Abbey Road | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  140 reviews
Sales Rank: 281
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
UPC: 094638246824
EAN: 0094638246824
ASIN: B0025KVLUQ
Release Date: September 9, 2009
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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, The | | • | Her Majesty | | • | Abbey Road Documentary |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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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 Simply the BEST album EVER! March 7, 2010
Mr. Anthony Cox
The Beatles 1969..even though they were breaking up,they still came up with this masterpiece..this C.D. even breaks through where Sgt.Pepper could not..This is their ultimate 'Swan Song'..and Paul McCartney is great on this one..best song 'I Want You (she's so heavy)..written by John for YOKO..and sung by Paul...did you know that?..Lovely album!
What a way to bow out...... February 20, 2010
Mr. Jonathan Robin Oxley (Northampton, England)
This is probably The Beatles' greatest achievement. After the wretched Let It Be project, The Beatles knew the game was up. How they managed to produce such a classic album is beyond me. Lennon highlights include Come Together (quite a "kooky" single), Because and The Sun King. McCartney highlights include Oh Darling! and Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight. But, surely the most cherished songs on this album are afforded to George Harrison - Something and Here Comes The Sun are right up there when it comes to The Beatles most accomplished songs.
 2009 CD: Poor remastering. February 19, 2010
1972, male, civil servant, married, 2 kids (Brussels, Belgium)
2009 CD: Poor remastering.
I happen to completely disagree with the currently most helpful review there:
The CD may reveal new details on portable devices or in a car; however, it is a rather frustrating experience on a decent kit. Dynamic range apparently is severely compressed; as a result the sound is subjectively unpleasant - loud and tedious.
This release does not do the justice to the album.
What can you say? February 9, 2010
M. R. B. Kavanagh (Edinburgh, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At their best, The Beatles were peerless. This album surely counts as one of the highlights of the lexicon.
Wonderful January 23, 2010
Mrs. E. J. Dawson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Abbey Road is the true final album from The Beatles, a wonderful, beautiful, happy record that showed they could still do it in the studio.
On this album Lennon and McCartney especially deliver some of their greatest moments. Lennons Come Together has the same sharp edge that permeated almost his entire 60's output, felt in songs like Strawberry Fields, I Am The Walrus, I'm Only Sleeping and even something like You're Gonna Lose That Girl. As for McCartney, he delivers the absurdly, insanely wonderful Maxwells Silver Hammer. And also one of his greatest songs, in the gorgous lullaby Golden Slumbers which he sings with amazing conviction and power.
As for George and Ringo, they both deliver their finest moments as (underrated!) songwriters. Georges Something is quite simply one of the most lovely ballads ever penned, equalling anything written by Lennon or McCartney, Dylan even. He also stunned everyone with the delightful tune Here Comes The Sun, which skips along as if through a field of buttercups. Beatles purists always blather tiresomely on about how Octopus' Garden is an awful travesty that shouldn't have been let on the album, but they need to lighten the hell up, its a lovely song and I freaking adore it. Its the kind of peaceful, friendly song that goes perfectly with Ringos warm voice, a sort of calm amid the storm that was The Beatles in 1969, its a brilliant song, George Harrison thought so as well and for the same reasons I do.
The 'Abbey Road Medley' contains some wonderful moments, notably the closing progression of Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/ The End. The Beatles also experimented until the very end, I Want You (She's So Heavy) sounds almost Zeppelinesque in its chord progression.
This a joyous record, a group at the end of their time (and fully in the knowledge of this) forgetting their differences and making something beautiful and happy. This album contains more harmonies than any of The Beatles other records which is, in my mind, wonderful, they truly did 'Come Together' (sorry that was awful) for this one, and in doing so they produced a timeless, unforgettable, brilliant, ecstatic, enduring album, as immortal as the men themselves.
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