British Rock [Box set]

Track Listings

1. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rod Stewart

2. Wild Thing - The Troggs

3. All Day and All of the Night - The Kinks

4. Tell Her No - The Zombies

5. Go Now - The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues

6. I'm a Man - The Yardbirds, The Yardbirds

7. Love Potion No. 9 - The Searchers

8. Tired of Waiting for You - The Kinks, The Kinks

9. You Turn Me On (Turn on Song) - Ian Whitcomb

10. San Franciscan Nights - The Animals

11. Layla - Derek & the Dominos

12. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

13. Hush - Deep Purple

14. You Really Got Me - The Kinks, The Kinks

15. For Your Love - The Yardbirds, The Yardbirds

16. Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

17. Things We Do for Love - 10cc

18. Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

19. Come Dancing - The Kinks, The Kinks

20. Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues

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Tracks:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With A Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Fixing A Hole
She's Leaving Home
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
Within You Without You
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Good Morning Good Morning
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
A Day In The Life

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Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman

Customer Reviews:

Sgt. Pepper Turns Forty.......2007-07-23

It is impossible to adequately explain to someone not around forty years ago when this album was released its importance and what it meant to so many of us. The Beatles were at their height. In the U. S., it was before the assassinations of Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King when all the world seemed young and everything was possible. It was more than just world class music, it was a social and cultural phenomenon. There had never been anything just quite like it before. It helped define the 1960's.

The music of course is of one cloth as each song seques into the next one. No song stands out above another although my favorite has always been "When I'm Sixy-four." It now has a poignancy that we never dreamed of in those our salad days since neither George Harrison or John Lennon lived to see sixty-four. Then there was a whole generation of men, many who grew up with the Beatles, who perished in the first wave of AIDS.

Besides the marvelous music, there is of course the artwork for the album/CD. According to the liner notes by Peter Blake, he asked the Beatles for a list of people they would want at an imaginary concert. John initially wanted to include Jesus, Ghandi and Hitler but eventually left all three off the list because of the controversy in the U. S. over his recent comment about Jesus. Some of the people who made the list were Marlene Dietrich, Shirley Temple, Marlon Brando, Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allen Poe, Tony Curtis, William Burroughs, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Johnny Weismuller, Stephen Crane, Albert Einstein, and Mae West (who refused at first but eventually agreed to be included in the life-size collage.)

It is impossible to write about either popular music or the popular culture of the last half of the twentieth century without a discussion of this CD. It should be placed in a time capsule.

what can I say?.......2007-07-16

There's not much to say really, except: this is music history and anyone who claims to know anything about popular music needs to own this album.

Ridiculously overrated.......2007-07-16

Sgt. Pepper is a good, border-line great album, but it is NOWHERE NEAR Revolver (the greatest album of all time IMO), Rubber Soul, or The White Album, let alone even close to it's billing as the greatest album of all time. While Sgt. Pepper is an enjoyable album, with many good tunes, it only has one great song ("A day in The Life"), along with two average songs by The Beatles' standards ("When I'm 64" and "Within You Without You") and IMO, the two worst Beatles songs ("Good Morning Good Morning" and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), which The Beatles definatley should of not included. They should have put "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" in their place. That would of made this a great album.

Don't get me wrong, each and every one of the songs I haven't already talked about on Sgt. Pepper are very good, but none of them are good enough to help "A Day in the Life" make this album live up to the hype.

Oh, and for the record, I'm not excpecting very many people to say I have a helpful review, I'm just saying what I believe.

Yuck.......2007-07-11

Sounds worn and dated. Sounded good maybe when you were on drugs in the sixties but now, it's drek.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.......2007-07-03

Good to hear this again after so many years. So many familiar songs on one album.

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Top 3 beatles albums.
the greatest rock album on the planet...
I am buying a new copy
Great songwriting and production of Romantic Pop Rock
If I could pick only one Beatles CD to play this would be it

Abbey Road
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ASIN: B000002UB3
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Come Together
Something
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
End
Her Majesty

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The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright

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Top 3 beatles albums........2007-07-23

This is a very great, very influential album by the beatles, and in my opinion it is one of their best, along with sgt. pepper and the white album of course.

the greatest rock album on the planet..........2007-07-23

this is the greatest rock album on the planet and of all time as far as i am concerned... It is bursting with mind boggling originality, brilliance in composition, singing, and musicianship. Both sides offer tremendous rock songs, from john's always fresh and brilliant 'come together', to ballads like something, to pure childlike pleasure of octopuss's garden and maxwell's silver hammer, to the unbelievably effective i want you(she's so heavy) which ushers in the hard rock era with more gravity than any song had ever done before...Side b is full of awesome sonegs, the eversunny and phenomenal 'here comes the sun', followed by the near-monastic and philosophical vocal jewel 'because', with magnificent vocal harmonies by john, paul, and george(just listen to it!!), and the long medley of brilliant short songs, and controlled rock improvisations of great beauty, power and subtlety, all at the same time. Abbey road shines with a maturity that goes beyond the ordinary test of time... decades later it can still surpass all new albums that come out and create waves of recognition...what's the weakness of abbey road? mccartney's oh! darling probably if any...it is an enchanting piece nevertheless with very unmacartniyish vocal presentation and an attempt to rise above Lennon's hardrock masterpiece 'i want you(she's so heavy)'... but it is neatly sandwiched between maxwell's silver hammer, and octopuss's garden before the side a mindstopper 'i want you'. it really fits in with more poppy and agitated vocal type all at the same time in a starnge and wondrous fit indeed!! The medley of songs on side b are the best concocted rock lineage that exists...What a fantastic gift to the world before the band dissolved!!!!...

I am buying a new copy.......2007-07-13

This is my favorite album (well, one of them), so I have wrecked mine by listening to it on the beach.... Number 10 to the end are totally WRECKED. So here I am, buying a new copy. I haven't heard the second half of the album in a loooong time!

Great songwriting and production of Romantic Pop Rock.......2007-07-12

If you are a fan of angry music, this ain't for you (sorry). In the context of the times it had a certain charm and still retains much of the original charm. If you are not a romantic, don't try to understand this album or band. Because the Beatles were, if nothing else, hopeless romantics who used music to find love. On that level Abbey Road works quite well. For the segment of the population that enjoys romantic rock you will find this collection of songs rewarding.

If I could pick only one Beatles CD to play this would be it.......2007-07-08

The Fab Four were at the top of their form and their work was varied and adventurous on "Abbey Road". While murder wasn't a totally unknown topic in rock, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" with its bright instrumentation blew our minds back in the day.

Odd and sad that "Come Together" opens this CD and it was the last of their big hits together. I've rearranged this one on my iPod so that "Golden Slumbers" and is the last of this offering. Just seemed fitting to me.

