Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[LittleJoe]

Hmm fair enough if he's Dutch i'll let him off. Although its still a bit unlikey...

Had a little beatles shesh today, While my guitar gently weeps, Blackbird and A day in the life, all brilliant.

[Simmy]

On second thoughts, i've heard a song called Tomorrow Never Knows. Apart from that, i can't think of any others and wouldn't know the names of any of them if i heard them.

And i'm not Dutch

[LittleJoe]

Yellow Submarin surely!

Help!

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

[Davros sock drawer]

I grew up thinking Yellow Submarine was just a school song, because we sang it all the time. Same with Octopus's Garden.

Anyway, really enjoying this. It's rare (bizarrely) to have such an intense focus on the music, the actual instrumental makeup of the songs, in a mainstream music programme. Fascinating stuff.

[LittleJoe]

Yea the durmmer of Razorlight said pretty much the same of 'With a little help from my friends' saying its also like a Nursey rhyme its so well know.

[Kelthink]

On second thoughts, i've heard a song called Tomorrow Never Knows. Apart from that, i can't think of any others and wouldn't know the names of any of them if i heard them.

And i'm not Dutch

While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Helter Skelter? Eleanor Rigby? Drive My Car? In My Life? Hey Jude?

Come on. Next you'll be saying you don't know any Michael Jackson stuff!

[Stilly]

It Won't Be Long before Simmy comes out of his Norwegian Wood and starts to Act Naturally around classic Beatles tracks. It may be A Day In The Life before he needs some Help! in picking a great album, but rest assured he won't be a Nowhere Man after A Hard Day's Night choosing the tracks With A Little Help From My Friends. It'll be like Fixing A Hole and When I'm 64 he'll finally thank me down The Long And Winding Road! Let It Be known that classic Beatles tracks aren't Yesterday but rather your Ticket To Ride.

All You Need Is Love for that music to be appreciated Eight Days A Week!

[Suizid]

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

I love that song.

For the benefit of Mr. Do,

There will be a show or two,

With lesbians.

He's guaranteed a lot of fun,

Chats them up and leaves with one,

Or both of 'ems.

[Mr Do 71]

For the benefit of Mr. Do,

There will be a show or two,

With lesbians.

He's guaranteed a lot of fun,

Chats them up and leaves with one,

Or both of 'ems.

[Cosmic_Guru]

I played this LP for the first time in ages after reading about the making of the record in some depth in Mojo. And it was stunning. It's not the sort of record you would play every five minutes, and if you just want to dip in then Revolver or Rubber Soul are better choices, but the impact of this record at the time was overwhelming. Look at the effect it had on the Beach Boys for example, let alone Hendrix, Cream and the others.

The problem is from our view point is that we can't easily comprehend this. Music today is so fragmented and track-centred, I think we have a lost something amidst the variety. We also don't have too many bands which reinvent themselves completely in this way.

In June 1967 you would have heard Sgt Pepper coming out of every boutique, every party, from open windows. It was, in a word, ubiquitous.

[Hemzoozlefluff*]

Sgt. Pepper's is the only Beatles album I regularly play although I do think most of the others are ok. This one definitely gets a good old playing in a summer as it makes me feel all chirpy and sounds lovely being played nice and loud in the garden.

[Davros sock drawer]

Abbey Road is patently the best though. Sounds really modern.

[Eighthours]

It's a disgrace that they still haven't bothered to remaster the sound of all the Beatles albums for a rerelease. What the hell are they waiting for? "Love" sounded marvellous!

[Nick R]

It's a disgrace that they still haven't bothered to remaster the sound of all the Beatles albums for a rerelease. What the hell are they waiting for? "Love" sounded marvellous!

The Yellow Submarine Songtrack from 1999 sounds good too.

http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlenews....-BEATLES-DC.XML

Sounds like the remasters are done and will be released in 2008. Paul was interviewed yesterday on the radio about his new album (twice, in fact...), and he said that Steve Jobs wants the songs' iTunes releases to be all at once, rather than a few at a time.

I saw a post on rec.music.beatles the other day suggesting that they should do a deluxe 3-disc set of Sgt Pepper (like the one for The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society): original mono, original stereo, and a new remastered version. While I probably wouldn't get that version myself, there'd definitely be a market for a fancy set like that!

