The White Album

The poster child of being greater than the sum of your parts.

(5/5) So much better ink has been spilled on this album, that it feels like a waste to put much more here. Sprawling, epic, revolutionary, etc.. I won't waste anyone's time trying to put much of it to words. A 'must hear'? Absolutely. Amazing? Sure. If anything, since this is our group's first Beatles album, I went into a mini-tailspin trying to figure out WHICH Beatles album is my favorite. They're ALL '5', without hesitation, but which is my favorite?? Sadly, I don't think this one. I think this one gets the Silver, behind "Abbey Road".. this was one of my first CDs as a kid, I burned it into my brain, and have fond memories of listening to "Blackbird" on a discman on my bike (NOT safe nor suggested) riding on a beautiful spring day, but this record has one track that hasn't held up, "Revolution 9" just isn't the fascinating piece it once was... I love everything else unconditionally, but since there is one track I'd voluntarily skip, it's second place. I envy anyone who is new to this 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

AH YEAH

The White Album was my favourite as a teenager. Been a while since I've listened in full.... Yeah, it's a 5.

This is one of the greatest albums ever made released by the band that changed popular music.

If the Beatles' goal with this album was to prove that they could write all kinds of genres better than everyone else... they succeeded.

I don’t need to listen to it. I know it off by heart.

Мене цей альбом вразив. Багато класних, веселих треків. Є авангардні штуки, хеві, коротше приємно був здивований. Ясне діло, що дуже зайшов Helter Skelter.

I feel like it’s near impossible to give Beatles albums anything but 5 stars, they’re considered one of the best ever for a reason. Unrelated but it really annoys me that the grey album produced by dangermouse isn’t more widely available, while my guitar gently weeps mixed with What more can I say by Jay Z was an epic song

Tremendous

4.5/5 - Some of the songs are a bit lacking in the lyrics department, but there enough bangers such that it balances it out. If someone else put this album on, I'd probably be happy to listen to it again, although I probably wouldn't listen again of my own volition. Nonetheless, pretty darn good album.

A classic.

Obviously

Dark Side of the Moon yesterday, and now this. I'm more of a Pink Floyd guy and have rated some Beatles album quite low... but this one might be my favourite. It only contains very few crappy songs (Obladi Oblada being maybe the worst) and plenty of stunners. My favourite is probably Helter Skelter, but there are plenty of other great (and influential) songs. Must be a five.

This album has everything, from Classic Rock to Folk to Hard Rock to Avant-Garde, but it never loses any quality. 'Wild Honey Pie' and 'Revolution 9' are considered the weakest - or least accessible! - tracks on the album, but the former is too short to really dislike and the latter really grows on you, I find myself enjoying 'Revolution 9' often! Despite its large runtime, there are rarely moments of boredom as it is incredibly consistent, even by The Beatles' standards. The one issue with this album though is the fact that you can hear The Beatles collapse. Throughout their previous 2-3 albums, you hear each member develop their own sound, Paul's is whimsical, John's is cynical, George's is spiritual and Ringo rarely gets time to do anything except for masterfully accompanying with wit and drums, but while their unique musical styles are shown on this album, it becomes clearer that their only connection as a band is their instrumentation. The deceptive Lennon-McCartney credits mislead you to think that the songs are collaborations, but did John really contribute anything to 'Blackbird'? Over the next year, they would collapse through the catastrophic 'Let It Be' sessions, but after the trip to India, nothing was the same for The Beatles.

