your sgt pepper album

Sgt Pepper is known as "the" pop album. Released in 1967 it explored more music innovations than most bands had dared up to that time; music styles ranged from old broadway/stage thru jazz thru early psychedelic thru good-old rock. A kind-of concept album (starting with the title track and ending with a reprise into "A day in the life")

My brother and I put forth an idea of what would we consider our favorite group's (or any group's, I guess) "Sgt Pepper" album. It didn't have to be something that was record breaking or have any firsts (such as the Beatles' use of sitar or reverse-played tape), it just had to be an album we thought was "it". An exmple would be Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours".

Here I post my examples:

Monkees "Headquarters", the first effort on their own with minimal session men

Simon and Garfunkel "Bookends", this is the one with "Mrs Robinson", the psychodelic "Save the life of my child" and "Hazy shade of winter"

Peter Paul and Mary "Late again", PPM gone electric! The end result of what "Album" and "Album 1700" were leading up to

Billie Myers "Growing pains", her first and best, every song great - and that song "Kiss the rain" is one of the best!

kd lang "Ingenue", again every song great with the hit "Constant Craving"; this is the one that made her known

Supertramp "Breakfast in America", almost every song became a hit

I invite your oppinions and comments and would love to know what your "Sgt Pepper" would be