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Breaking the Barriers
Some of the Beatles Best Work
It's Four Solo Albums & Still Great
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My second-favorite Beatles' album

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Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
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Blackbird
Piggies
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Don't Pass Me By
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
I Will
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Mother Nature's Son
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Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution 1
Honey Pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Good Night

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Better known as the "White Album," this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ("Revolution #9"), this has it all. Some records have legend written all over them; this is one. --Chris Nickson

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Breaking the Barriers.......2007-06-29

This was the album where the Beatles grew up and moved into a more mature and less organised sound. That road had begun with "A Day In a Life" and "Within You Without You" and "Good Morning" in Sgt Peppers - but the Beatles were still a smart pop rock band then.

In the White Album, there is a wonderful sense of a loss of control - and yet this is still the Beatles at their creative peak. Not caring what people think, they're just playing to the maximum of their abilities. And shattering barriers.

The power of their varied personalities comes through. And different sides of their personality. Who cares about anything except the music I'm feeling now? seems to be the prevalent thought here. The White Album is the Beatles Matured - who would have imagined that the Beatles would create "Helter Skelter"? or "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...Epic stuff that certified that the Beatles could rock. "Dear Prudence" and "Sexy Sadie" and "Blackbird" are eminently listenable. In fact - apart from some ditties and departures - the album is strikingly distinctive as a playground of sounds - it is dynamic from one end to the other and still eminently listenable and deep.

How do you define genius? This is one hard album to ignore.

Some of the Beatles Best Work.......2007-06-27

Wow...this brings back great memories. The songs are so diverse and unusual, showing their true talent and creative song writing abilities. The songs are fun and strange all at the same time. It is one of my favorites of the Beatles. When you can have "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Rocky Raccoon" and "Blackbird" in one package....what more can you ask!

It's Four Solo Albums & Still Great.......2007-06-23

This was on sale way Back in November 1968, for $5.00. That was the best five Bucks I ever spent. By 1968 after Eight years Together, The Beatles had just about seen it all, and they were very close to imploding. But, Lucky for all of us John, Paul, George & Ringo were on top of their Game and with the "White Album" they Presented their Best Songwriting and their greatest Playing over the Span of the 30 Tracks Here.
From: "Back in the USSR" all the way thro' to "Goodnight" and my favorite Track in reverse: "Revolution #9" you get a Beatle Album So Different & so Bold in it's Scope and Range from anything else they Gave us. We were Very Lucky to Have this band on the Planet from: 1964-70. It will never happen again in our Lifetime, But here it is, in all it's Glory...

There are almost 1,000 reviews posted here and About 95 Per-Cent of those Reviews are Gonna tell you how GREAT this is, and it is, Don't waste your Time Reading About this Record, BUY IT NOW.

The Beatles (The White Album).......2007-06-13

Good luck on locating this exceptional recording, sound, material stereo separation.

My second-favorite Beatles' album.......2007-06-12

This has long been my favorite Beatles' album second only to 'Revolver.' Due to its massive length, there are numerous different musical genres represented, enough to please every type of fan. It also seems to be their album with the least amount of songs played on the average oldies or classic rock station. Since there were no singles drawn from this album, these aren't songs the casual or new fan is likely to be very familiar with due to their lack of radio representation. And while some people do feel that it would have been a lot tighter and more manageable had it been just a single album, the problem is that no two people can agree on just what should have been excluded and included. (Probably my top vote for what should have been left off is the inane rubbishy "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.")

The songs range from rough hard rock such as "Yer Blues," "Helter Skelter," and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Except Me and My Monkey," poppy songs such as "Martha My Dear" and "Don't Pass Me By" (the first song Ringo wrote entirely on his own), country-western-style songs like "Rocky Raccoon" (though I usually skip this one now), softer songs like "Long, Long, Long" (one of my favorites), "Julia," and "Blackbird," and songs that are just plain weird, like "Wild Honey Pie," "Glass Onion," and "Revolution 9." Being very into the avant-garde, I've always loved "Revolution 9" and have even listened to it on repeat a number of times. While it's obviously not to everyone's tastes, one has to admit that this is a fascinating musical collage. (The placement of "Good Night," the final track, right after this song has also got to be the biggest juxtaposition on any Beatles' album ever!) And since a lot of these songs were not recorded with all four bandmembers together in the studio, it often feels like a collection of their solo songs instead of a team effort by a real band. However, this also serves to demonstrate how they had grown as musicians since the early Sixties, with a unique musical style emerging for each of them. In particular we can hear how George had grown by leaps and bounds, proving he had come into his own as a great singer and songwriter. Additionally, the often stripped-down sound can feel kind of refreshing after the overproduced songs of the previous year, whose core essences had been smothered by layer after layer and overdub and overdub, which also gives a lot of them a more dated feel instead of sounding truly classic and timeless.

Above all, this is doubtless in the Top 5 of their greatest albums, and with enough musical styles to keep everyone happy, should be highly recommended to anyone interested in branching out and exploring songs that are less pop-oriented and radio-friendly than the songs on their more-widely-played albums. It's also very special to me since it was almost the last album I ever heard in this lifetime, having played it the night before I was almost killed in a very serious car accident.

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Classic Beatles
Fusion Album
A New Direction
One of the first real albums
Nowhere Album

Rubber Soul
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ASIN: B000002UAO
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Tracks:

Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
You Won't See Me
Nowhere Man
Think For Yourself
The Word
Michelle
What Goes On
Girl
I'm Looking Through You
In My Life
Wait
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Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. The 14-song U.K. edition--the version now available on compact disc--is a different, more dynamic, and ultimately more accomplished achievement. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." --Don Harrison

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Classic Beatles.......2007-07-21

One of my favorite Beatles albums. I've had it on vinyl since it came out many years ago and have all of the Beatles compilations on CD, but I wanted to have this whole album on CD, too. Finally got around to it and after I played it once, I was reminded what a great album this is!

Fusion Album.......2007-07-18

At an abundant time of musical creativity, George Martin keeps released material progressing at a pace that connects us with some familiarities found in their earlier music and yet must begin to open the door for us to witness the musical revolution he saw emerging shortly, and still managed well having the support of the four.

A New Direction.......2007-07-02

Rubber Soul was very different in the approach and sound of the previous albums. Meet the Beatles, Please Please Me, etc were all good albums but for the most part it was just bubble gum music that teen girls ate up.

During the time of Rubber Soul, the guys were getting into differnt styles of music from their own. Bob Dylan was a huge influence on every artist after him, his writting influenced a new direction for John and Paul. Also like everyone else drugs creeped into play.

Drive My Car is a good opening track that is a good transition into this new sounding album. It's what kids in the suburbs expected. Norwegian Wood is basically the same thing as Bob Dylan's 4th Time Around with a sitar.

