1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With a Little Help from My Friends
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing a Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day in the Life
Is the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band overrated? I listened to this album in full for the first time recently and don't understand what the fuss is about. Best album ever?! Definitely not! To start, Within You Without You is another Harrison circlejerk that drags on forever. Lennon's contributions are fairly weak; Mr. Kite! is practically hookless and relies on flashy production in place of songwriting and Good Morning Good Morning is clearly tacked-on filler. Don't even get me started on A Day in the Life, which has to be their most overrated song ever! Tbh, Getting Better and When I'm Sixty-Four are both better than A Day in the Life imo.
This album is good, but Revolver and Abbey Road are easily better, and I would probably put Rubber Soul above it, too.
Thoughts? Do you agree or disagree?