A selection of one star reviews of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band from Amazon for your enjoyment.
This alBUM and the beatles in general are way too over-rated! How can you people say this album is perfect without it having ONE GOOD METAL GUITAR PART! you people need to learn what GOOD music is.
I suggest: Dragon Force, Megadeth, and Death Cab for Cutie.
Just wanted to let people know that this album has some satanic ties. Myself being a lover of rock music I realized some of the messages being conveyed were satanic. Notice on the album cover of this album, there is a picture of Aleister Crowley (top left second person)the biggest Devil Worshipper who started a satanic following. Listen to the lyrics they sound innocent but listen closely. The message given is “Start A Revolution” “Do What Thou Will”, Those are teachings of Crowley, also notice the statue on the cover (bottom right under the BEETLES) That statue is mentioned in many of crowleys teachings. Guess who Sgt Pepper is… Yup Crowley!! Notice the lyric “It was 20 years ago today…Sgt Pepper taught the band to play” Just wanted to give a warning to those who didn’t know! Why do you think this band got so big!!
This album is a rip off Pink Floyd’s DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. The beatles copied Pink Floyd and this is the reason why Pink Floyd are better. Simply a weak and disgusting effort. Best avoided.
I just don’t get why anybody likes this album! It makes everybody’s best of all time list and it is unlistenable. Does anybody that rates this or judges this actually listen to it or is it just considered great because of what it “supposedly” revolutionized. There’s only one song worth listening to more than once (We all know that’s A Day In The Life). C’mon, Lovely Rita, I’m Fixin’ A Hole, Lucy, Friends. This ain’t Rock and Roll and I don’t like it! Give me Pet Sounds any day! Give me The Village Green Preservation Society and I can listen to it for days on end. If I had to listen to Sgt. Pepper I’d probably have to be sedated. God Save The Kinks!
In this day and age, is there really any need for this sort of pompous twaddle. I mean, wasn’t that sort of pop music just a dead end?
Save your money, just buy a copy at a garage sale where they never lack for copies of the LP.
This isn’t rock and roll. It’s sinitra-esque orchestral pop. The most overrated, crappy piece of trash ever.
Rock? Art? If you want to call it that. Take it on its own terms. Don’t compare it to a symphony. It is what it is.
And what is this music? Whatever it is, it SOUNDS like something made by four musicians who given the studio time and an enormous budget came up with ambition. What’s it like to hear ambition? Listen to this. Want to hear MUSIC? Go elsewhere.
This is the album self-deluded Beetles fans love to point to as their work of genious. Lemon and McCarthy were alledgedly at the top of their form.
Oh, come now!
It’s a quaint period piece; a relic of the sixties. The music sounds dated. It’s nostalgia, but nostalgia ain’t art!
You’d do better to get “Pet Sounds”, written, arranged, and produced by a REAL genious: Brian Wilson. It sounds as fresh and sophisticated today as when it was first released.
Future generations will revere Brian Wilson’s music the way Beethoven’s is revered now. The Beetles will be a mere footnote in history if they get mentioned at all.
Save your money, and pick up “Pet Sounds” instead; you’ll be glad you did.
‘Sgt. Pepper’ ranks as one of the most overrated albums of all time. Not only is it a bad album, it is also a boring one. Some of the songs are OK, but the rest of the album makes me want to fall asleep. I think most people know that it is bad, but are afraid to admit it.
This is a worthless album. Why does everyone make such a big darn deal about it? This is nothing compared to what Zappa had achieved by that time. Sgt. Pepper wouldn’t even exist without Zappa; his album Freak Out inspired it and outshined it by about a million miles. Do yourself a favor, skip this peice of hippie pop-culture B.S. drivel.
If people had been making albums for the last 1000 years they could not have made a worse album than Sgt. Pepper. It’s that awful. But go ahead and defend it if you must. It does make for some catchy commercials.
I don’t see what is so great about this album it () big time a guy from my work told me to buy it he said it’s amazing.I wasted my money one this junk piece.I would recomend buying The Velvet Underground/Nico now thats an amazing Album and a Great Band.I read in a magazine that Lou Reed hated this Beatles Album.I agree with him 100%.People out there dont buy this LP its a waste of money.And probably the worst album from 1967
I am a big fan of progressive rock. What I don’t understand is how people can rip Yes, King Crimson, etc to pieces and how they can be barred from entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yet, this pile of pop-garbage is hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread. This album stands as a monument to the self-righteous, bloated image of the horrible baby-boomer demographic. How can people say this is visionary music, and in the same breath deride a true genius like Robert Fripp? Face it, the Beatles are nothing more nor less than the 1960′s N’Sync. And why are all Beatles cd priced so high? Because they know they can fool the conumer into buying this tripe. This disc makes a good coaster and nothing more. Don’t waste your money. Thank you for reading this.
I was born after the Beatles had long been disbanded.
They music, is well, I Don’t get it.
Maybe at the time it was good, but it is 2003, and they suck.