For decades, The White Album has been my answer to what’s your favorite Beatles’ album. After all, two Beatles albums in one package; easy choice. Doubts arose with my choice during these listens. The White Album has delicious dishes and a great dessert, but you have to eat a can of peas. Its peas mind you, not canned beets or brussel sprouts. (And I’m talking 1970s canned food, not any organically improved 21st century version.) Peas are not the worst, and you can add some butter and salt to make them palatable. This problem speaks to the record’s contradiction. It contains a large handful of my favorite Beatles’ songs alongside these subpar ones. The White Album simultaneously showcased the most stripped down and raw version of the group with a large dollop of self-indulgence. Can we cut either “I Will” or “Martha, My Dear” from McCartney’s number of non-rock songs? To say nothing of losing “Ob-La-Di, Ob, La-Da” entirely. Harrison’s near perfect run of contributions runs out on “Piggies.” Save that one for The Bonzo Dog Band. Ringo come back when you have a child song anthem like “Octopus Garden”, not “Don’t Pass Me By.” Lennon showed grave misjudgment to include “Revolution 9” when Paul had “Junk”, George “Not Guilty” and John, himself had the roots of “Jealous Guy.” Each of these songs has some merit, but they highlight the traits that weakened their solo records, instead of the group’s ability to uplift (or perhaps leave out) mediocre material. As I continue to listen, and learn about The Beatles’ recordings, Paul McCartney constantly amazes me. Without a doubt the greatest musician in rock and roll history. Rock’s best bass player (check out his work and Ringo’s on “Dear Prudence"), plus an unbelievable ringer on guitar (“Taxman” and “Helter Skelter” on side Three). His piano and organ playing stand out as he adds to the plaintive mood of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” with his charging piano intro. It is that song’s “Layla” coda. He even bashes the drums with appropriate four-year-old energy on “Birthday.” Lastly, McCartney summons the abandon of the original rock and roll singers like no other vocalist. The joyous unleashing of his whoops makes a throwaway song like “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” something memorable. George contributed numbers to boost the record, and then some. “Long, Long, Gone” has more of a Revolver sound and theme like “Love You To”, but it compares nicely to Lennon and McCartney slower numbers like “Julia” and “Blackbird.” Harrison wrote songs with themes: guitar, sun, taxes, greedy people. He missed with “Piggies”, but the trivial, “Savoy Truffle”’s rocking psychedelic feel makes for an enjoyable track. As stated above, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” feels like a worthy precursor to the “Layla” album. A top ten song in the band’s catalog. Ringo can’t wait for that country record 60 years later. I try to balance my favoritism. Mick is as artistically worthy as Keith. Paul contributed in more ways than John. However, I cannot deny that Lennon wrote the majority of my Beatles favorites, and the same goes for The White Album. His “solo” acoustic pieces all strike a chord. He captures the hurt boy of “Julia” and the frustration of “I’m So Tired” in an understated way. “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” mixes two songs together bursting into some time of dark blossoming flower. Even his story song, “The Continuing Story of Buffalo Bill” outshines “Rocky Raccoon” as the sinister nature of the protagonist coincides with the sing-along quality. Lennon’s top songs feature nearly everything that made him brilliant. “Yer Blues” hints at the easily outshines the heavy blues bands of the era. Look at this song against Led Zeppelin’s and The Jeff Beck Group’s “You Shook Me.” Far more interesting, and original, lyrics; none of the bloat that makes the other band’s songs a slog, plus vocals with real blues qualities, not imitations. The smashing fun of “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey” followed by the brilliant disappointment of “Sexy Sadie.” While similar to my ears, Lennon’s vocals provide cynicism instead of the utopianism heard on “Imagine.” John’s encouragement on “Dear Prudence” gets the aforementioned brilliant support of Ringo and Paul. The group aspect of the song adds to its supportive nature. The White Album has been with me my entire laugh. In my memory, “Birthday” is the first song I consciously wanted to put on the record player. It remains a stunningly great, messy piece of history.

