The Beatles - Abbey Road ALBUM REVIEW
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THE BEATLES - ABBEY ROAD / 1969 / APPLE / PROGRESSIVE POP, PSYCH, BLUES ROCK
CLASSIC/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
Wow Anthony. I know reviewing an album takes time, and a few days is normal, but taking 55 years for this is unacceptable.
nice pic
No way
Lol
Yeah, man. I been waiting since 1970 for this🤣
I would like to hear his thoughts on selling England by the pound. It's one of my favorite prog albums
Can’t believe the Beatles dropped again, they’re really dominating the 20s so far
WHICH / ONE
How did I know this would be the top comment
Glad I grew up with the Beatles and not those mumble (c)rappers
You’re right but please never say we’re in the 20s again
I know right it’s crZy
That transition from She's So Heavy to Here Comes The Sun is something where the intended experience is slightly lost on modern day streaming platforms. On the original vinyl, listening to "Heavy" droning on and on for so long only for it to abruptly end, gave you the impression that when you'd flip the vinyl over to continue the album, "Heavy" would just keep going on forever and ever. Instead you'd get greeted with the beautiful opening chords of Here Comes The Sun, almost like a song welcoming you out of the abyss "Heavy" was dragging you into.
I think this effect still works to an extent even on streaming, but learning about it like that made me understand why it's there.
This is a great comment. A lot of the record experience is lost nowadays
They probably just put it there randomly
@@davidtm98it obviously wasn’t random
Felt the same way. It's probably why I like Side 2 more. The medley in side 2 is amazing.
Not an A/B side case but them putting "good night" right after "revolution 9" in the white album is pretty funny and plays with this same kind of twist
The melody of "You Never Give Me Your Money" returning in "Carry That Weight" is still one of the greatest moments of music I've ever experienced, and I first heard that 14 years ago.
That entire final section is some of the greatest music I’ve ever heard.
It’s like going to Yosemite valley, or standing on the rim, looking out over the Grand Canyon.
Carry that Weight is so cathartic. Every time I listen to the medley I feel like such an intense range of emotions and that moment with the reprise is the absolute peak. Just brilliant writing
That reprise in “Carry That Weight” is just cinema to me. Chills every time.
My grandma and I would scream those vocals when I was a kid. She introduced me to the Beatles when I was growing up in the 90s and I’ve loved them ever since.
It's just a shame it lasts so short. Soon as that leslie on the guitar gets faster I wish it would just stay forever.
I’ve waited 55 years just for Fantano to review this classic, thank you fantano
the future profile picture really ties this comment together
You can finally listen to this album
Now I want him to review selling England by the pound by Genesis lol
It turns 55 later this September
Jokes aside, unironically maybe one of Fantano’s best reviews ever. I know at the beginning he expressed how daunting it can be to review such a behemoth of a record like Abbey Road, but I feel like he really did it justice and encapsulated almost everything that makes this record special and unique and important culturally. Kudos Anthony!
Fr I love it when he chronologically goes through an album
agree, unsubscribed.
Its a decent beatles album. Four great songs. Some good ones. Some ok
beatles = overrated
@@geekylove3603Nah it’s an amazing album. Definitely one of my favorites though I prefer Rubber Soul by Beatles
George and Ringo writing Octopus’s Garden in the documentary Get Back is absolutely a highlight. Just vulnerable, tender collaboration. Too pure for this world
Yeah, ive always fiund that to be a really pure and gun moment between two ego-less guys.....
@@frommetoyou1981george harrison and ringo star … egoless? 😂
@@SPIIIVA sorry, less ego than Paul & John......well thats fair to say!! Ha ha
Anthony, rare serious comment here. Can’t express how important these classic reviews are, as daunting as they may be for you. Been watching you for probably 10+ years now and some of my all time favorite classic albums I heard about from you back when I was like 14-15, (Low End Theory and In The Aeroplane were huge for me back in the day). Going back and singing the praises of these classics helps put it into the laps of younger people who might never have found it otherwise. Keep doing your thing ❤
Honestly even for those of us who have listened to this record so many times every second is basically baked into our DNA, it's good to look at it with fresh eyes. When talking about a record like this almost everybody approaches it in terms of its cultural impact and production and you don't get a feeling of what it's like to actually listen to it.
I love seeing the rare serious comments in Fantano’s comment section. Wish more music discussion would happen more often.
what exactly is so important about yet another glowing piece on how masterfully brilliant The Beatles were?
