Anniversary poll: How many good songs are there on Sgt. Pepper's?

She's leaving home is not good, neither is when I'm 64.. All the rest I would say are good but it's hard to tell how much of that is just fond memories/attachment with this particular album. Like, if I heard lovely Rita today for the first time I don't think there's a chance in the world I would be like 'thats a good song' but I can't honestly say I don't like it either.

ah. the beatles

7

"challops" etymology = MIND BLOWN
I had vaguely thought of a "challop" as a slovenly ne'er-do-well prone to making empty provocative statements.
Also, Pepper isn't really music after 50 years of intense dissection, I remember aged 10 being almost told to ENGAGE with its CONCEPTS.

'When I'm Sixty-Four' is definitely the closest to a not-good song for me but the bridge totally redeems it.

Someone upthread implied that John comes off as 2nd on this, but Lucy and Kite are the stun-tracks..

Along with "Good Morning", but hey.

also ADitL is all about John's parts

yes.

There's a tendency to apply "one or the other" to songs like "With a little help", which are closer to 50/50 than else.

Seven or eight depending on reprise.

If you think it's less than five hmm lol ilm I guess, keep pushing that rainbow.

Lucy and peppers the best.

Good morning, within you without you, fixing a hole and she's leaving are either annoying or dull

the only song I dislike is 'when i'm 64'. The rest are all at least good, and my standard for 'good' is mostly just that I'd enjoy it if I randomly heard it on the radio while driving, so basically, 90% percent of Beatles songs are at least 'good'.

This is the only Beatles album which, played front-to-back, makes me like the idea of the Beatles as an album act, partly because it's so stuffed with sound and nothing sounds quite like it should.

I'll say 8. These days I skip Within You, When I'm 64, and Mr Kit, as well as the title track and reprise. I love everything else, particularly Rita, Good Morning, and Getting Better, I feel like those are underpraised songs that have a really good kind of sparse, weird, LSD infused feel to them/

"Good" seems a low bar. They're all at least good in context, and a few endure as lifelong personal favorites. When I was eight, I would have insisted that every track is BRILLIANT - with the possible exception of "Within You Without You", which baffled me.

Come on, guys, this is a good album. Overrated, sure. But, really, I don't want to skip any of these songs.

The tape shit on mr kite is so spectacular

the good thing about this album is you can tell it's shit because the cover is also shit

oh my god, so many xxxposts but hearing the mono version of this record COMPLETELY changed my opinion of it. the old stereo mix is garbage

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7

I love when the news media talks about music. This album was described as 'edgy and experimental' on Sky News this morning. "When I'm 64" wasn't mentioned by name but nonetheless...

I skip Leaving Home / Mr Kite / Within You every time I play this album. Home and Within are too slow and draggy, and Mr Kite is psychedelia in search of a melody.

Lets do how many good songs on Be Here Now next.

Sgt P, WaLHFMF, Getting Better, Fixing, Sgt P Reprise, DitL - Good, I like
Lucy, She's Leaving, Within You, 64 - Good, but I don't particularly like
Mr. Kite - not that good, but I like it
Lovely Rita, Good Morning - not good, don't like

So 9 I guess.

o.nate correct, u nitpickers

WYWY absolutely works in context: amid the character sketches, George's Eastern foray puts them in a grand scheme. You don't have to like it, of course.

i'm listening to the whole album for the first time right now

IT'S A TRAP

I have no regrets b/c I'd never heard "Fixing A Hole" and now I have

When you're done with that one, check out the George Burns cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC0q8OEfM7g

I forget who covered WYWY – Dionne Warwick?

You don't have to like it, of course

Phew, what a relief.

I like George Burns' version tbh.

xxxp wait, isn't that the album we're listening to

... of Fixing A Hole, I don't think he did WYWY too.

a whole album of WYWY covers

haha i was gonna post Burns' version to FB imminently

are there any good "Day in the Life" covers besides The Fall?

Robyn Hitchcock has a good one

fyi Within You Without You is the best song on the album

thinking about the title of that song doesn't it have a strong sexual connotation?

My favourite part of WYWY is the snorting laugh track at the end. Must have been Lennon.

I went for 7. Never liked the title tune.

I agree with akm upthread

Sgt. Pepper is such a cohesive, conceptual statement that it seems wrongheaded to regard it as a collection of individual songs — it's more of a hyperambitious suitelike pomo performance art piece disguised as a conventional pop record

...and that performance art piece just happens to suuuuuuuuuuck, so I voted '0 good songs'. The Beatles can fuck off afaic

http://i.imgur.com/UzNOilj.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhcyWLORes

lol

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