My grandfather gave this album to me on my 18th birthday in 2010, but i wasn't as in to beatles at that time as i am now. But what i found out later is that, the album he gave me is an original 1967 issue with the yellow parlophone label on the vinyl.
Alix McCann if it had penny lane, strawberry fields forever and all you need is love (from magical mystery tour) it would be undisputedly the best ever
Whaaaat Within you without you is fantastic! It's such a complex song and those drums. Oh god those drums just get me. This album is perfect the way it is, absolutely perfect. But if they really do re-release Sgt. Pepper's with Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane it'd be neat to see what Paul wanted the album to be.
Jamie Hartley I agree, sucks that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane weren't included. Doesn't even matter where you put them on the album, would have made it easily #1.
Can you imagine if George Martin had convinced EMI to let them put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the album? Jeez. I would take replace Getting Better with PL and When I’m Sixty-Four with SFF to make space for those two jewels.
***** Makes sense, now that I think of it Getting Better and When I'm Sixty-Four should probably stay because they fit into the album well. Although Penny Lane comes after Lucy in the Sky pretty nicely.
In a box of records I picked up at an estate sale for $10 I found an album with a white cover. I pulled it out and it had a Mobile Fidelity Labs "test disc" label, and grooves on only one side. It looked like it had never been touched by a needle. I played it. It was side one of Sgt. Pepper. This explains why someone had hand written, on the corner of the cover, "Pepper" in cursive. Sounds really good.
Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" was a concept album that predated "Pet Sounds" & "Sgt. Pepper." It was released in 1954. All the songs on this LP focused on a particular aspect of love.
It's a good point, but the first Concept Album was Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (1940). Still the point being that Sgt. Pepper mark's the shift from when that was a novelty to when it became the norm.
Is that really a concept album though? I mean 90% of pop songs are above love and relationships anyway, even more so in the 50's. In the Wee Small Hours probably has a better claim to being Sinatra's first concept album. Either way I wouldn't actually consider Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper as concept albums, but rather albums that established a new approach to making albums that kicked off the modern album era.
What I love about people's opinions regarding The Beatles and their best album, is that it's always diverse. No one will agree because the made so many amazing albums, and everyone's opinion has merit. My opinion always changes, but predominantly id go with Sgt Peppers
There was this rumor floating around in the late 60s that Paul McCartney was dead and if you opened the Sargent Pepper's album to the lyric section inside, you would see a photo of the Fab Four, but Paul was standing with his back towards the camera. If you look to Paul's left, George Harrison's has his finger pointing towards the lyric line "Wednesday morning at five O'clock..." The story was that somewhere embedded in the album there was a secret phone number. If you found it, you were to call on Wednesday morning at Five O'clock and someone would tell you the time and place of Paul's funeral... Genius marketing in my book!
I first bought it on vinyl in 1967. And a few more times through the years. One is a gold colored record..(yellow really)...Still have the original 1967 purchase.
Start your record collection before you buy a turntable. It's what I did for more than a year, i had about 35 lp's. The first day after setting it up was a great day!
@@russyJ20 I ended up doing that! I amassed about 5 or so records until one day my father suprised me with a turntable and 10+ classic rock/metal records. It's a shabby suitcase style turntable but it's the thought that counts 😎
This has been deemed the greatest album ever made, not so much for the music on it, but the way the music was made! Martin and the Beatles pretty much invented techniques used to record these tracks. They would vary recording speeds to obtain a specific sound, layer the recordings, obtain exotic instruments, again to obtain a specific sound. The final chord in "A Day In The Life" was obtained by using 5 pianos, an organ, all struck simultaneously with a sound engineer at the volume controls to get that chord to drag out almost twice as long as a regular piano would. What we hear is a sustained chord from a piano, but we don't appreciate that what that piano is doing is impossible for a single piano to do! "Mr. Kite" is, in itself a phenomenon. The album changed the way producers and bands made albums. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) said this as well as many others.
I have a mono Sgt Pepper. It was a Christmas present in 1967. Still have the original insert and inner sleeve. I see it as a ground breaking album but not the Beatles' best.
About radio air play. It was not played as much when it came out except on the first few and far between FM underground stations. Top 40 radio still ruled and The Monkees were getting the air. This was an ALBUM phenomenon. Parties were thrown to listen to it. Eventually within a year or two radio began catching up. It's important to remember back then radio was always behind the times(except aforementioned FM stations) The coolest stuff got listened to by albums.
Ryan Smith i agree that sgt pepper is their number one but pet sounds over revolver abbey road and dark side of the moon is joke Sgt pepper Revolver Abbey road Dsotm White album Rubber soul Led Zeppelin 4 Pet sounds
I was 17 when it came out and I bought the stereo version and listened to it on ex army headphones wired into my stereo record player....it was amazing....I had heard nothing like it....Good Morning .....the stage coach runs thru from left ear to right......and A Day in the Life is just incredible with headphones. 10 years ago I made my own version as it should have been with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on and burnt myself a copy....its much better with the extra 2 tracks on. My daughter lives about 500 yards away from Penny Lane.and I went to visit Strawberry Fields about 5 years ago which is quite close as is John Lennons old house on Menlove Avenue.
Without Pet Sound's by The Beach Boys, we would not have Sgt Pepper by The Beatles yes. However, without Sgt Pepper, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys would not have gone insane.
My Urban Exploration They were influenced by avant-garde recording artists like AMM, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Morton Subotnick as well as Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention "Freak Out", which he would grow to resent 1960s counterculture and their shortcomings ultimately contradicts their sets of morals.