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The White Album Beatles 1968 Genres: Rock, Pop Styles: Psychedelic Rock, Pop Rock, Experimental 1. Back In The U.S.S.R. (★★★★★) -Contexto: Parodia de McCartney al sonido de los Beach Boys/Chuck Berry, escrita en India (con Mike Love, de los Beach Boys, presente en el retiro). Es el relato cómico de un viajero soviético feliz de volver a casa, en plena Guerra Fría. Ringo se había ido temporalmente de la banda y no toca batería en el tema; la toca McCartney. 2. Dear Prudence (★★★★★) -Contexto: Lennon la escribió en India para Prudence Farrow (hermana de la actriz Mia Farrow), que se tomó la meditación tan en serio que se encerró en su cuarto y preocupó al resto del grupo. Es una invitación suave a que salga y disfrute del día. -Fav 3. Glass Onion (★★★★★) -Contexto: Respuesta burlona de Lennon a los fans y críticos que sobreanalizaban las letras de los Beatles buscando significados ocultos. Está armada a propósito con referencias autorreferenciales a canciones anteriores (Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am The Walrus, Lady Madonna, The Fool On The Hill), como una cargada. 4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (★★★★★) -Contexto: Pop alegre con aire ska/calipso sobre la vida doméstica cotidiana de una pareja, Desmond y Molly Jones. El título sale de una frase que usaba el músico nigeriano Jimmy Scott, amigo de la banda, con el sentido de "la vida sigue". -Fav 5. Wild Honey Pie (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Fragmento experimental muy breve grabado por McCartney solo, tocando todos los instrumentos. Más un boceto casero de estudio que una canción con intención de single. 6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (★★★★★) -Contexto: Sátira de Lennon sobre un personaje que conocieron en el retiro de India, que combinaba discursos de paz y meditación con salir a cazar animales salvajes; ironiza sobre esa contradicción. Incluye una intervención vocal de Yoko Ono. 7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (★★★★★) -Contexto: Reflexión de Harrison sobre la apatía y la falta de amor en el mundo, inspirada en una frase que encontró al abrir un libro al azar. Convocó a su amigo Eric Clapton para el solo de guitarra, clave para que quedara conforme con el tema. -Fav 8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (★★★★★) -Contexto: Collage de Lennon armado con varios fragmentos de canciones distintas pegados entre sí. El título sale de un titular de una revista de armas; mezcla insinuaciones sexuales y referencias a las drogas ("Mother Superior", "I need a fix"). 9. Martha My Dear (★★★★★) -Contexto: Pieza de piano de McCartney dedicada a su perra, una Old English Sheepdog llamada Martha. Tono liviano, con aire de music-hall. 10. I'm So Tired (★★★★★) -Contexto: Lennon la escribió en India, sufriendo insomnio por la disciplina del retiro y pensando en Yoko Ono, de quien recibía cartas. Termina en un estallido de frustración por el cansancio. -Fav 11. Blackbird (★★★★★) -Contexto: Pieza acústica solista de McCartney, inspirada en el canto de un mirlo al amanecer. El propio McCartney contó después que la pensó también como una metáfora sobre la lucha por los derechos civiles de la población negra en Estados Unidos. -Fav -Frisson 12. Piggies (★★★★★) -Contexto: Sátira de Harrison contra la codicia y el materialismo de cierta clase social (banqueros, empresarios, los "cerditos"). Con humor ácido, aunque la canción quedó luego asociada, de forma ajena a su intención original, a la lectura delirante que hizo Charles Manson del álbum. 13. Rocky Raccoon (★★★★★) -Contexto: Relato narrativo de McCartney en clave de parodia de western/vieja película de vaqueros, sobre un personaje que busca vengarse de un rival por una mujer. Es puro relato de ficción, sin trasfondo personal. 14. Don't Pass Me By (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Primera composición propia de Ringo Starr, que venía trabajando en ella hace años. Canción sencilla, con aire country, sobre alguien que espera angustiado a su pareja y llega a imaginar que tuvo un accidente. 15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Tema crudo y directo de McCartney, inspirado en ver a dos monos apareándose en la calle durante la estadía en India. Deliberadamente provocador en su brevedad; solo tocan McCartney y Starr. 16. I Will (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Balada acústica de amor de McCartney, otra de las escritas en India. Declaración de devoción simple y directa, sin imágenes complicadas. 17. Julia (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Homenaje acústico de Lennon a su madre, Julia Lennon, muerta en un accidente cuando él tenía 17 años. También incorpora imágenes vinculadas a Yoko Ono ("ocean child" es la traducción del significado de su nombre), mezclando a las dos mujeres en la letra. 18. Birthday (★★★★★) -Contexto: Rock directo, armado casi como una jam de estudio grabada en una sola sesión, con poco contenido lírico elaborado. Yoko Ono y Pattie Harrison cantan coros. 19. Yer Blues (★★★★★) -Contexto: Parodia de Lennon de los clichés del blues británico de la época, que según él mismo contó también reflejaba de forma sincera la depresión y el aislamiento que sentía en su matrimonio, incluso estando en India. 20. Mother Nature's Son (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Balada acústica pastoral de McCartney, inspirada directamente en una charla del Maharishi sobre la naturaleza. Imágenes idílicas de vida rural simple. 21. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (★★★★★) -Contexto: Rocker enérgico de Lennon cuyo título y frases retoman expresiones que usaba el Maharishi en sus charlas. Tema más centrado en la energía y el humor que en un relato claro. 22. Sexy Sadie (★★★★★) -Contexto: Ataque velado de Lennon al propio Maharishi, escrito después de que él y Harrison se desilusionaran por rumores sobre una conducta inapropiada del gurú hacia algunas mujeres del retiro. El nombre se cambió respecto de la versión original, más explícita, para evitar problemas legales. 23. Helter Skelter (★★★★★) -Contexto: Intento deliberado de McCartney de hacer el tema más ruidoso y caótico posible, tras leer que The Who había grabado algo muy estridente. El título refiere a un tobogán en espiral de las ferias inglesas, como metáfora de una subida y bajada vertiginosa; no tiene relación, más allá de la lectura posterior de Charles Manson, con una guerra racial ni con el apocalipsis. -Fav -Frisson 24. Long, Long, Long (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Balada devocional de Harrison, entendida como dirigida a Dios y no a una persona, reflejo de su acercamiento cada vez mayor a la espiritualidad. Termina con un sonido de traqueteo no planeado, causado por una botella que vibraba sobre un altavoz Leslie. 25. Revolution 1 (★★★★★) -Contexto: Versión más lenta y bluesera de "Revolution", escrita por Lennon en India como respuesta directa a los conflictos políticos de 1968 (protestas estudiantiles en París, movimiento antiguerra). Es ambigua respecto de la violencia como método de cambio: en esta toma, Lennon agrega "in" después de "count me out", dejando su postura abierta a propósito. 26. Honey Pie (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: Pastiche afectuoso de McCartney al estilo del music-hall y las orquestas de baile de los años 20-30, en homenaje al tipo de música que tocaba su padre. Canción nostálgica y teatral, no una confesión personal. 27. Savoy Truffle (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Canción de Harrison armada enteramente con nombres de golosinas de una caja real de bombones Mackintosh's Good News, escrita en parte como cargada a su amigo Eric Clapton por su gusto por el chocolate y los problemas dentales que le traía. 28. Cry Baby Cry (★★★★★) -Contexto: Tema onírico de Lennon con aire de canción de cuna, disparado en parte por una publicidad que escuchó a medias. Está construido con imágenes fragmentadas y surreales de un rey y una reina, sin un relato único y coherente. -Fav -Frisson 29. Revolution 9 (★★★★★) -Contexto: Collage sonoro de vanguardia armado principalmente por Lennon junto a Yoko Ono y George Harrison, hecho con loops de cinta, fragmentos hablados y efectos de estudio sobrantes del final extendido de la sesión original de "Revolution 1". Pensado como arte sonoro, no como canción convencional. -Comentario: audio despersonalizante que a mi parecer te mete en la mente de alguien en pleno "mal viaje". 30. Good Night (★★★★⯨) -Contexto: Nana orquestal cantada por Ringo Starr, escrita por Lennon específicamente para su hijo pequeño, Julian. Cierra el álbum en un tono suave y sentimental, en contraste deliberado con el caos de "Revolution 9". -TOTAL = ★★★★⯨ (5)

