Word: musically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue is unfortunately incomprehensible in some parts when it competes with the unduly loud musical background. On the other hand, much of the music is well chosen and often, as with one piece by Thelonius Monk, coordinates perfectly with the mood evolved in the film...
...contrast, the music that is coming out of the Beatles these days has none of these explicit qualities: their latest songs are casually, almost sloppily, put together, composed of elements that are determinedly unadventurous and unpretentious to the point of seeming derivative. So why do we nevertheless like the Beatles so extravagantly? It is worth, I think, the effort to try and understand the abstract roots of the Beatles' superiority, a superiority that is evident from beginning to end of Abbey Road...
...quote (from Peter Townshend of the Who): "Unchanneled or misdirected energy is incredibly wasteful in pop music. Like the Beatles know how to channel their energy. I'm convinced that there's not a lot actually coming out, it's just that we get all of it." That's the first thing. The Beatles not only generate enormous energy, but they direct it in a carefully chosen and strictly limited manner so that nothing is wasted. They never overreach and whatever they choose to give us comes out intensely focused, as penetrating and overwhelming as a laser beam...
...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 it does anyone trying to put the album down for that reason...
...Music to Generals' Ears ATHENS, Greece-The composer of the music for the motion picture "Zorba the Greek" has been imprisoned, according to reports in Athens. Miki Theodorakis, a leftist opposed to the Greek generals, was taken from the mountain village where he had been living in exile with his family, the reports said...