let-me-listening-emilia
i like ‘wild honey pie’ and i’m tired of pretending i don’t. apparently pattie boyd really pushed for it to be included on the album which makes me love and respect her even more than i already do.
idk what i should say otherwise cos everything’s already been said. too many songs, yes, and a couple of really SHITE tracks (’goodnight’) but there are actually fewer true stinkers than i always remember. it could have been 3 sides instead of 4 i guess. and the good songs are just stone cold classics.
fav tracks: dear prudence; while my guitar gently weeps; happiness is a warm gun; mother nature’s son; back in the USSR; i’m so tired; yer blues; glass onion; long long long; savoy truffle; cry baby cry; helter skelter; julia
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lauras-1001-album-journey
there's so much going on (famously) so where to start...
most of the songs are pretty good and i do like the transitions between some that feel pretty different from each other which prevents it from feeling outright jarring (especially Back in The USSR to Dear Prudence, and I'm So Tired to Blackbird). The variety definitely keeps it interesting because you truly have no idea what is coming next (if you're me and don't listen to this album in full very much). But it still feels more like a beatles playlist than an album. I kept thinking how much this sounds like a battle of the bands between john and paul, because most of the john songs are SO john and likewise for the paul ones, and this often felt so noticeable when their rival tracks were back to back (Glass Onion to Ob-La-Di; Happiness Is A Warm Gun into Martha My Dear, and particularly emblematic of beatles' styles if I'm also considering While My Guitar Gently Weeps preceding both). it felt like each beatle was going "okay my turn now". i know i am hardly the first one to make that observation but it's just VERY hard for it not to overshadow the rest of the listening experience (especially when the other beatles albums i listen to more often feel much more cohesive which leaves the focus on the music/lyrics). but of course so many of the tracks on here are so inventive that despite it's shortcomings as an album as a whole, it's still a great listen.
*Fav tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Happiness is a Warm Gun; Dear Prudence; I Will (always been one of my favorites and actually sounds more like an early Beatles track now that I think about it, which is kinda cute); Savoy Truffle*
*New faves: Mother Nature's Son; Long, Long, Long; Good Night (not necessarily as a song itself but as a fitting cinematic closer to a long and tumultuous album)*
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