Sgt. Pepper...Overrated bollocks?

boltonbonce wrote:Just my opinion of course.

xmiles wrote:Has Nat hijacked your account?

boltonbonce wrote:We're getting the 50th anniversary rammed down our throats,and to be quite honest,I just don't get the hype.

boltonbonce wrote:Certainly not Sluffy.  

As for The Beatles,I think 'Revolver' trumps Pepper every time.

wanderlust wrote:Like it or hate it it changed music forever.

wanderlust wrote:It was the first pop album to unashamedly write for people taking acid so it's no surprise that most folk don't get it and even though it was naive it set the tone for thousands of albums that tried - and mainly failed to emulate it e.g. Everything the dead and a thousand other hippie bands did. Plus they had the commercial sense to get back into the mainstream asap afterwards.

Beatles were as pop as Abba and take that but only the Beatles could get away with doing something as avant garde as that album - and still go on to outsell every band since.
They did it because they could. Plus they pushed the boundaries of recording technology in doing it. Like it or hate it it changed music forever.

xmiles wrote:

wanderlust wrote:It was the first pop album to unashamedly write for people taking acid so it's no surprise that most folk don't get it and even though it was naive it set the tone for thousands of albums that tried - and mainly failed to emulate it e.g. Everything the dead and a thousand other hippie bands did. Plus they had the commercial sense to get back into the mainstream asap afterwards.

Beatles were as pop as Abba and take that but only the Beatles could get away with doing something as avant garde as that album - and still go on to outsell every band since.
They did it because they could. Plus they pushed the boundaries of recording technology in doing it. Like it or hate it it changed music forever.

I don't think the Grateful Dead or any other "hippie" bands really tried to emulate Sgt Pepper although they were influenced by it. The most obvious attempt to emulate it was probably the Rolling Stones' Satanic Majesties.

I also disagree with your suggestion that they went back into the main stream asap. The follow up White Album is their least pop album although it does have some great pop songs on it.

wanderlust wrote:How many albums before SP  used tape multi tracking in the same way, had the luxury of employing an orchestra and had lyrics. of that nature?  Sure it followed on from the Ginsberg us folk scene and a handful of experimental sounds including th Beatles themselves e.g. Lucy which was a couple of years earlier but nothing had been done on that scale by artists with global reach can't remember if bathing at baxters came out earlier but even that didn't impact the mainstream audience to th same degree. I imagine the Beatles made the record as an exploration for a niche market and were shocked by its commercial success