My grandfather gave this album to me on my 18th birthday in 2010, but i wasn't as in to beatles at that time as i am now. But what i found out later is that, the album he gave me is an original 1967 issue with the yellow parlophone label on the vinyl.
Alix McCann if it had penny lane, strawberry fields forever and all you need is love (from magical mystery tour) it would be undisputedly the best ever
Whaaaat Within you without you is fantastic! It's such a complex song and those drums. Oh god those drums just get me. This album is perfect the way it is, absolutely perfect. But if they really do re-release Sgt. Pepper's with Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane it'd be neat to see what Paul wanted the album to be.
Jamie Hartley I agree, sucks that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane weren't included. Doesn't even matter where you put them on the album, would have made it easily #1.
Can you imagine if George Martin had convinced EMI to let them put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the album? Jeez. I would take replace Getting Better with PL and When I’m Sixty-Four with SFF to make space for those two jewels.
***** Makes sense, now that I think of it Getting Better and When I'm Sixty-Four should probably stay because they fit into the album well. Although Penny Lane comes after Lucy in the Sky pretty nicely.
In a box of records I picked up at an estate sale for $10 I found an album with a white cover. I pulled it out and it had a Mobile Fidelity Labs "test disc" label, and grooves on only one side. It looked like it had never been touched by a needle. I played it. It was side one of Sgt. Pepper. This explains why someone had hand written, on the corner of the cover, "Pepper" in cursive. Sounds really good.
Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" was a concept album that predated "Pet Sounds" & "Sgt. Pepper." It was released in 1954. All the songs on this LP focused on a particular aspect of love.
It's a good point, but the first Concept Album was Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (1940). Still the point being that Sgt. Pepper mark's the shift from when that was a novelty to when it became the norm.
Is that really a concept album though? I mean 90% of pop songs are above love and relationships anyway, even more so in the 50's. In the Wee Small Hours probably has a better claim to being Sinatra's first concept album. Either way I wouldn't actually consider Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper as concept albums, but rather albums that established a new approach to making albums that kicked off the modern album era.
What I love about people's opinions regarding The Beatles and their best album, is that it's always diverse. No one will agree because the made so many amazing albums, and everyone's opinion has merit. My opinion always changes, but predominantly id go with Sgt Peppers
This has been deemed the greatest album ever made, not so much for the music on it, but the way the music was made! Martin and the Beatles pretty much invented techniques used to record these tracks. They would vary recording speeds to obtain a specific sound, layer the recordings, obtain exotic instruments, again to obtain a specific sound. The final chord in "A Day In The Life" was obtained by using 5 pianos, an organ, all struck simultaneously with a sound engineer at the volume controls to get that chord to drag out almost twice as long as a regular piano would. What we hear is a sustained chord from a piano, but we don't appreciate that what that piano is doing is impossible for a single piano to do! "Mr. Kite" is, in itself a phenomenon. The album changed the way producers and bands made albums. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) said this as well as many others.
I have a mono Sgt Pepper. It was a Christmas present in 1967. Still have the original insert and inner sleeve. I see it as a ground breaking album but not the Beatles' best.
There was this rumor floating around in the late 60s that Paul McCartney was dead and if you opened the Sargent Pepper's album to the lyric section inside, you would see a photo of the Fab Four, but Paul was standing with his back towards the camera. If you look to Paul's left, George Harrison's has his finger pointing towards the lyric line "Wednesday morning at five O'clock..." The story was that somewhere embedded in the album there was a secret phone number. If you found it, you were to call on Wednesday morning at Five O'clock and someone would tell you the time and place of Paul's funeral... Genius marketing in my book!
About radio air play. It was not played as much when it came out except on the first few and far between FM underground stations. Top 40 radio still ruled and The Monkees were getting the air. This was an ALBUM phenomenon. Parties were thrown to listen to it. Eventually within a year or two radio began catching up. It's important to remember back then radio was always behind the times(except aforementioned FM stations) The coolest stuff got listened to by albums.
I first bought it on vinyl in 1967. And a few more times through the years. One is a gold colored record..(yellow really)...Still have the original 1967 purchase.
Start your record collection before you buy a turntable. It's what I did for more than a year, i had about 35 lp's. The first day after setting it up was a great day!
@@russyJ20 I ended up doing that! I amassed about 5 or so records until one day my father suprised me with a turntable and 10+ classic rock/metal records. It's a shabby suitcase style turntable but it's the thought that counts 😎
No doubt in my mind the stereo version is way better. To me, mono sounds flat, although the sound effects seem more up front. Insane to think about SFF and Penny Lane added to the album, whoa. Even without those two tracks, still feel this is the best pop album of all time.
Well done review, as always. I've always thought of the Sgt Pepper album as the Beatles blowing the cover off their collective genius and just....absolutely....showing off. "OK, kiddies, get ready for this one!" Even the bright colorful outfits are the perfect outfits for showing off. "We hope you will enjoy the show!" And what a show it was...and still is. And always will be.
The "gibberish" track doesn't actually fade. It is supposed to continuously loop as the actual runout groove. On CD releases they obviously had to put an end to this track somehow and decided to fade it out instead of just *bang* gone. On later (or non-parlophone) vinyl releases they omitted this track or did the same fading thing as on the cd releases, because the timing to get the run-out groove sounding right was hard and time consuming to get right during production.
Ryan Smith i agree that sgt pepper is their number one but pet sounds over revolver abbey road and dark side of the moon is joke Sgt pepper Revolver Abbey road Dsotm White album Rubber soul Led Zeppelin 4 Pet sounds
I was 17 when it came out and I bought the stereo version and listened to it on ex army headphones wired into my stereo record player....it was amazing....I had heard nothing like it....Good Morning .....the stage coach runs thru from left ear to right......and A Day in the Life is just incredible with headphones. 10 years ago I made my own version as it should have been with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on and burnt myself a copy....its much better with the extra 2 tracks on. My daughter lives about 500 yards away from Penny Lane.and I went to visit Strawberry Fields about 5 years ago which is quite close as is John Lennons old house on Menlove Avenue.