The other Songs like Nowhere Man are kind of surreal in the lyrics and singing of the three. John and Paul had similar songs in Michelle and Girl. Michelle has that smooth sound that's his bread and butter, and Girl is basically Johns version of the same song (in my opinion).

John always took more chances in his writting than Paul. Paul was a lot more commercial and was hesitant to do anything drastic. In My Life is my favorite track on the album and I think it's one of the best out of their whole catalog.

George and Ringo also have their time to shine. In Previous songs, Rino could only play the back beat cause if he tried anything else you couldn't hear it over the screaming girls. This new direction really gave him more freedom to fill the empty space of the songs. And George is always spot on with his playing. I love how he just seemed to stay true to himself after all the mania.

I look at Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper as almost like a trilogy. All three just have nice transitions that you can some how tell that that's the order they were released in. The maturaty in the lyrics, the new sounds incorporating new instruments and musicians.

Back to Rubber Soul... Overall it's one of my favorite albums of all time. It's definitely an album everyone should listen to. The songs are timeless and it sounds like nothing else. I love how the songs never go out of "style" I don't really believe one can slap a date on the music because it's revelant even today. There's always new generations discovering this music continuing the legacy of the Four Working Class Lads from Liverpool.

One of the first real albums.......2007-06-29

(4.5 stars, actually)

This album, which marks the beginning of The Beatles' middle period, is often cited as one of the first real albums. Prior to this, just about all albums consisted of a couple of big hits padded out with a lot of filler designed to boost sales for the popular singles on it. But here we have something which was consciously made as an album as opposed to just a haphazard collection of songs thrown together in no particular or special order. And although this album might not quite be up to their highest artistic level yet, there's no denying these songs show a huge maturity and step up from the type of pop they'd been doing for the past few years. Heavily influenced by pot and folk rock, this album paints a picture of a band whose transitional period from pop songs to more serious and mature recordings was pretty much over, with no going back.

I'm rather amused at all of the people who insist that this isn't the "real" RS but "only" the British version. The British version IS the real RS! From what I've heard, the American repackaging from Capitol probably did have a more consistently folksy feel, but it still wasn't the album The Beatles worked hard on making and meant for their fans to hear! As a second-generation Beatlemaniac, this, the genuine original untampered with version, is the one I'm familiar with; it would feel just as wrong to me to hear it starting with "I've Just Seen a Face" as it might for some nostalgic aging Boomer to hear it starting with "Drive My Car." And though there are a few songs not quite up to the overall level of quality (most particularly the junky closing number "Run for Your Life"), this album is pretty much near-perfect. The songs don't belong any other way. Although at least Capitol recognised how different and special this album was, and thus didn't do as much tampering as they usually did, and even retained the original title and cover.

Overall, this is a wonderful album to get mellowed out to, and a real snapshot in time, of that brief period when The Beatles had matured beyond cover songs and pop songs into more mature and serious artists, yet before they became as heavy and experimental as they did as the decade wore on. The songs range from soft slow songs like "In My Life" and "Michelle," to lighter poppier fare such as "You Won't See Me" and "Drive My Car," to rather deep and introspective songs such as "Girl" and "Think for Yourself," and everything in between. Probably the only major flaw with it is that it has to end with such a throwaway as "Run for Your Life." While not every song on even a great album has to be a winner, it just seems wrong for one of the weakest tracks to be placed at the very end, which kind of disrupts the nice folksy mood that had been set.

Nowhere Album.......2007-06-18

As some of you smarty-pants Beatles' historians might not be aware this is not the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. It is the U.K. version, which has MAJOR differences with the good ole USA version. If you want the USA version you can get it in the Capitol Albums vol.2 set. Then you can properly start listening to Rubber Soul with 'I've Just Seen A Face', which was one of their many hillbilly rags.

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Revolver is the best album of all-time
It's the freakin' Beatles
The epitome of perfection
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Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Love You To
Here, There and Everywhere
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She Said, She Said
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Revolver wouldn't remain the Beatles' most ambitious LP for long, but many fans--including this one--remember it as their best. An object lesson in fitting great songwriting into experimental production and genre play, this is also a record whose influence extends far beyond mere they-was-the-greatest cheerleading. Putting McCartney's more traditionally melodic "Here, There and Everywhere" and "For No One" alongside Lennon's direct-hit sneering ("Dr. Robert") and dreamscapes ("I'm Only Sleeping," "Tomorrow Never Knows") and Harrison's peaking wit ("Taxman") was as conceptually brilliant as anything Sgt. Pepper attempted, and more subtly fulfilling. A must. --Rickey Wright

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Revolver is the best album of all-time.......2007-07-16

and it's by the best band of all time (and I do know all the songs off of Sgt. Pepper).

Revolver comes at the midway point of The Beatles, and it is a peak for them. Every song on this album is good at the least (except maybe Yellow Submarine), and there are plenty of great songs, not only perfectly written, but perfectly executed by John, Paul and (sometimes) George's vocals, George's lead guitar (especially in "And Your Bird Can Sing"), Paul's bass, and, of course, Ringo''s drumming. The Great songs are, IMO "Got to Get You Into My Life," "I'm Only Sleeping," "Eleanor Rigby," "I Want To Tell You," "For No One" and "And Your Bird Can Sing." Through all these songs you can see the maturing song writing abilities of Paul, John, and George that you can see starting to surface in "Rubber Soul," going past the boy-girl relationships of the early Beatles, or at least making their boy-girl songs much more complex, instead of "I'm in love, It's a great day" (which you do see part of in "Good Day Sunshine," but John and Paul still found a way to make it a complex song).

I could go on and on about the greatness of this album and the bad that made it, but i'll just get to the bottom line: Buy it.

It's the freakin' Beatles.......2007-07-16

And Revolver is a freakin' great album. Revolver is probally the best balance between normal pop and serious themes (some that will get you thinking more than The early Beatles lyrics). That's probally what stands out from the rest, the instruments include piano and horns, and they work out well. Piano's were coming into more of a focus into The Beatles' music, and those instruments came into focus more, while avoiding the expiremental tracks of the later Beatles. It's a wonderful blend of pop with the piano and other instruments that The BEatles never used, yet still staying firmly to the ground and not going into the sky of Diamonds, on a magical mystery tour.

It sounds more different because of that. Yes, people have reviewed it better, but The Beatles never stopped suprising people with all different kinds of music and styles, and kept on evolving. I think that Evolver should have been the name, so 311 shouldn't have stolen (I like The Beatles better than 311, although they can't get me that energized as 311).

Like all other Beatles albums, they are kind of short, and I have to take off .5 because of I want To Tell You, which I didn't care for as much, but every other song sounded like The Beatles knocked themselves out making it perfect. Essential.

