Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if.....

bdp24,
I agree. Listen to The Worst of Jefferson Airplane. Even though it was a product of it's time, the beauty of many of the songs sounds very fresh, to gimmicky.

Another vote for Within You Without You.
IMO: An excellent song.
The album wouldn't be the same without it.

bdp, as a lark i pulled out the white album for a re-listen--the long, pointless "revolution 9" is a wank, but most of the rest is really tight. personally, i would also excise "ob-la-di" and the ringo song, but you're still left with a great double album, with side 3 being just about perfect

Hey, that would be a good title for a song, The Long and Pointless Road.

ghosthouse and onhwy61, I stand corrected and thanks.  Memories of that error, I mean, era tend to blur a bit.   And those gentlemen would have made me want to find a way to erase as much of it as possible. ;)

I remember RR as guv of CA, where he practiced his lines for the 'next act'.  Spiro was 'funny', but it was always a 'groaner'.  And it would figure that Safire wrote 'NNoN'...he was an alliteration freak.  It'd show up occasionally....