I feel like there's not a double album out there without a single miss on it, but this is as close as it comes.

Кто если не жуки

my personal favorite by them

the Joni Mitchell’s Blue of white

4.6/5

Everyone who says this isn't a 5 is simply lying. This is peak Beatles. They still are talking...ish. They are doing the drugs. They are sharing the song writing responsibilities with Paul and John really controlling the creative vision. If this wasn't a double album, it likely is more powerful than Thriller. If you take JUST the hit songs off of here, it may be the most important album ever. But alas, there are plenty of fluffy nonsensical whimsy that, if you really look at the Beatles, like REALLY look at them, you would see is at their core anyways. It can be knocked for not being political enough- but dear lord, Revolution, Back in the USSR both are on here. How much more political edgy do you want them to be. *checks notes* Oh, John and Paul wrote Give Peace a Chance a year later. My bad. Still a 5.

Really opened modern music. Ambitious though rewarding.

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they basically invented metal and creepy tiktok audios with this one. like the one monkee's album from earlier but peak. i maybe liked rubber soul more than this so i might need to edit that review.

My mother had a copy of the Red, White, and Blue albums on LP and my father lent them to a friend and my mother never go them back and that was a pain point in their marriage for at least 25 years. He recovered some points when he bought her The White Album when it came out on some fancy re-release on CD. It was all put to rest when she got a streaming service and now listens to the Beatles radio station nonstop.

The musicality of even the first few songs are on a level of its own. The story within the lyrics and MUSIC of Bungalow Bill Wow’ed me! While My Guitar Gently Weeps has always been a top song of mine in general. This album is heavily written by Lennon and McCartney and then Harrison just casually writes a masterpiece and inserts his dominance! The B side was stellar but not as strong as the first. However, the songs are still good. I really enjoyed this body of work. The Beatles are artists in a class of their own. This is probably the greatest double album of all time next to Biggies, Life After Death. 10/10.

Amazing. So many genres, styles, and sounds. A masterpiece.

i love every song on here including rev 9, biggest beatles glazer clocking in and unafraid

This album was an amazing listen in 1968 and sounds just as great today.

I love this album. I love the classic pop/rock songs, especially “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “I Will,” “Dear Prudence,” and “Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da“. But this album gets WEIRD and you know what? I love the weirdness too. “Happiness is a Warm Gun” changes melody every 45 seconds or so and they’re all good. But it’s a weird choice for a pop album. “Bungalow Bill” with its random people singing the chorus and then ending in them all applauding themselves? Weird. And endearing. “Rocky Raccoon” had a girl named Magill, who calls herself Lil but everyone knew her as Nancy? What? Love it. There might be some songs on sides C and D that aren’t as strong as the first half. But will I still give this album 5 stars based on the strength of all the rest? I Will.

Perfect

Long album, with a few duds here and there, but surprisingly high quality

From childlike joy to the darkest of terrors- arguably should be #1 on this list.

So much good music in a single album. These guys were top musicians

Het is een dubbelalbum en dat betekent (ik zou bijna 'uiteraard' zeggen) dat er nummers op staan die weggesneden hadden kunnen worden. Sterker nog, misschien had de 2e schijf wel volledig achterwege kunnen blijven. Gelukkig staan er ook genoeg goede tot geweldige nummers op, met Blackbird denk ik als persoonlijk favoriet. Dit album is zowel een 4 als een 5. Er staan teveel nummers op die niet bijdragen aan een 5 sterren rating, maar als dit album zou ontbreken op deze lijst der lijsten zou het ook niet kloppen. Fuck it, 5 sterren. Ik ben me niet genoeg gaan storen aan de speelduur om daarvoor punten in te houden. Gewoon lekkere muziek.