Without Pet Sound's by The Beach Boys, we would not have Sgt Pepper by The Beatles yes. However, without Sgt Pepper, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys would not have gone insane.
My Urban Exploration They were influenced by avant-garde recording artists like AMM, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Morton Subotnick as well as Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention "Freak Out", which he would grow to resent 1960s counterculture and their shortcomings ultimately contradicts their sets of morals.
Brian became fundamentally depressed after reading lukewarm reviews of Pet Sounds from critics through press notes. He kept a close relationship with the Fab Four during this period, even taking a plane to their studio when they first started recording for Strawberry Fields Forever and Paul, who munched on celery for the benefit of his song Vegetables, showed Brian a demo of She's Leaving Home. He would find anything around the house, using it for an individual sound effect, later overdubs were made when he finally had the chance to approach the mixing desk. Although, he had lost hope in the project and wished to not dwell on it any longer, Capitol demanded a new release. When they finally got their wish, most, if not all traces of the original was absent. Yes, including lyrics and chord structure.
*Evan Miles* Frank was an arrogant wanker. Period. He later admitted that 'Sgt Peppers is actually very good' but he could not say so at the time. Frank used people and then threw them away like trash. I love some of his music but learned to hate the man by the late 70's as his asshole side dominated everything by then. Highly intelligent, brilliant and driven he nevertheless lacked any concern for others and it shows in his music. He could NEVER really judge his own music and put out more complicated music crap than any in history- Only the Grateful Dead have more mediocre material available than Frank but at least they are bootlegs of less than inspired live performances. However there is also more good stuff from them and the Beatles than Frank!
MegaRaven100 I know, he refused to play at Monterey when he was invited because he felt that the rest of the bands taking up the preceding slots "were inferior to him", he would sabotage his other band members, by significantly altering the former arrangements to his songs, saying "you can't do anything right!", just to throw them away shortly afterward. Question: Why would you hire these people for them to waste their talent, and to get chewed out every day in the studio? Might as well just take up something that fits your own preferable tastes. I saw an interview that was taken around '71, he was asked about "women's lib", calling the whole thing in retrospect, "meaningless", saying it was just a fad. I wouldn't want to be part of his band, since most of his titles were arbitrary in regards to his songwriting, telling others who question him, "I guess you just don't get it." Calling out musicians for being possessed, and the majority of the right wing religious crowd still believes that MK ultra bullshit. Believing in limited government (which I can be okay with, since it's not my problem) but we need guidance, without the things we take for granted, like gov't checks that come in the mail and free health care, which is currently non-existent, WE WOULD BE LOST. I collect CDs and vinyl, but let me just say that I wouldn't be the one, wasting my money, though from a distance it looks like I'm doing this to support the artist, but no, I'm doing it for the advantage of people like corporate Frank, where I'm spending my money, it's only a small percentage of a large chain of greed, either that those who are knee deep in debt are paying their due with my dollars. I can totally understand that his "asshole side of him overshadowed his music," because we had a Democratic president in office, and unlike Frank, he doesn't spend all of his time sitting on his ass giving everyone a mouthful of his biased critique. This was a time of constant change, and compared to the beginning of the decade, the record goes to show that a great amount of progress was undertaken. Paricularly italicizing race relations, nonetheless a slowly developing bond between other countries that took years to come into fruition. Growth and maturity, that is barely present in the man's personality. In stark contrast, consistently more alike of a quantum leap than you will choose to partake in more or less of thirty years. Rather to refuse that what's in front of you isn't true.
I've left this comment on another of your videos: In 1955, Frank Sinatra recorded the concept album, In the We Small Hours. You should review it. It's great. In about 1970 or so, I was helping somebody paint their apartment and KCBQ was on holding a Beatles vs .Stones contest, playing songs against each other with listeners calling in for the better of the two songs. The Beatles vs. Stones is a classic musical trope. BTW: The correct answer is The Beatles.
Revolver & Rubber Soul (in that order) were the best,but this one was great because I knew all of the words & could sing along thanks to the lyrics on the back cover,something unheard of back then.
I enjoy your enthusiasm for the music which enraptures you (and me). Your format is cool, with the stereo near you in such an elegant room. I'd love to hang out with you and talk shop. A belated Happy New Year to you.
Trivia, the sweater on the doll say THE WMPS GOOD GUYS WELCOME THE ROLLING STONES. WMPS was a Memphis AM radio station and some girl knitted it to enter a contest to meet the Stones.
On that day in 1967 I was at university in Melbourne Oz and someone put the album on the p.a. in the student union building. By about 11.00am there were over 2000 students sitting in the hall listening to constant replays. By 1.00pm all lectures for the day were cancelled as no one was turning up. Can't ever imagine that happening ever again!
I'm patiently waiting for Sgt. Pepper's second album. Someone told me it was by the actual Beatles' but I think Paul was dead, at the time. If it takes 40 yrs. to release, I'll still be waiting.
Abbey Road I still listen to several times a week. Occasionally listen to Sgt Pepper, but not as much as Revolver or Rubber Soul. So I guess Sgt. Pepper is my 4th favorite Beatles album. Which I guess makes it the 4th greatest album of all time
As always, a great review. I think the late George Harrison would agree with you Beatles fans can be weird! It's too bad you lost the Sgt. Lucy painting. Who was who? Was Lucy John?
True The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds influenced Paul in the making of Pepper, (especially God Only Knows) but Revolver influenced Brian Wilson in the making of Pet Sounds. And so it goes. Re: Beatles vs Stones. They still are competitors in my opinion- I think Mick takes the guys out on tour, in part, because Paul and Ringo still tour, and vice-versa. Who will stop first? But they were in fact good friends. Not only did the Stones have photos of the Beatles hidden on the cover of Satanic, John and Paul added background vocals on one of the Satanic tracks- We Love You. John also had Keith in his Plastic Ono Band concert with Eric and Mitch Mitchell, and so on.
