I much prefer revolver and the white album. I am 15 and think that Pepper seems more of a staple of the times rather than a “timeless” recording. Songs like “lucy in the sky” and “mr. kite’ are psychedelic masterpieces, to be sure, but then again those days are over, and as much as one would like to lament the end of the sixties, trying to revived badly-written songs with melotron solos doused in acid isn’t going to bring them back in a good way. Revolver and the White Album are more relevant. Well-written rockers with some acoustic, orchestral and psychedelic elements without overdoing it.

I’ve been listening to the Beatles since I was 8, and even then Pepper sounded artificial, overproduced and dizzying at parts. Sure, you could get lost in the music, but afterwards you’d feel sick.

Also, I really don’t like to listen much to beatles songs that are staples on “oldies radio”. In my opinion, these were the baby-boomer songs that have lost their way. I much prefer the more alternative-minded White Album; perhaps the only beatles album where I can show my friends a song and they would have never heard it before.

I have to say that this quote from the article is hovering right around perfection:

“Rock’n'roll is meant to be full of vitality and energy, and this album isn’t. It sounds like it took six months to shit out … it was ideal for a seven-year-old.”

Lovely Rita is one of a handful of songs which contain lyrics that float up out of my subconscious to say hello periodically. (Almost as frequently as the lyric “If you say something once, why say it again?” from the Talking Heads.)

While the Beatles are definitely guilty of creating some of the most maudlin “love songs” of all time I’ve always appreciated that they wrote songs about dogs, ponies, and meter maids too.

I don’t know that I can agree that Nevermind was all that great or important of an album. There was so much music around that time that was actually good which was obscured by the grunge nonsense that I actually resent that Nevermind was so seemingly omnipresent.

I know several 13-year-old girls who think Cobain was a musical God. I don’t know many musicians who agree. Honestly, I think Britney Spears puts out better albums than Nirvana ever did (and the upside is that one can watch her shake her ass in the videos [which, very truthfully, are much better with the sound off]). Dave Grohl was the actual talent in Nirvana, definitely not Cobain.

I’ve hit the point where “A Day in the Life” just sounds arch and artificial to me. The songs that still stand up for me today are “Lovely Rita”, “Good Morning” and “Getting Better.”

In that case, i’m sure that any album considered as a great piece of art contains at least one “filler song”
Youre just saying these things cause sgt pepper is considered a “concept album”, which should have a meaning or something.

Every beatles album is great as F&%/CK….. but the greatest of all? every single one since Rubber Soul.
that is….
- rubber soul
- revolver
- magical mystery tour
- sgt pepper
- white album
- abbey road

Now….. those are and will be the most influential albums of all times ever….. greatest band of all time……

To me what many regard as ground breaking on that album, they had already begun doing with Rubber Soul and Sgt. Pepper was the beginning of the long slow decline to the Get Back sessions and the end of it all.

I’ve really been digging the new “Love” CD though. The remix work that George and Giles Martin did with the originals was masterful, in my opinion. I only hope that the remixed albums that are due will sound just as good.

As much as I like the Beach Boys, I never understood the fascination with Pet Sounds. It always came across as a California-washed attempt at “Rubber Soul”.