It's Certainly A Thrill: 'Sgt. Pepper' Is Best Album (Better than the White Album?!)

usa today ^ | 11-17-03

[Revolting cat!]

the White Album?!

Here it is!

[eddie willers]

Neil Young's "Decade" and the Allman Brothers' "Decade of Hits" belong in any list of Top 10 albums of all time

As good as they are (I was "into" Neil begining with The Buffalo Springfield and The Allman Brothers played at my 1970 high school graduation dance) Greatest Hits compilations should NEVER be considered as albums.

An album should be a singular event and artistic endeavor

So that being said....I vote for "Tonight's The Night" and "Idlewild South". :-)

[Petronski]

The Allman Brothers played at my 1970 high school graduation dance . . . .

That is probably the coolest thing I've ever heard. Dayum!

[Revolting cat!]

Not the best album!

[Skooz]

My mom bought this album for me when I was 8 years old in the second grade. I wore the grooves off of it then. I continued to listen to it through my teens, into my twenties, and now--at age 43--it still sounds as good as ever.

If that isn't a definition of greatness, I don't know what is.

[eddie willers]

And I defy anyone to name a better rock tune than "Won't Get Fooled Again".

"I Can't Get No Satisfaction".

[Vinomori]

Oh no, Abbey Road was better!

[Alberta's Child]

You've got to be kidding. That's not even the best Rolling Stones tune! ("Waiting On A Friend," "Gimme Shelter," etc.)

[eddie willers]

Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale"

Their "A Salty Dog" album is one my Desert Island Discs.

[pau1f0rd]

The Beatles were overproduced and are still wildly overrated

Underrated! ;-)

[oh8eleven]

Number ONE!

[Alberta's Child]

I knew I was getting old when I realized that half of my "Desert Island Discs" were country music CDs. LOL.

[B Knotts]

Bah. This is all boomer crap.

It's not all bad, but these people ignore so much outside of the particular cultural niche in which they live.

How about Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking?"

Where's Glenn Miller, Kay Kyser or Les Brown?

Hank Williams?

Ralph Stanley?

[Skooz]

Robert Johnson?

[Petronski]

Number ONE!

So is piss.

[Weimdog]

Post #44 is the answer to Post #46.

[KellyAdmirer]

I would put Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper at the top of this kind of list. The second side of Abbey Road is the best sustained musical experience of the rock era imho.

[republicofdavis]

"The Beatles were overproduced and are still wildly overrated."

OK, I'll bite. Since you obviously don't like them I doubt I can convince you to change your mind. Musical taste is very subjective. I would just put it to you that any band that can put out 2 double albums worth of greatest hits (and could have probably filled another) is worthy of great consideration. Don't think commercial consideration accounts for much? You've got to give it to them for staying power. People of all kinds of tastes listen to them and stations with all kinds of formats play them.

They were amazingly creative in a very short period of time and somehow achieved an unbelievable increase of skill, ability and musicianship throughout that entire period.

And yes, they had good production. That doesn't make Hey Jude or A Day in the Life lesser songs. It makes them great.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The Beatles produced the "best album ever"?

How can this article not be a joke?

[arthurus]

Bach, Hayden, Handel, Mozart

Popular as they were those fellows just didn't get around to recording much.