Needles & Grooves

Sgt Pepper's would still be my favorite out of those three, as uncontroversial a pick it is.

My favorite songs out of that bunch came from Sgt. pepper. My least favorite songs out of that bunch came from Sgt. Pepper. Hendrix didn’t reach the highs of pepper, but i liked Hendrix’s consistent high quality. But I totally get why pepper would be someone’s fave!

What were your least faves from pepper? just curious because I really don't find myself hating anything off sgt peppers

Fixing a Hole, being for the benefit of mr kite, within you without you, when I’m sixty four, lovely rita

And I don’t HATE them. I just don’t like them as much as the average songs from the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. But average is probably misleading. I mean, some of this gets pretty abstract when discussing some of the best albums in history and the pioneering albums of modern rock.

I mean all of this is subjective but I’m a known Beatles nut and I have exactly the same criticisms of Pepper’s. It doesn’t make my top 5 Beatles albums. Not to say that it’s bad, it’s clearly excellent but it does have bits that grate and they did better a good few times...

Love all the songs you just listed, especially when I'm sixty four and lovely rita. To each their own I guess

It doesn't hold up as well today, at least compared to other late-Beatles albums, because everything that came after it commondeered a piece of it, so you've heard the while thing before you heard it. But when one considers it in 1967, a little over 10 years removed from "Mr. Sandman" and "Roll Over Beehtoven," or indeed, 4 years from Please Please Me, it's capacity for mind-blow becomes apparrent.

Sure. But the Doors was released in January 1967, are you experienced came out May 12, 1967, and sgt pepper dropped on May 26, 1967. The Hendrix and doors holds up better to me.

This turned out to be a hotter take than I thought!

My hot takes is that The Doors are tedious sub sixth form philosophers with dull overlong songs...

The Hendrix is really good too though!

I got sleepy, so I didn't listen to Velvet Underground and Nico like I planned. I'm looking forward to seeing how it fits in with those 3

You are a fun cat to follow as you work your way through music as a grown adult. I have been a fervent music obsessive for most of my 37 years. So its kinda like you’re the control group for popular music criticism removing the initial hype and visceral emotional of experiencing pop music in real time. I am sure you have said before, but out of curiosity what’s your backstory (if you care to share).

My SO has a similar type experience. She grew up in a really catholic household that didn’t listen to much popular music outside of an occasional country tune. Then she went to college and it was like Wizard of Oz black & white to technicolor switch for her as she became exposed to pop music.