Abbey Road

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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*

So many short songs... REALLY good album

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.

Schon sehr schön

Needs no words.

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

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

A nearly perfect album.

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

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

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.

5 stjerner til plata, og 5 stjerner til meg på Beatles Rock Band.

Seks stjerner til a-siden, fire til b-siden. For et album!

Mesterverk. Til og med bedre enn æ huske. Æ kan til og med akseptere Maxwell. De som ikke like Mean Mr Mustard må skjerpe sæ. Soleklar femmer.

honestly not that good

Something & Golden Slumbers najboljsi. Pozabla sm da I Want You obstaja in mi je pomoje najsibkejsa. Love the lyric Sunday’s on the phone with Monday. Tuesday’s on the phone with me. (iz Polythene Pam). Ni njihov najboljsi, ampak verjetno najbolj klasicni, vecini vsecen, iz pomanjkanja boljse besede - povprecen.

Classic

Five plus +++

Abbey Road is The Beatles turning the impending end of their greatest creative partnership into one final demonstration of what they could accomplish together. “Come Together” is hypnotic. “Something” is one of the great love songs. “I Want You” is terrifyingly obsessive. “Here Comes the Sun” is pure beauty. And the entire medley on side two is an astonishing feat of arrangement, sequencing and musical architecture. The album isn’t perfect in the literal sense. There are weaker songs. But as an album, it achieves something very close to perfection. And the final sequence is almost unbearably appropriate: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” Then silence.

One of the best albums ever.

It was nice album good driving music

I know a lot of Beatles songs—both the hits and the deep cuts—but I'm not actually that familiar with their albums as complete works. I just listened to Abbey Road from beginning to end, and I don't think I'd ever done that before. The first thing that struck me is how nice this album sounds. The production is remarkably clean for 1969. Everything has its place, and even more impressive to me is how stripped-down much of it feels. The songs aren't busy. The arrangements give the songs room to breathe, which I really appreciate. Regardless of your opinion of the Beatles, they were great at writing catchy songs. They also had a real gift for musical transitions—a bridge, chorus, chord change, or unexpected turn that takes a simple song somewhere else. The songcraft is naturally pleasing to hear in my opinion. At the same time, an entire album of catchy pop songs isn't normally my thing. That's part of what surprised me about Abbey Road. There's more going on here. They're actually playing their instruments well, they're having fun with the songwriting, and they're experimenting without forgetting that they need to entertain the listener. I've read criticism of the medley on the second side, unfinished song fragments cobbled together. I actually like it. These may be unfinished pieces, but they're unfinished pieces from one of the biggest most influential bands in the history of rock, recorded near the end of their time together. I'm glad we have them. And the way they're assembled turns those fragments into something more interesting than they might have been individually. (As a big prog-rock fan, squeezing too many ideas into 16 minutes is common to my ears.) This isn't a collection of my favorite Beatles songs, but as an album, it's remarkably consistent. It's a great collection of tunes, beautifully recorded and creatively put together, without much of a drop in quality from beginning to end.

Fantastic

legendary album but not my king of music

Easy 5. There's something dark and weird about this album that I like. This is the Beatles at the end. They're mature. They know exactly what they're doing. They're falling apart. It's melancholy. This it's not my favorite Beatles album and I don't love every song (hi, Maxwell!), but it's their swansong.