Do you have any idea what it’s like, having nobody who knows? You’re walking down the street, plastering a smile on your face, waving to your boring neighbors, watching identical whitewashed houses pass by you in a blur. And you think to yourself, with great sorrow, "not one of these people knows I’m listening to 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill.'" Hell, I doubt they even know that the walrus was Paul… This is probably the Beatles album from their peak years that I listen to the least; it’s ridiculously long, and there’s a lot of clunkers. Most of it is just sonic noodling. That said, it’s sonic noodling from John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It’s like watching Van Gogh finger paint. The length of it also adds to the general spirit of experimentation and eclecticness—the plain white album cover a blank slate from which their evolving sound could flourish without being pigeonholed. I mean, what is one to do after more or less inventing the concept album, except to take a hard left and release what is essentially the exact opposite? It reminds me of how Ian MacKaye pioneered both hardcore and post-hardcore; you have to break your own rules as an artist to evolve. That said, outside of the collage-like, eclectic album format, there are just some truly amazing songs. “Back in The USSR” is a personal favorite of mine, with its hilarious political satire. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is, despite being the “Shiny Happy People” of the 60s, a super fun pop tune with a great melody. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is one of the most beautiful songs the Beatles ever wrote. “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” is amazingly multi-faceted and has some fantastic vocals. “Blackbird” is the perfect tender tearjerker. “Birthday” is perhaps the most fun Beatles song out there. “Helter Skelter” is not only a banger, but it also pioneered a whole genre. “Revolution 9” is an excellent sound collage. There is, by a conservative estimate, a dozen different genres represented on this album—some of which were still in their infancy during 1968. It truly represents a spirit of artistic exploration. The oscillation between these fleshed-out, beautiful ballads, snippets of half-formed ideas, and light-hearted self-indulgence almost makes you feel like you’re in the studio with them. If their previous albums pioneered the concept of the album, this pioneered the concept of the band: a vehicle whose purpose is the journey rather than the destination. Much of popular music today wouldn’t be the way it is if it weren’t for the Beatles deciding to make all these weird, experimental songs and throw them to the wind. Once more, they prove themselves to be the greatest band of all time.

Amazing🙌🙌🙌 Honestly probably one of the greatest albums

An absolute classic a magical stunner of diverse amazing songs and one absolute test of everyone's willingness to have ears. The epitome of a band at its best and worse at the same time.

Five stars duh — not my personal favorite Beatles album as a whole but does have some of my favorite Beatles songs in the catalog Playlist add: "Blackbird" but could've easily been "Helter Skelter", "Back In the U.S.S.R.", or "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

Long, but worth it. One of the greatest albums ever.

5.

These guys were the Beatles of their day and age. Seriously, what other band could get away with putting a track like, “Revolution #9,” on an album and then follow it immediately with a beauty like, “Good Night?” I can just hear the production meeting ending by someone saying, “Because we’re the fookin’ Beatles, that’s why.”

This is the answer to the question: can the members of the Beatles do their own projects together? A resounding YES. Also, this is what we get when they are allowed to play with all of the equipment in their studio.

A bit like the Stones, for me the Beatles can do (almost) no wrong. So apart from the experimental/filler Revolution 9 this has to be one of the best doubles of all time. All aspects of Beatles genius wrapped up in one package.

I mean..... That one of the more fun beatles albums, tons of great stuff. Start with back in the USSR and end with Rocky raccoon? Come on now

Is there anyone who says shitty things about this record?

The Beatles in "there's no bad ideas" mode

The Beatles – The Beatles [The White Album] (1968) On Day 228, listening to this entire record in one sitting was absolutely crazy, but completely worth it. This LP really exposed me to their incredible craft, showing off everything they were capable of as musicians especially in how they layered their production. Watching them shift effortlessly through blues, psychedelia, rock, and even hard rock kept me fully engaged and curious from start to finish. While a few tracks felt like filler on an album this long, landing 26 standout songs out of a 30-track list is an unbelievable feat. I don't even have to say much more. A true 5-star masterpiece. A solid 5/5.

i mean what can i say

Everything pales in comparison to while my guitar gently weeps

Genius.

My favourite by them. The perfect blend of sounds and influences. Dear Prudence might be my favourite song of theirs full stop, it isn't discussed enough.

Although I’m not the biggest Beatles fan there is no doubting they are incredible and this album especially is up there as one of the all time greats.

