The White Album

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

This was really good, I've never listened to it in full but I have listened to parts of it for a long time. Enjoyed the experimentation and different directions that still managed to feel cohesive, but it's maybe a few tracks too long.

I'm usually not a fan of these "anti-concept" albums. Nonetheless, The Beatles have made a stunning one, and it was absolutely worth the full listen.

Shamefully, I have never heard most of these songs before. But on the other hand it's an absolute treat to hear many of them for the first time. The first half of this album is fantastic, I kept waiting for it to drop the ball and it just kept delivering banger after banger until we get to Don't Pass Me By and it seems to run out of energy, if not ideas. There are a couple of other great tracks in the back nine, but they're the exception. So this leaves me with a dilemma. There's absolutely a 5/5 record among these songs, so do I rate that, or do I rate the album as a whole? Given this is an "albums" list, I feel compelled to go with the latter and drop away star. It also suits my sense of contrariness. Now to go and read the history which sounds fascinating, and may explain why the boys didn't exercise the quality control which would have made agree it's the stone classic so many clearly feel it is.

banger

Lame

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

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

a couple songs off of the b side are kinda mid but overall this album is fantastic, I don't get the hate for revolution 9, its an amazing start to more experimental music to come, and who can forget My Guitar Gently Weeps, one of my favorite songs of all time

Pretty good. But also pretty long. There's a ton of songs and they begin to blend together. But it's still enjoyable nonetheless

The White Album is a masterpiece and a beautiful mess. Decades after its release, It is the sound of a band falling apart and refusing to edit each other, and the listener is left to make sense of it. ​ At its core is a masterpiece of raw and intimate sounds , stripped of the psychedelic smoke and mirrors of the past. It feels incredibly human—as if you've been invited into a private, late-night jam session where the musicians have let their guards down. I quite like this version of The Beatles. ​ Yet, in direct opposition to this lies the album's undeniable bloat. For every moment of acoustic genius, there is a head-scratching studio experiment or a jarring genre exercise because four solo artists refused to veto one another. The result is a sprawling double-album desperately crying out for an editor to give the music cohesion. It is also the only Beatles album I own.

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

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

4,5 if i could

6/10

Probably a weak 5/5 until Revolution 9. The highs are high

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

Great album

Picked up a bit in the final few songs (Cry Baby Cry’s my favorite on here) but a lot of filler for what I expected to be a masterpiece. Should’ve ended with whatever the hell Revolution 9 is versus Good Night

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

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

Beatles on hyvä bändi, ei sitä käy kiistäminen. Onko se kuitenkaan niin loistava bändi, että se voisi tehdä puolitoistatuntisen mestariteoksen, jossa on 30 loistavaa biisiä? Ei ole. Tämä ei ole huono albumi mutta aivan tarpeettoman pitkä se on ja se syö myös laatua. Jos levyllä olisi 9-14 levyn parasta biisiä, voisii tälle antaa kenties 4-5/5. Nyt ei voi antaa kuin 3/5 vaikka miten on Beatlesia ja vieläpä klassikkoalbumi. Aiemmin listalla ollut Sgt peppers on parempi Beatles-albumi. 3/5

This is a slightly weird album to review. It’s one of the most famous albums ever, and there’s times when you hear one of the best songs you’ve ever heard immediately followed by hot garbage. I know it was experimental for the time, but a few of these are losers. But so much of the other parts work so well that it carry’s it. Other than that it’s late stage Beatles; what it says on the tin.

dang dude, you used to get a hundred songs for a nickle back in the day. no wonder the boomers hate everything

Absolute bangers and even more refined. I wasn’t overall familiar with rocky raccoon and I’m on the fence about revolution 9

An iconic album in the Beatles catalog, a mix of all time classics, lesser known hits, and some outright not great stuff. 4/5.

Double album stuffed with different stylings. But didn't need to be so long

Quite possibly their best album

Seemed to me quite diverse compared to Abbey Road, but also definitely not as good. A few really good tracks, including “I’m so tired”, “Martha mg dear” and ofc “Blackbird” is worth the mention. Idk whats going on in “Revolution 9” tho

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

Not bad, but not great either. A lot of skippable nonsense, with a few solid songs. My first Beatles album, and I had extreme fatigue by the time I got to Disc 2. I'm no stranger to long albums or songs, but they need to be worth it, and this album was most certainly not.

This one is pretty difficult to review, considering how much the style changes throughout. I really enjoyed a chunk of it, standout tracks - Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Rocky Racoon, Yer Blues and Helter Skelter. Kinda wish the album was a bit more condensed, 30 songs is a lot and naturally won't all be great. Still a very good album and one I'll no doubt listen to more in the future.

