Abbey Road | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Beatles
Label: Apple
Category: Music
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Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 138
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 46446
UPC: 499999215951
EAN: 0077774644624
ASIN: B000002UB3
Release Date: November 1, 1988
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Condition: Brand new - Factory sealed - Import edition We ship via first class mail from Miami, Florida.USA
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| Tracks:
| • | Come Together | | • | Something | | • | Maxwell's Silver Hammer | | • | Oh Darling | | • | Octopus's Garden | | • | I Want You (She's So Heavy) | | • | Here Comes The Sun | | • | Because | | • | You Never Give Me Your Money | | • | Sun King | | • | Mean Mr Mustard | | • | Polythene Pam | | • | She Came In Through The Bathroom Window | | • | Golden Slumbers | | • | Carry That Weight | | • | End Her Majesty |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty", which follows. --Rickey Wright
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 AND IN THE END ........ July 2, 2008
Mr. Christopher J. Welch (Lincolnshire, UK)
The Beatles final album (last to be recorded) is a mixed bag. At one end of the spectrum there are Harrison's two landmark songs - 'Something' & 'Here Comes The Sun' then there is Lennon's frankly baffling 'I Want You Shes's So Heavy' and McCartneys trite 'Maxwells Silver Hammer'.
This is the sound of a band falling apart. Of course, this being the Beatles, there are also moments of pure brilliance - 'Come Together' is John's last great Fabs song and his band mates, especially Paul, help turn the swampy blues track into a minor masterpiece. Ringo's jaunty 'Octopus's Garden' may be a lightweight kids song but the inventive arrangement and clever harmonies are often overlooked.
Abbey Road though is Macca's album. 'She Came In Through The Bathroom Window' is almost classical in it's composition, whilst his work on the long medley shows a man in full command of his obvious talents. George also excells throughout and his distinctive lead guitar work is often outstanding.
Lennon was, at times, very critical of the overbearing McCartney and on Abbey Road the division between the two was never more obvious. But it's Paul thats holds the record together and it's to his, and George Martins, credit that the results are so good. Free to experiment with newly installed 8 track recording equipment the Beatles managed to fashion a complex and polished sounding album that lacked only in consistencey and focus.
Had 'Come and Get It', 'Maybe I'm Amazed' or Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass' made the cut then this could well have been The Beatles finest hour. It's sounds a lot better than the scrappy 'Let It Be' and as a swangsong record still manages to stand head and shoulders above the competiton of the late 60's. The iconic cover shot was the icing on the cake.
 THE LOVE YOU TAKE IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE YOU MADE June 15, 2008
C. Bellegarrigue (El Salvador)
Que frase mas magica: "Y al final el amor que tomas es el amor que tu distes"; con tan brillante frase (que Lennon llamo "cosmica") los Beatles cerraron con un tremendo broche de oro su brillante carrera discografica; aunque LET IT BE fue su ultimo disco lanzado, en realidad ABBEY ROAD fue su ultimo trabajo discografico como grupo; Y QUE TRABAJO!!! DEJARON LO MEJOR PARA EL FINAL; considerado el mas increible album despues de PEPPER y REVOLVER, este disco tiene los brillantes rocks COME TOGETHER, I WANT YOU, lindas baladas como SOMETHING (de George), OH DARLING, brillantes pops como HERE COMES THE SUN (si, tambien de george), armonias exquisitas como BECAUSE (escuchen como se funden las voces de John, Paul Y George), canciones ingeniosas como OCTOPUSS GARDEN (la segunda composicion de Ringo) y el mitico y grandioso MEDLEY DE ABBEY ROAD que inicia con YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, la preciosa SUN KING (con palabras en castellano!!), la movidisima POLITHYNE PAM, una soberbia SHE CAME THROUGH THE BATHROOM WINDOW, una linda cancion de cuna GOLDEN SLUMBERS y nos lleva al extasis final en THE END, que gran final!!! para terminar con una mini-composicion de Paul HER MAJESTY... UN GRAN FINAL PARA UN GRAN GRUPAZO!!!
Addictive May 24, 2008
Mr. Cl Hetherington (Newcastle, England)
I tell you what. This was the best way for the Beatles to end the show. Every song makes you want to listen to the whole disc again. A great triumph. Beatles Rule!
