The White Album

Sometimes things are called classics because they are.

I’ve listened to this album before but never in its entirety. It’s a masterpiece for good reason. Has some of the Beatles biggest songs and I love the toned back vibe of this album (even down to the album cover)

This is the 47th album I've listened to this year, and out of all the ones from this list, this is the first one I a. have already listened through, and b. already own. What to say, it's iconic, it's ecclectic, it's fueled by John's heroin addiction. One of my favorite Beatles albums, top 3 at least.

Besides some weird throw-away songs (Wild Honey Pie, Piggies, Revolution 9) the white album has some of the best songs in the Beatles catalogue. Blackbird, USSR, Prudence, Helter Skelter, Warm Gun, Rocky Raccoon, Gently Weeps, So Tired, Martha... what a creative achievement!

can’t go wrong with the beatles. their style is generational and the vibe they create is wonderful. i love the feel of their music and this album is no exception. it was a bit random at times, but all good to me.

The White Album is less a unified record than a sprawling musical landscape. The Beatles move freely between styles—folk, rock, blues, music hall, acoustic ballads, and experimental sound collage—often within the span of just a few tracks. What could easily feel chaotic instead becomes a showcase for the extraordinary range of songwriting within the band. One of the striking things about revisiting the album is how many standout songs appear in rapid succession. Tracks like “Dear Prudence,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Blackbird,” and “Rocky Raccoon” each create their own distinct musical world, yet they all feel equally compelling. The variety of voices from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison gives the album its character; instead of pulling in different directions, the contrast between their styles becomes part of the appeal. While the album is famously eclectic—and occasionally indulgent—that very looseness allows the band to explore ideas that might not have fit on a more tightly curated record. The result is an album that feels expansive and unpredictable, where acoustic intimacy can sit comfortably next to heavier rock or strange studio experimentation. It may not be the most polished Beatles album, but it might be the one that best captures the breadth of their creativity. For all its quirks, The White Album remains a remarkable achievement and an easy five.

J'adore même si très long, le double album était sûrement de trop 😉

More British music, this time the best the island has to offer

Parts of it are very good, parts of it are great, a few bits of it aren't. But overall magnificent.

It’s radical, it’s experimental, it’s romantic, it’s commercial, it’s too long, it’s too good, it’s whimsical, it’s crazy and centered and incomprehensible and kinda excessive but an overall artistic vision well excecuted within the chaos they created for themselves to share with the world

There was zero chance this would get anything other than five stars. My first time ever getting through all of Revolution 9. Other than that…

Icónico, le doy un n u e v e.

One of my favorite albums of all time, though I'd say it's length doesn't work in its favor, the eclecticism in display does. There's like 3 songs I don't like in here (Revolution 9 is the only one I skip, though in principle it's not a bad idea, it goes on for too long) and the rest of the songs are bangers. I love this album. I also really like the Esher Demos. There's just so many layers here. Anyway another criticism I have is that clearly the cracks were already starting to show within the band and thus it's no wonder that the variety of styles and moods is so diverse. Paul, George and John are all doing their own thing for the most part, but goddamn they're also at their prime. This album pales only next to my other two favorites: Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers. But it sits at a very comfortable third place. I would probably give it a 4.5 but given how things are, I'm rounding up to a well deserved 5.

Another on vinyl. Beatles are my favorite

'Nuff said.

Is this the greatest Beatles album? Is this the best album ever? They're my favorite band; I'm biased. But Siouxsie and the Banshees covered a John song and a Paul song from this album. I think that says something! The first disc is a really good pop album, they could have left at that but the second disc is all over the place. ‘Helped Skelter is so punk/metal. ‘Revolution 9’ is really cool in the context of the album; I don’t often listen to it by itself, but I can’t listen to the White Album without ‘Revolution 9’ and I really enjoy it when I do. It has to be in there. And ‘Cry Baby Cry’ is one of my favorite ever Beatles songs, and the way the last three songs run together... The Beatles are the Beatles because of this album.

Honestly I wasn't sure whether to rate this a four or a five - it's very long and not always pleasant! - but the fact that this album has so many bangers while still being very weird and artistic sells me on five stars. Not a "perfect album" five stars, but a "masterpiece that I'm so glad exists" five stars.

Also had this album in my house growing up, a rare piece of legit classic rock. Didn't listen to it as much as Sgt Peppers which makes sense now because it's like weird at times. Kinda loopy but hard to give this anything less than five stars.

There is a lot of zaniness here that I can't fully endorse, and I'm one of those idiots that think Sgt Peppers is better, but I'm not going to be that guy that says this is anything less than a masterpiece particularly for the time it came out.

1001 Albums Vol. 0025: The White Album ============================================================ Introduction: Well, everyone knew this was going to happen eventually. Finally, here we are: The Beatles. The band that everyone knows, the band that not everyone understands, the band that is almost universally regarded to be one of the best and most influential of all time, and the band that has sold the most records of all time. Of course we were bound to come across them eventually. Now, up until this point, I've never actually listened to a Beatles album in full. I briefly tried their first album, the one where the album cover is them standing in an elevator shaft or something like that, but I only made it through the first few songs of which I found to be just alright. If I had done a bit more research, I would have figured out that their first album is widely considered to be one of their worst and actually just an alright album overall. Fortunately, to my knowledge. that album isn't on this site. I don't want to listen to that again. It wasn't bad, just something that I would literally never listen to again. Anyway, it would take The Beatles a few years before they would eventually transform their sound into what they're widely known and loved for today. Fortunately, The White Album was created post-transformation, so no crappy 60's mainstream rock for us...I would assume at least. Anyway, The White Album, also sometimes referred to as self-titled, was released in 1968 by...you guessed it...The Beatles. And, like I just said, it was released during the era of The Beatles where they had become known as one of the best bands of all time instead of just another 60's rock band. This should obviously show in the general reception that this album receives. You have casual listeners and critics hailing it as one of the greatest albums of all time, one of the greatest blends of genres of all time, and the score on this site actually reflects that ideology for once. Yes, for once the entire site can agree that the general praise that this album receives is completely correct. Now, the reasoning for this critical reception is actually something that I find to be pretty strange. In fact, it's something that I actually heavily criticized on an album that I generated earlier on. If you know, you know. Anyway, the thing I criticized on that album was actually the pure variety of genres that the album provided. Not in a good way either. One song could be a country ballad and then the next could be a gospel song, and the album just overall felt very disconnected because of its writing. This album is actually praised for the amount of variety it has. Now, we're literally talking about one of the best bands of all time, I would assume that they managed to achieve this sense of diversity better than the other artist I just referenced did, but I'm still skeptical nonetheless. But, as always, the only way to really see is to actually listen to the album itself. Let's get into our first, and certainly not our last, Beatles album. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track 1: Back In The U.S.S.R Score: 10/10 Track 2: Dear Prudence Score: 11/10 Track 3: Glass Onion Score: 9/10 Track 4: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Score: 8/10 Track 5: Wild Honey Pie Score: 3/10 Track 6: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill Score: 7/10 Track 7: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Score: 11/10 Track 8: Happiness Is A Warm Gun Score: 11/10 Track 9: Martha My Dear Score: 9/10 Track 10: I'm So Tired Score: 9/10 Track 11: Blackbird Score: 11/10 Track 12: Piggies Score: 7/10 Track 13: Rocky Racoon Score: 8/10 Track 14: Don't Pass Me By Score: 7/10 Track 15: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? Score: 5/10 Track 16: I Will Score: 8/10 Track 17: Julia Score: 9/10 Track 18: Birthday Score: 8/10 Track 19: Yer Blues Score: 8/10 Track 20: Mother Nature's Son Score: 9/10 Track 21: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey Score: 8/10 Track 22: Sexy Sadie Score: 8/10 Track 23: Helter Skelter Score: 11/10 Track 24: Long, Long, Long Score: 8/10 Track 25: Revolution 1 Score: 9/10 Track 26: Honey Pie Score: 7/10 Track 27: Savoy Truffle Score: 7/10 Track 28: Cry Baby Cry Score: 8/10 Track 29: Revolution 9 Score: 6/10 Track 30: Good Night Score: 8/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conclusion: This album...it might just be one of the most bizarre things that I have ever heard. First of all, this album was an absolute monster. I had no idea that I was about to be listening to a full double longplay going into this, nor did I have any idea just how much would be thrown at me at once. Seriously, thirty tracks is absolutely ridiculous. I'm pretty sure that's still a bit less than that one album I generated earlier by Minutemen, but still. Again, thank God I don't do individual track breakdowns anymore because this too would be an album that would just...kill me. Anyway, the album's length aside, what about the actual album itself? Well...this one is quite a doozy. There's really no way that I can describe this album that would do it proper justice, but I'll still try my best. Just listen to it for yourself if you want the full experience. Anyway, pretty much everything I heard about this album holds true. I think that it's great, there's a lot of variety to it, and there's even a really great story to its creation as well. I think I'll start with the...music first....You'll find a good bit of stuff on this album. Alright, at its core, this is a rock album. There are plenty of songs that are objectively rock at their core. That being said, there's a fair bit of other genres on here as well. You've got folk songs, folk pop songs, a whole eight minute sound collage, blues, a song that borderline sounds like early metal, lullabies, and so on. Like I said, there's just so much on here that I couldn't quite go over it all or really explain the music with too much depth. All I'll really say is that every song sounds pretty great, has great production for the 60s, and is pretty well-written. There's also a ton of influential songs on here as well such as Helter Skelter and Happiness Is A Warm Gun. That's all I'm really going to say about this album and its music. It would take way, way too long if I were to really go in depth into what this album has to present. The lyrics and the various meanings that this album has to present are pretty nice as well. Again, I'm not going to really go into it because of how much there is. Now, let's go into...why I won't go into it. Well, on top of there just being an overwhelming amount of stuff on this album, there's also an overwhelming feeling of variety that I've really not felt on any other album that I've listened to up until this point. Yeah, this album tops the one I was mentioning in the intro in terms of sheer variety. Now, in theory, this album should not work at all. You can literally be listening to one of the earliest examples of a metal song for one second and then get an extremely soft folk song that talks about finding love in God the next. This album absolutely should not work...yet it does in almost every way possible. First of all, despite some of the lower scores in my track ratings, every song on here is pretty well-written and enjoyable in its own ways. Some of them I would even consider to be masterpieces. That factor alone is something that the album that I referenced in the intro did not have. Good song quality and writing can really make all the difference. That being said, there's another, even better reason as to why this album's variety genuinely works. During the time period that this album was being written, recorded, and produced, 1968, The Beatles were undergoing heavy internal conflicts and disputes. Now, like I said before, I'm not the biggest expert on The Beatles, so I'm not entirely sure as to what was going on with the band. Regardless, something was happening between its members nonetheless. This actually led to the band undergoing a semi-breakup. Each of its members split apart and began to write and sometimes record songs separately from each other. That said, there are plenty of songs on the album that have all four members in the same recording room, but there were still plenty where all of them were not present. THIS factor, along with some other minor ones, is what ultimately led to this album being so diverse across its songs. It was diverse because this album had four minds working individually and not as a group. This...is literally the best reason that I can think of that an album of this nature should exist. The other album I mentioned earlier didn't have this factor. Every song on it was written by a singular person, making the overall experience feel strange and out of touch. That being said, that album had quite strange and sometimes bad songwriting as well...so. Nevertheless, this album's variety feels...deserved. It gives the album an additional layer of genuineness that it wouldn't otherwise have had. This factor can be seen in some of the...worst songs on the album. Wild Honey Pie is literally just annoying experimentation while Why Don't We Do It In The Road tries to be deep but falls short due to basic human instinct being the opposite of what the song describes. I mean, literal toddlers exhibit the exact opposite behavior that this song describes. While not potty-trained, they still try to do their business in a secretive way such as doing it in a corner. If that doesn't scream that humans have a basic instinct for privacy then I don't know what does. Anyway, I'm getting off-topic. Anyway, like I was saying, even the worst songs on the album, while feeling like filler, add a layer of genuineness to the overall experience. It feels as if the band was simply trying its absolute hardest to try and make a final product under the conditions they were working with. Now, there is objectively a lot of filler on thi album, but this is a rare, potentially one-of-a-kind, case where filler is actually...a good thing. I mean, every song pretty much maintains a quality of 8/10 or higher...but...a lot of it is simply filler too. Nevertheless, every song on here adds something to the overall experience this album provides in one way or another. The pure variety of genres that you can find on this album, on top of the pretty great writing of songs in these genres, provides a strange feeling that no other album I've listened to really does. I can't quite describe it properly. The best way I can describe it is, by around the second half of the album, you'll essentially be conditioned to not hold onto what you've just listened to with that much care. The song you've just heard is good and memorable, but you're about to be thrown into a whole new genre of music. Switch your mindset up. That's the best way I can describe this album. It's a great experience. Just listen to it if you haven't. Now, I will go ahead and say, I did find the first side of this album to be pretty cohesive in its sound. I mean, I at least found it to be more cohesive than the later sides in the album. Maybe I'm looking a bit too deep into this, but I guess I kinda see this fact to be a reflection of the band as a whole. It could have been done to essentially represent the band's growing conflict in a musical way. Again, this could just be me looking too deep into something that's not there, but you never truly know. All in all, while it really shouldn't be, I genuinely consider this album to be a masterpiece. The conditions it was created under, the genuineness of it, the pure variety of stuff on it, the unique feel that it evokes, these factors all culminate in one of the strangest and greatest albums that I've listened to. I mean, I really don't have any problems with this album. If I were to not have outside context, I might think of it to be a bit worse than I do, but I genuinely think that this album is a masterpiece. It's one of the oddest albums that I've ever called a masterpiece for sure, but it's truly something special nonetheless. This is one of those extremely rare cases where a masterpiece doesn't consistently need great songs in order to be considered such. As such, despite the lower song average, this album gets... ============================================================ The White Album Score: 10/10 Song Average: 8.3/10