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

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

First impression: Back in the USSR is an awesome tune so when I first put this on I had high hopes (I was an avid Beatles listener at one point, but it’s been awhile and the white album never really interested me so it was a semi fresh listen) yet I was met with utter disappointment. Sure dear prudence is an alright song but there are some tracks on this album where you can tell they were high off their rocker. I mean revolution 9?? It sounds like analog horror so I guess you can say it was ahead of its time. Other tracks like why don’t we do it in the road, piggies, wild honey pie were uninspiring. However I must admit tracks like Back in the USSR, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, I Will, Helter Skelter are spectacular. Additionally I noticed a romanticization/ fetish for guns in this album with tracks like Bungalow Bill, Happiness is a Warm Gun (notably a great track), Rocky Raccoon so idk exactly how I feel about that theme. What I’m certain of though is my feelings towards the song blackbird. I know technically it’s an amazing song, but it annoys me beyond end (maybe due to it being so overplayed). Overall a decent album, but I prefer their earlier stuff to be honest. Favourite Track: While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Helter Skelter is a close second) One sentence: John, George, Paul, Ringo… what shrooms were you guys on??? Will I revisit? Mainly spectacular tracks

Lots of good stuff here... Really good stuff. But also just don't not so good... Tough to give this one a 4.

Great catchy album. The notorious number 9 song is as bizarre as I always heard and probably the only song I'd ever skip

Too long, a lot of filler here but still some great songs nonetheless

Great stuff.

I don't like the Beatles. This did not help my case. I get why Blackbird is the most famous

An album of grand, soaring highs supplemented with a smattering of weak, grounding lows. It feels like the Beatles had more ideas than they knew what to do with so at times the album feels like a brainstorming session. Fortunately, if you didn't already know, they were pretty good at writing songs so it manages to hold itself together across two records. Maybe I'll hold off giving it a 5, but it certainly has plenty of five star songs - Glass Onion is a personal favourite. 4

No ihan ok

Good

I love the Beatles, and The White Album has some of their great tracks. "Blackbird," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Dear Prudence," to name a few. But it also contains more filler than most of their albums (a common problem for double albums). Having said that, I kind of like the "bad" tracks on The White Album, like "Piggies," "Wild Honey Pie," and "Revolution 9." I find The White Album somewhat weaker than their other later-career records, mostly because of its bloat. But a weak Beatles record is still a great record, and it certainly deserves its place on this list.

A part of me thinks I should give this 5/5 on principle... it's a legendary album by a legendary band. Another part of me thinks I should give this a 5/5 because of how high the highs soar... every side has a perfect song, and some have multiple. It was also a pretty ballsy record for the time, with a lot of historical significance, both in terms of learning more about The Beatles and also the world around them. You got war songs, songs about protest, songs about racism interspersed with deeply personal songs about isolation, fear, the loss of loved ones, and drug addiction. There are songs on this LP that have altered the way I listen to music forever (both in terms of the albums avant-garde dirges and poppy masterpieces, both things I have come to adore in music in large part due to this album). But i guess my hang up comes from the fact that I cannot call this a perfect 'album.' You could make the case that it's a one of a kind album, and maybe even that it's a skip-less album, but there are a handful of songs on this album that you have to endure to get to the great ones. I understand "Revolution 9" is the punching bag (usually bemoaned in the same breathe as Paul's ska song) but I would take both of those over all of the songs about animals. If there was one novelty song about animals, i could give it a pass. There's one avant-garde noise wall thing and one attempt at Ska, but silly animals are a recurring theme. They're usually in varied genres, but they've never been terribly charming to me. I think that this album having bad songs isn't a terribly controversial opinion to hold, but to say that those songs drag the recording down seems to be. Oops. Do not misunderstand me, I believe this album is a masterpiece in it's own ugly way. And I also believe it should be on this list, and should be heard as a full monster of post-modern claptrap. I just think that this working as an art project doesn't mean it always works as an album, and that there are songs I can do without. I suppose if any band earned a few nonsense songs in 1968, it was probably The Beatles.

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

One of the best all time albums

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

Best Beatles album I’ve listened to thus far.

Classic and good

bro this is so long. Listened to it in the car on the way to asters cottage.

kind hard not to rate the white album highly. This was probably the last great hurrah before the band got full of themselves and broke up. Divas all of em, but man could they write songs

There are a lot of great tracks on here for Beatles fans. That's kind of the snag though. Songs reference other previous Beatles songs or they are very obviously a 'Paul McCartney one'. It would be a weird one to just jump in from a cold start which when I was a kid would have been impossible. Somehow you would have already heard Help, Abbey Road, etc. I guess I'm trying to say that if I had to pick only one Beatles album to put on the list it wouldn't be this one but I absolutely love some of the tracks on here. I'm like a 4.5 rounded down at the moment.

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

GAOT

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

Little too much filler. But like…the good stuff is incredible.

90 minutes of the most bi-polar album ever. Ranging from unlistenable, to sheer perfection.

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

There are a lot of great songs on this record, but there are far too much filler and "bloated corpse" songs that the Beatles could put on a record just because they were the Beatles. It's almost as though they were trying to see what they could get away with. If they had released an entire album of John and Yoko audio experiments in the vein of Revolution 9, it still would have sold millions of records. I, for one, do not blame Yoko for the break up of the Beatles. They were impossibly young, creatively adventurous, internationally famous and under the ever watchful eye of the media. That life is unsustainable.

