The White Album

No sense writing a lengthy dissertation that would mimic what thousands have said about them before me. I love the Beatles. This is my third or fourth favorite Beatles album, and almost all of them will get 5/5 from me.

Last week’s theme was albums I own that I barely listen to. This is the best of the group. The White Album has barely any filler, contrary to my memory; maybe I’ve softened, as it’s softie songs like “Mother Nature’s Son” that have ranked up the most on this playthrough, though the absurdities and rockers have also risen - “Birthday” is Cheap Trick’s template, “Rocky Racoon” has made me realise I’ve come full circle on Goon Show gibberish, enjoying the intensity of idiotic imagination. The band sound incredible, the experiments keep thundering out innovative throwaway moments, my attention’s sharpened.

I'd give it a 6 if I could. I'm biased as this album lived in my Walkman when I was younger.

I mean, just a sensationally great and fascinating album, with an incredibly high hit rate of success. The Beatles run of creative evolution through the 60s is insane.

5 stars, duh

One of my faves some stellar music on this album the Beatles at their whimsical best

The amount of classic songs on this album is ridiculous. A double album that doesn’t feel like a double album. The Beatles at their creative peak. Not sure how this can be rated anything but 5!

Stadium Arcadium в дискографии The Beatles. Белый альбом битлов можно считать одним большим двусторонним сборником их творчества, прямо как Stadium Arcadium у не менее великих RHCP. Но если сравнивать эти два альбома, то заметно их серьезное отличие. Альбом перцев можно рекомендовать новым слушателям, ведь в нем есть все, за что мы любим эту группу, к тому же альбом слушается замечательно, не дает заскучать. В случае с The Beatles, я не могу с уверенностью сказать, что после прослушивания всего этого альбома у новых слушателей сложится точное представление о группе, ведь она многогранна и содержит разные черты в разных альбомах. Ко всему прочему белый альбом насыщен откровенно говоря серыми песнями, половина из которых успели устареть, а половина оказались странными экспериментами. И если за второе группу будет неуважительно осуждать (так как такие эксперименты были в новинку), то по поводу проходных песен можно сказать, что альбом затянут. B-side работает как его продолжение, так как на нем есть реально хорошие песни, но во многом, как и на многих альбомах битлов, приходится слушать и ждать хитов. Но к моему удивлению, во время ожидания очередного хита мне попались достаточно классные песни: риф из Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey я считаю одним из лучших за 29 прослушанных альбомов, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill настолько хороша, что даже странно, что она не так популярна. Говоря про хиты, стоит назвать While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm So Tired и Julia, которые навсегда в моем сердце и плейлисте. Уверен, что каждому есть что найти в этом альбоме. И хоть он имеет схожие с Rubber Soul минусы, так как сам по сути тоже является переходным в дискографии группы, но за счет своих легендарных песен (и невероятного соляка :) ) я готов ему поставить максимальную оценку, закрыв глаза на минусы. Белые 4,5/5 (5/5).

"I've got blisters on my fingers!" Difficult for me not to give this a 5.

This was a good palette cleanser after the album I got yesterday (Limp Bizkit's CSatHFW). This album includes one of my fave if not the fave song from The Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. That opening bass gets me every time. So many great songs on this, and a Beatles record I think I could listen to anytime, anywhere.

This album is home base for me. Anytime I need a pause & reset, I come here. It's a masterpiece.

One of the GOATs.

The most eclectic set of songs from the greatest band to ever play. Tons of interesting creative choices around a still-great foundation of pop songwriting. I can appreciate the back-to-basics approach they began here and completed on Let It Be. The Beatles were such a gift. It's a testament to them that this isn't even one of my very favorite records of theirs, and it's still an easy five stars.

This album has some of my favorite Beatles songs, but I’ve often overlooked many of the other songs. Despite a couple duds, still a great album!

One of the best albums ever

Rating: 10/10 Best songs: all

best album

Classic.

❤️‍🩹

I love this album top to bottom. It's exactly the kind of album I like and I like this one in particular.

Ohhhh yes. Experimental, psychedelia, old school rock n roll, the guys are just having a blast putting this together. I love this album.

it’s the beatles. you know

Superb. Is it a concept album? Or just a Beatles Masterpiece? Early signs of George's brilliance.

This might be my favorite Beatles album. It definitely has some all-timers on it, like Blackbird (my favorite Beatles track) and While My Guitar Gently Weeps (maybe my 3rd favorite after Hey Jude).

The greatest album ever made by the greatest band. Simple. I could pick any three tracks from this album - even Revolution 9.Best Tracks: Back In The USSR, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Helter Skelter

Amazing album, everything holds up well, even though I played it virtually every day for awhile in high school.

Nothing like a great Beatles album to whet the labium.

You can tell that this album is being pulled in all sorts of directions by each of the members. But despite the length and clear fillers, below other Beatles work, to me it’s a masterpiece.

It is a concept album... and we are here for this...

Beatlemanico

Pretty cool, and interesting to see where people have joked about this before, plus "When my guitar slowly weeps" is just such a banger

Lives up to the hype.

This is silly.

Yes

Loving it, hard not to find at least one song you'd like in here.

Amazing album. Definitely not perfect, rough around the edges at times but all in all, there's enough great songs to form a 10/10 album. 9/10 1. Happiness is a Warm Gun 2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 3. Rocky Raccoon

One of my favorite Beatles albums. Couple of odd ones, but the rest make up for it.

Shelter Skelter was a genuine surprise and a delight. Punk! I thought the beatles were all more like While My Guitar Gently Weeps which I enjoy too and know is good but it doesn't surprise and delight me. Maybe because I've heard too much like it.

Everywhere you can be, one song at a time.

Impeccable

An absolute classic

Wowza what an album, never really listened to the Beatles before this and holy cats am I dumb

Great album, but Revolution 9 is such a strange Song 😅

Very cool awesome album very distinct songs

klsddikrt

Still perfect. Still not a fan of Revolution 9.

If you want to talk to me about this album, shoot me a text. There’s too much to say here. This album is near perfect. Favorite song: all of them Least favorite song: probably Revolution 9, but even then I still dig it

Listened to it soooo much funny this was the first one because it’s probably the first album I ever listened to. Love it to bits!!

the greatest!

Fantastic album from front to back. Great songs, great flow to it. Feels like an album. 2 discs and I never got bored.

this album has many of the great songs from the Beatles. It is fit together in a continuous way. Really a great album to own.

Great

The greatest

very good album

Yeah this was pretty class. Potentially their most versatile album? Like there are so many different sounds thrown in here and they all sound pretty great.

Listened at work in headphones via YouTube music. Perhaps this album is more important and even interesting as a document of the world's greatest band beginning to fragment. But what an enthralling document it is! There may not be any stylistic consistency, and the songs may vary wildly from essential to completely unnecessary, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.

Woah I've never really listened to The Beatles' like full album, it's actually so good. My favorite from the first listen is Glass Onion.

revolution 9 absolutny peak

This album is a complete fucking mess. You can hear the fracturing of the band on this album; it feels more like a greatest hits compilation than a cohesive project. While there are still a decent number of great tracks, they are outweighed by ill-conceived, half-assed songs. But like, it's still the Beatles

there's so much going on (famously) so where to start... most of the songs are pretty good and i do like the transitions between some that feel pretty different from each other which prevents it from feeling outright jarring (especially Back in The USSR to Dear Prudence, and I'm So Tired to Blackbird). The variety definitely keeps it interesting because you truly have no idea what is coming next (if you're me and don't listen to this album in full very much). But it still feels more like a beatles playlist than an album. I kept thinking how much this sounds like a battle of the bands between john and paul, because most of the john songs are SO john and likewise for the paul ones, and this often felt so noticeable when their rival tracks were back to back (Glass Onion to Ob-La-Di; Happiness Is A Warm Gun into Martha My Dear, and particularly emblematic of beatles' styles if I'm also considering While My Guitar Gently Weeps preceding both). it felt like each beatle was going "okay my turn now". i know i am hardly the first one to make that observation but it's just VERY hard for it not to overshadow the rest of the listening experience (especially when the other beatles albums i listen to more often feel much more cohesive which leaves the focus on the music/lyrics). but of course so many of the tracks on here are so inventive that despite it's shortcomings as an album as a whole, it's still a great listen. *Fav tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Happiness is a Warm Gun; Dear Prudence; I Will (always been one of my favorites and actually sounds more like an early Beatles track now that I think about it, which is kinda cute); Savoy Truffle* *New faves: Mother Nature's Son; Long, Long, Long; Good Night (not necessarily as a song itself but as a fitting cinematic closer to a long and tumultuous album)*

In this album: John: A+ Paul: B- George: B- Ringo: 😎✌️🌟❤️

Would have been a 5 star single album.

Nr. 117/1001 Back in the U.S.S.R. 4/5 Dear Prudence 4/5 Glass Onion 4/5 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 4/5 Wild Honey Pie 3/5 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 4/5 While My Guitar Gently Wheeps 5/5 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 5/5 Martha My Dear 5/5 I'm So Tired 4/5 Blackbird 5/5 Piggies 4/5 Rocky Raccoon 5/5 Don't Pass Me By 4/5 Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 3/5 I Will 4/5 Julia 5/5 Birthday 4/5 Yer Blues 4/5 Mother Nature's Son 4/5 Everybody's Got Something To Hide 4/5 Sexy Sadie 4/5 Helter Skelter 4/5 Long, Long, Long 4/5 Revolution 1 4/5 Honey Pie 3/5 Savoy Truffle 4/5 Cry Baby Cry 4/5 Revolution 9 1/5 Good Night 5/5 Average: 4,03 The most diverse and experimental Beatles album. This includes some incredible song e.g. Bluebird and While My Guitar Gently Wheeps. Overall a great record but not my favorite of them.