The Beatles are so funny, you have one of the greatest songs ever written (While my guitar gently weeps) next to a truly irredeemably awful song (Wild honey pie). Still an easy 5/5 album, their misses do miss but boy do their hits HIT. That being said, the album is fairly consistent, although I think it would be a lot better if it was 20 songs rather than 30, it stretches on a bit long even when every song is like 2 minutes long. Revolution 9 was experimental but also wholly unnecessary. Did not need the ASMR to end the album

me vuelve loco banger tras banger menos obladi

The best ever

There are skips on here...but not nearly enough to knock it down from a 5. So many incredible standalone tracks. This may be a case of familiarity breeds appreciation because I've heard this in its entirety so many times, but I can't help it. It's top.

So long that Ringo gets two songs

PIGGIES

There are some songs I really do not like at all on this album (looking at your Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie). But there are some songs I love so much I couldn't possibly not give this a 5. Blackbird is my favorite Beatles song. Also, not having the single version of Revolution on an album is a travesty. So much better than the slower Revolution 1.

ill give em that this bangs

9/10

Yeah, this album is influential. It very much is influential. They did all of this way before many of my favorites did it today. The influence of this album transcends the people influenced directly by The Beatles. I'm impressed.

on the short list of greats albums of all time

9/10

Lots of bangers on this one. So many hits!

YA LO HE ESCUCHADO TE AMO ABBA

Even the “filler songs” on this album are unique, varied, and fun listens. You have the classics, yes, but it’s really a testament to this album that you have 30 songs and, even when there is one that isn’t my favorite, I never got bored listening to this. Also, shoutout to the orchestral lullaby at the end? What a pleasant surprise from a Beatles album!

Despite the fact that I grew up loving and essentially worshipping The Beatles, I couldn't tell you the last time that I actually listened to this album from front to back. If you had asked me to list my favorite albums by the band, I don't even know where this one would have ended up, but after listening to it again, I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite albums by the band. I know that there's a big argument to be made about whether or not this could have been trimmed down to a single album and what could have theoretically been cut, but listening to it with fresh ears this time around I couldn't help but think that every song here feels essential, even the ones that typically get dragged through the mud on a regular basis. I also couldn't help but notice just how strong the second disc is, and how it might be better than the first, a rarity for a double album. But damn, The Beatles did it.

Great album. Beatles still rock

No tengo muchas palabras para describirlo. Son los Beatles haciendo lo mejor que saben hacer, música superlativamente ambiciosa y accesible, y en ningún momento se equivocan. Casi 100 minutos que se pasan volando como si fueran 50 minutos.

With about 30 songs the White Album suffers from a bit of bloat. Certainly not my favorite of The Beatles but can’t argue with how iconic it is. And with this length there are plenty of amazing songs too, ‘As My Guitar Gently Weeps’, ‘Helter Skelter’, ‘Back In The USSR’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Birthday’, this may be the heaviest the Beatles ever sounded.

30 Tracks, No Skips? Unheard of. Not their best, but it's up there.

What an album to leave the week on, here it is my favourite Beatles album. From the first sounds of the aeroplane you know you are going to go on a wild rock n roll ride but as soon as Back in the USSR ends you are immediately submerged into psychedelia. And on it goes, from Ska to Flamenco through Blues and Prog Rock, over to Music Hall, while stopping at Folk, Baroque and Country. Every single ruddy song an absolute classic, and yes, I do include you Rocky Racoon! Let me summarise - Clashing time signatures! Eric Clapton! Yoko Ono! Sheep Dogs! Avant Garde! Chocolates! Mother! Maharishi! Donovan! and Pastiche that sounds like genuine songs of the genre! The band was crumbling at this point but I am left with the wonder of this album’s disparate cohesiveness, where there is no need for a fancy cover. Good night, guys, sleep tight 😊

Gran álbum! El álbum más solista de los Beatles.

I actually liked this Album. Little biased cause I wasn't alive while they were most active. So to me all their music is great!

A lot of hits and A lot of filler. The hits are good enough to overlook the filler. Great Beatles album.

Number 9 Number 9 Number 9.... É o melhor álbum dos Beatles? Não. É o mais fascinante da discografia? Absolutamente sim. O sequencialmente e a tracklist é de certo a mais insana da discografia da banda. A presença de faixas como wild honey pie e revolution 9 faz que o álbum seja mais icônico. Porém eu prefiro a demo de 10 minutos de revolution do que as versões lançadas. Quase 4 álbuns solos jogados num liquidificador.

how could anyone turn their back on such a beautiful implosion? a chaotic meandering between voices and genres, no destination, but wasn’t the journey a hoot? probably the most honest beatles album.

Fav- mother natures son 5/5

One of the greatest no doubt!

An embarrassment of (wildly diverse and pretty weird) riches...and the most obvious signal yet that the solo albums would be coming soon. I love that Ringo gets to close the album with a real beauty.

I'll be curious if music from the Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones, etc. survives another generation. I'm sure we all thought the White Album would be an eternal staple of the music landscape. But already some of these songs felt more nostalgic than I expected they would. Could the Beatles become the equivalent to listening to Big Band/Moon River sentimental songs? We shall see.

This was a phenomenal album to start my morning to. I was skeptical of a 30 song double disc album and that my social media damaged attention span wouldn’t be able to handle it. But on the contrary it was an easily digestible album because a majority of the songs were really good. And the album flowed together really well, I’m starting to see the Beatles hype after pretty up and down opinion on their discography. The white album was one of their best in my opinion.

