Reviews (page 5 of 16)
So long that Ringo gets two songs
What hits. Crazy amount of talent, but also its so many songs. And some are so silly. Which is fun. But cultivate a bit
Some really great songs mixed with boring. Cutting this down to a single album would have made it infinitely better
PIGGIES
Pretty good, the Beatles is always nice to listen to. Many popular Beatles classics on here, and I liked listening to those. My favorite was Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Most of the songs were good, but Revolution 9 caught me by surprise. The album had 30 songs too but it didnt feel too long. 7.5/10
There's a good single LP album in there. In hindsight, it would have given loads more to the 'unreleased/newly discovered bits' market that seems to be drying up nowadays.
There are some songs I really do not like at all on this album (looking at your Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie). But there are some songs I love so much I couldn't possibly not give this a 5. Blackbird is my favorite Beatles song. Also, not having the single version of Revolution on an album is a travesty. So much better than the slower Revolution 1.
A good album that's absolutely carried by the first half of side A. Revolution 9 is enjoyable in its own way but I wouldn't call it music.
didnt think itd be so weird. always another interesting sound around the corner. not a ton of skips for a double album. favorite song is Rocky Raccoon
Rating: 8/10 A fantastic double album and send off for The Beatles' peak creativity, really not bloated at all and excellent pretty much the whole way through. Removing my least favorites, like Wild Honey Pie and Why don't we do it in the road, really wouldn't even change this album much because they're such a short part of the runtime. I don't really care for Piggies Me and My Monkey but I would never take them away because I'm sure there someone out there's favorite Beatles songs. So many great songs, Revolution 9 is some cool weird experimental noisy shit that sounds like the end of the world
Has some great ones but overall isn't very cohesive (no I don't know if that's on purpose), and has some real bad ones as well (I also don't know if that's on purpose). However the great ones still pull the rating up to a 6.3/10
Interesting, not best.
As someone whose experience with the Beatles is restricted to the inescapable and infectious early pop hits and the endlessly parodied eccentricities of the members themselves, The White Album provides an eye-opening range of musical styles showcasing what the Beatles are and can be. What feels more like a compilation of eclectic artists, this album is an enjoyable portfolio of work that can be enjoyed with the band's catalogue as a whole or just as perfectly as a standalone musical event.
never been a fan and never will blah
Very Good. Highlights of the album: Rocky Raccoon Back in the USSR Ob-La-De... 8.75/10
ill give em that this bangs
9/10
Yeah, this album is influential. It very much is influential. They did all of this way before many of my favorites did it today. The influence of this album transcends the people influenced directly by The Beatles. I'm impressed.
Heard Before? That's the crux of the problem. The impact of the Beatles on post-1964 music is like the impact of the Bible on pre-20th century literature: inescapable. We are all born essentially having heard the Beatles already. But yes, I've heard it. Notes: - nothing that hasn't already been mentioned thousands of times. - I listen to music in order to learn and (occasionally) to be surprised. It's not the Beatles' fault, but there is none of that here. - I will say the sequencing stuck out this time, and I would always rather listen to whole Beatles albums than the 30 biggest songs over and over. Verdict: It's the Beatles. But if (like me) you enjoy self-indulgence and short songs, there is plenty of both here. Listen Again? Who knows? But it's a big world and there is so much I haven't heard a thousand times over.
The White Album is a good, varied selection and is always worth a listen. It *maybe* could have benefited from a little trim, but nonetheless it’s still a solid four.
I’ve never understood why people hold this album in such high regard. The great tracks are really great but about half the songs are B-side level. It really needed some fat trimmed from it.
I think Yer Blues and Helter Skelter were the ones I had not heard before that I liked. Basically a blues and a proto-grunge song.
on the short list of greats albums of all time
Zone out a tiny bit. Classic
Listened to the whole thing and never really got tired of it. Knew a couple songs already but learned a few more good ones. Also just gonna make a note that I think The Offsprings song Why Dont You Get a Job sounds pretty dang similar to Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
Solid album all throughout, except for Revolution 9. Would give it a 3.5 if I could, but guess I'll round up for this one
9/10
Couldn’t get into it as much as I would have liked. Big fan of a few of the hits like while my guitar gently weeps but need a few more listens
Lots of bangers on this one. So many hits!
YA LO HE ESCUCHADO TE AMO ABBA
Even the “filler songs” on this album are unique, varied, and fun listens. You have the classics, yes, but it’s really a testament to this album that you have 30 songs and, even when there is one that isn’t my favorite, I never got bored listening to this. Also, shoutout to the orchestral lullaby at the end? What a pleasant surprise from a Beatles album!
I only like a few songs off this album 🙈 still a classic but not my fav
Despite the fact that I grew up loving and essentially worshipping The Beatles, I couldn't tell you the last time that I actually listened to this album from front to back. If you had asked me to list my favorite albums by the band, I don't even know where this one would have ended up, but after listening to it again, I can confidently say that this is one of my favorite albums by the band. I know that there's a big argument to be made about whether or not this could have been trimmed down to a single album and what could have theoretically been cut, but listening to it with fresh ears this time around I couldn't help but think that every song here feels essential, even the ones that typically get dragged through the mud on a regular basis. I also couldn't help but notice just how strong the second disc is, and how it might be better than the first, a rarity for a double album. But damn, The Beatles did it.
Would be 5 stars if the chaff was cut off a bit. Some incredible songs on here of course
Great album. Beatles still rock
Overall a good album, disc 2 is better than 1. Plenty of classic Beatles songs overall, some cool proto metal with Helter Skelter and impressive sampling for the time, some songs were lazy or uninspired and the blues songs were slightly out of place. I give the album 4/5 in general and 3/5 for the Beatles
Had listened to a lot of the songs but never in order - many many favorites
No tengo muchas palabras para describirlo. Son los Beatles haciendo lo mejor que saben hacer, música superlativamente ambiciosa y accesible, y en ningún momento se equivocan. Casi 100 minutos que se pasan volando como si fueran 50 minutos.
With about 30 songs the White Album suffers from a bit of bloat. Certainly not my favorite of The Beatles but can’t argue with how iconic it is. And with this length there are plenty of amazing songs too, ‘As My Guitar Gently Weeps’, ‘Helter Skelter’, ‘Back In The USSR’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Birthday’, this may be the heaviest the Beatles ever sounded.
Too much Beatles not enough trap beats 1/10 Dear prudence wasnt terrible though
30 Tracks, No Skips? Unheard of. Not their best, but it's up there.
Not perfect but still a Timeless album can’t go wrong
A bit too weeeird to be a good time
The Beatles were a bit weird sometimes weren't they
What an album to leave the week on, here it is my favourite Beatles album. From the first sounds of the aeroplane you know you are going to go on a wild rock n roll ride but as soon as Back in the USSR ends you are immediately submerged into psychedelia. And on it goes, from Ska to Flamenco through Blues and Prog Rock, over to Music Hall, while stopping at Folk, Baroque and Country. Every single ruddy song an absolute classic, and yes, I do include you Rocky Racoon! Let me summarise - Clashing time signatures! Eric Clapton! Yoko Ono! Sheep Dogs! Avant Garde! Chocolates! Mother! Maharishi! Donovan! and Pastiche that sounds like genuine songs of the genre! The band was crumbling at this point but I am left with the wonder of this album’s disparate cohesiveness, where there is no need for a fancy cover. Good night, guys, sleep tight 😊
Gran álbum! El álbum más solista de los Beatles.
I actually liked this Album. Little biased cause I wasn't alive while they were most active. So to me all their music is great!
A lot of hits and A lot of filler. The hits are good enough to overlook the filler. Great Beatles album.
I expected something better.
Some good some just average, too long.
I made it! Through the entire White Album which everyone claims is so ridiculously fantastic. I know you're mad I don't want to listen. Your mad I think they're over hyped garbage, but they are. I maintain my point.
Definitely some solid songs, 4 stars
Surprisingly enjoyable, i can see teenage girls loving this in the 60s
Number 9 Number 9 Number 9.... É o melhor álbum dos Beatles? Não. É o mais fascinante da discografia? Absolutamente sim. O sequencialmente e a tracklist é de certo a mais insana da discografia da banda. A presença de faixas como wild honey pie e revolution 9 faz que o álbum seja mais icônico. Porém eu prefiro a demo de 10 minutos de revolution do que as versões lançadas. Quase 4 álbuns solos jogados num liquidificador.
It was alright. A few good tracks and plenty that were just okay.
No private session used for Spotify. Some folks say this is the Beatles' best album, they are wrong. There are some great tracks on this album but there are also some complete stinkers. If this wasn't a double album, and therefore didn't have the crap like Wild Honey Pie, Bungalow Bill, and Rocky Raccoon this album could be their best, but it does, so it's not. Still a great album, showing the Beatles continual growth as musicians.
1 great album's worth of content spread far too thinly.