I really think that this is their best album because I really got into this vinyl album in the autumn of 2001 and stayed digesting it throughout the following year especially good morning good morning, she's leaving, a day in the life and the whole entire album for that matter.
my aunts who were only 3 or 4 years older then me and they had had this album in 1967 , i just remember it sounding kind of scary but you heard it everywhere - to this day it still brings me back plus the news was saying paul was dead which kind of freaked me out as a 6 year old kid they kept it up on the piano so everyone could see it but they wouldnt play it because they thought it was so special and everybody just stared at it like a religious experience or something and everyone wanted to borrow it , once in awhile though theyd play it and i remember everybody that was there just sat there listening to it like zombies - seems like yesterday
by the way the funny smell that always seemed to be there now makes me think they were all high on pot and that probobly explains why they acted like zombies !!!!
John said many times that he didn't particularly care for Sgt.Pepper and was surprised by its popularity.George felt it was a continuation of Revolver.Ringo loved it,but was never happy with his vocal performance.So many have called it the first concept album which John rejected as rubbish.I personally LOVE the album but I have to say IMO they sounded their best at the end with Abbey Road.
Abbey Road does have a very good sound. Too bad it was the first really disappointing LP that in every way showed a band in decline. I think the whole second side is a long bore of trivial little songs that go nowhere ('Because' is nice) . I like two of the Lennon tracks with the first standing out., Come together'. Sgt Peppers is so much more intense and creative, a band at its heights breaking new ground in psych rock. Superior in so many ways. For me the Beatles ended with 'The Beatles' (White Album) should have been their swansong just as Led Zeppelin should have quit in 1975 when 'Presence' came out. That's why they say the good die young.True it may be but a lot of time this dying means we never see the decline (Hendrix, Doors etc)!
I bought the original '67 album in stereo and had never really noticed the sleeve mentioned in the video. Don't remember ever having the insert. It would be nice to know more about the selection of characters on the front, as well as their placement. One thing I just noticed that struck me as rather odd is the image of Sonny Liston (boxer who fought Cassius Clay-aka Mohamed Ali) instead of Ali. They had visited Ali's training site in Miami when they were first on tour in the US in '64 and had some well known photos taken with him in the gym. Liston was viewed by many as a dim witted brute and Ali especially furthered this notion with his scathing poetic proclamations.
My grandpa had an old reel to reel version of Sgt. Pepper’s and I was so excited to play it until I opened the case and saw it wasn’t in there. I’m still looking for it to this day.
From an influential standpoint, Sgt Pepper's is the greatest. But however, I feel that if we're gonna talk my personal taste and how perfectly crafted an album is Abbey road is the champion of music, and in my opinion, the objective greatest album of all time. Not my favorite album, but however I can't help but acknowledge the brilliance of it.
I love both the stereo and mono mix as a sergeant pepper I’ll especially love the different mixes having different speeds on she’s leaving home and hearing the different versions of this in the sky with diamonds it is fantastic.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Is like watching a full season of your Fav show. Once you watch the season finally (a Day in the life), you go back and stream the first episode and watch again. Mixing techniques got better by Sgt Pepper, which made stereo sound better....They employed multiple 4 track recorders. Which made splitting the signals better..More control over the sound. But Care was not given to the stereo like the Mono, thus why Mono may not sound better, but is a better mix.
A little info on mono and stereo mixes. It was a mono world still in 1967 and it does take time to make a quality mono mix but if your mono mix is properly balanced it makes making a stereo mix easier and can be done be quickly. This is why EMI engineers were left to do them without much input from the Beatles. They already did the hard part.
Zac Fraizer: Weird, maybe because I don't usually listen with headphones on, I never noticed it or yeah, maybe it's a bad mix you got. I'm with you on Mr. Kite, seems a bit like filler (or a bside), would rather have had Penny Lane or Strawberry Fields Forever. Fixing a hole was a little odd to me.
Yeah, those songs would fit perfectly. Honestly, before I had listened to Sgt. Peppers, I always assumed "Strawberry Fields" was on it. And relistening to "Fixing a Hole," I agree, the song is kinda weird. I think its teetering between being sort of melancholic, like a ballad (based on the melody), but then the chorus is somewhat jubilant, and its confusing. Plus, the mixing on the multi-tracked vocals is a little obnoxious.
+Zac Frazier (Etc.) listen to fixing a hole with gread headphones and some hallucinogens.....your opinion of the song will change drastically...or so i've heard.
The bass is louder in the mono mix. Apparently, this was standard practice for the day as other mono versions of albums from other bands from this time were the same way.
I own an original first pressing us stereo copy of sargent peppers, the vinyl is in vg + but it’s sadly missing the original cutouts and the original sleeve protector. I found it in a box full of original copies of great albums
Pet sounds would of happened without rubber soul but would have been different. Rubber soul kinda was the first entirety album but pet sounds is more revered than rubber soul is for its innovation. All great albums
The story about your mom's painting is really sweet. I just found your channel while looking for good ,well informed Beatles reviews and i have to say i really like your style. You remind me of a young Dick Cavett. Keep it up.
For me the albums go like this: 13). Magical Mystery Tour 12). The Yellow Submarine Soundtrack 11). Beatles For Sale 10). Let It Be 9). Help! 8). A Hard Day's Night 7). Please Please Me 6). With The Beatles 5). Abbey Road 4). The White Album 3). SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2). Revolver 1). Rubber Soul
How in the wild world is this channel never talked about?! I love collecting and listening to vinyls, and I have been watching all your videos now and I think that they are amazing! But there are a few albums that I would personally LOVE for you to review: Off The Wall by Michael Jackson Thriller by Michael Jackson Bad by Michael Jackson Abbey Road by the Beatles What's Going On by Marvin Gaye If you could review/talk about those albums that would be amazing, anyway keep up the amazing work!
AidanHicks101 Sweet, thank you!!! I will totally add your list to my request list. I plan on doing pretty much all of those albums anyway, so you're in luck!