@@cedricrust9953 nothing but you missed the whole point about these reviews putting older music into the laps of young people, just bc the Beatles are more popular and it doesn’t necessarily apply as well to them as much as others, doesn’t mean that classic reviews in general are pointless.
@@cedricrust9953 lol you seem look a really cool and fun guy 👍🏻
I know I'm probably shouting into the void here, but Anthony, please never let "I don't know if I can say anything new" stop you from reviewing an album that you believe deserves praise. You have such a large, young audience, that you should look at these reviews as a way to introduce the younger generation to an album you think is essential, which Abbey Road absolutely is.
i agree 100% with your comment
For real I bet more than 90% of his audience doesn’t read/watch any other reviews (me included)
@@wettuna1769who knows. Someone here for his hip hop reviews might recognize an album cover as iconic as Abbey Road’s in the thumbnail and click.
I just spun this 55 year old album for the very first time because his review popped up and I've been meaning to give it a chance. It's fair he doesn't feel like he can add much to the existing discussion, but he certainly begun the journey for more people
Well said!
Octopus’ Garden is so underrated, say what you will about Ringo but nobody else in the Beatles could touch him when it came to nautical ballads
John n Paul did write Yellow Submarine, so I guess it’s a tie
definitely Ringos best song
When I first started to listen to The Beatles, I didn't know who was singing what, and Octopus's was one of my favorite already. Just a nice, funny, heartwarming song
The very thought of a garden being underwater, nevermind an octopus making or appreciating one, is ludicrously unrealistic. The downfall of society
@@robbieclark7828 But Ringo sang it, so he still wins this one.
The fact that they released Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be, 6 of the greatest albums of all time in the span of 5 years always blows my mind.
Nice review, one of my favourite albums 👌👌
“Let it Be” is not one of the greatest albums tho which is why they never even deemed it good enough for release at the time. All the other I totally agree with
most people disagree with me and that's fine but i also wouldn't put the white album up there
They were on their BROCKHAMPTON shi 😤
Especially by their standards, but i'd agree with Let it Be@@hw343434
@@apollo5063Bet you didn't even listen to the whole album track by track...
Dear Prudence, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, I Will, Yer Blues, Mother's Nature Sun, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1, Good Night
Fun Fact: the cut on the end of She's So Heavy was actually John's idea, and it worked. And ALSO, it was the 'Last Song' they have ever recorded and written together, they never played again in the same room after that. People say that The End was the last song they written together, but it's actually She's So Heavy. My Favourite Song from The Beatles. Truly fantastic! @theneedledrop
The End is the last they recorded together in a room though. If I'm correct, she's so heavy was the last time they were together to work on a song, a mixing session. The End is canonically known as the last song they recorded together in the same room.
“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” was actually the first recorded for the album. They recorded it at Trident studios in February of 1969 with Billy Preston soon after their rooftop performance. They did however finish the song in August when John added the noise with the Moog synth.
You're mistaken. The End was the last thing they recorded together, but the mixing of She's So Heavy (which was recorded FIRST on this album) was the last time they were all in a studio together
Nope
I thought it was I Me Mine?
Abbey Road is the sound of the Beatles walking into the studio and John Paul George and Ringo walking out. The entire album is one amazing curtain call.
oof. i don't know why but that hit me right in the chest
Her Majesty even sounds like Paul sneaking in the studio to play a nice little demo after the other guys have left
@@hugosanchez7599funny cuz it wasn't even supposed to be in the album, and now it's a closer
@@soneslixo6791 I feel like it's more of an after credits scene
this comment gave me chills. 10/10
Kudos to Melon for putting these blokes on the map. I love that this channel gives underground artists a chance to shine.
They’re gonna be huge one day
Original
Totally gonna check back for the guy who unironiclly corrects this.
Omg you don't know the beatles? such a shame..
"The End" is a perfect confluence of all of them reaching the pinnacle. The closing line "And in the end / The love you take / Is equal to the love you make" brilliantly encapsulates the overall theme of The Beatles' work: love. The harmony before the final notes show they were second to none when they were all on.
George Martin is THE fifth Beatle. Hands down. His impact on the group's sound cannot be overstated. He, Geoff Emerick, Phil McDonald, and Alan Parsons were at the top of their game for Abbey Road. The result is, as Fantano mentioned, the best produced Beatles album and one of the best produced albums of all time.