Hot take for hardcore Beatles fans: this is, so far, my least favorite album. I listened to both the original release as well as the 6-disc expanded edition and while the latter has more charm and depth to the work it takes to develop music, the former is a real slog to get through. I understand that the boys were collapsing and pulling into different styles and it shows with jarring music choices ("Revolution 9" was just awful), somber melodies with lyrics that come off repetitive than catchy, and only 2 tracks that stand out the most out of the double album. While I admire "Back in the U.S.S.R." and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps", I will not necessarily be coming back, minus the acoustic version of the former, to this album. It's a sad ninth outing for the Beatles.

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

The Beatles have some weird, experimental songs! I think I prefer some covers over the original (ie While My Guitar Gently Weeps) I really like their bluesy songs Conflicted because some of my all time favorites are on here. Yet there's some stuff on here that I'm just not into.

Very tight and clean musicality. Some big hits, some are more experimental (had kind of a punk song?) Overall enjoyable.

The first track is rlly good and I didn’t realise this is what my friend was singing Back in the ussr 🎵 🎶 The rest is kinda boring I’m sorry 😢 Why am I apoligising 😭😭😭😭

Yea it’s very good, a no skip album

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

Yeah it’s the Beatles again Some misses on this one but the highs are so high Guitar gently weeps is a masterpiece The run from track 7-11 is insane I love I’m so tired I think about it every time I can’t sleep literally

Despite its near universal acclaim, this album did not feel as perfect as Rubber Soul. The White Album’s highs are as good as music can be: Dear Prudence, the string of tracks from Happiness is a Warm Gun up to Blackbird, I Will, and Revolution 1 are all masterpieces. However, the lows are much lower and they hurt the experience of this album as a whole. It’s still The White Album so it can’t go much lower than 4 stars.

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

day 1 — The White Album — The Beatles (1968) genre: rock? 😭 some pop and folky sounding songs too runtime: 93 min rating: 2.5/5 not for me personally but wasn’t a total waste of time fav track: while my guitar gently weeps thoughts: some of these songs do not gotta be here lmfao this is a double album and the first disc was promising but by the second disc i was soo over it man it does have some gems tho overall it ain’t awful i just think it’s one of the weaker albums from this band maybe im being too critical ill give it another listen someday oh shit and blackbird is in this album loll i couldn’t stop thinking abt boss baby

Beatles get lots of hate but I fuck w them.

Never been a Beatles fan. This album is a big reason why. 3-4 good songs, lots of garbage and nothing unique. I get that they were innovative, but there were much more creative and innovative music from the same time period.

overall a very good album. some great songs with a few that perhaps were more relevant/interesting when this came out but just haven't aged well. I own this album and listen to it sporadically - not sure I would buy it today though, so only a 3

Obladi obalada

30곡이라니 길-어 크리스마스 느낌 나는 노래 많음 베스트: Good night

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

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

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

Fantastic album with some classic Beatles songs. I will say, the songs can be jarringly dissimilar.

яке юсср..

The white album feels like each beatle member taking turns making songs with each of their unique vibes and it’s kinda fire

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

Too long. Self indulgent. Meh.

How do you rate a hot mess like this? A few absolute classics and influential tracks but a lot of weirdness and very little cohesion. A band pulling itself apart. Exciting! Good?

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

perfect

Overrated.

One of their best but way too long

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

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

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

I feel as if this can be wildly uneven or at least the more experimental cuts leave me hanging

One of the best ever.

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

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

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

Great album, I’ve just heard it far too much

no words

Almost a definitive entry

Phenomenal album!

It sounds like an album from a band who are ready to go their separate ways. It gives everyone their moment but this leads to it being an inconsistent mess. Judicious editing would have cut this down to a potentially great album but it misses more often than it hits, though the hits are great. This may have been down to a reluctance to offend members of the group… Compare this to Pet Sounds, where every song serves a purpose and has its own story to tell, and you see how much of a mess this is…

I’m going to be controversial here and say I didn’t think this was as great as others might. There are some obviously great songs on here (‘dear prudence’, ‘while my guitar gently weeps’ (since hugely overplayed but I think the original holds up well), and ‘blackbird’) but there are some duff songs too (‘wild honey pie’, ‘don’t pass me by’, ‘savoy truffle’). Overall it just seems to lack the focus and musical storytelling of many of their other albums in favour of a quantity over quality approach. I found the stylistic changes jarring at times and though that might appeal to some, it didn’t use the album as a vehicle to provide as cohesive an artistic vision as something like ‘revolver’ does.

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

Going in every possible directoin, but mostly top notch. A bit more inconsistent towards the end. 4.5 stars

4.5/5

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

As Paul McCartney has said, “it’s the White Album. Fuck Off”. It’s an undeniable classic with so much epic lore behind it - band going off to India to search for enlightenment with Mahesh Yogi Bear and Mike Love. Splintering up, spurting out their own separate songs savagely separate like. Ringo leaving the band at one stage and then coming back. Band even letting him write his own song. George Harrison starting a beautiful bromance with Eric Clapton who contributes lead guitar to what is the crown jewel moment on the album While My Guitar Gently Weeps. 30 songs. About 18 great ones. All in all it’s a ten tonne 60s classic where nothing can possiblie go wrong. Now here is Ob La Di Ob La Da, Wild Honey Pie and The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill where Yoko Ono takes a guest vocal spot.

