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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 9:40 pm |
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I know that some of us are old enough to have a memory of when the album was released, but even those who are younger may have recollections of their particular introduction to the album, be it positive or negative, vinyl, tape, or CD. I wrote a blog post about my experience (link below), I'd love to read about yours! https://primalscreaming.wordpress.com/2017/05/
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 10:05 pm |
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Sad to admit I don't remember. I'm sure I heard it when it first came out. I've always liked it.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 11:46 pm |
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Oh god, I didn't hear the album until after the movie. And I'm not to ashamed to admit that, as a 15 year old, I loved the movie. And I'm only a tad ashamed to admit I still like the movie
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 11:49 pm |
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I didn't know about it until all the 20th anniversary hype took place; that was how I got into the Beatles in a big way. Before that, I'd heard my Mum's handful of records from the Beatlemania days (Beatles For Sale, Hard day's Night and Help!) and knew who they were, but not much about what they did after those albums. I was mostly listening to whatever was on the radio and didn't collect much stuff at all, just the odd random single on vinyl that got my attention. My Mum also had some other stuff that I didn't get into until after I'd started listening to the Beatles (she had The Kink Kontroversy and Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds as well as some stuff by various Australian singers from the same era, mostly covering stuff originally recorded by overseas artists)
I went and bought a copy of the album - just the ordinary one, not the picture disc that was being sold at the time as an 'anniversary edition' - and listened to it a whole lot, then kind of gradually began to collect all the Beatles stuff I could find, as well as getting into the 'Swinging London' stuff in general (The Who, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Bluesbreakers, The Roling Stones, etc). I also got into all of the Beatles' solo albums, as well as seeking out stuff by Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton (because they'd been in the Yardbirds). The 20th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's really sort of began my record/cassette collecting in earnest. I'm sure I would've gotten into it anyway, but for some reason this was the particular event that kick-started me into music fandom in a serious 'collectory' way. I'd buy every book I could find about every band from the 60's, and would go and see any movie about 60's music, or buy any VCR tape I could get - there was a movie theatre called The Valhalla in Melbourne that would routinely play Woodstock, The Beatles Live at Shea Stadium, Deep Purple's California Jam, etc and I'd go and see any and all films they'd show if it was of a band I'd heard of (or read about) playing live.
So this was the album that turned me into a record collector. I don't have any vinyl now, or any cassettes, but I have everything on CD or MP3. For many years, however, all my money was spent on music, comic books and guitars.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 12:05 am |
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My parents had it when I was old enough (3-4 years old 1970/71) to recognize music.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:01 am |
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I was 11 years old, soon to be 12. My sister, 2 years older, was a Beatlemaniac, and I got to listen to all the records she bought. I had plenty of bands I liked, but if pressed I probably would have named The Beatles as my favorite. My sister bought Pepper the day it was released, and she had already listened to it when she brought it down to our basement where my record player was. First time through, I didn't care for it. 2nd time, I heard a few more things I liked, but overall I still didn't think it was close to being as good as Beatles 2nd, Rubber Soul or Revolver. 50 year later, I still think that. For me, everything they did revolved around great songs, and I don't think the songs on Pepper are as good as on most of their other records. It can be a good listen at the right time, but not close to being my fave Beatles'.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:41 am |
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I remember hearing some of it when I was 8 years old. I didn't really get into it much or music in general until years later though.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 8:18 am |
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My junior year in college... I pre-ordered a copy from the UK, as I did for all Beatles releases once I realized that 1) They often included songs not yet available in the US, and 2) Even with trans-Atlantic shipping time included, I could get them before they showed up in US stores. So, for reason #2, I apparently had the first copy in the area. The second the mail arrived I raced over to the college radio station, where one of my friends had a show. He was a Mozart scholar, and his program was 100% classical, but he also loved the Beatles, and so he interrupted whatever he was playing (I'm sure he let it finish, actually) and put on Sgt. Pepper's for the whole (local) world to hear. He played it straight through, including the infinitely-repeating run-out groove. My god, was it really fifty years ago?!? 
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 8:43 am |
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Wow - in some ways seems like yesterday - others - a zillion years ago.
Eighth grade - just turned 14. Got it the week it came out. So different than anything else up to that point. Lots of things to look at (studied that album cover for many hours) lots to listen to.
In my "gang" of kids there were 4 of us - 3 being Beatles fans. So I listened to it at home and at each other's house. One of the fathers had a top of the line stereo - we each got to listen to it with headphones. I will never forget the experience. I picked up the stereo version - unsure if the store had the mono version - got it at Alexanders in Milford.
My favorite tunes right off the bat were Lucy, Lovely Rita and Good Morning. Out of the "gang" I was the George Harrison fan - Within You Without You took a few listens but it became one of my favorites.
I love rock n roll but this was more. Being from the US Revolver didn't have all the songs it had elsewhere - so maybe that is why it never became my favorite - until Peppers - that was Rubber Soul.