Hardly an original observation I'm sure, but the 'You Never Give me Your Money' reprise in 'Carry That Weight' is possibly my favourite moment from any piece of music. The full orchestral brass leading into the guitar solo, then the tender return to the vocal harmonies with extra instrumentation in the background.... it's just perfect.
If we see the medley as a unity we have indeed a progressive song.
It's like a classical symphony the way it reprises You Never Give Me Your Money right before Carry That Weight. That is the most beautiful moment on the album for me.
Yes, this is a main aspect of the sonata form in a first movement of a symphony. And this is frequently used in progressive music.
Great.
After 54 years, I can now finally tell my friends that I like this album.
Making Sal tonight’s big loser
The I Want You (She's So Heavy) ending is legit Doom Metal
One of the best pieces of music I've ever heard.
indeed. it's so cutting edge, raw and timeless still. one of the coolest greatest songs i probably will hear in my life. @@andycochrane5706
Straight up inspired Type O as a band
I had a mp3 player that organized the songs in alphabetical order by the name of the album, and Beatles for Sale came right after Abbey Road. So in my mind the medley goes like "some day I'm gonna make her mine, this happened once before, when I came to your door, no reply"
same
Nice as always. Just a correction, Ringo didn't write Yellow Submarine, it was written FOR him by Lennon/McCartney
In the place where i was born no one cared no one cared
Abbey Road is the album that reminds me that The Beatles actually were incredible artists. Someone always says, "Were they really that great?" After playing the album for them, it's undisputed.
Even if Abbey and Let It Be didn't exist, the guys had Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers and the White album to back the claim, Abbey was just the final touch IMO
If you played the album for me, I'd just doze off lol.
@@NamelessInternautHate to break it to you but most people discount the opinions spewed from the malfunctioning brains of ADHD addled non-binary zoomers
@@NamelessInternautok
@@MalMotorDedo *Magical Mystery Tour*
The Abbey Road medley is basically one of the best thing music has ever had, better than any actual album I would say.
Hounds of Love medley is better
@@TheAvizanskilol
Band On the Run also has a great medley. Macca loves his medleys for sure
Which is basically the whole album
@@TheAvizanskimid
It’s honestly insane how much the Beatles changed in just a few short years. I think it’s ultimately what puts them above all other bands. Like it’s insane to think that the boy band singing catchy love songs became the same band who made Sgt Pepper’s, Revolver, Abbey Road, and Rubber Soul. So many rock bands just stick to the same formula with each album, whereas each Beatles album was like listening to an entirely different band. I think the only band that comes close is Radiohead.
This is why I just can't agree with the people who call them overrated. They reinvented themselves so many times in such a short span and basically built the foundations of countless genres in under a decade. Truly a band who deserve all the credit they get. And it's no coincidence that they had so much influence on Radiohead (see: the intro to Sexy Sadie v the chorus of Karma Police)
In only 7 and a half years
@didleyscott788 so much reinvention, but the variety amd versatility within albums is astounding.
For my money the only modern day band that achieves this with any degree of success is Arctic Monkeys. Like, the difference between albums is insane, and can you imagine them fading into obscurity? No chance.
These guys did Scott Walker's career span in 7 years
All jokes aside, when you described here comes the sun I teared up. I think that’s why this music will never go away. I know the Beatles are so popular and we are so postmodern to the point of ironically unironically listening to the Beatles, the otherworldly part I think is something we all latch onto in their songs. Every good Beatles song is its like its own planet. Here comes the sun makes you feel like it’s going to be ok, even though it’s not, but we listen anyway
ok memes aside, i’m so glad to see fantano covering the beatles in a long form review. i’ve been listening nonstop to their whole discography since the release of “now and then,” and out of every album in their catalog, abbey road is just in a different realm. it’s tied with rubber soul for my favorite beatles record
Oh my god those are my favorites too!!! Very different but equally good records for me :)
Fr, it’s crazy to watch them evolve over the course of their discography and I’m glad fantano is finally giving them their roses
Those are fantastic albums, revolver and rubber soul are my two favorites
White album >>>>>>
@@pauleverett724 White album too much filler
10:17. Believe it or not Paul was actually laughing at John in the studio, who was actually ‘mooning’ him on the other side of the screen. Paul liked it and kept it in the song
Where did you hear that?
It is rumored. Never confirmed.
