Good morning! It's looking like another beauty out there if you ignore literally all context.

Yesterday I began my quest to listen to solely one artist at a time from first album to last. I started on easy mode with The Beatles and made it from Please Please Me to Rubber Soul...

After climbing the clackety-chain part of the rollercoaster, now it's time for the bit with hairpins, switchbacks, loop the loops and the bits that you're pretty certain defy certain laws of physics: Revolver to Let It Be.

Let's go!

Ah...1...2...3...4

Almost no one else, other than Bowie, was able to start a new album not just in a new gear, but with an entirely new type of vehicle.

Bassline as lean and muscular as a super-middleweight champion with impeccable footwork to match, backwards guitar solos+cowbell that's not shit!

So glad I'm doing this first bit on in-ear headphones. Strings on Eleanor Rigby often forgotten about as everyone focuses on the melody, lyrics and Paul's mournful vocals.

The lads weren't just reinventing guitars, they were giving chamber music the runaround.

I was obsessed with I'm Only Sleeping as a teenager. Angelic 50 vocal group harmonies, stoner curtain twitching, lazy 12-string jangle sounding sitar-like and George showing off that his backwards guitar solos from Taxman weren't just him being a one-trick pony.

I'm reminded actually, I don't think the solos on Taxman are backwards. I think, maniac that he was, George played the solos, then had them played backwards AND THEN LEARNED TO PLAY THE GUITAR FORWARDS SO IT SOUNDED BACKWARDS!!!

Obviously naive teenage Ben used Love To You to zone out and roll a spliff until something more accessible popped on. Listening now it's a party banger somewhere in the foothills of the Himalayas.

Also, what is that weird growling engine noise in the background?

Tiny bit of sacrilege: not a massive fan of Here, There and Everywhere. Lyrics are too sickly sweet, George's guitar two-dimensional and the melody a bit too studied.

Obviously it's better than what most bands would spend months slaving over, but first track to sounds its age.