THE BEATLES "Sgt. PepperÆs"
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Topic: THE BEATLES "Sgt. PepperÆs"
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Subject: THE BEATLES "Sgt. PepperÆs"
Date Posted: March 20 2004 at 09:50
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got em on vinyl and cd, I really like this album.. What's |
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Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: March 20 2004 at 16:25
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One of the best, but I prefer The White Album. ------------- On A Dilemmia Between What I Need & What I Just Want 
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Posted By: Gonghobbit
Date Posted: March 20 2004 at 20:46
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Well, historic importance aside, it's pretty damn impressive, covers a range of sounds and expression unheard in rock to then, not really something i'd put on now, heard it so much as they were my first band - a masterpiece I don't need to ever hear again. ------------- 'This is a local shop, there's nothing for you here' |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: March 20 2004 at 21:01
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Just brilliant. Still sounds good as the day in the life in which it was recorded. |
Posted By: Tauhd Zaïa
Date Posted: March 29 2004 at 14:58
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Yes "Sergent Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band" is a masterpiece. I've read here that it was pre-prog but (it is my opinion) the real prog album the beatles made is "Abbey Road". Long tracks, synth.... |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: March 30 2004 at 06:32
I've never heard this album...but it's the first time I hear that the Beatles made a prog album |
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Posted By: Tauhd Zaïa
Date Posted: March 30 2004 at 06:49
Oui mais fais attention en traversant la route ------------- The State Of Grace Is Achieved |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: March 31 2004 at 19:48
| Abbey road had some innovative moments, but the beatles are still a long shot from Prog. However, they may just be the catalyst that started the whole progressive movement. for that reason, they are worthy of our attention. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 31 2004 at 23:18
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Really? I just found it too much for me. I mean some of the songs just felt like odd ends in the album. They could've cut down the songs and made it an awesome album, but t |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 01 2004 at 01:53
| The Beatles are obviously a very important band in the scheme of things and helped move rock forwards.However Sgt Peppers doesn't do it for me.It sounds hopelessly dated now and only 'A Day In The Life' can really be of any interest to a prog fan |
Posted By: Henderson
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 06:39
| Why not to think that Sgt Pepper's is a prog album?. Was really Pink Floyd or King Crimson the first developers of progressive music? Has anybody heard "Beeing for the benefit of Mr Kite" or "A day in the life" to say definitely that Sgt P. is not&nbs |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 11:48
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Those three Wakeman albums were his toying with |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 06:01
| I think "Pepper" is probably the first "Prog Pop" album - "A Day in the Life" is almost unprecedentedly inspired - but "Revolver" and the White Album (aka "The Beatles") contain some sublime prog moments. "Abbey Road"... Hmm. Utterly brilliant (it's t |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 06:05
| Addendum - ALL the Beatle's albums sound incredible on FIRST PRESSING vinyl. Haven't got "Pepper", but I've got FP Rubber Soul + Revolver (both stereo) - and the sound is mind-blowing! I envy the people of the time; modern production focuses too much on "m |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 09:01
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[QUOTE=Certif1ed]Addendum - ALL the Beatle's albums sound incredible on FIRST PRESSING vinyl. Haven't got "Pepper", but I've got FP Rubber Soul + Revolver (both stereo) - and the sound is mind-blowing! I envy the people of the time; modern production fo |
Posted By: Henderson
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 14:56
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Ahhh Focus... I love focus, even the 26+ min. songs... Here we got another prog style. I like the funky spirit in all their work. Think about Happy Nightmare (mescaline), or Round Goes Gossip... They're great!! I think the first Beatles' prog so |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 18:12
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[QUOTE=Radioactive Toy] I own Pepper's first pressing vinyl.. also: foyds - The dark side on the moon (with 4 posters, got 2 from another vinyl.. but also the original 2 and 2 stickers wich are 31 years old), floyds - the wall, camels - mirage, camels |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 18:13
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...you know how great they sound! |
Posted By: Mattjam65
Date Posted: April 11 2004 at 10:42
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Like it or not, there is no denying that Pepper laid the groundwork for future prog artists, as it was one of the first attempts at "serious" pop music with "arty" pretesnsions. I happen to love this album from begining to end as it all flows seamlessly |
Posted By: ayt1
Date Posted: May 04 2004 at 02:37
| For me and my friends, being born in communist country, Sgt. Pepper was a symbol of free music and free world. It was really hard to get - only underground, and cost a lot of money - half of month salary. I remember when i first looked at the cover, e |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 04 2004 at 11:29
The CD format ruined the great cover art on that one. I remember spending hours looking at the figures and trying to get the clues to hoax. So much more than music, eh? 
