Short Reviews Of The Beatles Final Five Albums
The Beatles Remastered Box Set
The Beatles last five albums were 1967’s Magical Mystery Tour, 1968’s The White Album, 1969’s Yellow Submarine and Abbey Road, and 1970’s Let It Be. Below you can read short reviews of each of them.
All five of these albums are contained in the Remastered Beatles Stereo Box Set but just Magical Mystery Tour and The White Album are included in the Remastered Beatles in Mono CD Box Set.
Magical Mystery Tour (1967) – Possibly their most underrated album and that’s probably because it is not really an album from a purist’s POV so some people have a difficult time giving it real respect for the excellent songs it contains. It’s The Beatles at their most purposefully psychedelic before they started to pull it back a little bit and as a huge fan of trippy music, that makes it right up my alley.
The White Album (1968) – My all time favorite album by anyone. No, it doesn’t flow as well as Abbey Road or Sgt. Pepper and you could make an argument that it’s not as consistently great as Rubber Soul or Revolver but I enjoy listening to it repeatedly for the fantastic variety of styles that it brings to my ears. This 30 song album is a real sprawling masterpiece.
Yellow Submarine (1969) – This “album” isn’t really much of a Beatles album as it contains only four new songss that weren’t previously released on other albums. Yet “Hey Bulldog” and “It’s All Too Much” alone make it worth buying.
Abbey Road (1969) – This 17 track album is the favorite of lots of Beatles fans and for many very good reasons. The most clear is the wonderful “suite” of side two put together by Paul McCartney and George Martin. And of course there is the classic Stand alone tracks like “Something,” “Come Together,” and “Oh! Darling.” This album is also the “smoothest” and most “modern” sounding production of their career.
Let It Be (1970) – The last LP released but Abbey Road was, in fact, the last album that was recorded. It is a tad uneven by Fab Four standard but it does still contains some classic tracks like “Let It Be” and “The Long and Winding Road.”