The Beatles – The Beatles Collection
The intensity of my love for The Beatles, starting in that magical fall of 1978, continued for quite a few years. Of course The Beatles weren’t all my roommate and I listened to, but...
Author: cjvinyl
The Beatles – Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
So way back when I wrote a prelude to the Beatles section of this vanity project, I explained that after discovering the Red album and the Blue album in the autumn of our freshman...
The Beatles – Let It Be
So here it is — the last Beatles album, except that it wasn’t. I mean, this feels like their last album. This feels like a band coming apart. If you get to see any...
The Beatles – Hey Jude
Oh, did I think we were going to roll from “Abbey Road” right into “Let It Be”? No. In a strict chronology, the album that was released after “Abbey Road” was this compilation, titled...
The Beatles – Abbey Road
The order of “Abbey Road” confuses everyone, because it doesn’t seem to fit with the narrative of the time. What seems to make sense is that The Beatles released “Abbey Road,” an absolute masterpiece,...
The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album)
First, we had albums from a band so famous that it didn’t need to put its name on the album covers. Now, we have an album where the only thing on the cover is...
The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
Here’s another example of knowing The Beatles before I really knew The Beatles. Although I was pretty insulated from radio and music generally until I was about 12, I spent my teen years as...
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Seriously? We go right from Revolver to Sgt. Pepper’s? Well, not exactly. I mean, chronologically, yes. “Revolver,” dark and magical, was released at the beginning of August in 1966. “Sgt. Pepper’s” didn’t come out...
The Beatles – Revolver
“Revolver” was actually the first Beatles album I ever listened to, and it blew my mind, but I’m not sure I was ready for it at the time, and my mind recovered . ....
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