Fun and joyful pop. Love it!
ive spent my whole life trying to make myself believe I like onions. and I can sometimes in small amounts, but anything centered around onions just isn't for me. the beatles are the same way. if you like the beatles, im happy you have this album but me personally? I'd rather listen to trout mask replica than this
how could anyone turn their back on such a beautiful implosion? a chaotic meandering between voices and genres, no destination, but wasn’t the journey a hoot? probably the most honest beatles album.
A lot of fricken bangers, quite a few mid ah songs
i wanted to try to find enough holes to state that this album is not as good as all the hype, but it's impossible. with the exception of "birthday" it's almost all bangers. even though i find "revolution 9" unnecessary, it is not uninteresting. i appreciate the weirdness of it. i did love being reminded that "helter skelter" and "revolution 9" are essentially punk songs
Fav- mother natures son 5/5
While I recognize there are some that rank The White Album as the Beatles very best, here is my issue. There are some cuts that I find just mediocre and if I had my druthers, I would reduce this work to a single album, and that my friends, would be a stellar piece of work. It’s the Beatles though, and while I may have a few albums I prefer to this one, it is still a very good album, even if it contains too much material for my liking.
One of the greatest no doubt!
Some of my favourite songs of all time on this album, but I think it's just slightly too long, a few songs that I didn't get along with. But mostly an amazing listen.
Feels so harsh giving this a 4 when it's packed with some of the best songs of all time. But alas, here we are
An embarrassment of (wildly diverse and pretty weird) riches...and the most obvious signal yet that the solo albums would be coming soon. I love that Ringo gets to close the album with a real beauty.
I'll be curious if music from the Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones, etc. survives another generation. I'm sure we all thought the White Album would be an eternal staple of the music landscape. But already some of these songs felt more nostalgic than I expected they would. Could the Beatles become the equivalent to listening to Big Band/Moon River sentimental songs? We shall see.
a couple good songs, i feel people only treat it so well bc its the beatles
The album drags on. At its best it can arguably be considered the greatest Beatles album but there is a messy second half in there that while groundbreaking, takes a smidge off the rating for me. 9/10 [KEEP]
This was a phenomenal album to start my morning to. I was skeptical of a 30 song double disc album and that my social media damaged attention span wouldn’t be able to handle it. But on the contrary it was an easily digestible album because a majority of the songs were really good. And the album flowed together really well, I’m starting to see the Beatles hype after pretty up and down opinion on their discography. The white album was one of their best in my opinion.
How do you follow up a masterpiece? How do you make an album as a band after adopting some farcical parody of yourselves and blowing up the personas that made you stars to begin with? How can you make music together when you can barely even stand being in the same room with one another? And you’re done playing concerts? How can you sit there with a straight face and say that goofy shit like Wild Honey Pie and The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill should lead into something as nakedly beautiful as While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Who even are The Beatles anymore? You’d be forgiven if on first listen you walked away with the impression of, “Back in the U.S.S.R. is fun, and Dear Prudence is one their greatest songs ever, but what’s up with Glass Onion?” You could pick nearly any two-three song combo here and ask a similar question. One moment you’re listening to McCartney emphatically asking Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?, the next you’re hearing a heartfelt tribute from Lennon to his deceased mother, and they’re presented together as having the same artistic merit and value. Side A begins with two crowd pleasing bangers before the album reveals its hand going forward with Glass Onion and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, the latter of which existing in a constant state of me wondering whether it’s good or not. Some days I think it’s a perfect example of McCartney’s grasp on pop song structure, and other days I think it could be effectively used as a form of torture, it just depends on the day. Wild Honey Pie is next, and it’s here where you might start wondering why this is considered one of the greatest albums ever. We just got through with McCartney’s care-free “life goes on, brah,” now we’re listening to a minute long wailing between him and Lennon with some twangy guitar, this is only track 5 of 30, and the next song is titled The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. Is this a joke? Are they joking? Maybe? But then we get two more bangers to end things, and it’s here where The White Album shows its secret sauce: its sequencing. Side B is arguably the high point, in large part because McCartney is firing on all cylinders with his contributions. He starts things with the jaunty Martha My Dear, which maybe rose greatest in my esteem for it on this play through, then Blackbird (masterpiece), then Rocky Raccoon (masterpiece), and ending with the double header of Why Don’t We Do It In the Road? and I Will (the only song that wouldn’t feel out of place on a pre-Revolver album), two tracks that could not be further apart in style. The three other Beatles break up this run with an eclectic choice of songs with Lennon’s I’m So Tired (my favorite song of his on the album), Harrison’s Piggies (boy, that sure was something!), and Ringo’s very fun Don’t Pass Me By. Disc one ends with Julia, Lennon’s aforementioned ode to his mother, and I can’t help but stress the diverse range of sounds, emotions, tones, writing styles, music styles that have been encountered up to this point, not just on this album but within the Beatles catalogue as a whole, and how despite all the differences in each one of these songs, there is a cohesiveness to everything that never makes it feel jarring. Opening Side C with the manic Happy Birthday before descending into Yer Blues, sometimes I think one of The Beatles strengths was how they mostly stayed away from the blues rock based sound of a lot of their contemporaries, so these tracks are always a little hit and miss for me (and they seem to almost always be Lennon’s fault). This one teeters on the line of it being an average to good version of that, but I think it mostly works. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey is Lennon’s answer to Ob-La-Di, and it shares a lot of the same criticisms. This side from Lennon is almost a dud for me, but he thankfully redeems himself with Sexy Sadie, which is probably his best vocal performance on the album. I enjoy the harmonies throughout, and the drugged out ending is something he’d go on to perfect with Abbey Road, and hearing an early versions of that is interesting (see also Happiness is a Warm Gun). The remaining non-Lennon tracks on this side are thankfully all great, with Long, Long, Long being a notable level up from Harrison in terms of scope. I especially like how thunderous Ringo’s drumming sounds here, providing a nice contrast with the more ethereal sounds from McCartney’s organ and Harrison’s voice. If there’s a song here I could do without, it’s almost always going to be Revolution 1, an early version of John Lennon’s worst tendencies as an artist. I do prefer this version over the sort of rockin’ protest single. I always found that version to be pandering, while the album version sounded more like it was written from a sardonic point of view of a self proclaimed revolutionary who couldn’t be bothered with any of the actual work involved in it, telling himself “everything is going to be alright” instead, which feels more fitting coming from Lennon. Side D in general is kind of the red-headed step child within The White Album. I imagine it has to be the least played, and it’s usually about where I check out. It’s not so much that Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle (Harrison’s version of Ob-La-Di, and my favorite of the three), or Cry Baby Cry are bad, they aren’t, but they are sandwiched between the energy killer of Revolution 1 and the horror experiment that is Revolution 9. If you’re still listening to the album this far into things, it’s because you’re intentionally listening to it as a whole. No one is throwing on Cry Baby Cry in the way they might Helter Skelter, but they are enjoyable in their own right. Sometimes a work of art is notable because of how it was made or because of what inspired it, and sometimes it’s because of who made it and when, and The White Album is a case for the latter. I think it’s fascinating that a band, who was near incapable of working peacefully together at this point, who threw out everything they had become after previously throwing out everything they had become, reunited under this album and decided to title it The Beatles. This was them reestablishing who they were as artists, both as a group and individually, after losing themselves in their fame. It’s the beginning of their late career as a band and the first signs of what their solo careers might hold, with several songs including only one or two members. It’s why even with the criticisms I have against it, and with Side D being largely skippable more often than not, it’s still a brilliant piece of work. Even if you listen to this without knowing its context, you can feel it in the subtext with its kaleidoscope approach. The White Album is a sum of its parts, an experience. Every member gets to explore their own little ideas and interests, no matter how out there, and it feels entirely uncompromised. You can feel the disparity between them and the songs present, but that tension is also the glue keeping everything together as a Beatles album. Not just any Beatles album mind you, but THE Beatles album, and I can’t imagine a more fitting name.
I mean, come on...
my favorite song is Julia
Feels like a generous 5 nowadays because while this has some of the best songs ever recorded it also is a double album with a distinctly weaker but respectfully more experimental second half. This experimental side is very interesting but it's inspired so many people to go further and better with these attempts. Still, great album. Highlight: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Actual Highlight: Helter Skelter (I have my issues with the latter half but this song is still sick as fuck)
Don't think I've ever listened to the full White Album before. Its very enjoyable.
too long
They are doing so many different things, and doing them well. I don't think anyone believes this is a "perfect" record but that doesn't necessarily mean it can't be a 5 -- it certainly was a 5 in 1968 and it still has a good number of perfect songs that have more than withstood the test of time. The main critique you hear of this album is about the length and the "fluff", but I think that was kind of the point. It feels like they were just trying whatever the wanted without being confined to a single concept. They been there done that. To be that's what makes this record special. If the "fluff" was released as its own album, perhaps by a different band without the monumental expectations that the Beatles have cultivated, those songs would likely be more appreciated (when not placed next to Blackbird and Dear Prudence). Personal Favorites: Happiness is A Warm Gun, Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter 4.5
Not perfect, but with some of the greatest songs ever written.
