What's your 'Sgt. Pepper's'?

[exist10z]

I have NO** animosity. Key word left out.

So glad you added this, the post that referenced, as it was originally, bummed me out.

[sweatboard]

I don't know, Radiohead: OK Computer, Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin and Super Furry Animals: Rings Around The World are all, to me, game changing albums for those bands.

Funny, the Radiohead and Wilco albums were the first things I thought of reading that post.  Then I saw you beat me to it...

I agree, YHF and OK Computer definatly crossed my mind during that post.  It might just be a case of me being to close to them....I just have no context of how to imagine how people of that generation thought of Sgt. Peppers at that time.

OK, I'll go ahead and say it, OK Computer and YHF are my SGT. Peppers. 

[ManNamedTruth]

OK Computer is definitely our generation's Sgt. Peppers.

[sweatboard]

OK Computer is definitely our generation's Sgt. Peppers.

yeah, I remember skipping class at my coummuniy college to sit in the parking lot of my community college inside my hail damaged 89' honda accord to listen to "LET DOWN" over and over again. Plus..I LOVE Turtles!!

[sweatboard]

I bought $300 dollar headphones for the sole pupose of listening to YHF.  Also my Sgt. Peppers.

[ManNamedTruth]

OK Computer is definitely our generation's Sgt. Peppers.

yeah, I remember skipping class at my coummuniy college to sit in the parking lot of my community college inside my hail damaged 89' honda accord to listen to "LET DOWN" over and over again. Plus..I LOVE Turtles!!

Ha, just changed my profile before I saw this. I'm gonna be the I like Turtles kid for halloween next year.

[sweatboard]

who is that? 

[sweatboard]

her teeth are amazing.

[Penny Lane]

I bought $300 dollar headphones for the sole pupose of listening to YHF.  Also my Sgt. Peppers.

it's one of my Sgt Peppers---it turned me away from brit pop into a new world

[ManNamedTruth]

who is that?

check the twin peaks thread.

[SauceGod]

my Sgt. Pepper:

[Penny Lane]

my Sgt. Pepper:

i love that album..takes me back to 1997...living in Liverpool! (for only a few months but still..)

[Willard1979]

R.E.M.-Murmur 

[parkervb]

I guess I have to go with Nevermind by Nirvana.  Getting into that record at 11/12 years old and reading interviews with  Kurt where he talked so highly of The Beatles and Pixies opened my eyes to so much music (even more with Unplugged with covers of Leadbelly, Bowie).  My parents mostly listened to stuff like Garth Brooks, Heart, Madonna and I was only child so I never had that older influence to turn me onto the Beatles or Pixies.  I listened to it recently on a road trip and man, does that album still kill.   

[Ob1jacobe]

Funny i just started a thread of favorite all-time albums, please comment there too.

Here is my list again


  1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  2. Radiohead - OK Computer
  3. Blur - Parklife
  4. Pulp - Common People
  5. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
  6. Broken Social Scene - You Forget In People
  7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  8. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
  9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
  10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
  11. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
  12. Built To Spill - Keep it Like Secret
  13. Nirvana - Nevermind
  14. Flaming Lips - Yoshi Battles the Pink Robots
  15. The Wrens - The Meadowlands
  16. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
  17. The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
  18. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
  19. The Verve - Urban Hymns
  20. The National - Alligator

[Penny Lane]

Funny i just started a thread of favorite all-time albums, please comment there too.

Here is my list again


  1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  2. Radiohead - OK Computer (change this to The Bends)
  7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  8. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
  10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
  16. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
  18. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
  19. The Verve - Urban Hymns (favorite album of all time)
  20. The National - Alligator

these would be on my list as well..

[rmpotsy]

Dark Side gives me a bad trip. It's too angry and depressed sounding. Roger Waters is an a$$hole of such epic proportions I'm totally and completely unable to listen to the last albums.

Lying in the dark with my man one night, long before the babies were conjured, we got high and threw on Dark Side. When the screaming starts in the intro to speak to me, I got freaked out and begged the alienlanes to take the record off. I got really hysterical and it was a strange reaction since I'd grown up on Pink Floyd (my Dad LOVED Floyd, Beatles, Dylan, Cream, Stones, etc - I was a lucky little child) and knew that album intimately.

My antidote? Pet Sounds :)  It made me happy. And is the Beach Boys' Sgt Pepper, incidentally. Additionally, to add onto Fully's connections between the artists: Sgt Pepper is what it is in part due to Pet Sounds but Pet Sounds was heavily inspired by Revolver. Don't you just love that? 

That whole era of music '65 to the early 70s is such a ridiculously, deliriously, dizzying explosion of creativity!

pet sounds is the beach boys' rubber soul, not revolver.  brian wilson made it in response to hearing the american version of rubber soul for the first time and wanted to make an album better than what he thought was a perfect album.

that being said, there are so many ways people have stated what their sgt pepper's is in this thread that i am going to encompass the four that i feel resonate the most into one post.

favorite album: exile on main street
most influential album: the white album
favorite album of my generation: yankee hotel foxtrot
most influential album of my generation: yankee hotel foxtrot

i could also throw in in no particular order, physical graffiti, london calling, abbey road, revolver, blood on the tracks, blonde on blonde, another side of bob dylan, dsotm, nevermind, ok computer, paul's boutique, check your head, midnight marauders, paid in full, mezzanine, no depression, im wide awake its morning, ism, z, and countless others that arent popping into my head right now.

[johnnYYac]

Funny i just started a thread of favorite all-time albums, please comment there too.

Here is my list again


  1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  2. Radiohead - OK Computer (change this to The Bends)
  7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  8. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
  10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
  16. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
  18. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
  19. The Verve - Urban Hymns (favorite album of all time)
  20. The National - Alligator

these would be on my list as well..

I saw this and realized I don't have Urban Hymns.  Seemed $7 for the CD from Amazon was a worthy risk to take.  I trust Penny's taste in music, at least that much!  Should arrive tomorrow...

[Ob1jacobe]

Funny i just started a thread of favorite all-time albums, please comment there too.

Here is my list again


  1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  2. Radiohead - OK Computer (change this to The Bends)
  7. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
  8. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
  10. Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
  16. Interpol - Turn on The Bright Lights
  18. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company
  19. The Verve - Urban Hymns (favorite album of all time)
  20. The National - Alligator

these would be on my list as well..

You have great taste :)  I owe my love for the Urban Hymns to this board, possibly even you.  It has come up several times so I gave another try.  THANKS !

[Shug]

If you are gonna go with The Verve, I'd say A Northern Soul is essential, too.  Oh how I love that album and the spacey interludes contrasted with the aggressively trippy stuff, a real nice blend.  Blucas is trying to get me up to speed on other stuff they put out., namely their first album A Storm In Heaven.