The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" [1967]

The beginning of the end for the Beatles. By naming their record "Sgt. Pepper's," even the Fab Four themselves recognized what they had created was indeed something to sneeze at: arch groovelessness featuring John Lennon wallowing in drug-addled depression (e.g. the least-inspiring get-high anthem ever, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds") and Paul McCartney pausing to contemplate his navel long enough to decide he'll be wearing the granny panties permanently from this moment forward ("When I'm 64"). Throw in hapless George Harrison stuck in his yoga pose (the seemingly endless "Within You, Without You") and Ringo Starr elbowing his pedestrian drone into the mix ("With a Little Help from My Friends"), and the tower of pretension for "the greatest album of all time" comes crashing to the ground -- hard!