Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

I thought this album was alright. Definitley not my favorite but it did have some really good songs on it. I like that it was kind of a fun album not all dark and serious like some of their other albums and/or songs. Paul McCartney is my absolute favorite beatle, so when I see his influence in this album it makes me like it more. I really like how some of the songs on this album had an orchestral influence and also just an orchestra in the background. I think it sounds really cool to add that stuff in and I like that the Beatles were being experimental. I do think that they kind of stole some ideas from the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds, but that's what people do in music I guess; someone finds something cool, then everyone uses it. In a way that's good, but I think that that's also what can make certain genres of music boring for you: when everyone is doing the same thing. And I think that the Beatles kind of did that to the Beach Boys: stole their cool sounds so that they would sound cool. For example, they both used crazy sounds like dogs barking and stuff like that, and the Beach Boys were kind of orchestral also. The annoying thing is that everyone thought that pet sounds was a dud of an album when in actuality I liked it better than Sgt. Peppers. Sgt. Peppers was at the top of the billboard for something like 27 weeks in the UK and 15 at number 1 in the US, but the Beach Boys barely got noticed back then for their amazing album. Anyways, here are my favorite songs on Sgt. Peppers are:

"A Little Help from my Friends"



"A Day in the Life"