The Beatles - Abbey Road｜Vinyl Monday 1969 SERIES Part 1
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
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Welcome to the Vinyl Monday 1969 Miniseries! I’m Abby and is my weekly series where I chat about classic albums in my collection that I love. We’re kicking off this 3-part miniseries with The Beatles’ swan song, Abbey Road. Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Timestamps:
intro - 0:00
Abbey Road - 1:16
track listing/release - 15:37
my thoughts - 18:18
thanks for watching! - 31:54
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: audionautix.com/
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who was on the back cover of abbey road? (WRONG ANSWERS ONLY) (or right if you think you know)
Queen Elizabeth.
Billy Campbell
Abigail Devoe.
Marianne Faithful
Lovely Rita, the meter maid
Abby does Abbey Rd. 🍿
Sounds like a porn film 😂
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My goodness, was that ever a fresh, funny, and compelling take on an album I’ve known bc for most of my life! I loved this, and you had me by the jewels when you backhanded Roger Waters! Awesomely hilarious ❤
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About Maxwell's Hammer, my Dad did not like rock and roll but when he heard Maxwell's he changed his mind and became a Beatles fan lol
I love Abbey Road. In fact it's not only my favorite Beatles album but my favorite album period. It's a masterpiece.
Second that. See me new comment.
I'M that diehard Silver Hammer fan, thank you very much.
i knew it
@@abigaildevoe and I'd also like to add that Don't Let Me Down would've fit WAY better onto Let it Be than Abbey Road and Her Majesty should've been on McCartney I.
I have no idea how old this very charismatic woman is, but she speaks with the wisdom and insight of a 108 year old sage who’s seen and heard it all. This is one of the best Beatles analysis videos I’ve seen out of hundreds. Bravo!
A very generous compliment ...
Abbey Road is the Beatles’ 9th Symphony. A final masterpiece achieved in difficult circumstances by the greatest composers of their time. Both the 9th Symphony and Abbey Road have amazing and joyful finales that put a giant exclamation point on the artists’ magnificent career. Despite the struggles, Beethoven and the Beatles finish with a triumphant masterpiece. Excellent video - as always.
Next two albums predictions:
- In The Court of the Crimson King
- Led Zeppelin II
- Then Play On
- The Band
- Arthur (Or, The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)
Beautiful Abigail, we grew up believing that John was the preacher, Ringo was the undertaker, Paul was the corpse and George was the grave digger - I'll bet it's different in other regions of the country : ) your videos are always so well done and informative thanks
Some of us never ever gave credence to that bonkers trope. 😅
yep, i hate it when people get that wrong.
the vw beetle in the background was the REAL fifth beatle everyone's been looking for. it played the magical tamborine on all the beatle songs and finally got its place in the sun and allowed to show itself on the last beatle album cover. MYSTERY SOLVED!
Religious thinking ultimately
@@AlBarzUK... its just a game. its one of the things that makes the beatles legendary and fun. the "paul-is-dead' nonsense is just another dimension to the beatles' mystique. you don't have to believe it to have fun with it.
Abigail, you have an old soul. I don't know if this is what you're going for, but you look like a cool 60's chick. You are gorgeous! Loved the video, and your rendition of "Her Majesty".
What can I say Abby.. just about the best ever Side 2 ever in the history of rock music. 😍
As witty as ever and it was a really nice touch singing 'Her Majesty' before the end. Pure class from beginning to end.
I like Abigail's presentation - humorous, smart, and eloquent.
Bahaha. Maxwells silver hammer is one of my favorites.
The backgrounds in She's So Heavy always made me think of this as a Winter album
Abbey Road is tied with All Things Must Pass as my if-necessary one-and-only "desert island recording". I've saved it to play it through my great ear buds with an MP3 player at the end of several trips on the way home, either on the airplane or in the shuttle/Uber/Lyft. It just transports me to a wonderful different place and time and eliminates any negativity from the rigors of travel. Several times, the album has still been playing when it's time to land or arrive at my house, and I want the journey to last a little longer, even if its hot or bumpy or uncomfortable, in order to let the album finish - that's how powerful and enjoyable it is. Thanks Abby for your perspective on it!
Thx, Abigail. What I enjoy the most is that youth, like you, is still discovering/enjoying the Beatles still at present. Sorry to my lovely daughters who were unknowingly indoctrinated from berth, but is was for their best.
My daughter just gifted me a copy of the remastered vinyl version of Abby Road for Christmas. It sounds better than ever and is in my top 3 favorite Beatles albums.
Come on Abi not one single note should be changed on this masterpiece.