Album #158: The Beatles – The Beatles (The White Album) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I surprised myself with this one today. I didn’t think I’d be giving it five stars. I love The Beatles, and I’ve heard The White Album a few times before. It’s not that it never clicked with me, I just always remembered there were a few too many weak moments and weaker songs scattered across its huge runtime. But listening to it properly today, I genuinely don’t think there are any weak songs on it. This is The Beatles simply emptying the tank. It’s them throwing every ounce of their talent, creativity, and musical ability onto one enormous record. It’s a completely formless, gargantuan marathon of an album with thirty songs, yet somehow it never feels like it’s running out of ideas. It’s staggering just how accomplished they were as musicians and songwriters. Some of my favourite albums are ones that move effortlessly between different genres. Something like Rain Dogs by Tom Waits immediately comes to mind. But this might be the greatest example of that I’ve ever heard. They cover so many different styles, genres, moods, and approaches to songwriting that it’s almost overwhelming. For 1968, it’s like they’re mapping out where popular music would go over the following decades. You can hear the past, the present, and the future of music from one song to the next. Everyone is on fire here. From Ringo to John, every member contributes something memorable. Ringo’s Don’t Pass Me By, which, for whatever reason, gave me strong Leonard Cohen vibes, is a brilliant song. I’ve never been a Ringo basher. I think he’s a genuinely underrated songwriter. George Harrison arguably contributes the greatest Beatles song ever written with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But even something like Piggies is so cleverly arranged and so well put together. Then you’ve got McCartney entering his slightly sillier phase, something that would eventually culminate in Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Here you’ve got Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Rocky Raccoon, and honestly, I love this side of McCartney. It takes incredible confidence as a songwriter to pull off songs like these without sounding ridiculous. They’re playful and inventive. But, these tunes are so offset by bone trembling rock and roll from McCartney too. Then there’s Lennon. As great as everyone is, this is John’s record through and through. He absolutely dominates it. Take your pick: Dear Prudence, Julia, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, and maybe my favourite Beatles song of all, Yer Blues, which I absolutely adore and throw on all the time when I’m feeling angrily down. What’s most remarkable is that every one of those songs is completely different. He never repeats himself. Every idea feels fresh. The guy was an absolute fucking songwriting genius. So now I think I have to completely re-evaluate my ranking of Beatles albums, because this one has genuinely thrown me.

This was already one of my favorite albums. Not every song on it is great, but every song belongs, and the heavy hitters of the Beatles in their prime carries this to an easy 5. Shout out Rocky Raccoon.

Very unique, but what a classic. I love it when Beatles songs separate instruments into different ears on my headphones, and it makes the listening experience much more real. There are so many classics on this album, and I can understand why the Beatles are such a big inspiration even for modern music today. I especially like Martha My Dear, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, Blackbird (of course), and Dear Prudence.

Even if not every song is a winner, this is one of the best albums ever by one of my favorite bands. They never disappoint.

Even the bad songs are good. Cept R9 that song sucks ass. 4.5

Absolute masterpiece start to finish 5/5

How can I not love this monumental album? Even Revolution 9

One of those rare albums that can be long AF and I don't mind.

Some filler but even that filler is better than most. Dear Prudence is a masterpiece.

So much of The Beatle’s discography I find extremely over-rated. I’ve always understood their impact on music, but the songs themselves often fall flat compared to the godly heights people often talk about. However, I simply cannot deny that this album is brilliantly written, produced and delivered. It’s definitely my favourite collection of material from the band and I can imagine the record blowing minds back in the 60s. On Disc One, While My Guitar Gently Weeps & Blackbird are timeless classics, but the rest of the songs also feel like they have their own place and impact. Disc Two switches up the pace a little bit, and I love the blues influence on Yer Blues & the rockier tracks that follow. Overall, I feel like I’ve been proved wrong about The Beatles after listening to this in full. My opinions on their other work remains firm, but this album is without doubt brilliant. Oh, and also Revolution 9 can be placed firmly in the bin.

Why Don't We Do It In The Road? is the greatest piece of writing that Paul McCartney has ever set to music. Plenty of amazing stuff on here, but nothing comes close to the best song ever written.

The Beatles try to be deliberately anti-art and avant/garde but wind up inventing 13 alternative rock subgenres on this double album that hit stores in a plain, white sleeve with no title in 1968. The psychedelic era was over. Raw, sometimes loud, sometimes silly minimalism was the idea. Still reeling from the death of their manager and fresh off a soul searching, inspiring but, also disappointing trip to India, the fab 4 was burned out on everything that came before. There are some arguably low effort, self indulgent songs on this album but, it’s unfair to not consider the White Album in its entirety because the Beatles as the most popular band in the world were ballsy and arrogant enough to make an album that could have alienated everyone and collapse the whole facade of Beatles, but that wasn’t too far away. 4.7^

LOS A M O

The best Beatles album. The best double album ever - there’s a whole archetype of scattershot throw-everything-at-the-wall doubles that only exist because of this. Unlike most of those, there’s not a bad song here, not even a bad moment. It’s all wonderful, catchy and experimental and always interesting. Ask a group of Beatles fans their favorite song from this and they’ll all pick some different weird deep cut - mine has always been Paul’s oddball western “Rocky Raccoon.” Timeless, especially thanks to that crisp 2018 mix.

Yes it’s white. And it’s an album.

How do they keep writing perfect albums?

