I wouldn't say that, It started on Revolver. (which I think is the blueprint for Pepper, and much better than Pepper)To me Magical Mystery Tour is far more 'psychedelic' than pepper is.
I mean on Revolver you have
"I'm Only Sleeping" (somewhat psych)
"She Said She Said" (pop psych)
"And Your Bird Can Sing" (pop psych)
"Doctor Robert" (pop psych)
"Tomorrow Never Knows" (full blown psych)
you also have the single from that era
"Rain" & "Paperback Writer" (rain being far more psych than Writer)
then you have the single
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (psych)/"Penny Lane" (not so psych)
Those are all before Pepper and just as psych as Pepper is really. (even if SFF & PL were recorded at the same time
To me on Magical Myster Tour songs like "Flying", "Blue Jay Way", "Magical Mystery Tour", "I am The Walrus" & "Baby You're A Rich Man" are WAY more psych than anything on Pepper.
as are "All Too Much" and "Only A Northern Song" on Yellow Sub. I think had they actually included "Only A Northern Song" on Pepper and taken off "With A Little Help From My Friends" it would have been a better album
they had a pretty good pop/psych album. Pepper and Revolver are really almost the same album, Pepper is a bit more in focus that's all.
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Shaolin_Apu
18 years ago
Yeess... I'm just coupling Rubber Soul and Revolver as their mid-period albums. No doubt about "Tomorrow Never Knows" being the one pioneering the new era but in a way "There's A Place" was too. I don't have my Lewisohn now here but I'd bet "Tomorrow.." was one of the first songs they started to work on for their new album. The hiatus they had after Revolver just makes in my opinion the conclusion of the era with their last concert in San Francisco in August 1966.
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bredlau3
18 years ago
yeah I think Tomorrow Never KNows was the first song started on the revolver sessions.
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Shaolin_Apu
18 years ago
It was, yes. I checked it out :)
They wanted to do something different from there on and "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a pretty good response. If you only could find the first UK mono editon of the album which features a slightly different mix of the song.
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bredlau3
18 years ago
the version on the Anthology is better I think
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18 years ago
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bredlau3
18 years ago
I love both of them, I think the anthology version is so different that it caught me a bit off guard, and I think I just liked it better from then on, maybe cause it was different...
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Shaolin_Apu
18 years ago
Anthology version is the take 1. The released version is take 2, but there is also a rare alternate mix for that take, which appeared only on the initial pressings of the UK mono album. Those are all versions and then there is the mashup on Love.
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