Abbey Road

So many short songs... REALLY good album

Desert island disc. No notes.

Needs no words.

The Beatles Abbey Road don't think i can add to all that's been said. 5 stars

A nearly perfect album.

Album #232: The Beatles – Abbey Road ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’ve always found it interesting how the popularity of Beatles albums seems to change as the years go on. When I was younger, I remember the big ones being Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s. The latter was number one on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, which actually prompted me to get into the Beatles in the first place. I thought, well, if that’s the greatest album of all time, I’d better listen to it. Now it’s dropped significantly, and you don’t hear Sgt. Pepper’s talked about as much as this album anymore. To be honest, before I really got into the Beatles, Abbey Road was quite low on my list of priorities. But I think the modern consensus that this is their best album is absolutely right. I do think this is their peak. If you listen to their whole discography, I think they went from strength to strength. In the end they were still young guys, still mastering their craft and constantly developing as musicians. I don’t think there were any dips or steps backwards along the way and I almost mean that in an objective sense. We all have our preferences, but the songwriting on this thing is at an almost unachievable high level. Take You Never Give Me Your Money. That song has so many different parts and moments, and the transitions between them are so seamless that you almost don’t notice them. The brush strokes are hidden. You have to pay attention to appreciate how complicated and sophisticated it is. Otherwise, it just sounds like another great Beatles song rather than one of the best songs the group ever recorded. I read an excerpt, slightly out of context, about George Martin trying to convince them to take their music a little more seriously on this album. I have no idea what that means, because if they’re not taking it seriously here, and hadn’t been before then I don’t know what they’re doing. This is pure mastery of music, of the pop song format and what you can do with it. Then there’s the medley at the end, known as The Long One by the band at the time. I think The Long One is their crowning achievement. THE best thing they ever recorded. It’s one of the reasons I don’t really like prog music that much. Prog can sometimes be full of frills and fluffy nonsense without much substance underneath. Whereas, this is a suite of superb pop songs seamlessly woven together. It’s all substance with zero pretentiousness. And I find it interesting that, arguably at their most fractured, although you could argue the Let It Be sessions were worse, they somehow managed to make their most cohesive album. John Lennon doesn’t even feature on some of these songs, yet this is their most watertight, no-fat album. Probably the greatest band of all time making their greatest work. I think they’d reached their peak here. Maybe they could have kept going together. Maybe they could have found another peak, and we’d be talking about some other album instead. Because despite the fact that I love Plastic Ono Band, All Things Must Pass, parts of Ram and parts of Wings, none of them ever made anything as good as this again. They managed to be more than the sum of their magnificent parts. I just wonder what would have happened if they could have kept it together. But maybe that was never going to happen. And I shouldn’t be greedy….

I'm not familiar with who these guys are, but I hope they have a new album coming out soon, because this was good!

Ah man. Are you taking the Michael randomiser? I just had the Stones and I don't really want any more 60's right now. Hopefully this is an improvement. ---------------------------------- Part primary school party music (or Trumpton on drugs a la - The Kinks village green preservation society) small part soaring folky bangers (Here Comes the Sun, Come Together, Something) and most part barely finished nonsense ( 90% of the B side). Massively overrated pretty much everywhere you look. It's messy, incoherent and a band running on empty. 2*

What can i say that hasn't already been said? Easily one of the BEST albums ever made. Those motherfuckers didn't miss son.

Tänkte att jag inte kunde något Beatles, men kände igen en del och detta är ju ett bra album, mycket bättre än jag tänkte, nästan 5 stjärnor!

Despite this being the last album the Beatles recorded together it still sounds like a cohesive band making good music together. Come Together I think is one of the standout Beatles tracks on any album

Excellent album, though I’ve never owned it, not my favourite but some great tracks- I didn’t realise that JL was not on some of these tracks- Ono?

A classic is a classic

Highs and lows but overall not my favourite

A great album, including two of George’s very best songs. Too many fillers to be among the group of my absolute favourite Beatles albums but still a lovely three stars. Tom.