This album must really be the one most overrated album of all time by – surprise – the one most overrated band ever to walk the earth. This is from the period in The Beatles’ careers where they could get away with murder … in this case, murdering music. I never liked their vocals to start with. Even the huge amounts of reverb in this album can’t cover up the fact that the guys could not freaking sing. McCartney had always sounded like someone squeezed his private parts while he was doing a vocal effort, but on this album his singing sounds more strained than ever. Lennon’s voice was only matched by his songwriting: bland, obnoxious and highly LSD-induced. And what the heck was George thinking while fiddling on that sitar?? He couldn’t play the instrument a dime’s worth. Come to think of it, he didn’t have much going for him on guitar either.
The only Beatle I really rspected was Ringo Starr. At least he had some insight in his own lack of talent, which sometimes led to pretty amusing songwriting efforts. The Beatles are the one example of how much you can achieve on marketing hype alone. “Artists” like Madonna, Prince and George Michael are now following their example. Hooray.
If they wanted a little help from their friends, they should have called on the likes of Elton John. With CD’s like “Victim of Love” and “Leather Jackets” to his credit, he might have been able to rescue this sad excuse for music! For the benefit of us all, stay away from this and all recordings from The Beatles, the most overrated group in recording history! Hopefully Lucy will stay up in the sky where she’s safe from this album!
Let me get this straight: four pampered sissies from England recklessly spend exorbitant amounts of money on mind-altering drugs…then they rent a studio and proceed to pontificate endlessly on one of the most ridiculously overrated albums in music history. For the uninitiated, welcome to the wild and wacky world of the late 1960′s.
The Beatles always exemplified everything we despise about celebrities. They were a bunch of rich beautiful people who woke-up one day and suddenly believed that their “deep thoughts” were going to save the world. Well, the verdict is in, and this syrupy confection of teen-aged rubbish didn’t save anything. In fact, it signified nothing more than the beginning of the end of the biggest waste of psychic energy in modern pop culture history. The 1960′s have mercifully ended. Now let’s add this tourtuous waste of time to the dung heap of trivial cultural slime that needs to be forgotten forever. Where’s the “Brady Bunch” when you really need them? Thank you for your time. -DW.
I just bought this CD and I dont’ see what all the hype is about. My teacher always talks about the Beatles but they have no lyrical skills, my cousin Rodney is a better song writer than these clowns. I think they should remix these songs with 50 Cent or Snoop, then they’d really get some fans behind them.
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27 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.aleister crowley gets a bad rap but he was an interesting and misunderstood guy.
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Nothing says “GOOD METAL GUITAR PART!” like Death Cab for Cutie. Word.
“If people had been making albums for the last 1000 years they could not have made a worse album…” Interesting- albeit lame- take on the “thousand monkeys with typewriters” theme.
And if ONLY they had gotten some help from Elton John! Too bad they didn’t figure that out- poor losers.
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I think some of these reviews are spot-on. Although it’s way better than most albums, Sgt. Pepper’s really IS over-rated; songs like “She’s Leaving Home” are almost unlistenable. For innovation, give me The Mothers’ “Absolutely Free” any day of the week.
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I love the comment that Sgt Pepper (June, 1967) “ripped off” Dark Side of the Moon (March, 1973,) considering it was released six years earlier.
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I smell a whiff of spoof fropm a couple of those… especially Mr Metal Parts and the Crowley afficionado. Probably the Elton John chappie, too.
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Every reviewer is, no doubt, under 30. With absolutely no knowledge of music history.
Sheesh. Shows how much you can depend on Amazon reviews…
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Lemon and McCarthy! Now that is the original Odd Couple! Jack Lemon meet Senator McCarthy…But is it Eugene or Joseph?
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Geez, I don’t even like the Beatles and I liked Sgt. Pepper.
“50 Cent or Snoop.” I may hurt myself with laughter…
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Throwing out all my Beatles CDs and awaiting the new album from “my cousin Rodney”.
You’ve struck gold here Mr Cynical.
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Debbe: Word. Most kids have no concept of what was the innovation of modern music. Kids are so numbed by the derivatives that THEY call the innovators, they think the old farts are ripping modern music off.
Word to your mutha: whoever you think is the shiznit, The Beatles, Elvis, Dylan, Stones, Zep et al DID. IT. FIRST.
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I’m curious why someone that listens to Dragon Force, Megadeth, Death Cab for Cutie, 50 Cent and/or Snoop Dog would even have come in contact with this album, much less look it up on Amazon and comment on it.
Some reviewers it was suggested to them by others people. Those other people shouldn’t be too surprised at the feedback from a headbanger or hip-hopper.
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Hey Chris, if you’re planning on continuing this series, might I suggest the one-star reviews for George Orwell’s 1984? There’s some serious denial-mojo happening there…
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@damnedyankee
1984 was going to be today’s edition but I wanted to mix it up with something other than a book. We’ll get to Orwell though.