How do you follow up a masterpiece? How do you make an album as a band after adopting some farcical parody of yourselves and blowing up the personas that made you stars to begin with? How can you make music together when you can barely even stand being in the same room with one another? And you’re done playing concerts? How can you sit there with a straight face and say that goofy shit like Wild Honey Pie and The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill should lead into something as nakedly beautiful as While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Who even are The Beatles anymore? You’d be forgiven if on first listen you walked away with the impression of, “Back in the U.S.S.R. is fun, and Dear Prudence is one their greatest songs ever, but what’s up with Glass Onion?” You could pick nearly any two-three song combo here and ask a similar question. One moment you’re listening to McCartney emphatically asking Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?, the next you’re hearing a heartfelt tribute from Lennon to his deceased mother, and they’re presented together as having the same artistic merit and value. Side A begins with two crowd pleasing bangers before the album reveals its hand going forward with Glass Onion and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, the latter of which existing in a constant state of me wondering whether it’s good or not. Some days I think it’s a perfect example of McCartney’s grasp on pop song structure, and other days I think it could be effectively used as a form of torture, it just depends on the day. Wild Honey Pie is next, and it’s here where you might start wondering why this is considered one of the greatest albums ever. We just got through with McCartney’s care-free “life goes on, brah,” now we’re listening to a minute long wailing between him and Lennon with some twangy guitar, this is only track 5 of 30, and the next song is titled The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. Is this a joke? Are they joking? Maybe? But then we get two more bangers to end things, and it’s here where The White Album shows its secret sauce: its sequencing. Side B is arguably the high point, in large part because McCartney is firing on all cylinders with his contributions. He starts things with the jaunty Martha My Dear, which maybe rose greatest in my esteem for it on this play through, then Blackbird (masterpiece), then Rocky Raccoon (masterpiece), and ending with the double header of Why Don’t We Do It In the Road? and I Will (the only song that wouldn’t feel out of place on a pre-Revolver album), two tracks that could not be further apart in style. The three other Beatles break up this run with an eclectic choice of songs with Lennon’s I’m So Tired (my favorite song of his on the album), Harrison’s Piggies (boy, that sure was something!), and Ringo’s very fun Don’t Pass Me By. Disc one ends with Julia, Lennon’s aforementioned ode to his mother, and I can’t help but stress the diverse range of sounds, emotions, tones, writing styles, music styles that have been encountered up to this point, not just on this album but within the Beatles catalogue as a whole, and how despite all the differences in each one of these songs, there is a cohesiveness to everything that never makes it feel jarring. Opening Side C with the manic Happy Birthday before descending into Yer Blues, sometimes I think one of The Beatles strengths was how they mostly stayed away from the blues rock based sound of a lot of their contemporaries, so these tracks are always a little hit and miss for me (and they seem to almost always be Lennon’s fault). This one teeters on the line of it being an average to good version of that, but I think it mostly works. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey is Lennon’s answer to Ob-La-Di, and it shares a lot of the same criticisms. This side from Lennon is almost a dud for me, but he thankfully redeems himself with Sexy Sadie, which is probably his best vocal performance on the album. I enjoy the harmonies throughout, and the drugged out ending is something he’d go on to perfect with Abbey Road, and hearing an early versions of that is interesting (see also Happiness is a Warm Gun). The remaining non-Lennon tracks on this side are thankfully all great, with Long, Long, Long being a notable level up from Harrison in terms of scope. I especially like how thunderous Ringo’s drumming sounds here, providing a nice contrast with the more ethereal sounds from McCartney’s organ and Harrison’s voice. If there’s a song here I could do without, it’s almost always going to be Revolution 1, an early version of John Lennon’s worst tendencies as an artist. I do prefer this version over the sort of rockin’ protest single. I always found that version to be pandering, while the album version sounded more like it was written from a sardonic point of view of a self proclaimed revolutionary who couldn’t be bothered with any of the actual work involved in it, telling himself “everything is going to be alright” instead, which feels more fitting coming from Lennon. Side D in general is kind of the red-headed step child within The White Album. I imagine it has to be the least played, and it’s usually about where I check out. It’s not so much that Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle (Harrison’s version of Ob-La-Di, and my favorite of the three), or Cry Baby Cry are bad, they aren’t, but they are sandwiched between the energy killer of Revolution 1 and the horror experiment that is Revolution 9. If you’re still listening to the album this far into things, it’s because you’re intentionally listening to it as a whole. No one is throwing on Cry Baby Cry in the way they might Helter Skelter, but they are enjoyable in their own right. Sometimes a work of art is notable because of how it was made or because of what inspired it, and sometimes it’s because of who made it and when, and The White Album is a case for the latter. I think it’s fascinating that a band, who was near incapable of working peacefully together at this point, who threw out everything they had become after previously throwing out everything they had become, reunited under this album and decided to title it The Beatles. This was them reestablishing who they were as artists, both as a group and individually, after losing themselves in their fame. It’s the beginning of their late career as a band and the first signs of what their solo careers might hold, with several songs including only one or two members. It’s why even with the criticisms I have against it, and with Side D being largely skippable more often than not, it’s still a brilliant piece of work. Even if you listen to this without knowing its context, you can feel it in the subtext with its kaleidoscope approach. The White Album is a sum of its parts, an experience. Every member gets to explore their own little ideas and interests, no matter how out there, and it feels entirely uncompromised. You can feel the disparity between them and the songs present, but that tension is also the glue keeping everything together as a Beatles album. Not just any Beatles album mind you, but THE Beatles album, and I can’t imagine a more fitting name.

I mean, come on...

my favorite song is Julia

Feels like a generous 5 nowadays because while this has some of the best songs ever recorded it also is a double album with a distinctly weaker but respectfully more experimental second half. This experimental side is very interesting but it's inspired so many people to go further and better with these attempts. Still, great album. Highlight: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Actual Highlight: Helter Skelter (I have my issues with the latter half but this song is still sick as fuck)

Don't think I've ever listened to the full White Album before. Its very enjoyable.

Back in the USSR Glass Onion On-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill While my Guitar Gently Weeps Rocky Raccoon Don’t Pass me By Birthday Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except me and my Monkey Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter

While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun Rocky Raccoon Don’t Pass Me By Yet Blues Mother Nature’s Son Helter Skelter

There’s not much more to be said about this album that hasn’t already been said. If you call yourself a Beatles fan can you really give this anything less than a five?

I love the White Album. Is it the start of the end of the Beatles with lots of siloed working, undoubtedly but it doesn’t stop it from being a great album. Its size gives full space for the Beatles to explore their full range. Opening with the classic rock of Back in the USSR, before slipping into the beautiful understated elegance of Dear Prudence. The psychedelia of Glass Onion and the feeding of the conspiracy theorists … “the Walrus was Paul”. I know Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da is divisive and see as a joke to many but it is just infectious nonsense and i for one am fine with that. Tracks like Honey Pie and Bungalow Bill show the influence the Goons had on the Beatles and that regardless of your status you have to have a sense of humour. The latter also has yet another catchy chorus. The opening of While my Guitar Gently Weeps comes it like the chiming whistle of a bullet and quickly showcases how underrated George was in the band. He wrote beautiful songs snd none finer than this. Happiness is a Warm Gun compliments it perfectly and throws so many different styles into the one song so effectively. Blackbird is one of the most beautiful songs/melodies ever written and makes the perfect lullaby. Piggies merges baroque stylings with social commentary and humour to great effect. I have always loved the story telling of Rocky Racoon and the gin swilling doctor. Even Don’t Pass Me By is a fine Ringo song and leads perfectly into Why Don’t you do it in the Road. Julia closes the first half perfectly witj simple beauty Disc 2 continues the eclectic collection with rockers like Birthday and Helter Skelter sitting amongst lighter tunes like Mother Nature’s Son. Revolution 1 brings in Beach Boys vibe and again showcases the Beatles playfulness. Honey pie is another slice of old fashioned music hall, which Macca’s vocals fit perfectly

Really thought this was the major mis-step in the Beatles’ anthology. Listened to it throughout and knew every word. It’s not watered down, it’s just sprawling.

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.

I mean, quite simply an unbelievable collection of writing, music, and message. Collectively taking you on a journey and individually some of the best songs written and recorded in the last 100 years. Can't be anything but a 5.

Dear Prudence, give this album a listen. Then tell Martha My Dear, Good Night.

Incredible album.

This is a difficult one to rate, for a couple of reasons: 1) it's in my DNA, since my parents bought it not long after it came out (late 1968), so I've been hearing these songs most of my life, and 2) there are so many songs, which run the gamut from great to filler. It's tempting to say that it would easily be 5 stars if they'd left a few off, although I'll admit that, as I look over the tracks, there aren't as many as I'd thought there'd be, of tracks that for sure I would have left off. So, I guess, I'm gonna go with a hesitant, almost reluctant, 5 stars, *even though* it's a messy, flawed, all-over-the-place album. But, I suspect, that was sort of the point.

What a difference a day makes. I come at these “unimpeachable all-time masterpieces” that carry loads of cultural baggage with caution, especially ones like this that I know front-to-back fairly well. There’s no way to be all that objective about it, but I do issue myself the internal challenge “how much objectivity can you muster?” It’s hard to say for sure, but baggage or not, this album is so jam packed with refreshing creativity I’m not sure it matters. Even smaller tracks are never filler, they’re little gems (yes, I’m looking at you Bungalow Bill). On the boomer legacy taint-train The Beatles are holding up exceptionally well so far.

Well that was pretty good aye

the weird one. i know they wanted to be nice but they really shouldnt have given ringo a song

divine. i have no words to describe how incredible this work. beatles just beatles

9/10 love the beatles

Chef’s kiss

timeless. just perfect

Could do without Julia.

While my Guitar Gently Weeps is overrated. Don’t Pass Me By is underrated. I sang I Will to Nico as a lullaby and he told me to stop singing.

I love an album-as-radio-station, broadcasting the disparate visions of a group. I even like the throwaways like "Wild Honey Pie," "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" and "Birthday" and the accursed "Ob-La-Di." If it was an album of just that, it'd be a different story, but to place those between jewels like "Blackbird" and spacy epics like "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a triumph in programming.

By the time the White Album came out, no one needed convincing that The Beatles were worthy of dictating the direction of popular culture, having just changed the course of popular music and what was possible in the recording studio with Sgt. Pepper’s. Yet they turned around and dropped a double album with such an incredible array of musical styles and zeitgeist-defining songs like “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Revolution 1” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” which must’ve really landed in the tumultuous world of 1968. There are a few echoes of Sgt. Pepper’s (“Piggies,” “Martha My Dear”), but this is a much more radical statement musically than that batch of baroque, orchestral songs. “Helter Skelter” is out of this world. Just an awesome album.

Best Beatles album imho

One of the greatest albums ever written. rip Layne.

How can you not applaud the risk-taking on this album? While not my favorite album by The Beatles, it is certainly one of the great albums of all time. After this album, every rock act wanted their own double album. It kicked off the resurgence of the minimal branding of album covers, with a slew of imitators and pranksters. The Beatles also continued to show that they could create hits in any genre they chose to write and record in, while they also helped create and fortify new ones with hard rock/heavy metal in "Helter Skelter" and industrial/post modernism in "Revolution #9".

top three of the beatles album, placement depends on the day (other two, revolver, abbey road). dear prudence is probably my fav beatles song. paul on the bass and drums. the “throw away” tunes are fun. wild honey pie ftw. #9, could take or leave, love the outtakes too.

Not my favorite Beatle album. But man impressive in scope. It has little bit of everything. Genius.