This album is all over the place. Still a classic
Back in the USSR Glass Onion On-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill While my Guitar Gently Weeps Rocky Raccoon Don’t Pass me By Birthday Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except me and my Monkey Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter
While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun Rocky Raccoon Don’t Pass Me By Yet Blues Mother Nature’s Son Helter Skelter
At times I’ve made a personal cut of the White Album, eliminating the tracks I thought did not belong. But they all belong. This is who the Beatles were at time of release - exploring, starting to move in their own independent directions, dipping into weird, sometimes self-indulgent music. It’s sloppy and brilliant and sometimes dumb, but it is absolutely the Beatles. I still like to listen to Revolution 9,, because it’s the spiritual capper to an album that tries to encompass everything.
While my guitar gently weeps I will 8,5/10 Wow war das lang
Probably a 4 for the album. Classic Beatles songs. A bit too long tbh. Thinking about +0.5 stars for I will. But overall it’s still a four for me.
Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La,Da, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Revolution... this album is just peppered with hits across it. while it was long, certainly, i can't image the excitement when you learned that the Beatles, one of the greatest bands ever, had released a double album. this album takes its experimentation seriously. some works, some doesn't, but all in all its a pretty great album. shout out to Yoko Ono for breaking up the beatles, way to go
Some great and then some just solid Beatles songs on here but man it did not need to be that long. I tend to give them a lot of leeway just because I’ve always been a fan but “wild honey pie” is probably one of the worst things in the history of the recording technology to ever be recorded
There’s not much more to be said about this album that hasn’t already been said. If you call yourself a Beatles fan can you really give this anything less than a five?
I have no musical talent, and I don't claim to be better than the Beatles, however........ I think I can make this better by cutting it down to a single album. 1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (2:43) 2. "Dear Prudence" (3:56) 3. "Glass Onion" (2:18) 4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (3:08) 5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (4:45) 6. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (2:47) 7. "Blackbird" (2:18) 8. "I Will" (1:46) 9. "Julia" (2:57) 10. "Birthday" (2:42) 11. "Yer Blues" (4:01) 12. "Sexy Sadie" (3:15) 13. "Helter Skelter" (4:30) 14. "Revolution 1" (4:15) Total length: (45:21) I do really like this album but it's way too long with too many meaningless tracks for me to give it 5 stars. Cutting it down to 45 minutes with just the best tracks would easily bring it to a 5 for me.
Ob-La Di, Oh La Da is the second song that came up on shuffle for me and I quite like it.
I love the White Album. Is it the start of the end of the Beatles with lots of siloed working, undoubtedly but it doesn’t stop it from being a great album. Its size gives full space for the Beatles to explore their full range. Opening with the classic rock of Back in the USSR, before slipping into the beautiful understated elegance of Dear Prudence. The psychedelia of Glass Onion and the feeding of the conspiracy theorists … “the Walrus was Paul”. I know Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da is divisive and see as a joke to many but it is just infectious nonsense and i for one am fine with that. Tracks like Honey Pie and Bungalow Bill show the influence the Goons had on the Beatles and that regardless of your status you have to have a sense of humour. The latter also has yet another catchy chorus. The opening of While my Guitar Gently Weeps comes it like the chiming whistle of a bullet and quickly showcases how underrated George was in the band. He wrote beautiful songs snd none finer than this. Happiness is a Warm Gun compliments it perfectly and throws so many different styles into the one song so effectively. Blackbird is one of the most beautiful songs/melodies ever written and makes the perfect lullaby. Piggies merges baroque stylings with social commentary and humour to great effect. I have always loved the story telling of Rocky Racoon and the gin swilling doctor. Even Don’t Pass Me By is a fine Ringo song and leads perfectly into Why Don’t you do it in the Road. Julia closes the first half perfectly witj simple beauty Disc 2 continues the eclectic collection with rockers like Birthday and Helter Skelter sitting amongst lighter tunes like Mother Nature’s Son. Revolution 1 brings in Beach Boys vibe and again showcases the Beatles playfulness. Honey pie is another slice of old fashioned music hall, which Macca’s vocals fit perfectly
Let’s get the good stuff out of the way first: it has “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and, to a lesser extent, “Blackbird” on it. Otherwise, this is far too long. Some would say it’s “eclectic” - I would say it gave me a good dose of whiplash. It ranges from quite mad (“Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”) to downright awful (“Helter Skelter”), and just a bit uncomfortable (“Revolution 9).
The second of the Generator's "Big 2" albums that are continually vying for the top spot on the Global list of top albums. I gave Rumours a 5, so what will The White Album get... Firstly, it's The Beatles, and I like The Beatles. Secondly, it's really fucking long, and I get annoyed when albums are really fucking long. It's clearly a great album but for me, there is just too much of it to feel like a coherent (double) album. It was The Beatles at the height of their powers, but also at the near height of their "actually we think we might hate each other" phase. They were too big and powerful to really say no to, and too competitive to feel like one of the other members was "winning", and the result is a two album epic with songs I would definitely consider filler. But then it also has some stone cold classic Beatles tunes, that are among their greatest ever songs. I love Back In The USSR (because The Beatles pretending to be The Beach Boys is always going to go down well with me), My Guitar Gently Weeps is incredible, Happiness Is A Warm Gun is one of my favourites, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da is one of the catchiest songs ever written. But like, did you really need Piggies and Don't Pass Me By (sorry Ringo) on this record? Especially as you left off Hey Jude, which was recorded in the same sessions! Madness. This is so difficult to rate, because it's a cultural icon from perhaps THE cultural icons. But I've always been clear about my favourite Beatles album, and it's not The White Album. This is a 4.5 for me, but the lack of a ruthless editor means I'm marking it down rather than up. 4/5
It’s a classic. Diverse song composition, some weirdness thrown in, and fun to listen to. Not my fave Beatles album, but it’s always a good time
I will go to my grave saying that if the Beatles had edited it, this would be their best album, bar none. A 44-minute White Album? Incredible. Instead, the whole second "disc" feels uneven, and a little half-baked. But, goddamn, what amazing songs. A classic. 9/10
4,1/5
Really thought this was the major mis-step in the Beatles’ anthology. Listened to it throughout and knew every word. It’s not watered down, it’s just sprawling.
A bit overrated to be honest, too many novelty songs
Better than I thought it would be - quite an eclectic mix of styles given their poppy roots. I know I'm supposed to be enthralled but I can't get past the over-hype.
A lot of great tracks but not as much cohesion across the album
It was good, and it was foundational for sure, but it's undesirably long, lacks some larger cohesion, and by my modern standards and tastes doesn't feel like it deserves its title as one of the best albums ever made.
ahhh... mislio sam, konačno, ovaj će mi se svidjeti. ovaj je dobar. i na dijelove stvarno jest. prva stvar jako dobra, ob-la-di-ob-la-da najbolja... no ubrzo se sve usere. prva ploča nije dosljedna - varira od podnošljivog do rijetkog jako dobrog - ali je zato druga dosljednija - dosljedno je umnnogome lošija. posebno je užasna stvar, osim naravno "revolution 9" (zbog koje je lenon zaslužio metak koji je dobio), "yer blues". jednostavno ne podnosim glas tog šupka. i sad kad gledam popis pjesama, načelno su mi slabe sve pjesme koje on pjeva, a toga nisam ni bio svjestan dok sam slušao. nije ni mekkartni uvijek puno bolji - "why don't we do it in the road" dosta je sramotna. sve u svemu jedna velika šteta. prva ploča bez nekih pjesama i s pridodanom jednom-dvije s druge ploče (npr. "honey pie") činila bi jako dobar album. ali ovako ostavlja gorak okus u ustima i ne želim ga ponovo slušati, barem ne cijelog. teška srca dajem dvojku. nije zaslužilo trojku, ali zacijelo nije ni jedinicu. jebiga. trebali su obuzdat lenona i dat više prostora najboljem članu (harisonu)
I was very late to the Beatles, having grown up in a household where my dad expressed indifference and my mom was more or less antagonistic. It wasn't until my adult life that I actually delved into the Beatles back catalog. This album is a monster, weighing in at 93 minutes. And while 93 minutes is a long time to spend in a single soundscape, this album is widely varied with great writing across the playtime. That said, my upbringing is such that I don't regard every fart that Paul McCartney and John Lennon cut to be some exquisite perfume. I find the first disc to be more compelling than the second, containing most of my favorites: Glass Onion, Julia, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The second feels a little looser is some respects featuring two alternative takes of Revolution -- well one that is relatable (1) and the other that plays like some abstract psychedelic experiment (9) -- and some songs that feel a little less polished (e.g., Cry Baby Cry). And yet, the second half contains a few of my other favorites here: Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry, and Helter Skelter. By and by I'd be hard pressed to say this isn't a great album, but I find it far from perfect. For me this is a solid 4 -- glad it exists, but I am tested by the long playtime.
