Rank the White Album

1. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
2. Sexy Sadie
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
4. Cry Baby Cry
5. Helter Skelter
6. Yer Blues
7. Glass Onion
8. Back In The USSR
9. Birthday
10.Dear Prudence
11.Savoy Truffle
12.Long, Long, Long
13.Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
14.I'm So Tired
15.Rocky Raccoon
16.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
17.Blackbird
18.Julia
19.Revolution 1
20.Good Night
21.Martha My Dear
22.The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
23.Piggies
24.Why Don't We Do It In The Road
25.Mother Nature's Son
26.Honey Pie
27.Wild Honey Pie
28.I Will
29.Revolution 9
30.Don't Pass Me By

He's positively eggwhisk.

1. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
2. Sexy Sadie
3. Dear Prudence
4. Helter Skelter
5. Back In The USSR
6. Julia
7. Mother Nature's Son
8. Cry Baby Cry
9. I'm So Tired
10.Revolution 1
11.Blackbird
12.Yer Blues
13.Savoy Truffle
14.Glass Onion
15.Martha My Dear
16.Piggies
17.Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
18.Birthday
19.Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
20.The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
21.Rocky Raccoon
22.Revolution 9
23.Good Night
24.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
25.Long, Long, Long
26.Honey Pie
27.Wild Honey Pie
28.I Will
29.Why Don't We Do It In The Road
30.Don't Pass Me By

1. "Helter Skelter"
2. "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
3. "Glass Onion"
4. "Savoy Truffle"
5. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide `cept for me and my monkey"
6. "Why Don't We Do it In the Road"
7. "Revolution #9" (for the creep-out factor)
8. "Happy Birthday"....

...and then everything else.

"Goodnight" and "Long, Long, Long" should've been stricken from the final mix. Come to think of it, there's an awful lot of filler on this album.

that's about it, the rest, blehh. Would've made a nice EP, that album. It does have a creepy air about it I like but I mean, what I am I, crazy? I haven't listened to the goddam thing in ten-fifteen years and have no intention of doing so.

"His inside is out/And his outside is in,
His outside is in/When his inside is out,
So come on/Come on"

And "Not Guilty" is a white album Harrison outtake that's much, much better than "Long, Long, Long" though the end oscillating moaning part used to scare me, too. ("Used to...", who am I kidding?)

The worst stretch for me has always been those animal songs: "Blackbird", "Piggies", and "Rocky Raccoon" leading right into that prize-winner of "Don't Pass Me By". Yech.

the rest can go to hell. especially the Honey Pies

Long, Long, Long is lovely

2 was the bass in Dear Prudence. Even though it's Paul

The rest I can't be bothered to rank it's so mediocre.

It is a mess and that is why it is brilhant There is no filler - the sequence is responsible for the enjoyment - you have to hear "revolution 9" before "good night" to understand the beauty of these song.

My favorite beatles album.

I could do it in a life or death situation but would under no other circumstances.

AWESOME
Savoy Truffle
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Sexy Sadie
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Julia
Helter Skelter
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I Will
I'm So Tired
Piggies
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Birthday
Wild Honey Pie

OK
Long, Long, Long
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Blackbird
Revolution 1
Back in the USSR
Good Night
Revolution 9

SUCK
Martha My Dear
Mother Nature's Son
Cry Baby Cry
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Yer Blues
Rocky Raccoon
Don't Pass Me By
Honey Pie

1. Julia
...
30. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

It kind of seemed there was regarding two tracks. Until I Billy Dods' list that is :-)

I'd break Macca's songs on the record down like this:

Great-to-good:
Back in the USSR
Blackbird
Helter Skelter
I Will
Mother Nature's Son

"eh, I guess that'll do":
Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
Wild Honey Pie
Honey Pie
Rocky Raccoon

Garbage:
Martha My Dear
Why Don't We Do It In the Road

I don't think either Lennon or McCartney brought in anything that was worse than the songs in those bottom two tiers.

ie any of Harrison/Lennon's songs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Obladi, Oblada, Wild Honey Pie/Honey Pie, Rocky Raccoon, Martha My Dear, WDWDIITR

Harrison, you mean? Xpost

right yeah lol

Well, O-O was famously worked on into oblivion, and Martha's not sloppy really

Lennon's solo on Honey Pie starts off great, but obviously failed off as it gets brutally faded out.

Tailed off, I said..

yeah idk i love both of those songs, WDWDIITR is the only song on the white album that i don't like at all

not the hugest beatles fan and admittedly a McCartney partisan but these are prob my fav 5 songs on the white album:

Back in the USSR
Blackbird
Helter Skelter
I Will
Rocky Raccoon

It took until "Let me roll it"for Macca to do a "Lennon" convincingly.

