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Beatles - Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - CD
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Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.82 ounces
- Manufacturer : Capitol
- Item model number : 46442
- Date First Available : January 23, 2007
- Label : Capitol
- ASIN : B000002UAU
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #8,684 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #39 in Classic Rock Supergroups
- #68 in British Invasion Rock
- #4,275 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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In '66, after six U.K. albums and a number of U.K. singles (I'm not counting U.S. Beatles releases here), the Beatles began to get more adventurous with their music, and started concentrating less heavily on "love songs." These two factors would result in their most "interesting" recordings (on that year's Revolver album and elsewhere). On the Revolver album (and also on the "Yellow Submarine"/"Eleanor Rigby" single [both of those songs also appeared on Revolver] and the "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" single), the Fab Four started to show that they were capable of doing more than songs on romantic interpersonal relationships. (O.K., not ALL of the songs they had done until then were love songs, but most of them could be considered as such.)
However, while the Beatles (particularly John Lennon, with songs like the slightly psychedelic "Rain" and the VERY psychedelic "Tomorrow Never Knows") showed signs of moving away (or mostly away) from the old "formula" in '66, it was the following year's album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (and the single "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane") that demonstrated that they were REALLY changing things up. The lyrics, the instrumentation, the arrangements, the recording techniques... by hardly any means could you call the album (or the single, especially "Strawberry Fields") "normal." Even the cover of the album was very ambitious and unusual, with the Beatles presenting themselves in the guise of "Sgt. Pepper's band" against a backdrop of an "audience" of celebrities (or rather, cardboard cut-outs thereof), which included the Fab Four themselves! With this album, the first rock 'n' roll "concept album" was born (or if it wasn't THE first one, it was one of the first ones).
However, the "concept" doesn't really seem to extend to the actual recordings, aside from the title song and the reprise of it. There are just too many different kinds of sounds and "styles," and far too many sets of lyrics and lyrical ideas that don't go together with any of the others, for most of the songs to really seem "related" in any way. Reportedly, even John Lennon said that (to quote Brandon Toropov in his book [which I kind of doubt is really well-known] Who Was Eleanor Rigby? And 908 More Questions And Answers About The Beatles, first published in I think '97) "the only real unifying theme on the album, other than the open-ended idea of a fictional band, was the reprise of the title song that appears near the end of the album." (That quote may not be EXACTLY word-for-word.) It's kind of ironic that the album that (largely if not entirely on its own) ushered "concept albums" into the world of music (or at least the world of rock 'n' roll music) really didn't HAVE too much of a concept!
Whatever the (supposed) "concept" behind it, this is a "classic" album, and deservedly so. While no singles were released from it, the album was enough of a "masterpiece" to not NEED any released from it. (However, one of the songs on it, the pleasant, Ringo-sung "With A Little Help From My Friends," would become a hit for Joe Cocker.) All of the album's tracks are good, and have something (often more than one thing) to make them interesting and in many cases quirky (in good ways); some of them are: the mock-"live" sound of the title song and the reprise; the subtle (and "dirty") lyrical joke in "With A Little Help" ("I can't tell you but I know it's mine"); the whole of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (reportedly not actually inspired by LSD but by a drawing that John's son made); the surprising (and, reportedly according to John, autobiographical) confession of wife-beating in "Getting Better"; the strings-only (ala "Eleanor Rigby") arrangement of the backing for "She's Leaving Home"; the "circus" sound of "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!" (reportedly inspired by an old circus poster); the "Indian" sounds on George Harrison's song "Within You Without You"; Paul McCartney's sped-up vocal on "When I'm Sixty-Four"; the sound effects on "Good Morning Good Morning"; the lyrics (inspired in part by news stories) and orchestral "crescendos" on "A Day In The Life"... and those aren't all. And of all of the songs, only "Lovely Rita," "Sixty-Four," and maybe "With A Little Help" can be considered (loosely, anyway, in one or two of those cases) love songs.
As for the sound of this reissue, I'm very satisfied with it. I think it does sound better than the original '80s CD reissue. In fact, I prefer this '09 remaster (and for that master, the '80s remaster) of the album's original stereo mix to the 2017 remastered and remixed stereo reissue, which to my ears suffered, more than benefitted, from the attempt to "modernize" the mix. One major change they made, that I don't really like, was "centering" the lead vocals that weren't that way on the original stereo mix; I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I personally think that those vocals being "uncentered" is one of the things that make the album interesting and contribute to many of the songs' quirkiness (especially in the case of John's vocal on "A Day In The Life," which "travels" from right to left as the song progresses). I would definitely rate the 2017 reissue lower (by at least one star) than this one, which I give 5 stars.
