Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Feels churlish knocking this as it's amazing, but too many Paul tracks and a weak George contribution make this feel unbalanced. Just imagine if they hadn't been under pressure to put a single out, so Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were on here instead of Within you Without you and Lovely Rita. Then I think less than a 5 would sounds stupid.

Je n'ai absolument rien à déclarer au sujet de cet album, un peu à la manière de Messi lorsqu'il était interrogé sur Griezmann.

Oh boy, another Beatles album. Ironic to follow the best album titled Let It Be. Yea, suck it Beatle fans. The Replacements are better. Much better. As you can tell, I dislike the Beatles. But I do like a good portion of this album. Probably because I remember watching the movie with the Bee Gees! I also remember being shocked to see Barry hit off a joint during the song A Day In The Life. Come on, I was only 10 at the time. A Day In The Life ranks near the top of all the songs I enjoy by these guys. Nice to hear from Ananda Shankar again in With You Without You. I ripped that guy back on album #64 and yet I have mentioned him in 7 of my reviews. Serious, I did a search. I owe him an apology as I think of him quite often. I retroactively give his self titled album a 5. As for this album, I'll go with a 3. That's about as high as I can go go anything Beatle. 3

It flows great, its got a diverse assortment (looking at George’s Indian music) and is a real standouts of the time, but i gotta be honest its far from my favourite beatles album and i only care for the few tracks being my standouts. Standouts are Lucy and A Day in the Life.

Ok album, some good classics, indian vibes, and the late 60's vibe I usually like is there too. Globally a bit tasteless for me but understandable why it was so much appreciated back in the days

A very interesting listen. It feels very exploratory and like the soundtrack to a fantasy film

I'm almost tempted to rate it less, simply because I fear the halo effect of this record is influencing the way I listen to it. Sure it's a good record, and it's serious and funny, witty and a bit stupid at the same time. But it's not fantastic.

7/10 That was my 2nd listen to this album and I don't know, it's pretty good, but somehow it leaves absolutely no impression on me, either good or bad.

i dunno if i should rate the albums but i guess this one was a 7/10 for me

All albums from the Beatles have good and bad songs. In my opinion the best songs in Sgt. Pepper's are the ones you'd expect: With a Little Help from my Friends, and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. If the album contained only those two songs, I'd consider it worth buying. Throw a Within You Without You for the Indian funny noises and you can pretty much keep all the other songs out. Okay, perhaps keep the intro and outro tracks. There you go, simplified Beatles.

I just don't get it. A few moments of inspiration surrounded by novelty nonsense. This may have been great at the time but as a work of music now it's pants.

mid - rock, it’s not bad bc it’s the beatles but i’m just not super into this concept or style, i like “lucy in the sky with diamonds” , “within you without you” and “a day in the life”, the rest range from fine to unenjoyable. i’d listen as background music but prob not

I've never heard of them.

While this is their "best" rock album. It pales in comparison to their Boy Band era, which had their best music

Not for me

The hype is justified. This is a fantastic album and the deep cuts were much better than I expected. A concept album in every sense of the word, and one of the best to do it. The sounds here are far-ranging and creative yet the songs do add up to a cohesive whole that is a delight to listen to. 5/5.

Always happy to listen to this. I think this was one of the first albums I owned on vinyl. Bought from some weird guy in my hometown (with my parent's help) from somebody who had placed a newspaper ad selling his records. Undoubtedly overpaid at the time because it was when the Anthology mini series and box sets were just coming out.

There are others albums but this is pretty much a perfect album for me and one I would consider in my top 5 of all time. This album for when it was made STILL BLOWS MY MIND. I think the fact that this album doesn’t have the singles “Strawberry Fields Forever” & “Penny Lane” and is still great says everything I’m a John Lennon fan but this is Paul McCartneys masterpiece when it comes to trying to make this cohesive concept. His first two songs “Sgt Pepper….” And “With A Little Help From My Friends” (sung by Ringo) are the most that have this theme of a fictional band. Next up we have Lennon’s track “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”, which Is a psychedelic MASTERPIECE. The chorus isn’t the best part but it’s good, those verses are pure MARMALADE. McCartney slams it out of the park with his next three “Getting Better” , “Fixing A Hole” , and the beautiful “She’s Leaving Home”. “Getting Better” is great cause it shows McCartney and Lennon optimistic and pessimistic attitudes. McCartney singing “It’s getting better all the time” with Lennon saying “It can’t get no worse”. Perfect showcase of their songwriting and world views “Fixing A Hole” i do not have much to say but it’s another fun song and love the sound of it. Great lyrics from Paul “She’s leaving Home” is a sad and uplifting tale of a daughter leaving her parents behind. McCartney sings the story through the young girls eyes but Lennon’s background vocals on the chorus show the perspective of the parents. It’s a really well rounded ballad After those three we have the circus inspired “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite”. When I think Psychedelia this song comes to mind. This is another CLASSIC from Lennon. It’s sounds blow my mind and it’s Just has that circus feel. Lyrically it is genius again Next we have the first and only George Harrison song. “Within You and Without You”. This is just Harrison with Indian musicians. This song probably has the most to say about Life itself. It’s a song about Life and Death, and finding yourself through the journey of it all. Some of the best lyrics and underrated song. I’d have some of these lyrics on my tombstone. It’s that POWERFUL After the Heavy emotional song Harrison gave us ,McCartney changes the tune to something a little happy and sweet with “When I’m Sixty-Four”. This is the best of the 3 I’m About to mention. It’s when McCartney “Granny” music works the best Now these next Two is where the album kinda does run out of steam A bit. Of course still The Beatles but these are definitely worst material on here “Lovely Rita” is decent and is catchy but maybe the production isn’t there on this song. Still like the song but this and the next song are definitely the worst amongst the album “Good Morning Good Morning”- Lennon has had two Masterpieces in my eyes on his last two songs. However this isn’t it. This comes off like a left over track from “Revolver” and it’s just decent. Even as a Lennon fan I know this song is a throw away. We try to tie the concept back up with a reprise of the title track and on to the Final song “A DAY IN THE LIFE”. This is the GREATEST Beatle song the ever made. This is LENNON with his Opus magnum. Lyrically and musically it’s a beautiful track of these little vignette storylines. It has some psychedelic imagery in a way but it’s really just word play stuck in REALITY . It goes crazy for a few seconds and then McCartney comes in with a little ditty in the middle to spice things up and after a crazy another orchestral movement we come back to Lennon to finish this track off of this flipping through Newspaper tale. Amazing song. Can hardly be described. It’s final Note after the Orchestration hits the Nail Home. Probably could spent whole review writing just about this ONE song This album is a 6/5 Even its couple lesser moments would be any other bands GREATEST moments. This is the Beatles at their height. They never got any better than this. Thank You Paul McCartney, John Lennon , George Harrison & Ringo Starr for this album.

One of the greatest albums of all time. Hot take - I do not think Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a good song. I always skip it. But everything else is good enough to cover for it and still make this a five star album.

Yup, this is pretty good.

I have heard just one more whole Beatles album before, Rubber Soul, which was also great, but I enjoyed Sgt. Pepper a little bit more. Maybe it was about the day that I listened to each of them. But now I can say that the Beatles are legendary for a reason.

Timeless.

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An album that I know very well, but if course I had not sat down and listened to it for years. I know the stories behind the songs, the recording methods - and still, on this sunny morning sitting on a balcony in Porto, it sounds fresh and joyful. One of the best books about the Beatles is by Stuart Maconie - With A Little Help From Their Friends. It has a chapter each on people who were around the Beatles, and who influenced them, from the obvious Brian Epstein to various Liverpool music scenesters, from Jane Asher to Eleanor Bron. 5 stars, tipped to the top for the very pleasant surprise of hearing the striking Within You, Without You.

