Moms Music- The Beatles

I have likely already told you all this before but I can’t talk about #momsrecords without talking about the Beatles. I was relieved to find all her Beatles records in the mess that was her garage. I think she had a couple of “Tony Sheridan” records she sold but everything else was intact So here is the rundown -Paul McCartney and the Lennons - John and Julian were radio stars when I was a kid and lest we forget Stars on 4(# 1 in 1981) and Beatles Movie Medley (# 12 in 1982) -One Beatles song is on the short list of my favorite songs of the preteen years - but it’s not an usual cjoice - it’s Ringo’s “With a Little Help from my Friends” -My first real immersion like others was a compilation- in this case in high school driving around town with a friend listening to eight-track tapes of the “Red” and “Blue” albums -Listening to Revolver and Rubber Soul were a revelation. At the time, Sgt Pepper’s seemed to be the unassailable “best album ever” - that’s changed but I didn’t know what I was getting with those “middle” albums. I also vividly recall buying Revolver on CD my sophomore year in high school. - Similarly, I bought the White Album in college, the favorite Beatles record of both Morrissey and Marr. It might be (depending on the day) my favorite too. The eccentric mix of songs anticipated “college rock” - In my preteen years, I watched the Magical Mystery Tour movie. In those years, every movie watched has some kind of impression and MMT is truly a weird movie to begin with. It would be easy to categorize it watching it now for what it was, but it was just an unorganized film with some striking moments otherwise. - When push comes (and I’m not sure if related to the above or not), I really do believe the Magical Mystery Tour is my favorite Beatles albums. Sgt Peppers has some great songs. Revolver is such an amazing beginning to end listen. Rubber Soul is probably a shade lesser than Revolver, but covers a lot of musical ground. White Album of course is great and the last “two” albums are not personal favorites. I am of course talking about the American version of Magical Mystery Tour which is on one side - the British EP of songs from the movie and on side 2- five strong singles from 1967. In my estimation, if you’re picking 5 songs from a year by a single band you could do worse. .