@Vinyl Rewind - Pepper's was the Beatle's response to Pet Sounds from a Hawthorn band called the Beach Boys. Woops- you just said it. Someone's doing their homework.
I suppose it's true that without Pet Sounds there would be no Sgt Pepper. However, according to Brian Wilson there would be no Pet Sounds without Revolver. As far as Beatles vs Stones, there's no problem liking both today, however you're right, at the time there was not only animosity between fans of the bands, but also, between the bands themselves. Jagger introduced the Beatles when they were inducted into the R 'n' R Hall of Fame, and he mentioned that they were regularly getting into arguments with "The Fab Four" but they always ended up as friends! Finally, the Mono version is mixed so much better than the stereo version and so sounds much better.
I have all original mono copies of The Beatles Please, Please Me through to Sgt Peppers. My Pepper copy has the inner sleeve & cutouts intact. Fab album but Pet Sounds makes me cry, it's that good. So Pepper is No.2 behind Pet Sounds. I prefer the Stereo mix cos i'm used to it. Keep reviewing man, I love the program. Take care: Glenn 😊
When i compare the original stereo mix to the remaster i gotta say that i like the remasted better. Because it has more bass it has more dept and when you listen to it with headphones it even better
i was supposed to fly to england on the 50th anniversary of this album and when we woke up i played it and then i was about to play it again and my mom was like what are you doing we have to go were going to freakin england and i was like oh yeah
my first exposure to the cover of sgt pepper was this dvd or cd for children in need 2009 where it was a bunch of kids cartoon characters recreating the album cover so i think everyone has this album cover burned into their mind in some form as well as abbey road
You are so right...you were either a Beatles fan, a Stones fan OR a Beach Boys fan...yup, they gave all the bands a run for their money from about 64 thru 67. The Stones were seen as reductive and usually looked like they were copying the Beatles. The Beatles never called them out on it but it was the fodder for many vicious arguments in the day. Great job. Just found you and I will follow and like.
Sgt pepper tracks ranked from worst to best: 12. Mr kite 11. When I’m sixty-four (not sorry) 10. Within you without you 9. Good morning 8. A little help from my friends 7. Lovely Rita 6. She’s leaving home 5. Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band 4. Fixing a hole 3. Getting better 2. Lucy in the sky 1. A day in the life
Jimi Hendrix liked Sgt Pepper so much that he did a cover of the title track when the Beatles went to one of his shows.
3 days after the album came out!
@@chrislopez6832 no it was 1 day cause he practised it JUST before the concert started
Yeah, they only listened to it twice and NAILED IT.
My grandfather gave this album to me on my 18th birthday in 2010, but i wasn't as in to beatles at that time as i am now. But what i found out later is that, the album he gave me is an original 1967 issue with the yellow parlophone label on the vinyl.
Bought in Greenland by the way so it has that looping gibberish in the end..
+ihateclaymores larsen that's awesome, hang onto it
That is actually amazing
@@nikoplaysguitar852 Hold on to it young man!!
@Nikolai Pawn Stars wants to know your location.
This album could just only be Lucy in the sky with diamonds and a day in the life and it would still be the greatest album of all time
It could just be the same album, but without the song "Within And Without You" and it will still be the greatest album of all time.
Alix McCann if it had penny lane, strawberry fields forever and all you need is love (from magical mystery tour) it would be undisputedly the best ever
Whaaaat Within you without you is fantastic! It's such a complex song and those drums. Oh god those drums just get me. This album is perfect the way it is, absolutely perfect. But if they really do re-release Sgt. Pepper's with Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane it'd be neat to see what Paul wanted the album to be.
Jamie Hartley I agree, sucks that Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane weren't included. Doesn't even matter where you put them on the album, would have made it easily #1.
Let's not exaggerate. Lucy is pretty mediocre
Can you imagine if George Martin had convinced EMI to let them put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever on the album? Jeez. I would take replace Getting Better with PL and When I’m Sixty-Four with SFF to make space for those two jewels.
yup, I dream about that
Kunga Sagar I would take fixing a hole and good morning, good morning and yeah, that would make it even better...
YES
Also "all you need is love"
***** Makes sense, now that I think of it Getting Better and When I'm Sixty-Four should probably stay because they fit into the album well. Although Penny Lane comes after Lucy in the Sky pretty nicely.
She’s Leaving Home is one of the greatest Beatle songs
Without Rubber Soul, Pet Sounds would not have happened.
And without Elvis no Beatles
Without Bob Dylan and marijuana Rubber Soul wouldn't have happened
@@julianisplayinmusic1365 elvis cant even write his own songs
Johnny Moondogs true but as a performer
With out germany the world as we know it would not have happened
In a box of records I picked up at an estate sale for $10 I found an album with a white cover. I pulled it out and it had a Mobile Fidelity Labs "test disc" label, and grooves on only one side. It looked like it had never been touched by a needle. I played it. It was side one of Sgt. Pepper.
This explains why someone had hand written, on the corner of the cover, "Pepper" in cursive.
Sounds really good.
+Robs OnBass wow, that's really amazing. I can't imagine there are a lot of those floating around. Add it to Discogs if you get the chance
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That's true that Pet Sounds influenced Sgt. Pepper, but you know what influenced Pet Sounds? Revolver...
Cole's Corner actually rubber soul influenced pet sounds
You're right, my bad
It was actually rubber soul
Yah and revolver came out after pet sounds I believe in August I think
the beatles are the biggest inspiration still to this day. anyone who denies that is a lunatic
Sinatra's "Songs for Young Lovers" was a concept album that predated "Pet Sounds" & "Sgt. Pepper." It was released in 1954. All the songs on this LP focused on a particular aspect of love.
It's a good point, but the first Concept Album was Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads (1940). Still the point being that Sgt. Pepper mark's the shift from when that was a novelty to when it became the norm.