The useful thing about the fictional Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is that the Beatles barely bother maintaining the fiction. There is no elaborate narrative in which Billy Shears develops a character arc, no coherent imaginary concert preserved from beginning to end, no particular reason why an Indian philosophical meditation, an escaped daughter, a traffic warden and a Victorian circus should all belong to the repertoire of the same fictional ensemble. If you judge the concept by that standard, they abandon it almost immediately. I think that misses what the concept actually does. Sergeant Pepper is an alibi. For forty-odd minutes the Beatles can stop asking whether anything sounds like the Beatles. They have announced themselves as somebody else, and that tiny act of imaginative disguise gives them extraordinary freedom. Harp, chamber strings, Indian musicians, close-miked brass, fairground organs, animal noises, music hall, tape collage, orchestral semi-improvisation: the identity expands until whatever emerges from the speakers becomes, by definition, “the Beatles”. Don’t blame us. Sergeant Pepper told us to do it. The other great achievement follows from that first one. Pepper is not unified by a consistent sound. It is unified by its confidence in changing sound. Again and again it walks into a room, establishes its rules, then abandons the room altogether. Eventually the listener gives up demanding stylistic continuity and accepts a much stranger proposition: anything may follow anything. The opening establishes this almost indecently quickly. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” does not merely paste audience noise around a rock song and call itself live. The synthetic concert is meticulously constructed. There is orchestral murmur, tuning, applause used as punctuation, McCartney reverting to his old stage-emcee role and, finally, the absurdly grand introduction of Billy Shears. Even his apologetic “we’d like to take you home with us” has something of the old touring Beatles about it; you can almost see Paul miming sleep to an audience while explaining that they really do have to play the last number and go. Ringo’s contribution immediately complicates the artificiality. His fills are enormous, strange and unhurried. A left-handed drummer playing a right-handed kit naturally finds routes around the drums that are not always the routes another player would choose, yet there is an almost spooky calm to the way he arrives at them. He does not sound as though he is showing off. He sounds as though this is simply where the song requires him to go. That becomes one of the album’s persistent tensions: almost fanatical construction balanced by musicians who keep the thing breathing. The join into “With a Little Help from My Friends” is so blatant once noticed that it is difficult to stop hearing the tape splice, but the visible stage machinery scarcely matters. Real concerts contain awkward introductions and changes of focus too. More interestingly, once Ringo starts singing, the crowd vanishes almost completely while the space remains. I went back to the 2009 remaster of the original stereo mix for this listen because later remixes change too much of the spatial evidence. In the original presentation the drums are a placed object rather than a modern stereo panorama, yet “With a Little Help” still feels unusually roomy for a Beatles recording. Reverb and arrangement create acoustic depth without simply widening everything. There is air between Ringo, McCartney’s bass and the answering voices. The title track has persuaded us that an imaginary hall exists; now the literal audience can disappear and the hall somehow stays behind. The crowd disappears, but the room doesn’t. And then even that residual live conceit evaporates as the record slides towards “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. I have never been entirely convinced by “Lucy” as a complete musical construction. The lyric is astounding: tangerine trees, marmalade skies, newspaper taxis, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Lennon’s great gift for precise nonsense creates a world that feels vivid without ever being obliged to make conventional narrative sense. But the verses and chorus strike me as two excellent ideas that never quite become one inevitable idea. The verse floats in its strange lilting suspension; three emphatic drum hits effectively announce that another song is about to begin; then the straight rock chorus arrives. You can retrofit an acid explanation onto that abruptness — altered perception, sudden wonder, dream turning to exclamation — and it is plausible. I am not sure it makes the join any less blunt. McCartney’s bass nearly redeems the whole structural problem by itself. His choices in those verses are astonishing, constantly nudging the harmony into less stable territory, behaving less like an underpinning than another imaginative voice inside the dream. And as the third track on the album, “Lucy” does something more important than perfect formal integration anyway. By its end, you no longer know what a Beatles album is allowed to sound like. They have achieved that in just over eight minutes. That is a fairly outrageous challenge to the rest of Western popular music: follow that. “Getting Better” initially feels almost like a palate cleanser. Bright, clipped guitars, obvious forward motion, a reassuringly legible McCartney pop structure. The phrase itself has the lovely Jimmy Nicol origin — suddenly drafted into Ringo’s place on tour, repeatedly reassuring people that things were “getting better”. It is not triumphal optimism so much as the language of adjustment: yesterday was worse; I am coping. Then the song becomes something else. Those cascading backing vocals briefly make everything feel even brighter before the arrangement suddenly hollows itself out around the admission of cruelty and violence. Tambura drone, reduced texture, something close to a 1960s version of the drop: the record itself seems to stop and stare at what has just been said. Wait… what? That is an astounding thing to hide in the last third of such an apparently cheerful pop song. The title stops meaning “life is going well” and becomes morally serious. Getting better means becoming less harmful. The song’s optimism acquires a past tense it cannot escape. Even the fade is meticulously arranged. A high rhythmic pedal keeps insisting above the movement beneath it, literally leaving the song repeatedly hitting one of its highest points. “Getting Better” ends on a high without ever making a fuss about the joke. Then comes that odd keyboard sound introducing “Fixing a Hole”, followed by delicate rim hits that suggest a half-remembered music-hall world. I immediately picture McCartney in a straw boater, white blazer with red stripes and a little cane. Put that costume on a peg; we will need it again. The lyric beneath the costume is almost absurdly perceptive. “I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in / And stops my mind from wandering…” is not simply whimsy about DIY. The wandering mind is not the problem. Wandering is the desired state. The problem is preventable interference with the mind’s ability to go where it needs to go. There is nothing clever about letting the weather in. The song proceeds with wonderful practical logic: repair the leak, paint the room colourfully, allow the mind to roam. Self-preservation is not withdrawal from life. It is creating the conditions in which imagination becomes possible again. And McCartney is 24. That fact becomes increasingly ridiculous as the album continues. There is a peculiarly Northern reflex around the Beatles that fascinates me here. They clearly understand that they are doing something unusual, perhaps exceptional, while simultaneously resisting the language of exceptionalism. There is always some version of: anyone could do this if they worked hard enough. It is obviously untrue in the literal sense, yet revealing as an attitude. The work is allowed to be extraordinary; the worker must not become grandiose about it. Craft, repetition, collaboration and application are preferable to a Great Man mythology in which genius descends from the heavens. The same 24-year-old then writes “She’s Leaving Home”. Mike Leander’s string arrangement has often been treated as a slightly schmaltzy diversion, particularly by an older rock-critical tradition that tended to define Lennon’s abrasiveness as authenticity and McCartney’s theatricality as suspect. I hear something much more exact. Leander’s arrangement is less cool than George Martin’s orchestral writing, less coloured by Martin’s love of Ravel and European orchestral texture, but its directness suits the drama. The harp does not merely make the song pretty. It marks time while Mother reads the note and comprehension slowly catches up. The strings worry and nag. As “Daddy, our baby’s gone” lands, they become almost a distress signal, a quasi-Morse-code agitation behind the words. Then three hard stabs before the final verse act like an editor’s razor blade. CUT TO: FRIDAY MORNING. The orchestra controls narrative time. The song itself changes as the listener ages. When you are young, your sympathies seem inevitably to belong to the girl slipping away with her handkerchief, escaping reproachful parents who apparently cannot understand her. Later, “we gave her most of our lives” becomes harder to dismiss as mere guilt. The parents believed sacrifice and provision were the same thing as understanding. They were wrong. Their grief is still real. The daughter’s truth is that she had to leave to become herself. The parents’ truth is that they built their lives around somebody they somehow never knew. Both truths can exist at once. Then, after all that close domestic drama, she is “meeting a man from the motor trade”, one of the most oddly perfunctory romantic lines imaginable. No grand declaration of escape, no glamorous future. An appointment. A man. A trade. She has not escaped into mythology; she has escaped into ordinary adult life. Then the mutant music box begins. “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” may be one of the queerest things the Beatles had yet put to tape. It lopes rather than swings, carrying something of Kurt Weill in its theatrical gait. Lennon performs the lyric less as a singer than as an MC who knows what is behind the curtain and is enjoying the fact that you do not. There is a twinkle in the eye and a twirl of the moustache. Dates, names, performers and logistical details give the absurdity a bureaucratic specificity. Henry the Horse dances the waltz. Well, of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz. By this point the album has trained resistance out of us. Then the middle section arrives and the fairground appears to suffer psychological disassociation. This is where the album’s studio freedom becomes genuinely frightening. The circus ceases to be depicted and seems instead to melt. Tape fragments whirl past, recognisable enough to remain fairground material but scrambled sufficiently to remove ordinary continuity. The effect is lysergically deranged. Then, beautifully, a pianist effectively tells everybody to pull themselves together. Order returns. Lennon’s MC resumes his patter as though nothing particularly alarming has happened. But it is too late. What has been heard cannot be unheard, and the MC has not finished yet. The last forty seconds scarcely belong to the vocabulary of a rock band at all. Less than a year previously, the Beatles were on Japanese stages pushing increasingly ragged versions of “Nowhere Man” through the exhausted machinery of touring. Now the studio itself appears to have liquefied. That is not gradual stylistic evolution. It is an artistic change of state. Flip the record over and any lingering idea that this is merely a very adventurous pop album is immediately threatened by “Within You Without You”. Side one has spent twenty minutes destabilising what you think pop music can contain. George Harrison opens side two by suggesting that everything you use to understand yourself may be inadequate too. The categories feel solid because we live inside them: self and other, ownership, ambition, individuality, separateness. George’s argument is that much of this solidity is illusion. “Without going out of my door…” is a complete reversal of the first side’s outward theatricality. After circuses, domestic dramas, imaginary concerts and altered streets, the real journey is suddenly presented as inward. More radically, perhaps the “you” making that journey is itself less stable than you assume. The middle section makes remarkably little attempt to translate Indian musical ideas back into Western pop grammar. This is not rock music wearing Indian decoration. For several minutes the piece submits to another musical logic. Towards the end, the glissando and low string figure almost detach the music from temporal certainty altogether before the tabla patiently re-establishes the cycle and George counts everyone back in. Mr. Kite melts the studio. “Within You Without You” nearly melts time. Then, after essentially informing us that ego and separateness are illusory and that we have misunderstood the nature of existence, the track ends with laughter. That laugh matters. Without it, the song risks erecting George Harrison, Enlightened Sage in place of the ego it has just dismantled. The laughter punctures the sermon. We are all nothing. …bit much, wasn’t it? And then, with almost indecent haste, McCartney puts the boater back on. The little woodwind introduction to “When I’m Sixty-Four” is comically prim after George’s metaphysical demolition. Lovely. Anyway, here is the next turn. This song has personal history for me. When I was seven or eight and beginning to show a serious interest in the Beatles, my mother went through the sheet music at the local library looking for something accessible. She knew “When I’m Sixty-Four”, I liked singing, and on the surface it seemed the obvious choice for something she could play while I sang. My mother was Grade Eight piano. The song nearly defeated her. Not technically in the conventional sense. She could hear it perfectly well. She could sing the whole thing internally without effort. The problem was reducing McCartney’s intuitive phrasing to counted time and then navigating the printed arrangement: repeats, exceptions, instrumental interruptions, little dropped chunks of time, phrases that looked much more awkward on the page than they ever sounded through the speakers. I remember her worrying at it for about half an hour with the same irritated thought repeatedly surfacing: Where’s the beat? “You’ll be older too” was the first point where she felt the song had become booby-trapped. The little break between “I could stay with you” and “I could be handy, mending a fuse” aggravated her further. Eventually, thoroughly exasperated, she put the Beatles away and ran through Sinding’s The Rustle of Spring instead. Chopin, she later remarked, was quite straightforward. That memory taught me something about McCartney long before I had the vocabulary for it. His “simple” songs frequently hide formal oddities because he was not a book musician constrained by the visual tidiness of notation. If a phrase needed another beat, it got one. If a thought ended early, the bar could effectively end with it. The ear follows the sentence; the notation is left to produce the receipts. Ringo is the ideal drummer for that approach because he is not primarily a grid drummer. He is a listening drummer. He follows the phrase, the vocal, the harmonic event. For me he may be the star of Pepper. Even on an album assembled with extraordinary studio precision, Ringo repeatedly introduces human elasticity. His tom fills can be enormous while remaining strangely relaxed. On “A Day in the Life” he approaches something like a jazz aesthetic — not jazz vocabulary, but jazz attention. He listens and responds. His placement is conversational. He allows space to exist. That human timing becomes crucial on a record so determined to manufacture impossible environments. “When I’m Sixty-Four” has its own miniature impossibilities. McCartney suddenly rolls the r around “grandchildren on your knee” in a distinctly un-English theatrical flourish, then confidently informs us that the grandchildren are Vera, Chuck and Dave. Vera, Chuck and Dave? What the fuck? The specificity is wonderful. Then the song becomes administratively forlorn: send me a postcard, drop me a line, state your point of view, indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely, wasting away. A plea that essentially means will you still love me? has been converted into correspondence management. Then comes the triumph: give me your answer, fill in a form, mine for evermore. Romance goes through the civil service and comes back stamped APPROVED. McCartney ends with a tiny, self-satisfied “woo”, while the woodwinds politely usher the act offstage. The boater worked. “Lovely Rita” immediately sounds absurdly modern by comparison. Even the odd electronic-sounding little intrusion feels like some primitive synthesizer from the future, regardless of the charmingly low-tech means used to make it. The opening has the hard, clipped confidence of pop that has not yet happened. It is also a perfect example of what might be called mundane street psychedelia. One broad difference between much British and American psychedelia of the period is their relationship with the ordinary world. American psychedelia can sound like enlightenment followed by outrage: now that we have seen through the bullshit, look how hostile and coercive reality is. Country Joe and the Fish embody that nicely — the Man forever appears somewhere in the altered landscape. British psychedelia often takes the opposite route. The ordinary does not necessarily become oppressive. It becomes strange. A traffic warden does not need to represent enforcement or the machinery of state control. McCartney simply thinks she is rather interesting. The piano drives “Lovely Rita” beautifully, and when George Martin starts getting smart-arse and acrobatic on the instrument it works because the entire track has already earned that mischief. McCartney’s bass underneath is typically fussy and agile, curling around the harmony instead of merely anchoring it. The street has become psychedelic without ceasing to be a street. Then comes a stretch of almost dead vinyl. Cockerel. What the fuck? “Good Morning Good Morning” begins where natural morning has already been colonised by commercial television. The cockerel sounds less like dawn than an advertising ident. “Good morning” itself behaves like a slogan being barked into the room. The song is restless, agitated and bored simultaneously. Its narrator passes time over breakfast with small talk while feeling that some larger world must exist somewhere beyond the table. He goes into town, the meter changes and the whole song turns inside out with his movement, but nothing is open. Home is tedious; outside is equally unpromising. This is boredom from a time before permanent contact. Not everybody had a telephone. You could go home and find something you did not want to watch on television, go out hoping somebody happened to be around, discover they were not, and come back again. Movement itself became a way of trying to force experience into existence. “Nothing to say, but it’s okay.” The song is saturated with stimulus and starved of meaning. Its arrangement therefore keeps searching for one more thing capable of snapping the narrator awake. The brass is absurdly close, not lush accompaniment but an irritant repeatedly shoved into your attention. McCartney’s guitar solo has the same angular, raga-like 1966–67 language as his solo on “Taxman”, clipped and impatient, as though the nervous system has grabbed the guitar. Then the animals take over. The original logic — each animal somehow threatening or superseding the previous one — scarcely needs to make zoological sense. The important moment is that extraordinary splice where the meow seems to turn directly into a bark, almost as though cat and dog occupy the same pitch for a fraction of a second and one species transforms into another. The song has finally started mainlining novelty. Then a count-in, Lennon’s impish, vaguely sinister “bye”, and the crowd returns. The reprise makes the architecture explicit again. All of this — domestic chamber drama, Indian metaphysics, traffic wardens, advertising neurosis, music hall, a psychedelic circus — has apparently been part of one fictional performance after all. The band sounds astonishing. Hotter and more physical than at the beginning, guitars biting, drums hammering, harmonies beginning to fray. Even the shameless truck-driver’s key change feels elegant because it does not create excitement; it ratifies excitement already present. Towards the end the fictional band sounds close to the end of its abilities. The concert has reached its climax. The curtain should fall. It doesn’t. Instead Lennon appears like a ghost with a guitar. “A Day in the Life” sounds less like an encore than something happening after the show has ended. Lennon’s voice is spectral now, stripped of the Pepper MC persona and the moustache-twirling menace of “Mr. Kite”. He simply begins relating fragments: death, newspaper, cinema, war, potholes. Ringo is magnificent. His drumming does not keep time so much as inhabit it. He answers Lennon, waits, rolls around his toms, finds places that seem inevitable only once he has occupied them. Then the orchestra begins to rise. This is less conventional orchestration than a species of performance art. The players are not merely reproducing a fixed musical object. They are given conditions, boundaries and a trajectory, then asked to create the event inside them. That recalls instruction-based performance work such as Dan Graham’s Performer/Audience/Mirror, which I saw reconstructed in Sheffield in 2009 with Iain Lee as performer, curated by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. The similarity is not stylistic. It is methodological: the instructions establish the work, but human performance produces its actual texture. The first crescendo feels like the doors of perception physically opening. Then an alarm clock goes off. Christ. I’m late for work. McCartney gives us a tiny vignette about waking, rushing, catching the bus, going upstairs for a smoke and sliding, with an almost knowing wink, into altered consciousness. “Somebody spoke and I went into a dream” is not merely narrative. It becomes an instruction to the arrangement. And the dream passage is damn near perfect. The orchestra gives it weight until the ordinary commute suddenly feels as though it has opened onto something immeasurable. This is British psychedelia again: cosmic revelation not on a mountain, but on the way to work. Then Lennon returns to discuss Blackburn’s increasingly intransigent pothole problem. That scale collapse is essential. After death, dream, orchestral apocalypse and perceptual expansion, we are back to local-authority infrastructure. Then Lennon looks at the number of holes in Lancashire roads and jumps, with sublime irrationality, to wondering how many would fill the Albert Hall. Pepper repeatedly refuses the simple opposition between ordinary life and transcendence. The ordinary becomes transcendent because somebody looks at it at the wrong angle. Then the orchestra rises again, and this time the trip feels bad. The first crescendo can be heard as opening. The second feels closer to annihilation. The same device returns with knowledge of where it can go, and the knowledge changes it. Then comes the chord. One enormous stable sound after forty minutes of instability. Ground. And then, finally, the engineers raise the faders as the chord decays. What ought to become silence reveals itself as room, noise, residue, physical recording. Silence was never silent. We simply had not been listening hard enough. That may be the most elegant final expression of what the album has been doing all along. A band need not be a band. A concert need not be a concert. A traffic warden need not be mundane. A leaking roof can become a philosophy of self-preservation. A circus can become psychological horror. A commute can become transcendence. The self may not be what it thinks it is. Even silence contains something. Sgt. Pepper is not great because the fictional-band concept holds the album together. The fiction does something far more useful: it removes the need for the Beatles to hold themselves together in the old way. They pretend to become somebody else and thereby discover how enormous “the Beatles” can become. For 44 minutes they stop trying to sound like the Beatles. And almost everything becomes possible.