Brian became fundamentally depressed after reading lukewarm reviews of Pet Sounds from critics through press notes. He kept a close relationship with the Fab Four during this period, even taking a plane to their studio when they first started recording for Strawberry Fields Forever and Paul, who munched on celery for the benefit of his song Vegetables, showed Brian a demo of She's Leaving Home. He would find anything around the house, using it for an individual sound effect, later overdubs were made when he finally had the chance to approach the mixing desk. Although, he had lost hope in the project and wished to not dwell on it any longer, Capitol demanded a new release. When they finally got their wish, most, if not all traces of the original was absent. Yes, including lyrics and chord structure.
*Evan Miles* Frank was an arrogant wanker. Period. He later admitted that 'Sgt Peppers is actually very good' but he could not say so at the time. Frank used people and then threw them away like trash. I love some of his music but learned to hate the man by the late 70's as his asshole side dominated everything by then. Highly intelligent, brilliant and driven he nevertheless lacked any concern for others and it shows in his music. He could NEVER really judge his own music and put out more complicated music crap than any in history- Only the Grateful Dead have more mediocre material available than Frank but at least they are bootlegs of less than inspired live performances. However there is also more good stuff from them and the Beatles than Frank!
MegaRaven100 I know, he refused to play at Monterey when he was invited because he felt that the rest of the bands taking up the preceding slots "were inferior to him", he would sabotage his other band members, by significantly altering the former arrangements to his songs, saying "you can't do anything right!", just to throw them away shortly afterward. Question: Why would you hire these people for them to waste their talent, and to get chewed out every day in the studio? Might as well just take up something that fits your own preferable tastes. I saw an interview that was taken around '71, he was asked about "women's lib", calling the whole thing in retrospect, "meaningless", saying it was just a fad. I wouldn't want to be part of his band, since most of his titles were arbitrary in regards to his songwriting, telling others who question him, "I guess you just don't get it." Calling out musicians for being possessed, and the majority of the right wing religious crowd still believes that MK ultra bullshit. Believing in limited government (which I can be okay with, since it's not my problem) but we need guidance, without the things we take for granted, like gov't checks that come in the mail and free health care, which is currently non-existent, WE WOULD BE LOST. I collect CDs and vinyl, but let me just say that I wouldn't be the one, wasting my money, though from a distance it looks like I'm doing this to support the artist, but no, I'm doing it for the advantage of people like corporate Frank, where I'm spending my money, it's only a small percentage of a large chain of greed, either that those who are knee deep in debt are paying their due with my dollars. I can totally understand that his "asshole side of him overshadowed his music," because we had a Democratic president in office, and unlike Frank, he doesn't spend all of his time sitting on his ass giving everyone a mouthful of his biased critique. This was a time of constant change, and compared to the beginning of the decade, the record goes to show that a great amount of progress was undertaken. Paricularly italicizing race relations, nonetheless a slowly developing bond between other countries that took years to come into fruition. Growth and maturity, that is barely present in the man's personality. In stark contrast, consistently more alike of a quantum leap than you will choose to partake in more or less of thirty years. Rather to refuse that what's in front of you isn't true.
On that day in 1967 I was at university in Melbourne Oz and someone put the album on the p.a. in the student union building. By about 11.00am there were over 2000 students sitting in the hall listening to constant replays. By 1.00pm all lectures for the day were cancelled as no one was turning up. Can't ever imagine that happening ever again!
Well done review, as always. I've always thought of the Sgt Pepper album as the Beatles blowing the cover off their collective genius and just....absolutely....showing off. "OK, kiddies, get ready for this one!" Even the bright colorful outfits are the perfect outfits for showing off. "We hope you will enjoy the show!" And what a show it was...and still is. And always will be.
No doubt in my mind the stereo version is way better. To me, mono sounds flat, although the sound effects seem more up front. Insane to think about SFF and Penny Lane added to the album, whoa. Even without those two tracks, still feel this is the best pop album of all time.
My grandpa had an old reel to reel version of Sgt. Pepper’s and I was so excited to play it until I opened the case and saw it wasn’t in there. I’m still looking for it to this day.
The "gibberish" track doesn't actually fade. It is supposed to continuously loop as the actual runout groove. On CD releases they obviously had to put an end to this track somehow and decided to fade it out instead of just *bang* gone. On later (or non-parlophone) vinyl releases they omitted this track or did the same fading thing as on the cd releases, because the timing to get the run-out groove sounding right was hard and time consuming to get right during production.
I love both the stereo and mono mix as a sergeant pepper I’ll especially love the different mixes having different speeds on she’s leaving home and hearing the different versions of this in the sky with diamonds it is fantastic.
Revolver & Rubber Soul (in that order) were the best,but this one was great because I knew all of the words & could sing along thanks to the lyrics on the back cover,something unheard of back then.
i was supposed to fly to england on the 50th anniversary of this album and when we woke up i played it and then i was about to play it again and my mom was like what are you doing we have to go were going to freakin england and i was like oh yeah
I really think that this is their best album because I really got into this vinyl album in the autumn of 2001 and stayed digesting it throughout the following year especially good morning good morning, she's leaving, a day in the life and the whole entire album for that matter.
As always, a great review. I think the late George Harrison would agree with you Beatles fans can be weird! It's too bad you lost the Sgt. Lucy painting. Who was who? Was Lucy John?
I'm patiently waiting for Sgt. Pepper's second album. Someone told me it was by the actual Beatles' but I think Paul was dead, at the time. If it takes 40 yrs. to release, I'll still be waiting.
I enjoy your enthusiasm for the music which enraptures you (and me). Your format is cool, with the stereo near you in such an elegant room. I'd love to hang out with you and talk shop. A belated Happy New Year to you.
The story about your mom's painting is really sweet. I just found your channel while looking for good ,well informed Beatles reviews and i have to say i really like your style. You remind me of a young Dick Cavett. Keep it up.
