It’s not just you. They jumped the shark with Pepper and didn’t do much good after that except for Abbey Road.
Cheers,
Jim
Yes, hugely influential at the time but does not age well.
And I never did like Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. And it had nothing to do with whether or not it alluded to LSD. Just something about Lennon’s voice and the quality of the treble in the mix doesn’t sit well with me.
Rubber Soul (US version) and Abbey Road are the best and the White Album is right up there.
Give the Zombies “Odyssey and Oracle” a listen. Recorded in Abbey Road right after SgtP and brilliant pop/psych. Really captured the zeitgeist of the period. And they didn’t do drugs so there’s that.