You can tell they had taken drugs by this point, and it paid off

FUCKIN YAAAAAAS HWFG WE ARE INDEED SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND YA BAMS Every song is a top bop fs one of the best albums ever

One of greatest ever.

Been a while since I have listened to this front to back. Really great songs, up there as one of my Beatles favorites.

- i mean yeah obviously it’s good - george i know you wrote within you without you - last song was so freaking sad why would you do that to me - idk what else to say because yeah it was banger after banger after banger

One of the best albums!

A este álbum no le quería poner 5 estrellas pero es inevitable. Cuando lo escuchas te das cuenta de la importancia e influencia que tuvo y tiene. De todas formas, aunque le doy 5 estrellas me parece que está un poco sobre valorado ya que hay canciones que no me parecieron memorables y tampoco me parecieron canciones a nivel de los Beatles. Mejor canción: A Day In The Life

9.25 no sabía que me iba a gustar tanto este álbum, por títulos de canciones no parece mejor que otros de los Beatles en mi opinión, pero es muy facil y entretenido de escuchar. Hay de todo un poco, temones de todo tipo y terminando con “A day in the life” que es un temón con mayúsculas. Puse .25 porque me gustó más que revolver, ambos discazos, pero este lo vi más unido no sé, hasta me vi la película.

Definately.one.of.the best albums.ever!

These are the Beatles in the middle of their prime. We got everything on this album. Some rock, some silly songs, some sad songs, some sweet love songs, some experimental songs, psychedelic stuff and Ringo. Just a brutally ambitious album as a whole. That of course also means there is not really a common musical theme it absolutely jumps here and there. Whats special about that is that the Beatles operated at the highest level in all of these styles. John, Paul and Ringo are at the peak of their games and George is getting there too its just great song after great song. Ending this genius mess of an album is the piece of art that is A Day In The Life. I don't know what else to say about it other than it's simply one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. I could say something to every song individualy on Sgt Pepper but let's just keep it compact and call it the masterpiece it is. One of my probably 20 most listened albums of all time for a reason. 4,9/5

Day981 - top tier album by arguably the most influential band and gotta be one of the most iconic album covers ever

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Obviously very familiar with this. Love it from beginning to end. My second favorite Beatles' album after Revolver.

Obviously a major banger and masterpiece.

It's a landmark album and definitely deserving of its reputation. When I was really getting into The Beatles I wasn't sure if it was my contrarian nature, but I didn't consider this one of my favorites. I preferred Rubber Soul, Abbey Road... and even the song-for-song quality of Magical Mystery Tour. I think I appreciate it more now than I used to. Sgt. Pepper doesn't feel like what's become a traditional concept album. There aren't really recurring themes and characters -- just the reprise of the introductory track. But there's a sort of whimsy that connects the songs here. Even when it's fairly easy to tell which songwriter was the main contributor, the songs still flow together creating a whole that's more than the sum of its parts. I've listened to the whole thing quite a bit, but She's Leaving Home really struck me as a lyrical work of genius this time around. It's easy to sympathize with each character in this song -- nobody's totally right or wrong -- and I'm left with such a melancholic feeling. I don't really connect with George's contribution here, or Good Morning Good Morning even though I'm fine with both of them within the flow of the album. It all just hangs together so well. I enjoyed revisiting this. I think it will be interesting to see if my favorite Beatles albums list experiences a shuffle by the end of this project. I expect Sgt. Pepper to land somewhere near the bottom of the top 5... still a 5/5 record.