Given how much John hated recording Maxwell's Silver Hammer, I wouldn't doubt it lol
@@johnmonnig6037coincidentally because of that comment I thought your name was John Mooning for half a sec lol sorry
@@JonahNelson7 haha nah I love it! 😂
Poor Ringo. 55 years later and people still forget about his only drum solo.
I thought it was on Strawberry Fields
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End is a candidate for the best last 5-6 minutes in an album.
Honestly Octopus Garden doesn’t get enough love. Goated and catchy ass song.
All of Ringo songs are good. Bro is there to have fun.
@@coffee115Exactly! I hate how much people push him to the side compared to the rest! He made bangers, and his drumming is genuinely incredible. It may not be as flashy as some drummers, but it's extremely creative!
Best song on the album but for legal reasons I didn't say that
@@BilliamwoodsLive your truth
George and Ringo crafted a gem. That voice and that guitar combined seriously pops
I never thought I would ever see Anthony do a Beatles classic review and I’m so happy he picked Abbey Road. As much as I love the majority of their albums, this one is still their very best in my opinion.
of all cities you really chose philly
@@Pocket_JakeGO BIRDS
@@Pocket_Jake What do you mean I "chose" lol I was born here you don't get to choose where you're born
“Something” is one of my favorite songs ever.
@@philly_sports1558 you chose the worst spawn point unfortunately
Alright fine, I’ll become completely obsessed with The Beatles again. (I never stopped)
I can’t believe you didn’t mention Ringo’s drum solo.
Yeah, although I love his review of this album, he could have mentioned more of the Beatles instrumental work. Hardly mentioned Paul’s fantastic bass playing and Ringo’s drumming. Harrison’s solo in Something, is legendary, but he would probably have to do a whole video on that song alone.
yeah i was waiting for that one too. his only drum solo on a beatles record.
But was it Ringo? Some say it was Paul
@@matthewdavis473 It was Ringo. They had to convince him to do it because he doesn’t like solos.
no one ever said that solo was paul???@@matthewdavis473
“The End”’s guitar solos are actually traded off between 3 of the beatles (Paul-George-John repeated in the same order, 2 measures each, 3 times). If you listen closely, so much of each Beatle’s personality comes out in just these little licks, from Paul’s Bach-like second phrase to John’s thickly textured chord passages. You can even tell that the 2nd, 5th, and 8th licks are George’s by their virtuosity and impeccable technique (by this point in the band’s history George’s lead guitar skills had arguably far-surpassed the skills of the other Beatles). Thinking of the 3 of them trading off like that, I have so much more fun listening to the song as it sounds like a jam session between 3 friends, if those friends were some of the best melody composers/songwriters of their era. Then the way John’s final solo slams right into the bouncing piano chords for those final vocal harmonies, it’s just so perfect. You couldn’t ask for a better closing statement not only for the album but for the band.
And Ringo's drum solo. 👑
i think Paul had the best solos on The End (outside of Ringo ofc). he sweeps abbey road & the beatles in general.
Playing “the end” on The Beatles RockBand was so damn fun and you’re right. The guitar solos were performed by John, Paul, and George. They made that apparently clear for the visuals during that song as each member plays their own solo. I haven’t played the Beatles Rockband in well over a decade but I just remember how fun the shots of the camera panning from one guitarist to the other was during their respective solo. The best part was that you actually had to “earn” that song as it was only unlocked if you beat the “career” mode for the game. All other songs were readily available to play from the very start.
@@FlyleafOwO nah lol George and John swept the guitar solo section in “The End”. Then Paul. And the most iconic songs and #1 singles on Abbey Road are all John and George. It’s the Beatles not a competition and Abbey Road is most iconic because of John and George (I mean the only weak track on the album is Paul’s Maxwell’s and then you have “Oh Darlin’” vs. “Come Together”, “Something”, “I want you She’s so Heavy” and “Here comes the Sun”?! Are you kidding me, it’s no contest but Paul definitely made up for it with his section of the medley. Abbey Road is the genius of all members including George Martin
And as the story went, John actually asked Yoko out of the room when they did the solo trade, which was the last time they all performed in the same room as The Beatles
I always thought the lyrics of “Come Together” were about the band. One verse for each member, with some weird, Lennony descriptions for each of them
7:53 I think part of the reason _Help!_ sounds so cohesive is the fact that John and Paul wrote most of the songs on it in a single night.
