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SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - THE BEATLES (their 8th studio album - released 1 June 1967...46 years old this month !)
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I am listening to Sgt. Pepper again ! Can't count the number of times I've listened to this in the past 46 years !
Do you the members believe that Sgt. Pepper influenced future rock music and in what way ?
The album uses quirky sound effects throughout and is considered a concept album. Was it a piece of work that inspired concept albums like Tommy and The Wall ? What say ye ?
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It was absolutely a turning point in the concept of long players. This album firmly established the idea of concept albums. Dylan was the first to use the long player for more than a collection of "greatest hits". The Beatles took it the next step with this album and said, let's use this new format to tell a story.
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thanks and a great answer Evil man !
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I just heard this album for the first time recently and was blown away by it. What really caught my attention was they seemed to be "rapping" on at least two songs a good 8 years before rap music started in the Bronx.
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Welcome to MD, DJ ! and thanks for the great comment with regards to Sgt. Pepper ! Hope to hear more from you in the future !
D.j. Dee Dame Wrote:I just heard this album for the first time recently and was blown away by it. What really caught my attention was they seemed to be "rapping" on at least two songs a good 8 years before rap music started in the Bronx.
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SteveO Wrote:Welcome to MD, DJ ! and thanks for the great comment with regards to Sgt. Pepper ! Hope to hear more from you in the future !
damn
I was hoping you would ask him what the 2 songs were
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Thanks MH ! What two rappish songs are we talkin" about DJ ?
SteveO Wrote:Welcome to MD, DJ ! and thanks for the great comment with regards to Sgt. Pepper ! Hope to hear more from you in the future !
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okay...time for my thoughts on Sgt.Peppers....
i do know that Paul was inspired to do more studio effects and multi layered things after he heard Beach Boys "pet sounds" album which absolutely blew his mind...
i think Sgt Peppers was originally meant to be a concept album to be released under the psuedenym "sgt peppers lonely hearts club band"(artist name)...
although multi layers,sound effects,looping,backwards tape stuff had been used previously by not only the Beatles but also other bands, this was the album that culminated the whole thing in one project(as far as im aware)...
George Martin(from what i read) actually commissioned the first synthesizer to be built for this project which lead the way for everything that followed electronically...
according to John Lennon, "lucy in the sky with diamonds" was not about an LSD trip as often rumoured, it was infact brought about from a drawing his son Julian did at school...he bought the drawing home and John asked him what it was...Jule's replied "its lucy in the sky", and so the song was created using images off the picture, so nothing to do with drugs whatsoever...
im also pretty sure the only factual drugs refference in the song was in the "day in the life" track with the "he blew his mind out in the car,he hadnt noticed that the lights had changed" lines...which was a reference to an actual experience of John's in his Rolls royce with another party(thinking from memory it was Dr.Robert, who was also had a somg written for him by the Fabs a year or two earlier called "dr.robert")
Christ, i wish Chris was here to give you guys(and myself) 100% accurate info on this album!!!!!!, but he's not, so i have to write what ive read about it...
yes, the album was hugely influential in the scheme of Rock And Roll history, and it must have sounded 'out of this world' back in 1967...i really wish i was there to hear it back then and it may have meant a whole lot more to me than it currently does...i do like the album, but it is not in my top three or four Beatle albums, they would be in no particular order:
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. the White Album
4. Hard Day's Night
5. Help!
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Just going to add my sixpence too. I am sure hearing Sgt Pepper's way back when must have had some influence on me but it's not an album I enjoy - or own. In fact I do not own a single Beatles album (yes you can shoot me in the morning folks). And I am not a Stones fan either, although I do like individual tracks by both bands. I don't think that statement about the synthesizer is right, as they had been around for decades before then. All the other info seems spot on though. One thing I will say is that as a producer George Martin was the perfect guy for the band. I have a number of books where his work is mentioned and a large part of what made up the Beatles more ambitious projects was down to his innovation.
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Excellent analysis , Crazy mate ! I can't argue with your top 5 favs ! and yes I heard it in June 67 and it was a well received breath of fresh air !!!! I read somewhere that A Day in a Life reference to "he blew his mind out in a car"..was an actual true story that John saw in the paper whereby a young front line executive committed suicide .
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:okay...time for my thoughts on Sgt.Peppers....
i do know that Paul was inspired to do more studio effects and multi layered things after he heard Beach Boys "pet sounds" album which absolutely blew his mind...
i think Sgt Peppers was originally meant to be a concept album to be released under the psuedenym "sgt peppers lonely hearts club band"(artist name)...
although multi layers,sound effects,looping,backwards tape stuff had been used previously by not only the Beatles but also other bands, this was the album that culminated the whole thing in one project(as far as im aware)...
George Martin(from what i read) actually commissioned the first synthesizer to be built for this project which lead the way for everything that followed electronically...
according to John Lennon, "lucy in the sky with diamonds" was not about an LSD trip as often rumoured, it was infact brought about from a drawing his son Julian did at school...he bought the drawing home and John asked him what it was...Jule's replied "its lucy in the sky", and so the song was created using images off the picture, so nothing to do with drugs whatsoever...
im also pretty sure the only factual drugs refference in the song was in the "day in the life" track with the "he blew his mind out in the car,he hadnt noticed that the lights had changed" lines...which was a reference to an actual experience of John's in his Rolls royce with another party(thinking from memory it was Dr.Robert, who was also had a somg written for him by the Fabs a year or two earlier called "dr.robert")
Christ, i wish Chris was here to give you guys(and myself) 100% accurate info on this album!!!!!!, but he's not, so i have to write what ive read about it...
yes, the album was hugely influential in the scheme of Rock And Roll history, and it must have sounded 'out of this world' back in 1967...i really wish i was there to hear it back then and it may have meant a whole lot more to me than it currently does...i do like the album, but it is not in my top three or four Beatle albums, they would be in no particular order:
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. the White Album
4. Hard Day's Night
5. Help!
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