The slow kids wonder what all the hype about Sgt. Peppers is 50 years on. it doesn't help with the press release BS about how amazing it sounds since Giles Martin added compression. i think Giles is as good a charlatan as his old man. You need to thank EMI and their great engineers or else it would have sounded like a Mickie Most production (i.e. very dated).
It's always been a good mockumentary target because it spawned so many bad and pretentious imitations. It was the probably the first pop album....not just singles and stray tracks. It's good head music. The packaging, the sounds, the myth can't be taken seperately which is counter to today's culture (where it was once counter culture).
Favorite tracks?? "Getting Better" "lucy" "Mr. Kite" "within in" "Day in the life". I first got this album when i was 8 and listened on a phonograph worse than a crosley and it still turned me on. "She's leaving home" used to make me cry!!! As Lenny Kaye said "It's a nugget if you dug it."