Thursday, December 12, 2013

Abbey Road

Abbey Road is one of the most badass Beatles albums for sure. Just the album cover is already awesome within itself, and the music matches it.  My favorites on the album are "Come Together," "Something," "I want you (She's so Heavy)," "Here comes the sun," and "Oh! Darling." They do some really funny stuff in this album, for example, the last song should have been "The End" which would have made logical sense but they made a mistake and had a 23 second song last, and kept it. They also had songs like 'Octopuses Garden" and "Mean Mr.Mustard" which were just absurd, and the song "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" sounded like such a happy tune. That was until you realized it was about an axe murderer bashing peoples heads in. And that "Here Comes the Sun" and "Sun King" were very similar with extremely closely related lyrics. I thought that all these things they did were funny, and it adds to the album when there's a sense of humor involved. And on top of that the songs were groovy and awesome like always.

White Album

I thought the White Album was way too long and all over the place. It had some great songs like "Blackbird," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps,""Dear Prudence," but then again all of the Beatles albums have great songs on them. But the experimentation level of this album is off chart, I think maybe as much or more than Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band, which I like. But many of the songs on that album were just not my type, and the album bored me because of its length. If it was shorter than I would like it more.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Led Zepplin

Led Zepplin is totally awesome. Maybe not in songwriting but they're amazing musicians, especially Jimmy Page, who is probably my favorite guitarist. I just never realized how nerdy and stupid the lyrics were. I didn't expect them to be all that great but seriously? Mordor and Gollum? It's really nerdy but I really like it, because I don't put off the appearance of being a nerd either, but I pretty much am. In that way, Led Zepplin connects to me and they're a band that knows how to rock hard. And the thing about the plane was amazing. I'm still wondering how they got a fireplace in their if all of the air recycles itself. But yeah, Led Zepplin is a very talented band, maybe not at songwriting, but their skill makes up for it ten times over