Pet sounds would of happened without rubber soul but would have been different. Rubber soul kinda was the first entirety album but pet sounds is more revered than rubber soul is for its innovation. All great albums
From an influential standpoint, Sgt Pepper's is the greatest. But however, I feel that if we're gonna talk my personal taste and how perfectly crafted an album is Abbey road is the champion of music, and in my opinion, the objective greatest album of all time. Not my favorite album, but however I can't help but acknowledge the brilliance of it.
"if you find a vinyl copy be sure it comes with the cardboard cutout and the paper sleeve"....Good Luck!!! I've never seen it until I watched this video! I've only heard about it!
Trivia, the sweater on the doll say THE WMPS GOOD GUYS WELCOME THE ROLLING STONES. WMPS was a Memphis AM radio station and some girl knitted it to enter a contest to meet the Stones.
I actually find the song Day in the life a depressing song. I cant put my finger on it. Probably becuase i suffer depression that i find it melancholy and not so enjoyable. Although i know musically it is good
Zac Fraizer: Weird, maybe because I don't usually listen with headphones on, I never noticed it or yeah, maybe it's a bad mix you got. I'm with you on Mr. Kite, seems a bit like filler (or a bside), would rather have had Penny Lane or Strawberry Fields Forever. Fixing a hole was a little odd to me.
Yeah, those songs would fit perfectly. Honestly, before I had listened to Sgt. Peppers, I always assumed "Strawberry Fields" was on it. And relistening to "Fixing a Hole," I agree, the song is kinda weird. I think its teetering between being sort of melancholic, like a ballad (based on the melody), but then the chorus is somewhat jubilant, and its confusing. Plus, the mixing on the multi-tracked vocals is a little obnoxious.
+Zac Frazier (Etc.) listen to fixing a hole with gread headphones and some hallucinogens.....your opinion of the song will change drastically...or so i've heard.
my aunts who were only 3 or 4 years older then me and they had had this album in 1967 , i just remember it sounding kind of scary but you heard it everywhere - to this day it still brings me back plus the news was saying paul was dead which kind of freaked me out as a 6 year old kid they kept it up on the piano so everyone could see it but they wouldnt play it because they thought it was so special and everybody just stared at it like a religious experience or something and everyone wanted to borrow it , once in awhile though theyd play it and i remember everybody that was there just sat there listening to it like zombies - seems like yesterday
by the way the funny smell that always seemed to be there now makes me think they were all high on pot and that probobly explains why they acted like zombies !!!!
Roger Watters ,Pink Floyd, admitted that the band happened to be on tour when Sgt. Pepper came out. BBC radio had announced they would play the album in its entirety at 7pm Friday. The band was on the road at the time and they demanded that their driver pull over at a rest stop so they could hear it clearly. When they finally pulled off the road they discovered the rest stop was packed with other motorists doing the same thing they were. So The band went out and convinced everyone to open their doors so they could all listen to it together.
I never like The Rollinh Stones but I live in Bandung, the capital city of 'a setun a' and we called free man who always started a fight at some area as a Jagger Kebon Kalapa or Jagger Leuwi Panjang
I've left this comment on another of your videos: In 1955, Frank Sinatra recorded the concept album, In the We Small Hours. You should review it. It's great. In about 1970 or so, I was helping somebody paint their apartment and KCBQ was on holding a Beatles vs .Stones contest, playing songs against each other with listeners calling in for the better of the two songs. The Beatles vs. Stones is a classic musical trope. BTW: The correct answer is The Beatles.
I bought the original '67 album in stereo and had never really noticed the sleeve mentioned in the video. Don't remember ever having the insert. It would be nice to know more about the selection of characters on the front, as well as their placement. One thing I just noticed that struck me as rather odd is the image of Sonny Liston (boxer who fought Cassius Clay-aka Mohamed Ali) instead of Ali. They had visited Ali's training site in Miami when they were first on tour in the US in '64 and had some well known photos taken with him in the gym. Liston was viewed by many as a dim witted brute and Ali especially furthered this notion with his scathing poetic proclamations.
True The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds influenced Paul in the making of Pepper, (especially God Only Knows) but Revolver influenced Brian Wilson in the making of Pet Sounds. And so it goes. Re: Beatles vs Stones. They still are competitors in my opinion- I think Mick takes the guys out on tour, in part, because Paul and Ringo still tour, and vice-versa. Who will stop first? But they were in fact good friends. Not only did the Stones have photos of the Beatles hidden on the cover of Satanic, John and Paul added background vocals on one of the Satanic tracks- We Love You. John also had Keith in his Plastic Ono Band concert with Eric and Mitch Mitchell, and so on.
I have five copies of this album in MONO, all in conditions from very good plus to mint minus. and, all five copies have both th cardboard cut out sheet and the custom inner sleeve
When i compare the original stereo mix to the remaster i gotta say that i like the remasted better. Because it has more bass it has more dept and when you listen to it with headphones it even better
The Album cover is by:Peter Blake It was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake, who in 1967 won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts for their work on it.
+Vinyl Rewind, I'd love it of you ended up doing more Beatles vinyl reviews! Hell, you could talk about CDs... Like the differences between the new US Box Set vs the original Capitol Records Vol. 1 & 2 / Original US LPS vs the UK versions, or something like the differences between the original stereo mixes of Help and Rubber Soul vs the 85 remixes that are now standard... Anything Beatles! haha
Of course! I love the Beatles too and I plan on doing more episodes in the future. I do want to cover other artists as well so I gotta break them up. Thanks for the suggestions
my first exposure to the cover of sgt pepper was this dvd or cd for children in need 2009 where it was a bunch of kids cartoon characters recreating the album cover so i think everyone has this album cover burned into their mind in some form as well as abbey road
For Christmas I got a box set of original American Beatles pressings and it came with the mono mix of Sgt. Peppers, with original sleeve, Its in gorgeous condition a long with the other records that it came with, Im interested in listening to them eventually to see what differences there are and maybe Ill find that I like certain versions better
John said many times that he didn't particularly care for Sgt.Pepper and was surprised by its popularity.George felt it was a continuation of Revolver.Ringo loved it,but was never happy with his vocal performance.So many have called it the first concept album which John rejected as rubbish.I personally LOVE the album but I have to say IMO they sounded their best at the end with Abbey Road.
