Album Name:
Blood on the TracksArtist:
Bob DylanRelease Year:
1975
1. Tangled up in Blue
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You're a Big Girl
4. Idiot Wind
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6. Meet Me in the Morning
7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
8. If You See Her, Say Hello
9. Shelter From the Storm
10. Buckets of Rain
https://open.spotify.com/album/4WD4pslu83FF6oMa1e19mFAlbum Name:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandArtist:
The BeatlesRelease Year:
1967
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
https://open.spotify.com/album/1PULmKbHeOqlkIwcDMNwD4A bit of a miss match for our last quarter-final.
In the round of 16, Sgt. Pepper overcame the album that scored by far the most votes in the first round (The Stone Roses). Blood on the Tracks comfortably beat The Yes Album.
Comments
Never really liked sergeant peppers, in particular the title track and when I’m 64 grated particularly when I first listened to it and have only got slightly better over time.
Blood on the tracks I love every song on and have done since first hearing it.
A work of genius with Dylan at his lyrical best, the anger and dismay of the break up with his wife dripping from his very soul.
Pepper was groundbreaking and has some brilliant tracks but it is patchy and now sounds of its time while Blood on the tracks is a timeless classic.
Tangled up in blue is just awesome
So Pepper.
(Beatles sound dated but loved it when first released.)
My vote goes to Blood on the Tracks!
Never been a huge Dylan fan.
I was too young to be really into Dylan in the 60's, albeit I was very aware of his influence and standing and of course the songs.
Planet Waves first sparked my interest in the 70's and as I retrospectively reached backwards and bought up all the albums I'd missed, suddenly Blood on the Tracks came out and to coin an old phrase, blew my mind.
This really is Dylan's masterpiece imo.
It's a fascinating, compelling, poetic journey through romantic discord, marital disharmony, raw emotional pain and defiance.
Tangled up in Blue, Idiot Wind - surely contenders for 2 of the greatest songs ever written.
And Sgt. Pepper?
Well it's not just that it captured the zeitgeist like no other album before or since.
I remember the impact that the Beatles debut album had; that new, exciting, unique sound.
Each new Beatles record developed that sound into new uncharted territory as grey post-war Britain exploded into colour with the Beatles at the centre of this youthful new age.
Dylan recognised that power and excitement and went electric.
And the Beatles recognised the power of Dylan's words and broadened their lyrical palette accordingly.
The pace of change that the Beatles drove was staggering,
Within 3 years songs like Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows made She Loves You sound primitive.
And Sgt. Pepper was the zenith of that journey imo.
May seem difficult to believe now, but Pepper made it seem like anything was possible. Pop music had no boundaries.
That perfect psychedelic pop confection begat Prog rock, heavy rock and everything since.
It saddens me that Sgt. Pepper's impact has become so diluted, but that is the way of things.
I understand that it must be hard for today's audience to do anything other than judge the songs on their merits.
The context is not there.
For me, I still hear it the way I did when I was 13.
So, Sgt. Pepper for me, but only just and probably for sentimental reasons.
As much as I try and get into Dylan because so many seem to cream their pants when talking about him, there’s just something that stops me. I’ll acknowledge his written and recorded some mighty fine tracks but I find it difficult to listen to an album all the way through.
I gave BOTT a listen the other day and, well, maybe it’s the harmonica, perhaps too much of it, dunno can’t put my finger on it.
Pepper, without the salt for me.
Bob's good, but I can't not vote for SPLHCB because When I'm 64 means so much to me now, having lost my beloved stepfather two years ago. He was such a huge Beatles fan and he finally succumbed to the bastard that is leukaemia one week after his 64th birthday. Now the song makes me laugh and cry in equal amounts because it reminds me of him.
To be fair, I always liked the album anyway (though not that song in particular), but now it just means that little bit more to me.
Just watched the documentary "It Was Fifty Years Ago Today" on Netflix. Very odd in that it was about Sergeant Pepper and what was going on with The Beatles in and around 1967 but they had no Beatles music nor did they show the album cover in full. Nothing controversial so I assume just copyright issues.
Too many Dylan songs in Blood on the tracks...
The White Album wins.
Awright then, Blood on the Tracks...
I love the Beatles and Pepper is a landmark album.
BOTT is my vote
Bobby for me.
Pepper is pure unadulterated pop.
BOTT - is a laster, withstands constant playing unlike Pepper in fact i might dig our BOTT and give it some plays today.
What could Pepper possibly be other than Pop?
That was pretty much all there was in 1967.
To use the term unadulterated is to lazily ignore just how much the Beatles had developed the possibilities of the 3 minute Pop song.
Compare it to any other pop album of the time.
Even the fledgeling pop/rock pioneers like Hendrix, Cream or Traffic were aware of the importance of a commercial 3 minute Pop hit at that time.
I realise I am taking this all a bit too seriously, but I hate to see Pepper dismissed so casually.
In fact I'd argue that Pepper itself by it's very success, and the experimental nature of songs like A day in the life and Within you Without you, opened up the possibilities.
Pop became rock, psychedelia morphed into Prog.
By 1971 albums began to outsell singles and became the de facto artistic statement.
By then the Beatles were no more.
They had burst onto a music scene that was strictly a teen market, where the artist had a short shelf life and the audience "grew out of it" when they became an adult.
Instead they carried their audience through and mirrored their changes and the music became more sophisticated as the audience grew up.
In a sense they missed out on the enduring legacy of mature lyrical sophistication and musical experimentation that they themselves had kick-started.
Our generation, the Beatles generation, never did " grow up", we just got older and the music grew and developed with us.
Thus Bob Dylan could make an album like Blood on the Tracks, without it being an acoustic folk album with an amusing harmonica trill at the end of each verse.
Who knows what sort of album the Beatles would have made in 1975 or 1985 or 1995?
Maybe they were a spent force anyway - the solo albums couldn't get near them.
It was left for others to take up the mantle.
The Beatles had led the revolution, a "revolution in the head" as writer Ian MacDonald put it.
Sadly in time that will be forgotten and the songs left to stand or fall on their merits.
And if some sound naive and dated it is because the Beatles themselves rendered them so.