#223

I would say Abbey Road is a patchy Beatles album personally- Come Together and Something are amazing as is Here Comes the Sun (if ruined by over familiarity). The medley is audacious and mostly pretty brilliant. Octopus’s Garden and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer are both embarrassing though, and the rest of it I can barely summon to mind.

I think it’s possibly a more ‘modern sounding’ record than the others, certainly a bit harder edged and less pristine, which is perhaps why it has aged well. Production tends to age records whereas songwriting doesn’t really change much.

#224

Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight would be one of my favourite Beatles tracks if they’d bothered to finish it.

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#225

Reckon that saying Sgt Peppers is overrated as fuck isn’t even a take tbf.
It’s a fact.

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#226

Let it Be got a kicking, Abbey Road was mostly just ignored. The critical consensus when I was growing up was that their period of excellence ended either just before or just after the white album (depending on who you spoke to)

#227

It’s a weird quirk that quite a lot of the fragments in the medley sound like they would have been better songs than some of the ones they finished.

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#228

Yeah there has definitely been a shift, I think those last 2 albums used to get pretty much ignored.

#229

I like this cover

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#230

Not that heard that before- it’s great

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#231

Actually I think my only ‘music hot take’ is that there are some covers of Beatles songs that are better than the originals.

#232

Here comes the sun being good for tiktoks

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#233

Eleanor Rigby is a song I have a weird, irrational hatred of, but Aretha’s version is something else.

It’s like the difference between a miserable CofE church in Lancashire somewhere half full of pensioners in tatty coats that smell of wet dog and some vibrant black southern Baptist church somewhere in Georgia where they are celebrating the election results this morning.

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#234

Maybe if more current day acts put covers of their contemporaries on their records they’d more effectively mythologise themselves, like everyone seemed to do with the same bands in the 60s. Though whether that’s a good thing to be doing in the first place is unclear I guess.

#235

Dont know if that’s necessarily a hot take. Emmylou Harris’ cover of Here, There, and Everywhere is much better than the original imho

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#236

Why is he trying to be Mike Patton. His voice is quite laughable on this, the songs are alright but a bit nothingy.

Worship and Tribute is immeasurably better I think

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#237

Not much of a hot take, just all I got.

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#238

Sorry to pooh-pooh your efforts :frowning:

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#239

John Lennon’s solo career is so bad it would lead one to suspect that he had 0% creative input into the Beatles.

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#240

Generally agree though I think Plastic Ono Band is Very Good, Walls and Bridges is at least enjoyable and Imagine has some good stuff. The less said about the rest the better

#241

nobody should be talking about the beatles in 2021

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#242

It feels like now the tide is turning with Sgt Pepper. It was just an automatic best ever for years when it came to such lists, but I see Revolver, Abbey Road or others more commonly cited now.

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