The Beatles are probably the most important band in 75 years. Read the biography of almost any rock musician from the late 60’s through the early 80s and you’ll find out they were inspired to take up music by the Beatles. The Beatles released a dozen albums in just over 7 years in the UK, and 11 of them reached #1. Yellow Submarine “only” made it to #3. This was repackaged into 17 US releases, 14 of which hit #1 (with the other 3x hitting #2). They are iconic, they are pervasive. In the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, anybody who listened to music knew Beatles songs, even if they didn’t realize they were Beatles songs. So, what about The White Album? This is the 9th UK release, coming on the heels of the perfect trio of “Rubber Soul”, “Revolver” and “Sgt. Pepper…”. The bar couldn’t be set higher. And this album comes close to meeting expectations, but falls a little short. A double album, with 30 songs clocking in at over 90 minutes. It’s certainly ambitious. And there’s no shortage of brilliant music. From harder songs like “Helter Skelter” and “Back in the USSR”, to some of the prettiest songs they did, like “Blackbird” and “I Will”. And everything in between. And there-in lies the problem. This album is all over the place, and sometimes seem like the members are lurching 4 different directions from song to song. I’ve seen it referred to as having a “fragmentary style”. Strains within the band are well documented, and reportedly, only 14 of the 30 songs feature all four members performing. Revolution 9 brings Yoko Ono into the process, and should never have seen the light of day. In retrospect, this album showed that the Beatles were not going to last much longer. BUT (and a big but) it all works out and the wealth of high-spots outweigh the weak spots. I wish it were more cohesive, I wish that it were more concise. I wish that “Revolution 9” had been discarded. I wish I could go 4.5, but that’s not an option. And I can’t give 5 stars to an album that devotes 8+ minutes to Revolution 9. So 4/5 it is.

Best Song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Even though I wish the song reached a more dramatic/raw place with its extended crescendo, I can't deny that everything just works really well here on this track. Worst Song: Julia. This is the exact kind of droning, lifeless tracks that I like the least from the Beatles. This song is great as a lullaby for people named "Julia" and not much else. Overall: For me, probably the best Beatles album. There are so many individually great and iconic songs here that it's tough not to find something to like. "Individually" is a key point though, as the album as a whole lacks any cohesion or flow, with the order of songs so odd that it's hard not to get tonal whiplash as the album alternates between heartfelt ballad and whimsical ditty with nothing in between. Directly related to this is the fact that the album needed to be edited down, as it's full of forgettable middling tracks that just water the whole experience down. Is anyone actually excited when "Honey Pie" comes on?

It was decent, I just felt disappointed.

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I was really happy to revisit this album as of all the Beatles later works, this is the one I listen to the least. I always found it to be a bit too inconsistent for my liking, with too many weak McCartney songs and a few playful non-entities and fillers thrown into the mix which really don’t deserve to be anywhere near an album at this point in their career . I gave it two listens over the weekend, but really wasn’t persuaded away from my opinion prior to giving it play. It starts out strong, then we hit ob-la-di ob-la-da. This is the stand out weak point of the opening disc along with don’t pass me by and why don’t we do it in the road. I remember singing this in junior school with Mr Richards accompanying on piano. That’s about the level it’s pitching at. The second disc is more experimental, more messy, and the opening couple of tracks leave me scratching my head and asking “why?” It’s not a great album. It’s good. It’s very inconsistent l and could have been trimmmed to an excellent hour long album. Open goal missed.

I like weird music, and The Beatles were excellent at writing weird music. An album can be weird and still feel coherent, though, and for that reason I prefer Sgt Pepper to this one. This is just very inconsistent in quality, and that's interesting in a meta way as it reflects the discord going on between band mates behind the scenes, but it doesn't make for a hugely satisfying listen. While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Blackbird are all time greats. Helter Skelter is really interesting and innovative, Back in the USSR is satirical and fun. But is anyone seriously listening to half of the other songs on this record?

Tough one to rate , there’s a lot of good songs up front and the album is a fun listen. However it’s long and it feels like it , specially around the second half it made it hard for me to get trough . The A side makes it hard for me to rate any lower but I also can’t pretend I enjoyed the ALBUM

Fully expected to come into this and hate it, but I swore I was going to keep an open ear. Thankfully I did because this album has some hits on it. The band fully wears their inspirations on their sleeves because this album is chock full of blues and black rock and roll sounds throughout most of the tracks. My favorite songs are "Martha My Dear," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Di," and "I'm So Tired." Man, am I glad I actually listened to this. Not being a Beatles fan, I felt kind of left out of a lot of music conversations, every loves them. Now, when these conversations arise I can join in and actually know what I'm talking about. Will I go out and listen to their albums on my own? No. But, this is a good album. I wish we could give half ratings because this album is a good 3.5/5, so kinda disregard the stars.

Lot of great songs. Also a lot of filler songs.

A good album by a great band that would be a great album by a great band if they had even a just alright editor

Heard it. I am just neutral with the Beatles.

I know this is one of the biggest bands on the planet but their music doesn't do much for me

After first listen: some really good songs here no doubt but unfortunately the album suffers from being watered down by a lot of what I would consider to be filler. After hearing about the circumstances of this album I understand why it’s like that but it doesn’t change my enjoyment. Double albums always suck. Don’t do them. The highs are very high though, i mean it is the Beatles. Just listened again and yeah the second half of this album kinda blows. Favorites: back in the ussr, while my guitar gently weeps, blackbird MMM: BACK IN THE USSR, YOU DONT KNOW HOW LUCKY YOU ARE BOY💂🏼‍♀️

Expected better.

Some killer, lots of filler. There’s a handful of very good tracks on this and a couple of classics but it’s bloated too

Honestly, the singles that I already knew and loved were the only ones that stuck out - and of course, they're great. They tell good and sad stories and they're entertaining to listen to. The rest of the album was still good rock and roll but I tuned out.

Two genuinely brilliant songs - possibly two of the best ever, but so much average on it. Really disappointed.

dnf when recommended….. i honestly tried but ive never liked the beatles. i do like back in the USSR and black bird tho

Got bored an stopped listening

pretty good, the beetles just aren't for me.

I knew this day would come- I cried out when I saw this one LMAO not looking forward to it Halfway through and still don't understand how people enjoy them. I'm just waiting for Helter Skelter to start.

Some great stuff, mostly myeh, some bad stuff. Only a few caught my attention but nothing that I hadn't heard before unfortunately.

That was far more Beatles than I really needed. I knew it was in here somewhere (all Beatles albums are), I knew eventually I'd have to put up with it, but doing so wasn't fun. Almost 2 fucking hours. 2/5.

Not a Beatles fan, but if forced to choose, would say I prefer their later work. This one however is way too long and with too much filler and an abundance of the usual Beatle corny-ness. Stylistically inconsistent, soulless attempts at blues, rockabilly, surf rock are particularly jarring. Second disk better than first, overall a work with potential if only was more focused and trimmed of the fat. Best tracks; While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter.

Not good

I just don’t fw the Beatles

Automatically, -1 because it's the Beatles, the most overrated band in the world. -1 for all the stupid animal references that don't make sense, except for Black Bird, which is really a good song that I somehow hadn't heard before. -1 for going for too long. This did not need to be a double LP, especially since y'all went to a TM session and still couldn't get your mess straight. +1 for having SOME non-boy band tunes. -1 for Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. -1 for stupid skiffle songs. Bloody "number 9... number 9... number 9....". Are you kidding me with this "song"? My Rating: 1/5. I hate the Beatles.

This is a wiggles album

A snub nosed.38 revolver fired at random intervals into a metal sheet sounds better than any Beatles album ever will. There are no words to explain how much I fucking hate this band.

The powers that be have conspired to torture me with this god forsaken noise. For what crime am I subject to this? What a fallen world we live in that this web page subjects me to these annoying little men

To me this is the pinnacle of the Beatles’ music. It listens almost like a greatest hits album.

My favorite Beatles record, hands down. Such a wild collection of music and ideas featuring some of their best collective and individual songwriting.

It's perfect. Wouldn't cut a single track.

Great album

9.5/10 Top Three: While My guitar Gently Weeps Blackbird I'm so Tired

What can you possibly say about this album that hasn't been said already. 5. It's between Revolver and this.

Quite possibly their best album

"It was great, it sold. It's the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up!" - Paul McCartney

Best song ever, While my guitar gently weeps. George was my favorite since I was 10. This album 1001 stars

Possibly the best Beatles album, that it may not be as consistent as some of their other work but it has some of the bands highest peaks. I would say about 1/2 of the songs are some of the best songs ever made Then some ok songs and two through aways.

No ihan ok

Hard to be objective about a piece of art I have been absorbing on and off for 40 years. I guess when innovators and experts, with as much accumulated experience as The Beatles had by 1968 create something new and of this quality, it inevitably becomes a touchstone. The White Album may forever remain the definitive “sprawling double album”. It’s got a little bit of (practically) everything they were capable of, a little bit too much in total, and yet the bigger picture justifies anything any individual listener finds not to their taste. That shouldn’t happen too often cos The Beatles make most things work and most songs are reasonably brief. Song bothering you? Just wait it out, there are 29 others. Today’s listen has been a particularly pleasant reminder that every time I hear this masterpiece, my favourite moments are different ones than my previous listen.

One of the best all time albums

An eclectic sprawling mixtape of an album that shows off their mad range.

Not a prefect album by any measure, but surely that adds to the magic.

GAOT

Are there too many songs on this album? Yes. Are there tracks that just are a sloppy mess? Yes. Does this show off the worst of the Beatles' self-indulgent tendencies? Yes. Does it all work together to showcase a band at their most experimental, their most serious and irreverent, and create noises and soundscapes that changed the face of music forever? Yes. Required listening. Also, I love "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" and I don't care what anybody else says.

