Comments on: “Abbey Road” Tops The Beatles’ Chart

By: wowgoldyzr

wowgoldyzr — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:19:31 +0000

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By: Lesia Iorio

Lesia Iorio — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:14:54 +0000

Give the dog to someone with some common sense and compassion. You evidently have neither.

By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:28:41 +0000

The White Album has too much filler

By: kevinhere

kevinhere — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:46:13 +0000

I can see why Abbey was the best seller, regardless of whether that happened because everybody buying the mono set also had to buy Abbey separately. It was a great album. Although George’s Something was an awesome song, my favorite is still Here Comes The Sun. I would kill to have the Come Together video that they use in the ads for the remasters and the video game. I also thought Revolver was an awesome piece of work. Many think Pepper was their best, and while it is a very creative piece of work, it was the impact that it made at the time that also helps make it the great achievement that it was. They are all great albums, and that music still sounds as great and fresh today as it did all those years ago.

By: CaptainWrong

CaptainWrong — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:33:49 +0000

Whoops. Yeah, forgot that line was in there. *blush*

By: Maura

Maura — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:20:26 +0000

@CaptainWrong: "In the week previous (week ending Sept. 6), the band's collective albums sold just 21,000."

By: CaptainWrong

CaptainWrong — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:16:51 +0000

What do these normally sell in a week? I’m curious as to what the bump provided by the remasters was. Also, I’m kind of surprised that with all the hype and mainstream attention not only that the individual albums only did what they did but that collectively they barely sold more than the #1 album of the week.

By: jonian2008

jonian2008 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:57:26 +0000

I’m one of the very few who say that “Let It Be” is my favorite. Not because I think it’s the best( I think the White Album is their greatest artistic achievement and Abbey is right behind that) but my older brother played it a lot when I was really young and it stuck with me. The singles are definitely overplayed on the radio, but the album cuts are very underrated.

By: LostTurntable

LostTurntable — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:43:12 +0000

I would argue that Harrison’s memorable song is “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” If you subtract the 12,000 people who definitely bought Abbey Road when they bought the mono set, Sgt. Pepper is number 1, which makes more sense to me.

Splitting hairs though, it’s all awesome.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:07:37 +0000

Agreed with all of the above, and also, to simplify: by and large, the albums sold almost exactly as well as they’ve always sold in proportion to each other.

Abbey Road has always (after eliminating the dubious RIAA double-counting of the White Album, cf. http://idolator.com/5051293/toppling-the-wall-the-farce-of-double+counting-in-the-riaas-all+time-platinum-list ) been the Beatles’ top-selling album in the States, dating back to the ’80s. Second is Pepper, third is the White Album, and fourth is sort of a scrum among the mid-period discs plus Let It Be. That’s exactly how they shook out last week.

If there was a shocker last week, it’s Rubber Soul coming within a hair’s breadth of the top three, i.e., the White Album, and selling so far ahead of Revolver, its mid-’60s, pre-Pepper twin. For an album that’s now widely regarded as the best of all time (cf. http://idolator.com/265545/introducing-canon-fodder-idolators-look-at-the-ever+revolving-music+dork-dogmas ), Revolver isn’t whole-heartedly embraced by the general public, which suggests that its post-’90s ascension to the top of the critical heap is largely a music-geek phenomenon, while the general public prefers Pepper.

As for Abbey Road, all I’d add to Dan’s fine assessment is that it sells because it’s the closest thing the Beatles have to a pure “classic rock” album. If you’re a rock-radio-listening, Pink Floyd–loving, Hair Club for Men type of fan, Abbey Road is the closest thing to what you consider “rawk,” for better or worse. The fact that’s it’s actually great is almost beside the point.