![]() ![]() However, to me, there are some standouts that must be mentioned. Pepper’s Loney Hearts Club band and it felt amazing.Īs with the last album, I highly recommend listening to this one in one setting. Some of the class watched, others played games and chatted, but it didn’t matter, for that moment we were Sgt. For that 40 minutes we sang every song in order feeling as if we were the only people in the world. One day, in theater class, a group of us put this album on and sang the entire album with the Beatles, on stage for no one but ourselves. The Beatles had made a massive resurgence and so it was not unheard of to have a group of us singing their songs in the halls. One of my favorite memories of this album was in my senior year in high school in the late 90’s. Interestingly, with songs like George’s Within You Without You, this album is credited for being instrumental in the psychedelia of the time encouraging and inspiring their contemporaries to follow suit and have fun with the music they had been making. In a way this serves as a precursor to George Harrison’s latter work in the Travelling Wilburys but on a much smaller scale. The idea is that this album is their album and the Beatles are playing the roles of this band. The concept of Sgt Pepper is based on the titles track Sgt. Then Sgt Pepper happened and things changed. In rare cases there would be a reprisal at the end of an album, but for the most part albums were all about what songs would be singles and what songs would be filler. ![]() You see, before Sgt Pepper, albums were mostly just a collection of songs that may or may not have had any connection other than being by the same band. This album is credited as being among the first ‘concept albums’ that led the way for albums such as The Who’s Tommy and even Green Day’s American Idiot. To say this is a perfect album is an understatement, not only do the Beatles take their talent to the next level with Sgt Pepper but they inadvertently create a new genre, a new theme and even new styles while continuing to explore the limits of their musical talents. Where to begin with this album? Sgt Pepper is a unique and incredible album that not only demands that you listen to it in a single sitting but practically sits on you until you do. ![]()
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