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Poll Question: What is the greatest track on abbey road
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Come Together for being such a cool and laid back track. Great bas work by Macca and Lennon with archtypical playful singing and lyrics.
 
I recently used the track for testing new potential speakers and continue to find details that I haven't heard before.
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"Here Comes The Sun". I remember hearing that song after my dad bought the 1967 - 1970 compilation and was totally entranced with it.

Took me a while to get into Abbey Road itself, though. I was about seven or eight when I first heard the album and had no idea what to make of the medley.


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Ah, I can't decide - the entire first side is possibly my favorite single album side on earth.

Here Comes the Sun for such uplifting sweetness.
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 I know there has been debate as long as prog has been established were the Beatles ever really progressive rock? I honestly think the Beatles really belong in a category while being very progressive they also had a strong sense of pop melody thinking more of harmonic structure rather than the beat that was essential in early rock and roll, I think side two basically proves that.

I think Abbey Road has some strong elements of prog with the Beatles uncanny sense of pop music. I would think a song like "Because" with its fusion of classical influence and synth is prog like. Another song would be "Here Comes the Sun" with its fusion of strings, synth and some crazy time signatures would be another argument. My favorite song is "I Want You (She's So Heavy).  It has that two in one long song style like "Hey Jude" but the end with it's long white noise section with a dark gloomy guitar almost heavy metal sound that honestly reminds me of early Black Sabbath.

 

 



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'I Want You' for me.
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Originally posted by DamoXt7942 DamoXt7942 wrote:

20 seconds' silence before Her Majesty.

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Originally posted by DamoXt7942 DamoXt7942 wrote:

20 seconds' silence before Her Majesty.

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20 seconds' silence before Her Majesty.
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Here Comes the Sun, such subtlety in that Moog synthesizer.
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Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album released by the English rock band The Beatles and their last recorded. Although Let It Be was the last album released before the band's dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969. Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States.

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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

My favorite in general was Revolution 9 just for being so damn off the wall.
 
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

My favorite in general was Revolution 9 just for being so damn off the wall.

I certainly don't hate it, but I can't honestly say it is a favourite.
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My favorite in general was Revolution 9 just for being so damn off the wall.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

Originally posted by Hercules Hercules wrote:

Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

I think Abbey Road is the most difficult Beatles album to choose a favourite from. So many of them are amazing.
 
I don't think any of them are!!

What's your favourite Beatles song in general?


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Originally posted by thehallway thehallway wrote:

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What a brilliant poll. And I like the fact that you can vote for the medley as a whole or seperately as individual tracks. Well done.

We only need to see a poll like this about once every couple of years though.


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Here Comes the Sun by miles.
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Great Album.
Voted the medley, but could also be Because, I Want You, Something or Come Together (with awesome self ironical lyrics!)
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