sorry guys cant frequent ciao that as much as i used to -- but i'd surely eavesdrop from time to tim...
sorry guys cant frequent ciao that as much as i used to -- but i'd surely eavesdrop from time to time ;-).
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Eventually, the album that launched Harrison’s first A-side Beatle single “Something” (a song which Frank Sinatra is reportedly fond of performing and introducing on stage as his ‘favourite “Lennon/McCartney” tune’), Abbey Road comes as the Beatles’ official final album. Although Let It be, with its documentary movie feature, didn’t came along until the following year after this album’s release – The Beatles’ Abbey Road incidentally is the particular disc which the band have finished intended for a full length LP album release before head-honcho Beatle-man Paul McCartney declared his resignation from the group, that would lead to the greatest band breakup ever - and that is that of the Beatles. Other than what turned out as their last album LET IT BE successively after Abbey Road have seen its light of day, there are also a number of other cuts from the band that made its way as singles which mainly became the LP THE BEATLES AGAIN (Hey! Jude) prior to LET IT BE.
Among the contents found in the Abbey Road album consists of a set of intertwined songs that appeared as a medley in the LP’s entire second side, that are numbered as individual tracks in the cd, the songs: “Sun King”/”Mean Mr. Mustard”/”Polythene Pam”/”She Came In Through The Bathroom Window”/“Golden Slumber“/“Carry That Weight” (which in part contained a similar melody to another track
in the album “You Never Give Me Your Money”)/”The End”/”Her Majesty” – the first four being the Beatles’ most humorous that they could ever get, with McCartney’s “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” (and actually are among the first songs that I ever learned to play on guitar) serving as what would have inspired the concept of suite-like rock music which inevitably turned to incorporate what would become as the genre of rock-opera that turned out as a pop trend in the early seventies.
Abbey Road also consisted of one of George Harrison’s most highly favoured track “Here Comes The Sun”, that in the tenure of Harrison’s solo career, he came up with its ‘little brother’ tune of sorts titled “Here Comes The Moon” from his 1979 self-titled LP. Harrison’s other song in this album, “Something” garnered from The Beatles’ previous movie feature projects (a stuff which they also pioneered conceptual-wise other than those of other pop artists prior to their existence – that invoked the likes of movies by other band’s such as PINK FLOYD’s The Wall and LED ZEPPELIN’s The Song Remains The Same among others), also have in its promotion a video song clip feature, a decade and a half years prior to the conceptualization of MTV – that featured the Beatle-member’s current wives at the time. One out of the three McCartney written tunes that are attributed for Ringo Starr the song “Octopus’ Garden” also appeared in this album, which opened up with the very first rock anthem known to man of Lennon/Ono’s “Come Together” (yep, it’s a fact that Yoko Ono came up with that well loved yet cheesy chorus to this song); sending this album’s frequency more into the mode quite ahead of its time to the seventies – that is further consisted of in McCartney track “Oh Darling” and the unbelievable Lennon song “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” (or was it McCartney’s as well?). I’m totally awed by the songs that packaged this album in its entirety – even the gloomy yet lovely tune of the Lennon filler track “Because”.
The album cover became as one of the most memorable in rock music’s history, which actually consisted of one of the band’s propaganda that welled its way as one of the greatest hoaxes – mainly the “Paul McCartney is dead” fiasco, an idea conceptualized by John Lennon (and I bet it's his wishful thinking out of the bad vibe frictions that are coming into the band at that time), which rumoured that McCartney have died on a car crash, while looking over a meter maid named Rita (sounds peculiar?), which have McCartney’s body all charred up, that from that time on – the band have an impostor Paul, by the name of a certain Billy, who’ve won the Paul McCartney look-alike contest; who is rumoured as the stand-in for Paul, and every Beatle-tune from that point on which are tagged with McCartney are all also believed to be a tune made by Lennon (John’s wishful thinking indeed). In particular to the album cover where they cross the now famous streets of Abbey Road (allegedly on their way to a funeral), the indications of this 'rumour' are found on the clothes that are being worn by the Beatles which are implied to certain meanings denoting the matter, and the flat tired Volkswagen car’s plate number that is found on the corner of the album’s cover.
A lot of the flavour in the album appears to ascertain the very same elements that have been already found in their previous self-titled album to this one, which ultimately became known as The White Album.
Abbey Road is also included on a boxed set entitled MULTISELECTION containing all of THE BEATLES’ major albums totalling 16 discs, which includes a paperback and the retrospective albums Past Masters Vol. 1 and 2 , collecting the band’s major singles, and album cuts – the second volume consisting mainly of the album that followed the release of Abbey Road formerly packaged as The Beatles Again (Hey! Jude) LP, which along with the title track contained “Lady Madonna”, “Don’t Let Me Down”, “The Ballad Of Yoko And John” (a song that only featured Lennon (lead vocals, guitar) and Paul on bass, bvg, and drums!), “Old Brown Shoe”, “Paperback Writer” and my fave Lennon Beatle-song “Rain”.
THE BOXED SET’s CONTENTS as Follows =
DISC 1: Please Please Me (1963) DISC 2: With The Beatles (1963) DISC 3: For Sale (1964) DISC 4: A Hard Days Night (1964) DISC 5: Help (1965) DISC 6: Rubber Soul (1965) DISC 7: Revolver (1966) DISC 8: Sgt. Pepper‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) DISC 9: Yellow Submarine (1967) DISC 10: Magical Mystery Tour (1968) DISC 11: (The White Album) (1968) disc A DISC 12: (The White Album) (1968) disc B DISC 13: Abbey Road (1969) DISC 14: Let It Be (1970) DISC 15: Past Masters Volume One 1963-1965 DISC 16: Past Masters Volume Two 1966-1970
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A great review, on a wonderful album, by the greatest Band ever........Roy
star333 31.12.2004 09:31
Love the Beatles, good review for a good album x
ikeaholic 16.06.2004 16:49
they're a little obviously out of my time league since i don't think i was born when they were around, but i don't mind a few songs from the oldie times when squeaky clean fun was still around. its tough that some of the band members arent around any longer, might decide to download a few of their legendary classics now...great review. jess x
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Advantages: One of my favourite Beatles albums, full of life, soul and fantastic vocals Disadvantages: There isn't a big McCartney love song (we do get the next best thing though) and Ringo sings!