LOCURAAA!!! CÓMO ME VA A TOCAR ESTE ÁLBUM?? Nananana, increíble. Opino antes de escucharlo. Es top mejores discos de la historia, no hay con qué darle. Sé que muchos dicen que las canciones no tienen un hilo conductor y que parece que son canciones de ellos pegadas al azar, pero QUÉ canciones pegadas ala azar. Una mejor que la otra. La única que no se salva es Revolution 9, que probablemente me la saltee. El resto, increíble. Top 3 discos favoritos de mi banda favorita.

So textured and layered and weird. Listened to this on the hottest day on record in the UK and there was a sense of dread and a treacley-ness to the day that was perfect. A kind of transcendent state brought on by the heat.

Yea it’s very good, a no skip album

Stream of consciousness: Dear Prudence I have never heard but so good wow. Obladi oblada is hitting right now; Great start to the day. While my guitar gently weeps is my number 3 Beatles song of all time. Happiness is a warm gun?! So good. Blackbird, what to say? I thought I was only going to list a few songs that I liked but I’m realizing I like almost every song on this album. I will / Julia are amazing. Half of what I say is meaningless. Yer Blues and Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey are good guitar jams for guitarists out there. And I love the distorted vocals. Helter Skelter then takes that to the next level.

This isn't my favorite Beatles album, maybe not even top 5, but that's all relative. Still an incredible collection of songs throughout (even if there's a couple misses here and there, but what double album doesn't have those) and plenty of absolute bangers (Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Revolution being particular standouts).

Beatles get lots of hate but I fuck w them.

Probably the coolest album released by a mainstream band in the 60s

The consistency is the inconsistency or vice versa. Perfect album, maybe the most perfect.

So much to unpack here. It’s a real (B)Eton Mess of an album. Some tracks are the big chunks, others are more the cream that connects and binds it all together. But from where they came from with their first album, it is fascinating listening.

The rare double album that doesn't overstay its welcome or need songs removed from it to be truly great.

perfect

Oh wow, it happened. This is the best Beatles album, hands down, no question. Incredible variety, incredible production, pinnacle "The Beatles" sound. This album is so good, it inspired an entire movie. This is a 10/10 and that's coming from someone who has not-so-great memories associated with it. It remains an objective 10/10 despite the people I associate with it. Thank you 1001, helluva album.

This album is etched on my soul. It's a glorious, chaotic, discombobulated mess of weirdness and creation. It's everything I want music to be. I love it as a whole and I love its component parts. I still remember my mother giving me this album. She was sixteen when it was released, and I remember having her own vinyl copy, and I remember how she had cut John Lennon's face out of the slip cover with an X-Acto knife so she could put his photo on her bedroom wall when she got it. There is nothing else like this album. I don't think I even have words for how much I love it. The range, the chaos, Number 9 and then Good Night... It's been a while since I listened to this all the way through in one sitting, and it is quite a ride.

This is the best Beatles album. The end. I cannot tell you how excited I was when I got this for Christmas when I was 15. It was the 30th anniversary limited edition. I don't care about the other Beatles records nearly as much as this one. Oh. I just realized it's now almost the 30th anniversary of me getting the 30th anniversary edition.... But I still have it ☺️

One of the best ever.

This is #day677 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… here's my penultimate Beatles album. Is it still the Beatles, though? As far as I know, by this point, the band was already starting to disintegrate. And what better way to mark that than by throwing a sprawling double album out into the world? Either way, this record is quite a trip. It's so stylistically diverse that you might think of it as the ultimate Beatles album. This is where some stone-cold classics live: "Dear Prudence," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Helter Skelter," to name a few. And then there's the bizarre "Revolution 9," which sounds like something from Kid A if Radiohead had recorded it in 1968. Is this an album you should hear before you die? Pretty much. This is a 5 out of 5. Looking forward to #day678.

Like so many other Beatles albums, the hits are amazing but there are some tracks that are just a bit too avant-garde or psychedelic for me. Not sure I’d go as far to say the white album is overrated, but it does seem to be more infamous than it ought to be. Overall a very strong showing here, and deserving to be high in the rankings

back in the ussr—9/10 dear prudence—8/10 glass onion—7.5/10 ob la di ob la da—7/10 wild honey pie—4/10 bungalow bill—9/10 while my guitar gently weeps—7.5/10 happiness is a warm gun—8.5/10 martha my dear—9/10 i'm so tired—9/10 blackbird—8/10 piggies—8/10 rocky raccoon—8.5/10 don't pass me by—8.5/10 why don't we do it in the road—8/10 i will—8.5/10 julia—7/10 break birthday—9/10 yer blues—9/10 mother natures son—8.5/10 everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey—9/10 sexy sadie—8.5/10 helter skelter—8/10 long long long—8/10 revolution 1—8.5/10 honey pie—7/10 savoury truffle—8/10 cry baby cry—9/10 revolution 9—6/10 good night—6.5/10 overall, pretty good!

no words

Almost a definitive entry

Phenomenal album!

No matter how many times I listen to this album it's a five star album till we get to side 4. It really feels it's the part they put the lesser songs of the album. They are still great song and most any other album by almost any other group would benefit, but it has always been noticeable dip for me. (*The Beatles* No matter how many times I listen to this album it's a five star album till we get to side 4. It really feels it's the part they put the lesser songs of the album. They are still great song and most any other album by almost any other group would benefit, but it has always been noticeable dip for me. (9.8) ★★★★½

4.5/5

This is one of the first Beatles albums I knew, because it was the only one in my dad's record collection. As a teen, I got really fascinated by it. It was such a mish-mash of styles that shouldn't work, but somehow does. Some days it's my favorite Beatles album just because of how out there it is. It's the sound of a band at their creative peak just trying everything and seeing what sticks. It kind of became the blueprint for other classic double albums like Exile on Main Street, Tusk, and London Calling. I do think the second half gets a bit uneven though. Still, there's so many great tunes here -- "Dear Prudence", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "I'm So Tired", "Julia", and my favorite, "Sexy Sadie", are just a handful of the highlights. 5 stars.

Phenomenal.

This I could have been split down the middle and been two of the best albums ever released. The only way to conceivably improve it would be to trim off the handful of less than perfect tracks.

100%

England's greatest export. Shakespeare didn't write melodies this good.

The sound of The Beatles unravelling before your eyes - a wild roller-coaster ride through a wealth of unconnected ideas and styles, explored to varying degrees of completion. Regardless, the quality and variety shines through from start to finish, and the fact that this is pretty much the fab four operating as solo artists backing each other (when needed) does not detract from the journey one jot. A lot of the best songs are done before you've even have to flip a record over, and Revolution 9 is just a chore, but it is still essential listening. Arguably their most heartfelt and honest listen.

No question

went from surf rock to what the fuck and it also has everything in between

I bought this album when I was in my early twenties, fully expecting this to be the greatest album ever. I gave it a few listens and I remember feeling underwhelmed. A few great tracks, too much filler and of course the atrocity #9. I am older and wiser now and was excited to give this album another go, this time with slightly lower expectations. Tha album starts off guns blazing. The stretch until Happiness is a Warm Gun is astounding. I still feel the middle section of the album contains the fillers and this would have been perfect as a single album. Then Helter Skelter hits. Damn. Followed by an antithesis in the hauntingly beautiful Long, long, long. Except for Revolution 9 the back stretch of the album is once again legendary. I guess 9 is legendary in its own right. So, the album is patchy. It’s weird. It’s probably too long, but mostly it’s the work of musical geniuses giving us their last hurrah together.

Great stuff, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favorite

Obviously a stone-cold-classic; a foundation on which most music that followed was built. Even the sillier songs, when listened to in context, are otherworldly.

Tough one, It has always been on top of my list, but was Obla di obla da necessary? a ska parody ? really ? Overall there are so much gems that I'll have a 5 for the sake of history.

Love the album, despise Rocky Raccoon

Perfect. I have no notes at all. The songs that are objectively shit are genius and the songs that aren't shit are just really good. This defines what a masterpiece is. The greatest (long as fuck) rock record ever (10/10 - if there was an option, it would be an 11 - 5/5 on this scale)

This could have been 3 5* albums. If it was 30 tracks of road drilling and Blackbird, still 5 stars. A song that causes a physical reaction in my head and neck, endorphins raging. I always wonder whether people who claim to not like the Beatles are doing it to be noticed, so close to objectively good are they.

Just.. amazing

One of the most influential albums of my childhood. Blackbird can still bring me to tears. Certainly a masterpiece album.