Abbey Road does have a very good sound. Too bad it was the first really disappointing LP that in every way showed a band in decline. I think the whole second side is a long bore of trivial little songs that go nowhere ('Because' is nice) . I like two of the Lennon tracks with the first standing out., Come together'. Sgt Peppers is so much more intense and creative, a band at its heights breaking new ground in psych rock. Superior in so many ways. For me the Beatles ended with 'The Beatles' (White Album) should have been their swansong just as Led Zeppelin should have quit in 1975 when 'Presence' came out. That's why they say the good die young.True it may be but a lot of time this dying means we never see the decline (Hendrix, Doors etc)!
I have the Sgt. Pepper insert (badges, mustaches) intact as well as Zappa's parody of it (from We're Only In It For The Money) intact. Both are in frames, adjacent to each other, in my music room.
How in the wild world is this channel never talked about?! I love collecting and listening to vinyls, and I have been watching all your videos now and I think that they are amazing! But there are a few albums that I would personally LOVE for you to review: Off The Wall by Michael Jackson Thriller by Michael Jackson Bad by Michael Jackson Abbey Road by the Beatles What's Going On by Marvin Gaye If you could review/talk about those albums that would be amazing, anyway keep up the amazing work!
AidanHicks101 Sweet, thank you!!! I will totally add your list to my request list. I plan on doing pretty much all of those albums anyway, so you're in luck!
My grandfather gave this album to me on my 18th birthday in 2010, but i wasn't as in to beatles at that time as i am now. But what i found out later is that, the album he gave me is an original 1967 issue with the yellow parlophone label on the vinyl.
Bought in Greenland by the way so it has that looping gibberish in the end..
+ihateclaymores larsen that's awesome, hang onto it
That is actually amazing
@@nikoplaysguitar852 Hold on to it young man!!
@Nikolai Pawn Stars wants to know your location.
Jimi Hendrix liked Sgt Pepper so much that he did a cover of the title track when the Beatles went to one of his shows.
3 days after the album came out!
@@chrislopez6832 no it was 1 day cause he practised it JUST before the concert started
Yeah, they only listened to it twice and NAILED IT.
This album could just only be Lucy in the sky with diamonds and a day in the life and it would still be the greatest album of all time
It could just be the same album, but without the song "Within And Without You" and it will still be the greatest album of all time.
Alix McCann if it had penny lane, strawberry fields forever and all you need is love (from magical mystery tour) it would be undisputedly the best ever
Whaaaat Within you without you is fantastic! It's such a complex song and those drums. Oh god those drums just get me. This album is perfect the way it is, absolutely perfect. But if they really do re-release Sgt. Pepper's with Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane it'd be neat to see what Paul wanted the album to be.
Jamie Hartley I agree, sucks that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane weren't included. Doesn't even matter where you put them on the album, would have made it easily #1.
Let's not exaggerate. Lucy is pretty mediocre
Can you imagine if George Martin had convinced EMI to let them put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the album? Jeez. I would take replace Getting Better with PL and When I’m Sixty-Four with SFF to make space for those two jewels.
yup, I dream about that
Kunga Sagar I would take fixing a hole and good morning, good morning and yeah, that would make it even better...
YES
Also "all you need is love"
***** Makes sense, now that I think of it Getting Better and When I'm Sixty-Four should probably stay because they fit into the album well. Although Penny Lane comes after Lucy in the Sky pretty nicely.
She’s Leaving Home is one of the greatest Beatle songs
Without Rubber Soul, Pet Sounds would not have happened.
And without Elvis no Beatles
Without Bob Dylan and marijuana Rubber Soul wouldn't have happened
@@julianisplayinmusic1365 elvis cant even write his own songs
Johnny Moondogs true but as a performer
With out germany the world as we know it would not have happened
In a box of records I picked up at an estate sale for $10 I found an album with a white cover. I pulled it out and it had a Mobile Fidelity Labs "test disc" label, and grooves on only one side. It looked like it had never been touched by a needle. I played it. It was side one of Sgt. Pepper.
This explains why someone had hand written, on the corner of the cover, "Pepper" in cursive.
Sounds really good.
+Robs OnBass wow, that's really amazing. I can't imagine there are a lot of those floating around. Add it to Discogs if you get the chance
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That's true that Pet Sounds influenced Sgt. Pepper, but you know what influenced Pet Sounds? Revolver...
Cole's Corner actually rubber soul influenced pet sounds
You're right, my bad
It was actually rubber soul
Yah and revolver came out after pet sounds I believe in August I think
the beatles are the biggest inspiration still to this day. anyone who denies that is a lunatic
Hey man! I watched all of your vids when they first came out and now I rewatching, they were a big part of my teenage years!
Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" was a concept album that predated "Pet Sounds" & "Sgt. Pepper." It was released in 1954. All the songs on this LP focused on a particular aspect of love.
It's a good point, but the first Concept Album was Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (1940). Still the point being that Sgt. Pepper mark's the shift from when that was a novelty to when it became the norm.
