The Beatles: Sgt Pepper | Review
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2023
- One of the most influential albums of the 20th century. This album is examined, with a look at the background and track by track analysis
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you mentioned the New York Times dismissed Sergeant peppers. I’m not surprised they never get anything, right
I think the NYT not liking something means you're on the right track. They've gotten much worse in the 56 years since Sgt. Pepper.
My favorite LP all time. I am one of those boring people who can say I was there to hear when it first came out. No other LP impacted me to the extent of this one. I will never forget that.
George Martin has said the biggest mistake he ever made with the Beatles were releasing Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane as a single buckling to the record company. New York Times sucks to this day.
As important it was back then, it's still relevant today, as all masterpieces are !
Excellent analysis. Nobody who didn't hear it in 1967 will ever realize how revolutionary this album was. From the bone rattling guitar at the beginning to the piano chord at the end Sgt Pepper was a shock after the 2 minute pop singles of AM radio. In retrospect Within You, Without You hasn't aged well. Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were better choices. Glad you mentioned Ringo on Day in the Life. He was also great on Mr. Kite.
It's a flawed masterpiece but masterpiece it is.
I continue to really like Within You Without You. So mind blowing at the time but still a wonder production.
Think people also often forget how many steps were already taken on Rubber Soul and Revolver, those two albums really led up to this magnum opus
Those two albums are both better than Sgt Pepper’s
@@badgasaurus4211 I agree
Undoubtedly - major steps, they're a trilogy of massive advancement, but Pepper is probably the apogee, with Revolver a neck and neck rival
@@NowhereMan2710 It’s a feat in blunder and bluster, rather than quality
@@badgasaurus4211 If you think With a Little Help, Lucy in the Sky, Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, Lovely Rita, Benefit of Mister Kite, hell - EVERY track are blunder and bluster then you may need new ears
What makes the Melanie Coe/She's Leaving Home story more weird is that her and Paul actually met on an episode of Ready Steady Go in 1963 where he chose her as the winner of a miming contest. I'm sure the clip can be seen elsewhere here on YT.
I loved this the 1st time I heard it in the early 80s, when I was about 13. I still love it. Not sure if I see it as a concept album, but I do see it as a psychedelic drug, in music form. Not sure where it's going, but it's taking me, anyway👍
A really erudite and informed review. An enjoyable listen.
phill collins once said ringo is a very underrated drummer the drum fills on a day in the life were very complex not many other drummers could do it like that
10:23 and by the Beatles (Norwegian Wood).
Back in the '90s there was a series of 8 radio programmes on BBC R4: "You Probably Think This Song is About You" interviewing people who had inspired songs. Two of the eight episodes concerned this album: Ep1 interviews Lucy Vodden and Ep5 interviews Melanie Coe. I'm hoping one day they'll be repeated.
I think I remember a second series including interviews with Prudence Farrow (Dear Prudence), Diane Hamblyn (She Came in Through the Bathroom Window) and Patti Boyd (Something et al).
I rarely feel the need to listen to it but then I do realise just how good it is. A few years back Marillion covered Good Morning, Good Morning and it made me realise that out of context that is simply a great rock song, even with some pretty prog time changes!
A wonderful video, such great detail and clearly you’ve got a broad depth of knowledge and such an articulate way with words, spoken so well - brilliant broadcasting!
My take from this, well something learned from this, was the story about the medals McCartney’s wearing - every day’s a school day!
As for the album itself, agree with every word, and it’s an absolute classic in so many ways, for so many reasons. Fab!
It’s great how music can transport you back to a time place. I can vividly recall, as a ‘teenager’, the very first time I heard Lucy in the Sky wafting out on a summers day and thinking what is THAT! No point in arguing how the music has/has not dated etc - no question whatsoever, like it or not, that it’s one of the most important albums of the whole rock era. I play ‘Lucy’ at open mics etc and everyone, regardless of age, knows it and sings along. Timeless.
Terrific review as always with some additional nuggets I never Knew thrown in for good measure. 👍
Fantastic retrospective of a fantastic album.
