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5/5 - "AND IN THE END..." (The Beatles leave us with a symphony)
Abbey Road (1969) was the last album The Beatles ever recorded. Forever.
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<br />And thankfully they left us with a symphony. Four distinct personalities came together one last time to create yet another landmark in music history. Abbey Road is a colorful, generous, and thoughtful piece of art, and if given the chance, it can breathe new life into a weary soul and shine warm sunlight into a cold heart. Ah, the essence of The Beatles.
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<br />Abbey Road is an album full of highlights, and the most remarkable are two George Harrison songs. The beautiful and sincere love song, Something, and the lovely folk ballad, Here Comes The Sun, are both wonderful and timeless classics. John Lennon's rockin' Come Together and eerily beautiful Because are also great songs, and his I Want You (She's So Heavy) is an electric guitar new age blues masterpiece. Paul's bluesy Oh!Darling is a wonderfully melodic 1950s rocker that features his now famous screaming vocal performance. Ringo's cozy ballad Octopus's Garden adds warmth and atmosphere to the album, and along with Maxwell's Silver Hammer is just plain fun.
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<br />Even with all of these great moments, the centerpiece of the album is "the medley". Eight song fragments pieced together to sound so effortlessly complete that it seems as if they were composed as a contiguous symphony. It begins with You Never Give Me Your Money which blends into the four-part harmonies of Sun King. The bouncy Mean Mr. Mustard crashes into the somewhat perverted Polythene Pam and then into the rollicking She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. The piano and orchestra accompanied lullabye, Golden Slumbers, is contemplative and tender.
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<br />Once there was a way to get back homeward
<br />Once there was a way to get back home
<br />Sleep pretty darling do not cry
<br />And I will sing a lullabye
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<br />Golden Slumbers fill your eyes
<br />Smiles awake you when you rise
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<br />Carry That Wieght continues the medley with a Ringo Starr drum solo and back n' forth guitar dueling between John, Paul, and George. The sweeping and melodic wisdom of The End completes the medley, and then is followed by an amusing little afterthought, Her Majesty, to end the album.
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<br />Abbey Road is one the best selling albums of all time (although Sgt. Pepper has sold more), and because it was The Beatles last, one of the world's most cherished. When listened to as a single piece of work, Abbey Road is a masterpiece of artistic beauty unlike anything the world will ever see or hear again. Thank Goodness John, Paul, George and Ringo decided to COME TOGETHER in THE END for SOMETHING Beatles fans will always treasure.
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1/5 - WARNING: I will not visit this site anymore, October 27, 2006
WARNING: I will not visit this site anymore, October 27, 2006
<br />A Kid's Review
<br />hello dear friends, this message is a rather serious warning that I am not visiting this site anymore. I apologise as I have no business here.
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<br />There is no Joao, Beans, Kitts, Semen or Nutsacks, it is just a sick and silly game by someone who is not quite a kid.
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<br />I know all the recordings by this band, was once a huge mindless fan but now that I've learned more it doesn't do anything at all for me.
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<br />I will stay away from here, ok?
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<br />Be |
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