A Beatles classic, heard lots before

good

One of my faviuritessss

8/10 This album marks the final time the Beatles were ever in the studio together as a complete band. While it wasn’t actually their final release, the sessions that resulted in Let It Be actually took place before the Abbey Road sessions. In truth, the band had begun to collapse during those earlier sessions, and John Lennon actually announced his intention to leave the group to his band mates less than a week prior to this record’s release. While it is held up as one of the band’s best, and is often in the conversation of one of the greatest albums of all time, I’ve got to say that, to me, Abbey Road very much feels like a band starting to crumble. Yes, they are arguably one of the greatest collection of songwriters to have ever graced popular music, so it’s still very good, but to me it’s also fairly patchy. Things kick off strong with a powerful, engaging and hook stuffed slice of rock perfection with Come Together, immediately followed by Something, a far more deft and subtle exploration of harmony and songwriting. It’s a great example of the range of talents the band could call upon, and really gets the listener in the mood for more. And then Paul comes clomping in with his Silver Hammer, and things take a turn. It’s not terrible, but it’s not weird enough to be fully weird, and it’s not poppy enough to be good in that regard either. It’s just a bit of a swing and a miss. The rest of the side is pretty bloody solid, with Oh! Darling a particular highlight and even Ringo’s trip to the Octopus’s garden having a certain level of charm and quality to it. The second side opens extremely strongly too, with Here Comes The Sun another glowing example of Harrison’s deft harmonic control, balancing against his subtle use of melody to lead a listener through his work. Because is pretty good too, but for me where this album really falls a little further short is in the medley. Paul and George Martin basically gathered up a bunch of offcuts and ideas that had been put to one side through the recording sessions for The White Album and Let It Be, and plopped them together. This is the Beatles, so there are some moments of absolute gold in there and a lot of musicians would kill to have had even a couple of these ideas across their whole career, but it does end up feeling like a bit of a mish-mash of unfinished work, rather than something with a unifying thread and narrative. It just feels a bit like they needed to make sure they had more than half an hour of material, so slapped this stuff together rather than bothering to write any more songs to completion. It’s just a bit odd. As stated, there’s nothing massively clunky on this record, but when you’re the biggest band in the world, known as a group that elevated the album as an art form to new levels, and taking your studio bow, I would just hope for something a bit more cohesive and consistent across the entire piece. Come Together - It’s quite the way to kick off a record, isn’t it? That bass riff is excellent and the percussion and production is that work around it are superb. The whole thing is stuffed to bursting with hooks and the atmospheric production works perfectly to present them. It’s a patient and controlled track too, holding itself back from doing too much, but doing everything it does perfectly, which is exemplified by the subtle but effective guitar solo. Brilliant. Something - This track is so harmonically rich and has wonderful dynamic and rhythmically range. The hooks are more sparingly distributed, but flit in and out as the song progresses, and the effects us and production create a gorgeous atmosphere for the track to live in. There are some lovely bits of instrumental work all around, but bass and guitar are both worth special comment. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Paul McCartney’s vaudeville take on a hammer killer? That sounds weird, and it is. But it doesn’t really go weird enough for me. Don’t get me wrong, there’s stuff to like in here, like the synth work and some of the melodies, but stylistically, I don’t think it works as a Beatles song. It’s too straight and plodding and doesn’t have the edge of crazy it needed to pull off the trick. The band hated it, it took four days to record and John Lennon refused to be involved. A nail in the coffin for the Beatles. Oh! Darling - They step into proper r&b territory now and it’s brilliant. It grooves and swings and it’s got fantastic range. The bass drives it, the backing vocals add great depth and the lead vocal, complete with fiery driven sections, is delivered with great quality and gusto. God, it sounds like they were having the most fun laying this one down. Lovely, lovely stuff. Octopus's Garden - Hi Ringo. This has got plenty of charm to it. I mean it’s silly and fairly disposable, but Ringo tends to offer that with his writing contributions. There’s some great playing in places, particularly George Harrison’s lead guitar and, contrary to my thoughts on Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, I completely buy the quirky nature of this. It’s not brilliant, but it’s good fun. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - A solid bluesy effort now. It’s a pretty prog-rock effort too, moving through various movements and experimenting with space, changing rhythms and seemingly improvisational moments from the guitars. Paul’s bass work is excellent again, and the atmospheric production and weight to some of the sections are really very good. The synth atmospherics later on lean even more into the prog sound. Is it a bit too long and self-indulgent? Perhaps. Particularly the ending, until it just stops. But it’s still bloody good. Here Comes The Sun - I mean, it’s lovely stuff isn’t it? Harrison really contributes strongly to this record with his developing melodic flair and the harmonic chops to back them up. There’s some great early synth work on here that gels beautifully with the acoustic instruments. Ringo’s drumming is great here too. It’s massively twee, but when you can write melodies and hooks like this, why not be twee? Because - This feels a lot like it was inspired by the Beach Boys (as well as Moonlight Sonata, as Lennon has stated). It’s very pretty and the vocal harmony work is brilliantly delivered, and I think the combination of electronic harpishcord and synth tones is a really nice blend. Lovely. You Never Give Me Your Money - The opening minute of this are really beautiful and again, remind me of the Brian Wilson’s work, both musically and in the production. Then it jumps into something quirky, and flits through a range of different ideas and styles. There’s things about it that I like and the fact that it touches so many bases is pretty interesting. But it feels more interesting than completely coherent. Some of the late guitar work is excellent mind. Sun King - That guitar tone is lush, and the melody is lovely. The dancing around of the bass and guitar is pretty and smooth, and the vocal harmonisation is top notch. It’s very, very Beach Boys, but there’s still plenty of Beatles in there too. It’s more of a transitional piece than a full song, but it’s still very nice. Mean Mr. Mustard - There’s a nice swagger to this and it’s just the right amount of Beatles quirky to work well. It’s got cool rhythms, nice melodies and that little bit of grit that gives it an interesting texture. Very nice. Polythene Pam - And we slam straight into something that’s more Kinks/Stones edge of 60s rock. It’s got cool drum work and a nice solo, It’s not bad, but it’s also not exactly the Beatles at their best. I know this section of the album is a medley, but this feels much more like an extended intro to the next one than a fully realised song. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - It’s a smooth transition into something that’s a more fully realised song. It has a great sound, with grit and groove, as well as great harmonic content, particularly from the backing vocals. This one was really good, but it’s a bit of a shame it’s not been developed into a more fully rounded song, as what’s here is excellent. Golden Slumbers - Having been endlessly subjected to the animated film Sing when my daughter was young, this song is pretty intrinsically tied to that for me. It’s very, very nice though. The melody is pretty, and it’s got a nice thick orchestration that backs up the vocal nicely. Again, it kind of acts more of an intro to the next one than an actual complete song though. Carry That Weight - Which is really, really good. It’s got swagger, it’s got heart and charm, and there’s some lush vocal harmonisation too. The rhythms are cool, and it covers a lot of ground in a minute and a half. But then, bam. It’s done. I would love this to be a proper track. The End - A nice bit of drum soloing for Ringo! The sound of this is fantastic, there are some great bits of soloing, but it basically ends up sounding a bit like a very short jam session leading into another completely separate section that closes the album out with a beautiful and brief flourish. Her Majesty - Before a tiny post-script that’s again, very nice, but fairly incidental.