You have the most relaxing voice. And also the content of your video was great :)
It’s kinda funny doing a critique on any Beatle album including For Sale. As a Beatle fan I love all of their albums. It’s just a matter of which ones do I love more at any given time. Pepper of course is a masterpiece but I feel it was the album began the end. It was a Paul vehicle, and I certainly have no issues with that. John was tripping, George was learning to play chess and Ringo was yawning. It was a candied up Paul that dragged the dream into reality and thank god he did I. It’s an interesting thought to think if he hadn’t pushed it through what would have happened.
Everything about Pepper reeks of class and quality. It plays like an album that demands to be played from beginning to end. And boy did I ever! Is it my favourite? Nope, that’s the White Album. Is it better that Abbey Road? I think it is. What about Rubber Revolver? Those two albums in my opinion give the White Album a run for it’s money. But..but..ssshh…sssh…what’s that?
I love Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!!!
It’s got a Day in the Life for Chrissakes! What’s not to like?
🤘😳🤘
Great review.
Pepper has slipped in recent years from all-time ranking lists in favour of Revolver..whilst both albums are fantastic, Pepper, for me at least has a warmer, sunnier disposition than Revolver and is an altogether easier and more enjoyable album to listen to.
My only criticism is that, like a lot of classic albums, I've heard it many times and don't play it often these days.
Certainly an album worthy of its acclaim. Brilliant and Influential. Without it (and Pet Sounds) we might not have prog. I love most of the songs. In the spirit of being objective, I have never been a big fan of "When I'm 64." I think it's one of the songs that John considered "Paul's granny songs." Also, I've always thought that the Sgt. Pepper reprise should have been the closer. Though "Day in the Life" is one of my favorite Beatles songs. Enjoyed your analysis, as always.
Sgt. Pepper Reprise was the closer, A day in the life the encore!!
@@zetmoon I get that. Thought about it. Maybe it's the writer in me but I like bookends. If a album that's a concept starts with a song than it makes sense to come full circle. Buy, I get that Pepper is a loose concept.
@@robertharvey2604 the concept is a concert by a fictional band and with an encore it’s complete.
great job as always on this review; i’m a massive Beatles fan (my youngest daughter’s middle name is Lennon) but this is the record of theirs i listen to the least. i understand it’s relevance (especially at the time) but to me it sounds the most dated and When I’m 64 is easily my least fave song of theirs - but at the same time A Day in the Life is probably my favorite 🤷🏻♂️
Lennon said it wasn’t a concept album, so I’m going with him. And Lennon’s contributions with Lucy, Mr Kite & A Day, exceed Macca’s IMO, mostly because When I’m 64 and Rita spoil the party. And to leave out arguably the Beatle’s best 2 songs was gross negligence. Anyhoo, I prefer Revolver and The White Album.
100%
Hi any chance of reviewing "SF Sorrow" by The Pretty Things? It was the album recorded at Abbey Road in between Sgt Pepper and Piper at the Gates of Dawn and I think is VASTLY underrated especially the special edition including "Defecting Grey" (The birth of the sound Black Sabbath perfected) The track "Old Man Going" can be played to the unsuspecting and passed off as a Black Sabbath track. The rest of it is pretty good but those two tracks in particular are 2 years ahead of their time. In my opinion of course....What's yours? Thanks
SF Sorrow is good. I like Parachute better though. The album they did in between with French millionaire Phillips DeBarge is also well worth hunting down.
@@catsofsherman1316 Granted. Parachutes is the better album, but I thought coz he was doing Sgt Pepper the Abbey Road connection was so strong.
Excellent review
Great review of a great album ..Thankyou!
Glad you enjoyed it
Just one of those albums that wouldn't make my top 40 albums but I know every word. A little bit of everything thing going on. Brilliant ideas and music.
Wonderful appraisal of a genuine masterpiece.I think it should be reconstructed to include Penny and Strawberry.Songs of that magnitude need a good home.
