The Beatles? video for ?A Day in the Life? from Sgt. Pepper's
 

I know there are some Beatles fans here on GFY, and I thought y'all would like this 1967 music video of the Fab Four's masterpiece from Sgt. Pepper's, A Day In The Life: The Beatles? video for ?A Day in the Life? has been fully restored ? watch | Consequence of Sound

If the Beatles were a 80's hair band..

Listening to the album Sgt Peppers, after queueing for hours to get it, is one of the moments I will never forget.

Fucking geniuses. love them

Thank you!
The #1 Album of all time, it changed everything. :)

It is only fair to give nod to "Pet Sounds" which is the record that the Beatles were blown away by and greatly influenced their crafting of "Sgt Peppers".

Great album

One of my fave songs :)

I didn't think you were right about the influence of Pet Sounds on Sgt. Pepper's so I looked it up--and you were right: George Martin Comments and here: Paul McCartney Comments

Whaddya know?

I'm a Beatle fan but I have always thought Sgt. Pepper was a bit overrated. Pretty much my least favorite Beatles album.

I can't see how a Beatles fan could possibly think Peppers is overrated, this was The Beatles on top of their game. Between Fixing A Hole, Getting Better, Lucy In The Sky, Harrisons lyrics of Within You Without You, even Mr Kite, added with Lennons mystical voice on A Day In The Life it was fucking brilliant and will never be another like it. Best album ever.

Revolver, The White Album and Abbey Road are my favorites.

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Same here, have to admit.

Yeppers, go figure. Give another listen to "Pet Sounds" and it will make sense. :thumbsup

Abbey Road is my favorite, followed by Magical Mystery Tour and the White Album.

Love the Beatles!! Was lucky enough to see Paul McCartney a couple of years ago live. What an amazing night!

Yes, true, but Abbey Road B side is one of the greatest things to happen in music, including classical.

Absolutely! Pet Sounds is often near the top of Best Albums Of All Time (or most influential). Same goes for Blonde On Blonde (Dylan being a huge influence on Lennon especially).

What the fuck ever happened to music? Today it's all computerized garbage. Flat singers (or every singer trying to sound black) and no one has any chops anymore. WTF really. Listen to Sgt. Peppers kids. LOL (And get off my damn lawn while you're at it.)

Unquestionably true. But ending it with 'Her Majesty' always bugged the fuck out of me. Seemed like such an ego move on McCartney's part, under cutting the finality (and beauty) of The End.

MTV came along and fucked it all up.

No simple answer.

Ask yourself what demographic these days has the disposable cash to buy music. The answer is what record execs target - mostly kids/youngsters/teens.

A few thoughts:

Think about how the old-school radio audience was fractured and diversified by music video (MTV) and the internet (Napster, Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire).

Album and CD sales declined for various reasons. P2P was putting a big bite on sales, and I think consumers were tired of paying top dollar for releases that only had one or two decent songs amongst the filler junk.

Consumer dissatisfaction. How many billions of consumer dollars were spent on shit-quality cassette tapes, low quality vinyl...or CDs that were mass-manufactured and rushed out the door to store shelves. People I've talked with over the years got tired of paying premium bucks for inferior or mediocre audio quality that wore out fairly quick.

And face it - our favorite bands and musicians of yesteryear...are old now (or dead). They've had their day in the spotlight, made their coin, burned a few braincells with wild lifestyles...can't hit the high notes any longer...and are now sittin' around collecting dwindling royalties. A few try and re-visit their former glories and release a song or two, maybe a full album - to lacklustre sales and interest. They've lost their chops...or don't have the big marketing machine behind them to promote distribution.

The next video that autoplays after is even cooler IMO.

The first album I ever bought with my own money - A Hard Days Night. I almost sold it 20+ years ago but had to listen to it one more time before I did the deal.

Had to call it off.

Your analysis is spot on. I understand how the Music Industry dwindled and also cut its' own throat by allowing individual song downloads vs. full albums. It's like selling a monthly Membership to a paysite via individual scenes. (And yes I know many desperate companies are thinking of going this route, always a mistake IMHO.) People may have complained about an album filled with shit filler but at least they were gathering a record (or CD) collection. And many gems were buried within that 'filler' that went overlooked and unnoticed.

But the real problem is the devaluation of music itself over the past two decades (not just economically). Music used to be THE avenue for artistic expression and communication to a generation. But music also has the power to unite and stir up the masses and well, we can't have that '60's hippie shit anymore now can we? So the 'greying' (or blandness or uniformity) of music began in the nineties full-time and now it's the norm. Very sad really but I'm hopeful fifty years from now a smarter, hipper generation will re-discover the power of music and view it as the instrument of change it is and not just background noise.

They say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one....

I like Abbey Road best, both sides, acknowledging that Side B is most special.

Sgt. Pepper really is great, and I like it too. It shows accomplishment/mastery on every level, it's great music, and it made people think. But it gets most remembered for the enormous cultural role it played that Summer, as much as or more than anything else. The right album at the right time to fill a hole and to trend with the changes that were all around us. Is it a teeny-weeny bit pretentious and self-conscious, even a bit preachy as to the PC of the times? I think those things are true, too.

Magical mystery Tour and the White Album have some great songs but they really aren't the cohesive works that Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road are, they are horses of a different color, just accumulations of songs, some good or great, some low rent, just aggregated together without much connection. If one of those albums is your favorite, it's because you like particular songs they contain, not any experience the album provides.

Some of their best stuff, even to the end, was released only as singles - later compiled by Captiol into US Only albums. I'm still a fan of "You Know Ny Name, Look Up the Number" which, I'll guess, few readers here have ever heard of.

The B-Side to 'Let It Be'. And if you are a fan of this song then you have smoked way too much weed sir. LOL

(Does anyone even remember B-Sides? Kids are like, what's that??)

That's true, too. I think of my own collection over the years - and the albums/CDs I bought that I knew were mostly mediocre, but still had a few gems that surprisingly didn't get any radio play. And often times I bought the release just to 'complete the set' so-to-speak. Kinda' like having Boardwalk in Monopoly...and buying Park Place even if you didn't really want it. :1orglaugh

Excellent point. :thumbsup

Appropo.

I like to think I'll live long enough to see a resurgence in good music that mainstream music fans can enjoy and/or be motivated by. It gets time consuming hunting for those rare nuggets and gems these days.

Since 50% of the Beatles are gone - please, please...just one more concept album from Pink Floyd to rival The Wall. That's all I ask. :1orglaugh

I always thought it was a middle finger moment - these guys were what, late 20s? They channeled some of the greatest music of all time but they were also 5 years removed from the "cheeky" boys.

Sadly I think the closest we will come to that dream is the kinda lame 'The Endless River' (mostly outtakes). I was actually amazed at how few albums Roger Waters released as a solo artist after 'The Final Cut' (two).

Good point. Totally possible I totally missed the point. :) For years I thought 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" was about an actual monkey. LOL

First heard it on Dr. Demento's radio show. Remember him? It is a cool song, for sure.
And you're right about the White Album. Not a cohesive album, I just really like a bunch of the songs.

I remember Dr. Demento fondly and many times listened to his show at night in the car. I think the shows were all syndicated and played on stations around the country at random times. I have a few of the anthology albums he put out, but I haven't listened to them in years. Not long ago, I wondered about him, did some online searching and found out that his little enterprise is no more. That's sad. He did fun stuff.