What is the REAL name of the double album released by the Beatles on November 22, 1968?

Four unpronounceable symbols on the lyrics sheet.

stylized group monogram iirc, the working title was "PRGJ"

TS The Beatles' "White Album" vs. Eddie Palmieri's "White Album" vs. Caetano Veloso's "White Album"

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Veloso

why is this a poll the title is the only thing on the cover

whiteness

Jeff.

^^^^^

Paul calls it The White Album.

Its title is "The Beatles".

And why not?

Is Richard Hamilton still alive? We should ask him, it was his idea. He should get final say.

*votes*

I didn't think this was an issue--it's officially The Beatles, and everyone calls it The White Album (except Noodle Vague, who calls it Fuck the Beatles).

I also didn't think this was an issue--it's officially untitled, and everyone calls it the white album (except people who incorrectly capitalise and italicise that informal title).

Ire the white album - everyone I've met has called it this, this semantics shit is the definition of "not living but killing time"

* it's

Dorstalstop (no idea how credible these sites are):

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/white-album
http://beatlestrivia.com/what-is-the-official-name-of-the-white-album/

As for the name of the album, the working title had been “A Doll's House,” named after the popular novel by Henrik Isben, but this had to be dropped because the progressive rock band “Family” had released an album entitled “Music In A Doll's House” earlier in the year. Paul remembers: “Richard asked, 'Has there been an album called “The Beatles”?' so I referred back to EMI and they said, 'No. There's been “Meet The Beatles,” introducing The Beatles in America, but there'd never been an album called “The Beatles”.' So he said, 'Let's call it that'; which is the official title of the White Album.”

And I don't know the answer to this, but if a title isn't an actual title, just something that's been adopted as a title, I'm not sure why you wouldn't italicize it anyway--within that sentence, the words "The White Album" are functioning as a title.

Clemenza otm

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I didn't think this was an issue--it's officially The Beatles, and everyone calls it The White Album.

I can think of one person who doesn't, can you children?

course the official title according to Macca is 'the BLOODY Beatles' White Album'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xDBTpLz-8

/I didn't think this was an issue--it's officially The Beatles, and everyone calls it The White Album./

I can think of one person who doesn't, can you children?

it's called "the white album"

^cosign

Blink 182

does anyone call the red and blue albums '1962-1966' and '1967-1970'? i bet they don't.

None of these. I call it "the Beatles' white album." Punctuation (sic).

also all Beatles albums are white albums, in a sense

does anyone call the red and blue albums '1962-1966' and '1967-1970'? i bet they don't.

when I was a kid I used to listen to those two albums on home recorded cassette tapes that my parents had made after borrowing the CDs from the library, the tapes were labelled 'The Beatles 1962-1966' and 'The Beatles 1967-1970' and I didn't even know what the original album covers looked like. imo any attempt to answer the question 'what is the REAL name of the double album released by the Beatles on November 22, 1968' needs to involve a survey to discover what ppl wrote on their cassette labels after taping it

apparently the white album is 93 minutes 35 seconds long meaning that you wouldn't be able to fit it on a single c90 tape, would also be interested to know how people got around this

they left off "long long long"

not endorsing it, song rules, but that'd be my guess. most of the other "most hated" songs aren't long enough to do the trick.

Macca like a BOASS in that video

In the EMI catalogue I used to have, its called "The Beatles"

xp haha i know right? makes me wonder why he just isn't like that all the time.

what is the REAL name of Henrik Isben's popular novel?

Random homework googler memorial thread

apparently the white album is 93 minutes 35 seconds long meaning that you wouldn't be able to fit it on a single c90 tape, would also be interested to know how people got around this

put Master of Reality on the A side and Paranoid on the B iirc

I'm very confused by this. ITunes is confirming that my digital version of the white album is 94 minutes. However, I DID listen to it on a single C90 cassette for years, and this is how I first knew it. I don't notice any differences between my current digital version and my old cassette.