Another great Beatles album with a lot of call backs to their older songs which I thought was pretty neat. Couple of standouts include Dear Prudence and Blackbird. Another odd congruency like Paul Simon a few albums ago; Revolver was our 16th album and we have 15 albums left after this one.
A 90 minute doozy of an album that has so many of their great songs on it. Really liked the variety of types of songs on here and it was all jsut classic Beatles. Revolution 9 made me feel like I was in one of those dreams that you have when you are falling asleep before a nap on the couch that are just really insane.
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.
Bangers
Umm the album I more country/ romance pop. And I’m not much of a fan of country in general. The album overall isn’t for me😕.
So obviously, everyone has heard of the Beatles and has listened to at least some of their hit songs without any effort on their part. I'm that 'everyone', and this is the first full Beatles album I've ever listened to on purpose. My best friend in high school loved them (still does) but I was into other music at the time, and being a stubborn teenager I wasn't interested in trying them out. This still isn't my preferred style of music to listen to, but there are still several good songs on this double album, like "Blackbird" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". I personally have a preference for the acoustic numbers ("Julia", "Long, Long, Long"), because of the emotional resonance they contain. Other songs mix in blues, folk, classic rock, and psychedelia (which I'm learning I only really like in measured doses). The arrangements are of course melodic and I will admit some of the more strange lyrical and musical moments kind of put me off. In the end, it's not my favorite but I don't hate it, either. I think this album requires more than one listen, which I am open to doing.
Compared to Revolver or Rubber Soul, it really doesn't justify its length. There's one of two great songs, but it's mostly just songs.
Would be perfect if Why Don't We Do It in the Road was never written
This album i'm pretty sure is my favourite Beatle's album. it's got the least amount of "bad" tracks on it, having a 26 run of like "alright" and a few goodish songs. i see the beatles like concrete to a house... you need the beatles but i'm sure as hell not looking at the concrete and being like "OMG THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER".
This is definitely one of the better Beatles albums without any doubt, with many timeless hits that are still significant today. I just have two problems with this album: at times, the songs' positions on the album were so varied, like they were picked at random. As well, the album was just too long, and it left a lot of filler tracks that were really unnecessary. Also, never really been the biggest fan of the Beatles, but it ain't bad.
I mean, quite simply an unbelievable collection of writing, music, and message. Collectively taking you on a journey and individually some of the best songs written and recorded in the last 100 years. Can't be anything but a 5.
Lots of hit songs as well as plenty of other lesser known songs that are really good too. It's a classic album that was super influential. I've heard the hits on this album so many times just in passing that I don't need to seek it out but the other songs are worth listening to. They add some great variety.
It's a great album. Not my cup of tea so struggled to get through it all . But creative album the storytelling is amazing.
Quintessential Beatles eclecticness. Silly goofy childlike songs interspersed with dark lyricism as on Yer Blues and Helter Skelter which would later inspire the development of Heavy Metal. Isn't it just so cool that on the same album exist the nursery rhyme-esque Obla-Di-Obla-Da and crooning about being suicidal?
The best Beatles
Some were great, some were OK, some were awful. Overall I thought it was decent and an enjoyable listen.
Dear Prudence, give this album a listen. Then tell Martha My Dear, Good Night.
While this album is a drawn out hodgepodge of songs of varying styles and lengths, when the brain trust behind that is as creative as the Beatles, the product you receive is still quite good. I agree that many tracks could've been left out, but I also found myself enjoying many of the lesser-known cuts. I found the album. Does a pretty good job of keeping you entertained through variety, despite its length. This is one of my new favorite Beatles albums.
DONT FUCKING SHOOT ME PLEASE. So I’ve never listened to an entire Beatles album from start to finish. Up until now, I’d only known like 7 songs and that’s it. It should have stayed that way. Was this something incredible, unheard of, a blessing to the ears at the time of its release? I have no idea, my PARENTS weren’t even born at that time, my grandma was a little kid. Listening to it now for what it is, I just don’t like it that much. I don’t get the hype. I guess it was something fresh for the time, but it’s just not for me at all. I’m not arguing its place on this list, it for sure deserves it. I mean, c’mon, 24 times platinum. This is more well deserving than 90% of shit on here. How are you gonna go to India to meditate and get inspiration for songs and still write such eh stuff? Again, maybe for the 60’s it was WOW. Most of the lyrics are nothing innovative or clever, stuff repeats a lot. Don’t get me started on songs like Honey Pie and Revolution 9. The second disc is exponentially better. Why are all of the hits on the first one? While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a banger. It’s the only song I was aware of on this album. It slaps. The rest is either okay or trash or, well, Revolution 9. Honestly, I’m so conflicted rating this. I can’t really pick, I’m somewhere between a 2 and a 3. The first part really left me with no hope, but it kinda gets good later on. Still, there was no need for an album this long with so much garbage filler. I also try to keep that in mind while rating. If it were shorter, it would have been easier. I’m very unsure, but I’ll lean towards a 3. I hope I don’t regret my decision later on. I was really sure it would be a 2 at the start, but it kinda grew on me as it went on.
Muito longo, né?
Incredible album.
This is a difficult one to rate, for a couple of reasons: 1) it's in my DNA, since my parents bought it not long after it came out (late 1968), so I've been hearing these songs most of my life, and 2) there are so many songs, which run the gamut from great to filler. It's tempting to say that it would easily be 5 stars if they'd left a few off, although I'll admit that, as I look over the tracks, there aren't as many as I'd thought there'd be, of tracks that for sure I would have left off. So, I guess, I'm gonna go with a hesitant, almost reluctant, 5 stars, *even though* it's a messy, flawed, all-over-the-place album. But, I suspect, that was sort of the point.
It's full of the stuff that makes the Beatles so lovable. Too full, actually. There might be a 5 star album in here if it shed some sillier songs. Excessively self-indulgent at times, and brilliant at many others. I'm very glad it exists, but I won't hold it close
Brilliant, I wish I could give it a 4.5 So many diverse so songs.
What a difference a day makes. I come at these “unimpeachable all-time masterpieces” that carry loads of cultural baggage with caution, especially ones like this that I know front-to-back fairly well. There’s no way to be all that objective about it, but I do issue myself the internal challenge “how much objectivity can you muster?” It’s hard to say for sure, but baggage or not, this album is so jam packed with refreshing creativity I’m not sure it matters. Even smaller tracks are never filler, they’re little gems (yes, I’m looking at you Bungalow Bill). On the boomer legacy taint-train The Beatles are holding up exceptionally well so far.
Well that was pretty good aye
Nu I cine știe ce
I've been doing this album challenge for about a month now, and it was only a matter of time until I got the Beatles. Here's the thing, the Beatles are overrated. Sure they have a lot of good songs, but man, some people worship them. That that, this album has some good stuff on it. There's a ton of radio hits on this album, and some of my favorite Beatles songs on here. Buffalo Bill, Rocky Racoon, Revolution, Helter Skelter are really good. There's some real stinkers on here too, though. Some songs that are just bizarre, or long and indulgent. It makes the album too long and by the end, it was really hard not skip some of the tracks as they dragged on. Revolution 9 was over eight minutes of noise. It made an album that ballooned to 90 minutes. If they had more restraint, there could have been a better overall album.
Fuck off.
Like a few Beetles albums has way to many songs, 20 tracks is just too much unless you have a dozen or so bangers and unfortunately this has 5 good tunes (2 of them are all time Beetles greats - While my guitar gently weeps and blackbird) but the other 15 tracks are fine or in too many instances total bollocks. Maybe it’s a post war, memories of rationing, bang for your buck thing but as an album it is totally devalued by the sheer weight of its filler 2
There's songs which are amazing, some I don't like and some which are bizarre. It's a winner overall for me even if it polarises.
It’s amazing how many styles of songs the Beatles pulled to gather. So many hit, several… not so great songs. Ultimately not their strongest album even though they had some of their top hits
the weird one. i know they wanted to be nice but they really shouldnt have given ringo a song
divine. i have no words to describe how incredible this work. beatles just beatles
9/10 love the beatles
Chef’s kiss
Too many filler tracks to be a 5. That said, It's still a masterpiece. The inner Beatles tension is felt by some of the heavier tracks, which in some cases fell inspired by Hendrix, but that's just me. I think John outshines Paul on this album. Best Ringo track with Don't Pass Me By, and George's incredible While My Guitar Gently Weeps, whilst being unknowingly cucked by Eric Clapton.
timeless. just perfect
first beatles album lets go. did they start the trend of panning or isolating audios to one ear or another? oh my god this is the blackbird album!! oh wait i also know the song I Will, i wonder from where. Also this birthday song slaps lowkey. Look man, im not saying beatles doesnt have bangers, they obviously do. But to rate this album a 5/5 solely because its a classic doesnt feel right. I like less than 50% of rhe album, and thats being generous. So realistically this is between 2.5 to 2.75. But i guess i'll punch up
Could do without Julia.
