“Abbey Road” by The Beatles (No. 2)
Abbey Road is more or less The Beatles‘ final album1, and it contains some of the group’s strongest work – especially George Harrison, who finally gets his day in the sun. I’m not sure when I got my first copy of Abbey Road. Might have been high school, or...
“Help!” by The Beatles (No. 3)
Here’s where it all began, my lifelong obsession with music. Technically, it was the movie Help! that helped turn me into a music junkie, but we’ll go with the album here. Here’s how it all started. When I was seven, I came home from Sunday school (yes, really) and...
“Rubber Soul” by The Beatles (No. 8)
Famed Rock critic Robert Christgau called Rubber Soul “when The Beatles began to go arty.” Reductive, perhaps, but also true. Rubber Soul is not as adventurous as Sgt. Pepper or The Beatles, but it brings in elements that the band couldn’t reproduce on stage. And it also deals with...
“Cloud Nine” by George Harrison (No. 34)
Cloud Nine may not be the strongest George Harrison work outside of The Beatles, but for many reasons it’s my favorite Harrison solo album. My reasons for loving this album? Let me tell you them… At 17, when Cloud Nine was released, I was still strongly convinced that no...