Variety: 5 Adequacy: 5 Listenability: 5 Uniqueness: 5 Emotionality: 5 = 5.0 "The sun is up, the sky is blue/ It's beautiful and so are you" There will be no surprises going into this re-listen ( is this the album I've listened to the most times in my life? it would be my bet). The final score has been predetermined by a lifetime of experience with this thing. It's one of the earliest full album experiences I recall having, and it was at the top of my list of Beatles favorites for decades until it was eventually edged out ( we'll save the reveal for when that one pops up) but not by any attrition of any perceived quality of the tracks, or even through finding previously undiscovered cracks in the veneer like so many others have, but instead through the my rising estimation of the other one. The Beatles are not my favorite band. But they are the band I've loved the longest, and so any emotional blinders I might don will be pretty useless ( "The goggles do nothing!") and pure nostalgia will overcome any half-baked attempt at analysis I might dip into. I'm in no way unique in this, but this might be the first album on the list where I could probably write the whole review without a re-listen. There are definitely highs and lows on this album, and even a track or two I don't particularly care for, but those flaws do nothing to ruin the piece as a whole, and maybe even add to the wonder of it all. Even the Beatles aren't perfect. THE TRACKS Side one "Back in the U.S.S.R." - Bit of a retro rock n roller with some Beach Boys overtones, this one was undeniably catchy, but always just "fine" for me. I've grown to appreciate it a little bit more as a great example of these guys being very funny without going for gut laughs. A tasty little appetizer in this 12-course meal. "Dear Prudence" - One of my favorites, and one of their prettiest. I always like John best when he's delivering sweet, contemplative stuff. Those hand claps supplementing the drum beats, the build to the end... all delightful. "Glass Onion" - You know you're dealing with something special when one of the lesser songs in your catalogue is still a certified banger. I think the Beatles get far too much credit for pioneering metatextual type thins like this, but that shit's been going on since vaudeville at the latest. Maybe they opened up the floodgates for other popular musicians to be willing to take more risks though. Either way, John guides us through a tour of all the Beatles easter eggs, and ends up both poking fun of and inspiring even more conspiracy minded fans. This bendy wobbly strings, and the dark coda at the end make this for me. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" - I love Paul's granny music. It's all so hummable and bright. Do all those people just hate joy? This is a great example, though not my favorite. I'm willing to bet a LOT of ska bands have covered this. "Wild Honey Pie" - The first very likely point of contention for people who rankle against this album, this one is Paul being the weirdo everyone thinks John was. Is it much of a song? Not really. But as far as dashed off interludes, it's pleasant enough. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" - John did a lot of talking when it came to Paul's silly, music hall inspired stuff, but that does not mean he was above playing around in the same muck. But oh what lovely, hook-filled muck it is. As ridiculous as anything Paul ever penned, and gives "Rocky Raccoon" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" a run for it's money as far as silly cartoonish story songs go. All that is kids music for some very weird children. The best kind! "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - The first all-timer from Mr. Dark Horse himself. I wonder if John and Paul were pissed at how great this one is? They had to be a little bit, right? I could probably easily find this out. The making of this album interests me so much, yet I have regularly declined to engage with the flood of resource material about it because it seems so overwhelming. There have got to be universities with Beatles studies programs by now, right? God level stuff, with an assist from Eric Clapton who burns the studio down with his lead. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" - Much as I love the happy, catchy stuff - the darker stuff ( when you can find it) is just as good when it's just as catchy. And it almost always is. The doo-wop pastiche elements on this add the spice, but the whole thing is killer. Side two "Martha My Dear" - The best of the old lady music in my opinion, and quite emotionally affecting to me for whatever reason. Knowing that Paul wrote this for his sheepdog only makes it that much sweeter. This points ( along with so much of his output during this period) points the way to his early solo career and all the pure melodic goodness that's all over those things. "I'm So Tired" - This album can often feel like Paul and John trying to one up each other, and this is no exception. The mock-weary vocals and the guitar accent of the last beat, make this feel like some sort of slow-motion soul track, and I could see this being a soul/ R&B hit with a different arrangement if covered by one of the big names of the era. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles did a few Beatles covers in their day... "Blackbird" - Spare and intimate as these guys get on an album so full of big swings. Rivals "Dear Prudence" and "Cry Baby Cry" for sheer beauty. I bet this is a popular funeral/ memorial service song. Uplifting and sad at the same time. A hard trick to pull off. "Piggies" - George is not going to stand by and be outdone in the silliness game. This harpsichord driven number even has a bit of bite to it where the similar tracks by Paul and George seem content to amuse. Not sure if ever seriously confirmed, but I think it's more aimed at class and consumerism than the police, but if the glove fits... "Rocky Raccoon" - Paul's silly cartoony story song somehow manages to includes elements of melancholy where the other two guys' don't really bother. What would you even call this? Baroque Saloon-Pop? For an simple joke outlaw song it's sweeping and possibly even overpacked with hooks, if that's possible. "Don't Pass Me By" - The Ringo track! ( we'll get two as this is a double album after all) And written by him as well! This is a lovely bit of country and western tinged pop rock. Apparently written by Ringo before he even joined the group. For those who press skip on this one, shame on you. This is fine, even lovely stuff. I bet there are dozens of awesome blue grass covers of this floating around. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" - This is the first miss for me. It grates on me where the similarly repetitive, but MUCH shorter "Wild Honey Pie" does not. About a minute too long for this sort of interlude material. "I Will" - Paul makes up for his previous misstep here with a lovely bit of romantic business that hearkens back to "Michelle" and the like. Very pretty stuff. "Julia" - John offers up his own love ballad, as depressive as it is. This one is playing on the same level, but is just slightly more effective for me. Side three "Birthday" - Bit of fun nonsense from Paul. This ranks up there with "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as one of those "better than you remember" ones, especially when the middle section kicks in. "Yer Blues" - This one used to be among my least favorite on the album, but feels much more impressive to me now. John putting on some very groovy, if not entirely convincing, blues drag. "Mother Nature's Son" - The acoustic guitar on here is pretty danged great. One of their most underrated songs that gets lost in the shuffle next to the all time classics. While I'm not one of those people who will spend hours and hours making up "what if" Beatles albums cobbled together from various solo releases, I might be half tempted to make a fictional Paul solo album out of stuff like this. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" - Another one that never really connected with me, and honestly still doesn't, despite recognizing that it certainly has hooks aplenty. And that guitar line is pretty blistering. "Sexy Sadie" - Seems like we've hit a snag of not-quite-classics, and 30 years ago I might have lumped this one in with those, but this just gets better every time I listen to it. The vocal melodies in this are top-tier. The harmonized background vocals and the various drops into the downbeat work a charm on me. Just as under-rated ( if a Beatles song can be) as "Mother Nature's Son". "Helter Skelter" - Someone get Ringo some band-aids, please! What a burner. This must have lit up the amygdalas in the brains of the millions of young people who heard it when it first came out. I think maybe the "heavy metal started here" claims are a bit too much considering ither stuff that was already readily available at the time, but it probably moved the goal posts a bit for those people who weren't as receptive to such "noise" then. "Long, Long, Long" - A lot of shambolic indie shoe-gaze however probably does indeed owe a lot to this track. Roy Wood most certainly was inspired by this for several tracks on his Boulders album. An overlooked George track. Side four "Revolution 1" - I much prefer the explosive single version ( the REAL version in my mind) of this, but this is still top notch. (5/5) "Honey Pie" - The quintessential bit of music hall from Paul here. Nice bouncy, and I can almost see what John was on about. But not quite. It still works well enough for me. (3/5) "Savoy Truffle" - George beefing his numbers up with an ok track. More than anything on here aside from the obvious, this feels like warmed up leftovers. But the Beatle's leftovers still taste pretty good. (3/5) "Cry Baby Cry" - In the running for my favorite song on the album. This changes sometimes ( with this listen it's probably "Marth My Dear" but "Dear Prudence" makes the occasional showing as well. (5/5) "Revolution 9" - This is even less of a song than either "Wild Honey Pie" or "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" and is a very interesting experimental sound collage at best. Not music in my opinion, so not going to count it as such. To hate on it just a little though, I think this gave a lot of people permission to do a lot of even worse, way more pointless and insufferable imitations. (0/0) "Good Night" - Our second Ringo track was my favorite as a child, and still holds a very special place in the catalogue. This softly sweet bit of magic is perhaps a bit too saccharine for the die hards, but this is the equal to "The End" as far as buttons on the entire career goes. "Golden Slumbers" I think is the other big "lullaby" track from the band, and while that is great - this one edges it out. (5/5) HIGHLIGHTS - Everything else MIDLIGHTS - "Wild Honey Pie" - "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" - "Revolution 9" LOWLIGHTS - FINAL THOUGHTS It's very telling that when I refer to the bandmembers in this that I use their first names. I mentioned the Beatles are not my favorite band ( maybe not even in the top 10) but they have been with me the longest, and it would just feel weird to refer to these guys by anything other than their first names. They're like uncles you've met, but have heard a lot of great stories about and can admire from a distance. There is so much listening history, nostalgia, and lore wrapped up in my feelings about most any Beatles album that I can hardly be relied upon to provide any sort of objective analysis. Even with all those prejudices, I still remain 100% convinced of the quality of this album. I already know that there are plenty of 1 and 2 star reviews out there ( a lot of which seem very casually or provocatively tossed off in a very too cool for school manner imo), and I can't fault anyone with not connecting with the Beatles, but to say that you can't understand why other people do, or that you can't fathom why they are so loved takes a large dose of willful ignorance. Even the worst material on here is interesting and adds to the larger tapestry for me. This album (for now) sits at a very well-earned 2nd place in their catalogue for me. Is it overstuffed? Sure, but that's ok. I think I'll allow these guys the one double album. PLAYLIST ALTERATIONS - No skips! Not even for my least favorites FURTHER LISTENING - Ram by Paul McCartney - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon - All Things Must Pass by George Harrison - Ringo by Ringo Starr

Hot take: I like good music Just a comical amount of good songs on this one. Back in the USSR is a great opener, just quintessential 60s rock with a good bit of humor in there. Ob-La-Di is just a really fun song that, although a little silly, is damn catchy. While my Guitar Gently Weeps is goosebump inducing, just awesome guitar playing on Clapton’s part. Revolution 1 is probably the last true standout for me, love the sound and has interesting messages without being too much. This album has a huge advantage in having a full 30 songs, but I think this album has the best variety out of any album I’ve ever listened to. You have stuff like Helter Skelter, Blackbird, and Bungalow Bill on the same album with stuff like Glass Onion, Dear Prudence, and Everybody’s Got Something to Hide. Don’t really need to go into the talent behind the Beatles themselves but vocals and instrumentation are just as polished as they’ve ever been, just really well executed With a tracklist that big there’s obviously going to be a couple stinkers. Revolution 9’s the elephant in the room, the entire time listening to this album I was dreading having to sit through it in its entirety as I’ve only listened to snippets before. While I wouldn’t really call it music it honestly wasn’t as bad as I thought, it’s just sound. Wild Honey Pie’s the only one I’ll say is real garbage on this one, but at least it’s like a minute long and not 17 Just a fascinating album that’s just a fountain for discussion; hitting on 28/30 songs is just ridiculous and although I don’t think the highs are quite as good as stuff you’d find on Abbey Road, it accomplished the rare task of making a double album that you don’t get tired of by the end. Can say pretty confidently this is one of the greatest albums of all time

Absolutely fantastic. Crazy variety; insane to think the guys who sang I Love You made this. So many great tunes on here. Genuine treat! Best song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

This is such a hard album for me to rank. It has some of my favorite songs on it (Dear Prudence, Gass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, honestly could list a bunch more) and I was going to knock it for having a bunch of silly songs (Ob-La-Di Ob-La Da, Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon), but after a couple listens they're super endearing to me. Revolution #9 has always been the biggest stain on this album for me, but also gives this album just one more genre to add to its repertoire. Seriously I think there's like 10 genres on this album if not more. While it's a bit disjointed it kinda adds a certain beauty to it all. I mean going from the happiness of Birthday to the suicidal lyrics of Yer Blues is certainly a choice. I think if they cut some songs this could've have been one of the greatest records of all time, but for now it falls in the dreaded low 5 area.

