As the title implies, come in and review an album!

I'll get it rolling with the best album of the best band ever:

Abbey Road
The Beatles

The Beatle's last release, as they didn't want Let it Be the be their final statement as a collective unit. Troubles with the band had been culminating, and more than ever it was obvious that each Beatle was soon to persue solo careers. Some attribute it to Yoko Ono "leading Lennon away" from the band, while other's believe it was Harrison's frustrations at McCarthy-Lennon's near monopoly on the songwriting of the albums. But before they left, they wanted a final statement, and what a statement it was:

The album opens with "Come Together." The dirty, rocking style of it was imintated, but never duplicated by other bands, and even in Lennon's solo albums. Lennon mysteriously describes an unnamed man throughout, culminating at the blatantly sexual but "unintentional" lyric of "Come together, right now, over me." Ringo's rapid fire drumming at the chorus really ads to the track, as well as the light guitar at the end.

After the opening, you are trust into the album with the greatest song ever written by Harrison: Something. Frank Sinatra called in the greatest love song ever written, and later did a cover of it. That's saying something.

Next is a very ... strange track. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" obviously a very light hearted jokeing-around song, describing a boy who goes around killing people with his silver hammer. Obviously nothing to write home about, but it's a little humorous, and certainly far from bad.

Lennon had a big hard-on for this next track, and was angry at McCarthy for not letting him do the vocals. McCarthy is the master of old style rock'n'roll, and proves it with "Oh! Darling."

We get some classic blues guitar to open up the light hearten, child-like pop of Ringo's "Octupus's Garden." Much like "Silver Hammer", this is a very light-hearted, un serious song, but as a song, it's much better. I always loved Ringo's vocals, ever since I heard "With a little help from me friends." Ringo was very underrated. Don't wory Ringo, I still love you.

It becomes obvious in "I Want You(She's so heavy!)" that Lennon was at the point of obsession with Yoko Ono. Many people hate this song, because they attribute Ono to the breakup of The Beatles, but it's a great song. A strong wind kicks in at the end, and it become a little eerie ...

And it transitions wounderfully into the folk-pop beuty of "Here come the sun." The transition between the two songs is really cool. The last Harrison track on the album is not a far shot from the quality of the first, with the happy folk guitar that makes you feel as if the sun is just rising on a summer morning.

Another sharp transition into the eerie melody of "Because." It really is one of the most eerie melodies you will ever hear. It is toped off with unnerving but beutiful vocals, including some great lines. ("Becuase the sky is blue, it makes me cry~")

That ends the stand-alone tracks of the album and brings in the Medleys. The first one includes, "You never give me your money," with an amazing opening with sobering lyrics, "The Sun King" with a low energy beat that makes you want to tap your foot, "Mean Mr. Mustered" with lyrics with as much meaning as non-sensical, "Polythene Pam", and ending with the somewhat old-school Beatle's style of "She came in through the bathroom window." The medly is amazing, with one-two minute songs being thrown together to seem like a loosley put together "best of" album.

The second medley is the highlight of the album. It starts off with "Golden Slumbers," a calming track leading into the high energy "Carry that Weight", wich in the middle goes back to a much more high energy, less subdued verse of "You Never Give Me Yor Money", and ending the final medly with "The End" where Ringo gets the first drum solo of the album. "In the end, love you take, is equal to the love you make" and the song fades out with the powerful guitars becoming quite, leading into the long break before "Her Majesty." The track really dosn't fit, but it's not complainable.

Best Beatles Album.

10/10