J'ai jamais écouté quelque chose qui se rapproche de ça. Enorme.

My favorite Beatles album. Such a rich album, full of amazing lyrics, Middle Eastern instruments and full blown orchestra music, this album is hard to beat. I’ve spent countless hours in dark rooms listening on headphones, but it sounds pretty great in the middle of the day on regular speakers too.

4.5

Some great songs, but the stylistic choices that made this album special are a bit lost in the modern era.

can def tell they were high out of their minds

I mean, what is there to say?

this is such a special album to me! it takes me right back to my early teenage days (just for the record: 2017, not 1967, lol), and makes me think that younger me truly was onto something, she definitely knew ball... anyways. sgt. pepper's, as a whole, has an incredible energy around it, almost as if it could take you through time and space. it is upbeat, it is relaxing, it makes you wanna sing along to the lyrics, it feels as if it's caressing your soul. not every album can say they achieve this beyond-reality feeling. i find side A to be pretty much perfect in that regard — even benefit of mr. kite, that i don't hate or think is bad but it's not one i listen to often, has this otherworldly sensation. side B is great as well, but i connect to it a little less. except, of course, for a day in the life, my favorite song in the album and one of my favorites in the whole beatles' discography. this song is magic in itself.

Nothing much needs to be said about this one

UHHHH. Tremendo disco. No hace falta ni que lo escuche. Ya me pone feliz de sólo ver la tapa del álbum, qué icónica. Es espectacular, prácticamente todos temones. Para muchos el mejor álbum de los de Liverpool, para mí no pero me encanta. Acá ya estaban full metidos en la psicodelia y se nota. Ni hace falta aclarar por qué van las 5 estrellas.

10/10 album, every song is a hit

I mean, yeah, it’s the Beatles creating, out of seemingly nowhere, some brand new sounds and styles that have been riffed, improved upon, and have transformed the landscape of music for everyone following it. Is every song an absolute undeniable banger? Not really. But a majority are really incredible and absolutely groundbreaking. I really like the Beatles, and even I get sick of singing their praises all the time for what their cool drug use and experimentation have done for music as a whole, but they deserve all the praise they get. That being said, yes, it’s an excellent album.

If I could give this more than 5 stars, I would. This is my favorite Beatles album. It has my favorite Beatles song on it, A Day in the Life. I also love the songs She's Leaving Home and For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. This is a no skip album for sure.

A triumph of pop music, one of the most important albums ever made, with some of the Beatles’ greatest songs. We hear the Beatles experimenting with recording techniques, harmonic material, and non-Western instruments. An early concept, a progenitor of prog rock. I’ve always loved “With A Little Help From My Friends,” but the crowning jewel is “A Day In The Life.” There’s a reason this album often tops rankings: it’s fantastic.

Easy 5 stars. Yes, it's a bit disjointed when it comes to cohesiveness. One song doesn't really lead into the next for most of the album. But it really doesn't matter. Each track is catchy, memorable, and has a unique flavor while still sounding like The Beatles. Been too long since I last heard it all the way through. Really glad it came up.

Not my favorite Beatles albume, but it's great none the less. I dislike the sitar stuff. I enjoy the sitar, but it fells misused in these songs.

An incredible album. I was honestly surprised at how many of my favourite Beatles songs were on this album. I don’t think I had ever listened to it all the way through. And it’s so consistently great. Catching you off guard in the best way with unique choices and songs. Lucy in the sky with diamonds with always have a special place in my heart. Love every song on this album. The Beatles are too good

It's a 5/5, but it's almost completely drained of interest for me, having heard it every single day of my life, it feels like. I love it: I can't really listen to it any more: it has formed every year of my ears: Thou hast conquered, O pale Lilipudlians.

Gema

This album lives up to everything that has been said about it, I have nothing new to add. Strong 9/10

Banger

A stone cold classic.

I used to just stare at this album cover as a kid. It was just so mystifying to try and understand all of the people and artifacts that adorn it. It’s a perfect representation of what’s to come. The mop-tops are no more. Instead, we see four Edwardian and psychedelic men that are boys no more. The music, tbe songwriting, and the mindsets have matured. Rubber Soul was a big step from Help!, Revolver from that, and Sgt Pepper and even grander and more outward one. It feels more sophisticated and outlandish. At the time, this was simply unsurpassed. As a concept album, I find it to being extremely convincing. The Beatles take on a completely different persona through this musical acts. It just doesn’t sound like them anymore. It’s heavier rock, chamber pop, Indian sequences, psychedelic trips, unhinged cereal commercials, and an avant-garde masterpiece to end it all. Front to back, it’s beautiful all the way through, but outside of just how it sounds, it’s historical accomplishment and quite possibly the most important and influential piece of musical work of all time.

All time classic - enough said.

real good no skip album

Definitely my favorite Beatles album.

Definitely their best album.

Yeah they're pretty good

Minor league Shrek core. With a Little Help, Lovely Rita might qualify. Long time since I last listened to this album. I think I’d relegated it to a second class of the Beatles anthology and I think maybe that still holds true. It’s not as encompassing as Abbey Road, as sonically impressive as Revolver or written as tightly as rubber soul. But it’s still hugely fantastic and of course monumentally important. I think I’d give it 4.75 stars if I could, just based on the fact that when I’m 64 through to good morning is a little ‘lite’ for my tastes. They perfect that ending trilogy on Abbey Road. But I’ll pop it up to a 5 because a 4 would be scandalous.

Greatest album of all time? I wouldn't even put it in the top 3 Beatles albums. Has some incredible moments and then some filler tracks too. Nice to revisit it though.

the boys did it again. 5/5

Can’t not give 5 stars, but do feel it sags a bit in the middle after the first 3 tracks in place of mostly just pleasant tunes, but maybe that’s just a familiarity thing since the first few are such classics. And then Day in the life drops in like a nuclear bomb at the end. That song has had enough said about it, all I’ll say is that I love the orchestra swells into chaos at the midpoint/end, particularly the way it transitions into Paul’s verse with the alarm clock. Hidden track feels like ominous foreshadowing of NUMBER 9 NUMBER 9

Awesome. Classic. Genius.

A lot of interesting sounds, and a very fun/unique concept overall. Very neat vibe!

absolute classic

Greatest album of all time

It really is extremely good. This list has made me honestly believe that the Beatles may be underrated.

It’s the Beatles

One of the great classics and a perfect album, of course.

All!

All

Every listen I have a new favorite song. What a strange and exciting listen.

So much to love about this classic, including that when Paul McCartney got a parking ticket, it inspired him to write a song about wanting to cop off with a traffic warden. I feel like “people with normal jobs can still be sexy and not just live lives of soul-crushing conformity” isn’t something you hear much in ‘enlightened’ 1960s pop. (Also, his guitar solo on Good Morning Good Morning is fire.)

One of the greatest albums ever. It encompasses so many different styles with songs you’ll remember the rest of your life.

Ah! Good. Have on vinyl too.

This was very enjoyable and I know my dad likes it a lot

Muy adelantado a la época, es conceptual, cuenta una historia, tiene grandes influencias, es uno de los mejores discos de la banda. 5/5

For the first time in my life, I cried hearing Ringo sing With A Little Help from my Friends. What else is there to say? Anti Beatles contrarians don't know how to fuck.

I know everyone's expecting me to glaze this album, and I just wanna make it clear this is NOT glazing, this is adequate reviewing for an all-time great album... Without further ado... Sgt Pepper is one of the very first rock concept albums ever made, and was a turning point in the beatles history where they decided to stop touring and focus full time on staying in the studio making music (and doing drugs). The range of this album is insane, especially for 1967. It's hard to call this album a "rock" album because this is really where the Beatles start to differentiate from the more mainstream sound (just guitars, bass, drums and keys) and start using every instrument they can (strings, sitar, reeds, brass, you name it). Songs like being for the benefit of mr kite and within you without you show off the true reaches of the Beatles post-touring range, with some of their most unique sounds yet. You can go from Indian inspired sitar, to music that makes u feel like ur at an evil circus, and then the next song is a beautiful string melody about a daughter leaving home, yet somehow it all makes sense together and sounds uniquely "Beatles-y". "With a little help from my friends" and "when I'm Sixty four" are two of my favorite Beatles songs. When I'm Sixty four is just the sweetest little tune about growing old with your loved one, and is just such a Paul mccartney song through and through (what's wrong with silly love songs?). And with a little help from my friends is ringo's single track where he sings on this album, and it's just such a sweet little tune, with a simply perfect bass line and backing vocals that understood the assignment perfectly. Getting better is an amazing song, another one of my favorites on the album, and I'm always happily singing along until the random third verse where he drops the line "I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" 😭 which comes out of left field for a jolly song about how things are getting better but that alone is not enough to ruin the song. It's followed by fixing a hole which is a song that's grown on me with age, I think it's a banger now. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and the albums intro I actually think are slightly overrated. While not bad, both tracks are very iconic in Beatles discography but neither are my favorite, I actually think the reprise of the title track is better than the intro. Lovely Rita is another sweet Paul Mccartney track, and good morning good morning is a great jolt you out of bed rocker to listen to when u gotta wake up at 5 am. Last but not least, A Day in the Life... I could have written this entire review about this song alone, which is truly one of the greatest songs ever written (Riley would say it's undebatably number 1). There is something so human about listening to this song. One of the few Beatles songs that needs the "pink Floyd treatment" to get the full effect (sitting in a chair in the middle of the room with your eyes closed feeling the music around you). From the two part melodies going back and forth between John and Paul, the lyricism, the crescendos, the final chord, it's truly the Beatles at their best, and couldn't be a better capstone for this album. I hope someone took the time to read this review, I know you all don't like the Beatles as much as I do but this band means a lot to me 🥹

This is more like the Beatles I know and love. I can make comparisons to Hard Day’s Night since we have listened to it already. Sgt. Pepper is flat out better. Superior song writing and more creative instrumentals. We get a what sounds like a full orchestra at some points, Violins, Cellos, wind instruments, french horns, sax, Trombones, tambourines, loops, organ and piano, and maracas. These help deliver banger after banger. I won’t go song by song because this review would be a book. I really enjoyed this album from start to finish. - Only issues I had were the fact that for Lucy In the Sky they spent over a third of the song repeating that very line, “Lucy in the sky,” even though I loved George’s performance on the guitar’s on this song. My other is with George’s song, Within You Without You, the song itself is one of my favorite tracks but it does feel out of place on the album. Favorite Tracks: - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club - With A Little Help From My Friends - She’s Leaving Home - Within You Without You - When I’m Sixty-Four - Lovely Rita - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club (Reprise) - A Day In The Life Rating: 9/10 (Rounding up to 5 Stars)

Classic. Truly. One of my top ten(?) albums of all time. I listened to some of this pretty loud and heard things I don’t notice before. I love when that happens. When I was 10 or so years old my parents let me start listening to their LPs. I gravitated pretty quickly to The Beatles, and especially this album due to its cover. I loved that LP so much that this album was the first or second CD I purchased with my own money. The other CD was Young MC’s Stone Cold Rhymin’.