I hadn't listened to the full thing through in probably 20 years. Lot of songs I thought of as only ok have some great stuff in them - Dear Prudence has a really rockin guitar part?? The Beatles were all such incredible instrumentalists when playing as a group. I love the stuff on here using a bass as a rhythm guitar. Either by refining or just by the pressure of having to perform for each other they brought out their best songwriting. 'Paul McCartney doing parody/pastiche' post-Beatles is a real groaner - on the White Album, it's Rocky Raccoon and it's so funny and so good. The fragmentation + no silence between tracks is great. Deservedly the stuff of mythology. music: appreciated. (⌐☮_☮)

Like many people my age, I got into the Beatles because my dad was a baby boomer who was into the Beatles. I cycled through having different albums as my favourite but would always come up against the same resistance: he consistently said that their best one was the White Album. Anyway he was right, it’s the best one. I’ve settled on that now. I told him that once, and he was very pleased with himself.

9/10

One of my favorite albums by my favorite band. Love love love. Perfection. So fun and whimsy beautiful masterpiece amazing.

Back in the u.s.s.r. - 5 Dear prudence - 5 Glass onion - 4 Ob-la-di, ob-la-da - 5 Wild honey pie - 2 The continuing story of bungalow bill - 4 While my guitar gently weeps - 5 Happiness is a warm gun - 5 Martha my dear - 4 I'm so tired - 5 Blackbird - 5 Piggies - 3 Rocky racoon - 5 Don’t pass me by - 4 Why don't we do it in the road - 5 I will - 5 Julia - 5 Birthday - 4 Yer blues - 4 Mother nature's son - 4 Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey - 4 Sexy sadie - 4 Helter skelter - 5 Long, long, long - 4 Revolution 1 - 5 Honey pie - 3 Savoy truffle - 4 Cry baby cry - 5 Revolution 9 - 1 Good night - 3

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my fav beatles album, goat

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Los beatles son una locura!!! siempre 100/100

All these years later, this seems as fresh as it was when I first heard it. And time has transformed all the weird tracks into old favorites. So I wouldn’t change a thing about it. Every time I try to pick one favorite for my playlist, I feel like I am slighting about five others. I ended up choosing “Sexy Sadie”.

Craig: great Courtney: very good, as expected.

Love this album. It's random, kid like, but has some serious epic songs. Obladi, Dear Prudence, Honey Pie.

Good tunes! Already knew a lot of songs

There are Beatles albums that I have higher in personal rankings, but let's not kid ourselves; this is one of their many masterpieces. If you're a Beatles nerd, then you already know.... but there is so much lore behind the inception, development, and actual creation of this album that make it all the more interesting to learn and understand. A few tidbits: 1) More than half the album's songs were written while on their meditation retreat in Rikikesh, India with the Maharishi (a real poser, btw) on acoustic guitars. If you ever want to hear the earliest iterations of the White Album, I highly recommend listening to the Beatles' Esher Demos. 2) Tensions boiled over during the making of this album that led Ringo to actually quit the band for two weeks. As a result, there are several tracks where Paul plays the drums (Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Birthday, maybe others too). 3) This was when Yoko really started to become an overreaching presence in the group's safe space that was the studio which obviously ticked off the band. 4) The first Beatles album to include individually penned songs from all 4 Beatles. Ringo wrote Don't Pass Me By all by himself :) 5) The WMGGW solo played by Eric Clapton; a move made by George, who at the time was struggling with his confidence on guitar given that he largely ignored it for 2 years in favor of the sitar during his deep dive into Eastern music and philosophy in the mid 60's. The decision to make this a double album was not a popular one with those outside the 4 Beatles given that they were essentially selling two albums for the price of one at a time when they were the most powerful band on the planet. And to this day, the criticism of the White Album is that it's jam packed with tracks, and not all of them very good (even some of the Beatles have agreed with this notion). But to hell with that. The variety on the White Album is what makes it so special. For those out there that ignorantly claim all the Beatles did was write a bunch of superficial pop songs, they should listen to this album (and also get a slap across the face). We're talking Blues, Rock n' Roll, Ska, Vaudeville Hall, Satire, Folk, Country Western, and more all wrapped up in a single project. The Beatles were in their musical primes here and they held no punches and left no stone unturned for the creation a mammoth album for their fans. As Macca once said when challenged by a reporter on the White Album: "What do you mean? It was great. It sold. It's the bloody Beatles' White Album, shut up!" Top tracks: Back in the USSR, Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Rock Raccoon, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1

If someone tells you this album is too long or too weird, that says a lot more about them than it does about you. In an era of hot takes and GOAT debates, it's nice to be reminded that the Beatles truly are a class above the rest. Favorite Tracks: Back in the USSR, Ob-la-Di, Bungalow Bill, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Don't Pass Me By (<3 u, Ringo) Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son,

It's not the score you give The White Album, it's the favorite tracks you select. Favorite Songs: Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, I Will, Julia, Sexy Sadie, Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry

One of the best albums to ever be assembled.

Je suis un genre de Daniel Johnston en ce qui concerne les Beatles.

Album double: pas fini malheureusement. Mais quand même 5 étoiles. Je comprend les plaintes de felix mais les hits sont trop fort pour être ignorés!

Such a classic. So full of epic Beatles moments.

One of the all time classic albums of pop and rock. Just for that reason it is good and correct that it is on this list. In my opinion the best album of the Beatles.

One of a kind. Best array of music that could be found on any album ever, done in a way that never feels jarring. Revolution 9 sucks, but everything else is incredible. Is it a bit long? Who cares. It sold. People love it. It’s the Beatles White Album. Shut up

Some songs are more fluffy but all of them have held up incredibly well

The White album is an obvious five star album in general, but it's not a five star Beatle album for me. I find it the saddest Beatles album. They sound further apart from each other than on any other album. They are doing a ton of experimenting on this album but they feel directionless and disconnected as a group. More than any other album it feels like they are just taking turns with a John song, then a Paul song then a George. There are multiple songs in which the lead vocals and harmonies are done by one Beatle. There are some absolutely incredible songs on this album: Julia, Blackbird, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Will, but there's also obvious filler. Wild Honey Pie, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't we Do it in the Road?, Bungalow Bill. Don't get me wrong, I still love every song. (Except maybe Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie). Many people have suggested that if this had been cut down to a single album it would be their greatest achievement. I disagree. Even the great songs are missing that full Beatles magic. Especially for McCartney, this is the first album where you can hear a glimpse of what their solo careers will be. Some good stuff, but nothing that feels as good as those true John/Paul calibrations. Also, I don't love the mix on several of these songs. Long Long Long, for example, It think it's a really interesting song, but the way it's mixed is so muddy it's hard to listen to. Also, they use echo in weird ways that make certain instruments feel small and isolated. All that being said. It's the White Album and a I love it. But before this one I usually reach for Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road or Help. Let it Be too. Many people consider Let it Be to be a step down from the other albums of the late 60's but what I love about Let it Be is what's missing from this album. You can hear the Beatles playing and singing together, feeding off each other.

An unintentionally brilliant divide-and-conquer approach makes this one of the Beatles’ most fun albums and probably the best tossed-off double album of all time. Where the band members famously heard a final product that sounds like the Beatles breaking up in real time, we hear instead the purest expressions of their individual personalities yet put to tape, simultaneously confirming and complicating what we thought we knew about each. Lennon’s work is the standout (with the exception of Revolution 9), though everyone has their moments. McCartney’s embarrassingly goofy pastiches are mostly endearing and suitably balanced by some of his most exquisitely beautiful songs and the jaw-dropping sludge rock of Helter Skelter. George’s songwriting takes a leap on this album, though it remains overshadowed. Ringo’s tune is one the album’s, and one of his, worst (which is saying something). Favorite songs: Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, I’m So Tired

Probably don't need anyone else glazing this one. Just a damn good album.

Amazing album, also one of my favorite albums by The Beatles. Favorite song: Helter Skelter

Exactly what youd expect from a band like the beatles

And then this one comes along, I bought this when I finally got into the Beatles, loved playing this yesterday in the car and singing along to “Rocky Racoon, guitar weeps, USSR, obladee, blackbird etc…….great memories

Awesome. Epic album

Bangers! Bangers! Bangers!

Listened to the whole thing again today, along with 1-1/2 CDs worth of outtakes from the deluxe box set on streaming. Still fabulous. This is in my top 10 of all time. My notes from StoryWorth: Aka “the White Album”, I could write about this at excessive length, track by track, but as with any Beatles album there is not a remotely dud track here. I even like “Revolution #9” which understandably many folks don’t. I vividly remember JB bringing this album home from the downtown Spokane department store that I believe was about the only outlet around where you could buy albums back then on the day they were released. It was released on a Friday, 11/22/68, and Thanksgiving was the following Thursday. So there was a lot of time to listen to it the first week it came out, and then over Xmas break. It had a lot of great stereo separation and I would lay down on the floor with my head between the two speakers in our family’s console stereo (something like this) and just listen to it over and over again. It had a really cool foldout poster and 5x7 glossy photos of each band member. In November of 2018 there was a 50th anniversary reissue of the album with a ton of demo tracks and a 5.1 surround mix on Blu-Ray overseen by George Martin’s son. It is very nice, but I have other surround versions made by myself and others that I actually prefer.

Been sort of dreading this one because it’s maybe the quintessential 4.5 album for me. First disc unimpeachable (except wild honey pie, which even they would probably admit is a throwaway, so no points deducted). Second disc a lot iffier, especially rev 9. Here’s what I wrote 1.5 years ago when we listened to every Beatles album over a summer: “I remembered this as a good first disc and a mediocre-to-bad second disc. Upon repeated listens in just a few days this week, I think it's more like a masterpiece of a first disc and a second disc most artists would claim as their best work. It may simply be that the last time I listened to this all the way through was in high school (when "I'm So Tired" was briefly my wakeup song on my cd alarm clock--don't act like you're not impressed) and nowadays I have more patience for the softer ("Long, Long, Long", "Honey Pie", "Mother Nature's Son", and perhaps especially "Cry Baby Cry") and weirder ("Savoy Truffle", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide...") tracks. I had a very hard time picking a favorite track, and there are five or six others that might get it on some other day [editor: that day, and today, it’s while my guitar gently weeps]. The audacity is a double-edged sword: I'm impressed by pulling off 20+ outstanding songs in multiple genres, and a little put off by the handful that have never done it for me (number nine, number nine, number nine). It's a bold, incredible album, but a 10 feels generous for an album where I'd say there are 4-5 skips, including an 8-minute one.” I gave it a 9/10, and that’s where it stands today, too. Felt a few songs overstayed their welcome (Birthday’s “welcome” lasts about two seconds), but I have to acknowledge that’s probably influenced by having another double album and a triple album in the last ten days. Both were great, as is this, but I’m tired, boss. (And I swear if we get that Ella Fitzgerald album tomorrow…) But even though I struggled through the second disc, it doesn’t feel right to give it a 4/5. The album as a whole is better than that. Very soft 5, with a strong glare directed at Revolution 9, Birthday, Sexy Sadie, the final halves of Helter Skelter and Yer Blues, and Good Night.

