Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Honestly I know that a lot of people say that The Beatles are the best band to ever exist, but I don't really agree. I enjoy some of their music but I don't know if I respect all of it or respect the people really that much. I do enjoy the sitar a lot which I have found they include a lot in their albums, so this album is fun. There is also some interesting storytelling that I can appreciate.

Ooooooh. Tricky. Very tricky. No arguments from me at all that it has a place on the list - it absolutely ticks all of those boxes. For my individual rating though, it's all a bit too incoherant for me. Some absolute genius level tracks - title track, Lucy - and some totally baffling dross - 64 etc.

Compared to another of the "drugs really help you create a Top 10 for enternity album " for example - Rumours - there is not a weak track on that thing. Lots of umming-and-ahhhhing I think it has to be a 4 star. Cultural impact - 5, some tracks - 5, the other tracks - 2/3 at best.

This music lives deep in my DNA.

The Good: We get to join a band!
The Bad: What if we don’t have a lonely heart?
The Ugly: That look of sheer jealousy from the other band members, with their broken hearts… suckers!

Well.. I knew it was coming… the album that is. And I listened, with great interest as I’d never really listened to the album… and I liked the start, and then I started noticing the influence that several songs on this album must have had for Queen’s work further down the line…

And then we got mystical… we got sihtar.. we got a general thought of “what the fuck is this doing here?”
And then they just lost me…

Lucy In The Sky, With A Little Help Form My Friends… what monster classic gems! The rest… I could have been spared most of the album, to tell you the truth…

I heard the album Mr Dimery, can I die now?

3 1/2 downgraded… 3*

It opens with the lively intro track, with lots of guitars and rousing instrumentation. Perfect way to begin such a bold record, then seamlessly transitions into "with a little help from my friends" which is one of my favorite Ringo songs. It's a lovely piano led tune with extremely singable lyrics, just makes you feel good once you listen.

Right after this is the trippy "lucy in the sky", a psychedelic song about... well you would think LSD since the lyrics are very abstract and trippy, but Lennon denied the connection thoroughly. A fun song overall. "It gets better" follows this one, much in the vein of the former track this is a jaunty tune with a feel good message and catchy chorus. I personally couldn't help but scoff at the lyric about beating his wife, but trying to get better and learning to not to it anymore.. considering Lennon's domestic abuse habits..

A little down the tracklist you get "she's leaving home" which is honestly a pretty emotional track about a young girl running away. It's short, but the instrumentation and delivery are wonderful and worth noting. "Benefit of mr kite" is an odd tune about a circus act, and thematically the instrumental is very zany and circusy as well. It's mixed a bit oddly however and kinda makes the tune a bit mushy. Another good example of this is with the song "good morning" as well.

"Within you without you" is another Sitar led song, much like the one from Revolver. This tune is more serene and drug induced than the previous track, though still just as interesting to listen to.
You've got a couple more cute songs, "when I'm 64" ponders about life as an old person, "lovely rita" is a fun love song about a meter maid.

The album closes with a reprise of the intro-track, which leads right into the wonderful "day in a life". A masterful tune that paints such vivid imagery and atmosphere with it's music.

The Beatles have made it very clear that they were a force to be reckoned with on Revolver, and here with Sgt. Pepper, they bolster that reputation with a record that knows how to have fun and take risks. A few production duds here and there in the tracklist keep this record from beating revolver, just marginally so. I would still recommend this record to anyone looking for a wholeheartedly fun record to listen to.

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Révolutionnaire, iconique, bordélique, psychédélique, culte, expérimental, unique, un peu daté quand même, génial, conceptuel, fondateur... Sgt Pepper's est tout ça et beaucoup d'autres choses. L'album le plus célèbre des Beatles n'est sans doute pas leur meilleur, en tout cas pas celui que je préfère (la faute notamment à quelques dérapages musicaux, vers le music-hall ou le sous-continent indien, pas toujours maîtrisés), mais c'est une œuvre totale, le témoignage incontournable de la naissance (un an après Pet Sounds) de l'album rock comme forme artistique à part entière. Essentiel.

Top : A Day in the Life
Flop : Good Morning Good Morning

Why do I have such trouble writing a review of Beatles albums. Maybe it's because I don't want to use the same sycophantic fawning clichés used by everybody else.
But sometimes you just have to.

This is my favourite Beatles album.
I like all the tracks.
Some I love.
The contrast between each song - and even within songs makes it a record you have to listen to... meaning it forces you to.. rather than some albums you put on, do other stuff, and don't even notice it until it finishes. Sgt Pepper's always grabs your attention. I'm not going even try to pick apart every song. I just love the whole. And is't that the point of an 'album'?

One of the first albums I ever owned on vinyl, will always hold a special place in my heart

absolutely love it, i have nothing to say

Out of the 1089 albums on here this is one of the easier 5 stars I’ll give. Many years ago this was the first Beatles album I ever listened to in full. It turned them from that band my Granny likes to holy crap these guys are amazing.

There’s not a track on here that I don’t love. The only thing that could improve it for me would be for Strawberry Fields to have been included. It is a Masterpiece.

Top Track - With A Little Help From My Friends or Lovely Rita

It's impossible to separate this album from its historical importance; however, historical importance is not something I generally think about when judging whether or not an album is enjoyable to listen to. So, I take this exactly as I would any other album, at face value.

The next thing I have to say is that although I love the Beatles and many of their songs, I'm not sure any of their albums would be in my top 100. Although I've never broken it down to "John" songs and "Paul" songs (and George songs and Ringo songs), I suspect it's because I don't like the unabashedly poppy songwriting of Paul McCartney (although he is a great player). I don't take any joy in pitting the members against each other; after all, it takes all four to make the final product and they all ostensibly agreed as to what the band's output would sound like. But it must be said.

Now, with all of that out of the way, the album. I don't normally go song by song, but— in my opinion, the following songs are good but nothing special: Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, and Lovely Rita. The rest of the songs are all great (good job, lads) and Within You Without You is easily my favorite track on the album. Cheers and good night.

Yep it's very good. Love the variety of the songs and not knowing what to expect. Not really any duds on the album which is one of my criteria for a 5 so I think it deserves it.

This album was difficult for me to rate, both because it’s the first album we got and because the reputation and impact of the Beatles is often better than their music itself. I love the exciting, rock tones in some of the songs but overall feel that other than the notoriety, many of the songs are a little… milquetoast.
Season: Late Spring
Favorite Song: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

I love this album, it’s so much fun. I haven’t listened to it in so long.

This will do just fine.

I could be snarky about how this is the fifth best Beatle album or whatever, but it's an automatic five stars. (Listened to the 2017 Giles Martin remix which I consider the definitive stereo version. It rips so much harder because the mix has actual nuance to it and also a real fucking bass sound you couldn't get in 1967.)

So much has been said about this. Obviously the praise is deserved and it's influence undoubteable. But you could also make an argument that 'A Day in the Life' is the only truly great song on here.

If I'm putting a Beatles album on, it's almost never this one.

Amazingly innovative, but also has the dings to back it up.

Oh joy, another Beatles album.
Other reviews rave about chords sticking in you soul for long periods, or music in technicolor, but I just heard the same tracks that have been overplayed on every radio station in the world for 40 years.

Sure this was seminal, but does this list really need to include every single note ever recorded by anyone even vaguely connected to this fucking band?

Tolles und kurzweiliges Album mit Welthits wie „Lucy in the Sky with diamonds“ & „Whith A Little Help from My Friends“ & „When I’m Sixry Four“. Die Zeit war Cool in Liverpool 😊.