Despite me thinking it’s a tad overrated, I think Revolver is more consistent, it’s still 5 goddam stars at least. The highs are higher than most bands could dream of. Or Dream Fox if you’re my predictive text.

The recent sentiment that Sgt Pepper is less than a 5 star album has baffled me. It’s obviously fantastic. My favorite Beatles album is Abbey Road (also one of my favorite albums), but this is 2nd.

90/100

Alright, my third go round with The Beatles this summer. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, what can be said about the album that hasn’t even said before. Many people say it’s the greatest album of all time, other people say it’s way overrated. What do I think? Honestly, I still think the album holds up really well. Would I say it’s the greatest album of all time or even the best Beatles album? Probably not, but I think that may be a matter of personal taste. Even saying that, this album just has an atmosphere that I haven’t seen from any other album. Going in, this is an album that I listened to a while ago and haven’t really went back to it since, so I did have a bit of nostalgia tied into it. After listening to it again, I feel like I can see it for why it is treasured as an incredible album, and also maybe why some people look back on it less fondly. Firstly, the production, which I believe to be the album’s greatest strength. The album feels massive in scale and the whole thing feels like a journey. The whole album benefits from this bombastic sound, but the album also feels grand even in the quieter moments. Songs like She’s Leaving Home, my first standout, doesn’t feel as loud as the rest of the album, but it still retains an emotional touch and the production helps it a lot, especially with the feeling between Lennon and McCartney’s vocals. On the other side of that, the big moments on the album do feel really big, such as the title track and A Day In The Life, two of my other standout tracks, with the latter being one of my favorite Beatles songs, both feeling huge in their own ways. Secondly, the performances. Everyone gets their own time to shine on the album, whether it be George with his Indian inspired Within You Without You, or Ringo taking lead vocals on With A Little Help From My Friends, my final standout track, the whole band really comes together on this album and it feels like they are working as a concise unit. Finally, like I said earlier, the atmosphere. This album just doesn’t sound like anything else I’ve listened to, and I feel like the variety of tracks has a lot to do with that. Whether it’s the jaunty When I’m Sixty Four or the psychedelic Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, the album has a way of making these songs that sound really different flow together in context. I can see why some critics retrospectively say that the album is bloated and that it simply rides on the praise that everyone seems to give it. Is it all the best songs that band ever made? No. Is it the best album ever made? I don’t think so, there’s a song about a hot meter maid for crying out loud, we’re not doing a ton of deep introspection here. Does it get over praised to the point of rebuke from people? Yes. Is it an experience I feel like everyone should check out at least once. Absolutely. I still believe that it is a thoroughly impressive and enjoyable album that should be listened at least once in your life. Do I like it? Yes. Even if it may not be the greatest album of all time like everyone says, in the end, that kind of comes down to taste, and even then, I believe this album is one of a kind. Now, me and the band have to get going to the next album.

I know why Brian Wilson felt so much envy he wanted to kill himself after hearing this album. It's paced well and even the simpler songs are catchy/fun to re-listen to. This is one of their albums I would put on and listen to all the way through. Mucho fun. Mucho love.

Really great recognizable songs along with deep cuts that are always rewarding to come back to.

It's a great album, from start to finish. It's better to listen to as a whole. It's a fantastic classic and not even their best.

Outstanding. They always said that Sgt Pepper strays from its concept, but this listen revealed to me that the concept is how weird life is as a Beatle in 1967. It's a carnival of pantomime characters on the verges of showbiz surrounding four guys struggling to make sense of the chaos?

I've loved The Beatles my whole life. This album is such a wild ride filled with amazing songs (She's Leaving Home, When I'm 64, A Day in the Life are my favorites). Maybe not my favorite album of theirs, but it's still a 5 star classic.

There really isn’t much left to say about 𝘚𝘨𝘵. 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘶𝘣 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘥. Its reputation, influence, and ambition have been discussed endlessly, and for once the praise feels completely justified. For me, 𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 is the final argument. It may well be the greatest Beatles song ever committed to an album, and it closes an already extraordinary record in exactly the right way. Sometimes a classic is simply a classic.

A groundbreaking masterpiece. Can you imagine if it included Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane as initially planned?

Даже несмотря на пару-тройку довольно средних песен в середине альбома, у меня рука не поднимается поставить ему что-то, кроме пяти звезд. Восхитительный альбом, который входит в мой топ-3 из дискографии Битлз. P.S. Вау, сразу два подряд альбома с пятью звездами. Жаль только, что пока это лишь хорошо известные мне альбомы

Fun collection of diverse songs.

My entry record to the Beatles. Perhaps not the most obvious place to start. Its not my favourite Beatles record but its still obviously a 5 by a long way. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds my stand out.

One of the hardest albums to review such is its attachment to growing up and nostalgia. Every drum fill, sitar pluck, bass run, or guitar solo fires a synapse. Listening afresh though, it’s undeniably a great achievement - psychedelic and of the time, but not dated; perhaps the pinnacle of experimental but commercial rock. The range of styles is huge - twee Macca on ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’, hazily psychedelic ‘Lucy in the Sky’, delicate orchestral chamber pop of 'Shes Leaving Home', straight rock on ‘Getting Better’, George's complex (but draining) ‘Within You Without You’, and the masterpiece ‘A Day in the Life’ - yet it all sounds of the same band. (‘Within You Without You’ being followed by ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’ is a bonkers bit of sequencing though, it must be said). Although some of the studiocraft is lost on modern audiences, everything is packed with inventive touches: the dissonant end of ‘Lovely Rita’ (which has some of the best-fitting lyrics to meter you can hear on record), calliopes, Moogs, crowd noise, brass flourishes and muttered voices everywhere. To think they'd recorded Revolver then this, via Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane, is mind-boggling. Hearing this in 1967 must have been astounding, and I'm still full of wonder listening some 60 years later.

Amazing! Can't believe how long ago this was made.

World changing music

6/5

Very happy

Day 1: I physically cannot say anything about this album that hasn’t already been said, but I don’t care. It’s a piece of art, it ushered in the concept album and art rock as a genre, it defined the Summer of Love, and it’s deeply personal to me, being something I literally grew up with. I think this is the first album I ever remember hearing, before I even really understood what an album was. My parents introduced to me when I was 5 or 6, I think. I remember singing a clean version of “With a Little Help From My Friends” for elementary school concerts. And it’s also the album that reintroduced me to the Beatles when I saw a video about the process of recording “A Day in the Life;” I watched that video, snuck downstairs, and took my dad’s copy of the album (along with some other Beatles albums.) I took those albums up to my room with my suitcase record player (which I have since upgraded!) and I listened through almost the whole thing, loved every second of it, then I listened to Abbey Road, then the American version of Revolver, and I haven’t looked back since. Best album ever recorded and I will die on this hill.

Love the experimental stereo mixing. great album

Gorgeous, simple, so ambitious. Created a new age. Harmonics are angelic, string instrumentation also heavenly. Lyrics are clever. It's a classique album.

Well duh! Favorite album as a teen!

It’s amazing

Epic

🪁💎🥁🎉🐓

an interesting and entertaining album! really time flies with this one, and it just gets better as it develops. a perfect balance between being rock and avant garde without feeling pretencious.

It’s funny. The first Beatles album we had opened with one of the most recognizable chords in music and now our second album ended with one. What can you say about this album that hasn’t been said already. Every aspect has been analyzed and discussed ad nauseam - its innovation, its concept, its musical and cultural impact and influence. In the end, can’t we all just agree that it’s genius.

There is no point writing about this album. It’s universally applauded as one of the greatest of all time. But, no, I’ve got to read Larry from Toledo’s in-depth, song-by-song breakdown trying to convince me that it’s actually a two-star record and everybody has been wrong for the last 50 years. If this album is not immediately a four or a five for you, just stop reviewing albums - something is horribly wrong with your understanding of how this is supposed to work. Shut the door to your basement or your bunker, or your kill room or wherever, go back to your Throbbing Gristle albums, and leave the rest of us alone.

Quite the show indeed, Beatles at their peak. Start with the cover, Beatles wearing outlandish costumes in front of an eclectic crowd of characters. Doesn't appear to be much rhyme or reason to any of it, but the image works and gives you plenty to digest. When the needle hits the record you are promptly welcomed to the show and know you're in for a special ride. Much like the cover image, the track list is a collection of wildly different styles that also appear to have no rhyme or reason to their inclusion. But the Beatles, and of course George Martin, have this well under control. The songs take us on a wild and fantastic trip, no drugs required (well plenty needed to create, none needed to enjoy). A reminder, if one was needed, of the brilliance of the Beatles.

Classic

It's Sgt. Pepper.

I love this album. I have listened to it dozens of times and it never gets boring. What more could I possibly say?

