Abbey Road - Beatles (The)

This was one probably The Beatles fourth best album after 'Revolver', 'The White Album' and Sgt. Pepper'. It was a great way for the world's best-ever rock group to end things. 'Come Together' starts the album off, and the title really gives the game away as to The Beatles state of mind. A gritty song, with John's memorable gutsy vocal. A song much admired by the indie crowd down the years. 'Something' and 'Here Comes The Sun' were proof of George ...
...the album. One can only wonder what George & John, and George & Paul might have come up with. Paul's 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' grows on you, while Macca's 'Oh! Darling' is one of the heaviest things Paul ever did with the Fab Four. 'Octopus's Garden' is a lovely Ringo song. His lilting voice was sadly underused in The Beatles. 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' is hypnotically repetitive, and you don't want it to end. 'Because' and 'Sun King' have ...

paulapollo 26.04.2005 · Read full review
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Amid all of the stories of the group breaking up, with personal relationships completely breaking down, somehow The Beatles managed to conjure up one more great album before they called it a day (Let it Be falls slightly short of great) This is the most complete set of songs since Revolver, stripping the songs back down to their basic structure (Come Together) without all the technical trimmings of Sgt Pepper and the White Album. Harrison really ...
...tracks (Something, Here Comes the Sun) showing just what a valuable cog in the Beatles machine he really was. THe first half of the album is potential single after another, before it splits into an extended medley over the course of its second half. The album reaches its highlight with the perfect 'Golden Slumbers'(The best 90 seconds in Pop history?) and the way it leads into the boisterous Carry That Weight. This was as good as it got for the Beatles, ...

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After the sometimes self-indulgent, often fractious Beatles 'White Album' and the delayed 'Let It Be' (which had already been recorded and was sitting on the shelf awaiting Phil Spector's salvage job), 'Abbey Road', the last they recorded before the final bust-up, came as quite a relief. Although it was still partly a case of Paul and John working as soloists with the others as session men, leaving George Martin as producer to join the dots together, ...
...'Sergeant Pepper'. John's heaviest contributions to the band's catalogue yet, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", have that air of edginess without being too left-field, and his soothing "Because" is a real slow burner. Between them they easily outshone Paul's not unlikeable but mildly irritating "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", but Macca redeemed himself with the soulful "Oh! Darling", and masterminding the superb medley on what was side ...

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Abbey Road is not the Beatles that we came to love and admire in the early 60’s. I think the band tried to change their image and music too much with this album and ended up with a mixed bag of tracks that do not flow together particularly well. The two tracks Octopus’s Garden and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer have the feel of some of the music from the time of Yellow Submarine, but they don’t seem to convey the same enthusiasm that most of the music from ...
...including. Of course Abbey Road is a classic album and any Beatles fan must have a copy, but I find that I have to be in a certain mood to appreciate most of the tracks. The one really great track is Here Comes The Sun. This I can listen to over and over again as it is a real Beatles classic and it is worth having the album for this track alone. I remember when the album was released the great fuss that was made about the cover picture. This is the ...

daseaford 25.05.2001 · Read full review
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this is a must have for any fan of music, or anyone who ever remotely listens to music. the variety and polishedness of the tracks really shines through and along with the iconic cover, you cant go wrong This album is beautifully constructed and could never disappoint. The Beatles apparently had never heard of a weak track or at least not on this album. The album is opened with John Lennons unmistakable vocals in the unforgettable and mysterious ...
...technical guitar play throughout, Paul McCartneys upbeat and touching lyrics and Ringos beat for beat drumming this album is unforgettable. You only have to look at a greatest hits album to see how much of an impact this album has had. the album has so many great tracks that you can never get tired of it, the more you listen the more genius you uncover. ...

vanillaB 08.05.2008 · Read full review
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This album, that was recorded at the end of sixties that was recorded by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul Mc Cartney and Ringo Starr were on my own opinion the best album that the Beatles recorded, because exactly for me is not a nusic pf a a 4- man group instead a record where each Beatle member recorded as a solist for example: Jon Lennon's "Come toghether" or George Harrison's "Here comes the sun" show what they did in the seventies when Rhe ...
...same style. In this album the Beatles at this time they have probles, like they bored going to record or a concert as group or something else. ---------- This is the album contains: 1-Come togheter 2-Something 3-Maxwell's Silver Hammer 4-Oh Darling 5-Octopus' Garden 6-I want you 7-Here comes the sun 8-Because 9-You never gime me your money 10-Sun King 11-Mean Mr Mustard 12-Politheme Pan 13-She came thought the bathroom window 14-Goldem ...

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...the last to be released), Abbey Road was a fitting swan song for the group, echoing some of the faux-conceptual forms of Sgt. Pepper, but featuring stronger compositions and more rock-oriented ensemble work. The group were still pushing forward in all facets of their art, whether devising some of the greatest harmonies to be heard on any rock record (especially on "Because"), constructing a medley of songs/vignettes that covered much of side two, ...
...the buoyant "Here Comes the Sun" and the supremely melodic ballad "Something," the latter of which became the first Harrison-penned Beatles hit. Whether Abbey Road is the Beatles' best work is debatable, but it's certainly the most immaculately produced (with the possible exception of Sgt. Pepper) and most tightly constructed. ...

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...to an era...and it shows. Abbey Road was the darker side of the Beatles made incarnate. Even apparently happy, swinging songs have a bitter aftertaste, reflecting the divisions that were about the split up the band. These songs were less than ever the product of the Lennon/McCartney axis. Just in time then, Harrison flowered as a songwriter, paving the way to arguably the best solo career of any of the Beatles. Out of the tension then, flowed arguably ...
...more fun, and more obviously groundbreaking, "Abbey Road" subtly altered and developed everything that it appeared to have derived from. The sophistication of the lyrics and music takes time and familiarity to be appreciated, and shows a band in the final flourish of its greatness. After the relative mediocrity of Let it Be, the Fab Four had got it all together one last time to create a glorious and enduring swansong. ...

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