I never much liked Rocky R, prefer Bung Bill certainly.

ah yeah i forgot i hate rocky raccoon with a passion

totally don't get people bashing Martha My Dear aside for the lyrics possibly

I'm pretty sure the only White Album songs with Paul on Drums are Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence. I wonder how Ringo felt about the album opening with those two tracks

Apparently there's a heated Beatlefreak controversy over whether it's Paul or Ringo playing the drums on the later part of "Dear Prudence" when the drums get all funky and loose. (The earlier drum sections are indisputably Paul)

Well, this was when Ringo "quit" the band, right? I don't think he was happy about it.

seems like it would be a ridiculous and dangerous exercise to overdub the ending drums onto a pre-made backing track. keep in mind they were still working on 4 tracks at this point. even bypassing all the technical issues (bouncing down original tracks to isolate the drums, painstakingly setting up mics to get the exact same sound), having Ringo (or anyone for that matter) play drums that match exactly with the beat of the old take and don't go out of sync would take a million takes.

pretty sure that's Paul.

p sure every assumption yr making about their recording process and capabilities is wrong

in that particular post

lol okay dude.

i have 20 year recording experience myself. who are you, George Martin Jr.?

for one thing, they had an 8-track at that point

that was over at Trident studios, they used it for Hey Jude, most recording at Apple was on 4-track

The Beatles recorded "Hey Jude" and "Dear Prudence" at Trident because it had an 8-track recorder.

syncing and splicing drum takes together is totally something that engineers in lab coats could do w 8-track tape

just check Lewhisohn you are right they recorded Dear Prudence on the 8-track at Trident!

still, seems really tough to record a new drum part the replacing an old one without having it go out of sync w the rest of the song. i have tried this before.

it's a bitch, sure but 1) this is Ringo we're talking about, and 2) the Beatles were getting kinda sloppy at this point and the drum part in question is a bunch of fills and shit at the end so maintaining tempo might not have been foremost in their minds.

that being said I don't really have an opinion on whether or not it *is* Ringo, it does seem like a weird and near pointless thing to do to try and get him on the track, but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility.

it's feasible that they left McCartney's original drum take and Ringo just added toms/percussion on top after the fact

if it was recorded to a click track they would have an easier time. the song definitely speeds up at the end though.

I have more time for Paul's tossed-off charm than any of George's lame pondering.

they did it in strawberry fields

Not taking a side either but the arguments I've heard that it's Ringo not Paul at the end of Dear Prudence basically boil down to a. Paul wasn't good enough to play that; it doesn't match his usual rudimentary style and b. there are identifiable Ringo-isms in those fills

it really doesn't make any sense at all though. Ringo quit the band bc he "felt unloved and out of it" and they send him flowers and plead to have him back saying "you're the best rock drummer, come on home" then once he's back, "psyche, just need to you do the ending on this one, don't worry about playing on the rest of the track Paul got it right for you".

it's really not that far from "Momma Miss American" imo

John might have said "Blimey Paul, the drumming at the end is a bit lump lump lump, what you think Rings?"

Not getting into the technical aspect but yeah, it would seem very weird to ask Ringo to add to the drum track some fills at the end !
by all accounts, Ringo isn't part of the recording of "Dear Prudence"...

And "Martha My Dear" is nice !
The other "worst track" on the album would be "Bungalow Bill" for me.

my worst tracks: Birthday, Yer Blues, Rocky Raccoon, Piggies, Wild Honey Pie

1. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
3. Can You Take Me Back?
4. I Will
5. Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
6. Dear Prudence
7. Birthday
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
9. Revolution 1
10. Blackbird
11. Martha My Dear
12. Honey Pie
13. Good Night
14. Julia
15. Don't Pass Me By
16. Piggies
17. Cry Baby Cry
18. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
19. I'm So Tired
20. Mother Nature's Son
21. Back in the USSR
22. Long, Long, Long
23. Helter Skelter
24. Yer Blues
25. Glass Onion
26. Revolution 9
27. Savoy Truffle
28. Sexy Sadie
29. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
30. Rocky Raccoon
31. Wild Honey Pie

apparently Paul plays flugelhorn on Dear Prudence...? I don't hear it, anyone care to point it out to me?

I can't really make it out on the full track, but you can hear it starting around 1:58 here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX4NmRqeHPs

lol what a minor detail

macca is such an incredible bass player.

and flugelhorn player

Wait, Dear Prudence is one of the songs Paul played drums on when Ringo quit, right?

Yes

I guess he's not really the best drummer in the Beatles but damn if that doesn't sound good isolated like that

Well you can totally hear where he speeds up

A flugelman moves...

I can't really make it out on the full track, but you can hear it starting around 1:58 here

Either that or a car just drove by the studio.

The Beatles‘ classic 1968 record ‘The White Album’ is set to be re-released in November to celebrate the album’s 50th anniversary.

