, and one of the songs was an instrumental. Seems like you correct yourself later, but I'm not sure.
"...an instrumental B-side, which, let's be real, you won't really listen to that often." Maybe YOU won't.
I said 5 since walrus was already released!!
Yellow Submarine could have been a compilation, using previous tracks and singles from Rubber soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper. Maybe just psychedelic material. No new tracks.
Yeah it basically could have just been the later released yellow submarine songtrack album
@@clynaack I also think that MMT, the TV show should have been promoted as a visual LP, not a movie. People wouldn't have been disappointed by something that actually isn't a movie. I do enjoy being clever with hindsight.
Yeah I think people would have been more accepting of it if it was promoted that way the US version of the film could have even found a way to incorporate the sff,pl and all you need is love music videos into it
@@clynaack Yes, I agree.👍
MMT is perfect as it was and is, dont need no kiddies of today messin with it.
Just for fun, oldie of yesterday :)
What makes magical mystery tour virtually their best album after their 5 classics is the inclusion of some of their best songs… …and you want to take those off?
Well they all exist outside of mmt anyway so it's not like you wouldn't get them
it’s all good, gotta justify making a video. just putting up a counter argument.
Theoretical or not the Beatles never made mistakes
No
No! The singles released in the US sound terrible. They sound much better on albums.
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Weirdly overcomplicated! I don't know why you're tryin to play this as an imaginary game of "back in time" rather than just making a good album. Your version i neither here nor there from my point of view;.
I think ALL Beatle albums should have the singles recorded as part of theorsessions into them. George Martin said keeping them seperate was a his biggest mistake tht he regretted. They weren't even consistent with it -only about half the albums don't include the singles, the others (mostly which had a movie tie-in do).
If you do that Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields are where they oughta be -in Sgt. Pepper.But MMT can still claim All You Need is Love and Baby You're a Rich Man.Then just take the British EP songs, Add the 4 Yellow Submarine tracks, and add Hello Goodbye.I would add You Know My Name because the music was recorded on 1967 (yes I know the vocals weren't till '69) and it sounds like it fits in here.The only question for me is whether you add on the original 1968 version of Across the Universe for another John song; it sounds good here and makes a hell of a lot more sense here than in the Let It Be album (to which I'd add The Ballad of John & Yoko , Old Brown Shoe and Don't Let me Down.) 'Nuff said.
yeah but hello goodbye sucks. replace it with Lady Madonna
How could you say that? 😭 Hello Goodbye is such a great song.
The problem with that is lady Madonna wasn't finished until early 68 so would mess with release schedules. I also feel like it does not fit at all with the rest of the album. I understand your distaste for hello, goodbye though it is quite repetitive. I think the version with George's guitar all the way through is much more interesting
@@clynaack oh yeah, you're right about that.
Sorry, I don't like it. The reason is I love the MMT album is I've got all 1967 singles together with the double EP - in your version they are missing. Btw Blue Jay Way is NO good opener ... I don't like the YSubmarine LP, too, best would be all 15 songs on one LP ( CD). The 1999 YSubmarine Songtrack is fine though.
I can't listen anymore... you talk too fast. But what I watched seemed to make sense. MMT is easily the best Beatles album. Pepper is overrated; they should have included Penny Lane and SFF. What a mistake! Maybe simply put all the recordings from that year onto one album and call it 1967.
if I talk to fast for you feel free to slow the video down via video speed settings or just read the subtitles
Here’s the rub: The MMT album is considered to be THE BEST album that Capitol put together on The Beatles…and, since being released on CD, is considered THE version to have.
And, since I Am The Walrus has two different mixes, I’d say use the six beat intro version.
I understand why people prefer us mmt especially in this day and age (makes it easier for streaming) but it's just not for me. I would take the uk double ep plus the singles any day of the week.
Once again I’m early
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I'm late. But it's my first time.
Unwatchable. Too annoying to see the
narration duplicated on the screen.
They are subtitles. Read them or don't...
Flying was filler, the Beatles' first real misstep, probably because Brian had died, the previous August.
Flying is amazing
@@clynaack You're welcome to it, but it is a basic instrumental with little to recommend listening to it. I didn't like it when I first heard it in late Dec 1967, haven't warmed to it in the 57 years since (27th of next month).
I was 14, when I heard the Beatles in 1963, saw them in Denver, Aug 26, 1964, and I bought all the US albums and singles as New Releases. I liked Cry for a Shadow better, but it isn't anything to write home about, either.