Difficult to choose a Beatles album, especially when you have six or seven choices as centerpieces just as consistent as each other (wholesale, "Rubber Soul" to "Abbey Road"). The group's admirers are divided generally into three categories: those who sing the praises of his first real experimental album to artificial paradises ("Revolver"), those who remain kneeling before contagious thrust of "Sgt Pepper's psychedelia ... "and those who prefer to get drunk in the abundant variety of styles offered by the" White Album ". I dérogerai to the rule: if we had to pick just one, it would probably be "Magical Mystery Tour" for two main reasons. The first is that it is in my opinion the wildest assortment of titles and more psychedelic than the Beatles ever produced. A kind of azimuthed journey from fairground ride in acid, where one is never bored. Succeeding in the summer of love, and Pop Flower running at full (remember the clip of flower shirts "All You Need Is Love"!), The eleven tracks of "Magical Mystery Tour" together with "Revolver" and "Sgt Pepper's ..." a trilogy lysergic remarkably insane and enjoyable. The second is that it contains some of the best songs of the group in terms of songwriting (and these, I absolutely do not want to part with it if he had to choose only one album beetles!). On the one hand, Paul in his writing top and melodic efficiency with "Penny Lane" (everyday life described so Liverpool so poetic that it moves to tears) and "The Fool On The Hill" (which the flute solo seems to fly so far that still hovers somewhere in my memory!). On the other, John to his artistic zenith in the sound search with the memorable "Strawberry Fields Forever" (sort of astounding semi-waking dream punctuated by the unique sound of Mellotron!) And especially "I Am The Walrus" totally uninhibited and so forward-thinking, almost futuristic, it seems to me that we will never cease to be fascinated, even in a few centuries. These four songs are so good that they fully condone some crashes of the disk ("Flying" in mind) and assembly somewhat compilatoire the disc.
