Today, I needed a change of pace, though I have not forgotten what is happening in the world.
When I looked at my Spotify account this morning, FINALLY!!! The 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Abbey Road was released! (I am listening to it as I write… and as you read?) This isn’t a review, but I sure can tell you that even with my shitty computer headphones, the sound quality is sharp, and the instruments have been separated on their own tracks, giving a fuller sound that avoids becoming artificial, and too “studio.” I have always liked the fact that the Abbey Road studio was an instrument in The Beatles’ recordings. They used the space to capture echoes, and live mixed in the studio as they recorded, like a band would do “live.”
Either way, this album was what I needed today. I have written about The Beatles, and all their albums often, and I have read books, and dissected all their songs.
But Abbey Road… man, it is still an album that’s exciting, and fun to listen too, but more importantly, just makes me feel better if I’m having a shitty day. And I have been listening to this album since I was 16. Logically, I know that this album has nothing to do with me, recorded before I was born, but it is completely personal. Such a part of my life.
Here comes the sun, everyone!
