# Best of the Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067 "2014-03-07T01:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/81 "2014-03-13T16:04:14Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I learned from the best, Lester Bangs. 😃 Time to go back to school. You’re not fit to empty out Bangs’ bong water. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/82 "2014-03-14T01:29:18Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Yeah, you know, I actually like Paul McCartney and am one of millions “responsible for him having a career”, but I still think **Fool On a Hill** is a pretty crappy song. It has some nice parts to it, but as a whole it doesn’t work at all. It’s easily my least favorite of the “Paul” Beatle songs. But I admit it was beautifully produced, worlds better as a song than John’s _Nowhere man,_ and I only skip it half the time when I listen to this album, which was always one of my favorites. OTOH, there’s the movie, but I think we’ll all agree about that. :eek: > [@DChord568](#): > > Time to go back to school. You’re not fit to empty out Bangs’ bong water. Barely knew him and never got the chance to find out, but he did try to get me to read some novels by Celine. Perhaps he was trying to punish me, but my masochistic hero worship went only 75 pages into _Journey to the End of the Night._ ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/83 "2014-03-14T21:44:27Z")
I’ve always liked Macca’s ‘Music Hall’ side, so ‘Your Mother Should Know’ has always been a favorite - then again, I enjoy the unsettling L.A. frisson of ‘Blue Jay Way’. I’m all over the map with the lads, it seems. Got a kick now that I know where the ‘Death Cab for Cutie’ band reference comes from and wonder if the “Your Hostess here is Wendy…You’ll find her very friendly” line from ‘On with the Show’ is a Rolling Stones tip-of-the-hat to MMT. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/84 "2014-03-14T22:48:43Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > Got a kick now that I know where the ‘Death Cab for Cutie’ band reference comes from and wonder if the “Your Hostess here is Wendy…You’ll find her very friendly” line from ‘On with the Show’ is a Rolling Stones tip-of-the-hat to MMT. MMT was first shown on December 26, 1967, after Satanic Majesties had already been released. ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/85 "2014-03-15T04:12:53Z")
I was so young when I first heard this album, but I couldn’t stop listening to it. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were just my favorite, I wanted to go to those places. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067/86 "2014-03-15T04:25:51Z")
I voted for _The Fool on the Hill._ I heard it for the first time when I bought the remastered album in '09; originally I bought the album primarily for _I Am the Walrus.__Fool_ blew me away, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/683067.md?page=4)