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GREATEST HITS ALBUM REVIEW
THE BEATLES
1967 - 1970
Released - 1973, on Apple Records. Produced by George Martin, except tracks 27 & 28, produced by Phil Spector
John Lennon
- Lead & Backing Vocals, Rhythm, Lead, Slide Guitars, Bass on track 15, Percussion, Harp, Keyboards| SONG | YEAR RELEASED |
RATING |
| Strawberry Fields Forever | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Penny Lane | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 1967 | 10.0 |
| With a Little Help from My Friends | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds | 1967 | 10.0 |
| A Day in the Life | 1967 | 10.0 |
| All You Need Is Love | 1967 | 10.0 |
| I Am the Walrus | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Hello Goodbye | 1967 | 10.0 |
| The Fool on the Hill | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Magical Mystery Tour | 1967 | 10.0 |
| Lady Madonna | 1968 | 10.0 |
| Hey Jude | 1968 | 10.0 |
| Revolution | 1968 | 10.0 |
| Back in the U.S.S.R. | 1968 | 10.0 |
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | 1968 | 10.0 |
| Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | 1968 | 10.0 |
| Get Back | 1969 | 10.0 |
| Don't Let Me Down | 1969 | 9.6 |
| The Ballad of John and Yoko | 1969 | 10.0 |
| Old Brown Shoe | 1969 | 6.0 |
| Here Comes the Sun | 1969 | 10.0 |
| Come Together | 1969 | 10.0 |
| Something | 1969 | 10.0 |
| Octopus's Garden | 1969 | 8.4 |
| Let It Be | 1970 | 10.0 |
| Across the Universe | 1970 | 9.0 |
| The Long and Winding Road | 1970 | 10.0 |
| Ave. | 9.75 |
Review
This is the companion greatest hits double album to 1962 - 1966. You sure can see how much not only The Beatles appearance changed in just a few short years (just check out the two LPs covers, with photos taken at the same location of the Fabs just 6 years apart), but boy did their music change too!
No longer a pop group, they were now a pure rock band with songs that said a lot more than just I love you and I wanna hold your hand! Thanks to John Lennon, some of the most far-out lyrics written by anybody were now showing up on their records, and it seemed to rub off on Paul McCartney in some of his songs, too.
The best overall song on here was written by Paul for John's young son, Julian, "Hey Jude". It was at the time of its release the longest time running single ever released and was a smash hit, and most people were fooled into thinking the lyrics were about heroin addiction. The best written song in this greatest hits package has to be John's "I Am the Walrus", with "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" (another Lennon penned gem) a close second. One more song to make the "best" list would be "Revolution" with one of the first and best acid lead guitar parts ever played, courtesy of John.
The three greatest songs ever written by George Harrison show up on here, too, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Here Comes The Sun" and "Something". But what in the world is his "Old Brown Shoe" doing on here? This one is a weak song, if not for the slide guitar and neat bass it would not even be an average song, but for sure it was not a Beatles greatest hit, nor a song that most Beatles fans cared for. Almost any other song from '67 -'70 would have fitted in better than this dull one!
I guess I could close out this review in the same matter that I closed out my review for 1962 - 1966, nothing more needs to be written about this album, yes, it too speaks for itself! Damn, the Beatles were one GREAT group!
- Keno 2005
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1967-1970 or to
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