Wow

Awesome

O adeus, em grande estilo, da banda que revolucionou a música popular. A sequência final, iniciando em "Sun King", é o epitáfio perfeito de despedido.

obviously very good

Classic

Tied for the highest rated album on this entire list, and I gotta say I don't think I agree with that. It's definitely a great album, and more than worthy of 5 stars, but I don't think it's my favorite Beatles album, it just has some of their biggest hits on it? It feels like it's getting pulled in several different directions, they're good directions, they just need to commit to one. "Come Together" and "Here Comes The Sun" are obviously the big hits on here, but I've also always had a fondness for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Other than that I found my self enjoying "Oh! Darling" "Octopus's Garden" and "Mean Mr. Mustard" into "Polythene Pam" into "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" is a good run as well.

A perfect album. It’s a favourite of our families as well so it’s nostalgic as well as perfect. Even without the nostalgia it’s a perfect album. Was very excited when this album came up. The Beatles are a national treasure

Eh... Better than White album. (Here Comes the Sun is a definite highlight)

225 albums in before my first Beatles album is fine by me quite frankly 😂 This timing is wild though, I just listened to a bit of Abbey Road last week. This is a big nostalgic one for me, with Here Comes the Sun and Come Together and Something. Across the Universe and Molly were my gateways to the Beatles in high school (plus my mom’s cassettes in her car), and so many of these songs entered my life during that time. I can never tell why I don’t love the Beatles because it seems I would! Is it Paul’s voice? Did I outgrow my prior love for a quick little song? I do love an epic these days. Still, I love so many of these, especially for the drama of it all, and a couple George Harrison masterpieces. Is it sacrilege to give this less than 5 stars? I do my best to reserve those for albums I’ll return to again and again and that blow me away and this just isn’t that.

I’m not really a Beatles fan, but come on how can you not rate this a five? It’s like the perfect record. It’s the culmination of arguably the greatest band ever’s journey through different styles, sounds and projects to create a collection of songs that perfectly encapsulate everything they are. It set the tone for so many different genres to come (“I Want You…” being the first metal riff?) it’s absolutely flawless.

Wonderful as always.

there are so many famous songs on here that I didn't know were from the Beatles, really shows just how incredible they were as a group. this is probably my favorite Beatles album out of the bunch I have listened to thus far.

Lovely

Er dette The Beatles på deres peak? Det synes jeg

Jamen jamen, man kan jo høre nærmest hver sang har inspireret en eller anden anden sang, man kender. Og albummet holder jo stadig, men det er bare ikke fordi, jeg er heeeelt oppe at ringe til en 5'er, selvom det jo nok på mange måder burde være det.

Well well well, Beatles Det her album understreger i høj grad, hvad jeg synes om jer. I er washed. Der er selvfølgelig nogle gigantiske slappers på det her album, men der er godt nok også noget skrald på - Octopus' Garden er blot ét eksempel. Det er som om, folk glemmer, at der er flere eksempler. Det hele er jo ikke Come Together og Here Comes The Sun. Beatles gjorde én ting bedre end noget andet: at være de første. I dag er stort set et hvert indie-hipster-band i stand til at lave bedre musik, men samtidig være mindre kendte og appreciated end Beatles - og det er selvfølgelig også sådan, det skal være. Beatles var jo de første. Det bliver aldrig mit yndlingsband, og jeg kunne bedre lide Rubber Soul. Pretty good album 2.9

Echt gutes Album

Schon sehr schön

Leaving the studio for the final time at the top of their game

Not my favorite Beatles album but doesn’t mean it’s not good !!!

Classic!

Opener is a banger and an all-time rock and roll song with a great message. The oddball songs still workwell, just not for repeat listenings, ie Maxwell st, Octopuses Garden, . Killer bass and lead guitar throughout. Because song is meh. Just shy of a 5 star

One of the best, idk how my pops don’t fw this

For me, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's are the essential Beatles. This album is more famous for where it stands in the Beatles discography and the iconic album art.

