Album: The Beatles
Artist: The Beatles
Year: 1968
Information: The Beatles went on a retreat to India to learn how to meditate. They began to have issues with each other that ultimately never healed and led to the end of their band. This album shows the different Beatles as singer/songwriters instead of a collaborative unit.
High Points: "Blackbird" is arguably the best song on the album and features a stark arrangement of Paul on acoustic guitar with him singing, like Dylan's early days, about social inequalities. The other excellent song is "Happiness is a Warm Gun" which combines many different songs John was working on at the time into one suite.
Low Points: Revolution 9.
Is it Great? It's my favorite Beatles record.
"Why Don't We Do it In the Road," which is about monkey's having sex in the road, so why don't we, showcases Paul's superb singing.
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" is a great sing-along-y song about a person who killed a tiger in India.
"Back In the USSR" is another great track that uses airplane sounds to great effects and has a fine melody.
"Julia" is a fine example of John's work: an introspective, psychedelic song.
"Yer Blues" is a great blues song with excellent riffs by John, who was afraid of people's feeling toward it, so he labeled it "Yer Blues" as a joke.
"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" is another good song that's reminiscent of early rock songs and uses a bell that's furiously shaken.
"Helter Skelter" is a road less traveled by Paul, who helps to create what will be known as metal and has Ringo screaming the iconic line "I've got blisters on my fingers!"
I much prefer the Past Masters-version of "Revolution 1," but the song is still very good, nonetheless.
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