It was the tie-in soundtrack to a Beatles feature film (just like with _A Hard Day's Night_ from the year prior), and when John and Paul were given the request to write songs for the film, they both separately went home and came in the next day with a handful of songs each, then spent a couple days refining them all before putting them to tape in one 4-hour recording session.
I listened back to every beatles album recently, and this one still stood tall above the others for me. Every time I hear the orchestra come back in with the "you never give me your money" callback during "carry that weight", I come close to tears. It's such a grand, magnificant finish.
I fully agree
Yeh, Whole album is majestic
Revolver is pretty close tho
Ive done a huge beatles discog dive recently, even going through the (very long) solo catalogues. It actually ended with seeing Paul live this year! Im so glad to see this review, Abbey Road being by far the best work of any of the beatles albums, solo or together. Glad to hear your thoughts melon, never be worried about tackling big cultural albums, its always nice to hear your thoughts.
Heyy me too! This last tour was great. Always good to come back to Paul's solo stuff+wings. Tons of bangers and underrated songs there
I’m so glad that you’re giving more attention to underground artists Anthony!
Good one
Bro thinks the most successful band of all time is underground
@@Anthony-945bro 💀
@@Anthony-945bro 💀
@@Anthony-945 is english your second language
11:01 - "McCartney's late bass note" - George Harrison literally played bass on this song.
Also to my ears there is no late bass note, sounds instead like some sort of blip in the tape or signal chain
Harrison’s guitar work and the use of the MOOG make this album amazing for me
You know an album is good when just hearing someone talking about it makes you wanna go and listen to it again
Thank you for covering such niche artists melon, they appreciate the exposure
O R I G I N A L J O K E
@@sammystank7174 i was the first to make it in this comment section, so it was indeed original when i made it
When John said "It's Beatleing time" and Abbeyed all over the place, that was when music changed forever.
“Is this some kind of Abbey Road?” Is hands down the best lyric off the album
You should have said “and Abbeyed all over the road” you goddamn AMAETUR
the part where he Beatled his wife cynthia was always contentious but it wouldn't be the same without it
The Beatles were the very first band that I got into back when I was 10 (turning 25 in a week) and a huge reason why I became a musician and George Harrison was (and still is) my first massive guitar influence and why I wanted to play guitar in general, I still remember playing the full 16-minute medley for my guitar lesson during my second year of college and definitely had a lot of fun with getting the whole thing down. They’re still one of my absolute favourite bands and still some of the absolute GOATs, perfect 10 album in my opinion
The Beatles fans have been eating so well this decade so far. Great remasters, fantastic documentary, their last song release, it somehow feels like The Beatles are more relevant now than for the last 4 decades
That "swirling" sound that comes in at the very end of I Want You (She's So Heavy) is maybe my favorite part of any Beatles song. Just sinister and creepy and amazing
This is fun. It's like going through my favorite Beatles album with a museum docent and getting a nice little perspective on each piece. Doesn't have to be the most thorough discussion or expand on the literature about it to be worthwhile. As a matter of fact, I think your extensive catalog of reviews allows this video to have something to say, simply because of the context of those other albums you've ranked and rated over the years.
Great review of one of my favorites. One note: In the four verses of “Come Together,” Lennon is obliquely describing each of the four Beatles. The Nothing Is Real podcast does a good job describing this.
Instantly became my favorite review of yours. Never really seen a classic review from you which made me want to listen to the album more!
Aaaaactually Yellow Submarine is credited to Lennon/McCartney, it’s not a Ringo track. But Octopus’s Garden has a funny backstory for anyone that wants to go down that little rabbit hole
i remember when this album came out. hearing people talk about it made me anxious as i had never been given my opinion on it. i would sweat profusely at the thought of someone asking me how i felt about the album. it didnt matter how much i listened to it, i was always unable to form my own opinion. thank you anthony for finally telling me how to feel about it.
After 55 years, I can FINALLY listen to the album. Thanks anthony!
Paul's singing in "Golden Slumbers" hits hard. That entire side 2 of the album is my favourite.
The influence of the Beatles on Black Sabbath is well known but the end of I want you sounds like something you’d hear off of a peak Neurosis record. Dense and lurching guitar riff, sliding bass lines, cascading fills, and a swirling build up of noise. Can’t imagine what the general public thought when they first heard it.
