The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Free Music Review: Something Lost
Hit: 5 Stars
Breaking down each track on this album is not something that I would even attempt as many other reviewers have down a great job of that. This album is to be judged by it's overall effect as a contribution to society. Yes, that sounds absurd, but I believe that sometimes things can be way more than what they appear, and the Beatles and Sgt Peppers are part of that. 5 stars can't begin to express the rating of this work of art. I react very strangely to listening to it however. It causes me pain. The pain that comes with realizing that time travel is impossible. I was a young kid in 67 and every person on the planet (or so it seems) owned this album. Everywhere you went, the sound of "Pepper's" could be heard from windows if you were walking the street. Every house you walked into had this as it's theme. It was as if the world was actually united in it's awe of what these guys had produced. The music is timeless, a work of genius. You hear so many critics and fans use the word genius in reference to musicians and 90 per cent of the time it is overstatement. Not so with these guys, together they formed a force that was way more than a music group. Rubber Soul and Revolver were works of art, but this one took it over the top, sealed the deal, made it clear that there were no limits. I don't listen to Sgt Peppers anymore, but I love it like a lost friend or lover. If I listen to Pepper's it makes me yearn to return to those days of the summer when it all was so fresh and new. I honestly feel that everything past Pepper's is somehow a re-work, an attempt to capture whatever constitued that hold on the world that the Beatles had. John would have said "we were just a rock combo, nothing more", but then by the time he said that the "we" was gone and so was the magic. As a young boy I went to Woodstock and when I was there, in the middle of the mud, I only thought it was a rather uncomfortable rock concert and not until I was back home with my parents did I realize what a big deal it was. In a similar way, because he was in the eye of the storm, John was unable to see the significance of the Beatles. Seeing what society has become, what the music industry is producing, there is no doubt that the "magic" is lost. My god, I heard a guy say on MTV the other day that Nirvana was that generations Beatles. God, did they get short changed or what? I liked Nivana, I like the Foo Fighters, but I don't even begin to call that art or magic. Grunge, like Punk etc. was a phase, a step on a walk, the Beatles were the journey itself. Pepper's is a monument to a place in time, a pinicle that cannot be equalled. If you haven't "experienced" this music, it is a must, but like reading and understanding what greatness there is in a Hemingway novel, you really need that time machine. Free Music Review: You had to be there
Hit: 3 Stars
If you grew up in the sixties and liked the Beatles at all, you'll want this. If you didn't, you probably won't "get" it. Not their greatest selection, but Lonely Hearts Club had its own sound at a time when the Fab Four were 'evolving.'Free Music Review: Possibly the BEST of The Beatles
Hit: 5 Stars
It's just my opinion but this album might just be the greatest assemblage of The Beatles' work ever produced. Sgt. Pepper represents their middle period of counterculture Classic Rock music and may well be the top rock album of the entire 20th Century, (and of the 21st, so far!).
My favorite cut is "With a Little Help from My Friends," a very melodic and period typical love-one-another tune. I was similarly bowled over by Joe Cocker's (slower) version of this composition which he sang live at Woodstock.
Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, who was so impressed with Sgt. Pepper, tried with a Herculean effort to generate an album of this magnitude when, in response, he produced "Pet Sounds". It was good, but didn't come close to manifesting the brilliance of this Beatles masterpiece. (EDIT! Well, it turns out that this paragraph is erroneous! See "comments" on this review where someone much shrewder than I got it right -- still it SOUNDS good *.* )
Paul McCartney plays a very busy Hoffner bass guitar on this one and his innovative rhythms sort of set the pace for the entire work. The harmonies are as spectacular here as they are on any Beatles album that exists.
This album/CD virtually screams out THE BEATLES!!! and I cannot think of a better Classic Rock investment which one could make.
Free Music Review: One of the best albums from one of the top 5 Rock Bands (if not #1) ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
Though I didn't grow up with the Beatles they are still one of my top 5 bands ever. The breadth and variety of their music is amazing. They could write their own music and sing it without the massive amount of studio editing that goes on these days. This Album is one of their best though they are all good. Sgt. Peppers is a more complete, polished, album than some of their earlier efforts and should be more generally accepted by today's audience than some of their earlier, but less sophisticated albums. Free Music Review: This is evolution at its best
Hit: 5 Stars
When you hear this album, you will be so amazed at the experimental level of the beatles. This album is not equal to any album you have heard and you will find that many groups have been very influence by these tracks. This is the beatles at their best. Excellent from begining to end. Highly recomended.