I don't know how it was on vinyl, but on compact disc, "Magical Mystery Tour" is a masterpiece. People always talk about "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" being the Beatles masterpiece, but I tend to prefer the songs on "Magical Mystery Tour."

I mean, you cannot beat a Beatles album that has "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Penny Lane," "All You Need is Love," and "I Am the Walrus" as your classics and "Your Mother Should Know," "The Fool on the Hill," and "Baby You're a Rich Man" as "filler."

But if you were to add "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" to the "Sgt. Pepper" album, that would be enough to put that album over the top. I once read, I believe it was in the Beatles Anthology book, that one of George Martin's life regrets was not including those two songs on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."

Adding those two songs to what is already a ground breaking album would have split the universe in two. You think I'm joking. It would have shifted the world's consciousness.

Okay, maybe not.

So I'm going to write this post again in a few weeks, only I'll be talking about how "Beatles for Sale" is the unheralded masterpiece over "A Hard Day's Night."

Such is the life of a Beatles fan...