Vincent Harris Sinatra did another concept album later on called “Watertown” which is terrific
Is that really a concept album though? I mean 90% of pop songs are above love and relationships anyway, even more so in the 50's. In the Wee Small Hours probably has a better claim to being Sinatra's first concept album. Either way I wouldn't actually consider Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper as concept albums, but rather albums that established a new approach to making albums that kicked off the modern album era.
I'd pick Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"
Ha! Playboi Carti invented music. Take that!
once i got my history teacher to play this entire album in class, while we're working.
My teacher only plays violin covers of pop songs.. smh
@@drillbit8280 omg i hate those so much dont get me started
What I love about people's opinions regarding The Beatles and their best album, is that it's always diverse. No one will agree because the made so many amazing albums, and everyone's opinion has merit. My opinion always changes, but predominantly id go with Sgt Peppers
There was this rumor floating around in the late 60s that Paul McCartney was dead and if you opened the Sargent Pepper's album to the lyric section inside, you would see a photo of the Fab Four, but Paul was standing with his back towards the camera. If you look to Paul's left, George Harrison's has his finger pointing towards the lyric line "Wednesday morning at five O'clock..." The story was that somewhere embedded in the album there was a secret phone number. If you found it, you were to call on Wednesday morning at Five O'clock and someone would tell you the time and place of Paul's funeral... Genius marketing in my book!
I bought this on vinyl yesterday...
I don't even own a turntable lmao
I first bought it on vinyl in 1967. And a few more times through the years. One is a gold colored record..(yellow really)...Still have the original 1967 purchase.
Start your record collection before you buy a turntable. It's what I did for more than a year, i had about 35 lp's. The first day after setting it up was a great day!
@@russyJ20
I ended up doing that! I amassed about 5 or so records until one day my father suprised me with a turntable and 10+ classic rock/metal records. It's a shabby suitcase style turntable but it's the thought that counts 😎
This has been deemed the greatest album ever made, not so much for the music on it, but the way the music was made! Martin and the Beatles pretty much invented techniques used to record these tracks. They would vary recording speeds to obtain a specific sound, layer the recordings, obtain exotic instruments, again to obtain a specific sound. The final chord in "A Day In The Life" was obtained by using 5 pianos, an organ, all struck simultaneously with a sound engineer at the volume controls to get that chord to drag out almost twice as long as a regular piano would. What we hear is a sustained chord from a piano, but we don't appreciate that what that piano is doing is impossible for a single piano to do! "Mr. Kite" is, in itself a phenomenon. The album changed the way producers and bands made albums. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) said this as well as many others.
I have a mono Sgt Pepper. It was a Christmas present in 1967. Still have the original insert and inner sleeve. I see it as a ground breaking album but not the Beatles' best.
About radio air play.
It was not played as much when it came out except on the first few and far between FM underground stations. Top 40 radio still ruled and The Monkees were getting the air. This was an ALBUM phenomenon. Parties were thrown to listen to it. Eventually within a year or two radio began catching up. It's important to remember back then radio was always behind the times(except aforementioned FM stations) The coolest stuff got listened to by albums.
You can TOTALLY love the Beatles and the Rolling Stones at the same time.
Why is there no track run-down on this review??!
old review, the channel has evolved over the years
I agree with Rolling Stone. BEST ALBUM EVER KNOWN TO MAN!!!
Ryan Smith i agree that sgt pepper is their number one but pet sounds over revolver abbey road and dark side of the moon is joke
Sgt pepper
Revolver
Abbey road
Dsotm
White album
Rubber soul
Led Zeppelin 4
Pet sounds
Rubber Soul will always be my favourite album, with revolver as second, then segent pepper at third
Yoo me too
I’m a wholehearted fan of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. I couldn’t decide that one band is better than the other.
I was 17 when it came out and I bought the stereo version and listened to it on ex army headphones wired into my stereo record player....it was amazing....I had heard nothing like it....Good Morning .....the stage coach runs thru from left ear to right......and A Day in the Life is just incredible with headphones. 10 years ago I made my own version as it should have been with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on and burnt myself a copy....its much better with the extra 2 tracks on.
My daughter lives about 500 yards away from Penny Lane.and I went to visit Strawberry Fields about 5 years ago which is quite close as is John Lennons old house on Menlove Avenue.
+JOEKIN2011 very cool story. Where did you end up placing those two tracks?
+Vinyl Rewind I would also like to know this
You need to review We're Only In It For The Money! One of my favorite records.
+Liam Sorrell added to my list
Vinyl Rewind Fantastic! Just listened to it today. Love your channel.
+Liam Sorrell thank you
ZAPPA KRAPPA
@@VinylRewind like Zappa first time I heard him 1968
Without Pet Sound's by The Beach Boys, we would not have Sgt Pepper by The Beatles yes. However, without Sgt Pepper, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys would not have gone insane.
My Urban Exploration They were influenced by avant-garde recording artists like AMM, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Morton Subotnick as well as Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention "Freak Out", which he would grow to resent 1960s counterculture and their shortcomings ultimately contradicts their sets of morals.
'ultimately contradicting their set of morals' good subject matter to parody though.
Brian became fundamentally depressed after reading lukewarm reviews of Pet Sounds from critics through press notes. He kept a close relationship with the Fab Four during this period, even taking a plane to their studio when they first started recording for Strawberry Fields Forever and Paul, who munched on celery for the benefit of his song Vegetables, showed Brian a demo of She's Leaving Home. He would find anything around the house, using it for an individual sound effect, later overdubs were made when he finally had the chance to approach the mixing desk. Although, he had lost hope in the project and wished to not dwell on it any longer, Capitol demanded a new release. When they finally got their wish, most, if not all traces of the original was absent. Yes, including lyrics and chord structure.
