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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 849
Released: July 15, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.89 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Track Listing:
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. Day in the Life
14. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Mini-Documentary
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1967 album from The Beatles featuring 'Lucy In The Sky WIth Diamonds', 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'A Day In The Life', 'Getting Better, 'When I'm Sixty Four' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.
Description of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band:
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
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reviews:
Hooray for a cool-eyed view 
2009-11-27 - So much has already been said that I write this merely to agree with the two reviewers who have given the album just one star. I think one star is a bit of an overstatement, but let's give it something like three stars, because after all, it is quite pleasant to listen to. Important or impressive in any way it isn't. Sure, as someone pointed out, every little thing on it was an innovation at the time, but innovation is not always great music: electronic sounds, too, are an innovation, but unless masterfully put together to say something, they're cousins of all the electronic blips your computer makes - hardly music you can't live without, methinks. Sgt. Pepper was so overhyped at the time that openly not liking it could get you physical injury from both hysterical girl fans and aesthetically offended boy fans - a situation nearly incomprehensible today, if nothing else because hysterical girls have been replaced by women with independent tastes. That's why I hail the new reviewers, who don't give a damn about the hype of yesteryear - you guys cannot imagine how ostracized you would have been back in the day. Sgt. Pepper just isn't that great an album; it is, instead, an example of what happens when you're so rich that the cost of studio time is of no consequence and you can just come in when you please, having had your gentlemantly british breakfast or something, play with toys and gadgets for a few hours, then go do something more fun and return whenever you feel like it. It's a collection of playtimes by the rich and talented, recorded for posterity. Talented, of course: we won't deny that these playtimes sound much better than my playtimes. And just to make sure we're on the same page: yes, A Day in the Life is pretty incredible. Wish the rest of the album were on that level.
The Best 
2009-11-27 - If one is a Beatles' fan, one won't be dissappointed. This was truly the best rock group ever.
All Style and No Substance! 
2009-11-27 - I understand music was judged VERY differently back in the 60s, but the truth is, without the Beatles' name, this overhyped album would have long since disappeared and no one would remember it today!
After "Magical Mystery Tour" this is the worst Beatles album of all! It's more like a Paul McCartney solo album with all the superficial, shallow blandness that that implies! Even On John's songs, you can hear Paul McCartney the record company hack systematically destroying everything that made the Beatles great! No wonder Lennon retreated into Heroin addiction! It must have hurt him to be SCREWED OVER by his old partner!
Apart from Lennon's "A Day In The Life", most of these songs are simply insipid trash! John would NEVER have consented to making an album like this back in 1964! "When I'm Sixty Four" is perhaps the worst Beatles song since Paul wrote "Yesterday". How anyone UNDER 64 could like it is beyond me!
Beneath the colourful psychedelic soundscapes, most of the actual songs can't even be called rock! You can't dance to them! Even by 60s standards,SPLHCB is old fashioned, mainstream, mediocre and Middle-of the Road!Far from being a groundbreaking "concept album", it is utterly devoid of artistic merit, meaningful themes, or thought provoking statements! It's only wasteful self-indulgence! True Rock Music is supposed to celebrate Youthful rebellion! This Tin Pan Alley cocktail music would put an entire retirement home to sleep! In my view, the Beatles would never have lost an ounce of stature if they had NEVER made this album! They would have been just as great without it! Just because the Beatles recorded it doesn't mean it's any good!
This album ,when examined objectively 42 years later, seems to belie the radical societal and subcultural changes brought about in the 60s! It could almost be a soundtrack for people who blindly venerated the Vietnam War! It certainly had NO BEARING whatsoever on the era's emerging counterculture!
Even Pete Townshend criticised the Beatles for recording this snore-fest, saying that they were losing touch with the kids! Weren't most teenagers at this time buying Monkees albums instead of this rip-off!
And, let's face it, there are FAR BETTER Beatles albums! Nameley, "A Hard Day's Night", "Rubber Soul","Abbey Road"and ,best of all "The Lost Decca Audition"! "Sgt. Pepper" is a colossal BORE when listened to sober!
Thank you for reading this Review!
The worst Beatles album
2009-11-24 - This is the most painful album to listen from my remaster box set. It is full of silly and forgetable songs. With the notable exception of Sgt. Pepper..., With A Little Help..., Lucy in the Sky..., and A Day in...That is it. The rest are fillers. That is four great songs against seven mediocre at best. I will never understand the hype surrounding this album. It is regarded as the best Rock and Roll album of all time, a real masterpiece, a piece of art, etc, and it really is a let down to me. Rock or Rock and Roll it is not; pure pop/bubblegum stuff. I dig the cover, though. I know the majority of you Beatles fan out there will disagree with me, but this is my opinion. You must admit, as I did as a fan, that this is The Beatles at their worst.
Ordered New CD...received USED CD
2009-11-23 - I ordered a brand new copy of the Sgt. Pepper's cd. I paid the brand new price. I received a used CD. It had no plastic covering, and was labelled "USED".
I don't think this is right. And there seems to be nowhere to complain except here.