11/10

The epitome of perfection.......2007-07-04

This has been my favorite Beatles' album for years and years and years, as well as one of my top favorite albums overall. While of course some of the techniques used on certain of the songs aren't going to seem as revolutionary or current as they were back in 1966, that doesn't change the fact that at the time, they were very radical innovations, helped to change the face of pop music, and really marked the beginning of The Beatles' mature period. By this point they'd finally fully graduated from doing just love songs and simplistic pop to dealing with weightier subjects, and using a greater amount of studio experimentation, such as the backwards guitar in "I'm Only Sleeping" and the tape loops sounding like exotic birds in "Tomorrow Never Knows." Overall, I'd have to say that it's quite possibly their best album, maybe even the one that's stood the test of time the best (even allowing for how some aspects of the music may seem dated to some people today, it doesn't come across like some horribly dated period piece either). Every song is just so great; it really just seems like the epitome of perfection, the type of album one could listen to several times in a row or every day and not get bored of or skip any tracks on (though I must admit I don't really care for "For No One"). As great as they were, how many other albums did they make that one could say were truly as perfect as this one? One can also easily understand why this has been called their acid album.

Another great thing about this album is how balanced it is. While on some albums, one Beatle predominates (such as how John sings lead on 9 of the 13 tracks on AHDN and half of the songs on RS), here it's much more distributed. John and Paul each sing 5 songs, with the requisite Ringo song ("Yellow Submarine," one of his most famous), and the remaining three songs, including the opening one, going to George. Apart from the White Album where he had 4 songs, such a relatively generous amount of songs would never happen again. One can tell from these three songs that he was really growing and maturing as a songwriter even this early into having become the band's third songwriter. The musical styles themselves are also rather balanced; there are soft songs like "Here, There, and Everywhere," fun meaningless pop like "And Your Bird Can Sing," social commentary songs like "Eleanor Rigby," the Indian-influenced "Love You To" (one of my favorite tracks), partially autobiographical songs like "She Said She Said," and songs with a strong psychedelic influence, like the hypnotic "I'm Only Sleeping" (probably my favorite track) and the closing track "Tomorrow Never Knows." I won't even get into people who are genuinely wondering why this isn't the Capitol repackaging they remember from childhood; I can't imagine this album without such key tracks as "Dr. Robert" and "I'm Only Sleeping," and am baffled as to why anyone would find the repackagings to be superior to the authentic British originals other than sentimental reasons.

Overall, this album is the perfect midway point between their early, more innocent period and their later, more serious period, a transitional bridge between the two eras. I also couldn't think of many more of their albums that would be this much of an ideal introduction to a new fan.

Review of Revolver UK.......2007-07-03

I bought it mainly for one song, but should have purchased if off of Itunes. Its a good album, nice happy songs, takes you back in time.

Volume 2.......2007-07-02

Revolver was released after Rubber Soul. This album continues the evolution of writting and composing of the fab four. It sounds very similar to Rubber Soul and is another great album.

Overall it's a lot more "60s" in the sound. A lot more of Georges Indian influence in the music. A lot more randomness in the writting of Lennon/McCartney. A lot more great drumming by Ringo (He's great on Tomorrow Never Knows).

Taxman is a classic song by George. It's sounds very similar to Drive My Car and just has a nice groove to it.

Paul says he made up a lot of "characters" in his songs like Eleanor Rigby. The String section was first used in Yestarday and is a perfect opening to Eleanor.

Other notable tracks are Goodday Sunshine, She Said She Said, and Tomorrow Never Knows. This is a great track written by John. He didn't want to come off the wrong way in his presentation so he used a saying Ringo came up with in "Tomorrow Never Knows." This was a huge step in moving forward in the music. It showed the audience a sneek peak as to what future music would sound like and I think it's a perfect song to end with to transition into the Genius of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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All the # 1 hits of the Beatles.
As good as you think it is
great collection
Memories of past music
I'm in love with the Beatles, and I feel fine

The Beatles 1
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ASIN: B00004ZAV3
Release Date: 2000-11-14

Tracks:

Love Me Do
From Me to You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Can't Buy Me Love
A Hard Day's Night
I Feel Fine
Eight Days a Week
Ticket to Ride
Help!
Yesterday
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
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Penny Lane
All You Need Is Love
Hello Goodbye
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Get Back
The Ballad of John & Yoko
Something
Come Together
Let It Be
The Long and Winding Road

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Proving yet again their willingness to dice 'n' slice their burgeoning legacy into new--if not exactly fresh--product, the Fab Four Minus One have released this single-disc compendium of their No. 1 hits. Though obviously superfluous to the faithful (who may also find themselves quibbling over the precise definition of "No. 1 hit" and the exclusion of seeming contenders like "Please Please Me" and "Strawberry Fields"), newly arrived visitors from the Pleiades star cluster and other neophytes will find it a concise and generous (nearly 80 minutes) single-disc introduction to the band's career-spanning, unparalleled dominance of pop music in the 1960s. But beyond being a mere trophy case of commercial success (and it won't be hard to find critics who'll argue that these singles aren't even the band's best work), it's also a Cliff's Notes take on a remarkable seven-year run of musical evolution, one that stretches from the neo-skiffle of "Love Me Do" through a remarkable synthesis of R&B, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley, gospel, country, and classical that still defies efforts to effectively deconstruct it. This is the pop monument equivalent of the '27 Yankees and '90s Bulls; it's every bit as obvious and dominating--and just as essential. --Jerry McCulley

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All the # 1 hits of the Beatles........2007-07-18

This record has all the number one hits in the history of the Beatles, what you can add to that.

As good as you think it is.......2007-07-08

John, Paul, George, and Ringo. If this phrase does not move you then you should go back to your George Michael videos and prey he'll become heterosexual! This is everything that you remember from the Beatles.

great collection.......2007-07-06

Beatles 1 is a good collection of the Beatles #1 hit singles. Perfect for the casual Beatles fan or for someone just being introduced to the Beatles music for the first time. If you are interested in hearing more Beatles music, collect their albums. Depending on your taste, you can get their early 60s stuff or their late 60s stuff or both time periods. Personally, I enjoy their early 60s stuff more than their late 60s stuff and have a collection of their early 60s albums.

Memories of past music.......2007-06-27

I guess this is a CD of their best songs and is well worth buying. Now I have a tape and CD of their music and could not be happier.

I'm in love with the Beatles, and I feel fine.......2007-06-18

"Beatles 1" is a great album. I could leave it at that, but I think I would just be stating the obvious, so I will give you a more in depth look.

