The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Free Music Review: Twenty Years Ago Today
Hit: 5 Stars
CRASH CRADDOCK says:
"Released in the summer of 1967, this record changed everything. The Beatles in a creative breakthrough, all the songs are good on their own, or listen to it all the way through, and see how it flows."
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Abbey Road
A Hard Day's Night
Rubber Soul
Revolver [UK]
The Beatles - Complete Scores
Help!
Magical Mystery Tour
Let It Be
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Free Music Review: Not Just the Beatles
Hit: 5 Stars
When you listen to Sgt. Pepper for the first time your listening to not just the Beatles but a Generation growing up. The music industry changed the day this album was released. When I first listened to this album I didn't know whether to love it or hate it. It was not the Beatles I was use to listening to. About the third playing I "got it." I wore my first copy out in about a week. My advice, listen to this cd deeply. There is so much going on. If you listen to Beatle albums just before they did Sgt. Pep you could hear something brewing. Rubber Soul and Revolver are pointing us to the explosion of awareness that was about to happen. If you don't know who George Martin is take the time to find out. It was his genius that made this album revered among all music lovers. Cuts from this album have been covered by every genre of music on the earth. And when you get this album put your headphones on relax and float upstream. Free Music Review: "I'D LOVE TO TURN YOU ON..." (to the masterpiece of The Beatles)
Hit: 5 Stars
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) is everything they say it is, and more. The Greatest Album Of All Time on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time list? Sgt. Pepper. It is no less than a masterpiece. A colorful, artistic masterwork. It's cohesive, well written, perfectly performed and thoughtfully produced. By using the most advanced recording techniques of the day to cut picturesque and heartwarming songs, The Beatles and producer George Martin created a historically influential artistic triumph of gigantic proportions.
Sgt. Pepper is a concept album where The Beatles become a fictitious band of musicians, and their variety show becomes a psychedelic trip into the unknown and then back again. George Martin told The Beatles to "think symphonically" during the making of the Revolver album, and they took that suggestion a step further with Sgt. Pepper. The album contains some of their greatest songs including the title song and it's companion, With A Little Help From My Friends, which is sung by Ringo. Both are classic songs that are loved all around the world. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is another Beatles classic, and an imaginative musical journey into a psychedelic wonderland. George Harrison's Within You Without You is an interesting Indian classical music work that features the sitar. It's one of George's best songs, and was a favorite of John Lennon's. The Hindu influence is evident in the musical meditation.
When you see beyond yourself, then you may find
Peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come when you see that we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you
She's Leaving Home is a symphonic and heart-wrenching saga of a lonely girl moving out of her parent's home in the early morning hours while everyone's asleep. The distracted parents loved their little girl, but buying her gifts was the only way that they expressed that love. At the end of her childhood, the daughter began to feel empty and unhappy. The song handles this sensitive subject very thoughtfully, without bitterness or cruelty towards the parents or their daughter.
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that's lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband,
"Daddy, our baby's gone!"
The song is way too underrated, and an eloquent piece to the album's puzzle. The melodic guitar rock of Getting Better, the jazzy contentedness of Fixing A Hole, and the circus-like unreality of Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite all are artistic, atmospheric, and high-spirited songs that add to the intrigue of this psychedelic musical adventure. When I'm Sixty Four is an old fashioned clarinet jingle that's a cozy little love song and a lot of fun, too. Good Morning Good Morning is a cool rocking collage of animal sounds and street images, past and present. John and Paul's classic collaboration A Day In The Life closes the album brilliantly, and is one of The Beatles greatest songs. John's wry genius is on display as he thoughtfully recounts the events of a day in the life.
I saw a film today, oh boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
The songs aren't really connected by a common theme except that they are all a colorful part of this unusual trip into the psychedelic world of The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the quintessential Beatles album, the one that defines the nature of The Beatles as a group more effectively than any other. It perfectly highlights the four different characters of the group's talented members, and it was a wonderful place in time and in the history of The Beatles. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
"It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..."
Free Music Review: awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
Reading a lot of the other reviews saying that this record is "horrible" and "for old people" is ridiculous.[I'm only 22] This record is awesome. there is a reason in 2003 it was named by Rolling Stone magazine as the #1 Album of All Time. Yes, sadly Biggie and 2pac were not number one and neither was Dark Side of the Moon. If the Beatles are so bad then why does every artist today still cover songs? Even more about this album, almost every rock group has covered a song off of this album. The covers are great but nothing compares to the original. Free Music Review: DRM Rip-off!!!!!
Hit: 1 Stars
The CD is totally worthless to me since it won't play in my computer's CD-Rom. It has the Compact Disk logo, but doesn't conform to the required standards for that logo - totally unethical! I use my computer as my stereo, and never would have purchased this CD if I'd known that the publisher doesn't comply with compact disk standards.