Best Song from Sgt. Pepper
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Topic: Best Song from Sgt. Pepper
Posted By: Michael678
Subject: Best Song from Sgt. Pepper
Date Posted: June 01 2014 at 15:52
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in honor of the 47th birthday of this motha f**kin' masterpiece, i put up a discussion forum which you can get to here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=98436" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=98436 along with this poll on what is the best song from that album among other stuff. i am also ready for this topic to be headed over to the prog-related lounge as that is where The Beatles are best located of course. what do you think is the best, hmmm?
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 01 2014 at 16:44
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A Day in the Life. What a way to end an album. If I'd been around and "of age" when it came out, imagine how blown my mind could have been. As it was, I first heard it towards the end of side one of the "Blue" comp album. Not quite the same. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: June 01 2014 at 16:45
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Sgt.Pepper is actually quite low on my favorite Beatles album. Though a certain closing song makes this album enough to listen to. I would call this a classic album, but i don't think of it as a masterpiece personally - simply because i'm not a huge fan of many of the songs here. Favorite Song: A Day In The Life. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: ebil0505
Date Posted: June 01 2014 at 16:59
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and of course henry the horse dances the waltz ------------- "I like to think oysters transcend national barriers." - Roger Waters |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 02:59
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A Day in the Life, obviously. ------------- 
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 03:23
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As good as A Day in the Life is, I think She's Leaving Home would be my favourite, so I voted that. I'm quite partial to Getting Better too. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 04:16
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"Fixing A Hole" vs. "She's Leaving Home" vs. "A Day in the Life". The last one is overplayed to death on a local classic rock radio station, so that make choosing a little easier. I'm going with ... . Ah! ... . Screw this, I'm not voting. ... Too hard!
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 04:16
| Difficult choice really, but Paul's 'Fixing A Hole' just stays with me. Every time someone mentions Pepper's, the first song that enters my thoughts is this track. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 06:19
| "A Day in the Life" is the obvious choice but over the years I've come to appreciate "She'd Leaving Home" more and more, lyrically as well as musically. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 06:26
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An exorbitantly overvalued cultural artifact but I voted for Fixing a Hole nevertheless.There are better Beatles albums and better Beatles songs. ------------- 
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Posted By: Imperial Zeppelin
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 07:10
| Within You Without You |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 07:20
Yep, gravity is a conspiratorial lie and 'Are You Ready Eddie' is the jewel in the crown of Tarkus -------------
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Imperial Zeppelin wrote:Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 07:26
Mr KITE. Love that cover. (from the B for Bang album)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPzDpGnVLpQ |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 07:30
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Voted for the strangest song I found in my dad's record colletion Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (which obviously didn't contain much strangeness) but could have gone for A Day in the Live like everybody else. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 08:48
| The celebrated Mr. K performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 10:08
| She's Leaving Home is the one that has always grabbed me most emotionally. |
Posted By: Xonty
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 12:10
She's Leaving Home just over Day In The Life 
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 12:19
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A Day in the Life ------------- |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 14:49
Lucy in the Sky tied with a Day In The Life. Both are proto prog that's of the same caliber as Strawberry Fields. (Sorry!) 
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 18:20
oh hell no i don't mind that at all! ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 20:30
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Kite as John so eloquently said of it, "You should be able to smell the peanuts". ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 21:59
| I'm afraid I must go with the majority here and choose "A Day in the Life". Though I guess if this poll were done in a non-prog music site, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and perhaps "With a Little help from my Friends" would be winning, or at least giving a tight competition. |
Posted By: Svetonio
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 22:01
| Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 22:12
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BTW that title track is a killer little rock number, tends to be forgotten
------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Watcher of the Sky
Date Posted: June 02 2014 at 22:40
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A Day in Life what a overrated album ------------- Nous sommes du soleil |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 00:35
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 05:18
Born after 1964 then? If you lived through it, you wouldn't be stating this. But I might be wrong.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 05:29
I think he's right. I was born in 1962 and still think it's influence is overstated. For me both Revolver and Rubber Soul were better albums and had demonstrably more influence on subsequent developments in popular music than Sgt Pepper. But let's not split baby hairs, It's a very fine album by consummate artists all said. -------------
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 05:38
true. Sgt. Pepper wouldn't exist without the potential with those two albums (AND The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, the main influence for that album) ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 07:26
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^ Yes, the Beach Boy's are too often glibly dismissed when it comes to innovation and laying the foundations for Prog's Bouncy Castle. It always irks me when certain artists are accused of using the very cliches they actually invented (Floyd and Dylan come to mind) -------------
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Posted By: altaeria
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 08:43
So True. It was merely a conceptual stepping stone to what everyone considers the apex of the Rollling Stones discography, Their Satanic Majesties Request. |
Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 09:28
Same for me, the song is incredibly strong. And then some say that McCartney is superficial.  But "A Day In The Life" is still a great, powerful, adventurous song, and I also love "To The Benefit Of Mr. Kite". I vote for "She's Leaving Home", though.
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Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 10:52
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Fixing a Hole.
One of their best "Hey look...we're taking drugs for mind expansion!" songs.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 11:12
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Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: June 03 2014 at 22:01
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Since A Day in the Life is winning. I'll vote for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
------------- When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night. |
Posted By: Watcher of the Sky
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 02:51
Agree 100% ------------- Nous sommes du soleil |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 05:27
No problems there but I was born in 1958 and had elder siblings who bought all the Beatles releases. Revolver to my seven year old ears was absolutely amazing, Rubber Soul.....hmmm no, nowhere near Revolver or Sgt Pepper. Sgt Pepper: its release cannot be described easily......it had an absolutely mind-blowing impact on the whole of this Earth (apart from China!)...you had to be there. It changed the face of popular music but that is not to say that I don't prefer Revolver over it.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 08:59
Yes that is true, you had to be there to appreciate the impact it had. I was but sadly too young.
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Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 10:14
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A Day in the Life of Mr. Kite! I gave my vote to the song with the dancing horse called Henry. ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 12:36
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A Day in the Life. This is my fave of all Beatles songs.
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Posted By: King Manuel
Date Posted: June 04 2014 at 13:54
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A day in the life, but only by a little bit, Within You Without You is the next best one. ------------- Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: June 05 2014 at 00:22
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"A Day In The Life". No questions asked. I remember hearing that as a kid and thinking "That's the Beatles?". Never heard anything like it, with the string crescendo freaking me out at the time. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: addictedtoprog
Date Posted: July 25 2014 at 13:53
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A Day In The Life
Quite easily for me one of greatest rock songs ever...and abt those strange voices/noises/whatever in the end...to this day i can't figure out.. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 26 2014 at 08:26
that is the beatles as well if i remember myself right. ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: July 26 2014 at 16:46
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I kind of want to say Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, but that might just be because A Day In The Life already has so many votes. Hmmm, decisions, decisions. Hm, no vote today. ------------- https://blankspacerecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - Blank Space Records |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 27 2014 at 09:04
If you're referring to the gibberish at the end, it's just a random piece of conversation cut out of a piece of tape and designed to play endlessly in a loop in the run out of the original vinyl LP (and it doesn't say "F*** you like Superman backwards" as some have suggested).
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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: July 27 2014 at 12:17
and Paul McCartney kind of apologized for that coincidence when some kids told him about this back in the day from my memory of reading an internet article about this album. ------------- Progrockdude |