And I don't know the answer to this, but if a title isn't an actual title, just something that's been adopted as a title, I'm not sure why you wouldn't italicize it anyway--within that sentence, the words "The White Album" are functioning as a title.

Because it's an album that's white, not an album titled The White Album (although tbf the only white thing about it is the cover so maybe you're otm).

The White Album is an essay collection by Joan Didion

I'm dreaming of a white album

It’s a White Album, and I’m living with a White Album.

I'm actually interested in stuff like this.

Because it's an album that's white, not an album titled The White Album

But people aren't using "the white album" descriptively ("the album the Beatles did that's white"), they've adopted it, rightly or wrongly, as the title. As such, it should be italicized. I'm trying to think of a parallel example and I can't.

great album

There's a counter-parallel of sorts: you wouldn't write The Great Album.

It’s actually The White Album’s Monster

I'm very confused by this. ITunes is confirming that my digital version of the white album is 94 minutes. However, I DID listen to it on a single C90 cassette for years, and this is how I first knew it. I don't notice any differences between my current digital version and my old cassette.

But people aren't using "the white album" descriptively ("the album the Beatles did that's white"), they've adopted it, rightly or wrongly, as the title. As such, it should be italicized. I'm trying to think of a parallel example and I can't.

Zep 4 comes to mind as next most famous case, and to a lesser extent the self-titled first Jackson Browne album, which actually did get rebranded on the CD spin as "Saturate Before Using".

The Beatles’ Best Album

I recall among my indie kid friendship group in the early 90s that various self titled debut albums went by the name on the label; calling The House Of Love's albums Creation and Fontana for example. There must be better known versions of this.

can confirm that c90 tapes had about 46-46.5 mins per side

calling The House Of Love's albums Creation and Fontana for example.

"hatful of bollocks"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Oh right, this is how the people of ILM chose to spend their time in the run up to and over the Christmas period. Well, doesn't that say it all?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Right, that’s sorted then, innit

It is, yes. Lock thread

Although, that's 30 votes for variants of the white album

put another way, "the beatles" lost 28-46. glad we got that sorted.

i can't help but wonder if calling this album by the band's name was some kind of lennon-ish prank, like they knew that it would result in endless abbott and costello style confusion ("have you listened to 'the beatles' yet?")

Now I'm curious... who started calling it The White Album? Did fans just organically begin to refer to it as such? Did some critic coin the name and it happened to stick? Did it come from anyone associated with the band? Were people calling it The White Album back in 1968 or did that name develop sometime later?

my mom for all her days referred to that one mamas and the papas record as "the bathtub album." i think for people not super invested in ~album titles~ it could have emerged pretty organically among the general population.

I guess I don't care what the title is but a long time ago when I first discovered this record existed I figured it was untitled and not self-titled but what the fuck do I know

Did they purposely release this album on the 5-year anniversary of JFK?

I guess it's quite common for s/t albums to be referred to by their album art - always knew Pearl Jam as the avocado album
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam_(album)

beautiful quote:

McCready said, "That symbolizes just kind of ... Ed's at the end of the process and said, for all I care right now, we've done such a good job on this record, and we're kind of tired from it. Let's throw an avocado on the cover. I think that's what happened, and our art director goes, hey, that's not a bad idea. I think we were watching the Super Bowl, and we had some guacamole or something."

always been surprised more ppl don't call the kinda awkwardly titled velvet underground and nico "the banana album"

I think I mostly call it the banana album

I saw someone call it Andy Warhol recently.

Oh, and in the record shop where I worked in the 90s the database entry had 'Velvet Underground, The' as the artist, and '& Nico' as the title.

was Nico really not in the band at that point?

No, that was Yoko.

instantrimshot.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyTk2xyQP2c

That Pearl Jam story...I think I love them now

put another way, "the beatles" lost 28-46. glad we got that sorted.

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lol i love this