Ten Albums "Everybody" Owned -- Including Me: Abbey Road (#9)

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Don't tell anyone, but I'm still not hurting after therapy yesterday. I figure positive changes and "aches," not pain, is enough to get a therapist fired. I'll celebrate by giving you another one of those mega-selling albums that sold so many copies you're sure "everybody" has it. I just finished a countdown of albums that I didn't buy, but this time around, I'm part of the masses. Here's today's album. #9: Abbey Road - Beatles You can add to this pretty much every Beatles album going back to Help! (with the exception of Yellow Submarine), too. With over 31 million copies sold worldwide, I'm not alone in having bought this album. However, I do not consider this "the greatest Beatles album." (I'd go with Revolver, the only Beatles album I still own.) If you go back to 1969, critics weren't all that kind to this album. Of course, it's the Beatles and you can't badmouth them now, but I'll take the chance and do so. Last year I did a list of "songs that make me cringe." One of those songs came from this album: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." Just ick. And "Come Together" might be a good song if they'd thrown in a second chord. On the other hand, this album has some incredible gems as well. Notably, "Something," a song so beautiful that even staunch rock and roll hater Frank Sinatra called it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years." George Harrison's other song on the album, "Here Comes the Sun," is also terrific (and it's probably the first song a lot of people think of when spring rolls around, especially after a "long, cold, lonely winter"). My favorite song from the album is "Golden Slumbers." Not the entire medley, mind you (I find a lot of that medley forgettable), and not even "Carry That Weight" (immediately following it in the medley). Dang, that's a pretty song. But then, I always was a Paul fan when it came to the Beatles. Maybe it's because I bought the album in 1976 instead of when it came out in 1969, or because it's played to death on radio, but I'm by and large not that impressed with this album as a "classic." But Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl. Abbey Road Recorded by the Beatles Produced by George Martin Released in 1969 The simply superb "Something":