Comments on: The Quick 10: It Was 42 Years Ago Today…

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:45:31 +0000

This was the first Beatles album I really got into when I was really young. I would have to say its hard to decide favorites but if I had to I would say either Sgt. Peppers reprise, Fixing a Hole, or A day in the life.

I am so happy they included it in it’s entirety on Beatles Rock Band.

By: OkieMelissa

OkieMelissa — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:51:26 +0000

I first discovered this album when I was in HS and I think it’s sheer perfection. (of course, I think just about every Beatles album is sheer perfection, but maybe that’s the joy of it)

My *Favorite Song* changes as I grow and have different experiences(obviously), but I constantly come back to ‘the Reprise and A Day in the Life’, but I think ‘within you, without you’ is so fun and I agree that ‘when I’m sixty-four’ is a perfect love song. I think my most ‘oh my god’ moment was listening to the cleaned up, re-released version of ‘lucy’ a few months ago. It was just SO clear and gorgeous, I almost cried.

Has anybody else bought one of the newly remastered albums – is there that much of a difference?

By: isabelle

isabelle — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:31:42 +0000

darn it. When I read the title, I thought this post was about Hitchhiker’s Guide.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:47:56 +0000

Somewhere in the book pages that were in the album was a picture that had a lifesaver (round swimming device) that says \The Best Way To Go is M. & D. and Co.: the initials MDC, Mark David Chapman. Eerie.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:05:00 +0000

Hey there. Just wanted to say a huge thank you for linking to my ‘Paul is Dead’ (OPD – The Great Beatle Death Conspiracy) here on Mentalfloss!! Mike.

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:16:00 +0000

Great article, but I have to make a correction: Automatic Double Tracking, or ADT, was first used on “Tomorrow Never Knows”. Sgt. Pepper’s made great use of the technique, absolutely, but John despised the tedium of duplicating previously-sung lyrics, particularly in terms of pitch and phrasing, so the engineers came up with ADT.

Cheers!

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:03:00 +0000

thanks to my obsessive collecting and upgrading (via garage sales in my teenage years), I have a near-mint vinyl copy of Sgt. Pepper, including psychedelic album sleeve and paper insert. (I also have a copy of the White Album with three of the four portraits in it – it’s missing Paul – and a copy of Let It Be from France, with a red Apple Corps logo instead of the usual red!)

As for songs, I’ve always loved “She’s Leaving Home,” but that may have something to do with the fact that I listened to this album mostly in high school.

By: niconiconico

niconiconico — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:51:00 +0000

Jelly babies? Hehe. Every time I think of those, I think of Doctor Who. I’m tempted to go buy some off of Amazon, put them in a small white paper bag, and offer them to people (“Would you like a jelly baby?”). People who have watched the classic episodes know exactly what I’m talking about. If not, search for “jelly baby doctor who” on Youtube and click on the first link.

Julian was pretty good, IMO. I kinda think that’s a pretty neat drawing of Lucy.

‘A Day in the Life’ has always been my favorite song. It actually was one reason my first boyfriend started dating me. We were a very odd bunch.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:49:00 +0000

It’s funny that you would mention listening to this album on an old console stereo (in the 90′s!!!) cuz I used to listen to the Beatles on my parents console (which they had gotten rid of in the early 80s).

My sister and I were forbidden from playing their Beatles albums, (they have almost all of them on vinyl) so we had to make do w/ other stuff, our fave was Jan and Dean. But occasionally, we’d sneak a Beatles album on.

Sgt Pepper’s was the first Beatles album I got when I went to CDs, and while my musical tastes have gone thru phases where I gravitate to one artist or another, I’ve always considered the Beatles my personal baseline.

I thought more would be said about Sgt Peppers being the Beatles response to Pet Waves and a Dylan album (Highway 61 revisited, I think or Blonde On Blonde).

By: Jill...NOT Jillian

Jill...NOT Jillian — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:45:00 +0000

I’d have to say the whole album! I can’t even pick a song. This album was the beginning of Prog(ressive) Rock as we know it! Sgt. Peppers paved the way!