Posted on 05/26/2017 12:44:38 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Yeah1 but John was a wife beating asshole.
Art and Music are about as subjective as you can get. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Frankly there were a lot of bands more daring and better than The Beatles. The Beatles were, in many ways, the first big mass market band. Their songs were simple,easy, and found a ready market that made them famous.
Were they the best there was, no I don’t think so and I also don’t think Sgt. Pepper was the best album ever. No way to prove that and then what criteria is being used?
How does Sgt. Pepper stand up to the break through records done by Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle in the 1950’s?
It is hard to make an outrageous statement like Sgt. Pepper is the best of all time when in reality it isn’t.
A lot of millenials I’ve come across love classic and are knowledgeable on the subject. Always surprises me for some reason.
“Sgt. Pepper sounds very dated. I’m sure back in 1967, it blew some minds.
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.”
That was the year before I got an FM radio. The AM was playing the long version of “Light My Fire,” however.
Before 1968 was gone, we were listening to Los Angeles FM “underground” KPPC
Those were some “groovy” times
I respect the Beatles for what they did and who they are and were but I can’t stand to hear their music.
Personally, I applaud Sgt Peppers for the technological advances it ushered in. But greater things were yet to come technologically.
Speaking about The Beatles exclusively, II personally think that Sgt Peppers hasn’t really aged too well. For me, the earlier dance albums still rock. Revolver is probably my favorite Lp and for sheer beauty in song it would have to be “Yes It Is”
Rubber Soul & Revolver best in my book.
And, hence, The Sex Pistols.
If memory serves me correctly, the Doors put out both of their first two albums in 1967.
The Who’s music is holding up really well.
Obviously, since it's used just about in every commercial and TV show intro these days.
“The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East” is the best live album ever produced”
and the Eat A Peach live selections from Fillmore East.
I think a close 2nd would be Edgar Winter’s White Trash “Roadwork” Recorded at The Apollo.
Perhaps it is because the current crop of “pop” music is so unsatisfying?
There are,of course, exceptions, but most of it is really poor.
In my first year at high school, Rumors was the big album and I got Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckinham mixed up. I thought Lindsey was the sultry girl singer and Stevie was the guy playing guitar.. So when I told my classmates that I had a crush on Lindsey, well my freshman year was pretty much toast!
I heard the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” playing in a supermarket the other day.
What is the world coming to?
You mean that melody they ripped off from Coltrane?
Exile on Main Street is a better album.
No. I am over the Beatles now that I am grown up. But the White Album was the 1st LP i bought with my own moolah.
Well, I don’t have to worry about ever hearing Coltrane in a muzak setting.
That would drive people out of the store.
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