You are probably aware, but just in case you don't know by now, "Beatles 1' is chronologically organized using songs that reached number one in the United States and/or the United Kingdom. Even though that means that some of your favorite songs won't be on here, and even some number ones will not make it (Strawberry Fields Forever, Please Please Me), it is still an exceptional collection of music that very few bands in history could ever dream of putting together. From "Love Me Do" to "The Long And Winding Road," this album is fantastic. While "Beatles 1" does have some weak spots, even those songs are far above the best of most other bands.

All in all, I have to say that If you are new to The Beatles, then you should get this album in a heartbeat. However, if you own a lot of Beatles music, then you probably shouldn't buy this album, unless you really want to here the digitally Remastered quality, because you probably will already know most of the songs.

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Can It Get Any Better?
The most 'out there' Beatle's album.
great album, perhaps, one day, a deluxe edition with full booklet.
part two of sgt peppers another trippy album
Still Magical... All these years later...

Magical Mystery Tour
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ASIN: B000002UDB
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Magical Mystery Tour
Fool on the Hill
Flying
Blue Jay Way
Your Mother Should Know
I Am the Walrus
Hello Goodbye
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Baby You're a Rich Man
All You Need Is Love

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The album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." Even George's "Blue Jay Way" paints a vivid sound-portrait in fascinating detail. (I consider Joni Mitchell's "Car on the Hill" from Court and Spark to be a companion piece about sitting in the Hollywood Hills, waiting for somebody to show up.) And although the goofy TV movie may have been mostly Paul's baby, this album features the two 45 rpm masterpieces that sum up the quintessential best of Lennon and McCartney at this stage of their development: Paul's "Penny Lane" and John's "I Am the Walrus." --Jim Emerson

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1987 digitally remastered Japanese pressing of 1967 album packaged in a standard jewel case. Parlophone/Apple.

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Can It Get Any Better?.......2007-06-27

Instant Classic is an overused cliche', but it describes this CD accurately. This CD is a must for any Beatle fan. It continues to show the Beatles were leaders in creative song writing and production, taking studio work to a whole different level.

The most 'out there' Beatle's album........2007-06-14

This is the first Beatles album I knew. Got it on 8-track. I knew of their earlier songs first, though I never owned any albums. I was 14 at the time and fell in love with this album. I loved every single song on it, not one was deficient. Then my 8-track was eaten by the machine. I didn't buy it again until just a week ago. In the mean time, I bought Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, and The White Album, all of which are masterpieces. All of them are so different from each other as well, each having their own personality, if you will. Well, after not having the Magical Mystery Tour for 20 years, I was pleasantly surprised that I remembered every tune. What I didn't remember was the deep psychedelia that pervaded the album. This album is both light (Your Mother Should Know, Fool on the Hill, All You Need Is Love, Baby You're a Rich Man, Penny Lane, Hello Goodbye), and dark (Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am the Walrus, Flying, Blue Jay Way, and the opener - Magical Mystery Tour). Very unique sounds on this album, and quite cool that it happened 40 years ago. Even Trent Reznor, a master in his own right owes a lot to this album. Cheers!!!

great album, perhaps, one day, a deluxe edition with full booklet. .......2007-06-05

This recording (40 Years old now, wow, who would believe 1967-2007) is one of the Beatles most interesting recordings. Featuring hits like Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, I Am The Walrus, and some interesting work from the late George Harrison, Blue Jay Way, it serves as testament of how the Beatles were trying new things. One possible improvement (as if there could be) a "deluxe" edition, which would feature a miniature reproduction of the album booklet (in its entirety), featuring additional pictures and so on. Otherwise fine recording. Recommended also: Rubber Soul (which I also bought with this and generally all of the Beatles catalog[ue] [as it's spelled in England]).

part two of sgt peppers another trippy album.......2007-06-03

This is the part two of, 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band', this has the same amount of Psychedellic Trippy music as does, 'Sgt. Peppers', except this album has maybe even more. This is a very good example of what kind of music people were listening to back during The Summer Of Love 1967. Great great album it's a true example of Trippy Psychedellic Rock. This is a great album if you don't have any access to this album buy it today, if you dig Psychedellic Rock. If you do dig that you won't be mad you bought it.

Still Magical... All these years later..........2007-05-28

I still love this album as much as I have since I heard it as a pre-teen. Though I have grown to appreciate Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers as being greater albums, I can still spend many an hours listening to the fantastic songs on this album. There is a great feel to this album. It features lovely and uplifting songs from Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, to All You Need is Love. For me, when it comes to great albums/CDs, all you need is the Beatles.

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The Essence of Rock and Roll
brings back memories.
ZOSO
Simply the Best
Soulful ,Passionate and Emotional Brilliance !

Led Zeppelin IV (aka ZOSO)
Led Zeppelin
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ASIN: B000002J09
Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

Black Dog
Rock And Roll
The Battle Of Evermore
Stairway To Heaven
Misty Mountain Hop
Four Sticks
Going To California
When The Levee Breaks

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Also known as the "rune" album or Zoso because of the medieval symbols adorning the inner sleeve, Led Zeppelin's fourth album, released in 1971, turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world. On tracks like "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "Rock and Roll," the combination of Robert Plant's banshee wails and Jimmy Page's frenetic guitar playing forever altered the stylistic bent of hard rock music. And the foreboding "When the Levee Breaks" demonstrated that Zeppelin could indeed play the blues fairly straight if they so desired. Still, everything here ultimately took a back seat to the album's (and, ultimately, the band's) magnum opus--the expertly constructed and deftly executed classic, "Stairway to Heaven." --Billy Altman

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Jimmy Page was a top London studio guitarist before he got rich and famous as the musical leader of Led Zeppelin. The group's fourth--and arguably their finest--album is as much a tribute to his technique as a monument to his versatility. Page produced the album, co-wrote all eight songs, and played mandolin as well as all the guitars. Musically, this 1971 disc ranges from acoustic English folke ("Goin' to California" and "The Battle of Evermore," the latter featuring the late Fairport Convention frontwoman Sandy Denny) to bone-crushing, bluesy riff-slinging. On the album's centerpiece, "Stairway to Heaven," these light and dark strains are dramatically intertwined. The chiming "Four Sticks" aside, it's the Little Richard-inspired "Rock and Roll" and the tricky time changes--a Zeppelin trademark--of the fast-and-furious "Black Dog" that elevate this album into more than just a bustle in aspiring guitarists' hedgerows. --Don Waller

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The Essence of Rock and Roll.......2007-07-07

The original and definitive heavy metal band, Led Zeppelin made their mark in several other categories with their fourth album. The vocals of Robert Plant, guitar playing of Jimmy Page, and drumming of John Bonham are all the stuff of legend. John Paul Jones brings extra versatility and originality on bass, keyboard AND acoustic guitar. The songs:

Black Dog - blues-influenced (like a lot of earlier Zeppelin), loud and raunchy (in the best kind of way), some over-the-top vocal stylings
Rock And Roll - barn-burning blues and a great vehicle to show off one of the greatest rock drummers ever
The Battle Of Evermore - inventive art rock that proved that these guys were not only great rockers, but great artists as well
Stairway To Heaven - the definitive power ballad
Misty Mountain Hop - more barn-burning blues with monstrously huge guitar sounds and distinctive electric piano riff
Four Sticks - raucous art rock, using a crazy time signature and chord voicing that few bands other than Rush and Jethro Tull would dare to touch
Going To California - yes, they can do acoustic folk rock better than anyone else too
When The Levee Breaks - more rowdy blues, this time with some gritty harmonica to give it a different vibe

The production and engineering behind this album are the icing on the cake. Recording students are still studying and copying this stuff and trying to reproduce the "Bonham drum sound" to this day. The generous echoes and overdubs on Plant's vocals somehow never seem overdone or dated.

