Posted on 05/26/2017 12:44:38 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Best Album of All Time. That’s one hell of a claim.
Even if The Beatles’ eighth studio album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band -- released 50 years ago, May 26, 1967, in the U.K. -- is the musically ground-breaking, hyper influential career high-water mark from The Best Band of All Time, those can still sound like fighting words. But there’s no hyperbole here. There’s widespread consensus: Sgt. Pepper’s has topped its fair share of Greatest Albums of All Time lists
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Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' for me.
Or King Crimson 'Discipline'.
Not even the best Beatles album, but it IS the most influential and a great album.
I lean more toward Abbey Road, Rubber Soul or Revolver. Heck, I listen to Let it Be more than I do Sgt. Peppers.
That being said, any album that contains A Day in the Life is special. The Beatles didn’t make any bad albums.
May not have best individual songs...but it was very innovative incorporating different types of music and instruments and syncopation and psychological states. As an album of songs it was clearly the best in those regards. McC artney says he was inspired by the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album..but the Beatles outdid the BB’s. Everything else since seems to be imitation of the Beatles musical masterpiece. All this is my HO.
I clearly remember where I lived, and what I did at that time.
My new girlfriend’s dad helped me get a much needed job. I was working, and listening to records like this in a nice apartment after work.
Within weeks, we would be engaged. Now 49 years later, we’ve been married for 49 good years.
Best? Really?
They were so high when they recorded Sgt. Pepper they let Ringo sing.
Think about that for a minute.
Not even the best album of 1967. That was “The Who Sell Out”.
"The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East" is the best live album ever produced, and it would surely be up there among the best LPs ever made.
My favorite was Rubber Soul.
My favorite Beatles album too, though Sgt. Pepper was ground breaking at the time.
The white album might have been The Beatles at their peak. I believe they were inspired by their dip into Transcendental Meditation. I wouldn’t ascribe the album’s excellence to TM, but probably at least as much as to their stopping their use of drugs before the indoctrination. It was severely marred by one track, however. I’m sure you know which one I’m talking about. Also, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” has not passed the test of time.
Pepper hasn’t aged well.
“BEST ALBUM EVER”
It will always be a matter of opinion.
For most people, it is whatever was the most popular album during the time of their 18-24 year window.
And there were a hell of a lot of people who were born 1948-1954.
Pet Sounds
I will have a listen.
NO!!!
Abbey Road is definitely their best. Not a bad song on it.
You’re just saying that because you think you can get Stevie Nicks. Well she’s minor. Mine I tell you!
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