There's like, a couple stinkers in here, but the bangers outweigh them. I hate to be that white boy, but the good stuff on this album is really genuinely great. I'm not a Beatles believer, but geez.

It's the Beatles. It's the White Album. It's 5 stars

This is such a wacky album. It's made with no filter attitude and includes a mess of sound collage experiments, pop songs, children's songs, psychedelia, blues, rock. pre-metal, prog rock, folk and what more, all on the same album. This album has songs that are definitely not among the Beatles' best (few of them even at the bottom of the list), but also those silly bits and demo like outtakes are an essential part of the White Album as a whole. One of my favorite Beatle albums.

Very nice album with cool variery Especially liked piggie and good night Definitely a must listen no songs are skippable

This album is unbelievably eclectic. That these musicians could produce something as all-over-the-place as the White Album and get it listened to at all in the first place is indicative of their enormous influence in the industry at the time. It's clear that there are many things here that have influenced myriad artists since. So many of these have been covered in beautiful ways. For example, Alison Krauss has an incredible take on "I Will." But how are that and "Blackbird" on the same release as "Revolution 9," "Rocky Raccoon," and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"?

A flawed classic. I only say that because of Revolution Number 9. But I don't count it when I review the album because it's not a song, it's John and Yoko's questionable work of art. This was the Beatles break from their psychedelic period. They had actually started breaking away from that earlier that year with Lady Madonna, which was a single never released on an album. This album came out much later in 1968 and it definitely changed the way I looked at music. I was 14 and I must have played this album non-stop from morning to night for at least the first 30 days I had it.

Це шедевр у всіх відносинах )))

I always feel like Paul's bass playing is underrated. This album has some of the Beatles best and worst songs. Still crushes most other albums so.. what can ya say.

Perfect. Excellent way to start June. I have such an affection for ‘why don’t we do it in the road’ and ‘rocky raccoon’ it’s silly.

I have listened to this record maybe 500+ times in my life. I know it pretty well. It is important.

Such a tough one to rate for me, especially as the first Beatles album on the list so far. Absolute legends like Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Blackbird. I have an extra soft spot for Birthday as it was a tradition for my parents to fire up the record player for every family birthday. I think I have to go with a 5 because it's ultimately an album I want to own with multiple favorite songs, even though there's a lot here too that's either bloat or a bit too out there for my usual taste. I'm excited to hear more full Beatles albums.

One of the best

Gehört in die Liste ganz weit nach oben. Weltkulturerbe!

It’s a wild album, some of their absolute best songs, some puzzling ones.

heard it before. its the bloody beatles white album. revolution 9 is my favorite beatles song bar none. i think i prefer rubber soul but this is a close second. i love how insane the track listing is on this thing. forgot to listen today, but i know it pretty well. i’ll change it tmr when i listen if i feel the need to but it’s the white album man

A+

Great

I mean…

There are definitely some filler tracks that could have been cut but the amount of all time classics is really unmatched.

Fantastic. I just love this album so much. It's such a brilliant mix of styles and some amazing songs.

Why are the middling reviews of this epic LP at the top of the list? Who could honestly not give this a top ranking? Choose any of the songs that live in your head - and there are multiple ones from this album - and give it a 5 for that alone. This is a brilliant album, one that constantly shows me new twists and ideas each time I listen to it. 5+.

Classic album, classic tracks

The best Beatles album

All timer. The classics, the weirdos.

This Album is phenomenal

Incredible charisma as a performer. One of the greatest voices. The album I've enjoyed most from this project so far. Taken aback that domestic violence was so prevalent he had to advise the men in the audience to desist.

It's a mess, but its best bits are some of the greatest in pop history

Yeah this shit was really good actually

Has a few songs I don't love, but I'd give this album a 5 for "Here comes the sun" alone.

Such a strangely great album. Just about nothing cohesive but a number of great songs and all written separately as far as I am aware. The strangest of course in Revolution #9 which i thought was just another take of Revolution, but no it is a strange bunch of sound strung together by John, Yoko, and George

5/5 Stunning album. While my guitar gently weeps is sublime. So many tracks I’d never listened to before, what a treat to do so now.

Just so good.

banger

Love it. Very familiar with this album

The greatest band ever. No question. Sonically, narratively, emotionally, and musically, this album is simply stunning. The Beatles' ability to create music with such depth is a gift that no other artist or band has come even remotely close to approaching. To tinker with the blues, hard rock, avant-garde, acoustic, and folk -- all underpinned by the genius of George Martin's tasteful additions via orchestral arrangement -- is just unreal. No album has ever been made that sounds like this. And no album will. No notes. Favorite track: literally impossible to pick so I'm just going to rank them all in tiers Tier 1 (all could be my favorite depending in the day): Back In The U.S.S.R.; Dear Prudence; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Happiness is a Warm Gun; Martha My Dear; Blackbird; Yer Blues; Helter Skelter; Honey Pie; Mother Nature's Son Tier 2: Glass Onion; Rocky Raccoon; I Will; Birthday; Revolution 1; Savoy Truffle; Don't Pass Me By Tier 3: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill; I'm So Tired; Piggies; Julia; Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey; Sexy Sadie; Long, Long, Long; Why Don't We Do It In The Road; Good Night Tier 4: Wild Honey Pie; Cry Baby Cry, Revolution 9

Grab bag of classics

31 tracks, and I do understand why some have said it should have been pared down to a single album. There are a lot of not-so-great tracks on here, but it still somehow works incredibly well. Truly one of the very greatest albums ever made.

Yes!!!🙌. This album is such a part of me it’s in my DNA. A weird album it the greatest ways possible. Maharishi and Manson and monkeys. It’s got it all. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Without Revolution 9, this album is flawless.

A double album with little filter and full of great songs. Maybe not my favorite Beatles album, but a must hear classic with some of my favorite songs of theirs.

Embarrassingly, as a middle-of-the-road Millennial, I’ve never listened to a Beatles album from start to finish. Have only ever listened to the many different hits that we all know and love. But this album has got to be one of the greatest creations of music of all time. I was so excited when I got this today! Loved every single song. This is an album I’d reach for when I want something comforting to listen to.

Awesome album

Zugegeben: man hätte einige Songs weglassen können, und es wäre ein fantastisches Album ohne "filler" geworden. Und es klingt eher nach einer Songsammlung von John, Paul und George und nicht nach gemeinsamem Werk. Deshalb Sterne abziehen? Nö.

uno de mis favoritos de los de liverpool. siempre disfrutable.

good

This is more like it. Any by the Beatles gets a 5 star.

Wasting time

What an embarrassment of riches. You can point to the occasional noodle or experiment that is perhaps subordinate to "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", but would you really choose to leave anything out? As Macca said: 'It was great. It sold. It's the bloody Beatles' White Album. Shut up!'. Lennon probably just edges it but they're all firing on all cylinders, if not all in the same direction. Others have observed that many great bands have their "White Album" equivalent, this is the original and best, playful and inventive. Side note, having spent the weekend with various "Anthology" segments: The Beatles and George Martin knew their craft very well, what remained unreleased in the band's lifetime was either a work in progress before the definitive recorded version, or something of lesser quality best left on the floor (your "Junk", "Not Guilty", "....Mary Jane"). They were such a prolific, generous set of musicians, 7+ years of white-hot creativity with an untouchable legacy. Be thankful.

I've already listened to this whole album it's amazing just everything about it so I just had to listen to the album again and it's just as amazing as I remember the only song I don't get is revolver 9 but the Beatles were on some stuff when they did this album and that's what I love about it it's all over the place and my mind's all over the place and it's just beautiful songs

Blackbird, una de las mejores canciones de la historia.

An album that's inspired revolution and murder...peace, love, and music...It’s very much an album made by four individuals rather than one band, and it embodies the contradictions you might expect from such a production. It contains some of my favorite Beatles tunes ("Long, Long, Long" and "Happiness is a Warm Gun") as well as one of my least favorite ("Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"). It's not a perfect record but its strengths outweigh its weaknesses. 4.5 stars.

For my 6th birthday, my Mom put on the White Album and we all danced to “Birthday”. My mom, my dad, my sister and me. A brief moment of peace and happiness in a house on the verge of divorce. Comfortably surreal, a memory stored in a bank not usually accessed. One of my happiest moments of early childhood. Maybe 6 months later my friend and I sat in his room and listened to the entire thing. Jumping on the bed, hanging out looking at the pictures that came with the record and enjoying each other’s company in our child fantasy land. To this day the White Album signifies uncertain change in a hazy dreamland. Seriously silly. The folly of life. Almost 3 decades later finishing this album for the umpteenth time (my mother’s original double LP) and I’m left with those same feelings. The Beatles will forever be a key to innocence, childlike wonder and a zen-like approach to the future.

This is a great album. Would be straight 5 stars if not for some complete duds and my personal hate for that USSR song (which is a banger musically despite my feelings about it). But this is the album that gave us such masterpieces as While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, I'm so Tired and many absolutely fun tunes such as O bla di. Absolutely a treasure.

