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''Sugar plum fairy
Sugar plum fairy''
I read the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well, I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords
I saw a film today, oh boy
The English army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream
(Aaaaah!) (Aaaah!)
I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I'd love to turn you on
| bachbeet | Posted: May 10, 2013 - 23:07 Just changed my rating from 9 to 10. Don't know what I was thinking before. | |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Apr 29, 2013 - 14:16 According to history books, there was quite a bit of hype when these guys played live. It looks like security was also extra tight, as each band member had his own personally armed cop!!  | |
| tonypf (Honolulu) | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 18:49 Mystery Guest wrote: ericeobrien wrote: 38 people gave this song only 1 star. I find that incomprehensible. How about the fact that almost 2900 people have paused to rate this song? That I find impressive. | |
| treatment_bound (Duluth to Madison) | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 19:03 This is out at your favorite newsstand right now...PICK IT UP IF YOU CAN!  | |
| Tigerbeatle (Springfield VA) | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 14:04 JOHN-The man who changed the world. | |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 14:00 magnificent... profound lyrics and beautiful music to match the meaning... from the best album of all time... | |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...near the netherlands) | Posted: Mar 12, 2013 - 14:00 .....
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| Mystery Guest (somewhere else) | Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 19:18 ericeobrien wrote: 38 people gave this song only 1 star. I find that incomprehensible.
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| Mystery Guest (somewhere else) | Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 19:18 ericeobrien wrote: 38 people gave this song only 1 star. I find that incomprehensible.
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| ericeobrien | Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 17:47 38 people gave this song only 1 star. I find that incomprehensible. | |
| Lazarus (Bethany) | Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 19:34 Two days after Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, Jimi Hendrix opened his set at London's Saville Theatre with the title track, something McCartney considers his "single biggest tribute". | |
| k1j2cat | Posted: Dec 08, 2012 - 12:20 A beautiful segue from Porcupine Tree's Collapse The Light - nicely done, Bill! | |
| countryrds | Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 03:31 countryrds wrote: Way to Colorado and Washington too  Oops, too much celebrating ....meant, of course, way to go .... | |
| countryrds | Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 03:24 Way to Colorado and Washington too | |
| cambuddyf | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 12:42 An absolutely unbelievable song. It took "pop" music to a whole new level and still sounds great today. Interestingly enough, believe it was the first song recorded for Pepper (after Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were offered up for singles). | |
| Johnny-smooth (On my bicycle) | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 12:39 omriq wrote: The best song of the Beatles Hard for me to say there is one best song (Eleanor Rigby is way up there), but this is certainly in top ten and a solid 10 here on RP | |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 13:45 dpvest wrote: being such a dark song, and that other guy having made the grade (and all), 13 year old me thought those 4000 holes were bullit holes. and all these yrs later, it never dawned on me that they weren't. nice bit o' info there fred. now I'm all growed up... erm...well...The 4000 holes fanzine says, "since 1989" so maybe they are fans of other groups besides Blackburn Rovers FC? http://www.4000holes.co.uk/ | |
| dpvest (northern cali) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 13:22 fredriley wrote: Talking of absurd holes, there's a Blackburn FC fanzine called '4000 holes'. I just thought you'd be interested to know that :o) Blackburn not having any notable claims to fame that I know of, this song likely put it on the map. Maybe the Lancashire Tourist Board could set up a Blackburn holes theme park to attract Beatlephiles from across the world... As for the song and the album, it brings back seriously embarrassing childhood memories (see below) and is excruciatingly cringemaking (shudder). being such a dark song, and that other guy having made the grade (and all), 13 year old me thought those 4000 holes were bullit holes. and all these yrs later, it never dawned on me that they weren't. nice bit o' info there fred. now I'm all growed up... | |
| Sbed | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 12:59 Sound like nothing else even 45 years later and still so beautiful and moving. | |
| oldsaxon (Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | Posted: Aug 01, 2012 - 12:55 37 wankers | |
| omriq | Posted: Jul 16, 2012 - 07:20 The best song of the Beatles | |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Jul 04, 2012 - 07:19 westslope wrote: Sounds like your Dad and buddies had a lot of fun. Anything from Lebanon to liven things up? Ooh, I really don't think so - my Dad's chi-chi parties were definitely for his straight-laced middle-class mates, so no blow, Joe. They might have had some Lebanese dates on the buffet, though. This album always makes me cringe because of these 'personal issues' (shudder) | |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 04, 2012 - 07:18 whomhow wrote: I don't care about those 37, who voted 1, but I'm worrying for those 36 who gave this masterpiece 5. There are more important things to spend your time "worrying" about. Everyone doesn't have the same tastes - get over it. The world would be pretty dull if everyone liked the same things. Personally, I have always liked this song, but I don't expect everyone else to. | |
| OCDHG (High on a mountain) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 16:31 It's wild how fresh this sounds even today, 45 years after | |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 16:30 Agreed, my old English Prof at the U of G promulgated the notion that this was certainly the finest contemporary song in the English Language - had to be contemporary, he was very fond of Beowolf. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 16:26 brilliant... one of the best songs of all time... from the best album of all time... love it... | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jun 02, 2012 - 11:04 soooo fabulous... love this song; love this whole album... | |
| orquidea (Baquería) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 04:47 orquidea wrote: I love il al.... it`s really alucintating...  The best way I ever heard It, was in the house sofa, lights off... with my dad`s very special stereo headphones and playing all the LP in his special don´t touch HI FI stereo... of course nobody in house... | |