This is the amazing work of an amazing team of players and recording experts on their best days ever. Rock fans should be intimately familiar with this timeless and hugely influential CD.

brings back memories........2007-06-20

i know that a lot of people claim to have gone to the original woodstock concert, but i really did. and of all the great bands who played there, this was the best. i will never forget their great set. the lead singer and guitarist was a black man who played his guitar left-handed. the best song they played there was a great, great song about somebody named Purple Hayes, who could get into your mind. i think the title of the song was "Purple Hayes." unfortunately i have never been able to find that song on an album, but this album is great anyway. i just discovered it, and it is full of great songs. there is one song here called "Stairway to Heaven," which is about a stairway that goes up to Heaven. cool. and there is other neat stuff, too. get this record. you should. and if anyone knows what album "Purple Hayes" is on, please please please let me know.

ZOSO.......2007-06-12

This is the album that got me in to Zepp, and the first one I ever bought.
This ground breaking recording was Zepplin's #1 album, and if this would have been the only album they would released, I think they still would have had just as much of and impact on the world as they do now.

1. Black Dog- Strange name but awesome song, and one of the best riffs ever!!! 5/5

2. Rock And Roll- This song is exactilly what the name is; Rock And Roll. It's Zeppelin at their best, Jimmy Page's solo is simply amazing and fits with the song. Perfect riff, Perferct title, and a perfect solo make this song, well...perfect! 5/5

3. Battle of Evermore- It's always nice to slow it up a bit with some thing accustic, and "Battle Of Evermore" is that something accustic. This song really shows off Robert Plant's vocal range and fetures matiline. Bring it Back! 5/5

4. Stairway to Heaven- This is a song that needs no introduction, it's such a totamic peace of music, mainly because it is a constant climing song. It has some of the stragest lyrics of all time, and is known for having a backwards massage. Message or not it is still an amazing song, and Jimmy gives one of the best solos ever. 5/5

5. Misty Mountain Hop- This is the first Zeppelin song I ever heard and it still rocks. Greatest riff of all time? Maybe, but one thing that I know that everyone thinks at some point is, "What the hell is a Misty Mountain Hop?" The world may never know. 5/5

6. Four Sticks- This is a highly underratted song. It has tons of cool elements about it, Electric and accustic guitar parts, cool vocals, and great keyboard. Classic hard rock song. 5/5

7. Going To California- Another accustic song, nice and mellow. 4/5

8. When the Leeve Breaks- Best drum beat ever, provided by the one and only Bonzo. Heavy riff with some harmonica, great way to finish off a great album. 4.5/5

Led Zeppelin made their mark on the world with this one, legend- Chuck

Simply the Best.......2007-06-04

I would like to start this review by stating that this is, arguably, the greatest rock album ever recorded. I don't see how it has an overall 4.5 star rating and it's all of the idiotic 1-star reviews that bring it down. I'm not calling it the best rock album of all time because I'm giving in to the hype about it, because I'm not. I own it and have listened through it over a hundred times so I am more than familiar with it, along with the rest of Zeppelin's music. This is simply the most complete, diverse and distinctive album ever. Not only are Plant, Page, Jones and Bonham gods of their instruments but they are likewise with song writing. The songs range from funky rock and roll (Black Dog, Rock and Roll) to groovy melodies (Misty Mountain Hop) to the more melodic ballads (Battle of Evermore, Going to California) to the epic heavy hitters on the album, Stairway and When the Levee Breaks. These four guys have mastered blues-inspired rock and roll and play it like no other. Jimmy Page is equally masterful and brilliant with the electric and acoustic guitars and his melodies are some of the most unconventional, odd time-signatured yet captivating ever. This is the quintissential hard rock album and it seems like all other albums should be measured up against this one.

I give every single song on this album a 10/10 with the exception of Four Sticks, which I would give a 9.5. Albums can't really rate much higher.

These are the gods of rock and this is their masterpiece. No person who claims to listen to rock should be without it. Don't pay any attention to the 1-star reviews, or the 2- and 3- star reviews, for that matter. They are ridiculous and written solely out of rebellion. Let them listen to their Fallout Boys and Nirvanas and Panic at the Discos. This is real music.

I am someone who usually does not give in to fads and trends just for the sake of doing it, but Led Zeppelin IV is a trend that I can't help but follow. It's simply the best..

Soulful ,Passionate and Emotional Brilliance !.......2007-05-30

Masterpiece, Robert's singing seems more Emotional and Inspiring than opera !
Black Dog and Going to California are my particular favorites on this CD. Sung with his needy , yearning, whining soul !

Got to buy it !

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I'M TIRED, SO TIRED....
The Convoluted End
This Album gets such a bad rep
Let It Be
UN ALBUM MUY TRISTE...

Let It Be
The Beatles
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ASIN: B000002UB6
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Two Of Us
Dig A Pony
Across The Universe
I Me Mine
Dig It
Let It Be
Maggie Mae
I've Got A Feeling
One After 909
The Long And Winding Road
For You Blue
Get Back

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Sloppy in conception, and even sometimes in the playing, Let It Be often gets a bad rap. Unfairly, as it's often as charming, well written, and (oh yeah) rocking as the Beatles' "better" albums; it's also more outright fun than Abbey Road, the masterpiece it followed into the stores. With Lennon and McCartney working together on the perfect "I've Got a Feeling," "Two of Us," and "Dig a Pony," it's hard to believe these guys were about to implode. --Rickey Wright

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I'M TIRED, SO TIRED...........2007-07-12

TO MY SURPRISE, NOTHING REALLY STOOD OUT AS I EXPECTED IT TO. THIS ALBUM DIDN'T DO IT FOR ME 35 YEARS AGO EITHER. I WAS HOPING I WAS WRONG; PERHAPS I'M JUST TIRED LIKE 'THEY' WERE THEN...