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“My teacher always talks about the Beatles but they have no lyrical skills, my cousin Rodney is a better song writer than these clowns. I think they should remix these songs with 50 Cent or Snoop, then they’d really get some fans behind them.”
lulz were had
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While most of the reviews were ridiculous, I have long said the Beatles are over rated in general and Sgt Pepper over rated in particular! I can think of so many other bands from that same period that were doing far more interesting things. To say the Beatles were the greatest band is like saying Warhol was greatest artist and I am sorry I think that is sham!
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It just goes to show you can’t be too careful!
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Oh my gosh I never thought people could be so mindless!
Indeed, Lemon and Mcarthy must have been really bad musicians to rip off Dark Side of the Moon; I mean they must’ve been so worried with going to the future to steal songs that they forgot what REAL rock and roll is.
Sgt. Pepper’s might be overrated but it’s musical value is absolutely undeniable.
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Lennon and McCartney are freaking genius’ beyond any level I credited them to before if they could rip off an album that was 6 years away from being released. Now that is skill beyond any other musician’s!
Oh no, it doesn’t have one good metal guitar part. That of course was exactly the kind of music scene at the time, heavy metal guitar solos :eye roll:
Pet Sounds is beautiful also but I enjoy how they draw attention to the one musician who was so awed by what he heard that he put his life’s work on hold ’cause he felt he couldn’t match it.
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Brian Wilson will be looked at by future generation like we look at Beethoven. Huh. I love the Beach Boys, but their music sounds much more dated than most of the Beatles.
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My favorite:
“This album is a rip off Pink Floyd’s DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. The beatles copied Pink Floyd and this is the reason why Pink Floyd are better. Simply a weak and disgusting effort. Best avoided.”
Sgt. Pepper was released in 1967. Dark Side of the Moon was released 6 years later in 1973. Now, unless the Beatles have time-travel abilities, it would be pretty difficult for them to rip off an album that hasn’t been made yet.
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Well, you see, with Crowley’s help, the Fab Four managed to travel into the future to rip off Pink Floyd.
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Actually, I think Sgt Pepper is overrated. It must have sounded radical in 1967. Listen to what else was on the airwaves in 1967 and you realize Sgt Pepper must have sounded futuristic to people then. It also was stocked with drug references and Eastern mysticism, which chimed with a period of great irrationality in the West. So it was declared a classic, and a great moment in Western Civilization by one critic.
I think Revolver is better, and at least one prominent music magazine thinks so too. I can’t recall which one right now, maybe NME or Q or so.
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Ah, man, why does everyone assume that all the haters are young? I’m under 30 and I feel that I have a rather well-formed knowledge of music, and I don’t know what is so far-fetched about being able to appreciate Snoop, the Beatles and Death Cab.
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I second Honey Pie’s assertion. I’m under 30, and I can appreciate true originality perfectly well. Granted, if I told most people my age (or in general) that The Monks invented punk rock circa 1966, I’d get strange looks (despite being right, damnit!), but that doesn’t mean we’re all vacuous.
Also, yes, Sgt. Pepper’s is overrated, but it’s also still a very original, enjoyable album. Personally, I really like “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite”…
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Sgt. Pepper was great, but Revolver was more innovative in comparison.
I thought it was funny when someone brought up metal, which was only credited to exist two albums later in The Beatles (The White Album).
I was born in 1990 and even I can discredit some of the people who rip on the Beatles who were born in their generation. (One was a “mover” in the British Garage Band scene and the other said the band’s name wasn’t on the cover)
News flash: Your petty little garage band wouldn’t have been able to make it anywhere if it weren’t for the Beatles.
I even remember somebody saying the Beatles were only a fad. Though, that quote was made in 1964.
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I was born in 1993, so I definitely wasn’t around The Beatles era. I must say that musical taste is opinionated, something that these reviewers omitted in each of their reviews. Now I appreciate a wide variety of rock and other forms of music (The Beatles inclusive): Black Sabbath, NIN, The Offspring, Dick Dale, Rainbow, Buddy Rich, Art Blakey, Fatboy Slim, Megadeth, Pantera, Eminem, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Gorillaz, and so on. Where is the constructive criticism? Are these morons so narrow-minded that the best they came up with was “NOT ONE GOOD METAL GUITAR PART” and “my cousin Rodney”? First off, I bet the “metalhead” guy who liked Dragonforce can’t name me a Sabbath song that HASN’T been played 2 trillion times in the media (oh, but I suppose the classic metal band is too old now).
I find it very frustrating how many people my age find that something more than a few years old is disposable. Even worse, there are people, both young and old that deprecate something simply because of popularity. Maybe there’s a reason The Beatles were popular (and sold over a billion records).
The fallacies in many of the reviews are simply laughing material. Dark Side of the Moon was ripped off from years in the future, eh? Hm, maybe that same reviewer should be thinking logically. Did, in his perspective, Pink Floyd copy The Beatles, and he doesn’t realize it?
I understand if people don’t like the album…but if you are going to criticize it, please do better than “They were pop, so it sucked.”
Thank you for posting this. It is a rather accurate testament to the narrow-mindedness of people.
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Oh, and I haven’t heard the name “N’Sync” since I watched a Robot Chicken episode a year ago. I’ve seen and heard The Beatles referenced multiple times in the last week or so.
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