One of the best of all time

A classic for sure! What a wild mix of songs here. Some of the songs are much stronger than others though and I wonder if this would have made a more solid single album. But there’s no denying they were all fired up with ideas at this time and wanting to express themselves by recording and releasing all these songs at once. Unfortunately this burnt them out as we now know with how difficult it was around the writing and recording of the Let It Be album but they did manage to regroup and put out their best album, Abbey Road, in the end. I haven’t heard this in a while and it’s turning out to be a nice middle of the week listen during a hard work week and as listening to good music often does, I’m feeling better now about getting through the rest of the work week.

My second full listen through of this album and I went in with an open mind and came out understanding. I still think revolver is better but I can’t give 69 Love Songs a 5 but not this - the influence is too clear and it follows a similar pattern - very long, some incredible songs, very few bad songs (looking at you, Revolution 9). But I like the mix of styles and the more grounded sound. Light 5.

This is a great album although I think it would have been even better if a few songs had been cut. That said, my favorite Beatles is here (While My Guitar...) so it has to be a 5.

I know I've said this for all late period Beatles albums, but I cannot belive this came out only 4 years after "I Want To Hold Your Hand". This is a completely different band and I don't know of a single other group that could make such a massive transformation so quickly. Yes there is fat on here. No I don't ever need to hear Revolution 9, Piggies, or Wild Honey Pie ever again but the rest is excellent. I've tried making a swingle album version of the white Album before and I just cant do it. Here are 4 artists just throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks, but because its the Beatles, almost all of it does even the sketches like "why don't we do it in the road" or the outro of "Cry Baby Cry" are excellent. My other highlights: Happiness is a Warm Gun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Mother Nature's Song, Long Long Long, Dear Prudence, Yer Blues and so many more. Greatest Band Ever.

love the Beatles

I’m always put in a good mood when I listen to the Beatles

Chaotic brilliance all coming together

Great trip down memory lane, possibly the best

невероятно революционный альбом. на нем есть все: от тяжёлых гитарных рифоф, до самых мелодичных песен в дискографии битлов.

Classicone of my favorites of all time

Always good music

What to say but

I mean it is a classic for a reason. Also, I think the thirty tracks here could show contemporary artists how to do what usually may be thought of as a "bloated tracklist." Taking thirty tracks to do folk, satire, Beatles-core ballads, classic rock, proto-metal, ASMR, and sound collage (non-exhaustive list) shows how runtimes justify themselves. Also, it is only in so many tracks in such a long, far-reaching, experimental album that songs like "Birthday" can be justified. It is about the gestalt!

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Nothing else to say on this one but the greatest album of all time

Not a Beatles fan, but this has always been and will forever be a masterpiece. No-one can convince me otherwise.

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Beatlesin "valkoinen tupla" on kaikkien rönsyilevien kaksoisalbumien äiti. Aiempien levyjen aurinkoinen psykedelia on jäänyt taakse ja kokonaisuus muistuttaa enemmän neljän eri muusikon tekemää soololevyä. Biisien kirjo on erittäin laaja; puolentoista tunnin aikana kuullaan särmikästä hard rockia (Helter Skelter, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey), akustista herkistelyä (I Will, Julia, Mother Nature's Son), lastenlaulut mieleen tuovia lallatuksia (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill) sekä muutama aivan karmaiseva raita (Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 9). Vaikka tämä ei olekaan suosikkini bändin tuotannosta, White Album on silti erittäin palkitsevaa kuunneltavaa, josta löytää joka kerta jotain uutta, vaikka kaikki tylsimmät biisit tulevat peräkkäin toisen levyn loppupuolella.

You could take the best songs from the White Album and pare it down to a single album, and the result could easily be argued to be the greatest album of all time. The rest of the songs are still good though. And maybe I’ve listened to a lot of bullshit in the last few years, but Revolution 9 was nowhere near annoying or unlistenable as I remembered

Sprawling and disjointed in the best possible way. The White Album sees the Fab Four going their separate ways creatively, forging their own identities as artists. And Ringo is there too. Of course not every single one of these thirty songs work, but I can't imagine cutting any of them. They all contribute to the intential chaos of the record. And even with so many song, some of their best contemporary tracks were left off ("Hey Jude" anyone?). Classic. Key tracks: 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 I Will Julia Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey Helter Skelter Revolution 1 Honey Pie Good Night

Als je The Beatles overrated vindt, dan heb je niet goed geluisterd. Het kan misschien niet je ding zijn, maar het is goed. Als je dat ontkent, dan zou ik even opnieuw naar de muziekgeschiedenis kijken. Ik heb het album in stukjes geluisterd, wat natuurlijk niet goed is, maar dat maakt even niet uit. Gewoon bizar goed album. GEEF ME MEER POPULAIRE MUZIEK WAARBIJ EXPERIMENTATIE CENTRAAL STAAT. (was geen fan van de smakgeluiden aan het eind van good night, voelde iets te ASMR) Ja bizar dat de albums hiervoor allemaal met 4-track recording opgenomen is (als in, je hebt maar 4 tracks en daar moet al je muziek op). Nu hadden ze 8 tracks, wat dus betekent dat alles mooier klinkt want er is minder noise! Mother Nature's Son is een extreem lief liedje.

echt heerlijk. john lennon diep in een crisis terwijl paul mccartney de tijd van z'n leven aan het hebben is. oh to be deep in the beatlemania writing rpf before that was even a thing.

It may not even be the best Beatles album, but this could be the most important album ever made in the 20th century alongside sgt peppers.

Wonderful, a journey into the experimental, into the innovative for each member. 10!

I loved it

Listens: Many Standout Tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter I am not articulate enough or musically inclined enough to describe how good this album is, but I guess I can try. It is musically diverse. Trippy and in some parts possibly drug-fueled. Psychedelic. Culturally important. Politically inclined. Fresh, even 58 years later. There's lyrics of love, sex, women, humiliation, capitalism, sadness, happiness, parody The lyrics and the recordings are rife with tension, frustration and controversy. This album is an easy 5. It's a top three Beatles album for me, but as I write this, I've decided that its not as good as Abby Road or Revolver. Unlike either of those two incredibly tight album productions, the second half (sides C/3 and D/4) sort of the album sort of drags on. With the exception of Sexy Sadie and Helter Skelter, and Side D especially, gets pretty out there even by my standards. I get that there's a lot of experimental stuff, but eight minutes of Revolution 9 gets me pretty bored, and I want to put the good stuff back on or switch to something else.

Over an hour and a half long and somehow doesn't feel at all bloated. The standard of songwriting on display is insane. Some serious production for its time as well. Personal high points in Blackbird, While my Guitar Gently Weeps and Helter Skelter, but even the more jokey songs like Rocky Racoon and Honey Pie are just so unbelievably well written. No brainer 10/10. (Putting a song as avant garde as revolution 9 on a album from a band as popular as they were at the time takes some serious balls as well)

Great album! So much on here!

Love the Beatles.

- absolute work of art - insanely beautiful - lowk shed a tear

I mean… yeah

Great.

stunned

Hard to write anything that hasn’t been written about this album. Occasionally I think a single album would’ve been better. Revolution 9 could’ve been replaced by Hey Jude! It’s John, Paul and George being more eclectic and grasping the rock revolution and more acoustic stuff than in ‘67. It’s a compendium of delights and some mad moments.

Perfection, maturité et arrangements subtils et efficaces portés par des paroles touchantes

It's a toss up between this and Abbey Road for my favorite. They set out to do totally different things within the album framework so tough to compare. The stuff that most thing of as filler (Paul's pastiche pieces) I actually love. I grew up on this album so it is just dawning on me that my guilty pleasure enjoyment of that stuff stems from Paul here. This just feels like them at the peak of their powers. That shouldn't be the case since their unity as a group really starts to crumble here. But at the end of the day it is a double album where they hop into any genre they want and don't falter for a second. I genuinely love all of these songs. Even Revolution 9 is a lot more cohesive than other avant-garde collages I've heard and not near as scary as I remember. I wonder how long it took them to land on the track order, the first disc especially flows so well. 29th perfect album, 912 albums in. Rating: 5.0

I listened to this so much as a kid and I can't imagine life without it. There is so much going on here and others have said more eloquent and thoughtful things about it. It's perfection from start to finish.

It’s the White Album: 5 stars.

Classic. So many different sounds on this album. Helter Skelter is a personal standout as it feels way ahead of its time as far as heavier, noisy guitar rock goes.

ok such a classic. i already know a few songs from this album so it's not entirely new to me however i did discover some new favs for sure. i do have to say though my favorite song on the album remains i will. it's such a simple yet beautiful song and will remain of my favs from the beatles. overall, i think it's a very great and timeless album.

s white album isch e experience. es isch z lang, s paar slngs sind nur goofs aber fuuuuck het das viel lieder fürd ewigkeit druf woni soooo so sos o gern han. füfi.

Great! Just Great!

I generally don’t like our constant need as a culture to label things the “Greatest ______ of all time”, especially when it comes to art. But god damn

Brilliant, quirky and The Beatles

A mixture of styles and genres, the White Album is one of the beast albums by the Beatles and features many of thier iconic songs. Opens with "Back in the U.S.S.R.", and continues with "Dear Prudence", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Masterpiece

What a great album. So many great songs. I am on the fence about giving it a 5 star…Let’s go!