Easy 5/5 for me. The greatest band making great music without over elaboration, no wall of sound etc. here. This has been my favourite Beatles album since I first heard it, much as I love Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s etc. this is the one that holds up best after what is now 57 years. The story about how it was made, that basically they had all but broken up and this was one last fling before going their separate ways could have made this album a disaster, it’s a testament to their abilities that it’s the opposite. None of their solo efforts comes close, excellent as many of them are. The low ratings are people trying to be edgy. Whatever, if it makes you feel special, crack on, but you’re wrong.

Q. Is it the greatest album of all time? A. I don't know, I don't know... (for sure it's a serious contender) Q. Is it even the best Beatles' album? A. I don't know, I don't know... (it contains some outstanding songs and the medley is probably the most original and fun stuff they ever recorded; still, I usually find some parts of Sgt Pepper and the white album more exciting...) Q. Should this album be rated higher than the Fleetwood Mac shit in ths project? A. FUCK YEAH! (anyway, this is one of the easiest 5 stars: "un goal a porta vuota", as Italians would say...)

I'd give that 6 stars if I could. I mean it's banger after banger after banger. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's all there. If you're stranded on an island with only this disc, you're not just surviving, you'll look back on the whole experience fondly.

It's just really good isn't it. There says certainly some interesting choices on there, but the highs are so high they override the lows

I finished

I’ve heard this before and I own it. This is one of those iconic albums that is overrated but still amazing, and it’s hard to give it a proper critique because of all the cultural baggage around it. It’s kind of their last album since it’s the last time they were all in the studio together, the cover art has been copied and parodied to death, and even the title has a ton of weight around it. It’s a good follow up to the white album and yellow submarine and is more focused as well as having a decent length to it and doesn’t try to jam in any soundtrack/scores into it. There’s a good mixture of psychedelia and heavy blues that seems somewhat CCR inspired and the McCartney circus music is restrained and George is at the peak of his songwriting. The medley on the second half of side 2 has some great vignettes that also stand by themselves as good songs, and anyone claiming Ringo isn’t a good drummer is really made to eat shit at the end. Also the tack on of Her Majesty as a kind of hidden track is a nice ending. So once you strip away the baggage you still have a great album.

Grew up with this album and have probably heard it 1001 times. Thanks to The Jerk, I remain convinced he shoots Coca-Cola because HE HATES THESE CANS.

#1 Of Course the top of the list!!! Add some more stars to the rating chart.

Amazing tracks on this. Some of their absolute best. That being said I always felt "Oh! Darling" was a little lazy, and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" always just drags for me. These tracks keep it from being a 5. They stick out too much.

a classic in my world and many others

One of the all time best albums

Difficult to settle on a score. Largely pop-tastic nonsense, no doubt thanks to McCartney, Ringo and Martin. All the good moments are Lennon and/or Harrison. Scores credit for being less Yellow Submarine but there were moments I felt I couldn't go above 2/5...

Yea ok. Abbey Road. I understand how influential this is for it's recording techniques and such. But I think the part I'm most impressed with is how strong the songwriting is outside of that. I think that's what ultimately gives this the status it has: if it was just the techniques used, it would just be another 'first' of something, but it's so much more then that simply because of how strong the underlying tracks actually are.

It's fine. It's good even. I recieved this album on my 13th birthday and played the living shit out of it for years. That being said, holy balls can we please stop glazing this album. IT'S GOOD. IT'S INFLUENTIAL. WE KNOW. MOVE ON

This is a seminal album and moment in rock 'n roll. The last recordings by The Beatles as a band and just a fantastic record. It's got charm, it's fun to listen to and it's well-crafted. Is it their best work? I'm not sure, honestly. It would be easy to say yes... and no and it would also be easy to avoid that discussion. I mean, it's The Beatles. I know people who can make a case for any one of their records and I know a couple who WOULD make the case for each one. It's certainly not a predictable record, but it's easy to listen to and enjoy. This is essential listening.

What a fantastic album. They managed to make it feel both new and familiar, experimental and pop, heavy and light.

its kind of the best album ever i guess

No ogolnie bomba 10/10

Imagine not liking maxwell’s silver hammer

I am no Beatles connoisseur, but this was album I knew and really enjoyed the majority of the songs. I didn’t know more of the latter half, but still had a dang good time.

