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

And yet he wrote the song when he was 14, wikipedia tells me. That strain of old-timey songs of Paul's (64, Honey Pie, You Gave Me The Answer etc) has been a constant throughout his career, interesting to see it was there right from the beginning

At least Paul made it to 64. Fuck cancer and psycho fans.

all songs about different aspects of day-to-day British life seen through the same winking mod/hippie lens.

Yep, and “Rita,” “Good Morning,” and “Mr. Kite” all end with, “By the way, I’m observing this while baked”: “Rita”’s reverb-drenched coda, the animals at the end of “Good Morning,” the randomly-cut-up organ in “Mr. Kite.”

I’m not an audiophile but listening to a clean vinyl copy of this on my parents decent stereo with really good headphones was an immersive experience for 8 year old me. Nothing since has sounded as good as that record did then.

I used to listen to my dad's copy on my GE foldout record player. I would immerse myself in the lyrics printed inside the gatefold cover as though they were a holy text.

Ringo sounds so awesome on much of this album.

I love the proto-Roy Wood overdriven horns in “good morning good morning”

proto-Roy Wood yes!

Ringo sounds so awesome on much of this album.

― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), T

Particulary on "A Day in the Life" while John goes ayyyyyyyyyyy-ahhhh

Enjoying a really nice headphone listen to this album r/n, prompted by this revive. For the first time I'm really noticing the stereo (it's my mom's old 60s copy that I grew up with, but I don't know if I've ever done the attentive headphone thing before), which can be pretty distracting in some places!

In my mind the album has a kind of unifying blanket of psychey haze, but it doesn't always. Some parts, like the verses in Lucy, feel oddly almost empty versus the versions in my head! If you can't also hear the stuff that's not there, I get how it could hit your ears as plodding. Good Morning Good Morning has WAY less punch this way, with the chorus just being this thing that happens rather than this enveloping wall of multitasked GOOD MORNINGS ringing out like electrified church bells. OTOH, being able to hear the seams between everything just makes it MORE trippy and unsettling that the lead guitar parts all over the album keep popping up out of the ground for a couple seconds before disappearing again...

But, I'm also noticing lots of specific sonic details that I'm loving! The reverb/decay on virtually everything. Some of the string arrangement on She's Leaving Home (especially under "waiting to keep the appointment she made"). The way Fixing A Hole could almost already be a Ram song, and A Day In The Life, at the beginning, could basically be a John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band song. Everything Ringo does for Getting Better. The charming little guitar part that sneaks into When I'm Sixty-Four in like the last thirty seconds. Lots of the bass parts. Just how good the album-concluding tone is as it sits there, becomes less about the hugeness of its arrival, and becomes, briefly, a womblike ambient wash...

Great album, no bad songs, but She's Leaving Home for "worst."

crazy talk, She's Leaving Home is the 2nd best track on the album after A Day in the Life!

^ that’s what I tend to think too. The only question is would it have been better had George Martin done the strings instead of Mike Leander.

Lovely Rita is a decent enough song, but the production, arrangement and performance elevate it so far above it's compositional worth it's ridiculous. The layered harmonies.. Parts of this song are aural bliss. There's really no need for it to sound this good, and I honestly think it's one of their best recordings.

I should add it's basically a skiffled-up George Formby song

When I'm Sixty Four is some Mr. Bean bullshit

I’ll be honest, “Within You Without You” is the one I’m most tempted to skip.

i am biased towards that one because sonic youth did the cover. takes all sorts...

Which one is the most Qanon song?

A Day In The Life clearly, it's all about getting redpilled in order to see through the fake news

of course it is possible that Mr. Kite is describing the antics that occur in the dungeon below Comet Pizza

Title track is Qanon bc it’s like the entire Beatles have been replaced by a simulacrum band

Crowley at the top of the pyramid

Which one is the most Qanon song?

― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 20:50 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

That would be the one where the singer says that everyone is blind and only he can see reality, quotes the bible, fingerpointingly accuses his date of being "one of them", and sounds like a member of a dangerous cult ("With our love, we could save the world, if they only knew")

Seductive music, but damn the lyrics are sanctimonious garbage. For all it's Mr Bean dinkiness, When Im 64 is at least based in closely-observed real life.

Also the best song.

I just listened to "Within You Without You" and realized I'd completely forgotten it and what I thought was "Within You Without You" was probably "The Inner Light" and even though I played 5 minutes ago I've forgotten it again.

Within You Without You is one of those songs that I'm glad is on the album but don't actually want to hear much. File with Black Angel's Death Song, Aumgn etc.

As for the worst song, I don't think there are any bad songs but yes, When I'm 64 is the throwaway one here. Not a huge fan of Paul's old-time songs.

I don't know, WYWY kind of sums up what I think about this album, it's extremely well arranged and produced but, as a song, it's just not really up to snuff.

Harrisongs annoy me so I’ll say he was the Q Beatle

This thread took a fucking bizarre turn.

context:

Absolutely shrieking over QAnon discovering the Beatles pic.twitter.com/nBn9L9VRz1

— LeiHouse Of Horror IV (@leilaclaire) December 7, 2022

Revolution #9 has got to be the most Q Anon, right? Illusionary patterns and whatnot.

surely it's the song about how paul was dead

The walrus was Q