This was a difficult one to rate … there’s a lot of excellence here, but lit really didn’t need that 4th side … I’ll give it 5 but might change my mind later!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Truly, what to say about The White Album? Well, for one, it’s my favorite Beatles album. I only just realized that but it’s true. The first side has some absolute perfect songs, having several of their best, and it also creates such a lack of specificity that makes a lot of these songs timeless for me. For example so many of their albums feel like they’re marketed to appeal to the time period they were released in; this instead feels like it deals so heavily in everything across all music, that it can’t help but catapult itself across all times, making it invoke pretty much anything you want it to. However, the songs that truly help this album achieve both its sprawl and its incredibly high quality are “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Blackbird,” “Julia,” “Helter Skelter,” and “Revolution 9.” “Guitar” is the obvious first high point, and it’s a legendary song that pushes the album’s momentum forward really well. “Blackbird” is similar, though in my opinion in a much better way, especially because of its iconic tune and performance, which really ascends it into a sort of anthem, in a strange way. “Julia,” my personal favorite song on the album, is one of the best songs ever, and works so well as an abstraction of a deep melancholy and persisting love. I love it as the closer to disc A 2. “Helter Skelter” is an obvious barn-burner that not only works so well as a really great hard-rock song, but also effortlessly subsides into the ballad-type songs that populate a lot of the last side. “Revolution 9” ties the album all together in a way, though: first of all, just to say it, I fucking adore electroacoustic, it’s one of the best music genres out there and certainly the best experimental one. After all the cute songs of the D-side, you get a 9-minute sound collage epic, one of the best songs on the album, and a song that, if you’ve made it this far, really helps to ride out the rest of the album, to the lullaby closer. Kind of a perfect album, but only if you acknowledge that it’s purposefully very far from actually perfect. It’s this popular for a reason while still being so weird. 10/10

For every misstep on this album and there are a couple (oblidioblada and why dont we do it in the road are abject) there are some amazing songs. Possibly the most important beatles album as all of their future difficulties are laid bare in the track listing. Sexy Sadie is lennons poke at mysticality. While my guitar gently keeps is i think george being annoyed by being sidelined. While this was going on mccartney was producing works of art about his dog (Martha my dear) and the civil rights movement (blackbird). There is tension palpable in the album. There needs to have been a couple of songs dropped. However overall its still amazing

Mostly brilliant…with occasional fillers (looking at you Bungalow Bill)

The chaos is why we love it. A million ideas all shoved together and amongst them some of the absolute best. Blackbird? While my guitar? Happiness is a warm gun? This is peak Beatles madness

I'm already a big Beatles fan and I love all of their records but this one and revolver are special for me, they're my two favorite Beatles albums and this one specifically I really enjoy listening to it, it's a masterpiece and it's very diverse and has so many different sounds. Also it has some great songs that people don't know about because their other work is more popular.

Chaotic perfection- I will stand by this in all its messy glory as one of the greatest albums ever made. And I don’t really like Revolution 9.

First Beatles album I’m rating here, absolutely amazing :,)

ok. yeah. i get "the beatles" now. this album is crazy. the start is kinda hit and miss but as it goes on it keeps straying further and further away from the kinda stuff they were doing on their earlier albums until u get to the penultimate track "revolution 9" which is straight up just 8 minutes of experimental ambient music concrète. and im so fucking here for it. idk what happened to these lads in the mid-late 60s (other than taking lsd and getting sick to bastard death of each other) but damn were they cooking! "revolution 9" is definitely my favourite track just for being so unexpectedly out there but "happiness is a warm gun", "helter skelter" and "savoy truffle" are all strong contenders for second place for similar "catching me off guard" reasons, and even the songs i don't like so much are like. idk their inclusion almost makes the other tracks better somehow? it's an album that always keeps u guessing. and obviously "back in the ussr" slaps but everyone knows that at this point. what a crazy album. normally i'd hold off a 5 star rating for something so long and so hit and miss but when it hits it comes out fuckin swinging. wow.

Ett sånt knippe låtar!!!! Kanske The Beatles på sin högsta höjd. Men avsaknaden av linje och de spretiga intressen som låtskrivarna skaffat sig gör skivan till en riktig sallad. Det är konstigt att man samtidigt önskar sig ett vanligt album och inte kan tänka sig att stryka ett enda beat. Revolution 9 saknar beats. Såklart en femma!

Am I the only one who feels like The Beatles are calling me to action here? Something about Piggies and Helter Skelter is just really making me want to take on a divine mission. Honestly I'm swamped right now with 1001albumsgenerator so I can't do it but I hope somebody's been able to answer the call. This is certainly not the best Beatles album but it's my personal favorite. So shaggy and all over the place and almost no bad songs (fuck Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da). It has so much replay value since it's basically 4 dramatically different albums in one - I can't hold it all in my head at once I'm surprised every time I listen. The big Beatles songs all get played to death so the most classic ones (Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps) lose their power over time. The funny songs (Piggies, Back in the U.S.S.R., Rocky Raccoon) I liked when I was 6 and now I get more of the jokes (Gideon's Bible is such a funny name for a gang). And the slow emotional songs (Dear Prudence, Julia) were boring to me as a kid but now they're some of my favorite Beatles songs. I'm So Tired is an underrated classic too. I recently learned that Sexy Sadie was originally "Maharishi" and was changed to be polite to the Maharishi?? Anyway just a great time - the Beatles getting more eccentric and independent and maybe the only Beatles album you could possibly call "underrated".

