Once the Beatles' catalogue became available on CD in 1987, a critical consensus formed around "Revolver"s standing as the band's best work; the White Album also surpassed "Sgt. Pepper" in many critics' estimation. In his feature article on "Sgt. Pepper"s 40th anniversary, for "Mojo", John Harris said that, such was its "seismic and universal" impact and subsequent identification with 1967, a "fashion for trashing" the album had become commonplace. He attributed this to iconoclasm, as successive generations identified the album with baby boomers' retreat into "nostalgia-tinged smugness" during the 1970s, combined with a general distaste for McCartney following Lennon's death. Citing its absence from the "NME"s best-albums list in 1985 after it had topped the magazine's previous poll, in 1974, Harris wrote: