the Beatles: Abbey Road

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  • HushBull
    HushBull Posts: 996
    Possibly my favorite album all time. The McCartney/Lennon suites are amazing.
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    i just had to come and share my love for the medley. side 2 is the most amazing thing you can do for your ears since the q-tip
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I have MASSIVE problems with later Beatles stuff, particularly McCartney's work, but Abbey Road is as close to perfect as they came. Just incredible.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,146
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Why should it be in everybodys top ten?

    cause its that good
    and even if your not a beatles fan it deserves to be recognized as one of the best of all time
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Get_Right wrote:
    cause its that good
    and even if your not a beatles fan it deserves to be recognized as one of the best of all time

    Im a pretty big Beatles fan but there are still many albums that I prefer to this
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    I'll never understand why people hate Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Only Paul Freakin' McCartney could write a tune that catchy about a guy who goes around killing people by hitting them in the head with a hammer.

    Side 2 owns, though I don't like Sun King at all. You Never Give Me Your Money is probably my favorite on the album (I love how he sings the 'outta college, money spent' part). and the Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End medley is probably the greatest thing ever created.

    so yeah Abbey Road is pretty great. best guitar album from the Beatles if ya ask me. I'll still take Pepper's, the Mystery Tour and the White Album over it any day of the week though.
    Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a shite song. McCartney has some sort of bizarre penchant for writing irritating nursery rhyme style songs that just get in the way of some genuinely brilliant songs on the album.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a shite song. McCartney has some sort of bizarre penchant for writing irritating nursery rhyme style songs that just get in the way of some genuinely brilliant songs on the album.

    Maxwells Silver Hammer is still a million times better than Octopus Garden
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,146
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Im a pretty big Beatles fan but there are still many albums that I prefer to this

    except for you then-and like I said, even if its not your favorite, it deserves that much respect
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,146
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Maxwells Silver Hammer is still a million times better than Octopus Garden

    yeah except I always think of Steve Martin when I hear that song
    ugh
  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Maxwells Silver Hammer is still a million times better than Octopus Garden

    At least Octopus' Garden KNOWS its a bit shit.....

    I love Macca's earlier Beatles stuff, but not the later stuff.....

    Sgt. Pepper is very overated....and im a HUGE Beatles fan.....
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Maxwells Silver Hammer is still a million times better than Octopus Garden
    I disagree. Octopus' Garden is dumb but fun. Maxwell's silver hammer is dumb and about as fun as renal failure. Never understood the hate for Octopus' garden.
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  • glasshouse
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    Polythene Pam???
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  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    DOSW wrote:
    I think Magical Mystery Tour is a better album than Abbey Road...

    this was released as an EP in Europe. The last six tracks weren't included.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    My second favourite Album of all time just behind Pepper
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    Joan was quizzical
    Studied pataphysical science in the home
    Late nights all alone with a test tube
    Oh oh oh oh....
    Maxwell Edison majoring in medicine
    Calls her on the phone
    "Can I take you out to the pitcures
    Jo oa oa oan?"

    But as she's getting ready to go...
    A knock comes on the door...

    :D
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    the 2nd half of the album (medley) is beyond genious.
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  • Evacuation Rules
    Evacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Shitloads of money was spent on Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Paul thought it had single potential. I think more was spent on it than all the other songs on the album put together (or at least, that claim was made anyway).

    I don't think that's true at all. It was a pretty straightforward recording. I think Paul spent a lot more time on "Oh Darling", for which he re-recorded the lead vocal at least a dozen times. Some of the alternate takes have been bootlegged and judging from their lame quality, I think it was time well spent. They also spent an assload of money on the orchestral overdubs. I doubt that Maxwell's costed as much to record as the orchestral overdubs did.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    it is almost as good as riot act.....

    but not quite....

    still a decent album......


    oh now that explains why i was a little disappointed when i bought it.
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  • Igottago
    Igottago Posts: 483
    Cosmo wrote:
    Listen to 'Abbey Road'... think about this...
    It was only 6 years earlier that the Beatles wrote 'She Loves You'. So, in a 6 year period, The Beatles went from 'She Loves You... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah' to that brilliant Side Two... and everything in between.
    All before reaching the age of 30.

    Thank you for summing this up so perfectly...now I know exactly what to yell and scream at people who say "the beatles are overrated" or "the beatles were a boy band"...it amazes me that people fail to recognize the scope of what they achieved in such a short time...its staggering.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Has anyone got the 50th anniversary (2019) mix?
    Is it worth getting? I have the 2009 version.
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