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 enlarge | Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1182 reviews
Sales Rank: 160
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 077774644228
UPC: 077774644228
EAN: 0077774644228
ASIN: B000002UAU
Publication Date: 1987
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Condition: *** DISC ONLY *** Comes in a jewel case with NO original inserts. Scratched but plays fine. SHIPS NEXT BUSINESS DAY!! layton-1
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 car crash victims don't sing and play the bass October 3, 2008
1 out of 11 found this review helpful
Hi, my name's Scott, I'm 12 next spring I have been studying all Beatle litterature and theirown sleazy CDs and I have come to find without a single shotgun doubt that PMC was really killed beyond reecognition after the infamous carcrash that took his life on wednesdaymnornnng at 9 o clock.
Listen, grandiose naysayers and other friends, you just can't go on pretending he's still the same today as he was buried on high farm in Scotland 'all those years ago'. Get over it 'Fans of the Past Age' - the man is really no more, he is exit, finito, passed on to the merry pastures, he's friggin dead.
See why Heather Mills was so upset when she found out she married an imposter.
Cheers Bob, here's to ya!
Scott
car crash victims don't sing and play the bass October 3, 2008
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hi, my name's Scott, I'm 12 next spring I have been studying all Beatle litterature and theirown sleazy CDs and I have come to find without a single shotgun doubt that PMC was really killed beyond reecognition after the infamous carcrash that took his life on wednesdaymnornnng at 9 o clock.
Listen, grandiose naysayers and other friends, you just can't go on pretending he's still the same today as he was buried on high farm in Scotland 'all those years ago'. Get over it 'Fans of the Past Age' - the man is really no more, he is exit, finito, passed on to the merry pastures, he's friggin dead.
See why Heather Mills was so upset when she found out she married an imposter.
Cheers Bob, here's to ya!
Scott
 Doesn't Seem To Be Holding Up Well October 2, 2008
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
I wanted to start this review out by stating that this is mostly of value as a historical document. But, after having listened to Beethoven, Haydn, and Richard Wagner today (all of whom truly DO hold up after 125-plus years), I had to change my mind. This is mostly fluff: I-V based junk that on his worse day Mozart would have been embarassed to own up to.
The Beatles were mostly their producer, George Martin. Martin assimilated the advances in recording techniques that were used on truly great recordings like the Georg Solti-conducted Ring Des Nibelungen cycle and applied them to the mostly folk-derived musical structures of the Beatles. Without Martin, the Beatles were doing pretty much what Elvis and Little Richard did back in the '50's. And then, not even that good.
"Day in the Life" is the only thing on here that seems to be worth much, and even that shows obvious Martin touches throughout. In fact, he should be making royalties to this day, as he was just as much a writer of these tunes as Lennon/McCartney.
I realize that alot of people love this album, but if I were to direct anyone to buy just one Beatles album, I'd have to choose the White Album; at least the playing of the musical instruments at times rises above the level of junior high school. But even there the production dominates.
It's really obvious why the Beatles stopped touring. Think about it.
 Unquestionably One of The Greatest Albums Ever Released September 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only was Sargeant Peppers one of the greatest albums ever released but it also proved at a time when The Beatles were thought to be finished - dried up and all out of ideas - they were just getting started. The drama surrounding this album couldn't have been scripted any better if it had been a full length feature film. Take a rock band which had become the biggest and best of all time and had the world at its' young feet. Every album that they put out was critically and generally accepted as important with every song on each a gem in and of itself. Add to that the incredible cultural influence The Beatles had on the world and I do mean the entire world. They were bigger than life itself. There was so much press on this band constantly from the beginnings of Beatlemania right on up to the eve of Sargeant Pepper's release. It seems as though by the time the lull between The Beatles' last release (Revolver) and their then future release of Sargeant Peppers had extended itself, everyone was pretty much listening for the fall. You know the adage: the bigger they are the harder they fall? Rumours were spreading that The Beatles didn't have any more ideas. The logic was that no one could sustain the kind of career these 'boys' had sustained for that long and still have anything new or worthwhile to say. The rumours were helped by the long silence from The Beatles after Revolver. It did seem like aeons at the time, since they had released Revolver and given their prodigious production through the years, it just wasn't like them to "slow up" like that. In retrospect, McCartney claims that he had relished the press comments about The Beatles being finished and dried up, etc. at the time. This because he of course, was privy to what The Beatles were doing in the studio and the direction they were taking. Indeed, his personal attitude was, 'just you wait'. Of course, history tells us that The Beatles were far from being dried up and the praises which followed its release were astounding. Again the band that had changed life for everyone in the world, especially the young, were doing it again. Sargeant Peppers was the work of a very confident (maybe even cocky) band who refused to allow themselves to become prisoners of their own successes. So many could have and would have lived on their laurels having had one tenth the success these guys experienced. And quite frankly, it could have been justified if they had. However, The Beatles was a living, breathing, and growing organism the entire time of their existence. When they couldn't grow anymore, they imploded and that implosion served their position in history very well. They never became the parodies of themselves that it would have been so easy to become. They came, they sang, they went! Sargeant Peppers was another hallmark album in the string of those already achieved by the band and those which were still unborn but coming. If you haven't yet, you must. Don't miss out on what is still an incredibly enjoyable, wonderful album full of some of the greatest songs ever written. Again, like all things Beatles, there are no throwaway songs on this album.
A masterpiece! A turning point in pop culture! September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
People who are too young don't realize what a turning point in pop music history this album was. Released in June 1967, it changed the way musicians and people as a whole looked at albums. Before this release, with the exception of Revolver and Rubber Soul, most albums consisted of two or three hit songs and lots of filler. The Beatles raised the level of quality on albums to an art form. But the change was more pervasive. For better of for worse, it opened the gates for a new culture of drug-induced music. Let's face it, this album was a real experience under LSD, mescaline and even pot. The realm of time and space in a song form was creatively changed and also the concept of album art, production values and overall attitude. It was a landmark album, and although to many younger listeners it may seem dated, pretentious or weird, it was a historical cultural event that changed the course of pop music forever. It was said that it was influenced by Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys, another turning point in pop music. But Sgt. Pepper blew the lid off and made the "single", a thing of the past. Essential! An icon in music!
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