What would you drop to make room? Sgt. Pepper fills the available space on vinyl lp. Squeezing more songs would dramatically decrease the sound quality. I would probably drop within you, and maybe fixing a hole. Not that I don't like those, but if I had to make room. They could have been used as b sides or go on future album.
@@catsofsherman1316 If it did require a substitution sacrifice,i would opt for 'good morning' and/or 'getting better' possibly.The sheer majesty of PL and SF would easily fill such vacancies.
@@catsofsherman1316 Don't drop any thing, just add both songs. Couldn't have done that back in 67, but the OP did say reconstructed, so today we can. Things are digital now. Vinyl with all its limitations is irrelevant.
One of their four best! (with Revolver, The Beatles, and Abbey Road)
The greatest run of albums ever
You forgot Rubber Soul.
@@dj71162 No, no I didn't.
This is the worst of those albums
I always listened both at the time from front to back and then again like addiction on cheap equipment and joined every moment
It’s not my favourite Beatles album nor my favourite album but I do believe it to be the most important album ever recorded.
Just another incredible album for me - along with pretty much everything they did.
If I had to pick my favorite album all time this would be it it.
Always appreciated Sgt. Pepper because some great prog artists have cited it as a partial inspiration. The prog rock idea of concept albums comes from Sgt. Pepper, it says here.
Sgt. Peppers was the first album I bought, but it has not aged as well as many of their other LPs. The tracks I like the least (in no particular order): 1) "She's Leaving Home" - I don't care for the choice of instruments, the lyrics, or the chorus; 2) "Within You Without You" - an interesting song, just not a good one. Harrison often did not understand that many of us aren't enamored with Eastern metaphysical concepts and instrumentation as he was; 3) "Lovely Rita" - lyrics don't work for me. In my mind, Lennon never step-up for this album; it really needed the quality of songs he wrote for Revolver. "Strawberry Fields" would have been a better choice then "Within You Without You". "Penny Lane" would have just been too pop for this album and ruined the dynamics. I think "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Sgt. Peppers (reprise)", "Good Morning Good Morning", "With a Little Help from My Friends", and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" are superb. The remaining songs also hold their own. Great channel and discussion.
I will never not think this is the best album of all time. Music that changed the world, it never gets old. Love the Freak Out reference. BBC did not buy the Lucy story ? LOL
I first heard this when I was 7 years old in 1984. I had at the time been listening heavily to much of the other music by The Beatles. I still find A Day in the Life to be one of their best songs ever, but as a whole there are several relatively weak songs on the album. Good Morning, Good Morning and Getting Better are in particular two songs I really don't like. There is still no denying the importance of the album at the time. An album that was more important to the evolution of rock music, than it is good. I much prefer listening to Rubber Soul, The Beatles or Revolver.
dont like getting better OH COME ON
What an absolute Masterpiece it is
The 2017 Remix is a Revelation, particularly if you add Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever to the Track List.
Kick Back and go for the Ride
I am not a big Beatles fan but I think this album is superb. A true classic. And yes, what if that double A side had been included? Bloody hell. Thanks Barry.
Definitely in my top 5 Fabs albums this but if the truth be told it's a mile off my top 3! Replace the god awful Within You Without You on side 2 with Strawberry Fields Forever & then you have just about the perfect album....
Always love the feel of this album. Is it my favourite album 🤔 yes it is👍
My all time favorite…..blew me away in 1967.
I'm a massive Beatles fan but I like this album, I don't love it. I understand how important it was at the time it was released and how it broke all the rules and has influenced tons of people etc...but it'll never be a better album than either Rubber Soul or Revolver in my opinion.
Always a magnificent album.
S Peppers. Coming to terms with the fact that this is the best record made by anyone so far is like trying to turn back the tide. It has everything except Hendrix guitar solos. And he has been recorded and filmed playing one of the tracks. Sorted.
"report arch" and "pelephone?" :)
Cool. I just prefer their straight forward stuff. I never heard Pet Sounds but hearsay it echoes that.
Great reaction ...loved it.