| whomhow (changeable) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 04:43 I don't care about those 37, who voted 1, but I'm worrying for those 36 who gave this masterpiece 5. | |
| orquidea (Baquería) | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 04:43 I love il al.... it`s really alucintating... | |
| ajlept (Athens, GA) | Posted: May 13, 2012 - 21:47 Brought up from the depths of surrealism, no words can describe how this affected the musical psyche when it was released. Still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it again and really listen. I can die now. | |
| d48m02h1918 | Posted: May 11, 2012 - 09:07 The sounds and lyrics (which I normally don't pay attention to) are brilliant....... | |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 17:10 fredriley wrote: Not in mine, but for personal reasons. My Dad used to occasionally hold parties for his sophisto middle-class friends to aid his social climbing and at some point in every party this album would be dug out and all the guys would stand there singing along from the lyrics on the sleeve. It was intensely embarrassing to the callow adolescent I was then, and is still embarrassing. I forever associate this album with a bunch of middle-class teachers singing along to it as if it were a hymn book (shudder). Sounds like your Dad and buddies had a lot of fun. Anything from Lebanon to liven things up? | |
| RonCo (Columbus, IN) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 11:19 Pharlap wrote: 35 votes for a "1". That's a pretty strong disconnect 1,788 votes for a "10" I know you can't please everyone, but that's a pretty good ratio. | |
| stargazer1 (Poway, CA) | Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 11:05 This might be Ringo's best drumming ever.  | |
| maxmox (Broome, Western Australia) | Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 04:31 planet_lizard wrote: Most of these folk are just contrary - voting 1 on principle because it's so popular. Or perhaps they weren't alive when this hit the streets.............game changer (in other words: 11) | |
| planet_lizard (Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy) | Posted: Mar 31, 2012 - 00:00 Pharlap wrote: 35 votes for a "1". That's a pretty strong disconnect Most of these folk are just contrary - voting 1 on principle because it's so popular. | |
| On_The_Beach (The Blue Planet) | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 18:31 Pharlap wrote: 35 votes for a "1". That's a pretty strong disconnect We just have to assume they're thinking "1" as in "Number 1", as in "The Best". That or severe brain damage. ; ) | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 27, 2012 - 17:36 absolutely brilliant... from the best album ever... | |
| Glencoe_JC (GlasVegas) | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 07:46 c'mon Bill... make space for 11's...  | |
| Pharlap (Bahama, NC) | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 07:44 35 votes for a "1". That's a pretty strong disconnect | |
| leathepea (Hickory, NC) | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 07:43 Wow, a 9.3 rating! | |
| buddy | Posted: Feb 25, 2012 - 01:10 This was the first song that ever really blew my mind. I was different after it played than just before it hadn't. I bought the LP the day it came out. Must have played it end to end a billion times that week. This song was beautiful, confusing, even scary in an odd kind of way. I lived in Germany 1962-65 and experienced Beatlemania there...I want to hold your hand, yeah yeah yeah... and then here as it hit just when we moved back. At 14 in 1967 I just assumed they'd always be there, the soundtrack of my life. And indeed they always have. It's cliche, but they just don't make them like this anymore. Pretty much haven't since that day I ran home from the record store with the new Beatles album. | |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Jan 27, 2012 - 15:35 fredriley wrote: Talking of absurd holes, there's a Blackburn FC fanzine called '4000 holes'. I just thought you'd be interested to know that :o) Blackburn not having any notable claims to fame that I know of, this song likely put it on the map. Maybe the Lancashire Tourist Board could set up a Blackburn holes theme park to attract Beatlephiles from across the world... As for the song and the album, it brings back seriously embarrassing childhood memories (see below) and is excruciatingly cringemaking (shudder). Well, there are the Rovers. Unfortunately, they're up to their ankles in the relegation zone with some tough fixtures ahead. I expected more of them after they ambushed Man U on New Year's Eve, but 1-2-2 isn't going to keep them from, um, zoning out. | |
| Lrobby99 (Wisconsin, USA) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 08:15 Just one of those songs that made the Beatles different from all other musical groups. Ever. | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 24, 2012 - 08:14 absolutely brilliant lyrics and music... the best of the best... this song is from the number one album of all time... love it... | |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 26, 2011 - 21:03 fredriley wrote: Talking of absurd holes, there's a Blackburn FC fanzine called '4000 holes'. I just thought you'd be interested to know that :o) Blackburn not having any notable claims to fame that I know of, this song likely put it on the map. Maybe the Lancashire Tourist Board could set up a Blackburn holes theme park to attract Beatlephiles from across the world... As for the song and the album, it brings back seriously embarrassing childhood memories (see below) and is excruciatingly cringemaking (shudder). Interesting... it brings back great memories of my youth to me— sitting around with friends smoking pot and having profound discussions about the lyrics and musical arrangements... this is from the best album of all time... | |
| Elroweho (Cheesehead in Paradise) | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 14:24 Still remember hearing this when Lennon was shot - it hit even harder then! | |
| Dinges,_the_Dude (under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52') | Posted: Dec 07, 2011 - 04:58 Brilliant song! | |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Nov 25, 2011 - 03:38 romeotuma wrote: This is the best album of all time... there is none better... this song is the epilogue to the thematic structure of the album... absolutely profound summation of the existential absurdity of human existence... "now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall..." Talking of absurd holes, there's a Blackburn FC fanzine called '4000 holes'. I just thought you'd be interested to know that :o) Blackburn not having any notable claims to fame that I know of, this song likely put it on the map. Maybe the Lancashire Tourist Board could set up a Blackburn holes theme park to attract Beatlephiles from across the world... As for the song and the album, it brings back seriously embarrassing childhood memories (see below) and is excruciatingly cringemaking (shudder). |