Vincent Harris Sinatra did another concept album later on called “Watertown” which is terrific
Is that really a concept album though? I mean 90% of pop songs are above love and relationships anyway, even more so in the 50's. In the Wee Small Hours probably has a better claim to being Sinatra's first concept album. Either way I wouldn't actually consider Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper as concept albums, but rather albums that established a new approach to making albums that kicked off the modern album era.
I'd pick Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning"
Ha! Playboi Carti invented music. Take that!
What I love about people's opinions regarding The Beatles and their best album, is that it's always diverse. No one will agree because the made so many amazing albums, and everyone's opinion has merit. My opinion always changes, but predominantly id go with Sgt Peppers
This has been deemed the greatest album ever made, not so much for the music on it, but the way the music was made! Martin and the Beatles pretty much invented techniques used to record these tracks. They would vary recording speeds to obtain a specific sound, layer the recordings, obtain exotic instruments, again to obtain a specific sound. The final chord in "A Day In The Life" was obtained by using 5 pianos, an organ, all struck simultaneously with a sound engineer at the volume controls to get that chord to drag out almost twice as long as a regular piano would. What we hear is a sustained chord from a piano, but we don't appreciate that what that piano is doing is impossible for a single piano to do! "Mr. Kite" is, in itself a phenomenon. The album changed the way producers and bands made albums. Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) said this as well as many others.
Hey man! I watched all of your vids when they first came out and now I rewatching, they were a big part of my teenage years!
You can TOTALLY love the Beatles and the Rolling Stones at the same time.
once i got my history teacher to play this entire album in class, while we're working.
My teacher only plays violin covers of pop songs.. smh
@@drillbit8280 omg i hate those so much dont get me started
I have a mono Sgt Pepper. It was a Christmas present in 1967. Still have the original insert and inner sleeve. I see it as a ground breaking album but not the Beatles' best.
There was this rumor floating around in the late 60s that Paul McCartney was dead and if you opened the Sargent Pepper's album to the lyric section inside, you would see a photo of the Fab Four, but Paul was standing with his back towards the camera. If you look to Paul's left, George Harrison's has his finger pointing towards the lyric line "Wednesday morning at five O'clock..." The story was that somewhere embedded in the album there was a secret phone number. If you found it, you were to call on Wednesday morning at Five O'clock and someone would tell you the time and place of Paul's funeral... Genius marketing in my book!
I’m a wholehearted fan of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. I couldn’t decide that one band is better than the other.
About radio air play.
It was not played as much when it came out except on the first few and far between FM underground stations. Top 40 radio still ruled and The Monkees were getting the air. This was an ALBUM phenomenon. Parties were thrown to listen to it. Eventually within a year or two radio began catching up. It's important to remember back then radio was always behind the times(except aforementioned FM stations) The coolest stuff got listened to by albums.
Rubber Soul will always be my favourite album, with revolver as second, then segent pepper at third
Yoo me too
I bought this on vinyl yesterday...
I don't even own a turntable lmao
I first bought it on vinyl in 1967. And a few more times through the years. One is a gold colored record..(yellow really)...Still have the original 1967 purchase.
Start your record collection before you buy a turntable. It's what I did for more than a year, i had about 35 lp's. The first day after setting it up was a great day!
@@russyJ20
I ended up doing that! I amassed about 5 or so records until one day my father suprised me with a turntable and 10+ classic rock/metal records. It's a shabby suitcase style turntable but it's the thought that counts 😎
This album changed music forever
My favorite Beatles album, just fascinating!
No doubt in my mind the stereo version is way better. To me, mono sounds flat, although the sound effects seem more up front. Insane to think about SFF and Penny Lane added to the album, whoa. Even without those two tracks, still feel this is the best pop album of all time.
Why is there no track run-down on this review??!
old review, the channel has evolved over the years
Well done review, as always. I've always thought of the Sgt Pepper album as the Beatles blowing the cover off their collective genius and just....absolutely....showing off. "OK, kiddies, get ready for this one!" Even the bright colorful outfits are the perfect outfits for showing off. "We hope you will enjoy the show!" And what a show it was...and still is. And always will be.
That makes total sense. It was almost as if they went, "What can we get away with"
The "gibberish" track doesn't actually fade. It is supposed to continuously loop as the actual runout groove.
On CD releases they obviously had to put an end to this track somehow and decided to fade it out instead of just *bang* gone.
On later (or non-parlophone) vinyl releases they omitted this track or did the same fading thing as on the cd releases, because the timing to get the run-out groove sounding right was hard and time consuming to get right during production.
I agree with Rolling Stone. BEST ALBUM EVER KNOWN TO MAN!!!
Ryan Smith i agree that sgt pepper is their number one but pet sounds over revolver abbey road and dark side of the moon is joke
Sgt pepper
Revolver
Abbey road
Dsotm
White album
Rubber soul
Led Zeppelin 4
Pet sounds
Hi
love your channel, i think you totally need to do a review on the new Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band vinyl
I was 17 when it came out and I bought the stereo version and listened to it on ex army headphones wired into my stereo record player....it was amazing....I had heard nothing like it....Good Morning .....the stage coach runs thru from left ear to right......and A Day in the Life is just incredible with headphones. 10 years ago I made my own version as it should have been with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on and burnt myself a copy....its much better with the extra 2 tracks on.
My daughter lives about 500 yards away from Penny Lane.and I went to visit Strawberry Fields about 5 years ago which is quite close as is John Lennons old house on Menlove Avenue.
+JOEKIN2011 very cool story. Where did you end up placing those two tracks?
+Vinyl Rewind I would also like to know this
Without Pet Sound's by The Beach Boys, we would not have Sgt Pepper by The Beatles yes. However, without Sgt Pepper, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys would not have gone insane.
My Urban Exploration They were influenced by avant-garde recording artists like AMM, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage and Morton Subotnick as well as Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention "Freak Out", which he would grow to resent 1960s counterculture and their shortcomings ultimately contradicts their sets of morals.
'ultimately contradicting their set of morals' good subject matter to parody though.
