5. The BeatlesAbbey Road
It was one of my cassettes but I think that this is my favourite Beatles record. When I was really young my older brother were really into them. There was a very small selection of records in the house so we just listened to those records over and over again. Two of them were The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon, one of my brothers was big Pink Floyd fan. Another was Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms, and Don McLean’s American Pie, and the White Album, which led me to other Beatles stuff. But I love Abbey Road because it’s so clearly an album, in that there’s clearly a first song and a last song and all the songs in the middle are in an order. You couldn’t listen to Abbey Road on shuffle and I like that. I think we’ve lost a lot of that these days. Things end up just being these singles and no one really buys albums anymore. Albums just aren’t constructed that way as much anymore; the whole, the complete package, a narrative, an arc.
The first copy I got had somehow been fucked up in the manufacturing process or something because side B was on side A. I remember the first time I listened to it I was listening to it out of order and it sounded weird to me, it felt weird. Then when I realised that it was backwards I listened to it again in the correct order and I was like, "oh, I get it".
I also feel like the songs on that record, save for ‘Octopus’s Garden’, also have some darkness about them, which I really like.