You can’t blame them for having tension and being headed for a breakup at this point—I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to be in a band with Paul and have him invent Metal on Helter Skelter and then the next week he brings in Honey Pie
While my Guitar Gently Weeps is overrated. Don’t Pass Me By is underrated. I sang I Will to Nico as a lullaby and he told me to stop singing.
I love an album-as-radio-station, broadcasting the disparate visions of a group. I even like the throwaways like "Wild Honey Pie," "Why Don't We Do It in the Road" and "Birthday" and the accursed "Ob-La-Di." If it was an album of just that, it'd be a different story, but to place those between jewels like "Blackbird" and spacy epics like "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is a triumph in programming.
By the time the White Album came out, no one needed convincing that The Beatles were worthy of dictating the direction of popular culture, having just changed the course of popular music and what was possible in the recording studio with Sgt. Pepper’s. Yet they turned around and dropped a double album with such an incredible array of musical styles and zeitgeist-defining songs like “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Revolution 1” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” which must’ve really landed in the tumultuous world of 1968. There are a few echoes of Sgt. Pepper’s (“Piggies,” “Martha My Dear”), but this is a much more radical statement musically than that batch of baroque, orchestral songs. “Helter Skelter” is out of this world. Just an awesome album.
Like this needs a review.
Best Beatles album imho
Some of the most memorable Beatles songs, with some of their most forgettable.
the beatles knew they could release songs as singles right? great listen, but no cohesion.
7/10
Som vanligt med Beatles är jag kluven. Albumet är bra men alldeles för långt och det finns några låtar som inte är bra. Men på det stora hela bra. Skönt att slippa super poppiga Beatles och att det är lite rockigare och psykedeliskt.
One of the greatest albums ever written. rip Layne.
3.5 (with hey Jude and Revolution 4.0) (93:33, 30 tracks, 9th album, 1968) Rock (60’s pop, folk) Technically this is an eponymous album but no one wanted to call it that on their 9th album. Album is super long (double album) and has a lot of self-aggrandizing filler in my opinion. I know people want to 5 this album but it just isn’t that good - only because it’s The Beattle’s I think. They were struggling (Ono) at the time to keep the band together – weird recording in that they work largely as individuals recording at different times, sometimes same time different studios. By this point the Fab 4 was rich enough to waste a ton of time in studio – they recorded 100’s (literally) of versions of the same track until they liked one and would overlay other best tries. John and Paul were famously cold to each other (Ono) and many site this as the beginning of the end. Really it’s like 3 egos competing for time on one double album + Ringo (he gets one song.) If Hey Jude and the better version of Revolution were on this album I’d give it a 4, if they trimmed all the garbage and kept those two it would be a 5. There is just too much filler. (I gave Rubber Soul a 5.) Basically only a handful of Beatles songs and a bunch of solo project – pile on in their and say fuck it – they’ll eat it up (and oh boy did they ever . . . ) Not the best album on all time by far, not even the best Beatles album. Revolution 9 is just on their to annoy the shit out of people – they could have made it 20 minutes longer if they wanted to. Factoids – • The Maharishi album (Mahesh Yogi) – all four went to India on John’s advise to get away, a few stayed (John and George the longest) • By far the best George Harrison album – George really came into his own on this album • People criticize The Beatles for not using their platform to get more political but they snuck some stuff in here. Blackbird is an outstanding song against racism. George’s Piggies • And. . . of course Charles Manson had to and fuck up Helter Skelter but when you put Revolution 9 on the album that’s what happens Beattles Album cover – plain white sleeve, embossed with their name, number albums created a sense of value. Presses 1 – 4 went to the four members. #1 sold for a huge amount of money to Jack White. Favorite Song – Blackbird (and for Birthdays – Birthday) Glass Onion is fun, While my Guitar Weeps is a Harrison classic with Eric Clapton **Best songs 1. **"Back in the U.S.S.R." McCartney 2:43 2. "Dear Prudence" Lennon 3:56 3. **"Glass Onion" Lennon 2:18 4. *"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" McCartney 3:08 5. "Wild Honey Pie" McCartney 0:52 6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" Lennon with Yoko Ono 3:14 7. **"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison) Harrison 4:45 8. *"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Lennon 2:47 9. "Martha My Dear" McCartney 2:28 10. "I'm So Tired" Lennon 2:03 11. **"Blackbird" McCartney 2:18 12. "Piggies" (Harrison) Harrison 2:04 13. "Rocky Raccoon" McCartney 3:33 14. "Don't Pass Me By" Starr 3:51 15. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" McCartney 1:41 16. "I Will" McCartney 1:46 17. *"Julia" Lennon 2:57 18. **"Birthday" McCartney with Lennon 2:42 19. "Yer Blues" Lennon 4:01 20. "Mother Nature's Son" McCartney 2:48 21. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" Lennon 2:24 22. "Sexy Sadie" Lennon 3:15 23. **"Helter Skelter" McCartney 4:30 24. **"Long, Long, Long" (Harrison) Harrison 3:08 25. *"Revolution 1" Lennon 4:15 26. "Honey Pie" McCartney 2:41 27. "Savoy Truffle" (Harrison) Harrison 2:54 28. "Cry Baby Cry" Lennon with McCartney 3:02 29. "Revolution 9" Speaking from Lennon, Harrison, Ono and George Martin 8:22 30. "Good Night" Starr 3:14
How can you not applaud the risk-taking on this album? While not my favorite album by The Beatles, it is certainly one of the great albums of all time. After this album, every rock act wanted their own double album. It kicked off the resurgence of the minimal branding of album covers, with a slew of imitators and pranksters. The Beatles also continued to show that they could create hits in any genre they chose to write and record in, while they also helped create and fortify new ones with hard rock/heavy metal in "Helter Skelter" and industrial/post modernism in "Revolution #9".
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3.0 RYM
top three of the beatles album, placement depends on the day (other two, revolver, abbey road). dear prudence is probably my fav beatles song. paul on the bass and drums. the “throw away” tunes are fun. wild honey pie ftw. #9, could take or leave, love the outtakes too.
This wasn’t what I was expecting but it was fun and good to hear super early and synthy drum n bass. I can see a lot of inspiration and samples coming from this! I wish I was driving at night to this album, or at least doing some cardio to feel the beat and speed!
Such a fascinating album. Has some of my favourite ever Beatles tracks - Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter - some genuinely interesting innovate work that's way ahead of its time...and some god awful nonsense. I always cringe at songs like Bungalow Bill. As often the case with double albums, you could make the greatest ever single LP if you just edited properly, but there you go. Still worth a 4 due to the many highlights, but just falls short of perfection
Not my favorite Beatle album. But man impressive in scope. It has little bit of everything. Genius.
I hadn't listened to the full thing through in probably 20 years. Lot of songs I thought of as only ok have some great stuff in them - Dear Prudence has a really rockin guitar part?? The Beatles were all such incredible instrumentalists when playing as a group. I love the stuff on here using a bass as a rhythm guitar. Either by refining or just by the pressure of having to perform for each other they brought out their best songwriting. 'Paul McCartney doing parody/pastiche' post-Beatles is a real groaner - on the White Album, it's Rocky Raccoon and it's so funny and so good. The fragmentation + no silence between tracks is great. Deservedly the stuff of mythology. music: appreciated. (⌐☮_☮)
Like many people my age, I got into the Beatles because my dad was a baby boomer who was into the Beatles. I cycled through having different albums as my favourite but would always come up against the same resistance: he consistently said that their best one was the White Album. Anyway he was right, it’s the best one. I’ve settled on that now. I told him that once, and he was very pleased with himself.
9/10
One of my favorite albums by my favorite band. Love love love. Perfection. So fun and whimsy beautiful masterpiece amazing.
Back in the u.s.s.r. - 5 Dear prudence - 5 Glass onion - 4 Ob-la-di, ob-la-da - 5 Wild honey pie - 2 The continuing story of bungalow bill - 4 While my guitar gently weeps - 5 Happiness is a warm gun - 5 Martha my dear - 4 I'm so tired - 5 Blackbird - 5 Piggies - 3 Rocky racoon - 5 Don’t pass me by - 4 Why don't we do it in the road - 5 I will - 5 Julia - 5 Birthday - 4 Yer blues - 4 Mother nature's son - 4 Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey - 4 Sexy sadie - 4 Helter skelter - 5 Long, long, long - 4 Revolution 1 - 5 Honey pie - 3 Savoy truffle - 4 Cry baby cry - 5 Revolution 9 - 1 Good night - 3
Peak
Hard to say no to some of those songs. Not my tea though. 3.9
my fav beatles album, goat
I guess I just think every album ever is okay!
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Los beatles son una locura!!! siempre 100/100
That's exactly what I needed today - easy to listen to, sing along, and simply enjoy.
All these years later, this seems as fresh as it was when I first heard it. And time has transformed all the weird tracks into old favorites. So I wouldn’t change a thing about it. Every time I try to pick one favorite for my playlist, I feel like I am slighting about five others. I ended up choosing “Sexy Sadie”.