Brian became fundamentally depressed after reading lukewarm reviews of Pet Sounds from critics through press notes. He kept a close relationship with the Fab Four during this period, even taking a plane to their studio when they first started recording for Strawberry Fields Forever and Paul, who munched on celery for the benefit of his song Vegetables, showed Brian a demo of She's Leaving Home. He would find anything around the house, using it for an individual sound effect, later overdubs were made when he finally had the chance to approach the mixing desk. Although, he had lost hope in the project and wished to not dwell on it any longer, Capitol demanded a new release. When they finally got their wish, most, if not all traces of the original was absent. Yes, including lyrics and chord structure.
*Evan Miles* Frank was an arrogant wanker. Period. He later admitted that 'Sgt Peppers is actually very good' but he could not say so at the time. Frank used people and then threw them away like trash. I love some of his music but learned to hate the man by the late 70's as his asshole side dominated everything by then. Highly intelligent, brilliant and driven he nevertheless lacked any concern for others and it shows in his music. He could NEVER really judge his own music and put out more complicated music crap than any in history- Only the Grateful Dead have more mediocre material available than Frank but at least they are bootlegs of less than inspired live performances. However there is also more good stuff from them and the Beatles than Frank!
MegaRaven100 I know, he refused to play at Monterey when he was invited because he felt that the rest of the bands taking up the preceding slots "were inferior to him", he would sabotage his other band members, by significantly altering the former arrangements to his songs, saying "you can't do anything right!", just to throw them away shortly afterward. Question: Why would you hire these people for them to waste their talent, and to get chewed out every day in the studio? Might as well just take up something that fits your own preferable tastes. I saw an interview that was taken around '71, he was asked about "women's lib", calling the whole thing in retrospect, "meaningless", saying it was just a fad. I wouldn't want to be part of his band, since most of his titles were arbitrary in regards to his songwriting, telling others who question him, "I guess you just don't get it." Calling out musicians for being possessed, and the majority of the right wing religious crowd still believes that MK ultra bullshit. Believing in limited government (which I can be okay with, since it's not my problem) but we need guidance, without the things we take for granted, like gov't checks that come in the mail and free health care, which is currently non-existent, WE WOULD BE LOST. I collect CDs and vinyl, but let me just say that I wouldn't be the one, wasting my money, though from a distance it looks like I'm doing this to support the artist, but no, I'm doing it for the advantage of people like corporate Frank, where I'm spending my money, it's only a small percentage of a large chain of greed, either that those who are knee deep in debt are paying their due with my dollars. I can totally understand that his "asshole side of him overshadowed his music," because we had a Democratic president in office, and unlike Frank, he doesn't spend all of his time sitting on his ass giving everyone a mouthful of his biased critique. This was a time of constant change, and compared to the beginning of the decade, the record goes to show that a great amount of progress was undertaken. Paricularly italicizing race relations, nonetheless a slowly developing bond between other countries that took years to come into fruition. Growth and maturity, that is barely present in the man's personality. In stark contrast, consistently more alike of a quantum leap than you will choose to partake in more or less of thirty years. Rather to refuse that what's in front of you isn't true.
I like what you do, I wish I had a room like yours...retro style.
I've left this comment on another of your videos: In 1955, Frank Sinatra recorded the concept album, In the We Small Hours.
You should review it. It's great.
In about 1970 or so, I was helping somebody paint their apartment and KCBQ was on holding a Beatles vs .Stones contest, playing songs against each other with listeners calling in for the better of the two songs. The Beatles vs. Stones is a classic musical trope. BTW: The correct answer is The Beatles.
Revolver & Rubber Soul (in that order) were the best,but this one was great because I knew all of the words & could sing along thanks to the lyrics on the back cover,something unheard of back then.
That means that The Beatles spent roughly 4.8 hours per day recording Sgt Peppers from 24 November 1966, to 21 April 1967
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Lazy part-timers
*Great presenter and solid script! Thanks, Bangkok-Johnny, again*
I enjoy your enthusiasm for the music which enraptures you (and me). Your format is cool, with the stereo near you in such an elegant room. I'd love to hang out with you and talk shop. A belated Happy New Year to you.
Trivia, the sweater on the doll say THE WMPS GOOD GUYS WELCOME THE ROLLING STONES. WMPS was a Memphis AM radio station and some girl knitted it to enter a contest to meet the Stones.
On that day in 1967 I was at university in Melbourne Oz and someone put the album on the p.a. in the student union building. By about 11.00am there were over 2000 students sitting in the hall listening to constant replays. By 1.00pm all lectures for the day were cancelled as no one was turning up. Can't ever imagine that happening ever again!
Sgt peppers is my all time favorite Beatles album.it” s will stand test of time.
With a Little Help From My Friends' working title was Badfinger Boogie which inspired the change in the name from the former Iveys to Badfinger.
You need to review We're Only In It For The Money! One of my favorite records.
+Liam Sorrell added to my list
Vinyl Rewind Fantastic! Just listened to it today. Love your channel.
+Liam Sorrell thank you
ZAPPA KRAPPA
@@VinylRewind like Zappa first time I heard him 1968
I'm patiently waiting for Sgt. Pepper's second album. Someone told me it was by the actual Beatles' but I think Paul was dead, at the time. If it takes 40 yrs. to release, I'll still be waiting.
Abbey Road I still listen to several times a week. Occasionally listen to Sgt Pepper, but not as much as Revolver or Rubber Soul. So I guess Sgt. Pepper is my 4th favorite Beatles album. Which I guess makes it the 4th greatest album of all time
Not so much.
As always, a great review. I think the late George Harrison would agree with you Beatles fans can be weird! It's too bad you lost the Sgt. Lucy painting. Who was who? Was Lucy John?
