Topic: Trim 'Sgt. Pepper' Down (Read 23587 times)

Ernest · « **on:** 24 Dec 2006, 06:18 »

1. A Day in the Life

My, that was easy.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #1 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 06:22 »

I used to think Sgt. Pepper was the best album ever, but then I grew up.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #2 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 06:30 »

1.- With A Little Help From My Friends
2.- She's Leaving Home
3.- Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!
4.- Lovely Rita
5.- Good Morning, Good Morning
6.- A Day In The Life

Ernest · « **Reply #3 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 06:31 »

Now ain't that just a bit too generous?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #4 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 08:13 »

You guys are pure whack.

öde · « **Reply #5 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 08:19 »

1. 4'33"

MIRITE?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 08:31 »

Lucy in the Sky with FUCK YOU

Hat · « **Reply #7 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 08:42 »

1 Taxman
2 Eleanor Rigby
3 I'm Only Sleeping
4 Love You To
6 Yellow Submarine
7 She Said She Said
8 Good Day Sunshine
9 And Your Bird Can Sing
10 For No One
11 Doctor Robert
12 I Want to Tell You
13 Got to Get You into My Life
14 Tomorrow Never Knows
15 Lovely Rita

IronOxide · « **Reply #8 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:04 »

I know what you mean, The Mona Lisa would be totally ace if it weren't for that weird-ass background.

Hunter · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:32 »

A day in the life without the ending
Lovely Rita
With a little help from my friends
Lucy in the sky with diamonds

and thats it.

Ernest · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 10:38 »

Speaking of the ending of "A Day in the Life," has anyone ever played the end of that record backwards? Since the forward version is already a record playing backwards, playing it backwards should reveal something that makes sense.

jcknbl · « **Reply #11 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 17:10 »

~~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. Shes 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

Also this album really should have included Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.

SpacemanSpiff · « **Reply #12 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 18:17 »

~~Sgt. Pepper~~ Abbey Road

Done.

Hat · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 18:34 »

Quote from: jcknbl on 24 Dec 2006, 17:10

Also this album really should have included Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.

No, because then Magical Mystery Tour would only have one redeeming song on it.

The Eyeball Kid · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 20:37 »

Quote from: ScrambledGregs on 24 Dec 2006, 06:22

I used to think Sgt. Pepper was the best album ever, but then I grew up.

amok · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 21:52 »

Arse, I got beaten to the '0. listen to something else' options.

Merkava · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Dec 2006, 23:45 »

Wow. I had no idea so many people hated this album. I've never listened to the whole thing, but I was always under the impression that it was one of those "legendary" albums.

Tyler · « **Reply #17 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 00:20 »

Sgt. Pepper has many great songs on it. I can't even fathom how you could say A Day in the Life is the only redeeming track.

Joseph · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 01:17 »

Sgt. Pepper is fantastic, but really, Abbey Road is just much, much preferable. Side one has many of the strongest individual songs that The Beatles ever recorded, and side two is amazingly impressive as a cohesive whole.

Thrillho · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 01:28 »

Sergeant Pepper is so massively influential that a lot of people can't look at it objectively outside of it being such a huge record. Personally, I think that so much of Lennon's work on it is medicore - 'Mr. Kite' stolen entirely from a poster? 'Good Morning, Good Morning' which is a boring song about being boring? - that the album as a whole suffers. 'A Day In The Life' though, I think, is their single greatest achievement in the sapce of one song.

Johnny C · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 01:30 »

Even Jay-Z couldn't fully save Sgt. Pepper.

Kai · « **Reply #21 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 02:28 »

I like Freak Out way better than Sgt Pepper's.

HELP

I'M A ROCK

Storm Rider · « **Reply #22 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 04:39 »

Guys, Revolver is clearly the best Beatles album.

Johnny C · « **Reply #23 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 04:47 »

Rubber Soul?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 05:00 »

JOJO VAS A MAN WHO THOUGHT HE VAS A LONER.
BUT HE KNEW IT VOULDN'T LAST.
JOJO LEFT HIS HOME IN TOO-SCON ARIZONA.
VOR SOME CALIFORNIA GRASS.

Thrillho · « **Reply #25 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 05:23 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 25 Dec 2006, 04:47

Rubber Soul?

'What Goes On'?

Ernest · « **Reply #26 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 06:28 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 25 Dec 2006, 04:47

Rubber Soul?

In future, remember to italicize any punctuation that is attached to italicized words.

Ernest · « **Reply #27 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 08:16 »

I'm honored.

Johnny C · « **Reply #28 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 09:09 »

I'm not sure whether I feel particularly good about that as it relates to album titles. If this were a case where the italics actually indicated a particular word I wanted to emphasize, such as this? Yeah, I can see it. It looks goofy but I can see it. But album titles can include some type of punctuation at the end without appearing silly.

This link mentions the issue you point out. I still say it's a rule on the same approximate level as the one in my country declaring it illegal to step out of a flying plane sans parachute, lest you be fined or imprisoned.

Hat · « **Reply #29 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 12:26 »

Quote from: Storm Rider on 25 Dec 2006, 04:39

Guys, Revolver is clearly the best Beatles album.

I maintain my position that it could still be improved by slapping Lovely Rita immediatly before or after "Got To Get You Into My Life"

Thrillho · « **Reply #30 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 14:22 »

I don't think Rita fits very well on Revolver. And I think I know understand the absurdity of my White Album rearrangement in the other thread; any album can be improved by adding ANOTHER great song to it.

ScrambledGregs · « **Reply #31 on:** 25 Dec 2006, 20:59 »

Quote from: Kai on 25 Dec 2006, 02:28

I like Freak Out way better than Sgt Pepper's.