Number nine! Tää oli muistaakseni ihan eka Beatles minkä aikanaan ostin cd:lle. Tuli myös siirrettyä tämä aataminaikaisen mp3-soittimen muistiin, ja sieltä luukutettua. Onhan tässä aika paljon erikoiskamaa, mutta sekin on semmoista että itse ainakin pidän siitäkin kovasti. Kai tässä vihaajat kuulee että "ei ole yhtenäinen kokonaisuus" ja tottahan se on että nää on melkein enemmän sällien sooloprojekteina vedettyjä biisejä, mutta jos siellä on tyyliin Back in the USSSR, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird yms. -tason biisejä, niin ei voi muuta sanoo ku hattuu nostaa! Tämähän menisi melkein Greatest Hitsinä. Mun on mahdotonta sanoa mikä on Beatlesin paras levy, se kun riippuu ihan päivästä, mutta kyllä tämä aina niissä keskusteluissa on mukana Abbey Roadin, Revolverin, Kersantti Pippurin ja Rubber Soulin kanssa. Aika helppo vitska.

So good.

These bugs make a mean ditty

This album is an absolute mess. Many songs that aren't up to standard, just a general lack of editing of some really weak songs, but better songs like Not Guilty and Junk didn't make it. And a not particularly interesting "sound collage" polluting the last side. Actually I could do without most of side 4.

Increible album, me atrevo a decir que no tiene tema malo. No skip album. De manual.

Why’s no one talking about these guys??!

banger

There is no way for me to be any way objective about an album I likely listened to 100+ times before I even entered first grade, as it was one of the less than ten records my parents owned. To those of you who complain that some of the tracks are substandard and they should have cut it down: are you nuts? Do you understand how lucky we are that what is most likely the greatest rock group in the history of popular music decided to make a 90+ minute album where they tried their hands at every single genre and style they could possibly think of? Best track: “Julia”

Ah yes, the "John does some bullshit" album. The first disk is mostly catchy radio hits with a side of weird as hell, and then the second disk is just anything goes. Despite this, it's always been one of my fave Beatles albums, probably second after sgt Pepper's. It's weird and bullshit in a uniquely enticing sort of way, and every time I listen I find something else. Did the beatles invent the word "brah"?

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)

I'm starting to think the Beatles might be underrated.

You can describe this in a million ways, but on this relisten, I settled on one of the stupidest: this is The Beatles' 69 Love Songs. I actually do think that context enriches the album - it's at least in part a series of genre experiments from Lennon-McCartney: here's the cowboy-country/ragtime ballad (Rocky Raccoon); here's the suicidal blues cut (Yer Blues); here's The Beach Boys (Back in the U.S.S.R.); some of it is just transcendental (Julia); some of it is just really dumb (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da). What a rich text. Obviously! New things are constantly jumping out at me. The piano at the start of While My Guitar Gently Weeps may be even more gorgeous than Harrison's guitar work over the rest of it. McCartney's drumming in Dear Prudence proves that while Starr is indeed the right drummer for The Beatles, he is not its best drummer. To whatever extent The Beatles catalog can even contain deep cuts, Cry Baby Cry may be my favourite, even if Lennon dismisses it as rubbish. I once would have called Long, Long, Long the weakest "real" song on the record, but I find myself now entranced by it. It's such a delicate, dynamic song that, like much of Harrison's later work, is a love song to God that is also universal. As Doug Martsch said three decades later: God is whoever you're performing for. I've come around on Revolution 9 from thinking of it only as a joke as a kid to really finding it to be emotionally resonant at time now, even if I still am inclined to skip it. I'd often turn the album off at Cry Baby Cry, considering Good Night to be unlistenable pap. I'm not sure if it's just age — the echoes in the side-closing songs of Cindy Lee's Diamond Jubilee might also contribute — but I find myself tearing up listening to Good Night now, even Starr's whispered farewell at the end. The pastiche is the point, but also, it transcends pastiche. I invariably think of being a kid, on vacation with my family, leaving some theme park in the warm California night and my dad driving around a mostly-empty parking lot, windows rolled down, this song blaring, laughing my head off. And then listening to Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I invariably think of my cousin performing it at her father's celebration of life; my uncle loved The Beatles, as my cousin does, as my father does, as I do. Jason's one-LP White Album, 2026-08-17 edition: Side A 1. Back in the U.S.S.R. 2. Dear Prudence 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Happiness is a Warm Gun 5. I'm So Tired 6. Blackbird 7. Rocky Raccoon 8. Junk Side B 1. I Will 2. Julia 3. Not Guilty 4. Mother Nature's Son 5. Sexy Sadie 6. Helter Skelter 7. Long, Long, Long 8. Savoy Truffle 9. Cry Baby Cry

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

Classic for a reason.

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.