"Classic Album Sundays"

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The overnight album shows were usually sponsored by stereo dealers, no big surprise.

For a while the record stores were in on it too, and sometimes had some cool imports or promotional versions, but all of a sudden they stopped-- I think there were some corporate edicts from way way on high that airing entire albums uncut on FM radio amounted to giving away their product for free (to home tapers.)

Which it kinda did, of course, but it also created a lot of really obsessive music fans who would eventually end up buying the product.

 

he shouldn't be. other than "With a Little Help From my Friends," that whole album does nothing for me.

 

Always wondered why The Beatles would cover Joe Cocker.

 

Sgt. Pepper still is, and probably always will be, the closest thing to a "consensus opinion" on the greatest pop-rock album of all time.

I don't think it is -- in fact, I think it's about the Beatles fourth-best album (White, Revolver, Rubber Soul, about tied with Abbey Road).

But there's no doubt SPLHCB was the most important and influential album ever in establishing the pop-rock album, in and of itself, as an artistic product of significance and value.

Goldstein was just attention whoring.

 

• Not the Beatles best album.
• Not the best album of 1967.
• Not a concept album.

 

"Sticky Fingers"?

"Pet Sounds"?

"Are You Experienced"?

EDIT: I'm thinking "Pet Sounds" was '66, because it then influenced the vastly inferior "Sgt. Pepper's."

 

The consensus, if such exists, is closer to your opinion than otherwise.

 

If you ask 100 different people with sufficient knowledge of English-language pop-rock music to have meaningful opinions on the topic, what was the "greatest album of all time," you'll probably get 40-50 different answers. But Sgt Pepper will probably get a dozen votes, and nobody else more than three or four.

 

What is the real answer? I maintain it is "Exile on Main Street," if I had to name one. But I also think this is subjective and that art is not a fucking contest.

 

That could certainly be a reasonable pick. I'd take Beggars Banquet myself for the Stones.

 

Hendrix released 'Are You Experienced' and 'Axis: Bold as Love' that year.
'Sticky Fingers' wasn't until '71, but the Stones released the great but largely forgotten 'Between the Buttons' and 'Satanic Majesty's Request.'
Cream released 'Disraeli Gears.'
The Doors made the eponymous debut.
'The Who Sell Out' came out.
Bob Dylan released 'John Wesley Harding.'
'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' came out.

There were a lot of great albums that year.
I love the Beatles, and I dig 'Sgt. Pepper's' but it has taken on a mythology that the actual work does not merit.