Perhaps the greatest album of all time. Could it have started the "Summer of Love"? There was a thread I think that debated the greatest band ever, this album should be exhibit #1.
Everyone take some time today and listen to this masterpiece and think thoughts of peace and love.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
Love that album! Love it.
Posted by the doctor (Member # 6789) on :
There are others by the Beatles that I like better, but that album certainly has a place in time and history.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
Wouldn't that make it 60 years ago today...?
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
Yeah I'll listen to this album--when I'm 64!
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
Revolver's better, but SPLHCB has got to be #2 or 3. Good stuff, I'll listen to it later.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
Listening through the entire album today as a salute.
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
Now that must be very, very unpleasant for ya, BlackBlade. Try to stay fly! ^_^
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
Revolver is so overrated.
I'd put Sgt. Pepper's ahead of it any day.
But Abbey Road blows away Sgt. Pepper's
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by Phanto: Now that must be very, very unpleasant for ya, BlackBlade. Try to stay fly! ^_^
Its actually a quite short album. Oddly enough at the track "Getting Better" the album loses me until "A Day In The Life," which happens to be the last track.
It's all good though, I've Jimmy Eat World playing now and some inadulterated deep rock definately fits the bill for today.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
quote:Originally posted by baduffer: Perhaps the greatest album of all time. Could it have started the "Summer of Love"? There was a thread I think that debated the greatest band ever, this album should be exhibit #1.
Everyone take some time today and listen to this masterpiece and think thoughts of peace and love.
From what I've read, most folks in SF didn't feel like it was much of a "Summer of Love" -- previous summers had more of the "love" thing going on, while 1967 had too much media hype, teenage runaways, and hard drugs...
(Still, lovely music.)
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Just finished re-listening to it. Earlier this month I purchased a collection of every original Beatles album.
Posted by Artemisia Tridentata (Member # 8746) on :
My band bought the first Beatles album to come to town and copied off all the music. I think we were the first ones along the Wasatch front to play Beatles' music. It was great.
However, I had been living in Mexico for almost two years when Sgt. Pepper came out and I first heard it on a tape belonging to a new guy who had just come down from the States. I didn't like it. It just didn't sound like the Beatles I remembered. I have since come to enjoy about half of the cuts.
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
I love all of The Beatle's albums, but Sgt. Pepper probably isn't even in my top 5. Let me think...
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. Rubber Soul 4. Revolver 5. Sgt. Pepper
Alright, I guess it's number 5.
I think it's probably the most overrated Beatle's album. She's Leaving Home and A Day in the Life are among my favorite Beatle's tracks, but the rest of the album just doesn't blow me away. In fact, I rarely listen to any of the single songs other than the 2 I mentioned by themselves, rather only when I'm listening to the album as a whole.
In fact, I find Sgt. Pepper fairly depressing as a whole, and thus tend to listen to it mainly when I'm in that mood.
Posted by JumboWumbo (Member # 10047) on :
NPR had a segment on Sgt. Pepper's this afternoon on the way home from school (located here).
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I'm such a lightweight; my favorite Beatles album is Help! Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I love Sgt Pepper. I also listened to it at work today. The only track on the whole disc I don't really like is "Within You Without You." It takes a lot for me to get all the way through that one. But every other track on there is a classic. I just can't think of anything bad about it.
Happy Birthday, Sgt. Pepper.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
"The only track on the whole disc I don't really like is "Within You Without You." It takes a lot for me to get all the way through that one."
Yeah, I have to agree on that one. Aside from not being that great, in my opinion, it kind of had nothing to do with the genre of music for the rest of the album.
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