downer mydnyte wrote:
Beatles were great but Sgt Pepper is mostly a bunch of shit. For years and years folks tried to pass it off as the greatest album of all time. Strawberry Fields Forever and even Penny Lane would have helped the album tremendously. If Beach Boys Smile came out, say, in March of 1967, Sgt Pepper would have blown less minds. Pepper was the Beatles chasing Brian Wilson but they were not good at it. A Day In The Life is the only great song on the album. I realize some guys can't experience the Beatles objectively but Sgt Pepper is just about their worst album. It does not age well. Their previous album Revolver is one of their best. The White Album is the apex. There's not one song on the original side one of Abbey Road I ever want to hear again. Maybe I played it too much or maybe it was never that exciting. It's bland compared to the White Album. It might be the only Beatle album where McCartney wrote my favorite song (YNGMYM). Here Comes The Sun is lightweight fluff. There's nothing wrong with that but All Things Must Pass should have kicked off side two instead. Simply because it's an infinitely better song. Here Comes The Sun should have been given to Partridge Family. Of course, then Harrison would have needed a new title for his 3rd solo album. Or, he could have still used the song on his solo album. He had two Isn't It A Pitys.
Help is a great album. Right?
Downer
In my formative teenage years I was doing a lot of airbrush art mixed with other media while extremely high...

...Sgt.Peper and Abby Road were two of my go to albums with my super cool head phones to drown out the sound of the compressor...I can agree that Sgt.Peper wore thin after multiple listening while Abby Road seemed for me at least to get deeper and deeper, it could have been the Thai stick...
Other favorites at that time were
FZ - ONS, Apostrophe, OSFA, Roxy
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Anything Budgie
Maggot Brain
I'm embarrased to say it but Autobahn
Johnny Winter Live
Rory Gallagher Live
I had a shit load of Stones and favored Sticky Fingers, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Goat Head Soup..so many
David Bowie everything
I'm sure I am missing others...
Slight off ramp I would sometimes work into the wee hours in the morning, my room was in the far east of the house and my parents were in the far west...one night my Dad got up and must of heard the relentlessly running of my compressor and came through 3 doors to reach my room and scared the cramp out of me because I did not hear he enter and he tapped me on the shoulder...

...I must have flew 3 feet in the air like one of those cat videos and spilled paint on the piece I had put hours of work into...he didn't care he just wanted to know what the hell was going on...

...I have always done my best work between midnight and 4 am I've never been sure why...