Phenomenal.

Helter Skelter was fun, and Revolution 9 was interesting, but the rest of the album was really boring. It's exactly what I thought Beatles would be. Eh. 2/5 stars.

Not a big fan of the Beatles, but it was good

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

Youngboy better

100%

Blackbird is good, the rest is not. Over-hyped.

Old school and new to me

Me gustó. Ya había escuchado algunas canciones del álbum, las más famositas, y siguen siendo excelentes. Por ahí se hace largo el disco, no es tanto un problema porque las canciones son ingeniosas y muy "beatle". Tienen ese sonido distinguible muy de ellos, de los 60' entre el pop y el rock y la psicodelia. Por momentos se hace excesivo, pero lo escucharía de vuelta. 7/10

White

I’ve been wanting to listen to this album for ages !! The Beatles are iconic obviously, and so is this album. My fav song by them is on this album !! Fav song is ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’.

Already listened

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

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

No question

High highs and low lows, there's probably a GOAT album in here somewhere

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

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

Number 9

Great stuff, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favorite

I understand how this can be someone’s favourite (Beatles) album. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, and Helter Skelter are some of the best Beatles songs. Back In The U.S.S.R., Glass Onion, I Will, Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey and Savoy Truffle are great songs as well. But a big portion of this album doesn’t come close to that level. The obvious ones are Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9, but songs like The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Don’t Pass Me By, Why Don’t We Do It in the Road and Good Night don’t do much for me either. It’s not like these lesser songs make it an unpleasant experience, but it does drag down the score a bit. It’s cool to see so many ideas, but not all of them stick the landing in my opinion.

This showcases their versatility but it comes across very disjointed. No denying the mania they inspired but to listen today isn’t special.

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

A nice album marking a new stylistic evolution for The Beatles. Gone are the days of fun, quirky pop ; it's a very modern-sounding record, with some songs straight-up going into experimental territory (like the amazing Revolution 9 - I would absolutely listen to 60 minutes of that !). It's really a mixed pot, though. I guess the popularity of this record is due to the fact that it features so many different styles that everyone can find something in it. I really like some of the songs (Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter...), but many others leave me indifferent, and a couple of them just annoy me. The Beatles have always been hit-or-miss for me - most of their albums have some brilliant songs, but fail to keep me entertained all the way through. I fully acknwoledge their importance, but they're just not that special to me. This one is also too long for my taste. It's hard to keep focused for 30 tracks in a row (and it was probably not meant to be listened like that, anyway). I'll come back to some of the songs, but not the full album. 6/10

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

This album contains some of my favourite Beatles songs, and they’re incredibly well written, which makes it a tough one for me to rate. The problem is that The White Album is just too long and too uneven. I’m really torn on the score. I can’t quite put it at the very top knowing that Abbey Road or Sgt. Pepper’s are still waiting down the road.

Love the album, despise Rocky Raccoon

Beatles improved. Pro max. Tres Camaritas.

One of the better ish Beatles albums

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

not a big fan of the beatles. but not a bad album

I'm not trying to be edgy, I just don't understand the hype 3

Yeah yeah yeah. It’ll get a 4. I. Am. Not. A. Fan. Of. The. Double. Album. Not. A. Fan. Don’t care if it’s the Beatles. I almost want to give it a 3. But, you know… it’s… So I know before I even put the damn thing on what I will rate it. And this exercise is actually making me more and more ambiguous about the Beatles. But.. it’s THE WHITE ALBUM. And it’s chock full. Blackbird. While My Guitar. Sexie Sadie into Helter Skelter. Arghhhh. 4 Boolean: yeah, true, of course

You have got to respect The Beatles for putting out an album with this scope. You can hear in every song how influencial this album is. The pop songs are insanely catchy. Even the at times mildly annoying Ob-La-Di just sticks in your head. There are so many amazing songs here, but the highlights are the slower and more mellow moments. While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Blackbird are simply stunning. Some of the best songs ever put on record. Some songs i could do without but overall this is a great record. Actually, now that i’m writing this, i’m not sure what songs i personally would cut. Maybe Honey Pie? Ob-La-Di? Honestly, it probably depends on the mood i’m in. I’m happy that i finally listened to The White Album in full and now know what all the fuzz is about. (Revolution 9, i will always have your back!)

It mostly sounds like themepark music to me :< Do like while my guitar gently weeps

No soy muy fan de los Beatles, pero es un buen disco, entiendo el hype. Como siempre, las que más me gustaron fueron: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Wild Honeypie y Blackbird.

Maybe just a tad overrated, but there's no denying that this is still The Beatles in their about prime. Each member's amazing songwriting and performance skills come through on every song. I definitely can't go without addressing the elephant in the room though, and that's the tracklist. It's mostly great songs, but there are still quite a few that really could have been cut (Revolution 9 is NOT one of them, I absolutely will not tolerate Revolution 9 slander). But even among just having a small handful of dud tracks in an otherwise brilliant album for The Beatles is easy to get away with, especially when the parts that are are genuinely that good.

