New to this wonderful board and thought this was a good place to start...
Love this record. Really not a bad track on it. I know it's not the most popular track, but I actually love the way "Favorite Sessions" works in the context of things... really brings the whole thing together... this is a concept album, without question!! by lyric, by feel, by tone, and explicitly with the way "Sessions" recalls a few snippets you just heard.. brilliant!! the key is that it's not the closer (like "Big Daddy" is for Today).. it's merely a segue...
Of course, famously, Brian always hypes Rubber Soul up as the first true album he'd heard... but I think he forgot to notice that he'd already accomplished the whole album-as-an-artform thing with ASL.