The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) US L.A. Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Mastered At Capitol Mastering By Jay Maynard
Label: Capitol Records / SO-383 | Released: 1969 | This Issue: 1978 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 Come Together 4:16
A2 Something 2:59
A3 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 3:24
A4 Oh! Darling 3:28
A5 Octopus’s Garden 2:49
A6 I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 7:49
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B1 Here Comes The Sun 3:04
B2 Because 2:45
B3 You Never Give Me Your Money 3:57
B4 Sun King 2:31
B5 Mean Mr. Mustard 1:06
B6 Polythene Pam 1:13
B7 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 1:58
B8 Golden Slumbers 1:31
B9 Carry That Weight 1:37
B10 The End 2:04
B11 Her Majesty 0:23
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
Mastered At – Capitol Mastering
Credits
Mastered By Jay Maynard (JAM)
Photography By – Iain Macmillan
Producer – George Martin
Notes
Re-issue with purple capitol label.
“Her Majesty” is listed on the label but not on the back cover. No apple logo.
Capitol Records, Los Angeles, California pressing based on the runout etching (✻).
Cover photograph is cropped so that the manhole cover is not seen at the bottom of the photo, as it is in other pressings of this album.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): SO-1-383-H68 • ML ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): MASTERED BY CAPITOL 3
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched (variant 2)): #64 SO-1-383-H68 • ML ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped (variant 2)): MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): SO-2-383 H-70 JAM ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched (variant 2)): #64 SO-2-383 (2) F-72 MMR ✻ Wally
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): 2 MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped (variant 2)): MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Etched Side A Runout [variant 3]): SO-1-383 G75 11 gene x GOL
Matrix / Runout (Etched Side B Runout [variant 3]): SO-2-383 G77 11 gene x GOL
Rights Society: BMI
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Mastered At Capitol Mastering By Jay Maynard
Label: Capitol Records / SO-383 | Released: 1969 | This Issue: 1978 | Genre: Classic-Rock
A1 Come Together 4:16
A2 Something 2:59
A3 Maxwell’s Silver Hammer 3:24
A4 Oh! Darling 3:28
A5 Octopus’s Garden 2:49
A6 I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 7:49
–
B1 Here Comes The Sun 3:04
B2 Because 2:45
B3 You Never Give Me Your Money 3:57
B4 Sun King 2:31
B5 Mean Mr. Mustard 1:06
B6 Polythene Pam 1:13
B7 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 1:58
B8 Golden Slumbers 1:31
B9 Carry That Weight 1:37
B10 The End 2:04
B11 Her Majesty 0:23
Companies, etc.
Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
Mastered At – Capitol Mastering
Credits
Mastered By Jay Maynard (JAM)
Photography By – Iain Macmillan
Producer – George Martin
Notes
Re-issue with purple capitol label.
“Her Majesty” is listed on the label but not on the back cover. No apple logo.
Capitol Records, Los Angeles, California pressing based on the runout etching (✻).
Cover photograph is cropped so that the manhole cover is not seen at the bottom of the photo, as it is in other pressings of this album.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): SO-1-383-H68 • ML ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): MASTERED BY CAPITOL 3
Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched (variant 2)): #64 SO-1-383-H68 • ML ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped (variant 2)): MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): SO-2-383 H-70 JAM ✻
Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched (variant 2)): #64 SO-2-383 (2) F-72 MMR ✻ Wally
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): 2 MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped (variant 2)): MASTERED BY CAPITOL
Matrix / Runout (Etched Side A Runout [variant 3]): SO-1-383 G75 11 gene x GOL
Matrix / Runout (Etched Side B Runout [variant 3]): SO-2-383 G77 11 gene x GOL
Rights Society: BMI
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) US L.A. Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) US L.A. Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
The Beatles - Abbey Road (1969) US L.A. Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2019
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
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Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
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This LP: NM-/ From my personal collection
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Conventional wisdom holds that the Beatles intended Abbey Road as a grand farewell, a suspicion seemingly confirmed by the elegiac note Paul McCartney strikes at the conclusion of its closing suite. It's hard not to interpret "And in the end/the love you take/is equal to the love you make" as a summation not only of Abbey Road but perhaps of the group's entire career, a lovely final sentiment. The truth is perhaps a bit messier than this. The Beatles had tentative plans to move forward after the September 1969 release of Abbey Road, plans that quickly fell apart at the dawn of the new decade, and while the existence of that goal calls into question the intentionality of the album as a finale, it changes not a thing about what a remarkable goodbye the record is. In many ways, Abbey Road stands apart from the rest of the Beatles' catalog, an album that gains considerable strength from its lush, enveloping production – a recording so luxuriant, it glosses over aesthetic differences between the group's main three songwriters and ties together a series of disconnected unfinished songs into a complete suite. Where Sgt. Pepper pioneered such mind-bending aural techniques, Abbey Road truly seized the possibilities of the studio and, in doing so, pointed the way forward to the album rock era of the 1970s. Many of the studio tricks arrive during that brilliant suite of songs, a sequence that lasts nearly a full side of an album. Here, McCartney's playful eccentricity juts against John Lennon's curdled cynicism, while the band thrills in sudden changes of mood and plays plenty of guitar, culminating in McCartney, Lennon, and George Harrison trading solos on "The End." The depth of sonic detail within "You Never Give Me Your Money" and "She Came in Through the Window" provided ideas for entire subgenres of pop in the '70s, but Abbey Road also contains a handful of the most enduring Beatles songs, each adding a new emotional maturity to their catalog. The subdued boogie of Lennon's "Come Together" contains a sensuality previously unheard in the Beatles – it's matched by "Because," which may be the best showcase for the group's harmonies – Harrison's "Something" is a love ballad of unusual sensitivity, and his "Here Comes the Sun" is incandescent, perhaps his purest expression of joy. As good as these individual moments are, what makes Abbey Road transcendent is how the album is so much greater than the sum of its parts. While a single song or segment can be dazzling, having a succession of marvelous, occasionally intertwined moments is not only a marvel but indeed a summation of everything that made the Beatles great.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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