HELP

I'M A ROCK

Can I buy you a drink, good sir?? I heartily agree.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #32 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 05:29 »

~~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. Shes 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

David_Dovey · « **Reply #33 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 07:12 »

the title track and When I'm 64 are two of my favourite tracks on that album

noh8

EDIT: That being said, I would've dropped Good Morning. Yuck.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #34 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 07:15 »

They are both actually good songs, but they're too damn happy for me. I mean, there's happy music... but both of those are like, wholesome and happy. You could probably psychoanalyze me and deduce that the fault is actually mine and not the songs, but... nonetheless... fuck 'em!

Hat · « **Reply #35 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 07:50 »

Anyone who does this and does not cut out Lucy in the Sky with diamonds fails at music.

It is one of the worst songs the Beatles ever wrote. It's not fun to listen to sober, its not fun to listen to on drugs. It is the single least fun song on Sgt Peppers, and this is the album with "She's leaving Home" on it for christs sake.

Also Dovey: We are going to throw down if you don't take back what you said about Good Morning, Good Morning.

Also did anyone notice that Nimrod cut out all the songs that didn't contain drug references? That is pretty fucking ridiculous.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #36 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 07:54 »

No way man. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds = bad, and Good Morning Good Morning = good?

I don't usually say this to people before I get to know them, but you need to take some LSD.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #37 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 07:57 »

You think Lucy and A Day in the Life are retarded, but you're prepared to fight me over Good Morning Good Morning? If that's the way it has to be, then IT'S ON.

EDIT: All hail Nimrod, King of Unintentionally-Hilarious-Land!

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #38 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 08:00 »

Let's not all look down our noses at me at once. I may be a drug addict, but at least I'm well read.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 08:02 »

Actually I was saying that because Hat takes a lot of LSD.

This is the second time you've misjudged his personality with comic results (the other time being when you accused him of being an anti-Tool snob, when in fact he loves Tool. Especially when he's on acid.)

Hat · « **Reply #40 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 08:03 »

Hey, I never said A Day in the Life was retarded.

I said it was ridiculous. I also think that cocktails are ridiculous. I think that knowing 50 different sexual positions is ridiculous. It doesn't mean I don't consider them worthwhile.

It can still be on though if you like.

Also Nimrod, I really object to you telling me I need to do some LSD for a few reasons.

1) Nobody needs to do any drugs. If a song is shit without drugs, it is shit. Drugs are an interesting reflection of our society, not a gateway to enlightenment.
2) I am willing to bet I have done more acid than you anyhow. Not that I want to turn this into a dickwaving contest, but I am just saying this in the manner that it is likely that a hot-dog eating champion has eaten more hot-dogs than your average hot-dog afficionado in the street.
3) I hate that fucking song MORE when I am on the drugs because it is fucking stupid and I am supposed to close my eyes and float around in a psychidelic world with the song wrapped around my head but instead I wind up with a headache and visualizing shooting John Lennon for being a prick.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #41 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 08:14 »

Mea culpa Mr. Hat. I'm thoroughly glad that you and Lucille have been fully acquainted. And on the Tool thing as well.

It's really just mock peer-pressure. I do think that psychedelics are a valid path for mental expansion, but... it only goes so far. Anyone who's read up on this shit or has an ex-hippie for a dad knows that. People can use acid as a fucked up mental theme park or for self-discovery. Or both, preferably.

And tempting as it is, let's not do the whole dr00gz c0ckf!ght thing.

Still though... you hate the song more while you?re frying!? I am perturbed.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #42 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 09:42 »

I quite like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. I am The Walrus is better though. It was my favourite song when I was five.

I've never listened to the Beatles under the influence of anything actually, I think.

Thrillho · « **Reply #43 on:** 29 Dec 2006, 21:45 »

I've only listened to music under the influence of alcohol, although that was at a party so I really WASN'T listening, and...well, huffing pens and carpet cleaner. I led a sheltered childhood...

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #44 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 02:43 »

You guys are missing out.

Kyros · « **Reply #45 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 03:08 »

This is one of those threads that you just have to step back for a second after reading and say "Wow...just wow.."

Not only is this a thread about the trimming down of Sgt. Pepper's but it also includes some mild Pro-Drug use w/Music posts. COOL!

Seriously, the few times I HAVE done drugs and tried to listen to music, I found it harder to concentrate and got way too distracted to try and focus on what I was listening to.

Oh and if I WAS going to cut a song...it'd be Within You Without You, now THERE is a Beatles song that truly Blows.

NiMRoD420 · « **Reply #46 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 04:35 »

Drugs not good?

Within You Without You blows?

KABLAMMO

There, are you happy? My head just exploded. How the fuck am I supposed to get the maintenance guy to clean this up without telling anyone? Moreover, how am I typing this without a functioning central nervous system?

Kyros · « **Reply #47 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 11:08 »

Maybe your head exploded from the drugs?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #48 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 20:55 »

They're bad, you know.

kablaaamo · « **Reply #49 on:** 30 Dec 2006, 21:56 »

Bahaha....my head is always going and asplodin' because of silly things. Central nervous systems are for the weak.

This is my cut:

~~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

You know what? I like Good Morning, Good Morning. And I'm not going to apologize for it. My favourite Beatles track was one that Lennon absolutely loathed, and thought was too much of a throwaway to record. I like Lennon at his most throwaway.
Despite George being my favourite Beatle, Within You Without You blows. All of the sitar songs blow to varying degrees.
Drugs = fun. Although I very rarely do ANY.

In conclusion, listen to Revolver.

THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)

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ScrambledGregs

jcknbl

SpacemanSpiff

The Eyeball Kid

Merkava

ScrambledGregs

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

NiMRoD420

kablaaamo