[El Pibe]

The Beatles are just amazing and Sgt Pepper's is incredible. I think it's slightly sad, but I guess inevitable, that many younger people these days are not interested in The Beatles or declare them to be 'rubbish'. For people that age music that their Dads, or even Grandads like is just not cool. It's a shame though to hear people listening to rubbish whilst refusing to try The Beatles.

My favourite Beatles song of all is 'Here Comes the Sun', which is just stunning.

[revlob]

Can I be the first to say that I think the Beatles were talentless hacks, and their music rubbish? I'm not trying to be anticonformist, but they don't appeal to everyone and I really can't understand why they are held to such high acclaim.

[LittleJoe]

Calling them 'talentless hacks' is a bit harsh whether you like them or not.

[Beitel]

Can I be the first to say that I think the Beatles were talentless hacks, and their music rubbish? I'm not trying to be anticonformist, but they don't appeal to everyone and I really can't understand why they are held to such high acclaim.

Everybody's entitled to their own opinion, but still...

I can listen to The White Album all day on repeat, it just keeps on giving. They're a bit old fashioned now maybe, but their music's still brilliant and listenable.

[superpretend]

I can't actually remember a time when I didn't know the Beatles. My dad brought me up listening to them and so the songs have always been a part of my life. I can remember singing along to Beatles songs when i was 4 years old.

The great thing about The Beatles is once you get into their catalogue, it's actually impossible to get bored of it. If you listen to one album too much, you can just jump to another album and keep hopping from one album to another. And when you come back to the one you listened to to much, it sounds fresh again.

Having said that, I never get sick of listening to Abbey Road. A beautiful swansong.

[Rowan Morrison]

I grew up thinking Yellow Submarine was just a school song

Same here, Yellow Submarine was just always there like The Wheels on the Bus or Happy Birthday. Ob-La-Di was my other major Beatles surprise because the bands down at the WMC my grandparents used to take us to played that every single week, it was like a folk song as far as I was concerned.

I don't listen to The Beatles very much these days because I think I overdosed on them at some point, but I clearly remember when a group of us were getting into them back in our 80s youth - we knew all the big-hitters from our parents, but discovering the full albums was genuinely amazing, and getting a vinyl version of SPLHCB and poring over the presentation was something else. Something of a lost experience for all but the dedicated, I fear. One summer was dedicated almost entirely to swapping around and listening intently to The Beatles and The Smiths. Another season we had a massive Doors rush, then another time a Motown frenzy. You couldn't just go and torrent the whole lot, so there was a genuine feeling of adventure and discovery that underlies my feelings towards music to this day, even if nowadays I do tend to torrent more than I can realistically appreciate. But at least I have that foundation at the heart of it all, and I'm grateful to have lived through such barbaric times.

[Kryptonian]

On second thoughts, i've heard a song called Tomorrow Never Knows. Apart from that, i can't think of any others and wouldn't know the names of any of them if i heard them.

And i'm not Dutch

How about 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'? You know, with you posting in a fucking thread with that title

[Chris303]

Can I be the first to say that I think the Beatles were talentless hacks, and their music rubbish?

Lol.

[Darren]

I can't actually remember a time when I didn't know the Beatles. My dad brought me up listening to them and so the songs have always been a part of my life. I can remember singing along to Beatles songs when i was 4 years old.

The great thing about The Beatles is once you get into their catalogue, it's actually impossible to get bored of it. If you listen to one album too much, you can just jump to another album and keep hopping from one album to another. And when you come back to the one you listened to to much, it sounds fresh again.

Having said that, I never get sick of listening to Abbey Road. A beautiful swansong.

o/\o

One of the best things my dad ever did for me was buy me a pile of Beatles singles at a cubs jumble sale. This would have been about 1979, and there were probably a couple of dozen of them, from Twist and Shout to The Ballad of John and Yoko, and there were even a couple of Plastic Ono Band singles in there too - Give Peace a Chance and Cold Turkey. I have no idea how much he paid for them but it can't have been much, after all it was a jumble sale, but I'll always be grateful.

It was years before I started to listen to their albums (Abbey Road was my first and still my favourite) but I've loved the Beatles since being a lad of 8 or so.

