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
Revolver is equally good. The White Album is behind Abbey Road.
― Treeship, Friday, 2 June 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
Here Comes the Sun sucks
― Treeship, Friday, 2 June 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link
no
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 2 June 2017 05:02 (seven years ago) link
So then ...
13 28Hate "Within You Without You" 14Have critical thinking skills 75
― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.), Friday, 2 June 2017 05:07 (seven years ago) link
White AlbumAbbey RoadRevolverSgt. Pepper
In that order
― LimbsKing, Friday, 2 June 2017 06:44 (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, June 1, 2017 3:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― LimbsKing, Thursday, June 1, 2017 3:36 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is the bit when the album gets good, son, WTF?
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 2 June 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
A1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Useless, but sometimes I force myself to sit through it as a patience exerciseA2 With A Little Help From My Friends - Can't separate it from the hoary old Joe Cocker version I heard when I was really young and didn't like very much. Come to appreciate some of the lyrics (What do you see when you turn out the light etc) and Ringo is a sweetheartA3 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Pfffff just so bored of thisA4 Getting Better - Does for the album what it says on the tin. Everything up to this point has been a bit 'classic rock' or something. This isn't exactly mindblowing but I like the tune at leastA5 Fixing A Hole - Yes this is good classic McCartney stuff. I like the fact Lennon was in approval of the pseudo-psychological nature of the lyricA6 She's Leaving Home - Had to study the lyrics of this in A-level English for some reason. Weirdly, that hasn't put me off it. Great work, but kind of a retread of Eleanor Rigby and not as catchyA7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! - I'm a sucker for fey psychedelic whimsy and this delivers it in spades. Great instrumentation, inventive lyrics. The 'eye-of-the-duck' of this albumB1 Within You Without You - Another retread. It's good but I prefer Love You To.B2 When I'm Sixty-Four - See BFTBOMK! Lots of people hate the Beatles' silly novelty-psych songs but I think that's their best work and worth a million Back In The USSRs. Lovely instrumentation again. I like woodwindB3 Lovely Rita - Doesn't really work well with me melodically speaking. The whole thing come off as awkward. The lyrics jar with the metre (pun not intended)... It's not awful, but reminds me of Doctor Robert in that it's a character song where every element feels like a square peg in a round hole.B4 Good Morning Good Morning - Tempted to say the same about this as Lovely Rita, but it's grown on me especially in this new mix. Also, LOL animalsB5 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - At least it's better than the full versionB6 A Day In The Life - You know that meme on Facebook that goes through the different stages of brain activity? This is the last one. If it weren't for this, the album would probably be seen as a dud
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 2 June 2017 09:29 (seven years ago) link
Had to study the lyrics of this in A-level English for some reason.
So did I, hated the lyrics ever since, tune is quite nice in a sort of Peter Skellern/ Gilbert O'Sullivan way.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
If you think that either She's Leaving Home or Within You Without You are retreads then you just aren't listening to anything other than the instrumentation.
― Matt DC, Friday, 2 June 2017 09:41 (seven years ago) link
lol we had She's Leaving Home in English class too - makes no sense, the lyrics are so on the nose
― niels, Friday, 2 June 2017 09:54 (seven years ago) link
xp I've always felt that Revolver and Sgt Peppers kind of mirror each other in terms of style/structure and of course there are superficial similarities between the two. These songs share instrumentation and lyrical content, but clearly they're the product of each members' obsession of the time: George's interest in Indian philosophy and metaphysics; McCartney doing the orchestral arrangements and kitchen-sink narratives. Of course they're all good in their own rights but I just prefer the Revolver analogues.
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Friday, 2 June 2017 10:49 (seven years ago) link