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Title: Timely, timeless.
Review: I agree with the reviewers that say it is pointless to review this album. But the Beatles' music makes me at least want to take the opportunity to say "Wow." Sgt. Pepper is both timely and timeless. The forays into sound experiments were certainly influential and intriguing in their time (and in many instances, still intrigue) but strip all the production away and you're still left with wonderful songs. Great melodies, engaging lyrics...in fact, one of the great accomplishments of the Beatles was how incredibly well their music complements their lyrics to create something even greater as a whole. Whether you like the Beatles or not, whether you like Sgt. Pepper or not is, as always, a matter of personal taste. But you're doing yourself a great disservice if you don't listen to their music and listen again. This album is so inventive, so solid, so well-crafted, so influential and so enduring you would have to be arrogant or small-minded indeed to give it anything but a top rating.
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