Abbey Road | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  1095 reviews
Sales Rank: 134
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: October 25, 1990
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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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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Abbey Road December 3, 2008
Charles Garrettson
For me, Abbey Road is the Beatles' masterpiece. The Beatles were the Beatles because, while they embraced rock, they also transcended it...attaining a kind of lyrical quality that few, if any, from the Rock era achieved...and Abbey Road is the ultimate manisfestation of that. In a sense it is a bitter-sweet experience for me to listen to it: sweet because it is so impressive; bitter because it signifies what they could achieve...yet this was their last album before they split. Ah! the what-could-have-beens....
 Abbey Road December 2, 2008
reg n (Cali. USA)
Really good album. recommended as part of beatle album collection. songs maxwell silver hammer and i want you (she's so heavy) are especially good
A Must Own November 26, 2008
Master of Taste (Los Angeles, CA)
If you don't like this, then you most likely have not heard it. So what are you waiting for - buy this today!
Classic Beatles November 18, 2008
J. Streicher (Gallup, NM)
What's to say? This is one of several of The Beatles' best albums from the prime of their career. It was produced after their "Top-40" years when they were dedicated to creativity.
Mostly great songs; great Production November 5, 2008
Phil S. (USA)
Love most of the album then and now. Didn't really understand, though, how much coulda been used elsewhere (like the "White Album"), and how much - not alot - came from other places: Come Together with its' Chuck Berry reference really driving the whole thing; Something, impossible without James Taylor's classic; Oh Darling, yet another Little Richard tribute while Richard was without a recording contract.
Some other curiosities: Mean Mr. Mustard & Maxwell's Silver Hammer (c'mon Paul!); I Want You (She's So Heavy) - a nice soundtrack for a bad Buster Crabbe pirate movie.
Which leaves up with the gems: above mentioned classic A and B side; Here Comes The Sun, You Never Give Me Your Money, Because.
And just like the double-album, we're left with not enough Harrison, to much PM Music Hall cuteness (as memorable as it surely is) and that pretentious "End".
(Is Eric Clapton playing lead on "Something").
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