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Title: Art? If this is art, I'm Da Vinci...
Review: I've always been amazed how many people want to refer to this album as a 'work of art' or 'concept album' only because they've been told that's what it is; not because they've actually judged it for themselves. I've also noticed that the people who show evidence of having thought it out realize it's just a bunch of cartoony drivel. A couple of the mindless pop tunes are decent: "Little Help" and "Lucy in the Sky" for example (although Elton John's version of "Lucy" puts this one to shame). But come on, let's not pretend Sgt Pepper is anything other than what it is: a bunch of mediocre pop songs that were packaged and marketed as 'art.' The Beatles trying to be artistic have always been like Bob Dylan trying to sing, or Charlton Heston trying to act. They can't do it worth anything, but they're widely accepted anyway. Why? Who knows.
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