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I just can’t believe someone can actually say those things about Abbey Road . I believe is a perfect album.

Listen to this. If you like the White Album , then it comes as a surprise to me that you don’t like side A of Abbey Road . I’ve always been a critic of the White Album ‘s nonsense variability, I think it would’ve been a better tighter single disc. The White Album has two types of songs (roughly generalizing): the Lennon type and the Paul type. That doesn’t mean written by John or written by Paul. A Lennon White Album song is a seriously dark rock tune, examples would be Yer Blues , Happiness Is A Warm Gun , I’m So Tired , Julia and yes, Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps . And Paul type songs would be silly major clown songs, like for example Martha My Dear , Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da , Honey Pie and Rocky Raccoon , etc.

Abbey Road not only has those two types, but it also has some of the best tracks on that style, Come Together and I Want You (She’s So Heavy) are better than a lot of rock tracks on the White Album , and if you like silly Paul songs, then Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Octopus’s Garden should be instant likes.

The first half of Abbey Road sells the versatility the Beatles still had when writing those either very scary or very happy songs.

Come Together is hard as sh*t and Ringo’s drums kill the verse.

Something is beautiful.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is just as well produced and recorded as the rest of the songs. I see it just as another Martha My Dear , another Honey Pie , another Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da [and I think it’s better than all of those]. The lyrics are consistently funny and well put together.

Oh! Darling is a fantastic 3/4 harmonic vocal performance by Paul. It has potential to be better, but it’s sweet as hell, and very Beatlesque. It’s a classic that grows on everyone eventually.

Octopus’s Garden can be whatever you want, but if you defend an album that contains Don’t Pass Me By , probably the worst song ever made, in it, to something as charming and melodic as Octopus’s Garden , then you really have to put your thoughts together. George really turned it into a better version of Yellow Submarine . The hook is great, Ringo sings it great, and the instrumentation is just as good as everything on Abbey Road . Noted that Abbey Road is probably the only Beatles album where non of the songs have bad production. You know, there’s always one, Abbey Road doesn’t have any.

I Want You is awesome, I don’t know what you’re talking about, John called it “an attempt at minimalistic writing”, which I adore as a concept. It’s kind of like a challenge, like “how much can you make interesting a song with the same lyrics over and over”, it is awesome. I don’t know how much you are into long structured songs like jazz fusion or progressive rock and stuff, but I Want You to me has that kind of feel. Given that it changes between the verse and the chorus entirely, and the first and third verse are sang while the middle verse changes to blues entirely and it just contains the guitar lick. Every time I get to that point in the song I get goosebumps, you know, when Lennon is supposed to start singing but he doesn’t, he just plays the guitar, I think it’s awesome, like, listen to that part alone and try and understand what the listener expects versus what he receives. It is truly a golden price of a song. Also Preston’s work on the harmonic organ is fantastic. And the long ending is just an attempt at building tension and then releasing, with the ending of side A. I like that idea of the Beatles fading into the instrumental and ending it abruptly.

Side B is also a masterpiece in its own right and I will agree it’s better than side A, but side A deserves so much better than what you’re givin it credit for.