So, by 1698 the beatles had already released their zenit as a recording unit with Sgt Peppers, they tried filming and making the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour with mixed results. The White Album is a mixed bag of different genres, inspired by the vacation in India where they met with Maharishi Mahesh. with 30 songs they had a pretty good average of bangers and ballads, the cracks that ended the band were starting to show.

Finally listened to this in full. While it could've been shaved down a little bit (not just because it's 93 minutes long), this really is an excellent album. I still hate that Julia just borrowed the strumming pattern from Dear Prudence while being arguably the more touching song. Revolution 9 was also not nearly as bad as babies make it seem to be. 9/10

Bangerrr c'est celui qui a Julia, Back in the USSR et obladioblada le plus grand banger de l'histoire

First Beatles album I’m encountering on this list so far although I’ve had some solo stuff. Love this album, will give it a proper relisten. Like many Beatles albums, there was a time when I listened to this regularly, and was probably in my rotation of most often listened to albums. Nowadays, I’ll still revisit Beatles albums but seems less often than in my earlier years. The White Album is a great highlight of the variety of what the Beatles sound could be. You have this great Beatles psych rock on some songs, you have the folk rock and traditional 60s rock and piano ballads. It’s The Beatles. Even with this album having some more filler than your typical tight Beatles album, it’s still great. First two sides (first disc on CD) are great and could be its own album. And then there’s another whole album! There are some gems on the backsides too. Harrison’s Long Long Long really wowed me on this listen. Kind of a song I’d have brushed past but jumped out as underrated. Sometimes it seems a little disjointed as you jump from to such different sounding songs. But overall it’s a masterpiece. It’s stripped down and simple and full of classics. One of the greatest albums ever, and not really held down by its length. I’m sure if you turned this into one album and trimmed some of the “lesser” songs it’s arguably the best Beatles album ever. Even as is, it’s a personal favorite. 5/5. 10/10. Great.

Qui ci vorrebbero 10 stelle, cinque non bastano

One of the best albums of all time.

This is definitely the whitest thing I’ve ever heard. This album has some kind of impenetrable fortress of nostalgia. It’s hard to listen to the songs for what they are without getting hit with a flood of memories. My dad was a huge Beatles fan and I think this was his go to Album to put on for us as kids. Overall real amazing collection of songs.

One of the best albums of all time (and the best Beatles album outside of Abbey Road of course). Probably could be a bit shorter but I feel those were the vibes the boys were at.

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. I am a massive Beatles fan thanks to my awesome friends back in high school... especially one friend's "cool" mom who had The White Album on vinyl. We listened to it religiously. It's impossible to pick a favorite song, but of course "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" stands out, and I love singing along to "Rocky Rockoon" :)

I love this LP!!!

Por onde começar? Number Nine… Number Nine… Number Nine… É. O Álbum Branco. Bora. O álbum mais emblemático do grupo, e certamente o mais inacessível. Se você quer adentrar o mundo dos Beatles, não há escolha pior do que começar pelo Álbum Branco. Mas por quê? Este é um álbum apocalíptico, que representa acima de tudo o fim da banda. O fim do sonho, o momento em que o grupo percebeu que de agora em diante eles seriam incapazes de continuarem sua missão. É um álbum totalmente disperso, difuso, onde cada integrante do grupo executou suas próprias ideias de forma isolada e separada um do outro. Em qualquer outra banda, o que eu acabei de descrever significaria um completo desastre. Mas não estamos falando de qualquer grupo. No final das contas, a banda era composta por quatro gênios, então mesmo nesse cenário disperso e disfuncional, o resultado final ainda é altamente cativante. Todo disco dos Beatles deve ser ouvido em sua totalidade, mas o Branco é uma odisseia. Uma montanha russa de emoções e sonoridades onde você é incapaz de prever o que irá acontecer em seguida. É um álbum excitante de se ouvir por esse motivo. Impossível negar que este álbum é uma resposta direta ao disco anterior do grupo, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pepper possuía uma linha temática direta que permeia todas as suas faixas. É um disco coeso, com uma temática colorida e circense, com aspectos quase que teatrais. O Álbum Branco é uma completa inversão de tudo isso. É monocromático, têm os pés no chão. É o resultado de uma banda desiludida com o universo que eles mesmos criaram e que agora são forçados à habitar. Eu acho fascinante pensar em um mundo onde o projeto Get Back nunca aconteceu, e consequentemente, o Álbum Branco se torna o disco final do grupo. A trajetória da banda e de sua discografia seria bizarra se acabasse aqui, ao invés do final apoteótico e consciente de Abbey Road. Pois, afinal, por mais que eu diga que Branco é um disco apocalíptico que simboliza o final da banda, este final ainda não é consciente pelos próprios membros da banda. É notável que, apesar da desilusão e da dispersão dos membros, ainda existe aqui uma esperança de uma possível reunião, e reorganização das ideias. E foi por isso que Get Back aconteceu. Mergulhar de cabeça neste disco é como mergulhar de cabeça em uma piscina rasa. Você vai rachar a cabeça. Denso, e às vezes até assustador. Com o contexto de sua criação em mente, sua sonoridade dispersa se torna assombrosa. Há momentos onde o disco te engana, como a energética introdução Back In The U.S.S.R., ou nos diversos experimentos vovó-escos de McCartney. Mas no fundo, você sente a amargura que permeia todo o álbum. A atmosfera esfumaçada do disco vive em canções como Gently Weeps e I’m So Tired. Devido à liberdade criativa que cada membro podia expressar, esse álbum possui o pico criativo dos três principais compositores do grupo. Harrison possui While My Guitar Gently Weeps, McCartney possui Helter Skelter, Lennon possui Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Só mencionei alguns exemplos, é claro, mas é perceptível que o auto-isolamento na Índia impulsionou todos os membros da banda para novos picos criativos. O problema é que o mesmo isolamento causou uma ruptura no tecido da banda. Foi a primeira vez que o grupo parou, desde sua criação. Eles pulavam de show para show, de sessão de gravação para sessão de gravação, e aquele tempo na Índia foi a primeira vez em sua história que eles realmente pararam. A inércia chegou ao seu fim, e um novo descontentamento foi plantado. Lennon brilha aqui. Eu digo que as sessões de Esher são o pico artístico de sua carreira. O que ele fez nesse álbum é absurdo. Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I’m So Tired, Julia, Yer Blues, Me And My Monkey, Sexy Sadie, Cry Baby Cry, e claro, o clímax do disco, Revolution 9. Os outros membros brilham bastante nesse álbum, mas admito que as faixas mais puláveis são de todos menos de Lennon. Não digo isso só por ser fanboy dele. Claramente, a introdução de Yoko em sua vida mexeu com sua composição cerebral. As melhores mulheres costumam causar isso nos melhores homens. Algumas das outras canções eu acabo pulando quando vou ouvir esse álbum. Isso me parece um absurdo agora que estou escrevendo. Eu, pulando uma música DOS BEATLES?! Mas… É compreensível. O Disco Branco é difícil de ser ouvido por conta de sua duração e densidade. Acho justo pular as faixas mais inconsequentes, os experimentos pastelões de Paul, como Wild Honey Pie, ou as canções angustiosas de George como Piggies. São poucas que considero pulaveis, mas é algo significante que não acontece em nenhum outro álbum deles. Claro, eu digo que são pulaveis pois já ouvi esse disco centenas de vezes e cada uma de suas faixas mais outras centenas. Para alguém novo, sob hipótese nenhuma deve-se pular qualquer canção daqui. A odisseia não pode ser interrompida. Ah, e eu te garanto que eu NUNCA vou pular Revolution 9. Acredito que ela seja a canção mais importante do álbum! Pular ela é um grande desserviço ao que é o Álbum Branco e o que ele representa. Há algo a se dizer a respeito da integridade artística de um disco como esse. Fica claro a liberdade criativa de cada membro do grupo na composição e produção de cada uma dessas faixas. Esse álbum não parece um produto, lapidado e preparado para o consumo e distribuição. Quer dizer, olhe para essa capa, a falta de um título, a lista de canções totalmente insana. Hoje isso pode parecer banal, mas em 1968 isso foi uma proposição radical, ainda mais para um grupo com o peso e tamanho deles. Este é o tipo de álbum que não deve ser apenas ouvido, mas também dissecado. Abra o Wikipedia e leia o artigo de cada uma dessas canções. Há muita história aqui, é um disco tremendamente rico. Vamos falar do que importa. O grande clímax deste álbum, a transição do final assombroso de Cry Baby Cry (Can you take me back?) pro monstro que é Revolution 9. Eu amo #9, muito mesmo. Acho uma canção fantástica, especialmente no contexto do álbum. Ela está aqui, no pico da montanha, no fim da odisseia. Depois de tudo que você passou, qual o seu prêmio? Pesadelos, caos, incerteza, o inferno na Terra. Eu gosto de apagar as luzes e fechar os olhos quando vou ouvir essa canção. Parece doideira, mas acho que adiciona muito à experiência. A mixagem estéreo é ótima, você fica realmente imerso nesse mundo sujo e violento que John e Yoko criaram. E eu gosto muito de pensar em um jovem em 1968 indo comprar o disco novo da sua banda favorita, usando drogas psicodélicas, se divertindo demais com faixas como U.S.S.R. e On The Road, e ao chegar em Revolution 9, ele que já está no pico da brisa da droga, começa a ter a maior bad trip de sua vida. Sempre me divirto com essa imagem mental. Encerrar o álbum com Good Night foi uma escolha genial. A calma após a tempestade. Serve bem para acariciar os jovens, para não terem pesadelos tão ruins após a revolução. 5/5

fuckk PEAKED album, so ahead of its time,

Banger

ive listened to this. masterpiece. the beatles lives forever

old que eu só vou dar 5 porque quero que a nota de beatles fique 5 até chegar o "with the beatles" que é o album que eu menos gosto deles. na real, o white album é um 4,5, mas shhhh, me deixem manipular médias no geral acho o "white album" longo demais com algumas músicas fillers PORÉM só o fato de helter skelter (oi proto metal), martha my dear, rocky raccoon (eu amo o paul) e happiness is a warm gun estarem nesse disco já faz dele melhor que 98393202 albuns da lista kk

This brought me back. I remember going on a huge Beatles kick in my 20's and loved this album. My dad had the original on vinyl and it had the poster of all band members headshots. Listening to this 17ish years later it still hits pretty good. It almost made me realize how much I cherry picked songs off of so many albums I thought I knew. Tons of experimental stuff which is fun to hear, even if it does run super long. Like to just throw on Revolution 9 as a track and send it out takes balls, and shows how much control they had over their own production, even if they weren't all on the same page at the time. I used to cite "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as my favorite song ever, and man. Its still good, but maybe I've grown more cynical and kind of agree with it more? I dunno, I can recognize its not amazing as I thought it was, but I love it all the same, even though I think its nostalgia creeping in, and the Eric Clapton guitar solo helps. I've always liked George Harrison though, so his entries tend to be my favorites. Pretty iconic entry and I totally expected this to be here, deservedly so.

