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Rating: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With a Little Help from My Friends
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Fixing a Hole
She's Leaving Home
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Within You, Without You
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Good Morning, Good Morning
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
A Day in the Life
Among all the masterpieces recorded by the Beatles, I feel like starting to review here among you, the worst album by the Fab Four: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band", the eighth Beatles album in five years.
It is no secret that the four used acids and the like, and with this album they show the damage that drugs cause to the brain, damages very similar to those a good lobotomy can cause.
Probably, it was by realizing the enormous mountain of dung they had written that our four disguised themselves by announcing themselves at the beginning of the record as the Sgt. Pepper's Club Band (it was probably the record companies that didn't want to tarnish the good name of the Beatles)
Even the recording presents flaws, indeed note that between the first track and the second (With A Little Help From My Friends) there is no break, as if it were a little work recorded in the rehearsal room just to spend an afternoon in acid cheerfulness..
Let's move on to the dreadful "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds": now, it was clear they wanted to make an anthem to LSD, but at least do it properly! The bass, horrendously out of time, played by a bassist who now thinks more about skirts than notes, is almost covered by lyrics as crazy as they are empty. And speaking of lack of content, how can we not mention the atrocity of Lennon with "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!", starting from the exclamation point in the title.. what does it represent?!?!? Why?? Here, however, we compensate for the lexical ramblings with a hodgepodge of noises passed off as music (totally unrelated and out of any logical scheme).
God save us! Finally, something decent arrives: good old George Harrison patches it up with "Within You Without You", the only true flag of the record where Eastern and Western cultures blend into a sublime mix. However, this pleasant feeling is abruptly interrupted by "When I'm Sixty-Four", probably the honky tonk style is a blatant tribute to the saloon-style brothel where Lennon was conceived.
Just as Lennon-esque is "Good Morning, Good Morning" a track that seems to have come out of a local network commercial at 6 o'clock in the morning (when the 899 commercials just ended and they still don't know which programs to start). Realizing that, besides being unlistenable, it was also short, as the penultimate song, they place a reprise of the first, slightly changing the words so that the stoned listeners wouldn't notice.
As if everything else wasn't enough, the agony ends with "A Day in the Life", in which Sir Paul sings irreverently about his love for a British MP who died in an accident shortly before.
As evidence of the negligence of our guys on this record, towards the end of the fade-out when the sound fades, a rustle of papers and the creaking of a chair can be heard, noises that no one bothered to cut.
In short, the Beatles did create masterpieces... but they could definitely have spared us such an unworthy abortion like this one... and even today, I can't fathom how some people dare to call it a record, even Wonderful, not realizing that they have in their hands the sickly vomit of four delirious drug addicts.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (03:30)
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Aaaaaah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds...
05 Fixing a Hole (02:39)
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
I'm filling the cracks that ran though the door
and kept my mind from wandering
where it will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right where I belong
I'm right where I belong
See the people standing there
who disagree and never win
and wonder why they don't get in my door
I'm painting the room in a colorful way,
and when my mind is wandering
there I will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong
I'm right where I belong
I'm right where I belong
Silly people run around
they worry me and never ask me
why they don't get past my door
I'm taking my time for a number of things
that weren't important yesterday
and I still go
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
where it will go
I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
08 Within You Without You (05:07)
We were talking
about the space between us all
and people who hide themselves
behind a wall of illusion
never glimpse the truth
then it's far too late
when they pass away
We were talking
about the love we all could share
When we find it
to try our best to hold it there
with our love, with our love
we could save the world
if they only knew
Try to realize it's all within yourself
no one else can make you change
And to see you're really only very small
and life flows on within you and without you
We were talking
about the love that's gone so cold
and the people who gain the world
and lose their soul
They don't know, they can't see
Are you one of them
When you've seen beyond yourself
then you may find
peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come
when you see we're all one
and life flows on within you and without you
10 Lovely Rita (02:44)
Lovely Rita meter maid
Lovely Rita meter maid
Lovely Rita meter maid
nothing can come between us
When it gets dark I tow your heart away
Standing by a parking meter
when I caught a glimpse of Rita
Filling in a ticket in her little white book
In a cap she looked much older
And the bag across her shoulder
Made her look a little like a military man
Lovely Rita meter maid
may I inquire discreetly
When are you free to take some tea with me
Rita!
Took her out and tried to win her
had a laugh and over dinner
Told her I would really like to see her again
Got the bill and Rita paid it
Took her home and nearly made it
Sitting on a sofa with a sister or two
Oh! Lovely Rita meter maid
where would I be without you
give us a wink and make me think of you
Lovely meter maid
Rita meter maid
oh, Lovely Rita meter, meter maid
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By Aerith
The most beautiful track on the album is the closing one: A Day In The Life is perhaps one of the most beautiful and modern songs by the Beatles.
She’s Leaving Home still manages to move me, blending perfectly in the myriad of bright lights and colors of the album.
By waties
"’A Day In The Life’ is the masterpiece above another 4-5 masterpieces, I seriously wouldn’t know how to define it."
"It’s like going to the theater and seeing 4 strangely dressed guys doing strange things singing natural, human music."
By Sanjuro
The whole class watches him squirm like a Houdini of the urban underclass, the new feminist girls then... kick the male chauvinist bear and spit rains down everywhere.
Davide X instead of lady laxatives could have found with unchanged results... a copy of the already much-mentioned Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
By vellutogrigio
Although inferior to contemporary "hard" rock songs by The Who, Rolling Stones or Kinks, it perhaps has the merit of introducing this kind of music to less attentive listeners.
A masterpiece that seems to have no weak points... you won’t hear it played in any dance entertainment for sixty-year-old professionals. Chapeau.
By enbar77
"Sgt. Pepper’s should be protected by an impenetrable case to avoid attacks from any deterrent agent of natural or artificial origin."
"Anyone who loves rock music and beyond MUST own ‘Sgt. Pepper’s.’"