*Evan Miles* Frank was an arrogant wanker. Period. He later admitted that 'Sgt Peppers is actually very good' but he could not say so at the time. Frank used people and then threw them away like trash. I love some of his music but learned to hate the man by the late 70's as his asshole side dominated everything by then. Highly intelligent, brilliant and driven he nevertheless lacked any concern for others and it shows in his music. He could NEVER really judge his own music and put out more complicated music crap than any in history- Only the Grateful Dead have more mediocre material available than Frank but at least they are bootlegs of less than inspired live performances. However there is also more good stuff from them and the Beatles than Frank!
MegaRaven100 I know, he refused to play at Monterey when he was invited because he felt that the rest of the bands taking up the preceding slots "were inferior to him", he would sabotage his other band members, by significantly altering the former arrangements to his songs, saying "you can't do anything right!", just to throw them away shortly afterward. Question: Why would you hire these people for them to waste their talent, and to get chewed out every day in the studio? Might as well just take up something that fits your own preferable tastes. I saw an interview that was taken around '71, he was asked about "women's lib", calling the whole thing in retrospect, "meaningless", saying it was just a fad. I wouldn't want to be part of his band, since most of his titles were arbitrary in regards to his songwriting, telling others who question him, "I guess you just don't get it." Calling out musicians for being possessed, and the majority of the right wing religious crowd still believes that MK ultra bullshit. Believing in limited government (which I can be okay with, since it's not my problem) but we need guidance, without the things we take for granted, like gov't checks that come in the mail and free health care, which is currently non-existent, WE WOULD BE LOST. I collect CDs and vinyl, but let me just say that I wouldn't be the one, wasting my money, though from a distance it looks like I'm doing this to support the artist, but no, I'm doing it for the advantage of people like corporate Frank, where I'm spending my money, it's only a small percentage of a large chain of greed, either that those who are knee deep in debt are paying their due with my dollars. I can totally understand that his "asshole side of him overshadowed his music," because we had a Democratic president in office, and unlike Frank, he doesn't spend all of his time sitting on his ass giving everyone a mouthful of his biased critique. This was a time of constant change, and compared to the beginning of the decade, the record goes to show that a great amount of progress was undertaken. Paricularly italicizing race relations, nonetheless a slowly developing bond between other countries that took years to come into fruition. Growth and maturity, that is barely present in the man's personality. In stark contrast, consistently more alike of a quantum leap than you will choose to partake in more or less of thirty years. Rather to refuse that what's in front of you isn't true.
On that day in 1967 I was at university in Melbourne Oz and someone put the album on the p.a. in the student union building. By about 11.00am there were over 2000 students sitting in the hall listening to constant replays. By 1.00pm all lectures for the day were cancelled as no one was turning up. Can't ever imagine that happening ever again!
Your mother sounds like a genius! :)
haha, I'll tell her you said that
Well done review, as always. I've always thought of the Sgt Pepper album as the Beatles blowing the cover off their collective genius and just....absolutely....showing off. "OK, kiddies, get ready for this one!" Even the bright colorful outfits are the perfect outfits for showing off. "We hope you will enjoy the show!" And what a show it was...and still is. And always will be.
That makes total sense. It was almost as if they went, "What can we get away with"
This album changed music forever
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love your channel, i think you totally need to do a review on the new Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band vinyl
No doubt in my mind the stereo version is way better. To me, mono sounds flat, although the sound effects seem more up front. Insane to think about SFF and Penny Lane added to the album, whoa. Even without those two tracks, still feel this is the best pop album of all time.
My grandpa had an old reel to reel version of Sgt. Pepper’s and I was so excited to play it until I opened the case and saw it wasn’t in there. I’m still looking for it to this day.
I really like your reviews! Well done!
The "gibberish" track doesn't actually fade. It is supposed to continuously loop as the actual runout groove.
On CD releases they obviously had to put an end to this track somehow and decided to fade it out instead of just *bang* gone.
On later (or non-parlophone) vinyl releases they omitted this track or did the same fading thing as on the cd releases, because the timing to get the run-out groove sounding right was hard and time consuming to get right during production.
"The looping thing" should be IN the run-off groove, never 'fading'.
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Very cool having Pets Sounds record in the background up top. Can’t do an in depth review or Sgt Peppers without mentioning Pet Sounds!
Sgt peppers is my all time favorite Beatles album.it” s will stand test of time.
That means that The Beatles spent roughly 4.8 hours per day recording Sgt Peppers from 24 November 1966, to 21 April 1967
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Lazy part-timers
This album is amazing but my heart belongs to Magical Mystery Tour
I love both the stereo and mono mix as a sergeant pepper I’ll especially love the different mixes having different speeds on she’s leaving home and hearing the different versions of this in the sky with diamonds it is fantastic.
Revolver & Rubber Soul (in that order) were the best,but this one was great because I knew all of the words & could sing along thanks to the lyrics on the back cover,something unheard of back then.
i was supposed to fly to england on the 50th anniversary of this album and when we woke up i played it and then i was about to play it again and my mom was like what are you doing we have to go were going to freakin england and i was like oh yeah
I really think that this is their best album because I really got into this vinyl album in the autumn of 2001 and stayed digesting it throughout the following year especially good morning good morning, she's leaving, a day in the life and the whole entire album for that matter.
Personally, I think its very easy to like both. Love The Beatles & the Rolling Stones. Both genius bands in their own ways.
I do. They both great bands
Magnificent.
As always, a great review. I think the late George Harrison would agree with you Beatles fans can be weird! It's too bad you lost the Sgt. Lucy painting. Who was who? Was Lucy John?
Crap, I really don't remember who was who. I'll have to see if my mom has a picture of it or maybe it's in the background of some home movies
I'm Glad I have the Mono Version original from 1967, and I LOVE it.