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: May 05 2004 at 15:23
Those three Wakeman albums were h |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 05 2004 at 15:35
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GUFFAW!!!Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:08
| well it's first prog album i guess. i think it's awesome compilation of rock pop and trupmet sound. i love this album, it's my fav of the beatles. |
Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:25
Me too! The White Album is so weird and crazy that I can't help but love it!!! 
It has been my favourite Beatles album right from the moment I first listened to it (way back in 1986) and my opinion has not changed since then! ------------- A flower? 
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Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:35
You can call it pop-prog. Anyway, if you consider progressive a song like KC's I talk to the wind, you can as well consider the whole Abbey Road as progressive (ok, maybe skipping Octopus's Garden  ...poor old abused Ringo!)
Absolutely correct, I think that way too!
Hmmm...long tracks? The only long track on the LP is I Want You that clocks at 7'40", and I would call it hard rock (or hard blues) more than progressive. The other tracks are far less than 4 minutes long (except Come Together, 4'13"), as was the group's habit! Unless you consider the whole B-side medley as one track...but I would not do it! ------------- A flower?
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Posted By: porter
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:46
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aahhhh....the Beatles!!! what they have done for me you can't even imagine!!!! I love all of their albums from Rubber soul on (but I'd say that Help too isn't bad at all). It's true that Abbey Road is their most proggish effort, I DO consider I want you a proto-prog song, it's just CRAZY. And the medley of course isn't "normal" pop. Antway, Pepper is definitely great, at least for a guy like me who also loves pop other than prog (maybe one day I'll try to explain this), I think there is much more to it than only A day in the life (which is darn great of course!!), just the way they conceived the whole thing was a prog way. ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:48
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The only time when I will listen to the Beatles will be when God himself comes to me and says:"Listen to the Beatles"...
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:51
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I liked it when I was a teenager. I bought it back in the 80's and was quite blown away, but now it sounds ancient - and not in a pleasantly nostalgic way either. I think better albums were lade by lesser bands in 1967, notably The Moody Blues. I also think the Beatles made better albums too. The White album and the wonderful Revolver! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 09:56
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God already told you...it's just that you didn't hear Him... ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: BiGi
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 10:14
One thing must be said: compare the engineering of albums made by Beatles or Rolling Stones with those of their contemporaries...Abbey Road and Ummagumma seem to come from different aeons! Same thing with ITCOTCK ------------- A flower?
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 10:20
True, but 'The Days of Future Passed' by the Moody Blues, recorded in 1967 sounds years ahead of Sgt Pepper in terms of production, and in most cases the songs themselves. IMO, anyway.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 10:21
Ha,ha,I said God himself,not his spokesman,porter...  -------------
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 10:30
I would agree - Sgt Pepper sounds dated, but some songs from Days of Future Passed (I'm thinking mainly of Tuesday Afternoon) sound like they're from a different era. (Mind you, others sound very hippy-ish and the strings are awful). Revolver is a more "prog" album than Sgt Pepper IMO, just listen to "Tomorrow Never Knows" and wonder how they managed to record that live in the studio with men dotted round the studio playing tape loops with pencils holding the tapes! It's also fascinating to find out what the sounds actually are (McCartney laughing, the solo from "Taxman" backwards etc). |
Posted By: DarHobo
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 12:51
| Yellow Submarine is a great movie too. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 12:54
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I liked it as a kid! |
It introduced me to the world of psychedelia. 
Posted By: porter
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 13:19
------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: Odd24
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 13:31
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I cannot make up my mind which one I love better... ------------- Right down the line |
