Tracks:
1. Back in the USSR: 8/10 a very fun if lyrically confused bit of musical satire.
2. Dear Prudence: 9/10 a reliably artistic, melancholy, moving and musically brilliant song from John Lennon.
3. Glass Onion: 8/10 a nonsensical song, but that was the point. It's filled with fun references to previous songs and shows John Lennon being as delightfully cryptic as ever.
4. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da: 5/10 this much maligned Beatles song is surprisingly catchy. Don't get me wrong though: it is pretty terrible.
5. Wild Honey Pie: 5/10 a pointless jam that's not as irritating as some seem to think.
6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill: 8/10 another fun, charming nonsense song in the vein of Yellow Submarine.
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps: 10/10 a Beatles masterpiece by the ever-underrated George Harrison.
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun: 9/10 a confusing but catchy and delightfully ambitious rock song.
9. Martha My Dear: 8/10 a very pleasant tribute to Paul McCartney's dog.
10. I'm So Tired: 6/10 a fairly dreary if harmless bit of a filler.
11. Blackbird: 9/10 an utterly delightful and wonderful acoustic song which spreads so many good emotions and so much hope through its understated acoustic chords.
12. Piggies: 6/10 a perfectly fun song but Pink Floyd did a far better capitalist pigs song.
13. Rocky Raccoon: 5/10 a catchy song which has interesting moments that don't go anywhere. Still, at least it's better than Lonesome Cowboy Bill.
14. Don't Pass Me By: 7/10 a surprisingly decent song from Ringo Starr which is definitely filler, but catchy filler nonetheless.
15. Why Don't We Do it in the Road?: 3/10 is this some sort of joke? Well, if it is, it really, really isn't at all funny.
16. I Will; 8/10 a nice and gently touching, if undemanding, love song.
17. Julia: 8/10 with poetic lyrics and a truly touching vibe this is a definite standout.
18. Birthday: 7/10 an expendable but fun and pleasingly heavy beginning to the second disc.
19. Yer Blues: 8/10 a fun blues song although it feels too sorry for itself.
20. Mother Nature's Son: 8/10 a delightful acoustic song by McCartney where the lyrical sparseness works this time.
21. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey: 8/10 the title is dynamic and hilarious and the song mostly follows suite, even if it is just a bit of silly fun.
22. Sexy Sadie: 8/10 it's already a pretty good song, but if you know the backstory it becomes very interesting indeed.
23. Helter Skelter: 9/10 a brilliantly fun and heavy rock song which goes far away from McCartney's normal ballads.
24. Long, Long, Long: 9/10 a wonderful, heartfelt song that proves once again there's more to the band than just Lennon and McCartney.
25. Revolution 1: 7/10 it works well as a bluesy rock song; it doesn't work as well as a piece of political commentary.
26. Honey Pie: 5/10 a harmless and mildly catchy song, but it is pretty tedious.
27. Savoy Truffle: 7/10 even if the lyrics are meaningless nonsense it's still fun.
28. Cry Baby Cry: 8/10 another strong track where it's great fun to try and work out what it means.
29. Revolution 9: 3/10 I respect that Lennon was trying to be artistic and experimental. That's never a bad thing. That doesn't make this song any less arrogant, indulgent and soul-crushingly boring though.
30. Good Night: 8/10 a mesmerizing orchestral finale that'll give you goosebumps.
Best song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Worst song: Revolution 9
Summary: This is a deeply flawed masterpiece. It's an uneven, preposterous and frequently silly and confused journey through many different songs, genres, vibes, moods and melodies that hits brilliant peaks and terrible lows alike. Mostly, however, this is a thrilling showcase of an amazing band pushing all the boundaries and really showing what music can actually do. Most of the songs on here are good and ironically the bad songs only make this an even more interesting record. On the whole, a very fine work with some of the best Beatles songs of all time on it.
Final rating: 8/10
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