As a side note, I think the Magical Mystery Tour album (which wasn't actually a full album originally) on a CD with Sgt. Pepper (I think both albums would fit onto it), in their original stereo mixes, would make an awesome Beatles release; the two albums would complement each other perfectly, in my opinion!
List of contents:
CD 1: "Sgt. Pepper..." 2017 Stereo mix
1. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
2. With a little help from my friends
3. Lucy in the sky with diamonds
4. Getting better
5. Fixing a hole
6. She's leaving home
7. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within you without you
9. When I'm sixty-four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good morning good morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise)
13. A day in the life
CD 2: Early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order
1. Strawberry fields forever (Take 1)
2. Strawberry fields forever (Take 4)
3. Strawberry fields forever (Take 7)
4. Strawberry fields forever (Take 26)
5. Strawberry fields forever (Stereo mix - 2015)
6. When I'm sixty-four (Take 2)
7. Penny Lane (Take 6 - Instrumental)
8. Penny Lane (Vocal overdubs and speech)
9. Penny Lane (Stereo mix - 2017)
10. A day in the life (Take 1)
11. A day in the life (Take 2)
12. A day in the life (Orchestra overdub)
13. A day in the life (Hummed last chord) (Takes 8, 9, 10 and 11)
14. A day in the life (The last chord)
15. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Take 1 - Instrumental)
16. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Take 9 and speech)
17. Good morning good morning (Take 1 - Instrumental, Breakdown)
18. Good morning good morning (Take 8)
CD 3: Early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order
1. Fixing a hole (Take 1)
2. Fixing a hole (Speech and Take 3)
3. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Speech from before Take 1, Take 4 and speech at the end)
4. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Take 7)
5. Lovely Rita (Speech and Take 9)
6. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Take 1 and speech at the end)
7. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Speech, false start and Take 5)
8. Getting better (Take 1, Instrumental and speech at the end)
9. Getting better (Take 12)
10. Within you without you (Take 1 - Indian instruments only)
11. Within you without you (George coaching the musicians)
12. She's leaving home (Take 1 - Instrumental)
13. She's leaving home (Take 6 - Instrumental)
14. With a little help from my friends (Take 1 - False start and Take 2 - Instrumental)
15. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise) (Speech and Take 8)
CD 4: "Sgt. Pepper..." + bonus tracks (All in mono mix)
1. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Original mono mix)
2. With a little help from my friends (Original mono mix)
3. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Original mono mix)
4. Getting better (Original mono mix)
5. Fixing a hole (Original mono mix)
6. She's leaving home (Original mono mix)
7. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Original mono mix)
8. Within you without you (Original mono mix)
9. When I'm sixty-four (Original mono mix)
10. Lovely Rita (Original mono mix)
11. Good morning good morning (Original mono mix)
12. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise) (Original mono mix)
13. A day in the life (Original mono mix)
14. Strawberry fields forever (Original mono mix)
15. Penny Lane (Original mono mix)
16. A day in the life (Unreleased first mono mix)
17. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Unreleased mono mix - No. 11)
18. She's leaving home (Unreleased first mono mix)
19. Penny Lane (Capitol Records US promo single - mono mix)
Disc 5 (blu-ray)
Audio features:
- New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of "Strawberry fields forever" (blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1)
- High Resolution 2017 Audio versions of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 "Strawberry fields forever" (all in stereo mix) (blu-ray: LPCM Stereo 96KHz/24bit)
Video features:
- The making of "Sgt. Pepper..." (Restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased)
- Promotional films: "A day in the life", "Strawberry fields forever", "Penny Lane" (4K restored)
Disc 6 (DVD)
Audio features:
- New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of "Strawberry fields forever" (DVD: DTS Dolby Digital 5.1)
- High Resolution 2017 Audio versions of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 "Strawberry fields forever" (all in stereo mix) (DVD: LPCM Stereo)
Video features:
- The making of "Sgt. Pepper..." (Restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased)
- Promotional films: "A day in the life", "Strawberry fields forever", "Penny Lane" (4K restored)
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2017
List of contents:
CD 1: "Sgt. Pepper..." 2017 Stereo mix
1. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
2. With a little help from my friends
3. Lucy in the sky with diamonds
4. Getting better
5. Fixing a hole
6. She's leaving home
7. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within you without you
9. When I'm sixty-four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good morning good morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise)
13. A day in the life
CD 2: Early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order
1. Strawberry fields forever (Take 1)
2. Strawberry fields forever (Take 4)
3. Strawberry fields forever (Take 7)
4. Strawberry fields forever (Take 26)
5. Strawberry fields forever (Stereo mix - 2015)
6. When I'm sixty-four (Take 2)
7. Penny Lane (Take 6 - Instrumental)
8. Penny Lane (Vocal overdubs and speech)
9. Penny Lane (Stereo mix - 2017)
10. A day in the life (Take 1)
11. A day in the life (Take 2)
12. A day in the life (Orchestra overdub)
13. A day in the life (Hummed last chord) (Takes 8, 9, 10 and 11)
14. A day in the life (The last chord)
15. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Take 1 - Instrumental)
16. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Take 9 and speech)
17. Good morning good morning (Take 1 - Instrumental, Breakdown)
18. Good morning good morning (Take 8)
CD 3: Early takes from the sessions, sequenced in chronological order
1. Fixing a hole (Take 1)
2. Fixing a hole (Speech and Take 3)
3. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Speech from before Take 1, Take 4 and speech at the end)
4. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Take 7)
5. Lovely Rita (Speech and Take 9)
6. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Take 1 and speech at the end)
7. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Speech, false start and Take 5)
8. Getting better (Take 1, Instrumental and speech at the end)
9. Getting better (Take 12)
10. Within you without you (Take 1 - Indian instruments only)
11. Within you without you (George coaching the musicians)
12. She's leaving home (Take 1 - Instrumental)
13. She's leaving home (Take 6 - Instrumental)
14. With a little help from my friends (Take 1 - False start and Take 2 - Instrumental)
15. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise) (Speech and Take 8)
CD 4: "Sgt. Pepper..." + bonus tracks (All in mono mix)
1. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Original mono mix)
2. With a little help from my friends (Original mono mix)
3. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Original mono mix)
4. Getting better (Original mono mix)
5. Fixing a hole (Original mono mix)
6. She's leaving home (Original mono mix)
7. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite! (Original mono mix)
8. Within you without you (Original mono mix)
9. When I'm sixty-four (Original mono mix)
10. Lovely Rita (Original mono mix)
11. Good morning good morning (Original mono mix)
12. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (Reprise) (Original mono mix)
13. A day in the life (Original mono mix)
14. Strawberry fields forever (Original mono mix)
15. Penny Lane (Original mono mix)
16. A day in the life (Unreleased first mono mix)
17. Lucy in the sky with diamonds (Unreleased mono mix - No. 11)
18. She's leaving home (Unreleased first mono mix)
19. Penny Lane (Capitol Records US promo single - mono mix)
Disc 5 (blu-ray)
Audio features:
- New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of "Strawberry fields forever" (blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1)
- High Resolution 2017 Audio versions of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 "Strawberry fields forever" (all in stereo mix) (blu-ray: LPCM Stereo 96KHz/24bit)
Video features:
- The making of "Sgt. Pepper..." (Restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased)
- Promotional films: "A day in the life", "Strawberry fields forever", "Penny Lane" (4K restored)
Disc 6 (DVD)
Audio features:
- New 5.1 Surround Audio mixes of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 5.1 Surround mix of "Strawberry fields forever" (DVD: DTS Dolby Digital 5.1)
- High Resolution 2017 Audio versions of "Sgt. Pepper..." album and "Penny Lane", plus 2015 "Strawberry fields forever" (all in stereo mix) (DVD: LPCM Stereo)
Video features:
- The making of "Sgt. Pepper..." (Restored 1992 documentary film, previously unreleased)
- Promotional films: "A day in the life", "Strawberry fields forever", "Penny Lane" (4K restored)
2017 mix is warm and clear -- interesting -- some details have been brought forward, some have been lessened.
This is high quality heavy vinyl with the PARLAPHONE label, NOT CAPITOL.
AND it has the nonsense loop in the run-out groove on side two.
So, if you've worn through the vinyl copy from your youth, or you're tired of the half-assed CD copies, treat yourself to this classic on vinyl.
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