En general siento que el album tiene un poco de todo, el hecho de tener muchas canciones, hace tener variedad. Y bueno, el album tiene muchas canciones destacables, y diria que increíbles para la época, inimaginables incluso. Al escucharlo por primera vez siento yo que es complicado agarrarle cariño si no eres tan fan, pero con el rato te das cuenta lo increible que llega a ser. Aunque no todo es positivo, porque igual hay canciones que tal vez no destacan mucho o que son aburridas, a mi gusto hay algunas que podria saltarmelas porque no me generan nada o me aburren. El album en general es un conjunto de muchas cosas, pero un conjunto bueno, es un trabajo muy bueno de la banda y muy destacable.

Oh the Beatles, I will never be able to form a solid opinion on you, but this was fine?

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

Some very high highs, but also some pretty weird and/or mediocre sections.

3.5/5

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

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

Just.. amazing

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

solid, but not a favorite

A mixed bag, but probably the best document for showing who the Beatles were. Meme lords, pop-songwriting savants, experimental weirdos, and tender balladeers.

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

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

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

Since this is the first Beatles album I'm encountering on this project, I have an admission. I didn't listen to a full Beatles album until I was nearly 40 years old. You can't avoid the Beatles, their names, their influence, their iconography is too ubiquitous. Yet it still took me until that age to actually stop and listen to one of their albums all the way through. When I did what I discovered was this band has more deep cuts than you can imagine. Their deep cuts became hits. Go beyond that, deeper, and you're still gonna unearth good music. As the man once said, "Its deep cuts all the way down." What works on this album is that one could make an argument that a good portion of this double album is too indulgent, the band is trying too much. I guarantee, however, that what some consider extraneous will be somebody else's favorite Beatles track of all time. And that will probably be different for everyone else. Yes, there may be a lot of fat on this album, but the fat is where the flavor is. John, Paul, George, and Ringo are here to give you a buffet of flavors. Do you want a solid rock sound riffing on others like “Back in the U.S.S.R.” or “Glass Onion?” Do you want quiet little intimate songs like “Dear Prudence,” “Blackbird,” or “Martha My Dear.” Do you want to get weird with songs like “Wild Honey Pie” or “Why Don't We Do It in the Road?” Do you want a bit of social commentary like “Piggies,” or “Revolution 1 & 9?” Do you want… And so on. And so on. These boys from Liverpool sure do seem to like making music and a lot of people wanted to hear what they made. When I finally listened to them I became one of those people. I’m glad I did because “Helter Skelter” is one helluva a barn burning track and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is an all-time masterpiece. For me those two tracks are enough to justify all of the creative experimentation across this album. 5/5

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

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

Hard to bash a band like the Beatles, and this album is so beloved that I feel I have to tread lightly. If you have a favorite band, you will no doubt have a favorite album. And if you have a favorite album, by extension you must have a least favorite album. And The Beatles (aka White Album) is my least favorite Beatles album. Which is hard to say, harder to defend. But here goes... We've previously had this debate at our house about this album. There are some GREAT and all-time songs on this album. But there is some genuine crap on there, too. Always felt if you could just cut out the garbage and pare it down to a single LP, this would have been one of their best. Of all time. A product of their extended voyage of discovery to India in 1968, Lennon and McCartney claimed some of their best songs were created at this time. Is Blackbird one of the best songs ever written? Yes, yes it is. Is Julia a great song? Yes. Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da is an absolute classic. Try NOT singing along with it when it comes on. Rocky Raccoon, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Why Don't We Do It In The Road... All bangers. On the other hand, Sexy Sadie and Piggies will always be overshadowed by the film Helter Skelter. Wild Honey Pie, Glass Onion, and Revolution 9? Dogs. Did Revolution 9 drive Charles Manson insane? It certainly could have. It probably was a short drive, if you know what I'm saying. I really see in this album the fracturing of the Beatles as the world knew them, and likely the "beginning of the end." They only recorded a couple more albums before they said, "That's it." The infighting and lawsuits and money just became too much. And don't get me started on Linda... Like I said, great songs here. Just not great start-to-finish. My lowest rating for a Beatles album, no doubt.

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.

The Beatles, it turns out, are really good. I'm saying this now 7 albums deep and not one of them rated less than a 4. In this instance, there's much to like still, and there's still plenty of bangers in there, but it's just inconsistent. That means it's not up there with their very best, but still absolutely worth a look - but I'll be honest, due to the length, and the number of weird tracks, I'm probably only dipping in for specific tracks. The good: I like the variance in the songs, the variety of styles and approaches. There's plenty of quirk and plenty of sincerity. The bad: There's a reasonable amount of filler, with some genuinely weird shit that I don't get the point of (Wild Honey Pie, Piggies, Revolution 9). I would have liked it to be more focused, but inarguably what's here is mostly great.

Groundbreaking stuff - really changed the game. Lot of it is timeless, and a lot of it I would never throw on

Nice

Not their best but.. I mean, it’s the Beatles

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

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

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

I'm quite a weather vane when it comes to the Beatles. Sometimes it's just too pop and mostly annoying. This album just feels decent on the Beatles scale for some reason and has a good vibe.

#407 / 1089 Heard before? ✅ Revisit? ❌ I'm so fed up with the band that I don't even want to re-listen this album. I know several of the songs by heart and many of them annoy me to no farking end. Most of their music is not for me, just some of the psychedelic era stuff is tolerable. Strong 2, but will rate 1/5 out of petty spite.