Lots of good stuff on here. It’s all very disjointed and reminiscent of the second half of Abbey Road. Plenty of underdeveloped half baked songs. Plus it’s a double album so it’s too long. But damned if it isn’t The Beatles at their creative zenith just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Beautiful production, weird little ditty’s and one of the best birthday songs to scream at your friends. Maybe this should be 4 stars but I can’t justify putting it side by side with other albums I’ve given 4’s

The first album I ever bought in the mid 70s and to be honest I don’t think anything has bettered it since! A work of pure genius from start to finish and the songs just never get old. Easy 5 stars!

I didn't realise how many other good songs were on this album other than the classics

Obviously this is a classic. It’s the Beatles at their loosest playing with ideas in the studio. Some of McCartney’s best albums - Wild Life, McCartney II - are him amusing himself in the studio and there’s elements of that here. Plus you’ve John’s vocals, which are at their Scousest and characterful on my vinyl copy but is lost on subsequent remasters. There’s a prevailing arguement that this should have been a single album. But what would you leave off Revolution #9? Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da? One of the whimsy animal songs? What else maybe they’d have left off one your faves? Maybe we’d have had to wait for Anthology for Helter Skelter or Happiness is a Warm Gun? The truth is all these songs deserved release in 1968. Revolution 9 introduced avant garde composition and proto sampling to every home with variable results! While an inferior cover version of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da went to number 1. Maybe it could be paired back to a single lp a children’s ep of the animal songs and the two Revolutions pressed up as an extended 12” available only at Yoko shows. What I think latter day listeners miss is it wasn’t meant to be listened to in one sitting without a break but in four chunks. At their loosest playing very least a listener would need to get up and flip the record between sides but in reality I think they made a brew, went to the loo or played another record in between. It’s a record to be dipped into over a day not an hour and a half.

The best album I've heard so far in this project.

Too long? Probably. But the right kind of too long.

Eksploratif dan sinematik.

Notable Textzeile: Half of what I say is meaningless But I say it just to reach you Die Platte lag mit der C-Seite nach oben sogar noch auf meinem Plattenteller, hab das letzte Woche irgendwann gehört. Und dann natürlich nochmal. Das Hülle des "weißen" Album ist bei mir schon dunkelgelb-weiß gefleckt. Gerade weil vieles nur Experiment, fragil hingeworfenes mit Mastercraft in Produktion und Songwriting verbindet ist das Großartig. Hätte natürlich kürzer sein können. Keiner braucht Sampling um die D-Seite vollzukriegen und es gibt auch Alben von den Beatles die sowohl bessere Übergange (auch wenn die schon ganz groß sind hier) als auch stärkere Einzelsongs und definitiv mehr einigermaßen sinnvolle oder poetische Lyrics haben. Macht aber alles nix. Iconic! #LP #übernommenvonTW

Ah ja, da isser - der vermeintliche heilige Gral. Dazu dann doch live-listening-notes. Und wir gehen rein. Startet direkt mit nem großen Augenzwinkern, habe große Sympathie für "Back in the USSR", wegen der Lyrics und der Text & Music-Referenzen. Beim weiterhören merke ich ich, ich generell die Lyrics immer ein wenig unterschätzt oder unterhört habe. Richtet sich auch ganz selbstreferentiell mal an die eigenen Hörer wie bei Glass Onion. Ob-La-Di löst bei mir schlimme Musikunterrichts-Traumata aus. Merke jetzt aber zu unrecht. Nach Bungalow Bill muss ich sagen, hatte das ganze Ding nicht so funny und quirky im Kopf. Und Yoko. "Not when he looked so fierce". Yeah well. Dann aber musikalischer Hochgenuss. Might be very mid-vanilla-normal Opinion. Aber bis Blackbird ist das für mich alles fantastische Musik. Und warum wurden in den 90ern so viele Brit-Rock-Balladen geschrieben, wo es doch "I'm so tired" gab. Piggies dann der erste Abturner. I get the references, but please no. Danach dudelt es im wahrsten Worte ein wenig vor sich hin. (Trotz Ringo-Song). Die zweite Platte startet dann mit nem eigentlich sehr classic rock song, weirder Auftakt. Bis Helter Skelter kickt mich dann auch nichts aus den Socken. But Helter Skelter, was n Song für 1968. Wow. Nach Revolution 1 muss ich aber sagen, dass es stark abflacht. Insgesamt aber schon ein Milestone. Muss einfach die 5 bekommen. Freue mich aber schon darauf jegliche Rezension zu lesen die 2 oder wenige Sterne gibt (bestimmt dann auch völlig zurecht). :)

I give it a 9 out of 5

Probably my favorite album of theirs. Such a great array of styles and beats.

N ouvi ainda mas tem tudo para ser bom

Listened to this one already. Easily one of my favorites. Insane amount of diversity, really fun songs, great vocals and instrumentation.

It’s been so long seen I’ve given this album a listen. I used to always overlook this album I feel but this listen something about it changed. I can now confidently say that this album is one of the most engaging and interesting pieces of music I’ve ever listened to. There’s so much going on and so many different kinds of things going on yet somehow they all combine to make this masterpiece in a way that’s so unique. I really don’t know if any other band besides the Beatles could pull this off. The opening track, “back in the USSR” is one of my favorite tracks and opens the album on a fun upbeat sound. I also love the nod to the beach boys in the middle section. “Glass onion”, while not being one of my favorites musically, I really like lyrically and I love all the little references to previous Beatle songs. “While my guitar gently weeps” is in really close contention to my favorite in the album. It’s so so beautiful and is one of my favorite George Harrison songs. I really love all these super beautiful songs on the album such as with not just “while my guitar gently weeps” but also “dear prudence” and my favorite, “I will”. “I will” is one of the best love songs ever written and is one of my all time favorite Beatle tracks. Disc 2 is for the most part weaker than disc 1 but it’s still really fantastic. A lot of the albums quirks come out a little more in the second half such as with “revolution 9”. “Revolution 9” is infamous for being known as the worst Beatles track and I think out of context that mostly holds true. However, despite its obvious objective flaws, I really really like it and it’s such an essential part of the album and it wouldn’t be the same without it. This album really impressed me and I don’t know how I ever felt differently about it. It’s really hard to say because the Beatles have a few albums that I consider to be perfect but this one I’d say is my number 3 Beatles album behind abbey road and revolver. This album will obviously be getting 5/5 stars, perfect

Classic…love it!!!

Classic

My favorite thing about Spotify's AI-fueled DJ-X was that it will start off with something like: "Yo it's DJ-X, I see you listening to some Kendrick Lamar and Warren Zevon*, but Ima stretch your boundaries, maybe play a little something by bands you haven't heard before. Let's kick it off with the Beatles." I've heard of them X, maybe once or twice. *mispronounced as Zeh-von, instead of Zee-von, but I digress.

Crazy good

One of my faves by the Fab 4.

obvioiusly

One of the greatest albums ever from the greatest band ever. Can not be less than 5.

It's the White Album. Except for Number 9, its a banger.

Long, but if anyone can make a long album work it’s the Beatles

Back in the U.S.S.R. Dear Prudence Glass Onion Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is a Warm Gun Martha My Dear I'm So Tired Blackbird Piggies Rocky Raccoon Why Don't We Do It In the Road? I Will Julia 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 1 Honey Pie Savoy Truffle Cry Baby Cry Revolution 9

This might be the first album I ever listened to in its entirety in my life. I know it's was the first album I ever obsessed over. My mother had this double LP in her collection and I remember being drawn to the plain white cover. This had to be in 1980/81 and I was only 7 or 8 years old. I'm in my 50s now and have that very same copy in my collection now. I long ago lost the individual band member photos that were included though. I also discovered mom had the album's "companion" book about the Manson murders on her shelf. I would sneak off to my room with that book sometimes and the stories and photos would give me nightmares! As for the album itself, yes it's sprawling and incoherent at times. There are some tracks that seem like half-baked fragments, such as 'Wild Honey Pie" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" But really, that's the charm of this album for me. They were individually all over the place and pushing boundaries. Highlights for me are 'Happiness is a Warm Gun,' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' 'Blackbird,' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and 'Helter Skelter.' 4.5/5 rounded to 5

Spinning from The Beatles collection boxset that used to be from grandpa. It even is numbered, nr. 754642! This album is chaotic, all over the place, but produces some peak Beatles. With the 3-4 exceptions (which can happen on a 30 song album), its perfection. Best tracks: Back to the USSR, Dear Prudence, While my guitar gently weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Martha My Dear, Blackbird, Julia, I will, mother nature’s song, sexy sadie, yer blues, helter skelter, long long long, revolution (YES BOTH), honey pie, savoy truffle Number Nine/5

Growing up on the Beatles I didn't remember the deep cuts or how many singles and influenceial songs are on this album. They'll always hold a special place for sure.

