29-08-2010, 11:55
I don't agree at all. Sgt Pepper is and has always been my favourite Beatles album. Perhaps it's because I grew up on it (Rubber Soul and Sgt Pepper were the two Beatles albums in my parent's record collection) but mostly it's because I love weird trippy music and studio trickery.
To me Revolver (who many people prefer) is an unconnected group of songs, many of them very good indeed - but Sgt Pepper seems to all fit together as a whole, there being a similar style throughout. I like that feeling of completeness.
I don't find it dated at all, well no more so than any of the Beatles work. It is sixties of course, no one could think it was any other era - but that's true of all the Beatles albums. But it certainly still sounds good today - I love it.
As for being able to listen to all of the White Album. I can't believe that opinion at all. There is some awful, awful stuff on that album. A lot of good stuff too but the self-indulgent twaddle on the White Album makes me think it should probably have been a single album.
To me, the idea of Sixties Rock heaven is to listen to Sgt Pepper, Are you Experienced? and Saucerful of Secrets. But maybe that's just me.
To me Revolver (who many people prefer) is an unconnected group of songs, many of them very good indeed - but Sgt Pepper seems to all fit together as a whole, there being a similar style throughout. I like that feeling of completeness.
I don't find it dated at all, well no more so than any of the Beatles work. It is sixties of course, no one could think it was any other era - but that's true of all the Beatles albums. But it certainly still sounds good today - I love it.
As for being able to listen to all of the White Album. I can't believe that opinion at all. There is some awful, awful stuff on that album. A lot of good stuff too but the self-indulgent twaddle on the White Album makes me think it should probably have been a single album.
To me, the idea of Sixties Rock heaven is to listen to Sgt Pepper, Are you Experienced? and Saucerful of Secrets. But maybe that's just me.