Posted on 05/26/2017 12:44:38 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Best Album of All Time. Thats one hell of a claim.
Even if The Beatles eighth studio album, Sgt. Peppers 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 theres no hyperbole here. Theres widespread consensus: Sgt. Peppers has topped its fair share of Greatest Albums of All Time lists
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I have been a Beatles fan since the 60’s, but in recent years I have listened to their music less and less. It’s as though it isn’t aging as well as some other music of the era.
Perhaps in my older years I have gravitated towards jazz and folk, which seem more genuine to me than kiddie-pop.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me go ahhhhhh today.
https://youtu.be/n4VqSkLmc3Q?t=10m33s
Every Album is the best Beatles Album
When it originally came out, I bought a copy.
I hated it. It was too druggy. I still hate it.
I just didn’t care for the sitar crap on Sgt. Pepper.
If not for Sgt. Pepper, would we have had King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Genesis, Rush, etc.? Highly influential for the prog rock genre.
But what I want to know is, what the heck was that on the inner groove of the album?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXnqw-Zv0Y
I will say that as the father of a daughter who is about to leave for college “She’s Leaving Home” seems a lot more poignant these days.
Yup, It’s Rumors, best album ever!
No.
For me, it would have to be “A Trick of the Tail”. I love every single song on that album.
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Hendrix Are You Experienced?
Of course I’m a guitarist, so,,,,,,,
A magic time!
But that wasn't my favorite album of that era. That would be The Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxter's.
The first true concept album was "Days of Future Passed" by the Moody Blues, which predated "Sergeant Pepper" by four months. It didn't have the same impact, but it was the first.
Tommy or Quadrophenia.
Rubber Soul ... I would agree, but it’s all up to taste. Just plain great writing and music vs. “Wow, look what we can do with all this new mixing tech and a symphony orchestra! (and a few drops of top grade acid)”.
Heartiest congratulations! That's quite an achievement in today's world.
Another album from that same year was The Doors debut album. That still sounds stunning today. I heard "Crystal Ship" on Deep Tracks just the other day. That song has aged very well.
No.
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