Very good

Good

Obviously a masterpiece

An all time favorite! Made my day to see this pop up.

Amazing range of songs and surprised how much of this I already knew despite never having played the whole thing before.

Ein kreatives Gewitter: roh, verspielt, widersprüchlich – und gerade deshalb ein Meisterwerk. „While My Guitar Gently Weeps“ brennt sich mit emotionaler Tiefe ein, „Blackbird“ zeigt die Beatles auf dem Höhepunkt poetischer Reduktion, und „Helter Skelter“ sprengt mit proto‑metallischer Wucht jedes damalige Genre. Dazu kommt „Ob‑La‑Di, Ob‑La‑Da“, ein sonniger, fast übermütiger Popsong, der das Album um eine Prise Leichtigkeit ergänzt und seinen eklektischen Charakter perfekt abrundet. 😊

Haven’t been super into the Beatles but this was great

One of the greatest double albums of all time. Top 3 Beatles record, what else is there to say? 9/10

A lot of epic late Beatles on this album, and a few fillers of course. Overall though I've always really loved it. Favourites are probably Blackbird and While My Guitar, both of which are certainly pointing towards their imminent solo careers. I've got the 3CD issue with the Esher Demos, the latter are pretty ropey to be honest

Before listening to this, I had never really heard a full Beatles record before. I was pleasantly surprised at how experimental they were. When I think of the Beatles, the sound of Revolution 9 and Helter Skelter do NOT come to mind. I also adored tender pieces like Blackbird and Martha My Dear. It feels like it has a little bit of everything, which I really enjoyed.

A bizarre mashup of John's thrown-off experiments and Paul's nursery rhymes, it's four album sides of earworms. Only the Beatles in 1968 could have forced this weirdo stuff into the consciousness of a generation.

Probably the most quintessential Beatles album, for better or for worse. A sprawl of thirty tracks, ranging from half a minute to nine minutes long, covering more genres than many bands do in their entire career. For some people, this would be an incoherent slog, but it just works; each song provides a break and new persepctive frmo the last one, and flows really well into each other, even when there are no sonic similarities. I think this album probably proves that Paul McCartney was the centre of the Beatles, as for better or for worse, his songs are the most representative and central to the album's identity. I never get bored of this album, and on a good day, beats Abbey Road as my favourite.

Classic of course One forgets how good they are

It's so good. Fun, experimental, awash front to back with creativity, it's a melange of genres that sucked me in the whole way through. It's the Alice in Wonderland of albums, all different and strange and entrancing. Fav tracks: Glass onion, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Rocky Raccoon, Birthday, Helter Skelter

This one really surprised me in a great way. I listened to it in two very different settings and it worked so well. This was instantly my in my top 3 Beatles albums.

Revolution 9 sucked. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Bungalow Bill, Martha, Piggies, Honey Pie, Good Night were all middling (at best). The rest were great to grand, 23 (I think). For as bad as Revolution 9 is/was, you gotta love the album as a whole. Sure there was excess. But, man, when they hit a song, they hit it out of the park. Undoubtedly, a classic and an easy 5 star pick. (Just skip 9 and Good night.)

Ah non! J’aurais vraiment aimé que ça soit mon dernier album généré de la liste, parce qu’il y a plein de parallèles entre les deux: une continuation folles de beaucoup trop de musiques aux styles extrêmement variés (mais très british à la source) qui s’entremêlent chaotiquement d’une track à l’autre, mais qui forme un tout qui se tient miraculeusement bien. Ceci sera ma seul mention positive envers la liste d’ici la fin, profites-en Robert

Fantastic Album with minimal filler (especially as it is a double). Production values are high as well

While it plays sometimes like a conversation between Lennon and McCartney (and not entirely a friendly one), it is, overall, amazing. With not a single controversial song!

I will always give the Beatles a 5. But this isn’t my favourite, in my opinion Side 1 the best, side 2’s gets a bit trippy and silly.

Cinema

Beatles scho tuff. Chan das album halt scho gfühlt uuswendig han das früehner uf cd gha und de ganz tag glost

I love that you can not only take in a yet to full transitioning of music style from the beatles but also get a bit of a feel on what was going on historically as well. Ex. The USSR was still very prevalent during this time.

а я все ждал когда же он появится...

Let me start with the cons: it's very long, not terribly cohesive, contains a few rare Beatles duds, and, as every critic has pointed out since 1968, sounds more like four musicians contributed songs to an album than a band made an album. But also, it's a top-five Beatles album, contains a couple of their best songs, and shows (especially Paul's) range over multiple genres. Paul and John's lyrics are top-tier, and the music itself here is particularly good. Influence 4. Quality 5. Hits 5. Intangibles 4. Nope, it's a classic 5.

I spent decades thinking I liked the White Album less than all other Beatles albums. I genuinely spent my life thinking the earlier stuff was simply vastly better, and maybe it is, or maybe it’s just how I prefer to interact with them. But after trudging through 400+ albums on this list and realizing how bad most music is, the White Album is simply great- in comparison and on its own merits.

Can hear who influenced them and why this is influential

The Beatles are great because they’ll make a song called ‘Bungalow Bill’ and it’ll fucking suck and then the next song on the album is literally ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ and it’s one of the best songs ever produced. No other band doing shit like that.

So many songs but definitely some bangers

Welllllll I love this record too much. I think historically, late 20th and early 21st century pop music will forever live in the shadow of the Beatles.

No words needed

Love it, what’s not to love

While my guitar gently weeps Blackbird Helper skelter Dear Prudence Yer blues I will Back in the ussr Rocky raccoon Revolution 1 Happiness is a warm gun Ob La di ob La da Why don’t we do it in the road Cry baby cry Savoy truffle

one of my fav beatles albums

Absolute 5.

Legendary. Almost felt like a greatest hits compilation.

Naturally, this must be a 5, no doubt about that. There are so many of my favourite Beatles songs on it, and there is such a variety of styles while still recognizable as Beatles. There are a few tracks, Revolution 9, for example, that weren't meant to be "hits," but they served a purpose on this album.

i can sorta understand why hearing Helter Skelter in 1968 would've fried somebody's mind 5/5

Such a weird one for me. This has some of my favourite Beatles tracks (Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Martha My Dear, Blackbird, Helter Skelter), and most of my least fave ones (Wild Honey Pie, Piggies, Long Long Long, Revolution 9). It's still such a great album though. So even though it might be my least favourite Beatles album, that doesn't say much because I love them so much. They're really finding their own styles on this one, which I really appreciate.

obviously OBVIOUSLY it was gonna be a 5. i've listened to this way too many times. i love the beatles they're genuinely unmatched

Yeah, there are a few stinkers on here that could have been edited to make this a bit shorter, but this is a band that's just doing whatever they want by this point. The bangers on here are undeniable, and influenced a whole lot of the music/musicians I'd come to enjoy my entire life.

Absolutely brilliant. No explanation needed.

So it has been over a decade since I listened to the White Album all the way through. Going in, I would have told you that this is bloated and overrated. After listening again I do still think that is true. However, going through this made me realize how much of the Beatles' best work is on here: Blackbird, Mother Nature's Son, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is A Warm Gun, just to name a few. And they still threw so much metaphorical shit at the wall to see what stuck and some of it does (Rocky Raccoon, Bungalow Bill, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di, Helter Skelter)... I think the highs outweight the lows (cough Revolution nine) enough to give this 4.5 stars, and I'm bumping to 5 because it's The Beatles, and their worst work will generally be more artistically relevant than most artists' best.

Splendid. The hour and a half flies by.

Back in the U.S.S.R. - 5/5 Dear Prudence - 4.5/5 Glass Onion - 4.5/5 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - 5/5 Wild Honey Pie - 3/5 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - 4/5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps - 5/5 Happiness is a Warm Gun - 4.5/5 Martha My Dear - 4/5 I'm So Tired - 5/5 Blackbird - 5/5 Piggies - 3.5/5 Rocky Raccoon - 4/5 Don’t Pass Me By - 4.5/5 Why Don’t We Do it in the Road? - 4/5 I Will - 4/5 Julia - 4/5 Birthday - 4/5 Yer Blues - 4.5/5 Mother Nature's Song - 4/5 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - 4/5 Sexy Sadie - 4/5 Helter Skelter - 5/5 Long, Long, Long - 4/5 Revolution 1 - 5/5 Honey Pie - 3.5/5 Savoy Truffle - 4.5/5 Cry Baby Cry - 4.5/5 Revolution 9 - 3/5 Good Night - 4/5 I fully understand why this is on here. While it might be a perfect selection of songs (of course a 31 track double album cannot be fully perfect) but the highs completely outweigh everything else and make this something worth sitting down for an hour and a half. And maybe awarding people a trophy for not skipping all the way through Revolution 9. Overall: 5/5 Favorites: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Helter Skelter

One of the 25 best albums ever recorded. So many different styles. So many great songs!

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Muchos opinan que “The White Album” seria un disco de diez si le quitaran unas cuantas canciones. Es verdad que algunas hay prescindibles, pero por la razón que sea, el concepto del mismo, que transita entre lo experimental y lo mainstream se perdería. De alguna manera, ese equilibrio es el que le da sentido. Entre lo mainstream, a destacar “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” y entre lo experimental, “Helter Skelter”, verdadero inicio de estiloas musicales posteriores. Lo innegable es el desbordante talento que el cuarteto se Liverpool muestra a pocos meses de separarse.

Bloody hell it’s been a while since I had a Beatles album, 444 albums ago to be exact. I’m still holding out hope that I get Abbey Road as my final one. As for today, I love The White Album. If I was to list my top 10 Beatles songs there’s definitely 3, maybe even 4 from this album. Granted there’s some tracks which on their own might not be the greatest but listened to as a whole it’s that perfect imperfection that make this such a fun listen for me. Top Track - Helter Skelter

Álbum excelente! Apesar dos conflitos a banda entregou um clássico absoluto. Moondrop May.