Does anyone know of the Beatles track "I Want You (She's so Heavy)"? It's got to be one of the best and most mesmorizing one I've heard from them. It was on Abbey Road, and one of the last things they ever finished recording altogether. It was their second longest song ever, at 7:47 long (besides Revolution 9, which was 8:13 long), and it has a really great heavy rock/bluesy beat which showed that they were borrowing a bit from other heavy rock bands from the age. It also showcases one of the first uses of the moog synthesizer, used to make many of the effects in the later part of the song. The song itself is very strange: just the guitar riffs themselves are mesmorizing, the song only has 14 different words, and the last part of the song is a almost hypnotic 3 minute repeated guitar riff with a white sound that gradually fills the whole scene of sound. This could literally go on forever if not abruptly cut off in a completely unsuspecting manner. I know I might take a beating from this, but this has to be perhaps my favorite track on Abbey Road. I've just never heard anything else quite like it.
For more info, you can look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_You_%28She%27s_So_Heavy%29
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