Best of the Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Subterraneanus

IMO, “Strawberry Fields Forever” is easily the best Beatles song. Not even ADITL can compete with it. Just freaking beautiful.

Tastes obviously differ. I don’t care much for SFF at all.

[njtt]

@jsc1953

This is undoubtedly a better topic for its own thread – but what’s the deal with Paul McCartney song fragments? I believe I’ve heard that the middle section of ADITL was a Paul fragment that didn’t stand on its own, so they dropped it into the middle of John’s song.
And then there’s the little “Can you take me back where I came from…” at the end of “Cry Baby Cry” on the White Album.
And virtually all of side 2 of Abbey Road. And much of Paul’s Wings – “Band on the Run” and “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” are multiple fragments stuck together.

“Happiness is a Warm Gun” seems to be an assemblage of fragments too, but presumably mostly John fragments rather than Paul ones.

I don’t have an issue with them doing this. It seems to me that they made it work very well. ADITL may mark the discovery of the technique, but its not the last time it worked, and it not only resulted in some of The Beatles’ best work, but in some of Wings best work too (a much lower standard, admittedly).

[Andiethewestie]

Can I just love this album for what it is? That fantastical cover, the lads in those impossible satin outfits, Sgt Pepper is one of the greats. Oh, I can’t pick a fave, but ADITL, Lucy, Rita, Friends, Getting Better all classics.