| These are the four Beatles albums you need if you | | | | tight, but I think that's why it works so well. It's like |
| are into psychedelic music. I will not put them in order | | | | you are in a carnival going around hearing these |
| (other than alphabetical) because you really need all | | | | different incarnations of the same band. Again a wild |
| four of them and I don't want you thinking you can | | | | selection of different styles of music but unlike |
| get away with leaving any of them off your list. | | | | Revolver, each of the songs somehow sounds |
| Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | | | | connected to each other as well. It's an amazing trick |
| This is probably The Beatles most purposefully trippy | | | | to make "Within You Without You" & "When I'm |
| album. Almost every song on the album is bursting | | | | 64" make sense together on the same album. |
| with mind melting madness of some type or another | | | | This is an album that has become so legendary that |
| whether it be experimental production, unusual song | | | | sometimes I think people don't properly appreciate |
| arrangements, and/or unusual songwriting. "I Am The | | | | how great it is. It is not overrated. It really is that |
| Walrus" & "Strawberry Fields Forever" are | | | | good. If you think otherwise, you may have not got |
| arguably John Lennon at his most "mad." These are | | | | out of that stage where you want to be different |
| the songs where he went full out with the "kitchen | | | | just for it's own sake. |
| sink" production, the bizarre lyrics, the unexpected | | | | The White Album(1968) |
| song arrangements. It's all there. "Flying," "Blue Jay | | | | I talk a lot about variety in this article because that's |
| Way," and the title track "Magical Mystery Tour," | | | | one of the things that I love most about The Beatles |
| these are songs designed to melt minds and they do | | | | music and it's one of the things that I think makes |
| just that. | | | | listening to their albums so trippy. Well this is the |
| Revolver (1966) | | | | peak of that variety. There's 30 tracks here and a |
| What brililant songs. And what an amazing variety in | | | | vast majority of them are completely different than |
| music in such a compact album. There's more variety | | | | the other 29 songs on the album. In many ways this |
| in this 35 minute album than in most band's whole | | | | is the ultimate Beatles trip and I think it's their best |
| careers. And it's all done so incredibly well. And then | | | | album ever (psychedelic or not.) |
| there's "Tomorrow Never Knows" which could very | | | | And then there's "Revolution #9." It's hard to get |
| well be the most far out song The Beatles ever | | | | much more psychedelic than that. If you really listen |
| recorded. | | | | to this track closely on headphones you are likely to |
| Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | | | | get yourself quite a scare and I think that makes the |
| This is a trip. Sure the "concept" isn't really all that | | | | song quite a successful piece of sound art. |