The Convoluted End.......2007-07-08

The heavy black border on the front cover, the inexplicable reversion by the band members to "younger" looks, the red apple label, the "new phase Beatles album" line on the back cover, all played their part in confusing one particular 13-year-old upon this album's release. It would only be about five years later, once the Beatle literature began to proliferate in earnest, that I comprehended the situation behind what many commentators bemoaned as a painfully weak finish to a spectacular musical career, indeed epoch. All these years later I still find myself agreeing that it was a shame the Beatles didn't keep this one in the vault and let Abbey Road stand as their true swan song.

Overall, though, Let It Be really does little to tarnish the Beatles' reputation. There are small pleasures here that stand the test of time better than some of the Beatles' more grandiose efforts. "Two of Us" and "Get Back" can proudly take their place among the best of Lennon-McCartney, and even the overproduced "Across the Universe" and "The Long and Winding Road" still have a haunting melodic beauty.

And the Beatles, being the Beatles, didn't leave this without an odd wrinkle or two in the backstory. For one thing, this is the album for which the final Beatles recording sessions were conducted. Absent John, the rest of the group convened sometime after Abbey Road was put to bed to record George's "I Me Mine", which was featured in the Let It Be film, but only in rough form. They also put some finishing touches to the title track. These sessions were conducted in January 1970, which gave the Beatles the barest toehold as a working group in the new decade. The initial release of the album also reportedly featured a book of photos that one commentator described over thirty years ago as "useless", though I've never seen that book and would very much like to, if only to say I did.

And there is this: the album is entirely free of even the barest hint of the sometimes painful tension on display in the film. I'm not sure what that means, except that they obviously had moments even at this nadir when they could rally and make the magic happen.

This Album gets such a bad rep.......2007-07-05

And i dont really know why. It has some of the beatles better songs on it, and its a pretty cohesive album on the whole. yes, it does seem that spector can be accused of overproduction; it would have undoubtedly been better if martin was producing. dont pass this album up. its essential to anyone's catalog.

Let It Be.......2007-06-08

I never recieved this DVD.......I emailed the seller and all he wanted was my zip code,which I sent to him....I have emailed him three times but never recieved my purchuse. I am on a fixed income and wanted it to give as a gift..I am very disappointed.....Lois Eddy

UN ALBUM MUY TRISTE..........2007-05-07

A comparacion de las grandes obras beatles como STG. PEPPER, REVOLVER, RUBBER SOUL, THE WHITE ALBUM y ABBEY ROAD, siento que este se quedo muy atras; lo siento muy incompleto, como uno de esos discos a los que les falto un mejor trabajo... y mas canciones (pudieron haber incluido DON'T LET ME DOWN, la cual aparece en la pelicula); por lo demas, no niego que es un buen disco, pero es obvio que le falta mucho para llegar a niveles como el de los anteriores mencionados; talvez se deba a que los mismos Beatles no pusieron mucho esfuerzo en su elaboracion, ni siquiera fue producido por el gran George Martin (no olvidemos que fue una epoca de enojos, disgustos y disgregacion para los fab-four)... creo que Phil Spector no supo asimilar la "atmosfera-beatle"; la mayor prueba fue lo que le hizo a THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD (algo que Paul nunca le perdonara); a pesar de todo contiene grandes piezas como LET IT BE, GET BACK, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE y una linda cancion de george, I ME MINE; indispensable para todo beatlemaniaco, pero talvez uno de los ultimos a ser conseguido... y no dejo de sentir melancolia al escucharlo, si, TALVEZ TODO TIEMPO PASADO FUE MEJOR.

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Biggest ripoff in the history of music!
Zeppelin's First
classic blues rock
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Led Zeppelin
4 1/2 stars-- a powerful debut.

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ASIN: B000002J01
Release Date: 1994-06-21

Tracks:

Good Times Bad Times
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
You Shook Me
Dazed And Confused
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Black Mountain Side
Communication Breakdown
I Can't Quit You Baby
How Many More Times

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As it turned out, Led Zeppelin's infamous 1969 debut album was indicative of the decade to come--one that, fittingly, this band helped define with its decadently exaggerated, bowdlerized blues-rock. In shrieker Robert Plant, ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page found a vocalist who could match his guitar pyrotechnics, and the band pounded out its music with swaggering ferocity and Richter-scale-worthy volume. Pumping up blues classics such as Otis Rush's "I Can't Quit You Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Times" into near-cartoon parodies, the band also hinted at things to come with the manic "Communication Breakdown" and the lumbering set stopper "Dazed and Confused." --Billy Altman

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Biggest ripoff in the history of music!.......2007-07-05

I understand I am about to anger many legions of Led Zeppelin fans. Unfortunately not all Zeppelin fans have done their homework as well as Page and Plant and company did for this album. Here they shamelessly steal from other artists' songs and put their names on them for songwriting credits!! Don't believe me? Well, here goes.

1) Good Times Bad Times-A great Zeppelin tune, hands down! Unfortunately it is the only one they truly wrote for this album.

2) Babe I'm Gonna leave You-Another great Zeppelin tune? Not quite. This is a dead ripoff of Joan Baez's version of an Ann Breden song of the same title. Check it out...same lyrics and music. How Zeppelin originally credited themselves for writing this song is despicable.

3) You Shook Me-A Credited Willie Dixon tune. However, if you listen to Jeff Beck's version on Truth, you will find shocking similarities.

4) Dazed and Confused- A Zeppelin warhorse if there ever was one. Too bad the song is a dead ripoff of Jake Holmes' song titled, of course, Dazed and Confused. Oh, it's just a title you say? Listen to Holmes' version and you will hear the same exact riff! When Page was with The Yardbirds, Holmes was an opening act and hence, Page's introduction to a song he would selfishly give himself credit for writing.

5) Your Time Is Gonna Come-Listen to the intro to this song and then listen to Traffic's Dear Mr. Fantasy and tell me if you don't see a similarity, or in fact, a carbon copy!

6) Black Mountain Side-This is laughable!! Bert Jansch wrote and performed a song titled..HAHA, Black Water Side. Interesting to note that the riffs are shockingly similar..And it makes me wonder...

7) Communication Breakdown-A rewrite of Eddie Cochran's Nervous Breakdown.

8) I Can't Quit You Baby-Another Willie Dixon cover which they appropriately give him credit for. A rarity on this release.

9) How Many More Times-What do you get when you combine a Howlin' Wolf cover of How Many More Years and Albert King's The Hunter? You get THIS song credited to Zeppelin as writers.

Don't believe me? If you can find the above mentioned songs I DARE you to play them back to back with the Zeppelin versions. Zeppelin proves, on this release anyway, that they were the greatest cover band in the history of music. I am sickened and disappointed. How sad that such great musicians can so obviously rip off other artists and not give them credit for these songs. Pathetic, actually.

