Could not agree more. You want to really feel nostalgia, go back and watch their old music videos.
It's not that it was some kind of revolutionary groundbeaking brilliant piece of work, but it was the first thing I found that felt like my own, and took me in another direction from what was big on the radio. Rock 108 played "What's My Age Again?" briefly in the summer of 1999 (I was going into freshman year of HS), and I remember where I was the first time I heard it. I immediately rushed out to get this and loved the entire thing. No one else I knew was into it at all. They were still hung up on rap metal and all that crap. Fast forward to the next summer and "All The Small Things" had become an inescapable hit and everyone liked blink 182, but that was the end of their foray into anything punk rock adjacent.
I went to down a rabbit hole into punk that lead me into reggae/jam band stuff, back heavily into classic rock, back to grunge (which I had loved in elementary), and into alt-country/classic country in time.
This was the album that got me to chase the music that fascinated me, whether that was getting fed to me by local radio or not.
cool.
The Wall was my first introduction to the idea that an album could have a running narrative, so it was definitely one of mine.
All three chords of it! And the same ones on every song!
Revolver is a collection of better songs. It's roughly the sum of its parts, though.
Sgt. Pepper's is a better album. It's more than the sum of its parts.
Revolver is also helped by the fact the two songs taken from the album for a single are "Paperback Writer" (a catchy as **** pop song but not one of their deeper works) and "Rain" (okay this one is seriously an underrated psychedelic masterpiece but it can't hold up to the next two items for discussion...).
Sgt. Pepper's nonalbum singles from the same session are "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane," which are two of the best songs in their catalog... of the 1960s... and of pop music generally.
I tend to group their nonalbum singles with the album from the same session (e.g., "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" go with The Beatles, etc.) because there are not many other bands out there who consistently held their best songs out of their albums but... still made the greatest albums of all-time. I can't think of any other groups that consistently handicapped themselves in that way... it's not like Michael Jackson took "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" off Thriller to release them as nonalbum singles, right? Hence, I tend to make that adjustment.