I don't know how the same person can love both Maxwell's Silver hammer and She's So heavy
New to the channel. I've had an opportunity to go back and watch a number of these Vinyl Monday episodes. Your research is outstanding, and your writing is excellent. I can't imagine how much time you invest putting each of these episodes together. Just know it's appreciated. I watch primarily for the in-depth analysis and interesting factoids, but your reviews are really the gravy on the mashed potatoes. Keep up the great work! Subscribed.
Wikipedia. It's already out there.
John Lennon (yawns) : "What are we going to do about the cover, lads?"
Ringo Starr : "Well, why don't we go outside and walk backwards and forwards over the zebra crossing and take a few snaps?"
Paul McCartney : "Okay. And I'll take my shoes and socks off to make it look a bit more interesting!"
George Harrison : "I don't want to go outside 😞"
george "i don't want to go on the roof" harrison strikes again
Paul said the reason he took his shoes off and walked barefoot was because it was too hot. How many of you thinks that black asphalt and white paint would be cooler barefoot? Does that even make sense to you?
Paul:
"I've blistas on me...feet!"
...
Ringo:
"Bloody hell..."
The soundtrack to my early childhood when everything in life seemed perfect.
I've always preferred late era Beatles. The White Album was probably the first that I bought for myself and I definitely got a lot of mileage out of it, but Abbey Road is a masterpiece. There are numerous points in it that reduce me to tears and I make a point to give it a proper uninterrupted listen once a year.
Ernie, once a year an uninterrupted listen .. what a good idea ...
Ernie...for Christ's sake, get a grip man.
This album is a masterpiece, but I feel that way about all of them. I can’t choose!
Hello Abigail. I love your videos. I just want to say that Nikki Hopkins played with both the Rolling Stones and the Beatles as well. Nikki plays keyboard on Revolution.
I misspelled Nicky’s name. I apologize. My bosses name is Nikki - it’s a habit
I was about to say the very same thing!
Abby crossing Abbey Road, it's about time!!
For me this album is a summary statement of everything The Beatles ever did and every idea they had. They didn't even need to record full songs to prove it. Genius
Little darlin', I feel that acid slowly melting.
LOL !! Love your ending !!
Whenever I hear EMI, I can't stop thinking of Johnny Rotten's snarky snarl "EMI". Just got into King Crimson a few years ago.
Same 😂
Abi you are a wordsmith! You nailed it on “Here comes the sun” - “So much of the Beatles most iconic moments were rooted in joy. This is the most joyful of all.”
Your vids keep getting better - and they started out excellent. Must salute the Queen of Lovely Rita Fans on a (I insist!) near perfect "I Want You" scream and completely
perfect end-of-episode. Glad I stuck around 😅
George is my Beatle too. It brings me tears of joy to hear you praise him so earnestly.
george is undeniably magnificent and is strutting his stuff on this record but lennon and mccartney performing songs they wrote from 63 to rubber soul especially are what set the stage for george to shine as bright as he did later. i think you're an old soul, a wordsmith, a gorgeous replica of women george had at his disposal constantly, a woman who hopefully takes care of herself when relating to the tragic figures of rock but lennon and mccartney writing and singing those songs is the heart of the beatles. long live the fab 4 and soon may people start shipping you the records you're missing from your collection....pamela des barres' copies of stones records, etc..
It’s not a crosswalk; it’s a zebra crossing. That’s what we call it in the UK. 😊
The word "crosswalk" is new to me too. I'm guessing that's what they are called in the USA.
In the US, "zebra crossing" is what we call places in the road where zebras cross.
We call them Donkey Intersections in the Colonies
@@porflepopnecker4376 it’s black and white though like a zebra. I think in the UK this was a good idea to make children cross the road in a safe way. We don’t have laws against jaywalking.
Yowza, with that replica blue dress! The Beatles are my favorite group. This is one of the albums of my lifetime. Thanks for making a video celebrating it!
Abbey Road is my favorite musical work.
The End..."I love how you can tell who played what"...well congratulations, sport! Because after decades of listening I've never really figured it out. I've always assumed John played the overdriven one...the other two are really similar. This is how I think it goes...
Paul
George
John...repeat in that order until they finish.
If I'm wrong, somebody that KNOWS for sure come in and set me straight. Perhaps you, Abigail?
First Comment
Possibly my fave album
Of all time
Great video, Abby. I'm 60 years old and have been a fan of The Beatles since the mid 70s. I would love to have had a daughter like you that I could listen to/discuss The Beatles with. My 19 years old son has no interest in the Beatles or classic pop/rock music. I love him but I wish he was a bit more like me in terms of musical taste.
She's so heavy has to be my favourite beatles tune..
Yeah, it’s a masterpiece.
It's right up there with my favourite albums.