I'm not against the Beatles. I just think it's dumb that they have so many albums on this list. seven, are we sure? seven? seven??
There's this ongoing discussion about which Beatles album is the best one, a discussion I have my own thoughts on, and for me, this one isn't quite it. Sure, it's an excellent album, with a lot of great tracks, but I personally don't think it's their best. That said, it's still worth a strong 4.5 out 5.
Craig: great Courtney: very good, as expected.
Definitivno ima znatno boljih albuma Beatlesa, ali neka ih tu. 2/5, 4/10
Love this album. It's random, kid like, but has some serious epic songs. Obladi, Dear Prudence, Honey Pie.
Heard Many Times; 4; It's been a bit since I listened through this whole album, and like a few others I've only relistened to after a few years, I feel like I appreciated this album more. I enjoyed the diversity of the album; really like the stripped down, straightforward rock songs, the folkier songs, and the ones that are just strange and off-the-wall. Favorite Tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Helter Skelter
Side 1: Back in the USSR starts out swinging (although the parody is pretty hamfisted), Dear Prudence and all the way down to Blackbird absolutely slap. We wobbled with Piggies (another edgy commentary that felt like babies first capitalist critique), Rockie Racoon, Why Don't We Do It In The Road. Felt like some filler tracks and a big shift in quality. Side 2: Another rock n roll start on Birthday and Yer Blues, both initially starts as a standard blues is backed up by some really solid licks and wider production, we're cooking. Helter Skelter rocked, real progenitor for heavy metal, sadly spoiled by Charles Manson doing "that". Revolution 1 again has Lennon's lazy political analysis on display. Honey Pie is a really lovely song. Savoy Truffle is a banging b-side. Cry Baby Cry is another lovely one with great production, the organ linking with the bass is *chefs kiss*. Revolution 9 was an assult, deeply unsettling. To say this side was eclectic in an understatement.. All in all, a real tour through what the Beatles were about. Many hits, but also a fair few misses. Not bad for album no 9. 3.5 rounded up
What an absolute beast of an album. As one of the very few albums I had actually dipped my toes into before I started this list, The White Album is in a bit of a tough spot for me. There's no doubt this album is great. 30 tracks, any number of them having the potential to be someone's favorite, and each so stylistically distinct from the others in a way that causes the album to feel even larger than it already is. I've always been partial to Paul McCartney's vocals, and there's such a cool range of him here. Growing up listening to The Beatles with my parents maybe put them on a pedestal in my head. My parents thought they were great, the world thought they were great, and I liked their music so they must be great. Greatest of all time even, maybe. I've always been a sucker for vocal harmonies, something that's in the forefront across The Beatles discography, and a lot of their experimental or influential use of what I would call sound effects always made their songs fun, or at the very least interesting. But the more music I've gone out and found thanks to this list, and now coming back to the white album after so many years, I can't help but recognize that there are many other albums that just felt better to me. Ones that I enjoyed more as a whole than what was presented here by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Despite knowing of the revolutionary influence this album had, and the great display of talent and creativity that is on display, I would much rather listen to A Hard Day's Night nine times out of ten. The same could be said of any of the other 5 star albums on this, my, list. Maybe it's a factor of too much of a good thing, side 1 and side 2 of this album easily being enough to stand on their own. Maybe it's my distaste for many of John Lennon's songs, here and elsewhere. At the end of the day, there's not enough enjoyment here for me to personally rank it with the other 5's on my list, though there is no doubt in my mind that this album could deserve one. Highlights: Back In The U.S.S.R. Dear Prudence Glass Onion Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun Blackbird Rocky Raccoon Birthday Helter Skelter Good Night Lowlights: Wild Honey Pie I'm So Tired Piggies Yer Blues Revolution 9
Is it a comedy album?
Great album, not too much to say here. If I listened to it a bit more it might end up being 5 stars but hey ho
Some good, some very good, some bad and then 'Revolution 9', which was fucking awful. It did seem to go on a bit too long. It was a good album, but nothing more.
Incredible. In any other band this would probably be their best work. With The Beatles, however, depending on the day, it could slide down to fourth best. It's strength and weakness is its eclecticness, giving it a wide variety of flavors and colors. This also causes it to have too far a range and too long a leash to make it comparable to the likes of Blonde on Blonde, Sign Of The Times, or London Calling in terms of the tops of non-concept rock-oriented double albums.
Good tunes! Already knew a lot of songs
The White album... I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said. It's a bit all over the place, some fantastic songs, some pap. There's enough songs on there to make a single length album that's amazing.
6/10
Very solid album, just extremely bloated. Top 3: 1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 3. Glass Onion Least Favourite Wild Honey Pie
There are Beatles albums that I have higher in personal rankings, but let's not kid ourselves; this is one of their many masterpieces. If you're a Beatles nerd, then you already know.... but there is so much lore behind the inception, development, and actual creation of this album that make it all the more interesting to learn and understand. A few tidbits: 1) More than half the album's songs were written while on their meditation retreat in Rikikesh, India with the Maharishi (a real poser, btw) on acoustic guitars. If you ever want to hear the earliest iterations of the White Album, I highly recommend listening to the Beatles' Esher Demos. 2) Tensions boiled over during the making of this album that led Ringo to actually quit the band for two weeks. As a result, there are several tracks where Paul plays the drums (Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Birthday, maybe others too). 3) This was when Yoko really started to become an overreaching presence in the group's safe space that was the studio which obviously ticked off the band. 4) The first Beatles album to include individually penned songs from all 4 Beatles. Ringo wrote Don't Pass Me By all by himself :) 5) The WMGGW solo played by Eric Clapton; a move made by George, who at the time was struggling with his confidence on guitar given that he largely ignored it for 2 years in favor of the sitar during his deep dive into Eastern music and philosophy in the mid 60's. The decision to make this a double album was not a popular one with those outside the 4 Beatles given that they were essentially selling two albums for the price of one at a time when they were the most powerful band on the planet. And to this day, the criticism of the White Album is that it's jam packed with tracks, and not all of them very good (even some of the Beatles have agreed with this notion). But to hell with that. The variety on the White Album is what makes it so special. For those out there that ignorantly claim all the Beatles did was write a bunch of superficial pop songs, they should listen to this album (and also get a slap across the face). We're talking Blues, Rock n' Roll, Ska, Vaudeville Hall, Satire, Folk, Country Western, and more all wrapped up in a single project. The Beatles were in their musical primes here and they held no punches and left no stone unturned for the creation a mammoth album for their fans. As Macca once said when challenged by a reporter on the White Album: "What do you mean? It was great. It sold. It's the bloody Beatles' White Album, shut up!" Top tracks: Back in the USSR, Ob-La-Di, Ob-la-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Rock Raccoon, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1
If someone tells you this album is too long or too weird, that says a lot more about them than it does about you. In an era of hot takes and GOAT debates, it's nice to be reminded that the Beatles truly are a class above the rest. Favorite Tracks: Back in the USSR, Ob-la-Di, Bungalow Bill, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Don't Pass Me By (<3 u, Ringo) Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son,
It's not the score you give The White Album, it's the favorite tracks you select. Favorite Songs: Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, I Will, Julia, Sexy Sadie, Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry
One of the best albums to ever be assembled.
I think, they have more magical albums then this)
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I, surprisingly to me, haven't heard a lot of these songs. My dad was more of a (old style not racist) country aficionado when I was little. That and Irish trade and rebel songs. They're good though. Fun. Some make little to no sense lol Definitely a lot of drugs involved in this particular album. Jaunty stuff though. Liked listening while doing schoolwork AND bringing the hidden litter box cabinet up from the basement (we're getting 2 new cats in a few days (this is going to be a fun time capsule at some point!)) Ok, this album is weird lol I like it though.
Je suis un genre de Daniel Johnston en ce qui concerne les Beatles.
Pour moi, ça constitue l'apogée de la période sombre des Beatles, celle des albums Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour et White Album. Je sais je sais, unpopular opinion. J'adore absolument tout de Help! Rubber Soul, Revolver, et après le grand retour avec Abbey Road (sauf les tounes niaiseuses de Paul McCartney). Mais j'ai de la misère avec la période psyché-pop. Quelques bonnes tounes quand même, il faut le noter, mais beaucoup trop de filler sur un double album qui se veut ambitieux, mais qui n'a au fond aucun thème. Mes prefs: While My guitar gently weeps, I'm so tired, Blackbird, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter. A vomir: Ob-la-di ob-la-da, Birthday, Bungalow Bill, Glass Onion.
Album double: pas fini malheureusement. Mais quand même 5 étoiles. Je comprend les plaintes de felix mais les hits sont trop fort pour être ignorés!
Very 90s movie sunny cold Thursday vibes.
Such a classic. So full of epic Beatles moments.
