内容(「CDジャーナル」データベースより)
同名のサウンドトラック(1~6)に’67年のシングル曲(7~11)を加えたアメリカ編集アルバムのCD化。4や6でのエレクトロニクス導入の試みなど,聴きどころは多い。ただ6から7へと移るところは違和感が残る。LPならAB面に分れているのだが。
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The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than
Help! or
A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." Even George's "Blue Jay Way" paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail. (I consider Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill" from
Court and Spark to be a companion piece about sitting in the Hollywood Hills, waiting for somebody to show up.) And although the goofy TV movie may have been mostly Paul's baby, this album features the two 45 rpm masterpieces that sum up the quintessential best of Lennon
and McCartney at this stage of their development: Paul's "Penny Lane" and John's "I Am the Walrus."
--Jim Emerson