I remember nothing but praise from all the reviews. It truly changed the lp as we knew it and rock n roll. Only recently did I become aware of the negative feelings of 50 years on.
One especially point of thanks I have to the Beatles is the lp cover - when Zappa released "Only Money" - I bought it based on the cover - that day changed forever how I hear music.
So even today I'd rate Peppers within my top 10 albums.
I ordered the box set - due to arrive June 2nd. Yesterday I realized that my local indy should have it. I went there to get it 1.) I wanted to listen to it before June 2nd as by then "When I'm 64" is going to have a whole new feeling. 2.) figured that if I got the 2 cd version - I could play that in the car. Went to the counter asked if they had it and held my breath - she said - only the 2 cd version - I breathed a sigh of relief as old compulsive me would have bought the box in a moment of music frenzy.
So I got it - listened only to half of disc one (Lucy once again sounds like it did that first week) - I had a ton of chores and real life things to catch up on (Last week kidney stones delayed a lot of stuff).
Sat down later and read over the booklet - not many photos I haven't previously seem. Notes from Paul, George Martin and the junior Martin. Articles on the design and the recording session.
Footnote - One of my pals - who is still a Beatles (Lennon) are the tops had this to say when I said "I hope the next album is just as good". He agreed that it was great but "I hope they never take so long putting an album together again".
Footnote #2 - May 26 is the 50th anniversary of Absolutely Free - Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:05 am |
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8th grade:
every year the patrol boys and the altar boys were given a trip to a cleveland indians baseball game at the end of the school year. they took us by train (about a 40 minute train ride) to downtown cleveland's terminal tower and we would walk to the stadium form there.
on the way through downtown cleveland we walked by a record store and there were copies of 'sgt pepper' everywhere. i remember being in awe of how big the store (have no clue as to the name of the store) was (probably my first experience with a mega-record store) and how coll it was to be looking at the new beatles album.
i have no idea if we were there on release day of release week, but it was truly an experience i'll never forget.
no, i did not buy it. i was 14 and more that likely had only a couple of bucks that my mom gave me to buy a hot dog and coke at the game.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:08 am |
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When I was in third grade (roughly 1976 or so) a kid in my class brought the record in to school, probably for for show-and-tell, but he didn't actually play ony of the record. So I was aware of the sleeve long before any of the music. My parents weren't baby boomers, so I never heard the music at home or on the radioor anything like that.
What really made me aware of SPLHCB's reputation as the greatest album of all time was in tthe early 80's, when Michael Jackson was everywhere, and "Thriller" was breaking sales records held by the Beatles, and indignant Beatles fans were suddenly on a mission to preach the message that Michael Jackson was NOT as huge as the Beatles were back in the sixties, and that "Thriller" could never be as good as SPLHCB because, I guess, drum machines or something.
Later in the 80's, I finally got around to picking up SPLHCB on cassette, and finally heard it all the way through. Beatles music was expensive back then. I'd previously purchased "1967-1970" on cassette for something like $11-12 (which is equal to something like $22-24 in today's dollars) and the $8-9 SPLHCB cassette was a disappointment, as all the best songs on it were already on "1967-1970".
Full disclosure: I was huge into the Stones at this time. To me, the Brian Jones-era Rolling Stones had a swagger and earthiness that I preferred, and that the Beatles lacked by design. As far as the whole psychedelic era is concerned, "2000 Light Years From Home" made a lot more sense to me than "Magical Mystery Tour".
Because I was in college, I quickly took the opportunity to listen to SPLHCB while stoned, but it didn't really help.
I eventually came around to the Beatles to a certain extent, in that their catalog, taken as a whole, presents a tangible narrative, and SPLHCB is one of the significant plot twists along the way. But the album never did much for me on any sort of personal or emotional level.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 10:37 am |
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These are all wonderful stories. Glad I asked! Keep 'em coming!
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 1:01 pm |
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My mom owned it (and the rest of their albums) around the time I started to be interested in music. Her tastes were all I really knew up until 8th grade, so I listened to a lot of 60s music. Stones, Joplin, Doors, Beatles, Cat Stevens, etc. Then I started getting into my own things, but I definitely played her Sgt Pepper's album as much as anything, and probably more than her for a year or so. 
