The Beatles Psychedelic Trilogy - Part 2, Mescaline and LSD

In 1967 the Beatles' produced their undisputed masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. This is the Beatles' mescaline album. It is a radically distinctive departure from anything at all that had come just before. It developed a globe of its own, a world of sounds and sonic textures by no means heard before. Its really form was radical because it had no singles, no spaces among the individual songs, sound effects, enough of an general theme to become thought of an early kind of idea record as well as a strange run out groove in the finish.

The globe of Sgt. Pepper's was a single of bright colors and mirrored or lead the globe from a gray suited existence with black and white tv, magazines and also motion pictures to a single of technicolor movies, color photographs in magazines, color tv plus the acceptability of grown men to choose clothes in colors other than black, gray, brown or Navy Blue.

The songs on Sgt. Pepper's consist of the metaphor for an acid trip, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, a different surreal sounding song about a carnival (as metaphor to get a psychedelic experience?), Being For The Benefit Of Mister Kite, and also a song with an instrumental interlude that may be the sonic interpretation of astral projection or "tripping out" or entering "into a dream", A Day In His Life.

Again, as with Love You To on Revolver, George Harrison delved into Indian music and this time didn't just depend on the sound to convey a sense of spirituality but had the lyrics to match in Within You With no You.

Paul McCartney got accused of writing a song about difficult drug use with Fixing A Hole however the fans did are likely to get carried away despite the fact that there is no denying that Ringo states that he, "gets high with a little help from my friends."

An undeniable psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper's continues to be only the Beatles mescaline high. The full force of their trip was yet to come.

Magical Mystery Tour will be the Beatles' acid trip album. Substitute the word "tour" inside the title for the word "trip" and you will possess a far better representation of what this record is truly all about. Like a accurate psychedelic encounter this album wasn't planned as significantly as just unfolded. 1 side on the American release will be the EP soundtrack to the Beatles' tv particular which premiered on the BBC on the English holiday of  [http://www.legalsoundz.com Boxing Day] . The second side is a collection of their recent singles. Taken one at a time over the course with the earlier year the person songs may well not have seemed all that strange but placing them side by side their uniqueness is what offers them their continuity. You could not strategy this.

Side one begins together with the introduction towards the "tour" that is promised to be a exclusive knowledge even when no one can let you know specifically where you are going to go or what you are going to do. It is a mystery.

[http://www.legalsoundz.com The Fool On The Hill]  has been interpreted as getting about American politics but clearly the fool is a person merely not focused inside the exact same reality as those observing him. An additional tripping metaphor.

The instrumental, Flying, could possibly be the soundtrack for anything but it is titled "Flying" which could refer to traveling by means of the sky, dreaming or once more, as a synonym for tripping.

George's Blue Jay Way does not have any of his East Indian sounds but just sounds stoned nevertheless.

John Lennon's two greatest psychedelic masterpieces are on Magical Mystery Tour; I Am The Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever. Taken as two individual singles released at unique times in the year diffuses their power but packaged with each other on the single album guarantees  [http://www.legalsoundz.com  [http://www.legalsoundz.com Magical Mystery Tour] ]  the Beatles' most psychedelic album and also the LSD finale of their psychedelic trilogy.