The Beatles: 14 Most Under-Appreciated Songs
6. Blue Jay Way (Magical Mystery Tour)
As The Beatles' work evolved with time, so did that of George Harrison. This incredibly dark and devious-sounding track was born out of a jet-lagged Harrison waiting for a friend to arrive at a rented house in Los Angeles during a vacation and the composition exemplifies just that.
How? Well, it's slow and kind of all over the place, much like any jet-lagged individual. Between the intimidating drums, organ, and a cello out of nowhere, the listener can really get into what Harrison's mindset must have been as he wrote the tune.
Of course, like many of Harrison's songs during his Beatles tenure, they took a back seat in this case to a number of tracks, most notably I Am The Walrus.
Blue Jay Way is simply everything that exemplified rock in the mid-to-late 1960s, so give it a listen!