SGT PEPPERS THREAD:

I’ll tell you what this album is

Happy birthday to the greatest and most important Album in rock n roll and music in general. It was 53 years ago today. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released and changed music as everyone knew it forever.

Everything about this album was different. And it was the first at many things. One of them being having lyrics included written on the back of the album. The drums sounded liver and louder than everybody else's drums.

Because of a technique they used to bring the mics too close to the bass drum. It wasn’t allowed as the pressure damages the mic but the sound engineer Geoff Emerick was given special permission on the Beatles.

the guitars would just cut through in a way that they didn't on other peoples' records, and the vocals were tight. All thanks to the brilliant George Martin. And with 4 different singers in the band. It was already too colorful of an album

In today's studios, musicians can lay down a nearly infinite number of tracks and mix them together to create a song. The Beatles had just four. The shortcomings of four-track recording forced the band and its late producer George Martin to become expert arrangers.

Emerick was forced by the recording process and the band itself to invent new techniques for manipulating sound. Today, the same can be accomplished with a click of the mouse.

The studio was their instrument. Their imagination was the drive. And the instruments bouncing off each other sounding like they never did on any other record led the final product to be the greatest musical masterpiece.

From John Lennon’s psychedelic circus song “being for the benefit of Mr.Kite” to George Harrison’s Indian Hindustani classical music “Within You Without You”
To Paul McCartney’s pre-rock music-hall tune “When I’m Sixty Four” to Ringo’s uplifting “with a little help..”

If these theee tracks were to be listened to after one another. You wouldn’t have guessed they’re by the same band. You can only imagine the amount of diversity in that album all the way to “A Day In The Life” which is the most ambitious musical effort of the 20th century

Anyway stream it today yea