Rock & Pop > pre 1970 Rock & Pop

Leaders of Innovation

Advantages: pop perefection, lyrics, evolutionary
Disadvantages: none

Rubber Soul was the key which opened the door to an evolution of pop pin ups into musical visionaries. Often regarded as one of their finest efforts (behind Revolver), rubber soul contains every aspect of the Beatles broad musical taste, with each of the main songwriting members all contributing equally (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison). There's pop perfection with songs like 'In my Life', dirty old rock n roll (drive my car), classic ballads (girl), and ...
...scope and willingness to try things new can only now be labeled 'Beatlesesque'. The fab four could no longer be defined as anything after this effort. New phases of music were created merely from one song on the album. Norwegian Wood is credited as being the first pop recording to use the sitar; an Indian instrument, which sparked a musical craze in the mind sixties. This song is now classed as one of the cornerstones of what we now know today as ...

carneypingu 17.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Rubber Soul - Beatles (The)

Dunno how to delete this but stop harassing me!

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joewcarpenter 28.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Beatles, The (The White Album) - Beatles (The)

A Great Album That Is A Proud Finish For A Great Band

Advantages: Almost Everything
Disadvantages: Octopus's Garden (In Parts)

...creation and the recording of Abbey Road has been well documented, with the group coming off what they saw as the failure of the Let It Be sessions. From this they decided that with the tensions within the group and the general unrest, most notably from George Harrison, they would try and create one final album that would return to some of the roots of their earlier albums, although this became somewhat subverted throughout the recording process. ...
...what is often called the Abbey Road Medley, which runs from tracks nine to sixteen. This track is great with some really nice changes and dynamics going from a slower vocal piece to a slightly more powerful narrative part and back again. This marks the beginning of what I see as the second half of the album and it is a great one to boot. 10. Sun King ***** This is a slight reflection of Here Comes The Sun and holds a few similarities to it, but as ...

Robin_Hod12 25.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Abbey Road - Beatles (The)

Napoleon in rags

Advantages: One of the seminal rock albums of all time
Disadvantages: None

...Mike Bloomfield (guitar). Highway 61 itself stretches north to south from Minnesota, Dylan’s homeland, down through the Mississippi Delta, and the record has been likened by some as a journey to his Minnesotan roots and Mississippi-styled Blues music. (Oh, forget the geography lesson John! The music is the message.) Topped and trailed by two of his most powerful songs ever, it remains one of his defining albums. Alongside its successor, ‘Blonde ...
...‘Blood On The Tracks’ (1975), it’s arguably one of the three best he ever recorded. The opening track, ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, was a real mould-breaker for its time. Six-minute singles were not the done thing in the summer of 1965 - a single was simply seven inches of black vinyl - but Dylan broke the rules with this astonishingly fierce yet poetic epic. (Significantly, it was his highest-charting single ever – No. 2 US, No. 4 UK). For a long time, ...

JOHNV 18.11.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan

Sgt Pepper - Overrated muddle

Advantages: Some absolute classics
Disadvantages: Lots of filler

Let me say this right off the bat - I'm a massive Beatles fan. Not just a passive, casual, 'enjoy them in the background' sort of listener, i have all their albums, lots of books etc and enjoy them all BUT Sgt Pepper is one of the worst Beatles album - There i said it Dont get me wrong, it is dusted with greatness (A Day in the Life, She's Leaving Home), but the dusting is a little light when you compare how much filler there is on this - Good Morning, ...
...Hole - These would have been b-sides in their pomp Even some of the better songs could be classed as 'throwaway' (When im Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita Meter Maid) and whilst the production still stands up today, it doesnt have the same hynoptizing effect as im sure it did in the 60's Dont believe the hype - Buy Abbey Road/Revolver/Rubber Soul instead ...

navidson 11.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles (The)