A++ work! Your mom sounds pretty cool, too 😎 *SUBSCRIBED*
My favorite Beatles album, just fascinating!
A day in the life is my FAVORITE song off the album.
I'm patiently waiting for Sgt. Pepper's second album. Someone told me it was by the actual Beatles' but I think Paul was dead, at the time. If it takes 40 yrs. to release, I'll still be waiting.
I enjoy your enthusiasm for the music which enraptures you (and me). Your format is cool, with the stereo near you in such an elegant room. I'd love to hang out with you and talk shop. A belated Happy New Year to you.
I like what you do, I wish I had a room like yours...retro style.
Do the Magical Mystery tour. Not released as an album in the UK, (until the 70s) but a double EP.
Yeah, i would love to pick up the EP version
With a Little Help From My Friends' working title was Badfinger Boogie which inspired the change in the name from the former Iveys to Badfinger.
When I was a kid I checked this album out from the local library. Odd that you could do that back in the late 60s
The story about your mom's painting is really sweet. I just found your channel while looking for good ,well informed Beatles reviews and i have to say i really like your style. You remind me of a young Dick Cavett. Keep it up.
ah man, thank you, Dick Cavett is a huge inspiration for me
Vinyl Rewind That's great. Dick Cavett is one of my favorite tv talk show hosts. Keep up the good work man.
Your videos are fantastic man. Keep up the great work!!
This is the greatest album ever made. It’s not my favorite, but it’s the greatest.
Have you heard Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young (1972)?
Pet sounds would of happened without rubber soul but would have been different. Rubber soul kinda was the first entirety album but pet sounds is more revered than rubber soul is for its innovation. All great albums
There is nothing new in this "review", but it's still a really good watch. Top bananas to the presenter.
From an influential standpoint, Sgt Pepper's is the greatest.
But however, I feel that if we're gonna talk my personal taste and how perfectly crafted an album is
Abbey road is the champion of music, and in my opinion, the objective greatest album of all time.
Not my favorite album, but however I can't help but acknowledge the brilliance of it.
"if you find a vinyl copy be sure it comes with the cardboard cutout and the paper sleeve"....Good Luck!!! I've never seen it until I watched this video! I've only heard about it!
I have this on vinyl. And it’s the original pressing. Love it.
Trivia, the sweater on the doll say THE WMPS GOOD GUYS WELCOME THE ROLLING STONES. WMPS was a Memphis AM radio station and some girl knitted it to enter a contest to meet the Stones.
I actually find the song Day in the life a depressing song. I cant put my finger on it. Probably becuase i suffer depression that i find it melancholy and not so enjoyable. Although i know musically it is good
Zac Fraizer: Weird, maybe because I don't usually listen with headphones on, I never noticed it or yeah, maybe it's a bad mix you got. I'm with you on Mr. Kite, seems a bit like filler (or a bside), would rather have had Penny Lane or Strawberry Fields Forever. Fixing a hole was a little odd to me.
Yeah, those songs would fit perfectly. Honestly, before I had listened to Sgt. Peppers, I always assumed "Strawberry Fields" was on it. And relistening to "Fixing a Hole," I agree, the song is kinda weird. I think its teetering between being sort of melancholic, like a ballad (based on the melody), but then the chorus is somewhat jubilant, and its confusing. Plus, the mixing on the multi-tracked vocals is a little obnoxious.
+Zac Frazier (Etc.) listen to fixing a hole with gread headphones and some hallucinogens.....your opinion of the song will change drastically...or so i've heard.
+Dexter Scott It's definitely grown on me, without the need for hallucinogens
+Dexter Scott haha, I will have to try that some time
They should have replaced she's leaving home with penny lane I think
Awesome review. Thank you ever so much!
I remember bringing jacket sleeve to bed as seven or eight year old as my bedtime reading.
my aunts who were only 3 or 4 years older then me and they had had this album in 1967 , i just remember it sounding kind of scary but you heard it everywhere - to this day it still brings me back plus the news was saying paul was dead which kind of freaked me out as a 6 year old kid they kept it up on the piano so everyone could see it but they wouldnt play it because they thought it was so special and everybody just stared at it like a religious experience or something and everyone wanted to borrow it , once in awhile though theyd play it and i remember everybody that was there just sat there listening to it like zombies - seems like yesterday
by the way the funny smell that always seemed to be there now makes me think they were all high on pot and that probobly explains why they acted like zombies !!!!
Roger Watters ,Pink Floyd, admitted that the band happened to be on tour when Sgt. Pepper came out. BBC radio had announced they would play the album in its entirety at 7pm Friday. The band was on the road at the time and they demanded that their driver pull over at a rest stop so they could hear it clearly. When they finally pulled off the road they discovered the rest stop was packed with other motorists doing the same thing they were. So The band went out and convinced everyone to open their doors so they could all listen to it together.
I never like The Rollinh Stones but I live in Bandung, the capital city of 'a setun a' and we called free man who always started a fight at some area as a Jagger Kebon Kalapa or Jagger Leuwi Panjang
I've left this comment on another of your videos: In 1955, Frank Sinatra recorded the concept album, In the We Small Hours.
You should review it. It's great.
In about 1970 or so, I was helping somebody paint their apartment and KCBQ was on holding a Beatles vs .Stones contest, playing songs against each other with listeners calling in for the better of the two songs. The Beatles vs. Stones is a classic musical trope. BTW: The correct answer is The Beatles.