[Kelthink]

The Beatles are just amazing and Sgt Pepper's is incredible. I think it's slightly sad, but I guess inevitable, that many younger people these days are not interested in The Beatles or declare them to be 'rubbish'. For people that age music that their Dads, or even Grandads like is just not cool. It's a shame though to hear people listening to rubbish whilst refusing to try The Beatles.

It's weird living around the Liverpool/Merseyside area for this. They're (obviously) pretty well admired in Liverpool, even if there is a bit of an overkill of Beatles-related gubbins around the city. With surrounding areas of Liverpool/Merseyside, some people I speak to seem to have some massive dislike for them, if only out of spite or something. I cannot comprehend! Being raised on The Beatles may have tainted my opinion somewhat, but I'm just amazed how many catchy tunes they could dish out with (seemingly) relative ease. I have a new favourite song every month, mental.

[Davros sock drawer]

One summer was dedicated almost entirely to swapping around and listening intently to The Beatles and The Smiths. Another season we had a massive Doors rush, then another time a Motown frenzy. You couldn't just go and torrent the whole lot, so there was a genuine feeling of adventure and discovery that underlies my feelings towards music to this day, even if nowadays I do tend to torrent more than I can realistically appreciate. But at least I have that foundation at the heart of it all, and I'm grateful to have lived through such barbaric times.

It was the same with me, especially when my friends and I were learning instruments at about age 14. I vividly remember passing a walkman around the school playground so we could all listen to the solo at the end of Freebird. "My turn!".

I still get that feeling a bit now, especially as I'm too thick/lazy to know about torrents. See the Genesis thread for details of my further descent into "Dad music" territory. It's still great uncovering the work of a great band, like a period of frenzied research that doesn't end until you buy one album too far and discover the point at which they went shit.

The Beatles of course, never went shit.

[Rowan Morrison]

I still get that feeling a bit now, especially as I'm too thick/lazy to know about torrents.

Oh, torrents have their compensations - I've found so much stuff there that I'd otherwise have little chance of hearing. But it comes nowhere near the sensation of finally finding a physical copy of something you've only heard of for years. Several times I've had my spider sense tingle when walking past another sprawling vinyl stall at a car boot and, sure enough, I've dug up a treasure - gatefold Electra Glide in Blue OST, Chico Arnez collection, fabulous and bizarre spoken word releases.

The end goal is to listen to such freaks and rarities, which is why torrents are fantastic, but tapping into a search box is no substitute for the reward of good, honest work. Or maybe I've got masochistic tendencies, I should probably look into that.

[Davros sock drawer]

Most sensible people know that effort increases reward, hence my total apathy to the 5,000 free games I've got on my Xbox.

[Bleep]

It's annoying that we live in a time where the cultural efforts of someone can be derided purely because we've just had enough of them. I love the Beatles - but I'd be perfectly happy not to play or listen to any of their records for 20 years. I've got all the albums, I know the story back to front, I've read countless interviews, articles and books, and I can safely say that I've had enough.

And that's sad because there is geniune brilliance in everything about them.

[CrispinG]

The Beatles are just amazing and Sgt Pepper's is incredible. I think it's slightly sad, but I guess inevitable, that many younger people these days are not interested in The Beatles or declare them to be 'rubbish'. For people that age music that their Dads, or even Grandads like is just not cool. It's a shame though to hear people listening to rubbish whilst refusing to try The Beatles.

My favourite Beatles song of all is 'Here Comes the Sun', which is just stunning.

The Beatles have no relevance to young people today. It's like that Michelle Pfeiffer movie, Dangerous Minds, in which we're supposed to believe a load of inner city black teenagers care about Bob Dylan. History moves on, nothing lasts forever.

I love The Beatles because their music is great, but it's absolutely a product of a bygone era that I think most teenagers today would be embarrassed of. "Within You Without You", for instance, is an okay tune, but lyrically it's dated and a lot of people would just laugh at its naivety now. So I think to appreciate them as a young man today, you need to appreciate pop music history and their importance to its development. Otherwise, they ARE just your granddad's hippie records.

[Davros sock drawer]

I was born well after The Beatles split, and they've just as much relevance to me as anyone else. Music doesn't "date" like a video game, it's eternal. It's a symptom of a closed mind to be dismissive of anything that happened before you were born, not symptomatic of youth generally.