Incredible, I’ve listened to a number of songs from the album, but have never listened from start to finish - such a consistent album for the number of songs, no real misses. Particular favourites that I was less familiar with previously; Rocky Racoon, Piggies, Glass Onion, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide, Helter Skelter & Good Night. Holy shit - REVOLUTION 9 🤯

#2 álbum que escuché. esperable este álbum acá!! una obra maestra, y DEL 68!!! súper innovadores!! tantos Tantos TANTOS temas buenísimos en este álbum. yer blues, everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey, helter skelter, happiness is a warm gun, while my guitar gently weeps, y habia hecho una lista más larga pero saqué temas. x algo los beatles son los mas grandes y de mis favoritos!!! algo que me da gracia es la diferencia entre los temas de paul (i will, o-bla-di o-bla-da, martha my dear) y los temas quebradísimos de john (son muy largos los títulos ya me dio paja) y todo esto se lo debemos a la dr0g4 AGUANTE EL LSD

Lovely

Revolution 9 my beloved

It's the Disneyland of Beatles.

Banger efter banger. Första hårdrocklåten i Helter Skelter.. albumet har allt!

In the running for best album ever. Hard to beat. Probably the album I’ve listened to the most.

Some of my favorite Beatles Songs are in this album and I think this is there greatest albun... It's just unreal...Can I give it a 1968/5?

A true classic of creativity and style

4.5

Love this album, one of my favorites from the Beatles, especially toward the end of their run.

So many good ones on this. But dang, Helter Skelter always hits and I don't know why I ever forget it.

Double albums almost always drag on way too long. This is no exception. I have no problem believing that cutting this down to a single album would make it one of the best albums of all time. It is pretty much there as it is. This is all over the place. Every track switches genres. The genius of The Beatles is that they make it work. Sure, there are a few duds (and 2 maybe 3 tracks that should have never been recorded), but the rest are nearly perfect. When I got Abbey Road earlier this year, I said I couldn't decide which album of these 2 was my favorite. I listened to both back to back, and it's definitely Abbey Road. The filler in the White Album puts it back a step. On the other hand, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favorite Beatles song.

This is a superb record absolutely crammed with classics. I appreciat the more stripped back and focused quality of this album. Impeccable songcraft. Cry Baby Cry is lowkey my favourite track on this one.

Fantastic album

I wish we could give half stars because this is a very strong 4.5 for me. I’m rounding up to 5 stars because I love a lot of these songs, but they could’ve trimmed the fat a little especially on disc two. I understand they probably wouldn’t have had enough material for a double album at that point, but I think the outcome would’ve been better.

Grew up on the Beatles. Grew up on this album. What a treat to revisit.

My favorite one.

Some of the Beatles best work, drawing you in with a ton of fun before landing you with masterpiece after masterpiece

It's the freaking White album. There's nothing I can say here that hasn't already been said.

Classic, obvs

So good

(5) ok i’d heard most of the popular songs but i heard a majority for the first time today this album is just banger after banger

Masterpiece. Perfect combination of the accessible and experimental. So many moods and genres covered - it’s impossible to get bored. The Beatles completed music with this one, everything else is sounding dull in comparison

No. 38 What a strange, lovely, and perfect album.

Obviously

5/5 A+

Do you really need any other Beatle album than The White Album? Let's be real here.

Classics. underligt nog massor med låtar jag aldrig lyssnat på

Ett av världens bästa album, vad ska man säga? Lite dopat av längden såklart men går inte att komma ifrån. Bonustips till alla som mot förmodan inte sett är att kolla när Prince golvar alla i While my guitar när George väljs in i Hall of fame!

Vet fan inte va jag ska skriva ens. Älskar till och med McCartneys lite utskällda tramslåtar. Kan tillstå att dont pass me by och piggies är svaga… sistnämnda till och med lite obehaglig. MEN - de trängs ju med flera att de bästa låtarna som någonsin skrivits. Ges inte 5a spelar man tuff.

Maybe it’s a bit all over the place. I’d still go with a five

I don't think there's a bad song on this record.

What to say about one of the greatest and most kaleidoscopic album of all time? I once thought I (finally) understood the track ordering while on mushrooms in Amsterdam. I don't remember but I still think the Beatles are talking to each other through song in this sprawling opus which shows the breadth of what they were capable of. If only a single album could get top rating, it might have to be this one (even with Revolution 9 included).

Sprawling and ambitious. What I appreciate the most, and what others see as a negative, is that no two songs sound the same. Sometimes you get halfway through an album and you feel like it’s been the same song repeatedly. But here so much experimentation means I’m never bored. I do wish “Revolution 9” wasn’t on there. But even with that I consider this a masterpiece. 5/5

Simply put, it's a work that demonstrates that each of the members had a secret life that the others were unaware of, and this album was a clue that they shared with each other among the four of them.

Very long but very good. Great background music and some classics hidden in there

Vá, enn og aftur. Ekki furða að Bítlarnir séu bestir. Þetta er plata sem hefur húmor, fjölbreytileika og nýjungar. Svo eru sum lögin bara rúmar tvær mínútur. Fleiri hljómsveitir mættu pæla í því. Fimm stjörnur plús

Just get it out of the way: there's songs on here that aren't top Beatles songs (Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, f'n Honey Pie, etc.). At the same time, there's songs on here that are some of their absolute best and just best songs ever made. The range is really crazy. Not much I can say that hasn't already been said a million times. Even so, gotta say HELTER SKELTER is an absolute monster! Gets me fuckin' HYPED. I seriously love how crashing and detuned and heavy and fuck all it is. Ends in blisters. ONE of the BEST FUCKING SONGS EVERRR. Plus I don't give a fuck: REVOLUTION 9 is fuckin' GREAT. It's a legit compelling piece of avant noise and I think they hit the fuckin' mark. It honestly always zooms by for me, probably 'cause I appreciate and don't hate. I'm like "awwww - it's over already?" It's like people put all their hate for Yoko into Revolution 9, like she's the one who made it. Everyone's always like "it's not even a real song!" with a slight snarl. Or I tell someone I'm into it and they're like "No You're Not!" as if it's literally impossible to feel anything but loathing for Revolution 9. Haterz I swear. An interesting album, an odd album, a (mostly) great album. Totally essential though. Gotta have it.

This is my favourite Beatles album. Lots of filler but that's part of the charm. Would have benefited from excluding the vanity project revolution 9 but apart from that it's peak Beatles.

Let's get one thing out of the way. There's a lot of cheese across this album. "Glass Onion," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Wild Honey Pie," "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill," "Martha My Dear," "Piggies," "Rocky Raccoon," "Don't Pass Me By," "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?," "Honey Pie" and of course, the eight-minute avant-garde wankfest, "Revolution 9." Do I think any of these songs are great? No. I'm also not really a ballad guy, so you can throw "Blackbird," "Mother Nature's Son," and "Julia" on the list of stuff I'm not crazy about. Wow, that's a lot of songs to not like, how can I possibly give this five stars? Because there's still a lot of great music left. "Back In The U.S.S.R," "Dear Prudence," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," "I'm So Tired," "I Will" (the rare ballad exception), "Birthday," "Yer Blues," "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey," "Sexy Sadie," "Helter Skelter," "Long, Long, Long," "Revolution 1" (even if it is the lesser version of this song), "Savoy Truffle" (yes, I like it, shut up), and "Cry Baby Cry." That's a lot of good music, including several classics, so as a collection of songs it's got enough to be a five-star album for me easily. But even the songs I don't like I wouldn't classify as filler. As much as the album was the boys being divided and working on their own stuff, I think the album works as a cohesive listening experience, partially due to the songs being mostly very short (the album averages out to 3:06 per song and that's including Revolution 9) and partially due to some ingenious sequencing, so whatever you're listening to at any given moment, you've got something different coming up next. It is my most played Beatles album. When I had a 90-minute commute to work, very often "Back in the U.S.S.R" would be blasting when I pulled out of my driveway, and Ringo would be singing "Good Night" to me when I pulled into the parking lot at work, and I never got bored or annoyed. I even listened to Revolution 9 all the way through, a track I hated for a long time until it eventually grew on me, at least to the point of tolerance. We live in a time of artists deliberately creating music that is as uninteresting as possible so they can get Spotify plays as background noise. The White Album is the opposite of that. It grabs your attention throughout.

5 - mastapiece

Genial

Got to relisten to this yesterday, the elbow I’ve gotten the more of appreciated the track towards the end. Long, long, long, sexy Sadie, honey pie, good night, there’s so many tracks that I didn’t really follow or understand when I was younger. Maybe because it’s the end of a double album? But I really do thoroughly love this album, it deserves to be ranked up there with the best.

''It was great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' white album, shut up!'' as Paul McCartney said. Sure it has some lesser songs, but it's the Beatles at the peak of their creative output stuffing a double album full of all sorts of great and wacky tracks. The tracks here are all very different and enjoyable in their own right and they somehow flow together well. The relative inconsistency is part of the charm, and let's you discover new favorites even after years of listening to it.

The point where the Beatles realized they could just put anything on wax and people would go nuts for it.

It's the white album. What more do you want me to say?

A classic

Great. Obviously.

One of the fives fives that ever fived. While my guitar softly sings, back in the USSR, don't pass me by... The hits do just keep coming. I don't think I will be rating every beatles album a 5, but this one sure is.

I’ve been listening to this album my entire life. I have two CD copies and three vinyl copies and one cassette tape copy so you know how I feel about this.

Amazingly well crafted and full of variety

Mi disco favorito de los Beatles, la mejor banda de la historia (no digo para mi, sino para la humanidad toda). Así que lo primero es anticipar que este disco va a tener sus 5 estrellas. Es perfecto sin ser "perfecto" ya que tiene canciones que no son tan buenas y que en otro disco hubieran restado, pero aquí forman parte de un mosaico que hace que estas canciones (me refiero básicamente a Revolution 9 pero usemos el plural) se engrandezcan y engrandezcan al disco. Algo parecido pasa con la "suite" de Abbey Road. Es un disco doble. Cuantitativamente es el disco Beatle con más canciones geniales (veinte y pico de 30 canciones). Es el disco más variado de los Beatles, con canciones que - por última vez - nos muestran a los Beatles experimentando en el estudio, canciones que nos anticipan el blues, folk y rock que vendrán en Abbey Road, canciones solistas, canciones hechas por los cuatro miembros de la banda (solo AR comparte ese rasgo), canciones folk, canciones proto-reggae, canciones de rock and roll, canciones infantiles, canciones experimentales, canciones orquestadas, canciones, canciones y más canciones. Muy buenas, super memorables, super divertidas. Ringo publicó acá una de sus dos canciones en los Beatles (sin contar temas hechos con otros miembros): Don't Pass Me By. Es buena. Harrison compone cuatro canciones (una por cara, como le dejaban): While My Guitar Gently Weeps (posiblemente su mejor canción - una de las mejores en todo caso, con la participación de Eric Clapton), Piggies, Long, Long, Long y Savoy Truffle. Las cuatro son muy buenas y, excepto Long, Long, Long, favoritas del disco. El resto está compuesto entre Lennon y McCartney. Para esta altura McCartney ya era el líder indiscutido de la banda, pero el álbum blanco es el único disco 1967-70 donde Lennon realmente le da mucha pelea a Macca, tanto cuantitativa como cualitativamente. Las mejores canciones del disco, en mi opinión, le pertenecen a él: Dear Prudence (¿Mejor canción del disco? Posiblemente), Sexy Sadie, Glass Onion, I'm So Tired, Cry Baby Cry, Julia (Desgarradora!), Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Bungalow Bill, Revolution, Yer Blues.... TODAS de él. Vean esa lista de canciones, carajo. McCartney en este disco un poco se auto-rebajó, con canciones más pasatistas, más románticas. En cualquier otro disco hubiera dicho que estas canciones son peores que las de Lennon. En el Álbum Blanco no, acá son NECESARIAS para que las de Lennon destaque tanto. Y el nivel de estos temas sigue siendo soberbio: tenemos canciones de rock and roll: Back in the USSR, Birthday, baladas románticas: Blackbird y I Will, canciones medio retro con un piano como Martha My Dear y Honey Pie y después, sacando el protoreggae Obladi Oblada, tenemos canciones realmente buenas a la altura de las de Lennon. La mejor de todas es Helter Skelter, el momento más pateaculos de toda la historia Beatle, o el folk Rocky Racoon, pero también tenemos canciones en las que Macca muestra su creatividad como Wild Honey Pie o Why Don't We Do It on the Road, que suelen ser ignoradas pero son fantásticas. He visto críticas a este disco, diciendo que tenía que haber sido un disco solo, blablabla. Miren la lista de temazos que nombré. Les puede no gustar uno o dos, pero ¿se imaginan tener que sacar diez de estas canciones? Perderíamos MUCHO. ¿Se imaginan haber puesto algunas de estas canciones en otros discos? Hubiera sido un error. En Abbey Road o Sgt. Pepper mucha gente hubiera descartado a TEMAZOS como I Will, Savoy Truffle o Julia como "canciones menores". Es en el Álbum Blanco donde encuentran su lugar. Lo amo. Si tuviera que casarme con un disco (?) creo que this is the one. Cinco estrellas de acá a la China y más allá.

25/1001 What more needs to be said about this album? Everything and the kitchen sink is on this one. This is top tier for me. 10/10

A 9 out of 10 for me - great album - so diverse and clever, but also humorous sbd quirky

Is this the greatest double album ever made? I'm normally not a fan of double albums. They're usually filled with a bunch of b-sides that would actually make for a solid album if they were just cut. I'm not saying White Album isn't an exception. I think there are plenty of examples, like "Glass Onion" which feels ripped straight off of Magical Mystery Tour, and lots of little diddies like "Bungalow Bill" and "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" But, most of these songs are good enough that any band not called The Beatles probably wouldn't consider them filler. Can I do without "Piggies"? Sure, and even though it might feel like a throwaway song but it's still a baroque bop. At the same time if including some tripped out nonsense of "Revolution 9" means getting "Blackbird" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", I'll take it. At the end of the day, if you took all the truly great songs from this album and cut the fluff, you'd still be left with too many for a regular length album. Classic Beatles.

A showcase album for each member of the band. Helter Skelter was way ahead of it's time.

How can anything by the Beatles get anything less than 5 stars? My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of the greatest songs of all time. Rocky Racooon - wow. I have no negative words. This is a great album, one of the best in the world!

This whole thing has always been the Beatles mixtape to me. A wide variety of eclectic shit like proto metal/hard rock "Helter Skelter" to the folk vibes of "Blackbird" to avant-garde weird stuff "Revolution 9" to the humorous Beach Boy parody, "Back in the USSR"...it's all over the place and without apology. And by 1968, they had the artistic license and freedom to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Sure, make a 30 song double album with some truly beautiful and great songs (While My Guitar Gently Weeps) with some up tempo almost reggae shit (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da)...this album doesn't flow and it doesn't have to. I don't listen to the Beatles as much as I should...and that's not a knock on them, it's just that I grew up listening to them a fair amount and never really feel the need to return to their music. There's just so much to listen to....but I was really happy to see this yesterday because this album and the Beatles are always something you can come back to and it'll always be great.

Ok, so far sm blessed this week. To je en izmed najbolj highest rated albumov od teh 1001. Pa tud meni je ljub že od prej & spet je blo že neki cajta, kar sm ga nazadnje poslušala. Jupi! (Sm pa pozabila, da je 1 uro in pol...) Kle ne bo odkrivanja tople vode. Začnemo z "Back in the U.S.S.R.", k ma Beach Boys vajb. Lol, to prou takoj vidiš, da je mogl razburit neki folka. Zmer mi je blo všeč, kako se prelije komad v "Dear Prudence", k je pa preprost en njihovih lepših. "Glass Onion" mi je bil besedilno zmer zabaven z vsemi referencami & na splošno všečen; "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" se prou vid, da je McCartney napisal (mal ma Ram vajb že); na obstoj "Wild Honey Pie" sm že pozabila, ampak sj je bl a random intermezzo; "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" se začne s flamenco kitaro? Fak, res dolg nism poslušala & fak, kok se dojame ker komad je kdo primarno napisal. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" je en boljših komadov ever. In ja, George Harrison je musically moj najljubši Beatle. (Veselim se dobit njega klele!) "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" je tud amazing. " Martha My Dear" je kjut, " I'm So Tired" je relatable & všeč mi je bil zmer the progression v komadu. "Blackbird" - flawless. "Piggies" - lol. "Rocky Raccoon" - honky tonk. "Don't Pass Me By" - waw, Ringo komad (se sliš). "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" je kul, čeprou je to basically vse kar je komad - to spraševanje. "I Will" je fleten. "Julia" je lep in žalosten. (Sredina! Mal pavze.) "Birthday" je silly; "Yer Blues" v bistvu tud; "Mother Nature's Son" je lep; "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" je spet mal silly; "Sexy Sadie" je lepo zavit diss track; "Helter Skelter" je fakin amazing in spet en njihovih boljših komadov ('I've got blisters on my fingers!); "Long, Long, Long" se for some reason ne spomnim? Ampak zj k ga slišim, dojamem, da je Harrison komad & I immediately love it. "Revolution 1" je hud, mam pa pomoje overridan v spominu nek cover, ker se ga spomnim kot hitrejšega. "Honey Pie" je kjut; "Savoy Truffle" mi je tak dopolnilo "Glass Onion" v vajbu (na splošno je druga polovica dokaj silly al instrumentalno al besedilno al oboje); "Cry Baby Cry" - čist sm pozabila na obstoj tega komada; sledi mu the monstrosity known as "Revolution 9" (a se je že kdaj kdo lotil poslušat Beatle & somehow začel s tem komadom? Prou spomnim se, ko sm js prvič to slišala kot najstnica, lol.) in vse skp se zaključi s pravljičnim komadom, kjer ma Ringo vokale, "Good Night". Kok eklektičen album.

I love this album and have listened to it since I was a kid. Still a big fan. I love everything from the strange to the sweet both lyrics and music. Classic for a reason. ♡

Its one of the greatest albums ever. So experimental while still having a theme running through it. Outstanding

Beauty in simplicity, just like the cover. An interesting listen after Cheap Thrills, it's a contrast between raw irreproducibility and catchy with intention. That said, it still binds together and there is enough personality in the music to be sticky. Outstanding!

Day 81 9/10. Too hungover for notes. Highlights Rocky Raccoon Helter Skelter

Amazing!!! An important piece of history!

Imagine one (if not the biggest) band in the world releasing an almost perfect album with 1h33 of amazing music. What a time it mist have been to be alive! Just INCREDIBLE!!

the best

Never fails

dang it, I can't not give this five stars. it earns it. yeah the album is really long, but it covers so much ground, and nails so many different sounds, it amazing they could imagine it all. my favorite might be "I Will" it's just so nice on the ears

I feel like I can't not give this five stars even though some of the silliness and experimentalism (aka junk) is not my jam. But listening to other 60s era rock albums on this list has made me realize just how astronomically superior the Beatles were to every other band in that era.

Fantastic Album!!!!

obviously

This is The White Album. And George is flexing.

Quite arguably the best Beatles album out there. It's so full and varied, really shows them at their peak. I've always thought, though, that this is the album where you can hear the band break up. So much individuality on display on this album that at times it loses the focus on the band.

Amazing álbum!

Yes alright fine it IS true that there ARE two or three tracks on this monster album so bad that they merit knocking a star each off the rating (you can feel free to guess which ones) but without those tracks this would have been a seven- or eight-star album so I feel perfectly justified in handing it a five anyway. This album has Dear Prudence on it! It has I'm So Tired! It has Helter Skelter! Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey! Happiness is a Warm Gun! It's got fucking Blackbird, for Christ's sake! It's the bloody Beatles' White Album! Shut up!

Such and eclectic mix - something for everyone.

I mean...what is there more to say that hasn't already been said....I WANT to give it 4 stars for Number 9 and a few others...but when 90% of Disc 1 are just literal classics that will never get old including Blackbird - how can you not rate 5?

9,6

Numbah nine.. I go back and forth between this and Abbey Road being my favorite Beatles album. It's impossible to pick but the only thing holding this back is its length. Overall I don't mind the length of this album since most of the songs are good, but I do feel like the first half is quite a bit better than the second. The first half alone is a 10/10. Second half is probably an 8/10... Regardless, this album rules. Because of its length, this album has more bangers than any other Beatles record. Picking a favorite is almost impossible if not for "Gently Weeps" being here. Then theres "Dear Prudence", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", "Rocky Raccoon", "Don't Pass Me By", "Helter Skelter", the list goes on and on. Truly a phenomenal album. Favorite track: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4.5/5

Historic album. (Mostly) stylistically consistent, but lacks lyrical depth. The Beatles ability to create catchy songs is on full display, but there are definitely a few duds (which is inevitable in an album with 30 tracks). However, the duds are overshadowed by so many iconic songs which are recognizable as some of the best tracks from the single greatest band of all time. I really didn't enjoy WDWDIITR and there is absolutely nothing profound about Revolution 9 (although I listened to all of it).

