
All I’ve been doing lately is listening to The Beatles, and of course, loving them! I’m one of the lucky persons to catch hold of some of their’s Legendary albums. I just thought I could put across some of my thoughts about them.
Writing about the Beatles leaves me with a certain dilemma: to say something incisive and original that has not already been said before. Doubtless you have heard their tunes, unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the past 50 years to 60 years. I discovered this band when I was in high school. I hadn’t heard to much of them then. The only people who don’t like the Beatles are people born before 1940 who can’t stand that rock’n'roll racket and others.The Beatles would try almost anything and try to make it work as good pop music, and they succeeded more often than not, showing that pop musicians didn’t have to stay stuck in a familiar rut but could grow and change. Secondly, the Beatles wrote their own material: a commonplace today, but revolutionary for the time. The Beatles were the greatest thing to happen to 20th century music, and only someone who hates pop music or is just being contrary can deny that. Of course, not every single musical moment they released on vinyl was great, or even good – nobody’s perfect.
Something you oughta know about them –
The Beatles were an English rock and pop group formed in Liverpool in 1960 who became one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. During their years of international stardom, the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals).
At present, I’ve managed to collect three of their albums – Revolver, The Beatles(The White Album) and Abbey Road.
Revolver

This is one astonishing leap forward for the Beatles, which means yet another astonishing leap forward for popular music as a whole.The electronic soundscapes and experimentation broke new ground in incalculably influential ways, and this may be the Beatles’ most genuinely original music, which is saying a lot. You know, the thing about the Beatles is that they borrowed a great deal of their sound from other musicians; very few people are completely original talents – everyone borrows from everyone else. What matters is what you do with the material you’ve learned from others. ‘Oh’ and ‘Smoking Pot’ certainly had a lot to do with it, too – “Tomorrow Never Knows” could only have been performed and concieved on psychedelics. I also am pretty sure my list of influences is incomplete; who knows who else the Fabs were listening to at the time. But, a couple of songs are duds. Good day sunshine is one which rolls to no purpose. Doctor Robert is typically boring. Got To Get You Into My Life also sounds completely out of place! But those are the only bad ones. The rest is typically brilliant. ‘d like to point out right now that I’m nitpicking the Beatles and holding them up to higher standard than most everyone else – who cares if a few songs on the album aren’t perfect? Most bands would kill for the lesser tunes I just mentioned. And the classics here combine to make for perhaps the most killer lineup on any piece of Beatles plastic: “Eleanor Rigby”, “And Your Bird Can Sing”, “Taxman”, “For No One”, “She Said She Said”, “I’m Only Sleeping”, and, oh I give, “Yellow Submarine” even. No use me describing each of those songs, since I could fill up a page easy on each one. Their best? Maybe, maybe not. Of course it goes without saying that you ought to own this today if you don’t have it; if you haven’t heard it, you are missing out on a crucial piece of 20th century Western music.
This album, I give 9.6 on 10.
Thumbs Up!!
The Beatles(‘The White Album’)

You probably know this one as the White Album; it’s a double-album sprawl that’s either your favorite or least favorite Beatles platter. It’s my favorite, simply for the fact that there’s so much, and so much of it is great that I can easily overlooking the duds, overly slight pop songs, and experimental misfires. This might very well be the greatest pop album of all time, for it captures the world’s greatest pop band at the peak of their powers trying to prove that they can tackle any style of music up to that point in history with assured mastery. One aspect of their lives doubtless shaped the musical expression of the Beatles like no other, on this album: WE MADE THEM RICH. The Beatles, in fact, owned a sort of monopoly status at the top of the pop charts for a couple of years, and as I recall this was about the time John came out with the “we’re more popular than Jesus” comment or whatever it was he said that attracted so much attention.
I want to give it 10! Why not?
This album gets 10 on 10.
If you’re at all interested in the Beatles, this is the best place to start since it covers all their many sounds and moods in one place. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Long Long Long”, “Savoy Truffle”, and “Piggies” are all classics I love!
Abbey Road

Abbey Road was the last studio album recorded by The Beatles. And this album, is also, like the others I’ve heard, a masterpiece! They succeeded, at least on the second half, a sustained suite concieved by Paul that ties a string of little ditties that wouldn’t have stood on their own, but tied together combine to make perhaps the finest side of Beatles music produced. It all comes together in “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End”, which contains the only Ringo drum solo the Beatles released on their studio albums. And then, as a masterstroke, McCartney comes back for the brief “Her Majesty”, a simple little ditty that deflates the album, and the Beatles’ career, on just the right note.
George steals the show by writing the album’s two best songs, “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun”. However, the rest of the non-suite originals are subpar. “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” has a killer heavy metal riff, but isn’t much of a real song. Octopus’ Garden is a kiddy number and Maxwell’s silver Hammer is insubstantial. Despite all that, the album as a whole is brilliant, and a masterpiece for the second side alone.
I give it 8 on 10!
P.S. – Volume 2 will contain stuff about the other albums..!