This is my favorite Beatles album and one of the greatest albums ever made. I was completely obsessed with it for an entire summer after I heard it for the first time -- new music couldn't get a look in. It's not without its faults. I do usually skip two tracks these days -- Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Octopus's Garden. They're slightly too silly for me, but I don't really mind them in the context of the record. The strongest song of the first several is "Oh Darling," with a powerful vocal from Paul. I've heard John wanted to sing this one and I think he'd have done an equally amazing job. The first half feels a little like each of the band members trying to one-up each other and succeeding. The album really shines for me in the middle and second half starting with Because. You Never Give Me Your Money was probably the highlight of this most recent playthrough. I love how its tune is repeated later in the record -- and knowing it is gives it a sense of foreboding. It's little touches like this that are a big reason this album gets so much better with repeated plays. By the time they get to Mean Mr. Mustard through The End, it's almost as if they know the end is coming sooner than they'd thought and they're trying to cram as many ideas as possible into their final moments. Knowing this is the final album they recorded really sells that feeling for me. The Golden Slumbers trilogy is my favorite moment on the album... with that final line of The End never failing to make me at least a little misty-eyed. I think this is as close to a perfect record as The Beatles ever made and it's comfortably my favorite.

Iconic. Love every song

nomegutan los bitle

Classic

Is this the all-time best album by the Beatles? Is this the all-time best album by anyone? Offhand, I think it might be - can't think of anything better. I've listened to it like a million times since I was like 10, had it on repeat all day yesterday, never get tired of it. Thing that occurred to me yesterday: The transition from I Want You to Here Comes the Sun is maybe my favorite transition from one song to the next in any album ever, but it occurred to me that, on the original album, I think you probably had to turn the record over to get there, which I'm guessing lessened the effect significantly vs. going right from one to the other without the pause. When you've done something this good, serendipity works in your favor I guess.

Such a ubiquitous album, after one full listen there's nothing I can add which hasn't already been said before, just my personal anecdotes with The Beatles. I'm not a huge fan and am largely happy to stick to the greatest hits. This did begin to feel long at times but it probably ought to be on my shelves for the strength of many of the individual songs.

Iconic.

Apple Records creative director John Kosh designed the album cover with a photo by Iain Mcmillan from a McCartney sketched idea. Amazingly, but unsurprisingly EMI believed that the record would not sell without the name and title on the cover. So here we have it - an example of the prerfect combination of band photo and music. The image, shot in 10 mins, is both arresting and striking and would have become a memorable image without the beatles being a part of it. With them it has become a much loved and still copied favourite of fans everywhere. Its worth a trip to the Abbey Rd studios on a quiet Sunday to see the crowds taking turns to re-enact the crossing photo.

#469 I listened to a bit of the new super deluxe release of Rubber Soul just the other day and debated with myself which is my favourite Beatles album, it might be that but it’s probably Abbey Road. I love the medley but what comes before is a mixture of some seriously heavy weight Beatles classics, showcasing their songwriting brilliance. Those more serious/heavy tracks are sequenced perfectly between some lighter tracks. I often think of this being a McCartney album, and in many ways it is, but it has some great Lennon songs, and of course, some of the best Harrison songs too…and you know, I like Octopus’s Garden! Heard before? ✅ Would I revisit? ✅ Listen before you die? ✅ Fave track(s): Something; I Want You (She’s So Heavy); Here Comes the Sun; (The Medley) Rating: 9/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'll try to keep this simple: if you're tackling this 1001 Albums journey and you don't like The Beatles, you might as well quit right now. They influenced 90% of the other artists on this list. Abbey Road is just a fantastic album with too many good songs to count. From the opening groove of 'Come Together' all the way through the closing medley to 'Golden Slumbers' (I'm not counting the little 'Her Majesty' hidden track tacked on at the very end), it is a phenomenal record. Then, of course, you have the iconic album cover and the whole 'Paul is dead' urban legend, which I won't dive into right now, but it makes for a classic piece of music history. Five stars, easily.

Goat

Strong first half Paul indulgence on maxwells is crazy Her majesty is a great cap off to the beatles

4.5

10/10.

Exceptional.

