Worst Beatles song on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Yeah, cos Lennon would never write an annoying lyric.

Yeah George Martin always said the chorus was a letdown after hearing the verses too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wau, title track hate! I don't ever listen to it independently of the rest of the album, but it + the reprise are what I look forward to when I do.

confused as to how getting better managed pretty much the same number as day in the life o_O

disgusted by how many people voted for She's Leaving Home which is the best song on the record.

yeah, something smells fishy...is it me or are the results not seeming to reflect the comments that precede them? hmmm......

Moodles post upthread about "64" deserves an OTM.

disgusted by how many people voted for She's Leaving Home which is the best song on the record.

^^^^^^^

confused as to how getting better managed pretty much the same number as day in the life o_O

listening tip: listen to "Getting Better" on headphones

disgusted by how many people voted for She's Leaving Home which is the best song on the record.

^^^^^^^

― iatee, Monday, September 28, 2009 3:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Happy that "Within You Without You" didn't come first/last. (And happy about the several folks upthread who like that song now but didn't before.) Nick's right, that instrumental middle section is awes.

Still, 20 votes is too high!

I can understand people voting for "When I'm 64", which is really nothing special. But those voting for "She's Leaving Home" haven't really understood anything at all.

Haven't understood anything at all of what? You're perpetually insane melody-fascism?

in other pepper news, lucy in the sky, r.i.p.

I feel bad now.

and in further news, i possibly should have listened to 'getting better' again before voting

I'll say!

well tbh thinking about it, it's between 'getting better', 'fixing a hole', 'she's leaving home', and 'when i'm 64' sheerly by dint of being *slightly* less brilliant than the other tracks...fucked if i know which one i'd choose out of those 4

lucy in the sky with diamonds is a fucking superb piece of music, and the chorus is GREAT, especially in the OH MY GOD AMAZING FADEOUT which is one of the best things the beatles ever did, the way those sitar chimes ring out over the infinitely repeated refrain is just godlike

it chills my marrow to see 9 individual music-loving people vote for 'lovely rita'

Today I've been loving 'Good Morning Good Morning' and the reprise. It's odd that such a record should have a forgotten corner, but that's what they feel like.

au contraire, the record's post-64 speed to the finish is and always has been joyous

t chills my marrow to see 9 individual music-loving people vote for 'lovely rita'

― should probably be practising shorthand (country matters)

But tell us, how do you really feel?

well there's not SUCH a big difference between any of the songs on this record (except LSD, WYWY, GMGM and Day In The Life being maybe a bit better than the others) so a bit of subjectivity is allowed for i guess

'lovely rita' really wants to please you tho, it's not the best thing here but it really wants you to like it, more than any other song here, it just wants to be your friend, how can you vote for it :(

She's Leaving Home is boring

After 25 years, I feel like I finally 'get' this album. I always thought it had good songs on it but thought it was 'overrated'—man, was I wrong. It is really just 100% nuance and beauty in the production, thematically brilliant, great songwriting, everything!

except "day in a life" - everything is boring here

I finally "got" it too when I listened to the mono version.

I can't explain why, but instead of it being this overrated checkpoint from b/w to color, it just naturally sounded more like Revolver II.

It is really just 100% nuance and beauty in the production, thematically brilliant, great songwriting, everything!

OTM!

I listened to it twice today. There are no worst songs.

Good Morning, Good Morning is kinda weak too

^^^ Crazy talk

I really consider myself lucky to have been introduced to this via my parents' battered vinyl copy - stereo, but still, the first time I heard the old 80s CD issue I seriously did a double take. It's a completely different album and not a third as good, seriously. Can't imagine liking it the way I do if that's the way I'd heard it most of the time.

What blocked me from liking it for a while was the sleepiness of the middle songs - the energy of the opening just seemed to fade to nothing. Now those songs seem like the key to its magic. They're what create a sense of depth.

It's also nice house painting music. "Fixing a Hole" made sprucing up my grandparents' basement this morning seem romantic.

Good Morning, Good Morning is kinda weak too

Just the animals alone coming in natural order ending with a chicken that sounds like the first note of the reprise, get the hell out of here troll.

Unfortunately this is an album I played the HELL out of for a very specific window of time at around age 16, so basically when I hear it I involuntarily hear the dungeon rattles and smell the market streets of a lightweight and addictive MUD I was hooked on at the time.

Even John Lennon thought Good Morning, Good Morning sucked. Best song: Fixing a Hole.

THIS version of Good Morning Good Morning does not suck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJmo3LiP3Zs

just saying

GM, GM might be my favorite song on the album. I'm not even counter-trolling.

Expressing an opinion that others disagree with = trolling

WTF

Eh, just busting yr balls a bit.

I just fkin love the guitar, and the crazy abrasive sound of the horns, and yes the animal sounds.

Don't get hating on GM,GM at all, the solo is searing, the drumming is spot-on, and Lennon's multitracked, queasy, weird, "I'VE GOT nothing to say but it's o.k" is so perfect.

Don't like: 64, Lovely Rita, GM, GM.

Not crazy about: Lucy, Within You Without You.

Everything else is various shades of fantastic

HIDDEN GEM: Fixing a Hole

i've still never heard of Meet The Wife outside of the context of GM GM. i don't even know if it was a real TV show.

Macca is so great on GM, GM. Sure, the bass, but as the Doctor points out: that guitar break! I love his stupid flashy leads sometimes.

Meet The Wife (starring Thora Hird) was real! That is...all I know about it.

go to the show, hope she goes

everything is closed, it's like a ruin