also ADitL is all about John's parts
― niels, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:22 (seven years ago) link
yes.
There's a tendency to apply "one or the other" to songs like "With a little help", which are closer to 50/50 than else.
― Mark G, Friday, 26 May 2017 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Seven or eight depending on reprise.
If you think it's less than five hmm lol ilm I guess, keep pushing that rainbow.
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Lucy and peppers the best.
Good morning, within you without you, fixing a hole and she's leaving are either annoying or dull
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 26 May 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
the only song I dislike is 'when i'm 64'. The rest are all at least good, and my standard for 'good' is mostly just that I'd enjoy it if I randomly heard it on the radio while driving, so basically, 90% percent of Beatles songs are at least 'good'.
― silverfish, Friday, 26 May 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
This is the only Beatles album which, played front-to-back, makes me like the idea of the Beatles as an album act, partly because it's so stuffed with sound and nothing sounds quite like it should.
― Matt DC, Friday, 26 May 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
I'll say 8. These days I skip Within You, When I'm 64, and Mr Kit, as well as the title track and reprise. I love everything else, particularly Rita, Good Morning, and Getting Better, I feel like those are underpraised songs that have a really good kind of sparse, weird, LSD infused feel to them/
― akm, Friday, 26 May 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
"Good" seems a low bar. They're all at least good in context, and a few endure as lifelong personal favorites. When I was eight, I would have insisted that every track is BRILLIANT - with the possible exception of "Within You Without You", which baffled me.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Friday, 26 May 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
Come on, guys, this is a good album. Overrated, sure. But, really, I don't want to skip any of these songs.
― Austin, Friday, 26 May 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
The tape shit on mr kite is so spectacular
― brimstead, Friday, 26 May 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
the good thing about this album is you can tell it's shit because the cover is also shit
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Friday, 26 May 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
oh my god, so many xxxposts but hearing the mono version of this record COMPLETELY changed my opinion of it. the old stereo mix is garbage
― flappy bird, Friday, 26 May 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 1 June 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
7
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 1 June 2017 09:00 (seven years ago) link
I love when the news media talks about music. This album was described as 'edgy and experimental' on Sky News this morning. "When I'm 64" wasn't mentioned by name but nonetheless...
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 09:05 (seven years ago) link
I skip Leaving Home / Mr Kite / Within You every time I play this album. Home and Within are too slow and draggy, and Mr Kite is psychedelia in search of a melody.
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 1 June 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
Lets do how many good songs on Be Here Now next.
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Sgt P, WaLHFMF, Getting Better, Fixing, Sgt P Reprise, DitL - Good, I likeLucy, She's Leaving, Within You, 64 - Good, but I don't particularly likeMr. Kite - not that good, but I like itLovely Rita, Good Morning - not good, don't like
― chap, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
So 9 I guess.
― chap, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
o.nate correct, u nitpickers
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
WYWY absolutely works in context: amid the character sketches, George's Eastern foray puts them in a grand scheme. You don't have to like it, of course.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
i'm listening to the whole album for the first time right now
― sexualing healing (crüt), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
IT'S A TRAP
― a warm bowl of soap (WilliamC), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
I have no regrets b/c I'd never heard "Fixing A Hole" and now I have
― sexualing healing (crüt), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
When you're done with that one, check out the George Burns cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0q8OEfM7g
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
I forget who covered WYWY – Dionne Warwick?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
You don't have to like it, of course
Phew, what a relief.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
I like George Burns' version tbh.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
xxxp wait, isn't that the album we're listening to
― sexualing healing (crüt), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
... of Fixing A Hole, I don't think he did WYWY too.
a whole album of WYWY covers
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
haha i was gonna post Burns' version to FB imminently
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
are there any good "Day in the Life" covers besides The Fall?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Robyn Hitchcock has a good one
― to pimp a barfly (Eazy), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
fyi Within You Without You is the best song on the album
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
thinking about the title of that song doesn't it have a strong sexual connotation?
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
My favourite part of WYWY is the snorting laugh track at the end. Must have been Lennon.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
I went for 7. Never liked the title tune.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I agree with akm upthread
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:56 (seven years ago) link
Sgt. Pepper is such a cohesive, conceptual statement that it seems wrongheaded to regard it as a collection of individual songs — it's more of a hyperambitious suitelike pomo performance art piece disguised as a conventional pop record
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
...and that performance art piece just happens to suuuuuuuuuuck, so I voted '0 good songs'. The Beatles can fuck off afaic
http://i.imgur.com/UzNOilj.jpg
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhcyWLORes
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 June 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 2 June 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
averages to 8.444444444444 good songs
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 2 June 2017 00:04 (seven years ago) link
http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/06/sgt-pepper-50
Here Comes The Sun has been streamed almost as much as the entire Sgt. Pepper album.
― skip, Friday, 2 June 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
hi, George!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 June 2017 01:05 (seven years ago) link
Love the SY version of WYWY; all the better that it's Ranaldo-led
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 2 June 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
― sexualing healing (crüt)
yeah but what if you do a bayesian analysis on it
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Friday, 2 June 2017 04:01 (seven years ago) link
Sgt Pepper's is better than Abbey Road. In the past, I didn't understand that.
― Treeship, Friday, 2 June 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link