Abbey Road

The Beatles began their legendary take over of popular music with their first album, Please Please Me. They ended it with Let It Be. In between were some of pop rocks most notable albums. One of these masterpieces was Abbey Road.
Abbey Road was the 11th studio album released by the quartet. Its recording was one of the last times all four Beatles were in a studio together.
Over three quarters of an hours worth of music fills this album. Some songs are well known and rightly so, some missed out on the spotlight when they deserve it, and one song was written by Ringo and that’s all there is to it.
It’s hard to make generalizations about Beatles albums as there is usually a large amount of diversity present among the songs. But if songs could be associated not my musical similarity but by popularity, you could say that Come Together, Something, Oh! Darling, and Here Comes the Sun are the most similar songs on the album. They were all immediately picked up by audiences around the world and these songs are perhaps most closely associated with the album.
However, there are still a great number of songs on the album that should be counted among the best in terms of musicality.
One style that I like to see in albums is the blending together of two tracks. What I mean is where one song ends and it leads into the next it creates a sense of unity throughout that part of the album. Abbey Road includes many of these song blends; in fact, the majority of the second side (of the vinyl) is blended together in this way.
Many of my favorite songs are in this song flow including She Came In Through the Bathroom Window and The End.
Among the many strong songs of this album, however, there are, in my opinion, some weaker ones. Certainly the worst of these is Ringo Star’s Octopus’s Garden. Not much can be said about this odd number other than its short and early in the album so as not to ruin the later portions.
Abbey Road is one of my favorite Beatles albums; I grew up with long car rides full of nothing but the melodies and harmonies of four of the most talented musicians ever. Let It Be was a sad end to the career of these artists, but their legacy is an incredible one, and Abbey Road is part of that. We should just be glad that they came here at all.