Favorite songs: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Getting Better, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Lovely Rita, Good Morning Good Morning, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise), A Day in the Life

Easiest 5 so far. Flawless

5 star Everything is great

I was actually prepared to give this a 4, thinking that it was overhyped and that the songs actually don’t hold up. But as an experience, this record fucks. It goes really hard, the production is genius, it’s a seamless experience. I was completely satisfied AND THEN “A Day in the Life” came on. Dang.

As much as I say I don’t like the Beatles I do really like this album

Stone Cold Classic.

I could play this album the entire way through in my head - I love every single second, and some of the best creativity around.

Okay. Everything about this albums is great. Album cover, concept, sound and title. Instrumentally dense, lyrically fluid project with great highs and unnoticable lows. idk what it is, but vocals and instrumental gives me vibe that I am watching the band craft the album and bounce off ideas each other in front of me in a room with full of musical instruments and acid i guess. classic favorite song: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

I really like the format of a bunch of quick little songs, they aren't all amazing but they never overstay and the good ones are really good. A Day in the Life is still an all timer

Obviously amazing album. Changed pop music forever. Stayed in my head all weekend after one listen

Knew many of the tracks on here in advance, but really liked a few of the deeper cuts (She's Leaving Home, Good Morning Good Morning). This album would get five stars from one of the greatest songs ever recorded (Day in the Life) regardless, but impressed with the depth.

Is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the most obvious five of all time? Was Jack the Ripper a sixty foot sea serpent from Scotland? Did I take this job for a quick buck? We may never know the answer to these questions. 5

One of the best albums of all time .Ushered in an era of concept albums .

Been a minute since I listened to this front to back but must say how enjoyable and inventive it is. Also Paul is dead (iykyk)

The Beatles really are GOAT. The start and end of this Sgt Peppers is I think stronger than Abbey Road , but I did lose my way in the middle a bit. But then again… Day in the life. Yeah fuck it I’m giving it a 5 it’s all just too good to dismiss 8.5 / 10 Best track/s: Day in the life, When I’m 64 (sorry idc it’s just an unbelievably sick song), LSD, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts etc etc

Another classic!

I struggle internally ranking my favorite Beatles albums, but they’re all 5/5

El pilar definitivo del rock de vanguardia que ha envejecido bien gracias a la audacia de su arquitectura de estudio. En el plano de diseño formal, la producción de George Martin es una proeza de ingeniería; el ensamble de cintas invertidas, efectos circenses e instrumentación hindú configura un buen entretejido de la locura experimental, logrando que el caos conceptual conviva con una notable nitidez melódica. Detrás del concepto de la banda ficticia, las interpretaciones despliegan una fuerza y calidez que transmiten autenticidad pura, despojando al grupo de las fórmulas comerciales del pop de la época. Aunque la icónica "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" ofrece un oasis de ensueño inconfundible, piezas de calado místico como "Within You Without You" y el colosal cierre con "A Day in the Life" aterrizan el viaje psicodélico en un potente llamado a la conciencia social y existencial, dando forma a un documento conmovedor, crudo y real sobre la enajenación moderna.

perfection in its purest form

really good album, one of the best albuns from Beatles. 10/10

BEFORE: I know this very well. It's not my absolute favourite Beatles album (that will always be Abbey Road) but still excellent and I love the unifying concept. Should be a pretty clear-cut 5 stars. AFTER: Yep. 5 stars. It's perfect. A few favourite tracks: Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds still sounds absolutely luminous. Fixing A Hole has a fantastic ominous tone that creeps into the song. So does Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite. Within You Without You is wonderfully psychedelic. A Day In The Life remains one of the most incredible songs ever written. VERDICT: 5 stars. One of the greatest albums ever written.

Un álbum maravilloso, de los primeros que escuché de los Beatles, hace mucho tiempo. Era adolescente y me marcó mucho su estilo tan único (único para mí en aquel momento) y original. No encontraba en la música coetánea un proyecto similar, así que me refugié en estás canciones. Un verdadero "capolavoro".

I hadn't listened to this for a while, and coming back to it fresh really brought home what a masterpiece it is. This time round, it struck me how much every single sound on it has been carefully considered and produced. And every song is great in some way, but I wouldn't usually choose to listen to them outside the context of the album. It's one coherent work of art.

The greatest

I mean, what am I going to add to the discourse here. If this was a list of 10 albums you had to listen to before you die this album would probably make the cut.

This is an unbelievably significant album musically, socially, and culturally. But is it also a GOOD album? Well, yes. Is "When I'm Sixty-Four" (deliberately) hokey and old-fashioned? Yes. Is it also a fantastic set of lyrics brilliantly set to a delightful melody in a very clever arrangement? Also yes. And "A Day in the Life" is practically a five-star album in and of itself, years ahead of its time. There are weak spots, to be sure; "Within You Without You" introduced Indian music to countless new listeners, but it's a bit monotonous to listen to, and several of the other tunes are fine-but-not-great. I'm tempted to bring it down to four stars because of those weak spots, but in the end, it simply created and inspired too much to get anything less than a 5-star review from me.

Even as a bit of a Beatles hater, I found it hard to deny the greatness of this album. It's a fantastic 40 minutes, and I enjoyed every song to a varying degree, except for the strange circus tune 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!', but I can always forgive a single track if the rest of the material is phenomenal. This was my first complete listen-through of this album and I'm sad I didn't do this earlier. A fun, eclectic, and important landmark album that lives up to the hype. The Beatles finally break through my barrier to entry and reach the summit: Sgt. Pepper will be my twenty-first 5/5.

What can you say that hasn’t already been said?

Definitely one of the all-time greats. Being a Beatles fan since the 80s (my late childhood) I've known this for a long time, and love almost each song. It's even more amazing if you appreciate the limited technology they had available at the time.

9/10 I've finally made my peace with this album. The first three tracks and DitL are obviously stellar, but I used to dislike the middle tracks. They are too music hall, but they are also great beyond that. Apart from When I'm 64, which sucks as much as when I was made to sing it in primary school.

10/10

Always had a soft spot for this one

Ripped this so hard on my discman in 2004.

I want to know more about Sgt Pepper

i mean what else is there to say, its sergeant peppers. She's leaving home has always been the standout for me of the bsides, adore the twinkling melody in it

The Beatles turn rock and roll into art, to the joy of many, and the consternation of a few.

Never heard of these guys...I do like the retro look. But the music sucks, right? In any case, 5 "L(ucy) in the S(ky) with D(iamonds)" stars. (Really, this goes to infinity...and beyond.)

and to think this masterpiece came a year after revolver and a year before the white album. Can I rate this higher than 5? fun fact: My mom still calls this album the peak of her "hippie" phase

Album important dans leur carrière Je les aime

7.6

I guess the greatest album of all time?

Bah c'est top hein

Ah oui, le groupe du club des cœurs brisés du Sergent Poivre. Playlist pick : A Day In The Life

Not my fave Beatles, but still a masterpiece.

Rock, pop, psychedelia, art rock.

It's hard to believe that this appeared in the last 100 albums of this massive collection! I don't think I've ever really listened to this album from start to finish before, but I'm not really all that shocked to discover that I'm familiar with nearly all of the tunes (except "Fixing a hole", "Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!"). I do wish the Wikipedia entry wasn't quite as exhaustive and endless, but the album is such an icon I guess it makes sense, and I'm struck with how tight and perhaps even unified they sound across a wide range of styles (such a far cry from next year's White Album on onwards). What a classic and excellent album that sounds far ahead of its time, and that's from someone who's not a big Beatles afficionado.

What a treat to get this today. Truly an album GOAT, I think of this as the musical equivalent of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," originally titled "He Do the Police in Different Voices." Perfection.

Disclaimer: listened on vinyl. Specifically, the 2LP deluxe version with a second disc of demos. A fitting first album. This one has a lot going for it, personally speaking. It's the second CD I ever bought with my own money (first one being Master of Puppets by Metallica). It's my second-favorite Beatles album after Abbey Road, although to be fair, those two are at a constant neck-and-neck with each other. And, perhaps above everything else, it's one of my favorite albums of all time. This album at this point in my life is the equivalent of Ol' Faithful, or perhaps similar to a warm blanket or a favorite hoodie: familiar and comfortable. But back when I first heard it in high school, it was mind-blowing; still very much is to this day. From the psychedelic landscapes of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" to the old-timey feel of "When I'm Sixty-Four" down to the sitars on "Within You Without You", this album goes places. Places common today in music, but groundbreaking in 1967. My personal favorite song on here is "A Day in the Life", a fitting finale for the album, ending on a triumphant note with four pianos making a single, striking chord. In closing, this album is a timeless classic. If you haven't heard it yet, what are you doing? Go listen!

Best songs: pretty much everything, except Getting Better which is just alright

My second favorite Beatles album (after Abbey Road). This concept album is so much fun and gave us the theme to the Wonder Years, so it gets all the love and credit! Some of the tracks are strange and very out there, and it cements their transition from poppy boy band to experimental rock super stars. I absolutely love the variety show nature. The album moves from psychedelic songs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds to heart wrenching ballads like She’s Leaving Home. From bubble gum nonsense like Getting Better to deliciously satirical like Lovely Rita. Just all around this album is excellently crafted and brilliantly presented.

Masterpiece

It's one step below their creative peak of Rubber Soul and Revolver but I'm throwing an extra star on here because the huge "BONG!" sound at the end of A Day in the Life" may be my favourite sound in the history of recorded music.

Yes, please and thank you. Always loved this, always will. I'm giving it a lot of thought but I think it may be my favorite album overall. Surfer Rosa / Come on Pilgrim is up there but that is a double album so does it count?

2026.06.30-07.01.

What can you say about Sgt. Pepper? The greatest rock band at their heights of their powers? The quintessential concept album telling the story of a marching band, with influences of circus, vaudeville, Indian rhythms, and orchestrals. If it's not the Beatles album with the best songs (debatable), it's certainly the one with the most integrated overall concept. A real treat is to listen to this either physically or without fade-ins, as several tracks lead directly into each other. Artwork, lyrics, musicianship, engineering. Its acclaim by many as the greatest album ever does not come lightly.

