― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daddyismus (Dada), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, come on Rockers! Open your minds!
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 15 October 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Uncle Charlie (vassifer), Friday, 15 October 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Because2. Tomorrow Never Knows3. Strawberry Fields Forever4. It's Only A Northern Song5. Penny Lane6. She's Leaving Home7. What's The New Mary Jane8. Revolution (single version)9. Wah Wah10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun12. Flying13. Hey Jude14. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)15. I Am The Walrus16. Carnival Of Light17. Long Long Long18. The Inner Light19. Revolution 920. Good Night21. My Mummy's Dead
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 October 2004 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 October 2004 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 15 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I agree, but I do like that final "AYE-OHH!" from Lennon that segues right into the piano intro of "WHile My Guitar Gently Weeps".
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 15 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), October 15th, 2004.
so true.
― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Friday, 15 October 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Friday, 15 October 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Not sure I understand the appeal of "Sexy Sadie".
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 15 October 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
It lasts for, what, a minute or something, doesn't it? As such, I don't think it fills a lot of space, so it cannot be considered "filler"
However, repeating "Number 9" a zillion times on top of various strange noises for 9 minutes is definitely filler...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 15 October 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a great goddamn track -- I always thought it sounded like a runaway fire engine -- all those ringing, siren like guitars. Like so much of this album, it retains a slightly off riff too....hinting indescribably at someting sinister.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 16 October 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 16 October 2004 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
hey, the fourth side of this record kind of sucks, don't it?
― amateurist, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
savoy truffle, revolution 9 & cry baby cry are all pretty good iirc.
― ian, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
also, i once knew a guy whose fave song on the white album was "wild honey pie"!!!! wtf??
― ian, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Will" is a great song!
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
No one would ever talk about this album if it wasn't wildly uneven.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"i will" is on side two!
― amateurist, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of wish they would've just released a three-sided record, with some picture etched into side four.
― amateurist, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
picky picky picky.
― ian, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Revolution 1 is good
― billstevejim, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
je suis pas d'accord
― amateurist, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Still align myself with Ian MacDonald w.r.t "Revolution 9."
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this record so much. It has to be the weirdest number one album ever.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 13 September 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Too great. I remember once thinking that Album 1 (sides 1 & 2) was boffo and Album 2 had all the filler (I'd just swap "Savoy Truffle" in for "Rocky Raccoon" and be happy) but I put it on the other day in consolation for not being able to source a mono box locally and ... wow! There's hardly a song I'd skip. I must have been going through an extreme popist phase or something.
I agree with above posters that it's a complete work of art - you can't really take it apart and even the sucky bits contribute to the whole. As well, the sequencing is, in the main, masterful. I find "Bungalow Bill" and "Wild Honey Pie" (among others) hard to defend on their own merits but they perform perfectly in their respective places.
I have to rep for "Don't Pass Me By" - it's a plodding, derivative (of Buck Owens, mainly) pedestrian piece of shit that somehow transcends: Ringo's everybloke vocals, Leslie speaker on everything in sight giving the whole track an underwater feeling, the queasy fiddle, and the weird, brassy quality that most of the instruments have... there's something unreconstructable about it; it has an otherworldly inevitability that the Beatles' music (and relatively speaking so little else) often musters. I give thumbs up.
Rocky Raccoon and Honey Pie still don't do it for me, even so.
― staggerlee, Sunday, 13 September 2009 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i like "don't pass me by" as well.
― amateurist, Sunday, 13 September 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't mind playing the album, but can honestly only get behind about five songs (Helter, Happiness, Everybody's, Glass Onion, Dear Prudence). And of those five, four were done better by someone else (counting Tick, Tick as a Glass Onion cover...).
― dlp9001, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
ooh the other week i was wondering how i'd single-albumise this
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost. Huh? Whose versions are better? Please don't say U2's Helter is better...please? Those 5 songs all kill as originals...oh this makes me sad.
