Why I Don't Think Sgt. Pepper Is The Best Beatles Album
 

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Ok. I am going to step into some "controversial" thoughts here. I am kinda stepping on pins and needles.

I do not think Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the best Beatles album. It IS a great album, and was the 1st Beatles album I ever heard. I just think it gets a little overrated for what it is.

The songs vary from some of my favorites to some that I forget.

BEST
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Lonely Rita
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band (Reprise)
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band
She's Leaving Home
Within You, Without You


^ These songs are just fantastic. I can always listen to those.


FORGETTABLE
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Getting Better
Fixing A Hole
Being The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
When I'm Sixty-Four
Good Morning

^ These songs I just don't think are memorable.

What about "With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, & A Day In The Life?"

Those songs are great, yet are overplayed.


The songs are great, I just hear them SO much that it kind of wares off in the end. Again, they are not bad. I just think they get way too much radio play.


What are my favorite albums by The Beatles?
(Get Ready... I might get someone mad)


Revolver And Rubber Soul


Revolver and Rubber Soul barely have any songs that radio plays. Probably the most I hear on the radio are Norwegian Wood, Yellow Submarine, Taxman, and Eleanor Rigby.

These albums are overlooked by a lot of people. A lot of songs may be forgettable to some but that is their own opinion. Just like this list.


Again, this is all opinion. Leave your opinions below.

There's a ton of folks who pick Revolver over Peppers. Pepper's represented a watershed moment in the evolving history of rock music. Kind of like there was rock before SP and then there was rock after SP. That's why I think it's so revered. Is it the band's best collection of songs? Nope.

For me it would be Abbey Road.

Chula said if perfectly. Peppers was probably the most groundbreaking Beatles album but I think most fans would end up picking Revolver or maybe even the White Album.

Now calling these songs Fogettable, thems fightin words:

Getting Better
Fixing A Hole
Being The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
When I'm Sixty-Four
Good Morning

Strawberry Fields is the fashionable choice. Peppers for me though.

I'll always say Sgt Peppers is easily the best Beatles album. It's my favorite album as well.

The White album for me.

I just like the quirkiness of it. I got a sense of the unexpected when I first listened to it and the controversies behind the scenes add to it's appeal. I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but given the choices I'd put the White album on before anything else.

Booo!

Magical Mystery Tour is The Beatles' best attempt at psychedelic music and thus their best album. **** Penny Lane though. Your opinion isn't all that controversial unless you were posting it on a Beatles fan forum (I think there's one called music-discussion).

MMT isn't consistent enough for me. A few stellar tracks. Peppers is more consistent and also have great tracks.

http://www.musicbanter.com/rock-n-ro...les-album.html

You're not alone.

I thought Being for the Benefit of Mr.Kite was one of best their songs. The way they did sampling in the song makes it decades ahead of its time.

If I remember correctly George Martin said that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane(?) were slotted for the Sgt. Pepper album. He said he gave into the rec exec wanted a single to be released. He is it was one of his biggest regrets that he didn't hold out and save them for the Sgt. Pepper album.