Posted on February 28, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
I’ve gone a week without posting because this is going to be a huge one, and I wanted to make a big post my 400th one, rather than some tossed-off linkblog or something. The White Album is a tremendously difficult record to write about, far more so than any other Beatles album. This is not [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Well, that was unexpected… I never realised Norfolk Blogger was such a popular blog, but thanks almost exclusively to his link to my iPad post I got a thousand more visitors than usual on Thursday… I’ll be doing one of the book club posts later tonight, and another tomorrow, (and replacing the comics post I [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
So we’re getting near the end of these reviews now – after this there’s only the White Album in the mono box set. Do people want to hear my thoughts on the Abbey Road/Let It Be reissues or is it more the mono mix differences you’re interested in? Magical Mystery Tour gets surprisingly little respect [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2010 by Andrew Hickey
Sgt Pepper was always going to be a difficult one for me to review. Quite simply, I don’t think it’s a very good album. Oh, it’s far from a bad album – I’d go so far as to say it was ‘quite good’ – but it’s infinitely inferior to the albums on either side of [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
One… two… three… four… ONE TWO THREE FOUR! The Beatles’ seventh album – and their last as a touring band – starts with a count-in, in a deliberate echo of the start of their first album, Please Please Me, recorded a whole three years and two months earlier. While nowadays people tend to think of [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
Rubber Soul, the Beatles’ second album of 1965, is generally considered the first album of their middle, most creative period. Only the second album they made to consist entirely of originals, it saw the band’s influences opening up – to include Stax, Indian music and the Byrds – and saw the band’s lyrical style change [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
I’ve never been able to understand why Help! is critically regarded as one of the Beatles’ weaker efforts. Yes, it’s a slightly hazy album, due to it being the first since the Beatles discovered marijuana, and it accompanies a film that’s usually regarded as not very good (though I think it’s far better than people [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
After that temporary hiatus, caused by my stereo breaking, and the CD drive in my computer breaking, and my external CD drive breaking, and my replacement stereo and replacement external CD drive breaking, which lesser men would have taken as a sign not to bother continuing with my inexplicably-mildly-popular series of reviews, I’m continuing with [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
Sorry for my absence from the online world for the last few days. I have been extremely ill, and physically exhausted. However, I’ve got a couple of days off, so tomorrow you can expect my next Beatles review and also a post about Jack Kirby’s original Darkseid (it’s taking me a lot of time to [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2009 by Andrew Hickey
With The Beatles, the band’s second album, is a triumph of style over substance. Significantly inferior to the albums immediately preceding and following it, it has managed to remain the most highly-rated of the band’s pre-Rubber Soul albums, despite being one of their worst. That it has had that success is almost certainly down to [...]
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