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When I heard this in “All Too Much”
Everywhere it’s what you make for us to take
My mind jumped to “The End “
And in the end the love you take / Is equal to the love you make
I guess “The Beatles” were just too much for John, Paul, George, and Ringo (collectively) to take.
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16 September 2013
Offline Ahhh Girl said
When I heard this in “All Too Much”Everywhere it’s what you make for us to take
My mind jumped to “The End “
And in the end the love you take / Is equal to the love you make
I guess “The Beatles” were just too much for John, Paul, George, and Ringo (collectively) to take.
This is a cool cross-reference that I never noticed before. And I think it goes to show that even George’s “lesser” songs had good things about them. I don’t know what the deal was; did John and Paul not want to help polish George’s tunes, or did George not want any songwriting suggestions? And by the time of the Abbey Road medley, did Paul know he was sort-of borrowing George’s line for “The End ,” or did he not even pay enough attention to the recording session of “It’s All Too Much ?”
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I’d guess it’s a coincidence – I don’t really see the connection apart from the take/make rhyme. But who knows?
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5.32pm
21 September 2014
Offline I just found isolated vocal tracks for the entire Abbey Road Medley. It’s amazing even without the music…
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26 December 2014
Offline Taking time to appreciate the Medley…
The medley to me is one of the most beautiful pieces of music created. It can take you places that most other songs/compositions cannot, and all within 16 minutes. It is also a display of how great the Beatles were when they all worked together, joining creative forces. Everyone shines in the medley; from Paul’s vocals on YNGMYM and Golden Slumbers and base lines (Bathroom Window), Ringo’s killer transitions and his drum solo on The End , and lets not forget the shredding three-man guitar solo. All beautifully put together with an operatic tone and ending with a message that many people take to heart.. “In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” It’s good, it’s all good.
We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians thats all
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8 February 2014
Offline ryanhall0824 said
Taking time to appreciate the Medley…The medley to me is one of the most beautiful pieces of music created. It can take you places that most other songs/compositions cannot, and all within 16 minutes. It is also a display of how great the Beatles were when they all worked together, joining creative forces. Everyone shines in the medley; from Paul’s vocals on YNGMYM and Golden Slumbers and base lines (Bathroom Window), Ringo’s killer transitions and his drum solo on The End , and lets not forget the shredding three-man guitar solo. All beautifully put together with an operatic tone and ending with a message that many people take to heart.. “In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.” It’s good, it’s all good.
I agree. The medley has done some time as #1 on my personal charts (but it’s not anymore). It was one of my faves when I was 6! I think the story behind Abbey Road is great – one of them called George Martin and said they wanted to do one more, and having it be so amazing after the argument that was Let it Be. And for a band to go out with the “in the end” line just blows me away. Chills right now just thinking about it. To me, that line encapsulates the meaning of life better than anything else (like for example every major religious text – Buddhism is most likely to contain such wisdom). More than any other song, modern or classical. More than (or at least more concisely than) any novel. Better than any speech. Ok I’ll quit just saying it’s ‘better”. You find something it’s better than 
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26 December 2014
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said
Mustard, Pam, and Bathroom Window are comedic relief.
“comedic relief”…. right.
note: on the 11th September 2014 meanmistermustard merged three threads together. Thread one contained posts 1 -> 43 & 78 -> 103; thread two posts 44 -> 72; and thread thread posts 73 -> 77.
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17 October 2013
Offline I read this a few weeks back………..
and it made sense to me….Thinking about it he makes a good point about the Medley that I hadn’t considered before.
What do you think?
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Abbey Road found the Beatles ostensibly coming together — even though, once side one is done, there is very little overt John Lennon sprinkled throughout the rest.
Try as he might, Abbey Road (released on Sept. 26, 1969) is no Paul McCartney record. Sure, this is among McCartney’s brightest, most artistically satisfying, moments. But it’s Lennon’s punctuations (and, to a quickly emerging degree, George Harrison ’s), undoubtably, that make it so.
It’s easy to unfairly narrow the critical scope, since McCartney’s most cohesive medley can be found as part of the second half of Abbey Road . Yet, the enduring magic here only grows more impressive after hearing similarly constructed John Lennon -less also-ran attempts from solo projects like Ram and Red Rose Speedway . There is a missing balance achieved here. Moreover, Abbey Road was the album where George Harrison ’s latent potential finally was realized — to the tune of an A-side No. 1 hit in “Something ” and the lilting, uplifting “Here Comes The Sun .”
Moments away from imploding, they arrived for these sessions as distinct individuals, rather than stylized mop tops. Yet, for a moment in time and for this one last time, the Beatles’ separate personalities seemed to work again in service of the whole. Their strengths served to strengthen one another. After the disastrous Get Back sessions, we could scarcely have expected one of the Beatles’ most gorgeous shared harmonies on “Because ,” or Ringo Starr taking a self-deprecating solo, or these relentlessly traded guitar solos — with Lennon simply buffeting the rest — on Paul McCartney ’s closing peace-loving Vietnam-era message called “The End .”
