The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' album to get deluxe 50th-anniversary edition

Los Angeles Times ^ | April 5, 2017 | Randy Lewis

[John Milner]

Yes, hugely influential at the time but does not age well.

And I never did like Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. And it had nothing to do with whether or not it alluded to LSD. Just something about Lennon’s voice and the quality of the treble in the mix doesn’t sit well with me.

Rubber Soul (US version) and Abbey Road are the best and the White Album is right up there.

Give the Zombies “Odyssey and Oracle” a listen. Recorded in Abbey Road right after SgtP and brilliant pop/psych. Really captured the zeitgeist of the period. And they didn’t do drugs so there’s that.

[wardaddy]

Ob di la was silly I agree

The White Album was pretty much Plastic Ono one record and Beatles with a lot of help on the other

I had a raised serial number version.....my ex kept and framed

I remember first I wanna hold your hand and monkeyed it as a 6 year old

Then it got heavier with Soul and Revolver....but I liked the latter albums

Especially Abbey though in college White Album got played a lot

Help was a pivotal work too

Hell man the youth culture which was enormous turned on their every release

You remember that

I remember my cousins being told to throw their albums and 45s out after the Jesus comment

They sobbed hysterically.....and gave them to me

98 percent of my everyday music is 62-94 on napster and iTunes

I did a Marmaduke homage the other day.....John Dawson

My 14 year old was like hippie country dad!

[Pelham]

Part of it may be nothing more than a small difference in age. I think we all tend to like what imprints on us in our teens. 7th grade for me was Kennedy getting killed immediately followed by the Beatles exploding on the scene with the rest of the English invasion. Surf and folk music didn’t stand a chance. By high school I was way more interested in Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Jefferson Airplane, CCR, Mamas & the Papas, just a lot of stuff other than what the Beatles were cranking out. Beatles early material I still like, their later music disappoints.

[Pelham]

“Now, kids sit in garages and play video games and text.”

Probably a lot of truth in that observation.

But some of it is surely that they are exposed to so much garbage posing as music that they don’t know any better. And the entertainment industry is no longer designed to let creative outsiders get a hearing. A lot of what we heard started with airplay on local stations. Not sure there is anything remotely like the AM rock stations that could give a new song some notice.

[Phil DiBasquette]

Well, EMI was anxious for a new single so Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane
were taken off Pepper and issued earlier in the year as a double A side.
The LP would have probably been “improved” by the inclusion of those tracks but even as is was a stone classic of its time and The Beatles high water mark. The pop art cover, lyrics on the back, the inserts, the theme of a band playing that was not the Beatles but played by them..even if the lesser “Kite” seems little more than an antiquarian trifle, the artistry and creativity George Martin had in splicing together random pipe organ sounds to create a carnival atmosphere within was genius

[Chickensoup]

It was boring, smug and self-serving 50 years ago.

I cannot imagine today.

[wardaddy]

I liked all that too

FM progressive rock at the time.....soft spoken DJs

We had WJDX 102.9 The Rock

All the Dj’s had single name nicks

Sergio
Perez
Adcock

My favorite Byrd’s was the power rock double album Untitled

Lover of the Bayou ...great rendition

Many bands had phases

Fleetwood Mac had 3 pronounced ones

Early Peter Green dominated.....quite good...maybe best musically

Danny Kirwan Bob Welch Christine McVie ....my favorite.....again the high school timeline for me

And the the last epoch with huge commercial success but my least favorite

Pink Floyd same thing with 2-3 eras

Sid Era

David era

Waters and the Wall era

I’m imprinted 67-75 pretty much

[wardaddy]

Btw A and I went and saw Richard Thompson at Franklin Theatre tonight

Black Vincent brought a tear....

He’s a master

I listened to all my fav JA tunes last week driving

Jorma is underappreciated and a very humble nice guy

I cannot lie I like the long piano intro version of Volunteers

Dated as hell yippie ode to irrelevant naïveté but I love how it moves

[raccoonradio]

My song parody of Free As a Bird when it came out as part of Beatles Anthology in 90s

All: Old, as the hills.That’s what we’ve all become.Old as the hills. Cold, old and
gray.That’s what we all are now, old as the hills

Paul:The songs I did before, like When
I’m 64, now they’re coming true. We’re...

All: Old, as the hills

George: Just call me Grandpa George

All: Old as the hills

[deadrock]

That was slotted in instead of Penny Lane. Shame.

[Pelham]

Embryonic Journey... always been a Jorma fan. I think he’s on tour this summer. And you can always attend guitar camp at his Ohio farm-

http://jormakaukonen.com/

[Pelham]

I was a first era Fleetwood Mac fan as well- ‘Bare trees, grey light,’

a lot of people would be surprised to hear the early F-M sound

[deadrock]

Prog. rock is still going strong.

[wardaddy]

Stepping stone to the Water Song

[dfwgator]

I like every tune on the album except “She’s Leaving Home,” which really sucks.

As the father of a daughter who is about to leave for college, I listened to that song a few months ago, and I almost broke down, it hit too close to home for me.

[Pelham]

it really is. Same theme resonates in both. Gotta listen to it right now-

[dfwgator]

Some of the 80s British pop was actually pretty good.

Including my fave, XTC.

[Pelham]

Water Song, Jorma's 70th

[Shady]

The whole album is fantastic.. The PAMS (Jingles) were a hit!

[COBOL2Java]

My brother brought back a Taiwanese copy of the album that he’d bought (along with many, many others) while on shore leave. I think he paid $1 for it.

I remember the old Elvis Taiwanese albums - very colorful, and see-through!