I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

The only change I’d make to the original tracklisting would be to add the Jackie Lomax version. Dunno where I’d put it, though...maybe between “Birthday” and “Yer Blues.”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)

i love the outfake version of the jackie lomax version with george's vox flown in from the esher demo, it's my go-to

I was hoping to find a rockin' cover of the Beatles cut, but all I could find were tributes like from this guy.

― pplains

for the record bardo pond's excellent "cry baby cry" goes into "can i take you back" territory

i enjoyed listening to the full Can You Take Me Back waiting for Paul to sing the one that ends up on the record

they really did pick the best part of that song, the end result is creepy and unsettling. I've said elsewhere that this whole album has a really dark shadow on it. It used to freak me out as a kid (it was the first full album I ever owned, I think, when I was 7...bought the tapes at a garage sale).

this whole album has a really dark shadow on it.

I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect. And they're mainly John's (and also George's). But not really from Paul, with the notable exception of "Helter Skelter", of course !
Actually if you make a White John album and a White Paul album, you get radically different moods !

for the record bardo pond's excellent "cry baby cry" goes into "can i take you back" territory

― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK, we're getting closer. Thanks!

Why Don't We Do It In the Road and Birthday are such bar band trash it's kind of hilarious

"WDWDIITR" is in my top10 Beatles songs that make me want to smash the Hifi (the others being mostly Paul's too...).

Lol last two posts

i wouldn't go to bat for either of them separately, but i've always loved the hilarious juxtaposition of why don't we do it in the road and i will.

Some (mostly Macca's) Beatles tunes, eg Birthday, Obladi, are first-rate children's songs. It's strange to hate them for not being Yer Blues.

with the notable exception of "Helter Skelter"
manson aside, this is a children's song too! it's about how awesome amusement park rides are, right?

Some (mostly Macca's) Beatles tunes, eg Birthday, Obladi, are first-rate children's songs. It's strange to hate them for not being Yer Blues.

― dinnerboat, Thursday, November 15, 2018 10:26 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't really like Yer Blues that much either honestly, the Beatles are a great band but I think they suck when they try to do any blues type shit, it's like no one in the world would give a shit about those songs if they weren't the Beatles

Birthday is just...nothing....I like Ob La Di it's a fun song

"Birthday" = Beatle Bubblegum

Birthday is great wtf

I have nothing against Macca’s « fun » songs (I like « obladi », « maxwell »...).
I hate his late period « bluesy » songs !

lot of trash on this record

i love the trash

I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect.

yeah, but when you arrange them in a sequence, as if say, on an album-

oh are we having the "the White Album: Scary or Not" argument again like we did last year around this time

lol i remember that going really well

Turrican got banned iirc

The take of "Yer Blues" on the Stones' Rock and Roll Circus is fantastic. The take on the White Album is, well, rather pale.

if anyone cares to relive that particular debacle: Tusk Vs The White Album

tusk vs the white album lmao it's like saying italian food vs mexican food

that's true because the White Album is Mexican Food and is indisputably better

Ahah yeah I remember that scary debate !

Birthday is the only song I skip. Such a piece of shit.

Don't get the hate for "Birthday" or "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" at all. They're fun, goofy, "Birthday" is one of their more cracking band performances, and they aren't exactly a slog to get through.

But then, I also can't fathom why people apparently despise "The Baby Song" on Husker Du's Flip Your Wig.

beatles at their worst when they're fun/goofy

They're called the Beatles; fun/goofy is baked in.

Who could forget their dour, glum, downbeat performances on Ed Sullivan, which bummed out a nation.

the early beatles stuff is great! they wrote great songs and were a great band

birthday and WDWDITTR are just shitty, dumb songs that no one would ever care about in a million years if they weren't by the beatles

"birthday" is such a good riff, i'll never get the hate

"Why don't we do it in the road" is cool, it's like the Sgt Peppers title track morphed into minimal blues

Yeah, the arrangement makes it. If they'd done a full-band arrangement for that, it wouldn't work at all.

it's not great, it's not awful, it's not long

I don't hate any songs on this album, but I usually skip Obla Di these days.

"I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect. And they're mainly John's (and also George's)."

I think even Paul's songs have that tinge to them. It's just in the way the whole thing was recorded. LIke, Mother Nature's Son could be a happy song, but it doesn't sound happy. It sounds creepy. It makes me want to start a race war and kill a pregnant actress.

I’m listening to this album and right now and fuck me I absolutely love every single goddamn song on here. Even the ones everyone hates like “Bungalow Bill” and “Honey Pie”.

I can't imagine skipping any songs. "Honey Pie" is a necessary stepping stone to "Revolution 9" -- one doesn't work nearly as well on the album without the other.

people hate BUngalow Bill? I love that song!

nobody agrees about this album. there are no songs that everyone hates, just as there are no songs everyone loves.

everyone loves Dear Prudence.

don't they?

I think so?

Surely Rocky Raccoon is the most insufferable track here

Macca's cod-cowboy and stupid do-do-dos

i think tarfumes is right in using the phrase "necessary stepping stone" — that's what all of these songs feel like to me, links in a weird chain. my favorite beatles songs aren't on the white album, but the white album is my favorite beatles album.

also, "honey pie" is the most insufferable track here.

obladi is much worse than rocky racoon which at least has a cool opening chord strum

i like honey pie but I do not like his scooby-dooby improvised lyrics "i like this kind of hot kind of moooozik...." ugh