Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Since I'm younger than a lot of people and have often been more drawn to listening to newer music, there's a great amount of classic albums/bands/songs/etc. I have yet to discover. Sometimes it makes me feel like I lack some very important knowledge, but mostly I just like the fact that there's a lot of (supposedly great) music waiting for me out there when I'm ready to listen to it. My father is quite a big Beatles fan and I've been pestering him to help me get into their stuff, since I always intended to do so at some point, it has just seemed pretty overwhelming and hard to find the right place to begin. Then a few days ago I listened to a radio programme about George Martin, which they played some of the songs he'd produced for The Beatles and it made me want to discover their music even more. So I went to the library the next day and borrowed a pile of their albums - I still had no idea where to start, though, so I asked my dad and he said it could be a good idea to start with some of their earlier, more poppy and less experimental stuff, to kind of start out with the 'easy' stuff. I listened to a bit of Rubber Soul with him and though I didn't dislike the music, it didn't really tick any of my boxes at first listen. Then we decided to switch to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (phew, long title!) and even from the first track I was hooked. Since I'd heard it before (ages ago, when we had it in the car) my joy could easily have been connected to some kind of recognition, but it sounded both old and new and exciting at the same time - songs I felt like I knew very well and always had, even though I didn't. And still there was some kind of unsettling music hidden in there that I hadn't discovered properly yet. Then I listened to it again, on my own, to check if it really could be that good. And it fucking was!