I don’t usually listen to The Beatles. I’ve heard their bigger songs before and they were never really my vibe, but I gave the White Album ( 1968) a full listen anyway. Honestly, it just didn’t click for me. The album felt very experimental but also kind of messy, and no track really stood out or stuck with me after it ended. Maybe this just wasn’t the right album for me, and after researching i can see how this album is supposed to be a contrast from previous works, but I still don’t really get the hype around the band.
nie lubię Beatlesów and you can’t change my mind
I was loving this album and fully prepared to give it an easy 5 stars. Then I had to listen to Revolution 9. So here is your 4 stars.
generally don't get the love for this album, I will maybe get it one day, but it is deffo not my favourite beatles album. There are some outstanding songs on it but lots of weird stuff. But i guess for some peopel its nice to see what the boys came up with.
One of the all time classic albums of pop and rock. Just for that reason it is good and correct that it is on this list. In my opinion the best album of the Beatles.
Obv its good
Hints of genius interspersed with drug-induced nonsense… presumably by ‘69 they were too big for the studios to give guidance. But I surprised myself… took me back to s time in life, and I’m still almost word perfect. Iconic.
One of a kind. Best array of music that could be found on any album ever, done in a way that never feels jarring. Revolution 9 sucks, but everything else is incredible. Is it a bit long? Who cares. It sold. People love it. It’s the Beatles White Album. Shut up
Some songs are more fluffy but all of them have held up incredibly well
I really thought I was going to love this album because I love The Beatles, but it turns out there's a LOT of songs by them that I didn't realize existed... Great songs on here, also some not so great ones...
There are so many great songs on here and also so many stinkers. Really interesting seeing all of the Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, and Stones parallels though. Did not need to be a double album lol
Some absolute classics interspersed with some weird ones. Still overall a good album
There's no denying that this is a great album. It's full of hits, quality album tracks, and showcases each member's abilities and contributions. However, I think this one suffers from a classic case of double album syndrome. Is it a great album? Of course. Are there filler tracks and other questionable choices that could have easily been omitted if there weren't two LPs worth of space to fill? Unfortunately...yes. Honestly, it's nothing reflective of the Fab Four. There are 30 tracks on this bad boy, they're not all going to be zingers. Not even the greatest rock band ever could do that. Maybe it's too varied? There are a variety of styles and influences here, with some typical Beatles style weirdness sprinkled in for good measure. But for some reason it seems fragmented and kind of all over the place. It diverges from the more psychedelic sound of some of their previous records, and maybe that's them transitioning again into more of a pure "rock" band. It would be interesting to see what would have happened to their sound if they would have stayed together longer. "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" are a taste. But would have The Beatles have sounded like in the 70's? According to Sir Paul... ELO.
A scattergun selection of what was good and bad about the Beatles - some faves, some bangers, some blatant examples of 'what the hell were they thinking'...
1 song already in my favorites. Would listen again if forced to.
The White album is an obvious five star album in general, but it's not a five star Beatle album for me. I find it the saddest Beatles album. They sound further apart from each other than on any other album. They are doing a ton of experimenting on this album but they feel directionless and disconnected as a group. More than any other album it feels like they are just taking turns with a John song, then a Paul song then a George. There are multiple songs in which the lead vocals and harmonies are done by one Beatle. There are some absolutely incredible songs on this album: Julia, Blackbird, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Will, but there's also obvious filler. Wild Honey Pie, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't we Do it in the Road?, Bungalow Bill. Don't get me wrong, I still love every song. (Except maybe Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie). Many people have suggested that if this had been cut down to a single album it would be their greatest achievement. I disagree. Even the great songs are missing that full Beatles magic. Especially for McCartney, this is the first album where you can hear a glimpse of what their solo careers will be. Some good stuff, but nothing that feels as good as those true John/Paul calibrations. Also, I don't love the mix on several of these songs. Long Long Long, for example, It think it's a really interesting song, but the way it's mixed is so muddy it's hard to listen to. Also, they use echo in weird ways that make certain instruments feel small and isolated. All that being said. It's the White Album and a I love it. But before this one I usually reach for Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road or Help. Let it Be too. Many people consider Let it Be to be a step down from the other albums of the late 60's but what I love about Let it Be is what's missing from this album. You can hear the Beatles playing and singing together, feeding off each other.
An unintentionally brilliant divide-and-conquer approach makes this one of the Beatles’ most fun albums and probably the best tossed-off double album of all time. Where the band members famously heard a final product that sounds like the Beatles breaking up in real time, we hear instead the purest expressions of their individual personalities yet put to tape, simultaneously confirming and complicating what we thought we knew about each. Lennon’s work is the standout (with the exception of Revolution 9), though everyone has their moments. McCartney’s embarrassingly goofy pastiches are mostly endearing and suitably balanced by some of his most exquisitely beautiful songs and the jaw-dropping sludge rock of Helter Skelter. George’s songwriting takes a leap on this album, though it remains overshadowed. Ringo’s tune is one the album’s, and one of his, worst (which is saying something). Favorite songs: Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, I’m So Tired
This is an album I grew up with. My brother is a huge Beatles fan. Whenever he picked up an album, he would sit me down and make me listen to it with him. I may not have fully appreciated it when I was young, but as I got older, I grew to appreciate their style and contribution to music. So many eclectic tracks...definitely something for every mood.
As a great man once said, "It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' 'White Album, shut up!". Thank you Paul for such choice words, but let's consider why he said this. The White album gets a lot of conversation and as far as I can tell general consensus is this album is pretty widely liked... with a caveat. In my opinion this album is about 20% amazing, 50% good, 15% okay and 15%... I want to say be kind and say unimpressive but it's worse than that. Seriously we are given some career peaks with George's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", John's "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and Paul's "Blackbird", alongside massively important songs like Helter Skelter and Dear Prudence this album is absolutely stacked in terms of quality songs. Honey Pie when taken out of the context of the album is maybe the worst Beatles song, and Revolution 9 attempts to be artsy but is a touch too meaningless. I'm not even particularly a Yoko hater, I think the Beatles were doomed as soon as they started supressing George, but good lord her direct effect on John causing this song is reason enough especially for an 8 minute song on a 93 minute album. There's a blend of some incredible, interesting material in here and with each listen I find another song I like more than I thought I did, probably because listening to this in one sitting can become quite a task. Equally there is some real nonsense, for better or for worse, and I can't even be that critical considering I really like Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. Meanwhile some songs fit well into the album but when isolated are just weird, like Rocky Raccoon for instance. I do think this album is good and even if not a big Beatles fan it's well worth a listen so you can take your pick of what songs do and don't deserve to be on this album the length of an actual movie. Also I wish "I Will" was 4 minutes long because good lord Paul sounds beautiful. Best songs: While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Happiness is a Warm Gun Worst songs: Honey Pie / Revolution 9 Rank compared to everything else so far: 17/54 (below Revolver, above Van Halen.)
For an album on every beat lost I had to skip a few tracks
Been awhile since I listened to Beatles lyrics closely and I was generally appreciating the talent in the writing. The songs that hold up are the ones you generally would probably guess as they've been remixed and redone in so many media versions over the years since. Glass Onion however, my first response is "how insufferable to reference your previous songs in some tortured multi-layer metaphor" and upon looking it up, apparently it's Lennon specifically making fun of people being insufferable about their lyrics and reading too much into them. So I guess, fair enough?
Really surprised by the variety within this album, I guess I didn’t know the Beatles balled like that.
I did a lot of research on the origination of the songs for this album and the recording. It basically happened at the beginning of the end for the Beatles. Yoko Ono was now fully on the scene, which caused issues between John Lennon and the rest of the band. Ringo Starr left the band completely for a few weeks. Most of the songs were written while the band was attending a Transcendental Meditation course in India. It's amazing to me that this album came out of all that chaos. Having said that, a good chunk of the album is made up of songs that clearly belong to one band member or the other. Rare on the album are songs where the band is one cohesive unit. Some of the songs are just bizarre and really not that good. But the number of absolute classics and iconic songs that were not only classics for the Beatles, but songs that have been covered over and over again, is a tribute to how talented they were not only as a band, but as individuals.
Solid
Probably don't need anyone else glazing this one. Just a damn good album.
There are other Beatles albums with better songs in fewer tracks. Not bad, it's still the Beatles, but many of the tracks are just average. Favorite track is while my guitar gently weeps
8.5 / 10
This comes in at 3rd in my ranking of Beatles albums, it’s still brilliant it almost feels like listening to a greatest hits album. It’s REALLY long though. I did find disk 2 to be slightly worse than disk 1 which is a shame because If disk 1 was released as an album on its own this would be a sure fire 5
I think this album gets longer everytime I listen to it. It has some of the best Beatles songs (while my guitar gently weeps) alongside some of the worst (revolution 9)
This album is long and I do not understand the arrangement. This is one of my leastfavortie beatles albums if I were to favor any beatles albums. Black bird and Obladioblada are the highlights. Lots of songs that talk abouthaving guns, killing yourself or other people. Very weird I hated it
I really like the feel, the lyrics, and the musical composition itself. Will definitely listen to again :>.
