Abbey Road (Remastered)
by The Beatles
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Favorite Albums of All Time
Stu(1969)
”And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
As tensions were rising within the band, the Beatles reunited with George Martin and pulled it together for one last hurrah.
Here’s just one example of how listening to a good album in its entirety can be more satisfying than listening to individual random songs:
Everyone on the planet knows “Here Comes the Sun,” but its message and mood is even more uplifting when heard within the context of the entire album. The prior song, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” keeps ratcheting up its torturous distortion until there’s finally an abrupt cutoff that sounds like death itself. But then, coming out of the subsequent silence, we hear the reassuring opening strums of “Here Comes the Sun,” which in this context sounds like a resurrection, or a flower emerging from rubble.
The rest of the album only gets better. The next song, "Because," has the most sublime harmonies they ever recorded. The rest of Side Two proceeds with a mishmash of partial songs and stitched-together musical ideas that still somehow manages to work. It’s as if they knew they would never get the chance to finish developing these songs together, so they just had to use up all the musical ideas they had on hand, whether they were complete or not. (Like when you’re going on vacation the next day and you scrounge together a dinner consisting of the random items remaining in your fridge in order to use them up!)
It finally culminates with "The End" which features Ringo's drum solo, the other three trading off dueling guitar solos, the closing lyric quoted above, and that glorious ending note. It would have been such a satisfying closing to the album, but then comes the surprise 23-second "Her Majesty," as if to say, "Gotcha!"
Tricksters to the end.
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