Well duh

Fun listen after having almost 200 albums under my belt on the challenge. It's noticeably better and just loaded with creativity and generational bangers. "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are the only things that would make it better. Closing out with "A Day in the Life" and hearing the final chord ring out is such a special moment! It's in my handful of best songs ever and especially for multi-part songs. PMC's my favorite musician ever and he was a stud on this album. Some favorite memories was seeing Paul play a 38 song set at Bonnaroo loaded with Beatles, Wings and solo songs. And seeing Ringo & Friends with Mom & Dad. They made it 64 together (even 74 now!) which is another special moment.

I could go on and on and on about why I love this album. Actually, I’ve been a Beatles fan for years, and only until recently did I realize that yes, this album IS a 10/10. Or, well, 5/5. The musical revolution these guys brought on (or at least helped bring on) is unmatched. I think it’s a fact when I say that music wasn’t the same after Sgt. Pepper’s. Whether this is a concept album or not, the idea is amazing; The Beatles are no more, this is a new, colourful band performing for you. You’re part of the audience heard in the title track and it’s reprise, and you just have to sit back as they take you on this wild musical rollercoaster. A song about friendship, then a song about getting your life together, to a ballad about a runaway teenager, then to a circus. Flip the disc, and you get Harrison’s amazing Classical Indian song unlike anything any other pop band at the time was producing. Followed, of course, by McCartney daydreaming about a wholesome future with his missus. Maybe she’ll be the meter maid from the next song! And to top it all off, the band says goodbye, and leaves you with what is arguably the Beatles’ magnum opus: A Day In The Life. So much can be said about each individual song, and if I said all I thought, this review would be thousands of words long. So to make a very long story short… I love this album, it is creative and experimental in ways basically unheard of (in pop music specifically) before ‘67, and I think it set the stage for the Summer of Love and all music that’d follow afterwards. Glazing? Maybe. I’m biased.

Мое первое знакомство с творчеством битлз и я поражен насколько это круто! Сложный для восприятия альбом, нужно слушать много раз! На данный момент это один из лучших альбомов которые я слушал, всем советую!

l love this album, Beatles at their best, so many echoic songs, and the whole thing hangs together as a true album.

Incredibld

Best Beatles album for me.

lol

Generational classic, need to listen to it high for the full experience tho

One of the best, by the best.

One of the most influential ever made, still a remarkable album 60 years later

Tämä levy on löytynyt omasta levyhyllystä jo kasarilta asti. Erinomainen kokonaisuus ja hyviä biisejä.

All time classic. Always good to hear it again. It altered the course of rock music.

With a Little Help From My Friends is my fav

I mean, it's a classic for a reason. The Beatles are both known for no frills rock (which I generally find to be quite boring) and their more experimental psychedelic stuff (which I really like). This album is sort of a mix of both, it is musically ambitious while still being really good pop music. It is not my favourite Beatles album (that would be Revolver), but this is still an album that has earned all the acclaim it has gotten.

It's addictive. A favorite of mine growing up, even better now.

No skip album

Innovative at the time, still spectacular with multiple evergreens

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! THAT'S WHY HE'S THE MVP!! THAT'S WHY HE'S THE GOAT!!! THE GOAATTTT!!!!! Side-note: Try listening to this at Disneyland if you ever get to go (10/10, 5/5 on this scale)

Damn good album. Mix of many styles including Indian carnatic which I loved. Beatles so failure is almost impossible. A easy 10 on 10

5 stars. Love this album, now I need to listen to Revolver.

Probably my least favorite post 65 Beatles but still one of the most important album in the past 100 years.it has someone of the Beatles best and most creative songs.

britos

Love these lil white boys

Awesome

daphne in the skyyyyy with juuuulis

Easy 5

Oh my God!! Love this album! One of my favorite beatles albums! Classic all around and could listen to on repeat!

I like this band much i like how randomly and ful of sense and nonsense they are

World Heritage !!!

Gracias. Una belleza volver siempre a Beatles. Gran disco. Ya se dijo todo

some of the most beautiful songs ever written - within you, without you, she's leaving home, getting better, lovely rita, and of course, a day in the life. perhaps the most cohesive songwriting between paul and john

Sgt. Pepper's is not a favourite Beatles album to me. It's more intellectually impressive than impactful to my heart. Because of this it actually overall ranks a bit low in the tapestry of all of The Beatles albums if I'm being honest. And...AND...and Sgt' Pepper's still f'ck'n rules.

A classic and iconic album by the Fab Four. A Day in The Life says it all....

Literally the Sgt. Peppers of all Beatles albums.

Probably my least favorite of the big 5 beatles albums, but a big 5 gets a big 5.

Probably their third or fourth best album. Still 5 stars.

picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and Joni Mitchell’s Blue

This is literally my favorite album from The Beatles

bbys first syretrip.

Er ikke så mye mer å si om Sgt. Pepper annet enn at statusen som konseptalbum er noe tynn. At det liksom skal holde å si "heihei vi er sgt. peppers band nå" i starten og "vi var sgt. peppers band takk for oss" på slutten. Men alt i alt helt konge så klart. Den nye stereomiksen er også flott.

classic beatles.. always felt like this album and abbey road are like sisters. love em

I know this album well. Used to be my favourite Beatles album, so many good tracks. Favourites: Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (opening and reprise) Rock with a bit of theatrics and circus vibe, with a nod of the Beatles’ past as a live act. This album was written during their studio only years. With a Little Help from My Friends Paul’s melodic bass line sells this one for me. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds The iconic LSD trip song. Love John’s whimsical vocals and raucous chorus. She’s Leaving Home I remember driving at night one time, this song came on and I got all emotional. Don’t even know why. Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite Again Paul’s melodic bass sells this one. Add the psychedelic flourishes, more circus vibes, John’s vocals. Perfection. When I’m Sixty Four I love Paul’s old man ditties and this is one of his best. When I’m 64 I’d like this song to be played. Best moment: his affected accent singing “grandchildren on your knees”. Lovely Rita Best song ever written about a parking warden. A Day in the Life Excellent example of John’s melancholic writing style, contrasted with Paul’s sunnier disposition. Looking at the above it’s easy to see this album’s influence on subsequent pop and rock music. Easy 5 stars.

Album I’ve listened to a million times, but can still find something new to enjoy every time. One thing I picked up on this time around is how good the drumming is - Ringo must actually be some kind of robot because there is never a beat out of place or out of tune. Always enjoy the lesser songs like Fixing a Hole and When I'm Sixty Four more than I think I will. Within You Without You is fantastic. A Day In The Life is one of the best songs ever.

Well, it's The Beatles, so thats an easy 5star. Maybe a slightly overrated Beatles record, but still amazing experience. 1. With A Little Help Of My Friends 2. A Day In The Life 3. Sgt. Peeper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

It's a classic for a reason

While not the greatest album ever, it's still an easy 5 stars.

Love it, already own it on vinyl

What can I say about the Beatles that I haven't said about the last 3 albums I've rated? I've been listening to the Beatles for, literally, my entire life. I mentioned in my Abbey Road review that they're the first band I ever remember hearing. I've been "seriously" listening to them for nearly 20 years. They are, without a doubt, my favorite band. That being said, this album, which is probably in the top 5 most namedropped albums by them by others, has always been in the lower tier of my rankings. It continues to grow on me to this day, though. And really, there's only one track that I don't care much for ("Within You Without You" [this is where I'll begin to love the song forever after I hit publish on this review]) Anyway, you know the score.

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Bue, mirá lo que tira. SE PUEDE SABER QUE MANDAN? Mirá si me voy a poner a tipear como un bot lo que ponen todos los demás bots. Hay que ser muy bot para tipear como bot, y yo botsito no soy.

Is it my favorite Beatles album? Nope, I'd put 3 or 4 in front of it but it's still great from top to bottom. 5/5

One of the first concept albums.

Listened on: Spotify (not at home to put on record) Listening experience: In the car in full Feels like a funny place to start in the line of Beatles albums (this is the first thrown out on the list). Love everything about it and even though I have listened to it many times I’ll listen to it again and again. Hard to pick a favourite song. At the moment it’s Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (or as Audrey calls it Marmalade Skies).

Psychedelic and a bit proggy? Definitely lives up to the hype.

Super fun. Some of their weirdest songs but that makes them so great.

own

Watershed moment in music? Was before my time, so I never had the shock of the new from it. But I grew up with it being a core part of what music actually is. The wonky stereo of the original mix is probably the only thing that places it in time. Listening to the modern stereo remix it's as fresh as a daisy. Still a great set of tunes. With the honourable exception of Within You Without You. That remains a challenging listen for me. 4.5 - rounded up to 5.

- I love how they start quiet in some of their songs very calming - Beatles u gotta love em - Imagine sitting beside the gooner of your life and youre feeding each other strawberries - fj by the cliffside - yo im crine its so good

5 - mastapiece

Mil estrellas

This one goes to a 6

Something inside of me woke up and told me nothing matters. Now everything matters

Yea

Ännu en 5+😊

Yehhhhhhhh

❤️

Muito bom sonoramente e liricamente, as músicas são muito ricas e gostosas de ouvir, realmente mostra como é uma banda que produziu muitas coisas boas.

There's an interesting build from the BB's Pet Sounds, to Revolver to this album. I still stand by The Beatles (White Album) being their opus. This is mainly because the songs here still have a foot in the old style (particularly the McCartney stuff). The album also seems a bit thin in a way upon relisten, maybe I want more songs, maybe more poignance as with A Day in the Life (their greatest song?). Anyway, these are kind of random musings about a top 10 album of all time. I enjoy reading the bad reviews of the album that maybe miss the point of when this was created. I mean, The Monkees spent more weeks in 1967 in the #1 song spot than the Beatles (or The Doors), Hendrix, The Doors, and Frank Zappa albums were released around the same time. This was a huge swing and connect from a Beatles band and idea that probably should have died and become the Lonely Hearts Club band officially because, honestly, they did from here on out.