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 1:44 pm |
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I liked The Beatles, the early Beatles, when I was little. My first real record purchase (as opposed to Popeye Sings or The Best Of Shari Lewis) was the Capitol 45 of "A Hard Day's Night" b/w "I Should Have Known Better". But by the time of Sgt. Pepper I was into Soupy Sales and Batman and other things, and I wasn't paying much attention to the music scene. When I got serious about music in my early teens, The Beatles were gone and I waded into their catalogue all at once. Sgt. Pepper wasn't, and still isn't, my favourite of their albums. Outside of its era and its cultural relevance at the time, "Summer Of Love" and all that, I don't think Pepper holds up as well as Revolver, Abbey Road or even the sprawling White Album. Maybe the new 5.1 mix will change my opinion, but what's the difference? It's all good -- it's all The Beatles.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 2:27 pm |
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Records that I chose (as opposed to children's records that were given to me): My first 45 was DC5 Catch Us If You Can. My 1st 2 LP's were one of the Vee Jay Beatles versions of Please Please Me & The Stones December's Children.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 2:39 pm |
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I was about eight when it came out. We were at a Montgomery Ward store and I had wandered off to the record department. There was an opened box of Sgt. Pepper albums on the counter, and I clearly remember looking at the front cover and reading some of the lyrics on the back. I thought it was all interesting and cool looking but I was still a kid so the idea of actually owning it never crossed my mind. At that point my music collection pretty much consisted of a carrying case of random 45's, with "Help" being the one Beatles title..
As a pre-teen I remember listening to The History of Rock and Roll, one of those marathon radio broadcasts they used to have throughout the 70's. Near the end they somewhat pretentiously named "A Day In The Life" as the finest achievement in rock music up to that point. I thought it was cool too, and a marathon Beatles broadcast a year or so later sealed the deal. I was now officially a Beatles fan.
But I didn't actually start buying Beatles albums until I was in high school, so by the time I actually heard Sgt. Pepper I was already well-familiar with a lot of the songs,and the impact was maybe just a little dulled, although I do remember playing it a lot. Their best? Ah, who knows... but I'm sure glad to live in a world where it exists.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:15 pm |
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My mums mono version in the early 1970s
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:54 pm |
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My parents had Love Songs on 8-track, which is where I first heard "She's Leaving Home." Growing up my father had a shrink-wrapped copy of the LP, which he wouldn't let me open because he assumed because he bought it in the Sixties it was valuable. I may have determined its lack of collector value and eventually opened it, but I don't remember.
Dad picked up the CD release when it came out in 1987 and we listened to it together repeatedly. I was 14. In short order I had my own music collection and co-opted Sgt. Pepper into it. I still have the disc, its booklet ripped up to shit.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 6:10 pm |
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I hated the Beatles growing up and into my mid 20s. I had to work long hours at work for a big release and downloaded some songs off of Sgt. Pepper and really liked them. This was 2003. Haven't really returned to it since then, but I was surprised with my self in liking it since I had not liked much to do with the Beatles up to that point.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 10:03 pm |
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As I've mentioned on ICE before, in the early days my Dad was no fan of rock & roll, the Beatles especially. My best friend's sister was a Beatlemaniac, so we'd listen to her records at their house. In 1966, "Winchester Cathedral" was deemed safe enough for us to own. From then on, my 3 brothers and I had one communal record collection for a number of years. Still, in 1967 (when I was 10), our focus was mainly on 45s--our only LPs were the first 2 Monkees albums and the soundtrack to Bye Bye Birdie.
In 1969, my Mom took us to see Yellow Submarine and bought us the soundtrack. That was our first Beatles album, followed later that year by Abbey Road, and, working backwards, The White Album.
By 1970, we were pooling our allowances to buy records every week. My older brother bought the first Led Zeppelin album, but traded it to a friend for Sgt. Pepper. So I was actually behind the curve, but I listened to it endlessly. The Beatles were now my favorite group. I still have my scrapbook of any and every newspaper clipping I could find about the Beatles. By the end of 1970, Hey Jude and Let It Be were part of our collection too.
When our next-door neighbors moved away a year or so later, they gave us a box of records their oldest daughter had left behind when she went to college, including A Hard Day's Night and Beatles 65. She'd drawn hearts and written "I love Paul" all over the covers. Those were our only "early" Beatles albums for quite some time, which was why the '62-'66 comp was an immediate buy upon release in 1973.
As it happened, the Beatles broke up in 1970, and I started to listen to the Rolling Stones more often...
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 11:40 pm |
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In 1991, I was well on my way to curating my personal CD collection. I would say I was sheltered from a lot of pop/rock music as a youth and didn't have much exposure beyond Top 40 even in college. I started picking up discs I thought I would like and just kept expanding from there. By this point, I think I had Paul's All My Best collection that I bought from Record Bar/Tracks in Raleigh, but I hadn't gotten a Beatles album yet. I'd never even heard one, On the way home from work one night, I stopped at Rose's Discount Store #434 in Wake Forest, NC, and bought the Sgt. Pepper CD on a lark. It was eye-opening. "A Day In The Life" completely blew my mind (yes, in the car). That final piano chord was such an incredible exclamation point to the song and the album. I thought that was it, until the white noise and the backwards chatter came on. What on earth was this? I'm still not sure. Out of the 3000-4000 CD's I have, that album stands out as perhaps the boldest musical statement. I can see that the album raised the bar for innovation and affected how popular music was recorded afterwards.
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Post subject: What was your first experience with SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND? Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 12:00 am |
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Sadly I've never heard the album in its entirety. I've listened to a couple of singles but not the full Monty.
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