T/S: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" v. "Magical Mystery Tour"

Original Paul or body-double replacement Paul

He does say that he never met Pete Best at one point.

Fake Paul, or Faul for short.

MMT has three songs I'm not keen on but the rest is gold. As well as the cartoonish whimsy there's also a bittersweet, uncanny undertone to a lot of the songs. As such, it's the album where they seem to nail the colour, sweetness, and implacable sadness of the psychedelic experience

Are any of Paul's songs from this period actually psychedelic?

Maybe the "...round and round and round and round..." section of Fool on the Hill, but that's not so much being stoned as just being dizzy.

xpost OTM and this precisely why it’s my favorite.

xp the whole song is mildly psychedelic lyrically. penny lane is vaguely psychedelic in its nostalgia & surreal-realism. his more unabashed corniness in and after this era is probably a symptom too but it’s pretty staid in context

I used to like most of these songs but I don’t really know why now. there’s a bit of a PT Barnum feel to this era even in lennon’s psychodrama & harrison’s attempts at mysticism. these things used to feel more mysterious than they do now

Xp I think there were multiple ways to interpret ‘psychedelia’ in the sixties. The UK version veered more towards whimsy, nostalgia, childhood and dreamlike surrealism; whereas for US bands it was a harder, more adult, more rebellious affair: swirling organs, spring reverb, anti-‘Nam sloganeering etc. The UK version was how I first understood it, so when I came across Nuggets in my early twenties I was a little confused

yeah, i think in-context "All Together Now," "She's Leaving Home," "Fixing a Hole," the bass on "Paperback Writer," and certainly "Yellow Submarine" were all v clearly "psychedelic," but i was not there....