Yeah this rips

Nothing less than an icon. Both the cover and the music are one of a kind. And it kicks off right away with "Come Together", my favorite Beatles song. (Listened to it on vinyl)

10/05 The only album from The Beatles that I find to be decent

I love that you can tell from song titles alone which songs are Ringo songs.

I can't separate the songs from the nostalgia of growing up with them. IMO there isn't a bad song on this album and most of them are all time classics. One of the best albums of all time.

3.75 - Better than the White album. Is that opinion controversial or nah?

Ha erst bi dem Listen ghört, dass in Here comes the sun en Moog vor chunt

Great album but honestly i inly like a few songs in the start and in the last but the middle was just like the same song repeating

Amazing. Just the best album ever made with 100% of extraordinary songs and full of history and feeling.

Хорош

The best

Octopus’s Garden, my beloved

I’m like Don Draper - I dislike the Beatles. I can’t deny there are some good ones on this album though… ANYWAY, 2/5 for being culturally relevant

It's the Beatles, as much as I seethe for no reason. It is not the Beatles' fault that they were overmarketed to me when I was young.

Not every single song is a banger but, come on…

day 10 of not rolling Aja by Steely Dan it's fucking abbey road, what is there to say that hasn't been said by people way smarter than me? this is my go-to album to argue that george was the best songwriter of the group (although admittedly I do not think this is a hot take; I think in A.D. 2026 most people agree with this). I think "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" clear the rest of this album where ranking songs is concerned. still: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Come Together," and "Golden Slumbers" are so good. My sincerest wish for Abbey Road is that the group had decided to double or triple the length of "Golden Slumbers," actually. it would be way high on my list of Beatles favorites if it were longer. is the white album on this list? I hope the white album is on this list. only slightly related, but "Golden Slumbers" into "Carry That Weight" is one of the absolute greatest song-to-song transitions in the Beatles' catalogue. fucking legendary.

people can (and probably have) write a thesis about how the closing medley of this album is a perfect ending to an album and it still wouldn’t be enough praise for the back half of this album. but the thing that’s really the kicker is: the front half is equally as strong.

I’m not a huge Beatles guy, but this one is kinda undeniable. A few songs here and there that were a bit out of place, but I get it. 4.5

Around the time I was in middle school, the Beatles were going through a renaissance as the group's works were being reissued in massive boxsets with remasters for each album. Sirius XM, a fancy radio thing that my dad had purchased and only worked about 50% of the time in his car, were promoting a new channel that exclusively played Beatles music. I was excited mostly because my dad was excited, but I had always loved hearing the Beatles. I had just recently gotten my first iPod (my brother's hand-me-down Nano, that shit was sleek) and had never had access to the Beatles' discography like this before. I listened to them religiously during that period and they became one of my favorite groups. 'Abbey Road' probably got the second most plays on my iPod after 'The White Album.' I was entranced by the songwriting on this album -- Harrison and Lennon both outdoing themselves on each song. It contains my favorite Beatles song of all time, "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," and some top-10s for me in "Because" and "Sun King." I don't know what middle school me heard in those songs, but they have always stuck with me since then and have gained so much personal meaning during my life. McCartney really shines through during "The Long One" but also wrote "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" which I think is maybe a step below "granny music," as Lennon joked. The album is a stellar work that I think is propped up a lot by the band's impending divorce. It's the musical equivalent for when Squidward took Spongebob on one last big day after he ate the pie with a bomb in it. The Beatles treated us one more time before they put the band out to pasture. Aside: I once wrote a terrible poem about "Paul is dead" and his bare feet on the cover. Great conspiracy theory. Aside 2: McLemore Avenue by Booker T and the MGs is a great cover of this album.

I don’t think I have the words today

Iconic from the cover to the tracks who's legacy remains today.

One of the greatest of all time.

favs: come together oh! darling here comes the sun you never give me your money she came in through the bathroom window carry that weight rating 1.7/5

4 out of 5. A classic, easy to rate album. What more needs to be said? Not my favorite later album of theirs but it still holds up.

Many listens and this is the best complete Beatles album. Gold standard record.

Ah cmon, perfection.