ABBEY ROAD

I wonder sometimes if this band could carry on in this carrier to make more stuffs like that. You could hear symphonic and emotional songs ('Sometimes') and vaudeville art rock gems with synthezisers and nice pianos ('Maxwell's Silver Hammer'). There was excellent rock songs with a heavier side like the bluesy 'Oh, Darling!' and the exceptional SABBATH-like 'I Want You (She´s So Heavy)' with an incredible heavy riff- master peaking on a massive chaos in the end of the 7 minute piece. It´s hard to think that you´re hearing a Beatles album. Very prog and haunting. They never sounded so dark and sinister. And then you have nice and catchy pop-songs ('Here Comes the Sun') and dark melodies a capella ('Because') before the great sequence of songs that make this record a HUGE classic. Beginning with a beautiful piano in 'You Never Give Me Your Money' to the final climax with 'The End', the band enters a truly progressive suite with complex arrangements, unexpected melodies and intricate passages to another pieces. The final sequence 'Golden Slumbers', 'Carry That Weight' and 'The End' reprises initial melodies and choruses to make a grand finale with a short but breathtaking Harrison solo and a great symphonic piece. What an album!!

This album is progressive enough to appear here, being THE BEATLES after all a POP- ROCK BAND and NOT a progressive one. But they made wonderful things that still surprieses me untill today if we consider all they could do in the studio. It could be proto-prog, art-rock or symphonic. Anyways... Get this album in your collection being you a prog fan or not!!

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