Onbetwist meesterwerk

If this album cane out now it would be the best album of the year, which after 59 years is quite impressive. 5 stars or A+.

Everytime i listen to a beatles album from start to finish I am shocked at how incredible it is.

It would be difficult to overstate the quality of this record. It's a collection of psych, pop and rock cuts that's a masterclass in songwriting, tasteful arrangement and production. Not only boasting several of the band's biggest singles, the cracks are filled together with tracks that deserve your attention. Cover to cover, this album has held up beautifully and demands a spin on my turntable several times a year. I don't know that every Beatles album needs to be on this list, but this one certainly does.

It's very good, it's not the Best beatles album but it's still a masterpiece

great

Una obra maestra

I have been to Blackburn, Lancashire and can confirm there are about 1,000 potholes there. But that's a Reform council for you.

5 1. "A Day in the Life" 2. "She's Leaving Home" 3. "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

5/5

It’s the bloody Beatles, again. Calling it a good album is kicking at an open door. The concept album aspect was more noticable for me this time around. The album starts and almost ends with the Sgt Peppers band, but the smooth transitions between songs and the way they follow each other really well are worth a mention too. Album cover is great too. At times it does feel like there’s a few too many granny Paul songs on here, but it’s the bloody Beatles aye.

I really like it

Obvio buenísimo

I love all Beatles records (except Rubber Soul which is pretty mid for a Beatles LP) but Sgt. Pepper's makes John's voice and Paul's bass sound especially great.

9.5/10 Very hard to top this one. Full of experimentation and quality. Each song has it's own strong identity. Fun, weird at times, beautifully written, Ringo-lead track, the list goes on. A Day In The Life is one of the best songs ever made. Best track: A Day In The Life Will I revisit?: Of course!

Excellent, even if some songs could probably have been skipped.

Ok, so this is a 5, and I'm not a particularly big fan of The Beatles. I grew up with them, so their music has permeated most of my life, willingly or other. But listening to this full album (I have it on vinyl) and the many individual songs I dig, and the experimentation, and.... 5.

Few albums feel as transformative as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. It’s considered one of the greatest albums of all time for a reason, not just because of the songs, but because of how boldly it pushed music forward. What The Beatles accomplished in just seven years remains unprecedented, and this album perfectly captures the spirit of the counterculture era while completely redefining what a studio album could be. From the explosive title track to the haunting final chord of “A Day in the Life,” the album feels like stepping into another world. The production and studio experimentation are groundbreaking, but what makes the record timeless is how effortlessly it balances innovation with unforgettable pop songwriting. Tracks like “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “Lovely Rita,” and “Good Morning, Good Morning” burst with colour, energy, and personality, while songs like “She’s Leaving Home” and “When I’m Sixty Four” pull from older musical traditions in a way that still feels fresh and imaginative. What stands out most is how carefully crafted the album experience is. This isn’t a collection of singles, it’s a complete artistic statement meant to be heard front to back. Even the stranger moments, like “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” or “Within You Without You,” add to the dreamlike atmosphere and expand the album’s scope beyond mainstream pop music. And then there’s “A Day in the Life,” the album’s crowning achievement: surreal, emotional, unsettling, and completely unforgettable. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is more than a classic album, it’s a landmark artistic achievement that continues to inspire decades later. Every listen reveals something new, and it remains one of those rare records that feels just as magical today as it must have in 1967. 10/10

This music lives deep in my DNA.

Love it

11/10 masterpiece

Another Beatles that I should know from before, but I didn’t. I only knew about half of the songs, all quite classic. I loved the sitar and style on Within You Witout You. Also it makes it clear to me that Lennon has a better voice than McCartney. There are some masterpieces on this album, and it definetly deserves all 5 stars. Favourites: A Day In The Life, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Friends, Lovely Rita and Within You Without You.

Is it perfect? Not quite—some tracks feel more like charming curios than essential listening. And is it the greatest album ever made? Probably not. But its ambition, studio experimentation, and sheer cultural impact are impossible to dismiss. It didn’t just raise the bar—it helped invent the idea that albums should have a bar to clear.

Classic

It is rare that you can say a Beatles album is underrated, but this one may be. I loved this as a kid, and remember carrying around a book that my Mom bought me when I was 9 or 10 years old.

No lo había escuchado tan a detalle y es tremenda joya, se puede notar como ya empieza más la época experimental

The Beatles are essential, and this album is no exception. Just from a cultural and historical point, you should listen to this at least once. Read the Wikipedia for extensive details about why this was such a huge record, but here is the biggest band in the world taking their time to craft whatever they wanted in a studio, unrestricted by the idea of recreating the songs live, and just focusing on the record. They tried out crazy new ideas, and really pulled it all together. Even if the "concept" is pretty thin, the general idea of The Beatles creating a ficitonal band to get out of their own personalities is fascinating. Highly recommend the 2017 mix of the album, the details are crisp and clear, and its just a great listen.

Yeah it's a classic

What can you say about this album? Phenomenal of course. Won't spend too much time digging in but one thing I do want to highlight as to maybe a reason why the Beatles are so popular and successful from an album standpoint is that even their non hits are made with so much skill and passion that everything is just elevated. Also ending on A Day in The Life is how you end an album

Nae bad

Not the same without hallucinogens. Still an easy 5.

Kaleidoscopic

Epic psych

Classic

A Day in the Life has always been my favourite Beatles song to the extent that I even read a biography of Tara Browne, swinging 60s London socialite, heir to a Guinness family fortune and the subject of that one line 'He blew his mind out in a car, didn't notice that the lights had changed' about his death in a car crash. To me, that song perfectly encapsulated the Beatles at their creative peak. 5 star

Esta fue la banda sonora de mi infancia. Mi introducción a la música adulta. No voy a decir lo que representa este álbum en la historia de la música porque se ha escrito todo ya. Si no lo has escuchado te estás perdiendo el por qué casi toda la música pop y rock desde entonces hasta hoy. Me pregunto hasta qué punto los cuatro de Liverpool eran conscientes de lo que estaban creando en 1967. Con el tiempo, me han acabado gustando más otros discos como "Abbey Road" o "The White Album", pero ojo con este. Otro 10 sin paliativos.

Masterpiece! Love it. Own it.

It's never been my favourite Beatles record but it is certainly a great one all the same, the compositions are outstanding, the way one song flows to the next and to finish on a Day in the Life is just perfection

Shreddet meg gjennom denne på Rock Band. Gikk så som så. Liker fremdeles ikke Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, men å gi trekk for den blir for dumt.

Vanskelig album å dømme. Brukte å skippe over flere spor når I hørte på denne plata før. Good morning e ei kjip låt. Samtidig så e høydepunkta her noe av det beste av Beatles. Går for en Svak 5er her.

Klink. Og tenk hvis inkludert Penny Lane og Strawberry Fields!

I have such nostalgia for the beatles and this album is a super solid one, Lucy in the Sky is a fav for me

I don't think I can write anything about this album that hasn't already been written. But beyond its importance to music and society at large in its day and every day afterward, it bears a lot of personal significance. My parents were big Beatles fans and this was probably my first favorite album. My happiest childhood memories are - ahem - peppered with remembrance of this album playing on the turntable in my childhood home. When I was young and happy and didn't yet know how terrible a place the world could be. As I got older and more into the other Beatles albums, this one still never lost its magic for me. And despite being one of those albums where every note is burned onto my brain to the point that I don't even need to listen to it anymore, it still transports me back to happy childhood days. The best albums can do that.

Embarrassing to admit but I still prefer the Bee Gees version!

It’s Sgt. Pepper’s. What else needs to be said.

Sir Paul McCartney started to making music much better after trying LSD. The greatest album of all time, really changed everything, kinda hard to tell tho because of time we living in, there’s so much music you can listen to now, but my father told me that when he heard this album very first time he was absolutely amazed by this music. There was nothing like this in 1967.

Déjà écouté avant. Révolutionnaire, iconique, bordélique, psychédélique, culte, expérimental, unique, un peu daté quand même, génial, conceptuel, fondateur... Sgt Pepper's est tout ça et beaucoup d'autres choses. L'album le plus célèbre des Beatles n'est sans doute pas leur meilleur, en tout cas pas celui que je préfère (la faute notamment à quelques dérapages musicaux, vers le music-hall ou le sous-continent indien, pas toujours maîtrisés), mais c'est une œuvre totale, le témoignage incontournable de la naissance (un an après Pet Sounds) de l'album rock comme forme artistique à part entière. Essentiel. Top : A Day in the Life Flop : Good Morning Good Morning

This album really is as good as it's made out to be. There is so much that's been said about it, but what stands out to me on this listen (my first in a long time, in fact) is the playfulness and tongue in cheek of it all, contrasted with the incredible, decades-ahead-of-its-time songcraft and production. To me, it's the most psychedelic album ever made. A whole universe of experiences in 39:50, shifting modes, colors bursting out between the notes. George Martin deserves all the credit as the fifth Beatle here, it never would have worked without his arrangements and creativity with tape. It's a perfect album to me, ingrained into my musical DNA since I was a teenager. And yet, it's not even my favorite Beatles album.

Son los Beatles, los amo. Con un álbum que revolucionó todo, desde la estética visual del disco hasta sus canciones es todo increíble. La nota es bastante clara

Sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band - 5 With a little help from my friends - 5 Lucy in the sky with diamonds - 5 Getting better - 4 Fixing a hole - 3 She's leaving home - 3 Being for the benefit of mr. kite! - 3 Within you without you - 4 When i'm sixty four - 5 Lovely rita - 4 Good morning good morning - 4 Sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band (reprise) - 5 A day in the life - 5

J’ai jamais trop compris en quoi c’était hyper psychédélique la plupart des sons sont de la pop relativement classique, mais c’est sûr qu’il y a des nouveautés. Mais purée rien que pour l’affect les frissons que les Beatles me procurent c’est fou

arguably the best beatles album similar to panic! at the discos “Pretty. Odd.”

I know it's not the most beloved Beatles album, but it's still fantastic and innovative. I went back and forth on what to give it, but if the whole album was just A Day In The Life 12 times, it would still be a 5.