When it came out, it was a bit of a letdown. 40 years later it is a solid, albeit mixed, effort of Beatles tunes that show how versatile they were, even when it seemed like they were phoning it in. Better than anything that came out of the 80's and 90's. Worth it just for the George Harrison contributions.

This is the top psychdelic piece from the beatles. Set the speakers so the music has room to move and get rid of the lights.....amazing.

another great beatles album

Underrated album!!

Musically this is one of the Beatles best CDs it has a lot of different sounds on it. I am the Walrus and Fool on the Hill are just some of the great tracks that can be found on this great CD. The movie is worth a look at but it does not make a lot of sense.

More of a mid career greatest hits album than a real concept record, so it's not up there with Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road. But All You Need is Love, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, I Am the Walrus and Baby You're a Rich Man all on one album? How can you go wrong?

Has several good songs including All You Need is Love, Hello Goodbye, Penny Lane and Magical Mystery Tour. The other songs are pretty average except for I Am the Walrus, which is terrible.

Im not a Beatles fan but this album contains some of their better songs like 'Fool on the hill' and 'I am the walrus'. There's nothing too twee here like 'When I'm 64' or turgid like 'Hey jude ' and 'Long and winding road' so that's a plus.

this is a fantastic, under-rated, psychedelic landmark-- but it is a soundtrac--not an ep, not an album-- and it did NOT precede Sgt. Pepper.

worthless

I hate Beatles music. John Lennon--may he rest in peace--seems to have taken himself too seriously. And I don't understand the round eye glasses.

since it was not a real album but an ep i think it stand a little lower than number 3

Beatles are the best band ever

The Beatles actually released this album before the ground-breaking, revolutionary recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Each song contains its own ingenuity. This album provided us with "Strawberry Fields Forever," "All You Need is Love," "Baby You're a Rich Man," and "Penny Lane." The title track to start off the album kicks it off well. Flying and Blue Jay Way are little-known songs that bridge the album together well. "Your Mother Should Know" is a favorite among adults, I'm sure. "Fool on the Hill" is a favorite of mine and McCartney's "answer," if you will, to Lennon's genius "Nowhere Man" on Rubber Soul. It is probably the most underrated Beatles album ever released. It ushered in their evolution towards psychedelia. And who could forget one of the greatest songs ever and Lennon's favorite Beatle song, "I am the Walrus"? What an album by the greatest band to ever walk the earth.

Sgt. Pepper and this album are some of the most amazing musical efforts for its time. Thank you for the LSD!

Good, but hardly great. This album, as originally released (which is what I am scoring on), was a project of leftovers and rehashes. Verrrrry little real Beatles brilliance here. Hell, half the album was originally incidental music orchestrated and recorded by the producer.

This album should be called "Beatles Greatest Hits of 1967-68". There's not a bad song on this classic album!

I feel bad giving a Beatles album only three stars, especially one with so many great songs on it, but this album is sorely lacking a unity of purpose that makes so many Beatles albums stand out. This isn't even a real Beatles album; it's everything they did for the Mystery Tour film thrown together with their 1967 single releases. Still, this DOES have Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye, Fool On The Hill, all pristine contributions from Paul, as well as two of Lennon's greatest epics, I Am The Walrus, and Strawberry Fields Forever. However, this album also collects a series of inane drivel, in songs such as Blue Jay Way, and Flying, an instrumental that leads absolutely nowhere. Your Mother Should Know is yet another sacharrine McCartney project two self-inflated for its own good. Overall, Magical Mystery Tour boasts some of The Beatles' best work, but none of this was meant to be on the same album. All the vital songs here are on The 'Blue' Album, and this should therefore be one of the last Beatles albums you should buy if you are seeking to complete your collection.

Wow, what an album. Some really good songs here, don't you think?

This is one of my favourite Beatles albums ever, If anyone ever critises this group I'll just show them this album. It's full of classic pop songs, no one can fail to like it.

What was this...the Beatles official "druggie album"? That insane song "I am the Walrus" still has me scratching my head. "Baby You're A Rich Man" is one of those "All You Need Is Loooove" (oh, whoops, did I spell that wrong?) type songs that repeats over and over and over and over and over. But I do like "Penny Lane" and (sort of) "Strawberry Fields Forever", even though that sounds like another druggie song. Overall, i can listen to this CD, and it has a couple of good songs on it, but I would not consider it one of the great things to come out of music.

I remember being at a party one time and someone put this CD on. I don't think the first song was even over before it was removed (thank God).

I can't beleive that people are still so wrapped up in something as stupid as Paul is Dead. As far as the music to this ridiculous movie, there is not one shred of credible writing. From the title song to Your Mother Should Know, the songs range from silly to downright bad (Blue Jay Way).

Sure, it's only really a collection of singles, but it's a damn good one at that. "Fool on the Hill," "Strawberry Fields Forever," "I Am the Walrus," "Penny Lane," and "All You Need Is Love" are all great. If you let yourself go, the Magicians will take you away to marvellous places...