Super glad you mentioned Hendrix’s lineage in metal. So many people gloss over the titan that was Hendrix when discussing the origins of the heavy metal, citing She’s So Heavy and Helter Skelter as the songs that “invented metal,” when in reality Jimi Hendrix had a much greater influence over the genre with songs like Manic Depression, If 6 was 9, Spanish Castle Magic, etc. which came out before those Beatles songs did. No disrespect to the Beatles because there is no understating their influence, but no metal guitarist looks at George Harrison in the same light as Jimi Hendrix.
Paul and John played those riffs most likely though. Paul: Metal intro on Helter Skelter. John: Acidic Arpeggio on I Want You. George's layered guitar is just what George did as the complimentary/lead guitar player of the band. WMGGW is George being metal I suppose, but then you got to remember he gave that solo to Clapton.
Fantano gets it
I thought I was the only one who felt like this about the Beatles but there music feels so other worldly, that it almost feels fictional or something from another dimension, I also feel the same about artist like MF DOOM or Madlib if that makes any sense
You just dropped my favorite rock band AND my favorite MC in one comment.
You’re a cool dude.
Greatest album of all time. The Beatles are simply the best and my favorite band of all time.
lame
Rock on
@@Jamieconstablenah , He's right
@@sathira_anuk5179 The beatles are like the only band/artist that hasn’t clicked with me, why do u like em so much ?
@@Jamieconstable Cause they made some of the best music ever?
Is it fate that I just finished listening to Abbey Road 5 minutes ago for the first time in months, rekindling my love for the Beatles that I forgot about for a bit, just to see this
ugh man i wanna see you do classic reviews for like every important album from that time, love to hear a contemporary reviewer such as yourself cover the topic. fascinating review.
I’ve been watching Anthony since he would go out in his backyard and whisper the album title, and this is one of his best reviews ever. It’s so well articulated.
While I understand the studio trickery and wacky production that is on this album, I also think it's worth noting that this album is by far the most organic album The Beatles had released since Revolver. This is what it sounded like when a fracturing Beatles tried coming back to center. This is an album that could have only been made by these people who felt the way they did about each other at this time.
I don't know why but I absolutely lost it during the riffing about Golden Slumbers setting up a lullaby that then just turns into Paul screaming about how you're gonna carry that weight. That had me laughing so hard.
Haven't watched your vids in a minute, but the writing is on point here. The analogy about influence using a shoulder-view footprint vs a crater who's walls you can't see is tight
So great to see Anthony reviewing more underground indie artists. Going to check these guys out, I hope they have more albums like this one coming out soon!
I found the comments about the music from the album not existing in 'our world' really interesting. Captures the listening experience very well! Thank you
This is the moment when the Beatles became a three-headed monster. George's tracks are the best on the album. He had the best song on the White Album too, but it was after this release that George would've gotten an equal number of songs if they did another album after this.
George's tracks the best? Well, that is like your opinion, man. Great songs but I want you (she's so heavy) and Because are the gems on this album for me.
I will for sure agree that Something is the greatest love song of all time, but I just don't think it holds a candle to I Want You (She's So Heavy) in terms of a raw, visceral experience. I'd say Come Together is probably top three from Abbey Road too.
A lot of my favourite Beatles tracks are George's, but he didn't quite bring it to this album in terms of composition like he did to, say, Revolver (Tomorrow Never Knows is in my top 3 ALL TIME Beatles tracks). It's an absolute travesty he was only allowed two tracks per album or whatever it was.
No John had the best songs in white album
@@mickey4125 Tomorrow Never Knows is from John not from George. George wrote Taxman, Love You Too and I Want To Tell You for that album. Maybe you're confusing it with "It's All Too Much" from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack, which is actually a Harrison tune and shares some similarities.
@@fliptag Taxman! I knew it was one of the killers from that album wot George wrote! I guess I went to Tomorrow Never Knows because that was very much his style at the time. (Within You, Without You, right?)
Good commentary on such a legendary album. This and Pink Moon were the two Classics reviews I've been waiting for. Very surprised to see this one make it first.
I’m actually really glad to see this video as I listened to Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road for the first time a few days ago and really liked them but it’s great to get this much more in depth review of what makes them so great
I believe that on Oh! Darling it was actually George who played the bassline
IVE BEEN SO INTO THIS ALBUM RECENTLY SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS
My favorite Beatles album ❤ I’m glad you’re doing a long, in-depth classic review on this one. One of the most important albums ever made.