This was a wonderfully informative and enjoyable video about my favorite band!
Vinyl Monday is awesome ❤
✨Thank you got Vinyl Monday😊
What a top review. So much love and fun in it. Thanks.
Definitely my favourite & most played Beatles album. Such a great insight, thank you.
1969 was a Great year for music. The amount of great album tunes & vinyl 45's I have from that year is over 50
Abby - your conversant knowledge is stunning and admirable. I love your work..!!! Keep up the good work. You are terrific..!
Excellent video! Thanks 😊
I just want to get this quick thought in about Abbey Road. Abbey Road is a much better album for The Beatle to go out on than Let It Be. Abbey Road is the nice beautiful bow that is wrapped around a box of amazing body of work. It is the finally of a firework display. You can say they went out on a blaze of glory and a wonderful way to end the most remarkable work of artistical music expression in modern popular music. Now each every member of the band can go on to their solo work after having climb the Mt. Everest of what an artist can reach. The Beatles showed that not only the heights of Mt. Everest but the sky was the limits in music creativity.
Glad I played it to the very end - GREAT CLEVER ENDING ABBY! Brought a smile to my face!
Hands up those who stayed in class until the very end (not The End) of the episode and heard the smart/nice surprise Abby gave us.
If ever you wanted to hear her sing...
Brilliant ending 😊
my second favourite album of all time
this was my first exposure to the beatles when i was a teen, and i didn't realize how much it affected my music taste going forward. i really love hiss album a lot
You are the best looking reviewer on the net. If I might be so bold.
Love your her Majesty closing❤
I sang along, heh
I like what Ron Schaumburg, author of Growing Up With The Beatles (written in the late 70s, and one of the first Beatle books I ever read when I was discovering the Beatles at the age of eleven in 1984) said about the abrupt beginning of "Mean Mr. Mustard": it's as if someone's drunken uncle kicked open the door to stumble into a party.
You got it!
I've always been under the impression that each verse of COME TOGETHER was about one of the Beatles . . . obviously, the verse with "Ono sideboard" and "bag production" and "walrus gumboot" is the verse John wrote about himself.
Nice touch at the end.
I'm jealous of your great record collection!!
Such a great album!
Agreed about the back cover shot Abby----really helps give the album a summery feel and the person photographed had good taste. A moment in time well captured. I'm glad to to see you giving it props.
I have that orange, Bob Dylan song, book over your left shoulder. The thickness of the book alone tells you how many songs Dillon wrote.
Nice touch with "Her Majesty" at the end.
My favourite too
'69 was, indeed a great year for music, and the Fall of '69 gave us Abbey Road and In the Court of the Crimson King. Your 3rd album? Several great records from which to choose:
The Band's Brown Album
Zappa's Hot Rats
Led Zeppelin II
Ummagumma (which you keep bringing up . . . . !)
Self-titled albums from both Free and David Bowie
Monster from Steppenwolf , and
Let It Bleed from that garage band.
I dunno, I just think that 1965-1976 was such a sweet twelve years.
Okay. No arguments please. Ms Devoe, you KNOW YOUR STUFF! Instant subscribe!
Excellent job on this review! 🎉
My favorite was bathroom window as well. I also like Joe Cocker version of it.
Our first album in the house Christmas 1969. The first thing I learned was the clues of Paul's " death" on the cover. In 9th grade a Chinese Art teacher played it all day and all year.
on first listening to Heavy we all thought our stereo just blew up
this girl is too adorable for words and stuff
First, I'd like to tell you that I just discovered your channel and I love it. Now my comment has to do with what you said about George writing the hits. I think it has to do with the fact that most of his compositions were rejected by Lennon-McCartney. He was allowed a couple of songs per album at most so whatever got through had to be excellent. This is also why, after the breakup, he was the most productive former Beatle. No wonder he needed a triple album for All things must pass.
Enjoyable as usual. A few thoughts. DON’T LET ME DOWN was never going to be considered for this because it was from different sessions at the beginning of 1969…too different in sound etc… as far as the often maligned MAXWELL…. I maintain that if that song was written and done by say RANDY NEWMAN or WARREN ZEVON it would have been praised by critics to the heavens! They both wrote songs with similar dark comedy themes, check out Excitable Boy by ZEVON. Anyway I think this is one of the best albums ever made , a high point of the RnR era..and it’s not even my favorite Beatle album! They went out on top. Some nit picks….another keyboard player besides Billy Preston recorded with both the Beatles and Stones…NICKY HOPKINS…Hopkins is on Revolution . Ok thanks great job!
Good points made,
And Eric Clapton recorded with both too.
Pop quiz: how many murders did the song Maxwell's Silver Hammer inspire?
