Aside from the fact that this is a perfect parody of the Beatles’ psychedelic period output – Seriously, the arrangement and production on this are ideal; if you took off the vocal, you could probably convince many that this was some unfinished Beatles track with George Martin working on it behind the scenes – what makes me love this song above all other Rutles tracks is the horrendous pun at the center of it: “Do I have to spell it out?” Neil Innes sings, before going on to spell out the words “cheese and onions.” That he ends that spelling bee recitation with “Oh no” (Making it finish “Oh En Eye Oh En Ess Oh No”) is just the icing on a particularly enjoyable cake.
In another world, Oasis would’ve grabbed Innes to produce one of their albums.