Abbey Road (1969)
Album: Abbey Road
Artist: The Beatles
Original Release Date: 9/26/1969
Approx. Purchase Date: Summer-Fall 2009
Format: CD
Amount of Stars: N/A
Length: 47 min, 17 tracks
Favored Tracks: “Something”, “Octopus’s Garden”, “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, The Abbey Road Medley.
I need to start off this review by explaining the history of me and The Beatles. It wasn’t until very recently that I “got” The Beatles. I’d always held up The Who, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones as better groups, either to be different or because my dad’s available Beatles material is low. Of course throughout my life I knew The Beatles were automatically the greatest. But I didn’t really know. And I could make lists of my favorite The Beatles songs and afterwards say, “It’s really too bad that I had to leave off ‘Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey’ but I could only do 10.” Truthfully, I really didn’t have a favorite The Beatles song. I always just reordered the same list of songs everybody knows and likes and ones on The Beatles (The White Album) which was the only one my dad had on CD. I always knew about their music and heard a lot of their songs on things, but I never really studied them. Then they released those overpriced remastered CDs that I remember a lot of old heads complaining about. Even though they were kinda expensive, I had mad Borders coupons, and I was going through a period where I wanted to listen to stuff that was psychedelic, so I bought Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and went from there into a full on The Beatles phase. Of all the ones I ended up purchasing, Abbey Road turned out to be my favorite. It was the third CD I ended up buying. I’d already studied the history of The Beatles extensively on the internet by this point, but I stayed away from this album partially because I didn’t want spoilers and partially because I thought I already knew enough about it considering the front half was stacked with songs I knew, but couldn’t tell you what album they were from. So I’ll split this review into two sections. One containing “Come Together” through “Here Comes The Sun” and the other containing my thoughts on the rest of the album, songs I hadn’t heard before.