Sadly, these are not the only songs in Zeppelin's catalogue that are partially or fully taken from other artists that Zeppelin shamelessy wears as their own. I also have references for Stairway to Heaven, Custard Pie, Whole Lotta Love, The Lemon Song, In My time Of Dying, When the Levee Breaks..etc..Yes, eventually Zep DID give SOME artists their just due...after being sued. You can argue and say Who Cares? These versions are great, and that may very well be. But the truth should be known and if you ARE going to listen to Zeppelin at least be aware of what has taken place. It's ok to cover someone else's song...IF YOU GIVE THEM PROPER CREDIT WITHOUT PASSING IT OFF AS YOUR OWN AND DECEIVING THE PUBLIC. As a music fan, I am insulted. Why do you think Zep sold all the rights to their songs to Atlantic Records? One word: Lawsuits!

These 'Gods' of rock are thieves and if you're serious about music and care anything about artistic integrity you should be at least a little bit angry at this deceitfulness. If you're not then either integrity means nothing to you OR you are as big a thief as Page and comp. were.

Zeppelin's First.......2007-06-22

And in my opinion it is still the best.
Led Zeppelin I began the start of the world's most famous and most influential heavy bluesy folk rock band ever. Also Led Zep are cited as pioneers of heavy metal (although 1/3 of I's music was acoustic) just before Black Sabbath hit.
Advancing the sound of Cream, Led Zeppelin created a sound that was unique and one that was all their own back in 1969. Heck, Led Zeppelin advanced the boundaries of Rock 'n' Roll and inspired millions of others in their wake.
Besides The Beatles, Led Zeppelin was the first Rock band that I have ever heard and got into.
My Father used to shake the whole house while playing "Dazed and Confused" late at night, almost every night downstairs in our basement at that time. Slowly the song crept into my thoughts and introduced me to a whole "new" sound being only 9 or 10 years old.
I can still feel the vibrations under my feet from listening to that deep descending bassline that begans "Dazed and Confused". Still my favorite song on this, their debut.
"Good Times Bad Times" kicks this album off and early on in my childhood this was one of my favorite Led Zeppelin songs. It's just really catchy and upbeat & contains a swirling guitar effect set by Jimmy Page(one of the greatest guitarists ever).
"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is still one of the most beautiful and most memeorable acoustic tracks that I have ever heard - "I Can hear it Calling me..." - The song was inspired by Joan Baez's song from 1962.
Other favorites of mine include : "Communication Breakdown" and "How Many More Times" - which in the early days was also Led Zep's (The Hammer Of the Gods) closing number during concert tours.
Led Zeppelin's First will always be one of my All-Time Favorite albums and it also holds one of my fondest childhood memories.

classic blues rock.......2007-06-17

You know, I think by this point, Zeppelin's first album is now my favorite. The following four albums have been played quite frequently through the years (yes, even Zeppelin III). The original has been played just as much (I won't deny that) but there's something about the first album that just stays with me through the years.

Maybe it's the fact that the production is amazing for 1969 standards. Seriously, how many albums back then were this loud? Maybe Tommy from the Who. I can't think of many others. Black Sabbath's debut was released a year later, so that doesn't count.

Anyway, I really like what Zeppelin was doing here. You have fairly lengthy and successful attempts at blues rock, with extraordinary jamming skills scattered throughout the album. Zeppelin was just not the same after this one. I especially love the drumming and the creepy bass work. Great album.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Led Zeppelin.......2007-05-12

Led Zeppelin I (1969) Led Zeppelin's first studio album.

Out of the ashes of the Yardbird's came rock's most skilled - if not most important - guitarist of all time. Jimmy Page, joining forces with Plant, Jones, and Bonham, formed what would become the definitive hard rock band. Not only did Led Zeppelin help define a new genre of rock, they explored every possible point. This album was the jumping point.

Let's cut to the chase; it don't matter how these four geniuses came together, the important thing is that they did. The music here is very good, several of which are classic rock radio staples. The opener "Good Times, Bad Times" is a relatively soft introduction to what the rest of the album had in store. The slow blues of "Dazed and Confused" and manic rush of "Communication Breakdown" as well as the great instrumental "Black Mountain Side" help to create with a single stroke Zeppelin's distinctive sound.

I own the original vinyl from 1969, and this transfer is wonderful. But it's expected; Page is so darn protective of his (or their) music that he wouldn't settle for a remaster that didn't sound excellent. This is one of the greater albums of all time, yet is not the finest in the Zeppelin catalog. Anyone who is looking to get into Zeppelin should not start here, though; "IV" is the best place to go first, followed by "II" and "Physical Graffiti".

4 1/2 stars-- a powerful debut........2007-05-08

One of the most well-realized debut albums of rock history, Led Zeppelin's self titled debut record must have ruffled some feathers when it was released. Certainly, nothing in rock music has quite been the same since-- the band's reinfusing rock with its blues roots and embracing distortion pretty much rewrote the course of rock music. Moreso than being the right band at the right time, Led Zeppelin was the right set of musicians with the right set of influences at the right time, combining a willingness and desire to try new things by borrowing from the old with the musicianship to pull it off. Session guitarist and brief member of the Yardbirds Jimmy Page possessed of seemingly endless arranging skills and a great, natural feeling for a blues solo. Providing perhaps the best foil for him was John Paul Jones-- bassist, organist and a musician who has proven over the years that he can fit anything naturally. The two London session hacks were joined by a pair of younger musicians, vocalist Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham, both of whom possessed a fierce power and energy that showed their youth but were no less virtuosos than the Page and Jones.

All of this is pretty much evident from the start-- opener "Good Times Bad Times" features a galloping, excitable riff and an unusually confident and relaxed vocal for such a young vocalist in Robert Plant, especially at the bridge, before turning proceeding over to a fierce guitar solo. It wraps up in less than three minutes and in many ways ends up being a summary of everything the band is. The remainder of the album is a nice mix of standards, adaptations and originals that, nearly 40 years later, are still FM radio staples, from the delicate, fingerplucked steel-string guitars interspersing chugging riffs of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" to the manic "Dazed and Confused" and the frantic, explosive "Communication Breakdown". Along the way, the band hits droning guitars ("You Shook Me"), agile organ-driven pop ("Your Time is Gonna Come"), folky instrumentals ("Black Mountain Side") and Willie Dixon ("I Can't Quit You Baby").

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about "Led Zeppelin" is that even if you haven't heard the record before, it's all somehow familiar. The band has worked their way into the collective consciousness. They'd go on to many better records, but this isn't to take away from their debut, it's a great album. Highly recommended.

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