The Beatles - Abbey Road [Vinyl]
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Free Music Review: "AND IN THE END..." (The Beatles leave us with a symphony)
Hit: 5 Stars
Abbey Road (1969) was the last album The Beatles ever recorded. Forever.
And thankfully they left us with a symphony. Four distinct personalities came together one last time to create yet another landmark in music history. Abbey Road is a colorful, generous, and thoughtful piece of art, and if given the chance, it can breathe new life into a weary soul and shine warm sunlight into a cold heart. Ah, the essence of The Beatles.
Abbey Road is an album full of highlights, and the most remarkable are two George Harrison songs. The beautiful and sincere love song, Something, and the lovely folk ballad, Here Comes The Sun, are both wonderful and timeless classics. John Lennon's rockin' Come Together and eerily beautiful Because are also great songs, and his I Want You (She's So Heavy) is an electric guitar new age blues masterpiece. Paul's bluesy Oh!Darling is a wonderfully melodic 1950s rocker that features his now famous screaming vocal performance. Ringo's cozy ballad Octopus's Garden adds warmth and atmosphere to the album, and along with Maxwell's Silver Hammer is just plain fun.
Even with all of these great moments, the centerpiece of the album is "the medley". Eight song fragments pieced together to sound so effortlessly complete that it seems as if they were composed as a contiguous symphony. It begins with You Never Give Me Your Money which blends into the four-part harmonies of Sun King. The bouncy Mean Mr. Mustard crashes into the somewhat perverted Polythene Pam and then into the rollicking She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. The piano and orchestra accompanied lullabye, Golden Slumbers, is contemplative and tender.
Once there was a way to get back homeward
Once there was a way to get back home
Sleep pretty darling do not cry
And I will sing a lullabye
Golden Slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Carry That Wieght continues the medley with a Ringo Starr drum solo and back n' forth guitar dueling between John, Paul, and George. The sweeping and melodic wisdom of The End completes the medley, and then is followed by an amusing little afterthought, Her Majesty, to end the album.
Abbey Road is one the best selling albums of all time (although Sgt. Pepper has sold more), and because it was The Beatles last, one of the world's most cherished. When listened to as a single piece of work, Abbey Road is a masterpiece of artistic beauty unlike anything the world will ever see or hear again. Thank Goodness John, Paul, George and Ringo decided to COME TOGETHER in THE END for SOMETHING Beatles fans will always treasure.
Free Music Review: Awesome
Hit: 5 Stars
Timeless CD. Every song in this album is great and you will not regret investing in this CD.Free Music Review: Classic and Timeless
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm 19 and a huge Beatles fan (like so many others, I know)
Abbey Road is a must have record for the collector.
What would I have wanted to knew before I purchased the product? Uhm...just that it would play. If you like the Beatles, you'll like this album.
Put the needle on, sit back and enjoy!!
Free Music Review: The "Abbey Road" of 2008--You really have to see the cover!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the new "Abbey Road" --you have to see the cover--just an amazing synthesis of the Beatles and the U.S., the classic Beatles and the modern.
Greetings From Lafayette Park
I have discovered it, and as a long-time Beatles fan, I can't stop listening.
The songs! Like Abbey Road or The White Album, each song stands on its own. Listen to "Dirty Life", with the Lennonesque wisdom, wry wit, insight and understanding; "The Cost", a ballad that sweeps me into a "Long and Winding Road" that is rich, powerful, evocative--gorgeous piano and a beautifully mastered string ensemble that reaches into the mind and heart to the last trails of the echo and strings--Beatles, yet something also altogether new; "I'd Rather Close My Eyes" a soaring and definitive statement of that searing moment when we turn from love--when Lipman hits the final note, a soaring, incredibly powerful and amazing long high C,--it is one of those moments, like "Let it Be", in which music, lyrics, melody and emotion meld with unforgettable resonance.
"Dirty Little Secret" with its solo guitar, haunting lyrics, and its "secrets", captures the beauty and poignancy of "Yesterday", while adding the Lennon's cleared eyed truth ala "Norwegian Wood". Listen to the Revolver-like classical string section of "She Didn't Know What She Saw" counterposed with the sublime "Motorcycle Interstitial"; the full-out orchestral creativity of "A Physical Thing"--the track adds carillion, wedding bells, stereo-sweeping subway chimes-and barking dogs!-- set against a beautifully orchestrated full string section, which rises, like "A Day in the Life: or "All You Need is Love", to an incredible orchestral crescendo of every orchestral sound--just incredible--new, classical, integrated, brilliant.
The lyrics are rich with complexity and deep, multiple meanings. Listen to the wry wisdom of "Dirty Life", this knowing, ironic perspective on life--and the changes we see in ourselves and others--combining Dylanesque insight and McCartney lyricism, the lyrics then transcending into the wit, insight and wordplay/worldplay in it its Lennonesque bridge; "Beholden", a strikingly unique song, complete with wind and far off radio signals, as a story is told of the sweeping course of chaos, and escape; "More and More Like A Civil War"--in its strong, sharp, wise and clear eyed commentary on today's wars on the battlefield and amongst ourselves, a modern "Revolution"--and the remarkable, ethereal "The Joke", which portrays the eternal position of vulnerable lovers, with a stunning shift to a universal perspective that is both wry yet tender in its understanding of the human plight--the beauty of McCartney in its musical richness, and true Lennon in its honest, clear-sighted yet truly compassionate and understanding view of love.
This album creates a world like nothing I have heard since Abbey--each time I listen I find something new. The cover is truly apt: it indeed is a "crossing"--a bridge--from that album to a new world. Truly an original. This is the most original, thrilling, passionate and intelligent album that I have heard this year.
Free Music Review: The Beatles,Abbey Road
Hit: 5 Stars
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