The Beatles Bible - Topic: Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

DragoNevermore on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:45:07 +0000

I consider Abbey Road to be the last album because the band agreed to put aside their differences for the while they were recording it, and for the fact that it has a song called "The End" on it.

Let It Be just seems like a bridge between The White Album and Abbey Road to me. They were dissolving the group slowly (White Album)but came back for a while (Abbey Road) with Let It Be in the middle.

mr. Sun king coming together on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:44:47 +0000

c64wood said:

Joe said:

OK, so what's the difference there? It was recorded before the White Album, just as most of LIB was recorded before Abbey Road.

I actually put it before White because the 4 new songs are left-overs from the Pepper/MMT era before the trip to India.

On a side note, it's funny how the soundtrack was released 6 months after the film was released. I guess that leads me to a question/observation... It is a possibility that since the band was taking so long in the recording studio, Yellow Submarine was only released because of contractual obligations to ...

mr. Sun king coming together on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:35:56 +0000

Nicholaevna Romanov said:

I don't understand the debate. Isn't an artists last album considered the last one they released, not necessarily the last one that was recorded. Isn't John's last album considered Double Fantasy, not the one's that contain songs recorded before which were put on a disk and released after his death?

If one of the cds was released in 69 and another in 70, doesnt that mean that the one released in 70 is the last despite when it was recorded?

I am not trying to be argumentative, I am just asking an honest question.

To me, Let it ...

Getting Better on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:35:45 +0000

I have always thought as Abbey Road as their last album and that was the way i used to have the order with the albums.

But it really is just a matter of technicality if you want the last album released or the last album recorded

Nicholaevna Romanov on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:32:14 +0000

I don't understand the debate. Isn't an artists last album considered the last one they released, not necessarily the last one that was recorded. Isn't John's last album considered Double Fantasy, not the one's that contain songs recorded before which were put on a disk and released after his death?

If one of the cds was released in 69 and another in 70, doesnt that mean that the one released in 70 is the last despite when it was recorded?

I am not trying to be argumentative, I am just asking an honest question.

vonbontee on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:44:54 +0000

See, again, the majority of the recording was done in '69, and I like to pretend that some of Spector's production decisions were reversed! But, whatever. There's no denying that Let It Be hit the stores in 1970, a year after Abbey Road, so that should be reason enough to consider LIB their finale, if you wish.

mr. Sun king coming together on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:24:18 +0000

vonbontee said:

Yeah, that was a kind of extreme example I gave, wasn't it! Also, it was dependent on whether or not LIB's release came before or after the "official" breakup - whatever that means. (I'm still not sure exactly which came first. The two events are very close in time, aren't they?) I've softened my opinion somewhat to say that it's all a matter of semantics. Whether you understand "Last Beatles Album" to mean the last one crafted (AR) or the last one released (LIB) is the ultimate factor in the decision.

Last Let It Be sessions were done early 1970, I ...

vonbontee on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:44:20 +0000

Yeah, that was a kind of extreme example I gave, wasn't it! Also, it was dependent on whether or not LIB's release came before or after the "official" breakup - whatever that means. (I'm still not sure exactly which came first. The two events are very close in time, aren't they?) I've softened my opinion somewhat to say that it's all a matter of semantics. Whether you understand "Last Beatles Album" to mean the last one crafted (AR) or the last one released (LIB) is the ultimate factor in the decision.

Last Let It Be sessions were done early 1970, I can't arrange ...

mr. Sun king coming together on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:26:19 +0000

Von Bontee said:

I consider Abbey Road to be the last, definitely. It just strikes me as the most logical choice, being the last one recorded. Choosing "Let It Be" as the last just because it was released afterwards makes no more sense than considering "Live At the Hollywood Bowl" or one of the Anthologies to be the last, their being released even later.

But Von, There is a difference of 25 years between Let It Be and Anthologies 1,2 and 3, and I think most of us can see the difference between an album released during the Beatles Career ...

GiantSeaPanda on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:55:31 +0100

Last Let It Be sessions were done early 1970, I can't arrange this as a 1969 album.

MeanMrsMustard on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:41:07 +0100

Zig said:

When I bought the remastered box set, I was curious to see how they would be in order. When I saw Let it Be as the last, I said, "not in my house".

Ha, that's our family all the way! (Except, of course, for Polythene Dan(not his real name). He says whatever is the opposite of what the rest of the family says. The most notable example being the end of "Norwegian Wood(This Bird Has Flown)." I'll have to start another thread for that….)

We didn't get the boxed sets, we got the albums individually. Of course we put Abbey Road last! ...

Monkberry on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:32:30 +0100

Why argue this one?
Abbey Road was the last album conceived and was meant to be their final artistic statement. I think every member of the band agrees with that.
Let It Be was the last one released. They had to GO BACK and revisit the recordings to complete the album meaning that it was never meant to be considered their "Swan song". They had it reproduced like a hundred times before they shelved it to focus on Abbey Road which was their final fully realized piece of work.
Let It Be was just Allen Klein convicing the boys to ...

skye on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:36:11 +0100

I can understand that, but it is a good song. A reunion is out of the question, so there's nothing really to hold out for. But hey, you'll be ready in your own time.
"Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."

A Fiendish Thingy on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:46:20 +0100

just "get back"... when i was 8, my dad told me that "let it be" was their last album ever, and i listened to "two of us" through "for you blue" with him. when "get back" came on, he told me that that was the last song on the album; i cried, plugged my ears, and ran away.

i still do it now, without the crying, of course. i've become so familiar with the first three seconds now, it's not even funny.

skye on Last Album: Let It Be or Abbey Road?

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:27:44 +0100

Just Get Back, or the whole Let It Be album? How have you avoided radio or televison this long?