Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical form that fits this attitude of elegant super-confidence and it took the Beatles several distinct steps to do it. After the creaky harmonies and raw enthusiasm of their early career, which reached its peak with A Hard Day's Night, came the monumental Rubber Soul, an album on which they conquered the rhythm and blues structure and set themselves forever free. Their first reaction to this freedom was to push it to its furthest limits which they did in continuous experiment from "Strawberry Fields" to "I Am the Walrus." What we have been seeing ever since has been...
...something the Byrds might have been able to do-till you get to the part where an instrumental interlude breaks in to invert all the melody lines and the whole thing still makes beautiful sense. Or how else to explain the presence of "Oh Darling" on the album, a song which would have been no more than a flat 1950's period piece if not for the breathtaking ripples of drums and piano that accent it? All the music on Abbey Road is vaguely familiar in broad outline but it might as well have not been for all the good...
Side two of Abbey Road is a long poem by, I'm sure, John Lennon, and performed under his guidance. (In fact, this whole album is very much John's trip, just as the last double-album was Paul's and George's.) This whole song-poem is done in the style of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" with short sections of lyrics and themes disappearing and re-appearing to build to the definite expression of a particular message and its corresponding mood...
...Glass Onion," on The Beatles album, is the line, "Well, here's another clue for you all : the walrus was Paul." And "Revolution Number Nine," on the same album, includes a backwards tape which repeats the words "Turn me on, dead...
Finally, on the cover of Abbey Road, the Beatles' most recent album, all four members of the group are walking away from what may be a cemetery, with only a barefoot McCartney out of step...