of good songs, I cannot listen to an album for the whole running time, The Beatles simply fail to get me as a listener involved. This highly acclaimed album features many good songs but to me these compositions sound as a progressive blend of pop and rock. I many people who grew up with that wonderful time in The Sixties when Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones became 'biggies' who turned simply 3 minute pop songs into more adventurous, rock-oriented music.
The Beatles are for them the link between musical excitement and emotion. Well, it sounds a bit cynical but for me (I am from 1960) Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple were the bands that let me escape from the irritating, empty pop chart songs. If I compare the songs from this famous and pivotal The Beatles album to the aforementioned bands, I prefer these bands above The Beatles.
In my opinion The Beatles are a very overrated band and for sure no more progressive than The Doors, a very underrated band on this site, in terms of progressive rock elements! Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 09:41 EST |
bands like Strawbs and Genesis, who develop ideas more. Yes, there are some innovations but the songs just aren't that good and the playing is fairly basic, the odd Harrison solo excepted.
However, there is one glorious exception to this mediocrity: Here Comes The Sun is one of the great songs of all time and shows that, whilst Lennon and McCartney get all the plaudits, it was George Harrison who wrote most of their best songs. This album is definitely not a masterpiece in any way and The Beatles are terribly overrated generally. Even Here Comes The Sun can't lift it Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 18:29 EST |
One of the best albums ever made!
! The Beatles, as we all know, is one of the most influential rock bands to ever come from England. Even if the primitive technology of the 60s stands on their way, they have managed to create one of the most creative and progressive albums in prog rock history.
The members are no virtuosos, but they used all their songwriting talents to create this. The first side is a wonderful set of short songs. The second half has a wonderful ballad and a collection of short songs Come Together starts the album with a bang!
This unusual blues/rocker is way ahead of its time. It has a timeless ascending bass riff, as well as two melodic guitar solos and rocking vocals and rhythm. Something is a very different successful track: it is a symphonic ballad with gorgeous melodies.
This band is so good at composing melodies! This is their peak, so expect them at their best. Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a cute innocent sounding children song, but if you read the lyrics, it's about a kid killing a friend, a teacher, and a judge in the choruses.
Basically, he is a serial killer. It features synthesizers and piano and are effecting in creating the ironic tone. Oh Darling is a Octopuses Garden is a fun children song with very catchy melodies and backing vocals.
It ends with a great guitar solo. But this is not the song I want to hear. I await eagerly Everything about this song is perfect.
This is the perfect Beatles song, really! The immortal and mindblowing hard rock guitar riff, while repetitive, leaves me waiting for more! The song has sing-along blues verses, organ bass call and response riffs before the chorus, and the proggy repetitive choruses and coda.
Trust me, it is not only a riff. It has moog synthesizers, hammond organ virtuosity, bass guitar improvisations , and hypnotic (yet simple) drumming. The song unexpectedly ends in silence.
And now ...
The Epic! Acapella singing introduces it. It has very psychedelic lyrics and tone.
A great start of the epic. You Never Give me Your Money is a pop/rock section with very memorable melodies and changes of tempos. This song has more changes than Close to the Edge in four minutes!
Sun King has singing of some foreign language (Latin?) but it sounds really good. Mean Mr Mustard is an up-tempo rocker that ends too quickly.
Not the best part of the epic, but enjoyable. Polythene Pam sounds very much like music from Led Zeppelin III, great!.
Bathroom Window is another good song Weight" The end has a drum solo that is pretty pathetic, but the guitar solo coming before it may be the best guitar solo I have heard from The Beatles. Her majesty Highlights: I Want You, Here Comes the Sun, the Epic Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 20:40 EST |
in their swan song record Abbey Road. Recorded after Let it Be and released before it, this is truly final Beatles record.
The creative juices were flowing and the songs kept churning, and this would become the Beatles finest outing on record. John out. George is at his creative peak, with an overly emotional piece and a cheery acoustic number.
And finally, Ringo has his moment of glory with his country-esque Opening with the John Lennon piece Come Together, the song was meant to be a campaign. This song is often criticized for being a "lift" of the Chuck Berry song You Can't Catch Me. None the less, it's one of the great Beatles songs.
Something is the first of two George Harrison songs on the album. This song became a huge hit for the band. It featured great augmentation of an orchestra by George Martin, and some great bass runs by McCartney, as well as a tasteful guitar solo from Harrison.
One of the best songs in the Beatles catalogue. Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a Oh! Darling is one song that John resented in the fact that Paul didn't let him sing it.
A pretty standard 12/8 ballad number, but it features one of Paul McCartney's best vocal works in his career. Octopus's Garden is the second Ringo Starr White Album, and although he helped write the bridge of What Goes On, he wasn't guitar frills from George Harrison. One of the more experimental Beatles tracks, I brilliant leads from Harrison.
It goes through many time changes and towards the end, as the hisses and moans of moog synths fill the speakers, it all ends abrubtly. Here Comes the Sun, another classic George Harrison track, is a simple acoustic track written around variations of the d chord. It features a great 3/8 breakdown as well as some uplifting moog during the chorus.
The final song before the medleys is Because, the main riff inspired by John wanting Yoko to play the Moonlight Sonata backwards. This song features what I read to be 9 tracks of vocal (3 from John, 3 from Paul, and 3 from George) and is more about the music than the lyrics. You Never Give Me Your Money begins the medley to end all medleys.
A very piano based features some great harmonies, and some nice italian lyrics towards the end, it Mean Mr. Mustard is a short little ditty with a very catchy riff, it leads right into Polythene Pam, which has a nice solo from Harrison; which then leads into She Came into the Bathroom Window, a bluesy number that has some great guitar frills from Harrison. It leads into Golden Slumbers, which features one of Paul's most emotional and heartfelt vocal performances on record.
It leads into Carry that Weight, which Money theme. It all is summed up with the stellar conclusion, The End, which has some great guitar runs from Harrison, and very fun drum solo (the only one on record) from Ringo. It all gets summed up in two phrases according to Paul McCartney "And in the end, the love you take/ is equal to the love you make".
And the end is near. But then a little surprise awaits you. Her Majesty is a little ditty that seems to have fit in between Mean Mr.
Mustard and Polythene Pam, a bit of a Overall, I know I've written a lot about this album (I think this is my longest review ever), but I just can't help but say that this album is a masterpiece by and by. There are no weak tracks, and there are no sore spots. Utterly magnificent.
Essential to any music collection. 5/5. Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 23:22 EST |
Aw man, the end of an era.
Just a dribbin' shame it as to end in a fight. Oh well, still we have this. After hearing the amazing Abbey Road, we can agree on the strategy of the Beatles: they were aiming for progressive material.
Althought very pop, this album is still the firm Ringo gave us his best track ever, Harrison litteraly lifted and animated the album with amazing songs and Moog effects, Paul was Paul and Lennon was sporting a superb red beard. Everything was there to create years of progressive madness. Man, talk about saving the best for last.
*Sigh* and closing with The End. Oh so many good evenings related to those songs..
. No Beatles collection'd be complete without Abbey Road, it would be insanity. If you don't have it, well shame shame.
Just go buy it tomorrow and don't speak about it. Posted Friday, March 31, 2006, 19:23 EST |
chidlhood because my late father bought some of their albums in the late sixties. Maybe some of my reviews for these albums are boring for some readers, but I`m sorry.
.. During the last weeks I listened again to some very old singles, all released in the sixties and early seventies.
Great music which was played in the Radio then, and were bought by my father.
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