It was 40 years ago today....

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:58 pm

40 years ago.....say it ain't so Izz, say it ain't so.....

( that was probably my least favorite of their albums-don't know why but it just never grew on me....)

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:03 pm

cowtime wrote:40 years ago.....say it ain't so Izz, say it ain't so.....

( that was probably my least favorite of their albums-don't know why but it just never grew on me....)

I'd say something snarky, like how I wasn't even a twinkle in me mother's eye when it came out, but I won't

As for the album, it's not my favorite either. I like Abbey Road much better. But it was cool to start the thread like that, don't you think?

djm · Post by **djm** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:07 pm

wiki wrote:40th anniversary re-recording

June 1, 2007 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The BBC has marked this occasion by organizing some of the biggest rock acts such as Oasis, The Killers, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, The Fratellis, Travis and The Zutons to re-record the album. The complete re-recording will be aired on BBC Radio 2 on June 2.[7]

I don't care how many times they try to rehash it, nor what band of losers they try to use to cover it, there's nothing that can compare to the original.

djm

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:49 pm

izzarina wrote:
cowtime wrote:40 years ago.....say it ain't so Izz, say it ain't so.....

( that was probably my least favorite of their albums-don't know why but it just never grew on me....)
I'd say something snarky, like how I wasn't even a twinkle in me mother's eye when it came out, but I won't

As for the album, it's not my favorite either. I like Abbey Road much better. But it was cool to start the thread like that, don't you think?

yes- w-a-y cool

Here's the first one I ever bought- paid $3. and some odd cents for the thing. That tells you when THAT was!

chas · Post by **chas** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:00 pm

I was going to start a thread like this.

Happy 40th, Sgt Pepper's!

Last weekend we had some friends over, and it was a beautiful summerish weekend, so I was listening to Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys when they showed up. They loved it, and I had to point out that John Lennon had said that if Pet Sounds hadn't been made, Sgt Peppers never would have been made.

Personally, I'm not sure I'd put Sgt Pepper's in the top half of my favorite Beatles albums, but it's a fine piece of work and I realize that much of the music-fan world doesn't feel the same as I do.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:02 pm

I remember... knocked my socks off. I worked in a dept store in college. Someone had a bottleg 4 track of it and we played Loudly in the parking lot afte rwor. ( around 10 o'clock or so).

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:32 pm

"Sgt. Pepper Taught the Band to Play..."

I never listened to that stuff... nooooooooo...

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:05 am

I remember getting the record for X-mas that year (I was 6), and it became, hell it still is, my favorite album of all time.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:07 am

Joseph E. Smith wrote:I remember getting the record for X-mas that year (I was 6), and it became, hell it still is, my favorite album of all time.

If not my #1, it's right the heck up there. The first time I heard it (I was, alas, 18, not 6) I was totally blown away. It was SO different from anything I'd ever heard, and every song was so different from all the others. There were some songs that I couldn't figure out WHY I liked them, but I did anyway. When the draft lottery started (Vietnam era) my number was 64

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Here's a good Sgt. Pepper editorial from the Washington Post (you may have to sign up to read it, but it's totally free)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01848.html

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:01 am

Nice article, BP. Thx for pointing it out.

djm

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:43 pm

Um... Have we forgotten the unforgettable? Think Peter Frampton 1979.
Now that was the way Sgt. Pepper was meant to be.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:40 pm

Flyingcursor wrote: Think Peter Frampton 1979.

No. Don't.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:44 pm

emmline wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote: Think Peter Frampton 1979.
No. Don't.

eeekkk!!!

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:45 pm

Denny wrote:
emmline wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote: Think Peter Frampton 1979.
No. Don't.

eeekkk!!!

That one might actually give me nightmares