A wonderful goodbye.... April 8, 2008
New Gold Dreamer (Enfield, England)
Best tracks: "Here Comes the Sun", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Something", "The End"
Abbey Road wasn't literally the last Beatles album to be released (Let it Be was held off for a year or two), but it was the last to be recorded, and as such is the true swansong for this remarkable band. Its first half is somewhat disjointed although its almost all brilliant, while its justly praised second side (with its much-loved medley) is a miracle of sequencing and flow, turning a great album into something of a classic. John opens with the pared-down "Come Together", George follows with the blissfully lovely "Something" (one of his very best) and then Paul delivers what some regard as one of the worst Beatles songs ever and a grim forewarning of the worst of his solo material. I`ll let author of classic Beatles book Revolution in the Head Ian MacDonald sum it up: "If any single recording shows why The Beatles broke up, it is `Maxwell's Silver Hammer'". A jolly, jaunty ditty about a hammer-wielding psychopath, it is pretty damn silly, and seems to say absolutely nothing about anything, but there are worse Beatles songs out there. Can't think of any at the moment though! "Oh Darling" is nothing special song-wise, but it's beautifully performed, with a McCartney vocal that's often quite spectacular! "Octopus's Garden" is a Ringo tune (one of only a very few he wrote for the band), and bless him, it's exactly what you'd expect from the singer of "Yellow Submarine" to deliver. There are some pretty cool guitars on here, and the whole thing is rather cute, I hasten to add! So far, Abbey Road is all over the place; protest songs, love songs, sick-joke songs and odes to underwater hideways....and it goes one further with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", which is a full-on rock beast in the mould of The White Album's "Helter Skelter", though this time it's a John song. A simple, direct lyric, accompanied by a dirty, bluesy sound which eventually gives way to an amazing, almost never-ending finale that becomes hypnotic not before long. It cuts out all of a sudden without warning and with it the original first side of Abbey Road is all wrapped up; although most of the songs, when taken individually, aren't quite classic Beatles, as a whole it works surprisingly well.
The second side of Abbey Road on the other hand, is absolutely fantastic from start to finish, a non-stop run of wonderful songs, beautiful harmonies, terrific throwaways and magnificent hooks that represent a fond farewell from this band, one that somehow manages to be valedictory without ever once feeling pompous, overblown or self-worthy. Even its more epic, dramatic moments, like on "Golden Slumbers" and "Carry That Weight", are free of bluster or pomp, and there's always cheeky asides like the hidden epilogue of "Her Majesty" to bring it all back down to Earth with a nod and a wink. The utterly beautiful "Here Comes the Sun" opens it all, and this is probably my favourite George song from the Beatles years; evocative of a glittering summer's morning, it feels like what it's all about; a new start, a fresh beginning....you could almost read it as George's own goodbye to the band and the start of a whole new era...the haunting, deeply lovely "Because" has around a dozen layers of vocals by the band, and is an enveloping, atmospheric and really quite special thing of beauty. Paul's terrific "You Never Give Me Your Money" is almost a medley in itself, his own "Happiness is a Warm Gun", if you will. Shifting tones and gears many times in just over four minutes, it's a mini-miracle of composition and melody, with many glorious moments and joyous embellishments, it`s sad, happy, funny and by the end, quite spectacular....it drifts into the heavenly "Sun King", which is like some kind of swirling, intoxicating dream; great, great vocals here, a woozy, blissful atmosphere....it's really quite wonderful. Two delightfully silly tunes follow, both of which barely encompassing three minutes. "Mean Mr. Mustard" has a nicely sloppy, mopey rhythm which is rudely interrupted by the storming "Polythene Pam", which has John sounding more blatantly Liverpudlian than he had in ages! The astonishingly fine "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" has the kind of guitar hook that The Smiths' Johnny Marr may have been influenced by; this song's a real gem, one of Paul's most deliriously melodic and exciting tunes one of the band's best hidden treasures. "Golden Slumbers" begins to wrap up The Beatles time on Earth, with a tender, powerful chorus, while "Carry That Weight" is really quite stirring; together these two pack a great punch. They lead directly into the fantastic, appropriately titled "The End", which features a rather cracking Ringo drum solo (it's very good too, I hasten to add), a rising, exciting rhythm and a rather lovely finale....and then it's all over. No more Beatles. It really was The End. Then, Paul sings a song about the Queen in a goofy yet utterly, utterly right surprise coda that makes me chuckle every time. It's a perfect end to one of THE greatest sides of vinyl in music history, and the album as a whole is a wonderful goodbye-wave from a band who have been praised to almost preposterous levels, yet stuff like Abbey Road (okay....maybe not some stuff on the first side!) help to justify the love.
Beyond words April 4, 2008
gabby (UK)
I know it sounds pretentious to say that this album's brilliance is 'beyond words' but it's just too true to express any other way. In my opinion, 'Something' is one of the most perfect songs of all time. There's just something so beautiful and aching about it that means without it, you can't really say you have a proper music collection! Oh Darling is fantastic, as is Octopus's Garden, and the instant burst of happiness that floods you with the opening bars of 'Here Comes The Sun' is just about unbeatable. What I love most about this album, though, is the ending-from track 14 'Golden Slumbers', to 'Her Majesty.' Just a rollercoaster of a ride and emotions; the songs flow seamlessly into one another, so much so that on first listen you might not realise the track has changed, but it works amazingly and is a brilliant innovative way to end what is put simply a masterpiece of an album. Just an absolute classic you have to own... and it's not just for the people who were there when Beatlemania was about! I'm 16 and have grown to absolutely treasure this album.
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