7. Come Together

 The bassline and drums hit you first.  It's a really simple bass line but boy is it effective.  John of course has an awesome sound on his vocal.  The echo makes the song different.  We've never heard the echo like this before.  There's no low end on the vocal and it works great.  I don't know if I can recite the words to this song....it's probably the only Beatles song that I might not know all the words.  That by itself is different.  In fact I think one of the things that made the Beatles so popular is that ALL of their words are clearly understood and articulated.

So my feeling is that Paul decided to rally the troops to make Abbey Road and John thought he'd like to write about it.  The Come Together chorus is just that...a rally to get everyone to....well, come together....over John, not Paul.  I think the song is autobiographical.  John is describing himself in many of the lines.  That's a theme that John visited often...."I'm a Loser", "I'm So Tired", "Nowhere Man", "Help";  most of his best were about himself and I think Come Together is largely about himself.  I love the understated and distorted guitar sound.  It's not very loud or prominent but so perfect.  The breaths on the bridge remind me of what he did on "Girl".  John used his voice as an instrument often.  The lead must have been John's although I don't know that for a fact.  I can't see or hear George on this track at all.  Ringo's drums sound much better on this track.  He must have gotten rid of the towels.