I was reading some reviews on this one on Amazon and found that this album was either loved or hated. Probably the least accessable Pink Floyd album, it’s difficult to say whether it’s any good or not, so it comes down to whether or not you like the noises on it. This is the first [...]

Another bloody review for an OLD album! Did you catch the recent Marvin Marks review for The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn? I think it’s a pretty solid fact that Pink Floyd were at their most adventurous and experimental, on record, between 1967 – 1970. There are also some awesome recordings of Pink Floyd [...]

Because it’s such a fun bouncy sing-along type tune people don’t often notice that “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” by The Beatles is about a serial killer. This cartoon (embedded below) brings the lyrics (written by Paul McCartney) to “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” to life. I’ve always thought this song gets a bad rap (including from Paul’s fellow [...]

A new Jimi Hendrix album including previously unreleased recordings made from February to May 1969 is due out on March 9, 2010: Valleys Of Neptune. The 12 song track listing includes some songs that just about every Hendrix fan will already be familiar with (including “Stone Free,” “Fire,” & “Red House”) but it also includes [...]

On the final Billboard 200 album chart prior to Christmas a total of eight Beatles releases made the top 200 sellers of the week: #082 Abbey Road (1969) #085 The White Album (1970) #099 The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (2009) #126 1 (2000) #130 Sgt. Pepper’s… (1967) #163 Rubber Soul (1965) #170 Revolver (1966) [...]

Continuing with my series on who is the “Most Valuable Beatle” (which basically turns into a John Vs. Paul battle) for each Beatles album, I’ve made my way to Abbey Road today (I’m going by release date, not recording date as Let It Be was the last album released, but Abbey Road was the last [...]

Continuing with my series on who is the “MVB” (Most Valuable Beatle) for each their albums, I have arrived at 1969′s Yellow Submarine which is a pretty unusual album in The Beatles career as it contains only four new Beatles songs because two had already been released on previous albums (“Yellow Submarine” on Revolver & [...]

Picking up where I left off in this series (I’ve already done Let It Be & Abbey Road) I’m at 1969′s Yellow Submarine which I really don’t consider a true Beatles album, but here it is anyway. Yellow Submarine only included four new Beatles songs. “Yellow Submarine” had already been included on 1966′s Revolver, and [...]

The next in my “The Beatles In Their Own Words” series which I started yesterday with 1970′s Let It Be. I’m working my way backwards based on the release date of their albums so this post is on 1969′s Abbey Road. I’m going album by album and song by song (skipping songs that I can’t [...]

40 years ago (on August 20, 1969) was the last time all four Beatles were together in Abbey Road Studios. On September 20th John Lennon left the band for good. And the next year (on April 10, 1970) Paul McCartney officially quit the band (just prior to releasing his debut solo album, McCartney.) On August [...]