*1968. *Side 1 and Side 2 are incredible. *There's no reason this needs to be 93 minutes... Side 3 and 4 could've easily been cut. *Hard to argue with the impact of this album and the singles. Wow. RATING - 8.5/10

I mean yeah man, it's the white album

It’s a massive accomplishment to make an album this long and not repeat yourself once, with none of it sounding forced. Since it might be the least “samey” album on the entire list it can be easy to forget how awesome the White Album is, but this is a real adventure. Deserves its legacy.

Wow - a Milestone

One of my favorite Beatle's album. It has a lot of great songs. Including experimental ones. But While my guitar gently weeps, Blackbird, and Helter Skelter are amazing. Someday, someone should explain to my why people like Obladi...

It's the white album, what is there to say? Packed till the brim with hits and songs that were to become immediate classics. Admittedly, it's a bit long. But the variety, the melodies and excitement make it worth the listen.

One of the greats.

it's the white album... what words suffice

First Beatles album and ngl I kinda get the hype now. Birthday, Yer blues, Helter Skelter, Rocky Racoon and Me, and My Monkey, Savoy Truffle, and of course Back to the USSR are highlights. Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie are weird but not bad and the rest of the album is great

Peerless.

Fav

Runs the full gamut of music and pushed boundaries in a way I’m unsure will ever be possible again. Very choice bangers and an incredible acoustic sound. Always chuckle to the country rocky raccoon hehe

Almost every song on a 2 disc album slapped. Diversity of sound awesome. Representative of 60s rock. Classic.

World class all time classic, better every listen

Hermoso disco

Part of what always made the Bealtes great was their willingness to experiment with new sounds. This is also the reason their music remains relevant today. The White Album is a massive undertaking by a band in their prime. It was my gateway drug into the band many decades ago, so it will always have a place in my music rotation even if far less frequent than it probably deserves.

Brilliant

All over the lot, and really signaled the end of pop for a bit, but so brilliant when it's brilliant.

number 9 number 9 number 9

numba nine

“Wild Honey Pie” is awful, but this still deserves 5 stars.

🤍🤍🤍🤍

My favorite band of all-time. There is some filler on here, but the filler is better than some artist’s entire catalogs.

To most people, The White Album is the opus of the Beatles career. To me, The White Album feels like an overflow of disjointed creativity instead of a purposeful artistic vision. I don't think the album is bad - in fact I think some of the best and most unique songs of their careers are on The White Album. Helter Skelter is a template for metal and punk. While my Guitar Gently Weeps is reminiscent of a Prince ballad. Some of these songs are genuinely ahead of their time and probably influenced countless artists. Unfortunately, there are some low-ish lows on here with Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9. I understand the experimental nature of these songs, especially Revolution 9, but I would definitely skip them if I chose to listen to the album all the way through again. While The White Album isn't the Beatles best, the double album is still better than most bands best work. I know nostalgia also plays a part in the rating, but I'd have to give it a 4.5/5 (rounded to a 5/5). Best Songs: Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Worst Songs: Wild Honey Pie, Piggies, Revolution 9

Fucking amazing album. Have loved it since I was 9 and it is in my top 5 Beatles albums.

Possibly my favourite album by possibly my favourite band. It was always going to be a 5 from me! What a treat to listen to it all again in all it's glorious silliness and deep feeling and fairground music hall and wild innovation. I love it so much. The playful, perfect instrumentation. Sublime and ridiculous. The way the tracks play off each other and make something much bigger than even these dear songs in some kind of wild emergent process. Joy and dramatic despair and freedom and expansiveness opening up. What a gift to folks who going through (and who have been through) big conscious changes in wide-eyed, already world weary, messy ways. The sound of shedding your skin, shaking and shuddering through the changes.

No comment. THE BEATLES IS FIREEEEE

I mean, it’s the White Album. ‘Nuff said. It was always going to be five stars. Just happy to have the chance to listen to it in full. Standout tracks - Dear Prudence, Blackbird, & Helter Skelter

There are shiters on there, but even the first half has enough tunes that any other band would be delighted to call their greatest hits. Phenomenal album.

The Beatles' most chaotic album, and one of their best. There's definitely some weird stuff on here but it's all damn well written and exceptionally well played. The weirder stuff is also mostly outnumbered by the good here, with the best being the opener Back in the USSR, the odd but fun Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, and the barn burning later track Helter Skelter (which I wish had been the closing track). Great album.

Yes it is five stars, actually 4.8 (or 19/20) as tho the craftsmanship of Rocky Racoon or Bungalow Bill is immaculate they lean into pastiche a bit too much. I'm a big Revolution No 9 fan, think it makes the whole album.

I mean, what's there to say about The Beatles. Other albums like Sgt. Pepper's, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, and Rubber Soul are cohesive stories or ideas from start to finish but this one is different. They clearly set out to make an album where each song is a new and different idea from the last, which makes it so incredibly interesting to listen to. Even as someone that has listened to it dozens of times, I still find myself on edge as it goes from one song to the next-one theme to the next. It doesn't get as much listen time from me as those others that I mentioned earlier but that's not because it's bad. Far from it.

Normally I’d feel that an album being this long was overstaying its welcome, but it’s the Beatles, so that’s impossible

Might be their best

- Great album - All the songs were awesome, besides rotation 9 - blackbird, while my guitar gently weeps, oi bla di oi bla do, were all amazing

one of the greatest albums of all time

While I had heard many of the songs on this album, I did not know they were from the same album. Each piece has its own distinct personality, and it felt a little like listening to a radio station.... here's a song by paul, here's a song by george... it was an interesting listen.

One of the best

There was a time when I knew all the words and could sing the opening notes of the songs following one another. After listening again years later, I can agree that the second LP runs a bit long. But this is the Beatles White Album, and still one of my all time favorite classics!

Some amazing songs, a few mid ones. Blackbird is a masterpiece

One of the most diverse albums there are - messy, polished, but all beautifully crafted songs and my favoutite one fron the Beatles

Admittedly, I hadn’t really done these guys the listening justice they deserve until now. I had only ever been exposed to their hits, and by all means, they are great songs. But I never actually “got” them until now, why they were as legendary as they were. This album opened my eyes. It’s very different than normally what I would associate with albums I rate this high. Although very well done, I don’t think the tracks here are compositional masterpieces, nor lyrical miracles. That’s not the point. It’s the subversion of expectations, the Blackbird into Piggies. The innovative sound, the genre-bending, the pure authenticity, all come together to make for a very charming experience. So much so that will let one neoliberal song slide. You can have your one neoliberal song. That’s okay.

Mein gott, this album is fantastic. Let's rate the songs. 1. "Dear Prudence:" My fave Beatles song--so hopeful and the crescendo rules. 2. "Mother Nature's Son:" The lone killer track from the second half, this touching track is warm and melancholy. 3. "Happiness is a Warm Gun:" Three songs in one? Yes please! 4. "Martha, My Dear:" A wonderful ode to a wonderful doggo. 5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps:" George elevated his game this album. 6. "Rocky Raccoon:" A fun ditty that tells a full story while being ear-wormy. 7. "I'm So Tired:" Lives in my head when I get so tired. 8. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da:" If this is granny music, I like it—Just fast, fun, and energetic. 9. "Blackbird:" A classic acoustic guitar staple. 10. “Don’t Pass Me By:” Country-esque infectious yarn. 11. "Glass Onion:" The silly throwaway track to Beatles detectives. 12. "Back in the U.S.S.R.:" Hyper way to kick off the album vigorously. 13. "Cry Baby Cry:" This one is sad. 14. "Sexy Sadie:" Wayyyyy different sound that I hum a lot. 15. "Savoy Truffle:" Hard, quick, rock with a good hook. 16. "Piggies:" Baroque fun that shows the Beatles can experiment like no other—just don't play to a wanna-be Beach Boy. 17. "Julia:" Sentimental, raw ode to a neglected son. 18. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill:" Yes, I like it. 19. "Revolution 1:" Not the best version of the song but interesting. 20. "Helter Skelter:" Simple proto-punk. 21. "Yer Blues:" A solid blues track that's grown on me through the years. 22. "I Will:" Great for wedding vows. 23. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey:" Valid. 24. “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” A perfectly cromulent query. 25. “Honey Pie:” This one is ragtime-y. 26. “Wild Honey Pie:” TIL there are two Honey Pie tracks, one regular, one wild. 27. “Birthday:” It’s really all there in the title. 28. “Long, Long, Long:” I always forget how this goes, ergo unremarkable. 29. “Good Night:” Schmaltzy coda. 30. “Revolution 9:” This one is bad.

hell yeah fuck yeah Normally I'd scoff at 30 songs and 1:33 runtime. Brothers, I wanted MORE. This album cooks from start to (almost) finish. I think we get a little caught up in the Lennon of it all at the end a little bit, but the whole experience is really impressive. 1968 is my favorite music year of the 60s, and in the starting lineup for best music years ever. This is one of the many reasons why. A 5 before the listen, a 5 after.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun is the best Revolution 9 is the worst the duality of man

What is there to say about this that hasn't been said?

Not my favorite album by The Beatles, but still really good.

Classic

Best Beatles album by far

One of my favorite Beatles albums!

Huge album. I'm going 5 stars because I think there are enough great songs to make up one 5 star album (though I think overall there is maybe half an album of just ok tracks within the double album). I used to think this was my favorite Beatles release, but these days I think Abbey Road is a far superior project.

Unlike Abbey Road, Revolver and Rubber Soul I wouldn't consider The White Album to be completely flawless. There are obviously some low points here, but without the willingness to push boundaries and move things forward, they wouldn't be the geniuses they were. Without Revolution 9 you might not have Strawberry Fields Forever, I suppose, in summary Sprawling, unpredictable, bloated and brilliant

Still the worst opening song of one of the greatest albums of all time.

It’s the white album, obviously I’m giving it a 5/5

Definitely a 10/10 album for me. Banger from start to finish. Favorite Tracks: “Back In The USSR,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Happiness Is A Warm Gun,” “Piggies,” “Rocky Raccoon,” “Julia,” “Yer Blues,” “Helter Skelter,” “Long, Long, Long,” “Revolution 1,” “Honey Pie,” “Revolution 9 (controversially),” and “Good Night.” Very diverse album from the Fab Four. LOVE IT!

It has its highs and lows, but god damn the highs are high