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

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

I tried to give a fuck but I just couldn’t

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

Це шедевр у всіх відносинах )))

The Beatles album called The Beatles or commonly referred as the White Album is one of first double albums (in rock music.) Majority of the songs come from when earlier in the year (1968) they - the Beatles travelled to India with some others to do some spiritual stuff. They wrote a shit ton of songs in the short amount of time they were there for. They obviously didn't use all of the songs, some were left as fragments which were used for the Abbey Road Medley, but a lot of it were used. I very much love eclectic albums, some the styles are: "Back in the USSR" is a Beach Boys-like song, Dear Prudence, is very folk-oriented, Reggae in "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", beautiful melancholic song of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." All of that is the first side of the album. It's one of the most eclectic albums out there. It's semi-far from being my favourite Beatles album, but it's still good, because it's literally a Beatles album. This album continues the point of the Beatles being innovative guys and pioneering sounds that are so common nowadays. Highlight Song/s: "Back In The U.S.S.R.", "Dear Prudence", "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Don't Pass Me By", "Sexy Sadie", "Helter Skelter" and "Revolution 1"

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

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

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

Beatles, pero un buen albun

It’s not my favourite genre, but I appreciate some songs where the guitar is given a lot of time to solo and express its emotions through the notes.

got some bangers

Good album, but u didn't think I will be searching out for a vibe. I did really like Revolution 9 though - the Hip Hop lover in me? 3.5

Back in the USSR is such a good opener. Idk man it’s the Beatles, what do you want me to say? They were pretty famous for a while.

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

Rating: 4.5/5 Playlist track: My Guitar Gently Weeps, new addition Good Night Date listened: 30/05/26 Listen when: Always? Good Night first listening experience was heavenly and wasn't expecting much after revolution 9. Defo some not my taste. Surprisingly loved Yer Blues? Insane track 7 to 11 run. My Guitar Gently Weeps and I Will still on top.

so viele Hits wow! und sehr langes Album, 30 songs haha liebe "while my guitar gently weeps" sexy sadie!!!! paar random songs aber insgesamt mega

I would have rated it higher if it wasn't a double album. There's absolutely wonderful stuff in there, but the weaker material drags it down. Still a very enjoyable album.

i've heard some of the well-known tracks off this album, but i haven't heard it in full. it's over 90-minutes long so I hope it's worth the time i'll be sinking into it Back in the U.S.S.R. - 5/5 Dear Prudence - 5/5 Glass Onion - 4/5 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - 4/5 Wild Honey Pie - 3/5 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - 4/5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps - 5/5 Happiness Is a Warm Gun - 5/5 Martha My Dear - 5/5 I'm So Tired - 5/5 Blackbird - 5/5 Piggies - 3/5 Rocky Raccoon - 4/5 Don't Pass Me By - 3/5 Why Don't We Do It in the Road? - 1/5 I Will - 4/5 Julia - 5/5 Birthday - 3/5 Yer Blues - 4/5 Mother Nature's Son - 4/5 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - 3/5 Sexy Sadie - 4/5 Helter Skelter - 5/5 Long, Long, Long - 3/5 Revolution 1 - 4/5 Honey Pie - 4/5 Savoy Truffle - 3/5 Cry Baby Cry - 4/5 Revolution 9 - 1/5 Good Night - 3/5 Average score: 3.9/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ is the first half of the album worth listening to? i think so, especially considering some of their most popular tracks are there (Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, etc.) is the last half worth listening to? meh, a little less so. it's okay but not nearly as good (with Helter Skelter being the biggest exception for me), and it ends kinda weird with the last couple tracks

One of the best

Gehört in die Liste ganz weit nach oben. Weltkulturerbe!

me cuestan un poco los escarabajos, pero al final estuvo bastante bien

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

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

A+

Great

A Beatles fan listening to the White Album beginning to end gives the same energy as a Christian becoming an atheist by reading the Bible front-to-back. A few good tracks but it's mostly white noise or absolute dog water.

I think it says something that I’d only ever heard two songs off this album….

This alone should take The Beatles out of the greatest band discussion. I think the worst part of the age of digital music is we can’t play Revolution 9 backwards on Spotify

Oh The White Album... It always leaves me unsatisfied. A little bit disappointed. To me it's too long. Too many songs that should have been left on the cutting floor, but sure as hell the band wasn't in the place to easily cut something. It's one of those records where the story behind is even more interesting than the music itself. There's quite some negative stuff, but these are just my excuses for not finding it a perfect record. So many beautiful and immortal songs here.

a lot of good stuff that I'm already familiar with but bungalow bill Is bullshit other than that though I actually got a bit more than I expected out of this one

3.5. some killer tracks on this one but overall it's hindered by the tracks that would have been cut.

I mean…

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

3.25 - I think I like this more every time I listen to it, but I don't think I'll ever understand the level of popularity that they still have.

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

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

Classic album, classic tracks

The best Beatles album

MASTERPIECE

love the beatles. Love Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, Julia

I wanted to hate on this as over rated but failed - too many good tracks even tho it's too long. Some ridic bullshit (revolution no9) for sure, but also some hidden greats - see Yer Blues.

