The one hundred fourty-fourth album: #144 The Beatles - Abbey Road
I've reached the final Beatles album on the list, which feels like a monumental moment - as seen in the songs list, the band towers over popular music in the sixties and there are a bunch of big shifts in music that'll happen now they are out of the picture.They sound good - just at the start, Something is beautiful and is an amazing song, while Maxwell's Silver Song harkens back to the early days, but has dark lyrics that go in the different direction - not a complex song, but impressive from a songwriting perspective.
I don't feel Abbey Road quite has the innovation I associate with the Beatles - it feels like it's going back to basics, sounding good and containing good songs, but nothing that pushes the envelope quite as much. It's a satisfying whole, a good way to end things (especially with the supposed ending song, named "The End", setting up for it) and while it might not have been intended, it works as a good round up of the Beatles' work