This album is more important than good. It’s a solid 4 out of 5 for me. I’d throw out “Fixing a Hole,” “Within You Without You,” and “When I’m Sixty-Four.” The two obvious singles should’ve been included. But even with that tweak I still think there’s something missing. Still, it’s a solid pop record with two or three psychedelic songs.
On the inner groove I do think I sussed what"s going on there...a Cello ..or violin follows the voice of the young lady at a party while others are laughing and right at the end one person lets out a big laugh but the lady or girl she says ......I just can't see it any other way and the inflection of her voice becones the melody played by the cello as it follows her voice pattern
Oh, the Beatles have a new album out??
I was just a kid when it came out, and ever since then, I see so many people divide music into two eras: before Sergeant Pepper and after Sergeant Pepper.
Black and white vs in color! That’s how I felt when I first heard it in 67.
Fantasmagorea (is that the right spelling) What a word!!
It's in a category all its own; an astonishing moment in popular culture. Even presuming to review it is something akin to blasphemy. You shouldn't have done this.
Between this and Abbey Road for me , for most important album of all time.
Half of the album's songs are good, half are pretty mediocre by Beatles standards. It is the dressing that acts as the biggest draw. For historical value it may well be no 1. For the songs alone it sits somewhere in the middle of The Beatles catalogue.
You completely ignored Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise, which is not only my 4th favorite song on the album, but also my 11th favorite Beatles song in general. It's also one of only 3 songs on the album that makes it fit (loosely) as a 'concept album'.You spent :15 seconds on 'When I'm 64', but spent nothing on the 'Reprise'. Shame on you!
Yes, I ranked all 214 Beatles songs on my personal favorites list. It was very difficult to do, but I can send it to you on request.
Greatly overrated. The only album of theirs that is really married to a particular place and time. Never cared for the loose concept, garishly kitsch cover, and only about half the songs measure up. I actually see Revolver as the better version of Pepper (with the infusion of psychedelia and where the studio really becomes an instrument). They were already the “Pepper” band on Revolver (it just hadn’t manifested in their appearance yet), but the songs were much stronger. I’d much rather listen to any Beatles album than Pepper.
As usual, your take is very articulate. We address this album’s merits in our Overrated or Not series.
More like Sargent POOPER! 😂😂😂
3:17 The NYT also dismissed the shocking HB laptop story thus allowing his dad JB to be elected. Thanks NYT. NOT! Classic Album Review is like Sgt Pepper. The best!
Sigh. Give the laptop story a rest...
Easily the most overrated Beatles project and the one least deserving of the praise endowed to it. The songs just aren’t there with the exception of obvious greats like “A Day in the Life”. Compare it to Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road and it just does not stack up.
What Goes On, Wait, Yellow Sub, I Want To Tell You, Maxwell, the Octopus - not good enough for Pepper methinks!
@@graniterhythm53 Fixing a Hole, When I’m Sixty Four, Within You Without You, bot good enough for any other album me thinks!
Then you have she’s leaving home which is Here There and Everywhere with a weaker melody. And being completely fair, Octopus’s Garden is better than the songs I just mentioned honestly. Sgt Pepper’s just doesn’t stack up. No big killer tracks on it (apart from A Day in the Life) and the sum of its parts is also lesser than those other albums - mainly due to Lennon not getting on board with the direction and not contributing enough tracks.
Never heard of it.
Haha damnit, you stole my comment. Was gonna say... not heard this one, sounds like I should give it a listen.
A pub band that got lucky 😉
A pub band that never played any pubs, now that's what I call a concept!
I always find this album incredibly boring especially compared to the other albums they did after Help. Perhaps the songs are just overplayed.
Plagiarism of Satanic Majesties Request.
Nah, more of Between the Button. I’m only half kidding.
It was more of the other way around…
Yes, the Beatles always followed what the Stones did but because of distortions in the timespace continuum The Beatles were able to release their stuff first. Also the film A Hard Days Night was inspired by The Monkees TV show.
Most overrated album ever from the most overrated band.
The Pepper band only made this one album & over 55 years later, I believe, it's still the biggest selling original album (that is not a compilation) in the UK - something to be said for being overrated!