Crap, I really don't remember who was who. I'll have to see if my mom has a picture of it or maybe it's in the background of some home movies
When I was a kid I checked this album out from the local library. Odd that you could do that back in the late 60s
True The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds influenced Paul in the making of Pepper, (especially God Only Knows) but Revolver influenced Brian Wilson in the making of Pet Sounds. And so it goes. Re: Beatles vs Stones. They still are competitors in my opinion- I think Mick takes the guys out on tour, in part, because Paul and Ringo still tour, and vice-versa. Who will stop first? But they were in fact good friends. Not only did the Stones have photos of the Beatles hidden on the cover of Satanic, John and Paul added background vocals on one of the Satanic tracks- We Love You. John also had Keith in his Plastic Ono Band concert with Eric and Mitch Mitchell, and so on.
Revolver is their masterpiece
+GabeN Along with every album they released from 1965-1970
Leon Trotsky nope
For me it's Abbey Road. They rededicated their efforts to make a great final album. They went out on top.
Are you back in the ussr?
For me, White Album is their best ones
Personally, I think its very easy to like both. Love The Beatles & the Rolling Stones. Both genius bands in their own ways.
I do. They both great bands
Very cool having Pets Sounds record in the background up top. Can’t do an in depth review or Sgt Peppers without mentioning Pet Sounds!
I really think that this is their best album because I really got into this vinyl album in the autumn of 2001 and stayed digesting it throughout the following year especially good morning good morning, she's leaving, a day in the life and the whole entire album for that matter.
What a fucking amazing channel - so glad I stumbled across this
Magnificent.
This album is amazing but my heart belongs to Magical Mystery Tour
my favroite album of all time
Your mother sounds like a genius! :)
haha, I'll tell her you said that
I'm Glad I have the Mono Version original from 1967, and I LOVE it.
Awesome review. Thank you ever so much!
my aunts who were only 3 or 4 years older then me and they had had this album in 1967 , i just remember it sounding kind of scary but you heard it everywhere - to this day it still brings me back plus the news was saying paul was dead which kind of freaked me out as a 6 year old kid they kept it up on the piano so everyone could see it but they wouldnt play it because they thought it was so special and everybody just stared at it like a religious experience or something and everyone wanted to borrow it , once in awhile though theyd play it and i remember everybody that was there just sat there listening to it like zombies - seems like yesterday
by the way the funny smell that always seemed to be there now makes me think they were all high on pot and that probobly explains why they acted like zombies !!!!
John said many times that he didn't particularly care for Sgt.Pepper and was surprised by its popularity.George felt it was a continuation of Revolver.Ringo loved it,but was never happy with his vocal performance.So many have called it the first concept album which John rejected as rubbish.I personally LOVE the album but I have to say IMO they sounded their best at the end with Abbey Road.
After doing my review of Abbey Road, I agree with you. They really sounded great on that album
+Vinyl Rewind it's as if the Beatles are from another world the greatest rock band of all time
They are!
Abbey Road does have a very good sound. Too bad it was the first really disappointing LP that in every way showed a band in decline. I think the whole second side is a long bore of trivial little songs that go nowhere ('Because' is nice) . I like two of the Lennon tracks with the first standing out., Come together'. Sgt Peppers is so much more intense and creative, a band at its heights breaking new ground in psych rock. Superior in so many ways. For me the Beatles ended with 'The Beatles' (White Album) should have been their swansong just as Led Zeppelin should have quit in 1975 when 'Presence' came out. That's why they say the good die young.True it may be but a lot of time this dying means we never see the decline (Hendrix, Doors etc)!
Tony Suss I've never met anyone who was happy with.Ringo's. Vocals at any time let.alone Ringo
Do the Magical Mystery tour. Not released as an album in the UK, (until the 70s) but a double EP.
Yeah, i would love to pick up the EP version
Does every Sgt Peppers record come with the thing at 4:13? If so, then I will treasure that forever
I bought the original '67 album in stereo and had never really noticed the sleeve mentioned in the video. Don't remember ever having the insert. It would be nice to know more about the selection of characters on the front, as well as their placement. One thing I just noticed that struck me as rather odd is the image of Sonny Liston (boxer who fought Cassius Clay-aka Mohamed Ali) instead of Ali. They had visited Ali's training site in Miami when they were first on tour in the US in '64 and had some well known photos taken with him in the gym. Liston was viewed by many as a dim witted brute and Ali especially furthered this notion with his scathing poetic proclamations.
A++ work! Your mom sounds pretty cool, too 😎 *SUBSCRIBED*
"The looping thing" should be IN the run-off groove, never 'fading'.
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I really like your reviews! Well done!
We love u, VG!!!!!
My grandpa had an old reel to reel version of Sgt. Pepper’s and I was so excited to play it until I opened the case and saw it wasn’t in there. I’m still looking for it to this day.
From an influential standpoint, Sgt Pepper's is the greatest.
But however, I feel that if we're gonna talk my personal taste and how perfectly crafted an album is
Abbey road is the champion of music, and in my opinion, the objective greatest album of all time.
Not my favorite album, but however I can't help but acknowledge the brilliance of it.
Your videos are fantastic man. Keep up the great work!!
I love both the stereo and mono mix as a sergeant pepper I’ll especially love the different mixes having different speeds on she’s leaving home and hearing the different versions of this in the sky with diamonds it is fantastic.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Is like watching a full season of your Fav show. Once you watch the season finally (a Day in the life), you go back and stream the first episode and watch again.
Mixing techniques got better by Sgt Pepper, which made stereo sound better....They employed multiple 4 track recorders. Which made splitting the signals better..More control over the sound. But Care was not given to the stereo like the Mono, thus why Mono may not sound better, but is a better mix.
A little info on mono and stereo mixes. It was a mono world still in 1967 and it does take time to make a quality mono mix but if your mono mix is properly balanced it makes making a stereo mix easier and can be done be quickly. This is why EMI engineers were left to do them without much input from the Beatles. They already did the hard part.
Interesting, I never heard that take on it. Makes sense though
Zac Fraizer: Weird, maybe because I don't usually listen with headphones on, I never noticed it or yeah, maybe it's a bad mix you got. I'm with you on Mr. Kite, seems a bit like filler (or a bside), would rather have had Penny Lane or Strawberry Fields Forever. Fixing a hole was a little odd to me.