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Offline Every weekday morning, one of the local Classic Rock radio stations plays three Beatles songs. This morning as one of the songs, the host of the show played the entire medley with ‘Her Majesty ‘ perfectly edited into its original slot between ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ and ‘Polythene Pam ‘. He did such a great job with the editing that it was seamless. It sounded great.
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15 May 2015
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Every weekday morning, one of the local Classic Rock radio stations plays three Beatles songs. This morning as one of the songs, the host of the show played the entire medley with ‘Her Majesty ‘ perfectly edited into its original slot between ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ and ‘Polythene Pam ‘. He did such a great job with the editing that it was seamless. It sounded great.
Yet another lacuna in my Beatlemania. I never knew “Her Majesty ” had been in that different place on the album. I’m not so much adamantly against the notion that “Her Majesty ” shouldn’t, or couldn’t, be better located elsewhere; however, to me, the transition between ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ and ‘Polythene Pam ‘ without it (the way most people have heard it) to me seems perfect already, and it would be a strange interruption to stick into that brief space anything, let alone “Her Majesty “.
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Yet another lacuna in my Beatlemania. I never knew “Her Majesty ” had been in that different place on the album. I’m not so much adamantly against the notion that “Her Majesty ” shouldn’t, or couldn’t, be better located elsewhere; however, to me, the transition between ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ and ‘Polythene Pam ‘ without it (the way most people have heard it) to me seems perfect already, and it would be a strange interruption to stick into that brief space anything, let alone “Her Majesty “.
And what’s even more fun is learning that the song is in its position as left at the end of the tape because the engineer didn’t simply want to delete it, and Paul liked that effect so it stayed that way!
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Yet another lacuna in my Beatlemania. I never knew “Her Majesty ” had been in that different place on the album. [and the Lord said if you don’t snip then you don’t get snippage]
Somehow I rather expected you to say that, when I saw 
that this thread’s last post was Funapple Papords.
…Hardcore BBer? 
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14 April 2010
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Yet another lacuna in my Beatlemania. I never knew “Her Majesty ” had been in that different place on the album. I’m not so much adamantly against the notion that “Her Majesty ” shouldn’t, or couldn’t, be better located elsewhere; however, to me, the transition between ‘Mean Mister Mustard’ and ‘Polythene Pam ‘ without it (the way most people have heard it) to me seems perfect already, and it would be a strange interruption to stick into that brief space anything, let alone “Her Majesty “.
That’s what I always thought after reading about its originally intended track position. Then, when I heard it yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised. It was as if it belonged there the whole time. As others have written before me, the sudden opening chord of ‘HM’ is actually the last chord of ‘MMM’ and the sudden stop of ‘HM is the opening chord of “PP’.
There is a 42 second YouTube video that “splices” the three songs together but it is poorly edited and would be a bad example to post here. I went to the radio station’s website and found a podcast but it only features the jock talking about it and does not play the medley he put together. I’m not saying I prefer this placement of the song, but if you ever get a chance to hear a perfectly edited version of the altered medley, you may get a kick out of it.
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Hey I am currently listening to this as we speak. Funny it’s in today’s thread …
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14 March 2016
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Offline Last night I had one of those moments while listening to the medley where I was completely swept away and left in awe of the medley, the album, and the band’s entire catalogue.
I just wanted once again acknowledge the greatness of the Abbey Road Medley, the best rock and roll ever recorded.
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14 June 2016
Offline The Walrus said
Overall, I love the medley. I just wish they’d done it with the whole album (yes, I know it was originally on two sides of a record).
Not only that, but John hated the melody and originally didn’t even want his songs on it. He called it “junk” and “just bits of songs thrown together.” Because of this and his disliking of Paul’s other contributions to the album, He disliked Abbey Road as a whole album.
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Offline Mentioned the panning in ‘Sun King ‘ (even the crickets pan) in another thread but didn’t realise there is also panning in ‘You Never Give Me Money’ (Paul’s “one sweet dream” section). The ‘Her Majesty ‘ vocal does too, which I find bizarre considering its brevity.
And Ringo’s drum solo on ‘The End ‘ is mixed wonderfully too.
So much attention to detail on matters which most listeners would fail to detect.
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Offline I wish that George would have contributed a song to the medley. It would’ve seemed more like a group effort.
Polythene Pam happens to be my favourite out of the thing. Still don’t know why people dislike it.
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Offline Playing Sun King on acoustic guitar is enough to sedate me. Add in the harmonies, organ, and brilliant mastering and you have a psychedelic masterpiece.
Polythene Pam was always great to me as well. Although John sings, I always see Ringo when I listen because of the kick ass drums that rule the song. Plus Polythene Pam leads right into She Came In Through The Bathroom Window , which I would say is my favorite song in the medley. I especially love the transition.
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