... goes to Idolator for this gem...
It Was Forty Years Ago Today. Now Won't You Please Shut The F--k Up?
read the reasons why this album is ca-ca here...
.. and by way of contrast, here's 79 versions of Popcorn, via Spoilt Victorian Child... he he...
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I'm not a huge Pepper fan (although I can be at times) but the simple, unassailable fact fact is that without it...no Kraftwerk....
oh Simon, COME ON.... the album that had any major influence on Kraftwerk was Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys (see "fun fun fun on the autobahn"), not the Beatles playing catch-up with the rest of the musical world. go back and read idolators comments. OVERATED!
No you misunderstand, Pet Sounds was important but it was basically a huge flop. I'm old enough to remember how Pepper opened the floodgates. To say that Pepper was The Beatles playing catch up is to say the Brian Wilson misheard it too. It was Pepper that killed Smile. You mightn't like it as a record but it was Pepper than changed the world and allowed people to make records like Kraftwerk's, even if they reference the BBs (and Fun Fun Fun was a pre PS BBs, quite a different reference point).
To say it's influence was overrated is to re-write history. That's been the major criticism of Pepper surely, that it's influence was too over-powering. People can't have it both ways.
this puts it quite well I think:
Rollling Stone
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