Within You Without You

[MindGoneHaywire]

The thing is that this is an album that for me, like many others, it was one of the first rock albums I was really exposed to, and at a young age, you don't necessarily want to sit through that tune & devote any attention towards interpreting it when you've just got this record that everybody said is the best rock album ever.

The re-workings are welcome; but the Love mashup has become one of my favorite Beatles songs, and that's saying something.

RL, I never got back to you on that other thread, but I have something in mind I'll try to send you a PM on. You know, about that 'current crop' and all that.

[Resident Loser]

...it's the POV thing...

In '67 I was in a working band and our bassist was part "Beatlemaniac" who was also into odd things musical...he built his own theremin and owned things like an Autoharp...Due to his diverse interests he was familiar with the sitar, etc., Ravi Shankar and the connection with George Harrison prior to Pepper's release, and had gleaned some rudimentary knowledge of Indian classical music along the way...but then, he also waxed euphoric over the "songs" of the humpbacked whales and was a big fan of Ray Charles, John Mayall and the original Blood Sweat And Tears album (sans David Clayton Thomas); as noted, diverse.

He was really into the album on any number of levels, but for him, Pepper seemed more of a turning point than a definitive "rock" album, and as the album cover indicates, pretty much killing off of the earlier incarnation of matching suits and pop music, going further off into the genre of "Beatles music" where you could never be sure of what direction it might take.

jimHJJ(...FWIW...)

[Troy]

Like MGH, Sgt Pepper was one of the first rock albums I was subjected to and this track never connected with me the way the rest of the record did. It's important to understand that my mom was obsessed with Indian music at the time, playing it constantly. My brotyher and I called it her "Tibetan Ding-Dong Music", it drove us nuts. WYaWY was too similar to this stuff for us.

I much prefer the Indian influence in some of their other songs like "She Said, She Said" where it's less obvious, more hybridized. SSSS only sounds half Hindu, not 90% Hindu.

I recently heard Love and wow, was I underwhelmed. I don't like the mashup quality of it and the whole thing feels disjointed and Muzak-y. No way, gimme the original songs 100% of the time.