The White Album
 

A thread dedicated to my favourite Beatles album. I had to indulge myself.

I remember buying it on tape in Lanzarote when I was about 8 and thinking it was the coolest thing I had ever heard. I didn't hear it for years, dug it out a few years later and its been one of my favourite albums ever since.

I know a lot of you guys don't like The Beatles....I can respect that but you are sick people :p

My feeling is that it's the best recording ever made by anyone, (or at least certainly in the rock 'n' roll era) and that it's also one of the most outstanding works of modern art of the twentieth century.

Considering I own three vinyl copies--two original numbered and one white-vinyl DMM pressing--I'd say it's pretty important to me. I'm not a huge Beatles fan, but I do like that album. It's in my top 10 or so.

I don't think I can disagree Atari. Although my favourite album is predicably Daydream Nation. The White Album is not far from being my favourite album ever. I get laughed at whan I drunkenly pronounce that Lennon and McCartney are the most important composers of the 20th century.

one of the greatest albums ever.
my favorite beatles album

My favorite beatles song is not on there (I Want You (She's So Heavy)) but damn what a great collection of songs.

I was given abbey road and the magical mystery tour and sgt peppers when I was 12 by the british lady that was my mom's supervisor. I burned them into my friends and I's brains with repeated play. i then bought the white album and go the poster and the 4 pictures of the beatles and the album blew my mind. It was so fucking varied. I LOVE that. I enjoy albums that are similarly themed throughout, but I prefer albums that jump around, like a miox tape made by a spaz.

the white album has seminal hard rock/metal (helter skelter)
warped ska (ob la di ob la da)
freaked out psychedelia (wild honey pie)
throwback vaudeville music (martha my dear)
freaked out mash em up tape sickness (revolution 9) which sounds more prescient every single day
gorgeous sentimental music (Julia, Dear Prudence)
exploration sof human emotion and despair (I'm So Tired, Yer Blues)
the greatest guitar song ever (while my guitar gently weeps) (BTW, have you ever seen the tribute concert for george harrison where all the guitarists there take tunrs at while my guitar... and prince decides he is going to blow the shit out the fucking ROOF an explodes a LOOONG solo? fucking amazing.)

I could go on and on. every song blows my mind to this day and makes me feel GOOD

I even like the McCartney stuff.

And yeah, She's So Heavy should be on there, not Abbey Road.

The only negative, it doesn't all fit on a 90-minute cassette.

Anyone read David Quantick's book 'Revolution: The Making of The Beatles' White Album'? Anyone think it was as badly written as I thought? I dislike Quantick's style immensely.

Certainly...
Prince's definitely qualifies as a true tour de force performance.
I shared the video at the old board.

I have Sour Milk Sea which is a 4-disc set of White album outtakes. Other lesser outtake boots appear under other names.

Anyway, I shared my own DIY 4-disc set at the old board, but somehow failed to burn myself a copy. I think I must have been running low on memory at the time and figured I'd just download later and waited too long and the link became expired. One day I'll get around to compiling a set again, but I was hoping someone might re-post it to the board possibly. I'm not holding out a lot of hope though, as this is the third or fourth time I've asked when someone started a White Album-themed thread.
It would require someone to spend some time to link the discs, but it would save me some time. Besides, I'm not sure if I could put together a compilation as good as those four discs again, since, at the time I was listening to nothing but White Album outtakes and tracks from '68 for two weeks straight.

I did a comp of VU covers recently and I listened to nothing but those for a week as I was making it. Yes, I'm sick, but at least it's a good kind of sick, or at least I like to think so.

haha how funny is that, I saw that, I think it was George Harrison's induction into the hall of rock or whatever and Prince was getting inducted the same night so he was invited to join in and play on the tribute to George.
Prince does a grossly inapropriate solo, don't get me wrong it kicked ass, but at the same time it was just wrong man, especially at the end of the song where the old rockers, Tom Petty & co and George's son put their guitars on their stands peacefully and prince throws his guitar on the ground and storms off.

this is my favourite


but the white album is a very close second.

^ such a great album.

I just wish George coulda walked a little faster......:(

the white album.

love it.
i can go on.
but brief is good.
i love it.

Great album. My favorite song is Macbeth, but Into The Groove and Third Fig are close.

I just wish Sonic Youth hadn't been talking out of their asses about covering it. Probably they really meant to, but that was before they got sued for the photos on Sister and so forth, since I doubt they had real licensing and royalties in mind back then. Maybe today they are big enough that they could afford to do it if they still wanted to. It would be infinitely more interesting than covering themselves twenty years ago like they are.

great album, a real masterpiece and the best thing the beatles made. of course my all-time fave song isn't included (tomorrow never knows) but as a whole it's better than any other beatles album.

was it so that the white(y) album was supposed to be a cover version, inspired by pussy galore's version of exile on main st?

(sorry my bad english but i guess you understand what i meant?)

I'm glad to know I'm not alone in it being my favorite Beatle's album. It's beyond amazing.

i figured this was everyone's favorite beatles album. just lots of really great ideas on it. and some good songs too!

I prefer Abbey Road and Rubber Soul, but The White Album indeed contains many of the Beatles' masterpieces.

Not just sick, but deaf, after seeing Romanian heroes Negura Bunget. Huzzah!...what?"

My favorite Beatles album is Revolver, and Rubber Soul is number two, but the White Album probably comes in third. There's just some stuff on it like "Yer Blues" and "Revolution #9" and "I'm So Tired" that I like significantly more than much of the rest.

I find it hard not to agree with these points entirely. True genius transcends mode and time.

hmm, is it asking for a shit storm to say there's a couple of duds on there? its a some of their best and some of their worst record for me. i favour rubber soul, revolver and magical mystery tour then a tie between abbey rd and the white, for what its worth.

there are some tracks that aren't as great as the others (don't pass me by for example) but somehow they work in the bigger context so that i never skip them. the white album is much more than a sum of its parts. and most tracks are super good anyway. i really like the variety, like with most double albums.

my favourite Beatles song (A Day in the Life or Real Love) is obviously not on this record. But it doesn't matter. For me an album is about everything. The music, the mood, the images it strikes up, the album art. And in that way The White Album is masterpiece.

It's the only album of theirs that has some songs that i like.

Really? You don't like "Tomorrow Never Knows"? That surprises me.

The White Album is a masterpiece. No doubt about it, greatest work by the Beatles.

The "White Album" is an album by The Beatles. It is a double album that includes a number of songs. Paul McCartney wrote a tune that invented heavy metal and grunge at the same time. John Lennon did a Stockhausen influenced piece. George Harrison let Eric Clapton play on one of his songs (and in return, Clapton later shagged his wife). Ringo played the drums. Some say it's a work of art, others say otherwise. Me, I say it's....musty.

one of the best albums ever made