The band’s iconic double LP – which was their ninth studio album – features such timeless tracks as ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’, ‘Helter Skelter’ and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’.

As well as the original tracks, 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes – most of which have never been officially released – will also be included in the special re-release.

“In remixing ‘The White Album,’ we’ve tried to bring you as close as possible to The Beatles in the studio,” Giles Martin explains in his written introduction for the new edition. “We’ve peeled back the layers of the ‘Glass Onion’ with the hope of immersing old and new listeners into one of the most diverse and inspiring albums ever made.”

Sir Paul McCartney says of the album’s place in the Beatles’ history: “We had left Sgt. Pepper’s band to play in his sunny Elysian Fields and were now striding out in new directions without a map.”

Find more details about the various releases of ‘The White Album’ below.

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CDs 1 & 2: The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 stereo album mix
CD3: Esher Demos
– Esher Demo tracks 1 through 19 sequenced in order of the finished song’s placement on ‘The White Album.’ Tracks 20-27 were not included on the album.
CDs 4, 5 & 6: Sessions
– 50 additional recordings, most previously unreleased, from ‘White Album’ studio sessions; all newly mixed from the four-track and eight-track session tapes, sequenced in order of their recording start dates.
Blu-ray:
– 2018 album mix in high resolution PCM stereo
– 2018 DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 album mix
– 2018 Dolby True HD 5.1 album mix
– 2018 direct transfer of the album’s original mono mix

Deluxe: The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 stereo album mix + Esher Demos
The 3CD; 180-gram 4LP vinyl box set (limited edition); and digital audio collections pair the 2018 stereo album mix with the 27 Esher Demos.

Standard 2LP Vinyl: The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 stereo mix
180-gram 2LP vinyl in gatefold sleeve with faithfully replicated original artwork

CD 1: The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 Stereo Mix
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I’m so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Don’t Pass Me By
Why don’t we do it in the road?
I Will
Julia

CD 2: The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 Stereo Mix
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature’s Son
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution I
Honey Pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Good Night

CD 3: Esher Demos
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I’m so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Julia
Yer Blues
Mother Nature’s Son
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Revolution
Honey Pie
Cry Baby Cry
Sour Milk Sea
Junk
Child of Nature
Circles
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
Not Guilty
What’s the New Mary Jane

CD 4: Sessions
Revolution I (Take 18)
A Beginning (Take 4) / Don’t Pass Me By (Take 7)
Blackbird (Take 28)
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Monkey (Unnumbered rehearsal)
Good Night (Unnumbered rehearsal)
Good Night (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 5)
Good Night (Take 22)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Take 3)
Revolution (Unnumbered rehearsal)
Revolution (Take 14 – Instrumental backing track)
Cry Baby Cry (Unnumbered rehearsal)
Helter Skelter (First version – Take 2)

CD 5: Sessions
Sexy Sadie (Take 3)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic version – Take 2)
Hey Jude (Take 1)
St. Louis Blues (Studio jam)
Not Guilty (Take 102)
Mother Nature’s Son (Take 15)
Yer Blues (Take 5 with guide vocal)
What’s the New Mary Jane (Take 1)
Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (Take 5 – Instrumental backing track)
Dear Prudence (Vocal, guitar & drums)
Let It Be (Unnumbered rehearsal)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third version – Take 27)
(You’re so Square) Baby, I Don’t Care (Studio jam)
Helter Skelter (Second version – Take 17)
Glass Onion (Take 10)

CD 6: Sessions
I Will (Take 13)
Blue Moon (Studio jam)
I Will (Take 29)
Step Inside Love (Studio jam)
Los Paranoias (Studio jam)
Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)
Birthday (Take 2 – Instrumental backing track)
Piggies (Take 12 – Instrumental backing track)
Happiness is a Warm Gun (Take 19)
Honey Pie (Instrumental backing track)
Savoy Truffle (Instrumental backing track)
Martha My Dear (Without brass and strings)
Long, Long, Long (Take 44)
I’m so tired (Take 7)
I’m so tired (Take 14)
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Take 2)
Why don’t we do it in the road? (Take 5)
Julia (Two rehearsals)
The Inner Light (Take 6 – Instrumental backing track)
Lady Madonna (Take 2 – Piano and drums)
Lady Madonna (Backing vocals from take 3)
Across the Universe (Take 6)

Blu-ray: The BEATLES (‘White Album’)
Audio Features:

PCM Stereo (2018 Stereo Mix)
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (2018)
Dolby True HD 5.1 (2018)
Mono (2018 Direct Transfer of ‘The White Album’ Original Mono Mix)
Deluxe [3CD digipak / 180-gram 4LP vinyl box set (limited edition) / digital audio collection]
The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 Stereo Mix
Esher Demos

Standard 2LP Vinyl [180-gram]
The BEATLES (‘White Album’) 2018 Stereo Mix

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