I love this album. It's my all-time favorite, but now you got me thinking about Don't Let Me Down. Damn!
"Don't Let Me Down" should have been included on Let It Be - fits much better there.
Thank you for posting this on my birthday. I knew you still loved me. ❤ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜
happy birthday!!
Great insights! You sound convincing on "Her Majesty" at the end of this.
Informative and entertaining.
My introduction to your channel and I'm SO all about it. You are doing something unique in the UA-cam music nerd genre and thanks for that!
Yea....... sometimes I toy with referencing this album without Maxwell and adding Don't let me down where you did and moving Money is a great solution that I hadn't thought of well done! That said I relistened recently and had a "oh I guess I like Maxwell afterall" moment so maybe it should stay as is. Lock it in boys!
It blows my mind to hear such great reviews of the bands and music I grew up with as a teenager in the UK from a young American! A refreshing lack of reverence!
Just wanted to say that we don't say crosswalk, we say zebra crossing. It's not important, but it is sort of funny.
So I'm thinking, what do you know about anything youngster? Then you slap me with your knowledge, insight, thoughtful critique and easy confident sway. Well done you. Please keep it up.
You make 30 minutes feel like 30 seconds! Bravo 🎉🎉🎉. I would love for you to give a course on UA-cam presentations(How To Do Them). Great job. So incredibly expressive and easy to listen to!!❤❤❤
I'm about to start your video. I'm little afraid, because for me this is like your "Layla", it's been my favorite album of all since I first heard it in 1975 at age 12.
Ok, Abbey, ooh I mean Abigail. You nailed it. Abbey Road is an experiential album. Long after we all agreed we loved it, we started to examine why we loved it. Maybe examined it too much. Just let it be. Hey...
"Thank you Rodger Watters! Not very cool!" 🤣🤣🤣
Dear God! Who are you? Ive spent at least 50 odd years reading books ,articles and reviews. And this thing you done here.... Im crying really sobbing. Someone has come along with wit and a waaaay deeper understanding of this (and possibly more when I get to it). album. And I go way back to Ralph J. Gleason as far as critic reviewers go. I mean who needs other people's opinions (well I guess we do). This is pure platinum content. Now Im looking for the Patreon. Or coffee. Where do I spend money. I need to give you money (😅). Seriously
Thank you sooo much you made my very existance worth it.
I've only recently heard Pauls bass lines isolated on "Something". He's doing some very inspired playing indeed. I had the opportunity to meet Robert Moog in the Ninties. He lived in Black Mountain NC just outside of Ashville. He was more an engineer than a musician, but he was a very nice and considerate man.
Beautifully played but a bit busy for a song like "Something". George Harrison once commented that it was a bit much for the song's sentiment. A bit of a showoff on McCartney's part.
Your channel is real quality-unbeleivable. Maxwell is Paul looking back to the glory of Pepper(I guess).😸
Great video and funny homage to Lennon's Rock N Roll Circus Stones intro
Another fan of Maxwell's here. It's at least a complete song...unlike the medley of 'unfinished ideas glued together' that is the bulk of side 2. The 'long one' reveals that L&M weren't helping each other finish songs as much anymore. 😞
If MSH was not on the album it would have been on another hit single.
MSH reminds me of Harry Nilsson. Sweet, often corny music with dark lyrics. He's considered a genius by some.
btw...I love side 2
I had to pause at 3:56 for a while. You win!
Fucking got me with the thumbnail i swear lol
Great analysis of probably my number one Beatles album though both Revolver & the White Album run it close. Your knowledge of the band is very impressive and I have to say this is probably the best analysis of a Beatles album I've seen on UA-cam. I was born in 1969 and would love to go back there just for a few days.
Your thumbnails are awesome
From and earlier song: "We take a walk. The sun is shining down. Burns my feet as they touch the ground."
She's So Heavy made this album; grunge before grunge.
It's why Paul fronting a new Nirvana song felt so right. The rest of the album is a drunk man tugging on beards at a bar singing Octopus Garden directly into your ear.
You're enjoying everything about the experience except that there's a drunk man tugging on your beard while singing in your ear.
I have all of these😁
I would have really loved it if you could have lust mentioned the other two albums of the “trio” from 1969 that had so much influence. I’m assuming it was Zeppelin II, which came out in the fall of 1969…….and I guess, from the “hint” at the end, King Crimson? 🧐
"She's So Heavy" for me is the greatest moment of the album. The two versions of "I want you..." make a very pleasent contrast, and the noisy-long end is simply marvelous (yes, I'm a huge fan of Sonic Youth!). A solo, Harrison's or Hendrix's, would have lost its magic feeling.