Easy 5 stars. This is a top 5 album for me. This is my favorite Beatles album. I named my daughter after it. I can’t think of anything I dislike about it. What a great ending to a great band.

i do think the b side of the album is revolutionary yeah

A goat album. The medleys

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Shoutout to Ringo, the best vocalist of the Beatles. Jk. This is a no-skip banger of an album. Except Polythene Pam, I like Maxwell's Silver Hammer more than Pam.

Pre Listen: Well well well, if it isn't the Beatle's most critically acclaimed album of all time. Yeah, I've listened to it. Yeah, I love it, I already know it's gonna be a 5/5. Yeah, I'm gonna gush over it, adding nothing to what's already been said hundreds of times about it as is. If there ever was an album that's overrated, this is it. The issue is, *it's just that good*. I don't think it's their best work however, but I do think it's their most digestible album after they stopped playing pop rock, and started doing their own thing. Notable Tracks: Come Together - Amazing start to an album, and my #1 go-to song for Karaoke. Fun lyrics with an incredibly catchy melody, which is incredibly and easily recognizable. Shame on John Lennon for somewhat plagiarizing Chuck Berry on this one though. Something - My 2nd favorite Beatles romance song. The violins in the background bump this song up from good to stellar. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - Least favorite track on the album, Paul is a madman for making them do 100+ takes on this goofy ah thing. The lyrics are just eh. The inclusion of the synth and anvil is neat, but overall, it's not the best of songs. Octopus's Garden - Another major highlight, feels like a natural sequel to 'Yellow Submarine'. I was fortunate enough to watch this song played live by Ringo, the absolute lad. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - One of the best Lennon songs out there. So much anger in the melody, it's the Beatle's edgiest song, and goes hard as fuck. The Long One (Consisting of 'You Never Give Me Your Money' to 'The End') - Ahh the magnum opus of Abbey Road. My favorite part of Abbey Road, the flow feels so perfect, it's a song that's absolute cinema. I struggle to name a favorite part, each has something so special about it- You Never Give Me Your Money's lyrics are phenomenal, as are Carry That Weight's, and Ringo's drum solo on The End is legendary. The energy in the Bathroom Window portion is beyond hype, and all the short ditty's in-between have so much charm. God I love it. Post Listen: There may never be another month on this project than September of 2026 that will give me so many bangers to review. This is one of the greatest albums of all time. Just banger after banger that can be relistened to over and over again, and never grow stale. So much meaning in some of the lyrics, so much polish on the instrumental work. All produced while the Beatles were going through domestics between each other every session essentially. Maybe it's one of the greatest Beatles albums because John Lennon quit halfway through. Fuck that guy. For their last album recorded together, they made sure to leave with a bang. The End. 5/5

I know people say this is their favorite album of all time, but it’s m just going to say it - this just isn’t that good. The Beatles were over at this point, they were just going through the motions to complete contractual obligations. There was a list of very long things they wished they were doing aside from making this album together, and it shows in the final product.

Heard before?:✔️ Will listen again?:✔️ 4.5

Highlights upon highlights, shooting from the hip here. They never missed. Some real psychedelic shit going on with Because. Yummy album

Great album there are songs that were weird but liked it

What can I say