All timer. The classics, the weirdos.

Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?

One half of this album is great and the other half varies from fine to terrible (looking at you, Revolution No.9). It really is just way too long, and the Beatles have other, more consistent albums that are easier to recommend and enjoy. Favorite Songs: Back in the U.S.S.R, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Mother Nature's Son

This Album is phenomenal

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

Its the Beatles, of course I like it. But I grew up with the blue album compilation on vinyl and that just hits the spot way better.

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

Good, I don’t like the Beatles very much

So many different styles but my favorites have to be the mellow acoustic ones or really any of paul mccartney’s Top song - I will

A lot of really iconic songs in this album. Really enjoyed listening.

Yeah this shit was really good actually

Liker mye av det! Men Beatles er fortsatt litt oppskrytt. Jeg hører dog hvor mange nyere artister som har hentet fra Beatles. De var sinnsykt forut sin tid! Det er et bevis på hvor geniale de var!

Its a good album a bid too long thats why its not 5 stars but one of the best beathles albums.

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

omg I took two days to listen to this, pls set me free.

6/10 Best songs: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Helter Skelter, Honey Pie An incredibly disjointed album with a bunch of well-constructed yet utterly inconsequential pop songs. In less than 160 albums I've encountered four Beatles albums, one by George Harrison, and the Monkees, so I am on the record for not being a particularly big fan of the band. I understand why people like them and why they were so influential, but this album is proof of why I struggle with them: while there are some absolute world-changing hits, they were the absolute worst at editing out the dreck, they didn't know how to construct an appealing album (putting a bunch of songs together with no deeper thought does not make a good album), and half the songs are so meaningless that they're hardly worth listening to. I sort of think what's so appealing about the album is how they clearly had no interest in working together yet were too scared (tied to record contracts??) to disband and release their music independently. But that doesn't make up for some of this nonsense.

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

favs: ob-la-di, ob-la-da, the continuing story of bungalow bill, while my guitar gently weeps, good night

230526 10:37 3.5

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

Just so good.

I don't think it's necessarily that much of a hot take to say this isn't my favorite Beatles album, or even in my top 3, but I do respect it as an achievement and what it represented as a pretty colossal body of work. Some very high points here to be sure, also a few head scratchers, but it certainly is interesting. Too long for a song by song breakdown - it's a great album, just not the greatest for me.

banger

Love it. Very familiar with this album

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

Bona fide

Beautiful and poetic, but long and angular. This has always been the late Beatles record that I struggle the most with. There is some incredible art (it's a Beatles record!) There are some beautiful pop songs and then there are some fantastic experimental pieces. I found revolution 9 much more coherent and beautiful this listen and I haven't always. The more creative narrative songs are a trip too. It being a double album though, I struggle to stay with it and fully connected in a way that definitely isn't an issue for any other Beatles. It's great though

не ожидала, что прям так сразу возвращение в ссср 5 и 6 трек как-то что-то никак, детский утренник какой-то ну а в целом очень даже хорошо while my guitar gently weeps прям шикарный

ну на этом альбоме вайл май гитар джентли випс - крайне редкий экземпляр СНОСНОГО ТРЕКА. Это если говорить о битлах.

Way too long for its own good, but has some bangers. Strangely, the song that got stuck in my head was "Why don't we do it in the road?" which is not the most sfw thing to be singing out loud haha

The most experimental Beatles album, for better or for worse. The highlights are awesome. Back in the USSR makes for a thrilling opening with a banging and super memorable chorus. Dear Prudence and Glass Onion are these psych pop bops with amazing and ahead of its time production. Helter Skelter has such a heavy guitar riff and claustrophobic sound, it feels like it could burst at any moment. It's genuinely heavier than a lot of metal songs. Blackbird is a legendary song, While my Guitar Gently Weeps has some of the best chord progressions I've ever heard and Happiness is a Warm Gun is so grand and psychedelic it feels like a fever dream. There is some other good songs in here but the main problem is that this album is very long and kind of unfocused. You get all these amazing, monumental songs next to a song like Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da which is just this goofy and kinda corny track that doesn't fit this album at all. Same with Piggies and Rocky Raccoon. Don't Pass me By is kind of a weak country detour on the album. Why Don't We Do It In The Road sounds like a song by a corny dad rock band rather than the Beatles, I really hate the vocal delivery on that song. The 2nd half of the album is in general much weaker than the first, even the songs are like mostly aren't THAT crazy and it's filled with some weird detours that mostly don't work. Putting Revolution 9 towards the end of the album was a ballsy move, but doesn't really bring the experience up. Many bands have an album that I think is overrated, and for The Beatles, it's this one. Still, I respect it for what it is and love many individual songs.

Great album

Classic for a reason.

Grab bag of classics

Some iconic songs drowning in a sea of shite, proof that even genius needs an editor.

the beatles shitposting for an hour and a half trying to come up with the most random song idea. a few nice songs in the first half, but mostly filler. a plethora of genres and themes explored at the same time but im not sure whats the goal? nirvana levels of shenanigans. paul lowkey carrying with his vocals

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

More enjoyable than I remembered. Still very weird to think the Manson family listened to this

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

Sometimes people telling you no is good actually

This is some amazing song in this album, but as a whole, it’s just too long. If it was edited down, I could easily see this as a 5/5.

