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18 December 2017
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Dark Overlord said
You refuse to consider Magical Mystery Tour a proper Beatles album.
I mean… I do but i don’t.
It’s an album just not an album.
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15 November 2018
Offline TheWalrusWasBrian said
I mean… I do but i don’t.
It’s an album just not an album.
I did not know it was not an official album for the majority of my existence so it’s basically just habit for me. I 100% get what you’re saying though Walrian! (I wonder what @silverhammerYT would have to say on the issue…)
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18 December 2017
Offline Yeah! i think of it as one, though I know it’s not. That’s more clear.
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12 December 2018
Offline 50yearslate said
I did not know it was not an official album for the majority of my existence so it’s basically just habit for me. I 100% get what you’re saying though Walrian! (I wonder what @silverhammerYT would have to say on the issue…)
I think it was not intended to be an album, but when it was released in the US with all those singles on it, it kind of became an album, if that makes any sense. 
I have always considered it an album. Idk.
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15 November 2018
Offline silverhammerYT said
I think it was not intended to be an album, but when it was released in the US with all those singles on it, it kind of became an album, if that makes any sense.
I have always considered it an album. Idk.
I’m not the kind of person who’s at all informed on technical stuff, so the whole is-it-a-real-album thing is kind of foreign to me, but the way I see it: The American Magical Mystery Tour looks, to my untrained eye, like an album. It has eleven songs, and they’re all real Beatles songs. Sgt Pepper ‘s is an album. It has thirteen songs, and they’re all real Beatles songs. I don’t see much of a difference.
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Offline I have always found it a pretty easy distinction, The Beatles “proper” albums are those that were released by Parlophone/Apple in the United Kingdom between 1963 and 1970, excluding A Collection of Beatles Oldies as that was just the first Greatest Hits album and has been superseded many times, with the addition of Past Masters addressing the issue of non-album tracks and rarities, apart from the big 1967-shaped hole in it.
In the UK in 1967, these eleven songs were issued as the A- and B-sides of three singles and a double-EP. Understanding that EPs had never really taken off in the US as they had in the UK and Europe, they took a commercial/financial decision to allow Capitol to put together another “US-compilation” the type of which had been banned under their new shiny 1967 contract because they felt their music was not being presented in the way they wanted.
In agreeing to the Capitol MMT, they also – again using the terms of the 1967 contract – banned its release in the UK, with it not receiving a UK release until about 10 seconds after the 1967 contract ran in 1976 and the (approx.) decade-long battle between Apple and EMI/Capitol over control of The Beatles music.
It is an understandable inclusion in the catalogue when all parties have agreed terms for the 1987 CD reissue programme, it does make sense, but it is not an album that they went into Studio 2 with the aim of coming out with an album when done, unlike Pepper, Revolver , Rubber Soul , etc..
Those albums were their artistic vision whereas MMT, its original 1967 US-release and its 1987 reissue release, were a recognition of the commercial sense.
The distinction makes them releases with different intentions.
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10 March 2017
Offline I’d also add that for it to be a proper Beatles album, all songs must be recorded by The Beatles, which disqualifies Yellow Submarine , since only side A contains Beatles music, with side B being the orchestral score. So for me, The Beatles discography only has 11 albums and goes like so:
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This also means that The Beatles released 5 albums in a row that are among the greatest of all time.
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15 November 2018
Offline Dark Overlord said
I’d also add that for it to be a proper Beatles album, all songs must be recorded by The Beatles, which disqualifies Yellow Submarine , since only side A contains Beatles music, with side B being the orchestral score. So for me, The Beatles discography only has 11 albums and goes like so:Help !
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The BEATLES
This also means that The Beatles released 5 albums in a row that are among the greatest of all time.
Actually that means they released 11 albums in a row that are the greatest of all time
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Offline Dark Overlord said
I’d also add that for it to be a proper Beatles album, all songs must be recorded by The Beatles, which disqualifies Yellow Submarine , since only side A contains Beatles music, with side B being the orchestral score. So for me, The Beatles discography only has 11 albums and goes like so:Help !
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The BEATLES
This also means that The Beatles released 5 albums in a row that are among the greatest of all time.
That’s my take on it too. To me, MMT and YS are just nice extras.
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15 November 2018
Offline … you’re playing Oregon Trail (because I have no life) and when it asks you to name the people in your wagon, you write the names of yourself and the Beatles. Then, when Paul gets a fever and a broken leg and John gets lost for four days, you freak out. Never before have I been so invested in the health and safety of my waggoners in Oregon Trail. (sadly I deleted the tab on accident so we’ll never know if we would have survived.)
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… you’re playing Oregon Trail (because I have no life) and when it asks you to name the people in your wagon, you write the names of yourself and the Beatles. Then, when Paul gets a fever and a broken leg and John gets lost for four days, you freak out. Never before have I been so invested in the health and safety of my waggoners in Oregon Trail. (sadly I deleted the tab on accident so we’ll never know if we would have survived.)
I DID THIS EXACT THING IN 6th GRADE! You brought back some wonderful memories of early beatle-ness, thank you.
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15 November 2018
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I DID THIS EXACT THING IN 6th GRADE! You brought back some wonderful memories of early beatle-ness, thank you.
The thing about Oregon Trail is that if you put the names of people you care about, it can break your heart. So I was hesitant to try it with the Beatles’ names until now. (I figured it would be good motivation.)
I started a new round with the same names. Fingers crossed no one dies.
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TheWalrusWasBrian said
I DID THIS EXACT THING IN 6th GRADE! You brought back some wonderful memories of early beatle-ness, thank you.
The thing about Oregon Trail is that if you put the names of people you care about, it can break your heart. So I was hesitant to try it with the Beatles’ names until now. (I figured it would be good motivation.)
I started a new round with the same names. Fingers crossed no one dies.
I’m doing it now, too. Everything is okay, so far… I figure that won’t last long…
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15 November 2018
Offline TheWalrusWasBrian said
I’m doing it now, too. Everything is okay, so far… I figure that won’t last long…
i closed it again on accident why is this my life
Trying again for the final time…
Best of luck to you and yours, Walrian!
Edit: John just drowned in 3.4 effing feet of water. HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN
Edit: And now I have cholera. There’s no point in going on without John, I’m quitting. (also I’m sick of Oregon Trail)
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@The Hole Got Fixed it’s not really crashing but it reminded me of the drums at the very beginning.
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Offline Ah that makes sense. Like a very high pitched squeal reminds me of A Day In The Life /Run Out Groove?
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Offline Exactly. Sometimes it even happens with other songs which is when it gets really crazy. (Ever had two (or three) songs playing in your head simultaneously? It’s not pretty 
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