Quoted from Brasa, posted March 23, 2004, 4:19am at here

As far as I know "Revolver" was considered the ROCK masterpiece...

Not at the time.  Only later, in retrospect (maybe by the 70's at the earliest).

Quoted from misterchaz, posted March 23, 2004, 5:56pm at here

Not at the time.  Only later, in retrospect (maybe by the 70's at the earliest).

These things go in cycles - at one point Rubber Soul was the masterpiece! I think Q magazine have changed their minds 4 times over the years!

True, true.  Each Beatle release overshadowed the prior one in real-time pretty much in the 60's.  Only after they broke up did all the looking back and critiquing occur.

It may not be their best album but it's still great. I mean come on it's #1 album on the England charts.

Quoted from patton, posted March 23, 2004, 8:23pm at here

It may not be their best album but it's still great. I mean come on it's #1 album on the England charts.

I totally agree - it was number pretty much everywhere, and deservedly so.

You gotta understand, there was no album like Sgt Pepper at the time, it was a first.  Sure now there are some better, but it was the first.  And some of this uniqueness is lost on the CD version.

Ok...to recapitulate....Sgt. Pepper is the most overrated album of all time(any artist)....and MMT is the most underrated album of all time(any artist) Pepper was #1 on Rolling Stones All Time Greatest Albums.  While MMT didn't even make the list of 500.

And jus to spoon feed your opinions to you...The White Album is without doubt the most influential and greatest achievement in the history of Pop Music.


JWL

I agree only about MMt but not Peppers

Quoted from JWL, posted March 24, 2004, 9:24am at here

Ok...to recapitulate....Sgt. Pepper is the most overrated album of all time(any artist)....and MMT is the most underrated album of all time(any artist) Pepper was #1 on Rolling Stones All Time Greatest Albums.  While MMT didn't even make the list of 500.

And jus to spoon feed your opinions to you...The White Album is without doubt the most influential and greatest achievement in the history of Pop Music.


JWL

Good Lord!  REVERSE everything you said and you got it just about right.

Quoted from misterchaz, posted March 24, 2004, 5:22pm at here

Good Lord!  REVERSE everything you said and you got it just about right.

Sorry JWL, I have to agree with Mr Charlie - you can't look back now and try to undermine the importance of Sgt Pepper - this was truly ground-breaking material in its day. It really did point Pop music in a totally new direction - it was starting to be taken seriously.

{Pepper is my favorite album

Hey Fried...anyone ever tell you how much you look like Paul?

Sgt Pepper is probably the most important LP ever recorder. Yes there have been better records since, both by the Beatles and others, but that doesn't take away from how innovative Sgt Pepper was. If you only allowed yourself to listen to pre 1967 music and then put it on you should see the difference.

And anyways A Day in the Life is the best song ever by anyone!

Quoted from Alan_H, posted March 25, 2004, 12:32am at here

Clever

redundant

Quoted from Beatle_Ed, posted March 25, 2004, 8:38am at here

redundant

Yep.