Without Revolution 9, this album is flawless.

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

an absolute classic

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

As we all know, the White Album is an overly-sprawling mess of an album that really ought to be half as long. And yet, that's what makes it so compelling! You can almost hear the creative processes going in real-time here, what with the mix of songs that should have never been written, the songs that should have been left on the cutting room floor, the songs that could have used a bit more work, and the all-time classics. Sure, you don't really need "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" in your life, but doesn't the contrast make "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" just that little bit more satisfying?

Når man gir ut to album i året må det nødvendigvis bli mye fyllmateriale. Absolutt ikke blant Beatles' beste.

I felt in a 90s movie in California, awesome

Une excellente première partie avec un coup de cœur pour la face B du disque 1. Le deuxième disque est plus lourd, inégal et difficile à terminer. Un grand album, mais trop long pour rester au top du début à la fin.

4.5?

Interesting album, one of their best

Some great songs but like all 30 song albums there’s some filler.

Awesome album

Some truly bizarre songs on this one

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

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

#125/1001 🇬🇧⬜️ I have always had such mixed feelings about this record, mainly about the number of slightly gimmicky tracks, pastiching styles like Ska, Country, Ragtime and also the Beach Boys. That said there is some absolutely wonderful stuff here and we shouldnt forget that they invented Heavy Metal and inspired Charles Manson with Helter Skelter. I think my belief has always been if they trimmed it down to 3 sides of the best tracks (with Revolution 9 as a single track on side 4) this would be a far stronger record. I guess there were lots of egos at play by this point and everybody had to do their bit. Best Tracks: Happiness is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Glass Onion, Blackbird. Also good: Long Long Long, Cry Baby Cry, Julia, Good Night. Nope: Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Savoy Truffle, Honey Pie.

Would be a lot of peoples best album, might not even be in their top 5.

Some great songs let down by some mediocre ones.

good

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

Wasting time

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

I need help. How is this considered the best of the best band ever? Its seriously shit. Childish, silly, pisstake. How? Its a mess.

The thing about this album is, it's good, but not great. I personally feel like they threw everything at the wall to see what would stick. The Beatles are listed as one of the greatest music acts of all time, and with good reason. But at some point they overextended themselves for the sake of art and became a parody of a good band.

I think I will never understand the Beatles phenomenon - I think after the 70s it is just an inertia given to the band by the people who’s now either very old or dead. Anyway, all the song in the albums are unique and each song sounds different, which is quite amazing. But… Back in the USSR… wtf is this? “You don’t know how lucky you are boys” and “the Ukrainian girls really knock me out”. Are you kidding?)) Singing things like this in the end of the 60s is one of the most stupid thing I’ve even heard in my life. Ahah

A GREAT Beatles album. Not in my top few, so I can't give it 5 stars, but definitely like a 4.5

My favorite Beatles album for a reason. What a treat

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

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

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

This runs long. It has some good songs on it tho I don’t think you need to listen to the whole thing tho you get some bangers on the first side alone.

People love this ine

This goes past exploration and whatnot. This album is just disjointed. For every legendary banger, you take two steps back.

Blackbird, una de las mejores canciones de la historia.

The epitome of a once-in-a-century album. There quite literally isn't anything else that comes close to sounding like this. On this 90+ minute double album, the Beatles explore every single facet of their recording careers, careening from music halls and brass bands to proto-punk freakouts and acoustic ballads (with everything in between to boot!) Truly, this is an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink kind of recording. One of the major points of discussion surrounding the White Album is that it's too long, or that it could be cut down by a few minutes without losing its quality. The interesting part of this debate is WHICH songs should be cut, and that seems to be something no one can agree on. My honest opinion is that all of the songs contribute at least a little bit to the massive scale and ambition of this album, though I do concede that some of the shorter interludes could be done away with without losing too much. I might just be in awe of how remarkably consistent an eclectic, 30-track album could be, or even at how such a concept could exist in 1968. This album could have been made at any point after that initial release year and still be considered ahead of its time. Though I believe the experimental side of rock has finally caught up to this, I couldn't imagine a mainstream artist releasing anything remotely close to a White Album in this day and age. After all, how many chart toppers have made a "Revolution 9?" Now that's a song that has to be heard to be believed. It was probably the most expensive sound collage piece of all time given the limitations of the time. This is an album where a song about an amusement park sounds like the apocalypse (in Charles Manson's mind, anyway.) It's an album where an inane children's tune can coexist with proto-Sabbath guitar crunch. It's an album where wobbling blues shuffles live alongside restrained, elegant folk tunes and almond-eyed tape loops. This kind of release, at the midpoint of all that came before it and all that came after, truly only appears once in a century. Key Tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Don't Pass Me By, Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution 1, Revolution 9

I mean. Yeah. Beetlys. Yay.

Beatles sind fine.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beatles, good stuff, hard to argue with this album. Still not the best I ever heard, so no 5 stars.