The Beatles - Abbey Road CD (album) cover   The Beatles    4.49
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rock music website  2 stars When I cleared 2-300 albums out of
my own collection last year to make way for a large collection I
inherited, this was one of the first to go along with the other
Beatles albums. I grew up with The Beatles and Beatlemania and
never got seduced by it, and even though I bought all their
albums to try I didn't play them more than once or twice as
there was nothing to grab my interest - no great epics, few
decent solos and dull melodies. I get the impression that they
were experimenting to find out what they did best and they
didn't get it right very much even by this, their final album.
The musicianship is basic and several songs are deplorably bad
(the cheesy Octopuses' Garden being the absolute pits). Come
Together and Here Comes The Sun redeem it a bit, just enough to
save it from the ultimate degradation. And my final comment -
how does such a mainstream