What a fucking amazing channel - so glad I stumbled across this
I bought the original '67 album in stereo and had never really noticed the sleeve mentioned in the video. Don't remember ever having the insert. It would be nice to know more about the selection of characters on the front, as well as their placement. One thing I just noticed that struck me as rather odd is the image of Sonny Liston (boxer who fought Cassius Clay-aka Mohamed Ali) instead of Ali. They had visited Ali's training site in Miami when they were first on tour in the US in '64 and had some well known photos taken with him in the gym. Liston was viewed by many as a dim witted brute and Ali especially furthered this notion with his scathing poetic proclamations.
True The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds influenced Paul in the making of Pepper, (especially God Only Knows) but Revolver influenced Brian Wilson in the making of Pet Sounds. And so it goes. Re: Beatles vs Stones. They still are competitors in my opinion- I think Mick takes the guys out on tour, in part, because Paul and Ringo still tour, and vice-versa. Who will stop first? But they were in fact good friends. Not only did the Stones have photos of the Beatles hidden on the cover of Satanic, John and Paul added background vocals on one of the Satanic tracks- We Love You. John also had Keith in his Plastic Ono Band concert with Eric and Mitch Mitchell, and so on.
I thought Hendrix did a great live performance of Sgt. Pepper.
RattyMaxReilly he did!
RattyMaxReilly That performance took place 2 days after the release of the album
You should do a vinyl review of Led Zeppelin IV
I have five copies of this album in MONO, all in conditions from very good plus to mint minus. and, all five copies have both th cardboard cut out sheet and the custom inner sleeve
Lucky
Does every Sgt Peppers record come with the thing at 4:13? If so, then I will treasure that forever
When i compare the original stereo mix to the remaster
i gotta say that i like the remasted better. Because it has more bass it has more dept and when you listen to it with headphones it even better
The Album cover is by:Peter Blake
It was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake, who in 1967 won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts for their work on it.
+Vinyl Rewind, I'd love it of you ended up doing more Beatles vinyl reviews! Hell, you could talk about CDs... Like the differences between the new US Box Set vs the original Capitol Records Vol. 1 & 2 / Original US LPS vs the UK versions, or something like the differences between the original stereo mixes of Help and Rubber Soul vs the 85 remixes that are now standard... Anything Beatles! haha
Of course! I love the Beatles too and I plan on doing more episodes in the future. I do want to cover other artists as well so I gotta break them up. Thanks for the suggestions
my first exposure to the cover of sgt pepper was this dvd or cd for children in need 2009 where it was a bunch of kids cartoon characters recreating the album cover so i think everyone has this album cover burned into their mind in some form as well as abbey road
I hope you can find out what happened to the painting that your mother made one day, it sounds really nice.
Most Important Album ever Recorded.
Magical mystery tour should be listened along with Sgt pepper. Like a game with it's DLC
Cool little nic nacs for the little punks like me in the album . Out lasted your time and music
There's a restaurant on the Boulevard in buffalo and they serve a meal called the sergeant pepper and a meal called the Ringo
For Christmas I got a box set of original American Beatles pressings and it came with the mono mix of Sgt. Peppers, with original sleeve, Its in gorgeous condition a long with the other records that it came with, Im interested in listening to them eventually to see what differences there are and maybe Ill find that I like certain versions better
Oh wow, fantastic gift
John said many times that he didn't particularly care for Sgt.Pepper and was surprised by its popularity.George felt it was a continuation of Revolver.Ringo loved it,but was never happy with his vocal performance.So many have called it the first concept album which John rejected as rubbish.I personally LOVE the album but I have to say IMO they sounded their best at the end with Abbey Road.
After doing my review of Abbey Road, I agree with you. They really sounded great on that album
+Vinyl Rewind it's as if the Beatles are from another world the greatest rock band of all time
+Tony Suss
Clearly Pet Sounds was a concept album (the arch of a romance) before Pepper.
They are!
Abbey Road does have a very good sound. Too bad it was the first really disappointing LP that in every way showed a band in decline. I think the whole second side is a long bore of trivial little songs that go nowhere ('Because' is nice) . I like two of the Lennon tracks with the first standing out., Come together'. Sgt Peppers is so much more intense and creative, a band at its heights breaking new ground in psych rock. Superior in so many ways. For me the Beatles ended with 'The Beatles' (White Album) should have been their swansong just as Led Zeppelin should have quit in 1975 when 'Presence' came out. That's why they say the good die young.True it may be but a lot of time this dying means we never see the decline (Hendrix, Doors etc)!
I have the Sgt. Pepper insert (badges, mustaches) intact as well as Zappa's parody of it (from We're Only In It For The Money) intact. Both are in frames, adjacent to each other, in my music room.
Ah man, I didn't know Zappa did that, that sounds so cool
How in the wild world is this channel never talked about?! I love collecting and listening to vinyls, and I have been watching all your videos now and I think that they are amazing! But there are a few albums that I would personally LOVE for you to review:
Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Bad by Michael Jackson
Abbey Road by the Beatles
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
If you could review/talk about those albums that would be amazing, anyway keep up the amazing work!
AidanHicks101 Sweet, thank you!!! I will totally add your list to my request list. I plan on doing pretty much all of those albums anyway, so you're in luck!
Please, please, PLEASE DO THE BEATLES' YESTERDAY AND TODAY BUTCHER COVER!
that'd be a fun one to do
my favroite album of all time
I got the UK version with Parlophone with the rare stickers and cut-outs. I was so happy, it was mono.
It was Christmas, aka today.
+Satan Moose It wasn't cut up or anything, nothing wrong.
Bitches be jealous xD
+Satan Moose I fucking hate that ending thing, scared the shit out of me.
+Satan Moose That's awesome!
This is a very entertaining channel..
I got a copy of sgt pepper for £10 with everything in it all the cut outs were there and I still have it
We love u, VG!!!!!
I found this cassette tape at the valley missions over a year and a half ago for just .25cents