Is this Amazon review of Sgt. Pepper real?

[osiris]

OMG. Thanks Vurt. The uranium ore page was priceless. I'm too scared to look for a plutonium page....

[kritikon]

This really is an awful album from start to finish. For a start, the title is very misleading. I thought I was buying an album called "Beatles" by a brass band named "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" only to learn when I got home and played it that it was the opposite!

Then there are the terrible songs, starting with the title track. The best part is the tuning up at the beginning, and then the singer says he's going to introduce us to "the one and only Billy Shears", but the song ends before we ever get to hear Billy sing. What a disappointment!! "With A Little Help From My Friends" is exactly what Ringo needs to make this song interesting. Not a patch on Joe Cocker's original! Then there is "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", or LSD in other words. What? A song about pounds, shillings and pence? Give us a break please!! Next is "Getting Better". No it's not, it's getting worse! "Me used to be angry young man. Me hiding me head in the sand"? So you should mate, with appalling grammar like that! "Fixing A Hole" next. Only another 3999 to go then if you're fixing it in Blackburn, Lancashire! "She's Leaving Home", probably after being given this album as a present by her mum & dad. Give me Billy Bragg's original anytime! "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite". What sort of title is that? And "The Hendersons will dance and sing". Not Dickie Henderson I hope, 'cos he's crap! "Within You Without You". Er, without you thanks, George. If I want to listen to this kind of music, I'll go to an Indian restaurant! "When I'm 64". Sounds like you already are, Paul, on this jolly old codger's ditty! "Lovely Rita". "Got the bill and Rita paid it"? You tight git!! "Good Morning Good Morning". Good job there is a cockerel on it. It woke me up!! "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)". Still no Billy Shears! Finally, we have "A Day In The Life". "The English Army had just won the war". Huh? Don't you know your history John? Everyone knows that the Americans, in it from the start like the good ol' boys they are, won the war. We only came in after the Japanese bombed Poole Harbour!

Wholeheartedly pissed myself with that one. Dunno how anyone can think that's a real review. It's a scream. Esp loved the pun about Poole harbour. C'mon people - is irony that difficult to see?


Still doesn't stop Sgt Peppers being a facile and silly album (IMO) but it was a very funny "review". I personally like most of the Beatles stuff and still think they were incredibly original for their time, but Sgt Peppers was an acid-addled brainfart - possibly it was just a pisstake from the Beatles themselves. It's the right kind of Scouse humour.

[robogone]

Still doesn't stop Sgt Peppers being a facile and silly album (IMO) but it was a very funny "review". I personally like most of the Beatles stuff and still think they were incredibly original for their time, but Sgt Peppers was an acid-addled brainfart - possibly it was just a pisstake from the Beatles themselves. It's the right kind of Scouse humour.

I have always been bemused by people who think it is the Beatles' best album it's not. Nowhere near. It has its moments, but to me it's certainly towards the bottom of my list of best Beatles' albums.

[momalle3]

Laughed at that fake review. I've never liked the Beatles, always found them annoying and cutesy-poo. IMHO that Sgt. peppers album is unlistenable, full of self indulgent pretentious middle bow crap. And it had a bad effect on pop music by encouraging every band to fill the tape with pretentious middle brow crap. I mean they're a good pop band, some undeniably good pop songs, but the endless beatles hagiography is just suffocating.

[The_Hidden_Goose]

Not the biggest beatles fan myself, but I quite like Sgt Pepper. Prefer the Magical Mystery Tour EP though, which is arguably sillier.

Their non-psychedelic stuff is what I don't like any of.

[ZenPunkHippy]

Same here, I can appreciate the song writing skill of the earlier material but the pop years don't interest me at all. I'll take strange psychedelic trip over that any day of the week.

Fortunately, the Beatles took drugs so I don't have too

[vurt]

you dont have to, but you do...

[vurt]

but the endless beatles hagiography is just suffocating.

you should try living around here

[deastman]

I think The Beatles were one of the most brilliant groups ever. I love every album in their catalog, from beginning to end. And its fascinating to hear their musical evolution over the course of their career. So there!

[jsp1979]

Not the biggest beatles fan myself, but I quite like Sgt Pepper. Prefer the Magical Mystery Tour EP though, which is arguably sillier.

Magical Mystery Tour is definitely at the top of my list as well!

[robogone]

Many of their lesser known tracks from EPs, b-sides and soundtracks are actually really good songs.

[SODDI]

That's like mocking someone's granny, man.

[vurt]

ive been doing that recently.
oh you said mocking, i thought you said fu oh sorry phones ringing back innabit.

[osiris]

Here's a doozy. A self published book called: BIRTH CONTROL IS SINFUL IN THE CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES AND ALSO ROBBING GOD OF PRIESTHOOD CHILDREN (this is the actual title and is in all caps) Best reviews:
THIS IS A FANTASTIC BOOK BUT MY BOOKSHELF IS A BIT SPARSE AS AFTER READING IT I BURNED ALL MY OTHER BOOKS, INCLUDING THE BIBLES AS THEY WERE WRITTEN PARTIALLY IN LOWERCASE LETTERS, OR AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM, THE DEVIL'S RUNES. CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND ME A GOOD ALLCAPS BIBLE?

and

CAN I PURCHASE THIS BOOK FOR THE KINDLE? AND WILL IT BE THE AUTHOR SCREAMING THE BOOK TO ME?

[osiris]

OMG, they are charging $ 120.00 for this paperback....
It's good to know our mentally ill have an outlet.
I'm reading the excerpts now....
It's a doozy, misspelled and everything.
(and all caps, to boot)