Crap LP Sung By The LSD-Prone Beatles

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It's an anagram....... of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

It's at moments of discovery such as these that glory and wonder of life and the universe seems most real!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Except it isn't true. That album is a classic :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an anagram Geir, oh forget it

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Other than "Within You Without You" and "A Day in the Life" I'll agree with the "crap" part too.

This anagram, by the way...totally friggin BRILLIANT.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

You must be thinking instead of "Rapt Celebs Hens' Gulp Slot Pry Band", which consists of 23 minutes of George attempting to tune his sitar while John performs tape-speed experiments on a kazoo solo (side A) and another 23 minutes of Paul drilling holes in Ringo's drumkit to turn it into a giant bong (side B).

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

...it was a seminal prog moment I believe

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ain't it the strangest thang?

I can't imagine ever wanting to hear that album again, but I guess it can still be considered a classic because most of you might like it.

Proof that the world exists outside my brain!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

...it was a seminal prog moment I believe

Only if you believe the beastie boys' magazine (i forget the title) I think this album = teh suck, I must admit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was referring to "Rapt Celebs Hens' Gulp Slot Pry Band" of course Pash

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The two get confused so often, even though "Sgt Pepper" has the cover with all of the people and "Rapt Celebs" comes in a big film can.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

oh of course.

did you ever hear Zweistein's album in yr early days krautrock searching, btw? (it's terrible - nom de plume's description sounds like bits of it)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Zweistein? Never 'eard of it but if it sounded anyhting like Nom de Plume's descrition of it I'd certainly be interested in hearing it!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

That's pretty good, but I'm not sure it beats

I am it: the great, tireless proletarian

(everlasting props and applause to whomever posted that originally)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

xp: "Grand Royal"! They profiled Kid Rock and had an article about mullets years before both were popular, so now you know who to blame.

I wonder how much I can get on eBay for the aforementioned Kid Rock issue.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

...which is?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I like this one a lot too:

Britney Spears = Presbyterians

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it's called "trip out, flip out," er something else, it's kind of like the krautrock equivalent of the first godz album, except it's actually a triple album. I used to own a copy years ago, but this hungarian collector paid me shitloads for it. The best thing is the cover, which is this silver embossed thing (like the old hawkwind "silver machine 12") only instead of the hawkwind logo, it's this close up of a bird of prey's eye, and the eye itself is a stuck-on mirror! It's a great artifact (like contact high...) but almost entirely bad, like one side is a radio tuned between channels. You have to admire the music scene which would actually release an item like this.

thank you google - "trip out, flip out, meditation" 3lp. philips 1970

http://digilander.libero.it/mguitarweb/KrautRock/Z1.htm

I'm just amazed I've actually owned something german you haven't heard of!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

if you get plenty for the copy of grand royal, plz tell me coz i've got that one as well!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh "Cosmic Dreams At Play" - that book is hilarious, it makes me think that all Norwegians really are like Geir!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Zweistein's "Trip Flipout Meditation", a TRIPLE (!!!) album was literally recorded entirely under the influence of LSD, by non-musicians, to boot. Bits of it are fascinating in an anthropological sort of way, particularly the collage-y sections, but I can't imagine listening to the whole thing all the way through -- I doubt that even the people involved with the record have.

(x-post)

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like the sort of record that gets released nowadays and gets orgasmic reviews in Wire - except they tend to be from Japan these days

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

... I mean a 3LP can't be longer than a 2CD can it? And 2CDs are all over the place now.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

probably "trip out, flip out, meditation" will get some kind of mega reappraisal, when somebody hip actually hears about it. I suppose it shows how much more badass the germans were than the americans - i mean "contact high with the godz" is on this tiny label, and is only one lp's worth, whilst zweistein is on a big label, and three times as long!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

...which is?

Assuming you're referring to the "Proletarian" one, it's "The Streets - Original Pirate Material" and it OWNZ.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice anagram shame about the artist

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I Like My Gay Bondage Lounge!

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 14 November 2003 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Crap. One letter out, knew it was too apt to work.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 14 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean a 3LP can't be longer than a 2CD can it?

Why not? A double CD can be as little as 80 minutes total playing time.

― funk, Friday, 14 November 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread makes up for any misgivings I have ever and will ever have about ILM.

Does anyone else feel like they are wasting time when listening to anything by the Beatles (apart from 'Day Tripper')?

― Sasha (sgh), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Automatic For The People" = Foul, pathetic REM tape. Oo.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Sasha, every music fan knows that the only listenable Beatles tunes are:

Rocky Racoon (A Cock or Crony)
Octopus's Garden" (A Scout's Drug Pen, or A CPU Tuned Gross)
Mr. Moonlight (Light Mormon)
Magical Mystery Tour (Glum Tories' Arty YMCA)

I also see the following anagrams:

Paul McCartney = Capt. Many Lucre
Ringo Starr = R. Rat's Groin

― Kjoerup, Sunday, 16 November 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Did someone up there 'dis 'A Day in The Life'? Surely that's the one lasting track off that album. Nothing beats 'Mr Moonlight' though. Sheer fucking class. Approximately 80% of lps available in 1964 contained music that sounded just like that. The aural equivalent of lashings of brylcreem.

― Pete S, Sunday, 16 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Ha ha, I just remembered this!

― Tom D., Friday, 31 August 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Abashed There, Jimmies Hurt

― Mark G, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

max 2CD time: 160 min (140 optimum)
max 3LP time: 180 min (120 optimum)

― sexyDancer, Friday, 31 August 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

I was just listening to Harry Nilsson's cover of "She's Leaving Home" when I had a sudden flashback to when my English teacher at school used the lyric as a study text in a lesson and I was kind of sneery and dismissive, so much so that I got a talking to from the headmaster about my "attitude". You see, the headmaster had previously read out something I'd written (about him, actually) in front of the whole school so he was gave me the old "I'm not angry with you I'm just disappointed" speech - think of the headmaster in "If" talking to Mick Travis and chums. I would say I was only being a snotty teenager, but I'm not sure I was a teenager yet, I was 12 or maybe 13. And you wonder why I never liked the Beatles?

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 20:25 (two years ago)

Ha, we had to do 'She's Leaving Home' as well. Must have been on the curriculum

― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:02 (two years ago)

it was on the personal curriculum of teachers of a certain age

― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 11:44 (two years ago)

i say this as somebody who talked about Selling England By the Pound for my O-level English oral lol

― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 11:46 (two years ago)

when I was a child, I thought this song was about a lady who had a miscarriage after a bad fall down a flight of stairs

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:13 (two years ago)

i thought i was a troubled child

― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:17 (two years ago)

i say this as somebody who talked about Selling England By the Pound for my O-level English oral lol

ha, I did my grade 11 poetry project on Peter Gabriel.

― jmm, Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:42 (two years ago)

excellent :)

― School of RAAC (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 September 2023 13:47 (two years ago)

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