Artist - The Beatles
Title - Abbey Road - 50th Anniversary
Format - Single 180-Gram Vinyl LP
Label - Apple Records
50th Anniversary edition of The Beatles' musical masterpiece. This Abbey Road release features the new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes. To produce the mix, Giles Martin working with Sam Okell was guided by the album's original stereo mix supervised by his father, George Martin. It is time to experience Abbey Road again!
Conventional wisdom holds that the Beatles intended Abbey Road as a grand farewell, a suspicion seemingly confirmed by the elegiac note Paul McCartney strikes at the conclusion of its closing suite. Culminating in McCarnty, Lennon, and Harrison trading solos on "The End."
The depth of sonic detail within "You Never Give Me Your Money" and "She Came in Through the Window" provided ideas for entire subgenres of pop in the '70s, but Abbey Road also contains a handful of the most enduring Beatles songs, each adding a new emotional maturity to their catalog. The subdued boogie of Lennon's "Come Together" contains a sensuality previously unheard in The Beatles. It's matched by "Because," which may be the best showcase for the group's harmonies -- Harrison's "Something" is a love ballad of unusual sensitivity, and his "Here Comes the Sun" is incandescent, perhaps his purest expression of joy.
As good as these individual moments are, what makes Abbey Road transcendent is how the album is so much greater than the sum of its parts. A single song or segment can be dazzling, but having a succession of marvelous, occasionally intertwined moments is not only a marvel but indeed a summation of everything that made The Beatles great.
| A1 |
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Come Together
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4:21 |
| A2 |
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Something
|
3:03 |
| A3 |
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Maxwell's Silver Hammer
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3:27 |
| A4 |
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Oh! Darling
|
3:27 |
| A5 |
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Octopus's Garden
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2:51 |
| A6 |
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I Want You (She's So Heavy)
|
7:47 |
| B1 |
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Here Comes The Sun
|
3:05 |
| B2 |
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Because
|
2:46 |
| B3 |
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You Never Give You Me Your Money
|
4:02 |
| B4 |
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Sun King
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2:27 |
| B5 |
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Mean Mr. Mustard
|
1:06 |
| B6 |
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Polythene Pam
|
1:13 |
| B7 |
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She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
|
1:57 |
| B8 |
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Golden Slumbers
|
1:32 |
| B9 |
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Carry That Weight
|
1:37 |
| B10 |
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The End
|
2:20 |
| B11 |
|
Her Majesty
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0:23 |
