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Released June 1, 1967. The world shook!
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Kylenz
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2007, 10:25:39 PM » |
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Yeah! 40 years later, I don't get the criticism it seems to draw today! Weird how public opinion has kinda turned against it. Like "oh there were far better albums made in 1967" - well if that's the case... NAME THEM!! The only one that would come close for me would be something like Forever Changes by Love - but even that album has the occasional weak spot, Sgt Pepper is strong and superbly-crafted the whole way through. Can any of you here at this forum, name an album from 1967 that you consider "better than Pepper"? I sure can't.
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2008, 05:47:12 PM » |
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I can't think of a better album from 1967 either, and it's not close...the depth and breadth of musical exploration on "Pepper" floors me each time I listen, but I am careful not to listen to it a bunch...I don't want to over-expose it.
From the naysayers who say this isn't a great album, I get a vibe that smacks of one of two things: Envy is one and the other is that some people are looking back at that time in their lives with some embarassment at their own excesses and link "Pepper" to that. There are still people who blame the Beatles for the drug culture that bloomed in the sixties and "Pepper" seems to be a lightning rod for that criticism.
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 01:47:35 PM » |
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From: Clarion Ledger 'A Day in the Life': Story of Beatles song fascinating I recently contributed to an article about A Day in the Life, a song from 1967. John Lennon started writing the verses while reading a newspaper. Two stories caught his attention. One was about Tara Browne, the 21-year old heir to the Guinness fortune, who was in a car crash. The other was about a plan to fill thousands of potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire. The song reflects these two news stories, although Lennon said that he did not copy his friend Browne's fatal accident. Before A Day in the Life was released no one seriously thought of rock music as an art. If you would like to read about this avant-garde mini-suite, which took The Beatles 34 hours to record, go to www.google. com. Type "A Day in the Life is a song composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney." The article will be at the top of the search listing. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080203/FEAT05/802030320/1023and here is the google link that this article mentioned(of course, it's wiki :D) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life |
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Kylenz
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 05:58:06 PM » |
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I can't think of a better album from 1967 either, and it's not close...
Yeah and I don't think Pepper is even the best Beatle album. Well, if I could name one album from 1967 that I dig more than Pepper, that would be Magical Mystery Tour! So The Beatles win again!  Not even Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd has the consistency of Pepper. Sure, they may have been recording next door to eachother, and employing similar recording techniques - but only a handful of the tracks on Piper are up to the standard required for a Beatles album. I don't mean that as a disrespect towards Pink Floyd, but there are too many filler tracks and quaint ditties about scarecrows and gnomes to warrant a place alongside Pepper.  |
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PaulieBear
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2008, 09:40:11 PM » |
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I love this album. Even though it's a bit out there I love it a lot. I would have to say that A Day in the Life would have to be one of my favorite tracks from it!! I'd love to turn you on....YOU ALREADY HAVE  |
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William
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« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2010, 06:31:57 PM » |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is my favorite album.
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« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2010, 07:10:45 PM » |
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Greetings, William! Sgt. Pepper rox!
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William
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« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2010, 09:38:59 PM » |
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Thank you for welcoming me. :-) I've barely been to this forum, but your annoying avatar is turning me away from it.  |
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« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2010, 10:58:16 PM » |
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MORE COWBELL THEN!!!   |
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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2010, 10:55:46 AM » |
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William = Kettle, Black  |
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oldasSoul
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« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2010, 05:41:22 PM » |
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Maybe not better, but darn close to equal....
Are You Experienced? (May) and Axis: Bold as Love (Dec)
Any takers?
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2010, 10:14:55 AM » |
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No doubt, those Jimi albums were/are incredible, but you might say, they were beneficiaries of having already heard Revolver? |
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oldasSoul
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« Reply #13 on: April 27, 2010, 12:21:32 AM » |
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OK, I'll go with that! Jimi sure knew how to incorporate what he heard into his own style. I really love the fact that when the Experience played the theatre owned by Brian Epstein on June 4, 1967, (with at least Paul in attendance), Jimi opened with SPLHCB, having had only a few days to digest it.
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Borris
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« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2011, 05:04:10 AM » |
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Ah, it is music to my eyes to see all these posts supporting Sgt pepper!
This album sends me into ecstasy, especially the mono mix that little bit of phasing on Lucy in the Sky makes it a psychedelic masterpiece that it is only yearning to be on the stereo version.
This album is rich and generous, it takes you on an emotional journey, grounded with for me George's first great song Within you and without you. A circus, a loved daughter missed when she leaves home, a meter maid sung about with love and a Day in the Life an amazing condensed epic.
The world would be a much poorer place without this amazing album.
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