This is the first video of yours that I've ever watched, mate, and it is exceptional. Such a quality review of such a quintessential album. Sun King has always been a favourite. And I think we should all just acknowledge that Ringo would've fit in quite happily with the residents of Bikini Bottom...
I love your analogy of how some of these songs are just, ethereal. So embedded in our culture it’s like it’s existed forever, that it doesn’t even seem humanly possible to be written or performed live.
yeah it's sort of impossible to grasp that this is the work of four guys & a producer. that made this timeless masterpiece together in 1969!
Abbey Road is pretty surreal to me. Their real final album and it’s a perfect culmination of the Beatles sound, which perfectly represents them. All written at a time where they didn’t really get along.
What an awesome review! Such a fun revisit to an album I know so well. One of my favorite of your videos.
Love your observation about Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight. Had me in tears.
I am a Drum and Bass and mid 90's east coast hip hop guy. But as mortality comes ever into focus I feel I need to listen to some albums which are universally loved. This is where I will start.
This is one of those albums like Alice In Chains’ Dirt, or Superunknown by Soundgarden where sometimes I just have stop and think about it. It almost doesn’t seem real that four or five guys from a rock band got together and made an honest to god, not just masterpiece but crowning achievement to their world conquering success and genius.
Two amazing albums that I feel are under appreciated and should be held in higher regard, would love for Anthony to review them but I doubt he ever would.
YES! Especially on Superunknown. There are times I just try and imagine what those studio sessions must have been like where they must have known everything they touched became pure magic. So perfect start to finish.
@@madebyjordan the special edition includes a lot of demos and when you listen to that you can really feel the roughness that they honed to perfection as raw brilliance.
Wonderful review, bro! You get the perfect balance of gravitas and irreverence dealing with this gem of the musical industry. I wish you did the same for Getz/Gilberto, which was the first jazz record to win the best album Grammy. A game changer in jazz and, needless to say, Brazilian industry.
You're incredibly talented! Warm regards
nice review! I actually once heard that each verse on "come together" was about each member of the beatles.
It’s good to see that fantano is bringing the underground indie bands to the mainstream
I'm loving these classic picks so far. Really would love to see Soundtracks for the Blind covered at some point.
Hope you're happy. :)
loved it! I've been waiting on this review for years, great video man
Finally, a needle drop review for my favorite album of all time. A great start to the new year.
Greatest album of all time
Revolver exists..
Total xanarchy better
@@vb2388Abbey Road >
Revolver my number 2 tho
The Beatles were very good. One of the best of the 60s.
@@vb2388White Album and Abbey Road better
I can already tell I'm not gonna be able to stop smiling throughout this whole review. :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I love your 20+ minutes reviews. They're the best!
Bravo Anthony. You took on a beast and gave us an incredible insightful and educational review. Thank you for this.
Fun Fact: Pauls laugh during Maxwell's Silver Hammer was because John showed his arse to him from the control room.
appreciate you doing this one. It's become to trendy to hate on the beatles, but this album still holds up
Why is it suddenly trendy to hate The Beatles?
@@Flamestar320people wanna be different
@@Flamestar320go to any subreddit or any music groups, 3 out 5 you'll find someone either saying the Beatles are "overrated", or they're "mid"
Almost few will give them credit for their talent and just dismiss them as a "backstreet boys of the 60s"
@Flamestar320 at least part of it is John being a woman beater who advocated for peace
It’s always been trendy to hate on the Beatles and the idea of liking them.
Great review Anthony, just wanted to point out that though it's often said Yellow Submarine was a Ringo song, it was written by Lennon & McCartney.
The part in the medley where you never give me your money fades away into the lonely crickets and washed out cymbal of sun king always gives me chills
The Now and Then single was really good. Glad AI helped to make an astonishing record!
Real Love better
He's done it. He's reviewed the only album to ever exist. Thank you sentient melon.
The ‘shoop’ you describe on come together is actually the vocal ‘shoot me’. Also, there’s tonnes of videos on YT of Paul McCartney performing the Medley live.
The best love song of the past 100 years is obviously ‘You do something to me’ by Paul Weller.
Would love to see longer reviews like this more often
I'm surprised it took this long to do a beatles album for classic week. I'm super happy to see it
Revolver, Sgt Pepper's, The White Album and Abbey Road will forever be 10/10s for me
I swear I heard the entire album as you were describing it. Thank you melon for bringing the important memories, this is probably your best review
Great review! I will say I like when Paul does voices but I get it