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

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?

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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.

― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Sunday, December 31, 2017 7:35 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i love this