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THE BEATLES
Released: November 25, 1968
Produced by: George Martin
Label: Apple



DISC ONE
  1. Back In The U.S.S.R. {Lennon/McCartney} (2:43)
    • Recorded: August 22, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added August 23, 1968
  2. Dear Prudence {Lennon/McCartney} (3:57)
    • Recorded: August 28, 1968 at Trident Studios, London, England
      with overdubs added August 29-30, 1968
  3. Glass Onion {Lennon/McCartney} (2:17)
    • Recorded: September 11, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added September 12, 13, 16 and October 10, 1968
  4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da {Lennon/McCartney} (3:09)
    • Recorded: July 3, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added July 4-5, 1968, a remake July 8, 1968
      and more overdubbing July 11, 1968 and July 15, 1968
  5. Wild Honey Pie {Lennon/McCartney} (1:02)
    • Recorded: August 20, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill {Lennon/McCartney} (3:05)
    • Recorded: October 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps {Harrison} (4:45)
    • Recorded: July 25, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England,
      remade August 16, 1968 with overdubs September 3, 1968,
      and remade again September 5, 1968 with overdubs September 6, 1968
  8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun {Lennon/McCartney} (2:44)
    • Recorded: September 23-24, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added September 25, 1968
  9. Martha My Dear {Lennon/McCartney} (2:29)
    • Recorded: October 4, 1968 at Trident Studios, London, England
      with overdubs added October 5, 1968
  10. I'm So Tired {Lennon/McCartney} (2:03)
    • Recorded: October 8, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  11. Blackbird {Lennon/McCartney} (2:18)
    • Recorded: June 11, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  12. Piggies {Harrison} (2:05)
    • Recorded: September 19, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added September 20, 1968 and October 10, 1968
  13. Rocky Raccoon {Lennon/McCartney} (3:41)
    • Recorded: August 15, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  14. Don't Pass Me By {Starkey} (3:42)
    • Recorded: June 5, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added June 6, 1968 and July 12, 1968
      and an edit piece (tinkling piano intro) recorded July 22, 1968
  15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? {Lennon./McCartney} (1:41)
    • Recorded: October 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added October 10, 1968
  16. I Will {Lennon/McCartney} (1:47)
    • Recorded: September 16, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added September 17, 1968
  17. Julia {Lennon/McCartney} (2:54)
    • <Recorded: October 13, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  • Disc One total playing time 46:24


DISC TWO
  1. Birthday {Lennon/McCartney} (2:43)
    • Recorded: September 18, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  2. Yer Blues {Lennon/McCartney} (4:01)
    • Recorded: August 13, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added August 14, 1968
      and the 'counted intro' added August 20, 1968
  3. Mother Nature's Son {Lennon/McCartney} (2:48)
    • Recorded: August 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added August 20, 1968
  4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey {Lennon/McCartney} (2:25)
    • Recorded: June 27, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added July 1, 1968 and July 23, 1968
  5. Sexy Sadie {Lennon/McCartney} (3:15)
    • Recorded: July 19, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      but remade July 24, 1968 and remade again August 13, 1968
      with overdubs added August 21, 1968
  6. Helter Skelter {Lennon/McCartney} (4:30)
    • Recorded: September 9, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with an overdub added September 10, 1968
  7. Long, Long, Long {Harrison} (3:04)
    • Recorded: October 7, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added October 8-9, 1968
  8. Revolution 1 {Lennon/McCartney} (4:16)
    • Recorded: May 30, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added May 31, June 4 and June 21, 1968
  9. Honey Pie {Lennon/McCartney} (2:41)
    • Recorded: October 1, 1968 at Trident Studios, London, England
      with overdubs added October 2, 1968 and October 4, 1968
  10. Savoy Truffle {Harrison} (2:55)
    • Recorded: October 3, 1968 at Trident Studios, London, England
      with overdubs added October 5, 11 and 14, 1968
  11. Cry Baby Cry {Lennon/McCartney} (3:11)
    • Recorded: July 16, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with overdubs added July 18, 1968
  12. Revolution 9 {Lennon/McCartney} (8:13)
    • Recorded: May 30, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
      with effects added June 6, 10, 11, 20 and 21, 1968
  13. Good Night {Lennon/McCartney} (3:12)
    • Recorded: July 22, 1968 at Abbey Road, London, England
  • Disc Two total playing time 47:16
MY REVIEW


As I said during my "Pepper" review this album is tied with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" as my favorite album of all time. This is more like four separate bands playing, John and his band, Paul and his band, George and his band, and Ring and his band. You can tell by listening to this record that The Beatles are near the end of their career.
The album starts off with a good Paul McCartney tune "Back In the USSR", and just gets better from there on. This tune is unique in that Paul plays lead guitar, piano, and drums; John and George play bass, and Ringo sits out.
Most of this album was written during their stay in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He gets slammed hard by John Lennon in the songs "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" and "Sexy Sadie". Lennon's guitar on "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is brutal to show his attack on the guru. John Lennon's tune "Dear Prudence" is about Mia Farrow's sister who was in India with them. John said that she was such a prude.
"Yer Blues" is a sad song that John wrote about all the suffering he felt during his life. He pours out his bitterness and frustration here.
The songs that George Harrison contributes are "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar, "Piggies", "Long, Long, Long" and "Savoy Truffle". "Savoy Truffle" is a happy sounding tune, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" shows the sorrows that George is feeling during this part of his career.
John contributes a sad song about his mom "Julia" which is a very good tune.
"Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is a unique McCartney tune. It features only Paul playing all the instruments.
The albums ends with Ringo singing a Lennon tune "Good Night" with a 30 piece orchestra.



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