Yeah, those songs would fit perfectly. Honestly, before I had listened to Sgt. Peppers, I always assumed "Strawberry Fields" was on it. And relistening to "Fixing a Hole," I agree, the song is kinda weird. I think its teetering between being sort of melancholic, like a ballad (based on the melody), but then the chorus is somewhat jubilant, and its confusing. Plus, the mixing on the multi-tracked vocals is a little obnoxious.
+Zac Frazier (Etc.) listen to fixing a hole with gread headphones and some hallucinogens.....your opinion of the song will change drastically...or so i've heard.
+Dexter Scott It's definitely grown on me, without the need for hallucinogens
+Dexter Scott haha, I will have to try that some time
They should have replaced she's leaving home with penny lane I think
The bass is louder in the mono mix. Apparently, this was standard practice for the day as other mono versions of albums from other bands from this time were the same way.
4 guys from Liverpool who didn't make it got a job playing in the brass band of their local park❤
I own an original first pressing us stereo copy of sargent peppers, the vinyl is in vg + but it’s sadly missing the original cutouts and the original sleeve protector. I found it in a box full of original copies of great albums
Pet sounds would of happened without rubber soul but would have been different. Rubber soul kinda was the first entirety album but pet sounds is more revered than rubber soul is for its innovation. All great albums
The story about your mom's painting is really sweet. I just found your channel while looking for good ,well informed Beatles reviews and i have to say i really like your style. You remind me of a young Dick Cavett. Keep it up.
ah man, thank you, Dick Cavett is a huge inspiration for me
Vinyl Rewind That's great. Dick Cavett is one of my favorite tv talk show hosts. Keep up the good work man.
I hope you can find out what happened to the painting that your mother made one day, it sounds really nice.
I have this on vinyl. And it’s the original pressing. Love it.
A day in the life is my FAVORITE song off the album.
This is the greatest album ever made. It’s not my favorite, but it’s the greatest.
Have you heard Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young (1972)?
I prefer the stereo - with the exception of Getting Better and Fixing a Hole. Both are better in mono.
Excellent essay.
Fan of both Rolling Stones and Beatles. Both kick ass.
For me the albums go like this:
13). Magical Mystery Tour
12). The Yellow Submarine Soundtrack
11). Beatles For Sale
10). Let It Be
9). Help!
8). A Hard Day's Night
7). Please Please Me
6). With The Beatles
5). Abbey Road
4). The White Album
3). SGT Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2). Revolver
1). Rubber Soul
How in the wild world is this channel never talked about?! I love collecting and listening to vinyls, and I have been watching all your videos now and I think that they are amazing! But there are a few albums that I would personally LOVE for you to review:
Off The Wall by Michael Jackson
Thriller by Michael Jackson
Bad by Michael Jackson
Abbey Road by the Beatles
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
If you could review/talk about those albums that would be amazing, anyway keep up the amazing work!
AidanHicks101 Sweet, thank you!!! I will totally add your list to my request list. I plan on doing pretty much all of those albums anyway, so you're in luck!
@Vinyl Rewind - Pepper's was the Beatle's response to Pet Sounds from a Hawthorn band called the Beach Boys. Woops- you just said it. Someone's doing their homework.
Go to Spotify if you want the cool looping gibberish thing at the end.
I suppose it's true that without Pet Sounds there would be no Sgt Pepper. However, according to Brian Wilson there would be no Pet Sounds without Revolver.
As far as Beatles vs Stones, there's no problem liking both today, however you're right, at the time there was not only animosity between fans of the bands, but also, between the bands themselves. Jagger introduced the Beatles when they were inducted into the R 'n' R Hall of Fame, and he mentioned that they were regularly getting into arguments with "The Fab Four" but they always ended up as friends!
Finally, the Mono version is mixed so much better than the stereo version and so sounds much better.
Magical mystery tour should be listened along with Sgt pepper. Like a game with it's DLC
I have all original mono copies of The Beatles Please, Please Me through to Sgt Peppers. My Pepper copy has the inner sleeve & cutouts intact. Fab album but Pet Sounds makes me cry, it's that good. So Pepper is No.2 behind Pet Sounds. I prefer the Stereo mix cos i'm used to it. Keep reviewing man, I love the program. Take care: Glenn 😊
+Glenn Springthorpe Nice collection. Thank you very much Glenn
_PennyLane/Strawberry Fields Forever_ not number one? Ridiculous. What were people thinking?
Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are great!
When i compare the original stereo mix to the remaster
i gotta say that i like the remasted better. Because it has more bass it has more dept and when you listen to it with headphones it even better
i was supposed to fly to england on the 50th anniversary of this album and when we woke up i played it and then i was about to play it again and my mom was like what are you doing we have to go were going to freakin england and i was like oh yeah
Me agrada tu canal,..CONGRATULATIONS
There is nothing new in this "review", but it's still a really good watch. Top bananas to the presenter.
my first exposure to the cover of sgt pepper was this dvd or cd for children in need 2009 where it was a bunch of kids cartoon characters recreating the album cover so i think everyone has this album cover burned into their mind in some form as well as abbey road
You are so right...you were either a Beatles fan, a Stones fan OR a Beach Boys fan...yup, they gave all the bands a run for their money from about 64 thru 67. The Stones were seen as reductive and usually looked like they were copying the Beatles. The Beatles never called them out on it but it was the fodder for many vicious arguments in the day. Great job. Just found you and I will follow and like.
+Frank Bosson thanks for watching and subscribing. Yes the early Stones looked very Beatles-esque.
Sgt pepper tracks ranked from worst to best:
12. Mr kite
11. When I’m sixty-four (not sorry)
10. Within you without you
9. Good morning
8. A little help from my friends
7. Lovely Rita
6. She’s leaving home
5. Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band
4. Fixing a hole
3. Getting better
2. Lucy in the sky
1. A day in the life