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Lota 
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 Topic: It was 40 Years Ago Today.....
Posted: June 01 2007 at 20:21 |
Sgt Pepper told the band to play. June 1 1967.
Any thought about this album?
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And In The End, The Love You Take, Is Equal To The Love You Make
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Padraic
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 20:23 |
 Lota wrote:
Any thought about this album?
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Yes. I think it is the most important album in the history of rock music.
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 20:48 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Lota wrote:
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Yes. I think it is the most important album in the history of rock music.
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Vinyl just sounds better!!
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 20:52 |
This is my least favorite Beatles album - I really do not see what all the fuss is about, there's three good songs on it, one that was covered better Joe Cocker, a few also-rans, a filler and a real stinker.
I didn't like it when it came out either, eventhough I liked Revolver before it and the Magical Mystery Tour EP that came out after.
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:16 |
Edit: Double-post
Edited by ClassicRocker - June 01 2007 at 22:25
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:18 |
darqdean wrote:
This is my least favorite Beatles album - I really do not see what all the fuss is about, there's three good songs on it, one that was covered better Joe Cocker, a few also-rans, a filler and a real stinker.
I didn't like it when it came out either, eventhough I liked Revolver before it and the Magical Mystery Tour EP that came out after.
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Yes, highly overrated in my opinion. Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help.." was much better.
The title track and lucy in the sky are overplayed. A Day in the Life is still excellent but it doesnt make up for the rest of the album's filler.
While it's not my least favorite Beatles album, it's definitely my least favorite from their "experimental phase": '67-70
AND FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME: IT's NOT THE FIRST CONCEPT ALBUM (It's not even a REAL concept album - It just has a reprise towards the end. Whoop-de-freaking-doo!)
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Padraic
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:22 |
Something wrong with your edit button? 
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:24 |
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Something wrong with your edit button? |
all better 
Edited by ClassicRocker - June 01 2007 at 22:25
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:30 |
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 22:57 |
This album crept into the culture before I really started listening to it. Still it was very influential. My first and only copy so far is a CD and I'm going to run off and listen to it on headphones for the first time. Not that I kind of hadn't heard it in bits and in whole already, just to check it out as it nears 40.
Don't bother me for the next 40 minutes or so 
Edited by Slartibartfast - June 01 2007 at 22:59
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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rileydog22
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Posted: June 01 2007 at 23:17 |
ClassicRocker wrote:
darqdean wrote:
This is my least favorite Beatles album - I really do not see what all the fuss is about, there's three good songs on it, one that was covered better Joe Cocker, a few also-rans, a filler and a real stinker.
I didn't like it when it came out either, eventhough I liked Revolver before it and the Magical Mystery Tour EP that came out after.
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Yes, highly overrated in my opinion. Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help.." was much better.
The title track and lucy in the sky are overplayed. A Day in the Life is still excellent but it doesnt make up for the rest of the album's filler.
While it's not my least favorite Beatles album, it's definitely my least favorite from their "experimental phase": '67-70
AND FOR THE LAST DAMN TIME: IT's NOT THE FIRST CONCEPT ALBUM (It's not even a REAL concept album - It just has a reprise towards the end. Whoop-de-freaking-doo!)
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That's EXACTLY what I've been telling people. Reprising the first song at the end does not make the album a concept album. Neither does making an album in which multiple songs contain the sounds of animals, for that matter. The first legitimate concept album was Days of Future Passed.
Edited by rileydog22 - June 01 2007 at 23:37
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 00:23 |
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Just coming off of a fresh listening of the thing (headphones), not totally focused, but interrupted for other things, one of the most interesting things I find is the way the early stereo mixing turned out, still primitive for today's standards. I think George Martin worked to be faithful to the remix on my version from what I've read about it. It still seems a bit primitive as one might see it these days, but cool for the times it was created in.
Edited by Slartibartfast - June 02 2007 at 00:24
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The Whistler
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 00:58 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Lota wrote:
Any thought about this album?
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Yes. I think it is the most important album in the history of rock music.
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Oh, misguided fools...this topic isn't about Aqualung...
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Bastille Dude
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:21 |
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I still believe Pepper's surpasses anything recorded before or after it.
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DEATH TO FALSE PROG!
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The Whistler
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:26 |
Bastille Dude wrote:
I still believe Pepper's surpasses anything recorded before or after it. |
Well, like...ever? Like, even more important than Robert Johnson or Irving Berlin?
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"There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson
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Bastille Dude
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:29 |
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Umm.. Yes.. Except Mob Rules!
Edited by Bastille Dude - June 02 2007 at 01:30
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DEATH TO FALSE PROG!
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Atomic_Rooster
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:31 |
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Even Heifetz?
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I am but a servant of the mighty Fripp, the sound of whose loins shall forever be upon the tongues of his followers.
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The Whistler
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:32 |
Oh. Right. Well, I was sort of being serious, but, okay!
Yeah, Mob Rules DEFINITELY inspired the world. Everywhere afterwards, young people were wearing evil cowls and the like. Mobsters we called 'em.
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BroSpence
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 01:53 |
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Wow, it seems like the Beatles and Sgt. Peppers are almost as despised here as Dream Theater which is pretty sad. Filler? I don't know about that. And just because some songs are overplayed doesn't mean they're bad. That's the radio's fault (if thats where you're hearing it).
Sgt. Peppers is not my favorite Beatles album, but it is f**king great. And you can bet your ass that there's a lot of proggers that wouldn't exist had it not been created. People also seem to forget a few things about Sgt. Peppers.
1. The Beatles were trying to make something that wasn't commercial and they thought would not gain a lot of attention. They just wanted to mess around and create some good sh*t they'd like a lot. Didn't really work that way completely as it was an extreme success
2. Fans and critics believed the Beatles had peaked at the time before Sgt.'s release. Their minds were soon blown away.
Anyways, the album is great and just becaue it may be over-exposed does not take away from it's greatness.
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Floydian42
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Posted: June 02 2007 at 03:37 |
BroSpence wrote:
Wow, it seems like the Beatles and Sgt. Peppers are almost as despised here as Dream Theater which is pretty sad.
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I don't hate them at all, and I certainly appreciate what they did for music and all, it's just that the music never reached me, is all. I won't say it's bad, just not my style.
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