It Was 20 Years Ago Today...
 

It was 20 years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles celebrated its 20th anniversary.

For a while, it topped the critics polls as the greatest all-time rock album - lately, it isn't even guaranteed to be listed as the best album by The Beatles.

So 40 years on... does anyone still listen to this album?

I'm woefully behind in adding Beatles to my CD collection. I always loved Sgt. Pepper and thanks to you, I now have Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band running through my head endlessly....

It's one of the few Beatle's CDs I own. I've listened to it in the past month or so.

Hmmm - I have the picture disk, maybe I should pull that out of the garage and give it a spin today

listening now...

Until recently I didn't even know it was a Beatles thing rather than an actual band.

It's one of my most favorite records, and I still listen to it regularly.

I haven't listened to it lately, but that's because I listened to it incessantly as a teen.

I remember when Sgt. Pepper first came out on CD, and without realizing the date ... I choked up when Paul sang, "It was 20 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play," and I realized it was 20 years ago that ground-breaking album came out.


Wow ... 20 more years have gone by since then?!?! WTF??!



I listened to Sgt. Pepper just a couple of weeks ago. Its strength and its weakness is its very particular sound ... inimitable and completely unique. It's brilliant for that quality, but you can't exactly be "in the mood" for that sound - - - since there's nothing else like it. As such, I listen to it less than many other Beatles albums (which I don't listen to very often ... but am due for a MAJORASS and extensive review ... and the O.P. knows what I mean - aka, yeah, I still haven't had time to listen to those 25 CDs, Jesse ... but I will make time when life slows down a bit, er, in late summer perhaps.)



And whether it stays on Very Best playlists or not ... its place in history as the first of its kind will never change ... and its place as one of the best of its kind is, I believe, pretty much assured for a long, long, long time. Wake me when it's the 20th anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the 20th anniversary, and we'll revisit the matter.

Great album!
:)