I'm still trying to rank them, but it's just so damn mercenary. Even when I pull that cd off the shelf to hear Prudence or Helter, I have to play it through. So I guess I can't really argue til I can back myself up... harrumph.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 13 September 2009 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree that the big sprawling messiness makes the album interesting, but as an exercise here are the songs i'd include in a short, to-the-point single album:
Back In The USSRDear PrudenceMartha My DearI'm So TiredBirthdayI WillHappiness Is a Warm GunBlackbird JuliaRocky RacoonEverybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My MonkeyDon't Pass Me By
― amateurist, Monday, 14 September 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
haven't decided on mine beyond the fact that Dear Prudence and Happiness Is A Warm Gun are *definitely* in it
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Monday, 14 September 2009 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
dear prudence is one of my very favorite beatles songs.
― amateurist, Monday, 14 September 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
this record is such a mess, a wonderful mess. I don't listen to it often anymore.
― Hugh Manatee (WmC), Monday, 14 September 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
same here! there is something quintessential about it. quintessentially of its time and yet timeless. that last 30 seconds is just *fuck yes*
xp
but i think 'happiness' is my favourite from the album. mostly for that syncopated bit.
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Monday, 14 September 2009 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
amateurist!
― cutty, Monday, 14 September 2009 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost: better versions (this is also probably in another thread) are Helter Skelter (Husker Du), Happiness is a Warm Gun (Breeders), Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Feelies). And when I hear Glass Onion now, I'm always waiting for "the part that sounds like Tick, Tock."
― dlp9001, Monday, 14 September 2009 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i also prefer the boney m version of "julia" to the original.
― amateurist, Monday, 14 September 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
see also the new dandy warhols (yes really, suspend your disbelief) cover of blackbird which is eerie awesomeness
― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Monday, 14 September 2009 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― Mr. Que, Monday, 14 September 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe I'm just aggravated by talk of Beatles covers since the ungodly Chris Cornell cover of 'Imagine' on Conan the other night. Seriously dude wtf. Can we put a moratorium on Cornell doing any more covers? Or on his career altogether? Fuck.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 14 September 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
But that's off topic. My #1 is definitely Happiness is a Warm Gun. I can't get much further than that atm
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 14 September 2009 01:04 (fourteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Monday, September 14, 2009
I give you credit for iconoclasm but u r soooo wrong
― iago g., Monday, 14 September 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
True. It's "Tick, Tick..."
― dlp9001, Monday, 14 September 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Long, Long, Long.
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...I'm So TiredJuliaDear PrudenceEverybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My MonkeyWhile My Guitar Gently WeepsMother Nature's SonHappiness Is a Warm GunSexy SadieRevolution 1Helter SkelterBlackbirdGlass OnionCry Baby CryI WillRevolution 9Martha My DearSavoy TruffleRocky RaccoonThe Continuing Story Of Bungalow BillYer BluesBirthday (ruined by being the birthday song on some early morning news show for years)Back In The USSRHoney PieWild Honey PieWhy Don't We Do It In The RoadOb-La-Di, Ob-La-DaPiggiesGood Night
Don't Pass Me By
― you're all going to hello (Z S), Sunday, 29 July 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
1. Cry Baby Cry2. Sexy Sadie3. Back in the USSR 4. Helter Skelter5. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Cept For Me and My Monkey6. Happiness is a Warm Gun7. Mother Nature's Son 8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps9. Dear Prudence10. Martha My Dear 11. Long, Long, Long12. Julia 13. Blackbird 14. Rocky Racoon 15. Wild Honey Pie 16. I'm So Tired17. Glass Onion 18. Yer Blues 19. Why Don't We Do It In the Road?20. Good Night 21. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 22. I Will 23. Revolution 124. Don't Pass Me By25. Savoy Truffle 26. Honey Pie 27. Birthday28. Revolution 929. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da30. Piggies
― MumblestheRevelator, Sunday, 29 July 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
Rutherford has a unique vinyl collection. He only collects the Beatles first pressing of The White Album.In this show Chang is creating a record store that stocks only White Albums. But rather than selling the albums, he buys more from anyone willing to part with an original pressing in any condition.
http://www.dustandgrooves.com/rutherford-chang-we-buy-white-albums/
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 17 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link