At Abbey Road 1963-1970 - Paramounts (The)

Advantages: Flawless
Disadvantages: One or two ish songs

...It’s not an easy thing writing ops, you know. Oh, no. It can be infuriating, dull and hard to be inspired. Frankly, the only reason I continue is the joy of putting question marks where they obviously don’t belong, and I’m even beginning to tire of that. Wel?l, nearly. So what I’m trying to say, in a roundabout, inaccurate, incomprehensible and ? downright silly way is that Abbey Road is very good. Good enough to inspire me to right another very nearly, but not quite, wholly unremarkable opinion. Lucky you! This, despite the fact that it was released before the album Let It Be, was the last recorded work of the Beatles. And a hell of a way to go out as well, this is probably their finest work. Except for those other two. But seriously folks, this is one of the greatest albums ever, and that’s including... Read review

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Advantages: Hey, it's the BEATLES!
Disadvantages: none

...– 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... Read review

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Advantages: Every single song included, every single note I would even say.
Disadvantages: The price of this and every album by this band, at least here in Spain...and the fact that this album happened to be the last this band recorded (not released)

..., but at the end, not included in the credits of the album (and I’m talking about the original album, the one they released in 1969, not the compact discs you can find theses days), there’s a last song, just a few seconds of McCartney singing a nice tune with his acoustic guitar. Anyway, in 1970 ‘Let it Be’ was released, so ‘The End’ would not have been the last song in any way. For 1968 ‘White Album’ (real name just ‘The Beatles’, but the white cover made every one call it ‘White Album’, even the Beatles themselves) count with Eric Clapton’s collaboration (Harrison’s good close friend, even when he married to Harrison’s ex-wife). For 1969 recording sessions of ‘Let it Be’ (released in 1970) they count with great keyboard and piano player Billy Preston (he’s always been proud of his ‘Get Back’ keyboard solo bit). For ‘Abbey Road’, where just... Read review

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