Let's say it's 1970 and you're 12 years old and you go with your saved-up allowance money to buy a Beatles album, and then you get home and are greeted with "Revolution 9." I don't have a clear memory of my initial reaction to this record, but I imagine that experience was fairly formative, considering the nonlinear stuff I like to listen to these days. This isn't a perfect record; there are goofy bits on here like "Bungalow Bill" and "Rocky Raccoon" that I could have lived without ever hearing again. And the apolitical theme of "Revolution 1" felt off to many people on the left at the time, and feels kinda problematic now too, considering everything going on at the moment. But hey, it's a double album, so there's a lot of good stuff left to hear if you skip those. So while my general position re the Beatles is that people need to quit playing them all the time already (and that Siouxsie and the Banshees covers of Beatles songs are better than the originals), still: 4/5 stars for the white album.
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Not their best work, a few good songs.
Amazing album, also one of my favorite albums by The Beatles. Favorite song: Helter Skelter
Exactly what youd expect from a band like the beatles
Lots of silly filler in an otherwise amazing classic album. Could have been 5 if it was about ten songs shorter.
And then this one comes along, I bought this when I finally got into the Beatles, loved playing this yesterday in the car and singing along to “Rocky Racoon, guitar weeps, USSR, obladee, blackbird etc…….great memories
181/1089 Back In The USSR is a good start. Then “Ob La Di, Ob La Da, life goes on brah” has always been a very cringeworthy lyric to me i’m more familiar with Beyoncé’s rendition of Blackbird but the original is ofc powerful too. Then it’s undercut by Piggies right after it for some bizarre reason Helter Skelter specifically feels REALLY like the precursor to 90s Britpop. I got blisters on me fingers is from THIS album?! I quite liked Cry Baby Cry but especially the acoustic outro which should’ve been a full song?! Good Night is actually a very beautiful and calming way to end the project, it’s SO Mary Poppins-coded. contender for my fave Beatles song? It was a good double album, i had a nice time with it and i wouldn’t say it noticeably dragged (though i did do each disc in separate sessions) however i think if it had been edited down i think it could’ve been much stronger to me faves: Good Night, Helter Skelter, Julia, Cry Baby Cry, Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Back in the USSR 66/100
Awesome. Epic album
Bangers! Bangers! Bangers!
Listened to the whole thing again today, along with 1-1/2 CDs worth of outtakes from the deluxe box set on streaming. Still fabulous. This is in my top 10 of all time. My notes from StoryWorth: Aka “the White Album”, I could write about this at excessive length, track by track, but as with any Beatles album there is not a remotely dud track here. I even like “Revolution #9” which understandably many folks don’t. I vividly remember JB bringing this album home from the downtown Spokane department store that I believe was about the only outlet around where you could buy albums back then on the day they were released. It was released on a Friday, 11/22/68, and Thanksgiving was the following Thursday. So there was a lot of time to listen to it the first week it came out, and then over Xmas break. It had a lot of great stereo separation and I would lay down on the floor with my head between the two speakers in our family’s console stereo (something like this) and just listen to it over and over again. It had a really cool foldout poster and 5x7 glossy photos of each band member. In November of 2018 there was a 50th anniversary reissue of the album with a ton of demo tracks and a 5.1 surround mix on Blu-Ray overseen by George Martin’s son. It is very nice, but I have other surround versions made by myself and others that I actually prefer.
Been sort of dreading this one because it’s maybe the quintessential 4.5 album for me. First disc unimpeachable (except wild honey pie, which even they would probably admit is a throwaway, so no points deducted). Second disc a lot iffier, especially rev 9. Here’s what I wrote 1.5 years ago when we listened to every Beatles album over a summer: “I remembered this as a good first disc and a mediocre-to-bad second disc. Upon repeated listens in just a few days this week, I think it's more like a masterpiece of a first disc and a second disc most artists would claim as their best work. It may simply be that the last time I listened to this all the way through was in high school (when "I'm So Tired" was briefly my wakeup song on my cd alarm clock--don't act like you're not impressed) and nowadays I have more patience for the softer ("Long, Long, Long", "Honey Pie", "Mother Nature's Son", and perhaps especially "Cry Baby Cry") and weirder ("Savoy Truffle", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide...") tracks. I had a very hard time picking a favorite track, and there are five or six others that might get it on some other day [editor: that day, and today, it’s while my guitar gently weeps]. The audacity is a double-edged sword: I'm impressed by pulling off 20+ outstanding songs in multiple genres, and a little put off by the handful that have never done it for me (number nine, number nine, number nine). It's a bold, incredible album, but a 10 feels generous for an album where I'd say there are 4-5 skips, including an 8-minute one.” I gave it a 9/10, and that’s where it stands today, too. Felt a few songs overstayed their welcome (Birthday’s “welcome” lasts about two seconds), but I have to acknowledge that’s probably influenced by having another double album and a triple album in the last ten days. Both were great, as is this, but I’m tired, boss. (And I swear if we get that Ella Fitzgerald album tomorrow…) But even though I struggled through the second disc, it doesn’t feel right to give it a 4/5. The album as a whole is better than that. Very soft 5, with a strong glare directed at Revolution 9, Birthday, Sexy Sadie, the final halves of Helter Skelter and Yer Blues, and Good Night.
It's great man, it's great. It's - you know, it's great. Yeah sure yeah
One of the best of all time
An important album of its time. Sounds a little bloated now and could have benfited from being provided as a single album.
My first Beatles album, ever, that I’ve listened to in full. Yet another band that I know and like the hits, but have never done a discography deep dive. I even have two of their “best of” albums on vinyl that I inherited that I should probably give a spin at some point. Starting off strong with Back in the USSR. I only really knew this song in passing, but a great listen to really pay attention to. Dear Prudence was a nice simple little song. I really liked the simplicity of the guitar through most of the song. Going into Glass Onion, I thought it was solid. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da was very fun musically wise. The shaker and percussion was great, and even though I didn’t catch a lot of the lyrics on first listen, I liked those too. Wild Honey Pie was definitely, out there, totally. It reminded me of some of the stuff I’ve heard off magical mystery tour. Bungalow Bull was fun and I liked the narrative aspect of it. My Guitar Gently Weeps was a gorgeous track. It was so melodic. *slight pause as I drive home and listen to the rest of the album* Ok I’m back to writing this after getting home. Oh boy to I have a lot to say. The first little bit of this album was SO good, and there are still highs to come, but… well… you’ll see. Happiness is a Warm Gun, Martha my Dear, I’m so Tired. Serviceable tracks, not my favourites off the album but they work. Blackbird, other than giving me flashbacks from when I took guitar lessons at 14, was an amazing track and I’m glad it lived on to give a punk rock obsessed teen an interesting introduction to guitar, This is where the album, and I tbh, go off the rails a bit. I read a review on here at one point that said if an albums over an hour, it just means the right cuts weren’t made, and with this album I agree. Piggies was… a song. I was really thrown off by the random snorting thrown in. Like it wasn’t horrible, but in the big scheme of things, this album is over an hour, it could’ve easily made an outtakes album. Same with Rocky Raccoon, which I can only describe as sounding like a mid 90s Canadian Edutainment song. If you know you know. The rest of disc one is alright. Nothing really to comment on, but they all sort of blended together for me. Disc 2. Birthday was a fine opener and I loved Mother Natures Son. I thought it was very pretty. Helter Skelter, of course was fun! Was happy to see that on this album, same with Revolution 1, which is a classic and one that my dad started singing as soon as I told him this was today’s album. I seem to remember liking Savoy Truffle, but I don’t remember what I liked about it or anything about the song. Revolution 9 deserves a paragraph all to itself. Imagine for a second you’re driving home, it’s dark, 8pm, you’ve just had a long day at work and been to the gym and are super ready to get home, eat dinner, and go to bed. Then, about 10 min from home, this comes on. You don’t know the track, so you just think it’s a quick little, somewhat strange intermission. Then it keeps going. For almost 8 and a half minutes I drove, thinking it would be over soon, and every time I thought maybe it’ll be over, it kept going. I think it’s the closest to going insane I’ve ever been. I get that a lot of the Beatles charm comes from drug filled genius, but holy. Good Night was beautiful, no complaints. Just the fact I couldn’t enjoy it fully as I was still reeling from the Revolution 9 experience. Overall, the highs of this album were so high, but the averageness of the lows really took me out of it. Maybe I just don’t get it, maybe being born 36 years after this album came out wasn’t the right choice to enjoy it fully. There are such good points on this album, I was so prepared to give it a 5, but I just can’t. Maybe if it had been edited down to 40-50 min of just the best, it would’ve been a 5 for me. For that, I sadly give it a 4/5 ⭐️. Maybe I’ll go sit and spin one of the greatest hits records I have and have a think about what I’ve done. 13/1089
A classic for sure! What a wild mix of songs here. Some of the songs are much stronger than others though and I wonder if this would have made a more solid single album. But there’s no denying they were all fired up with ideas at this time and wanting to express themselves by recording and releasing all these songs at once. Unfortunately this burnt them out as we now know with how difficult it was around the writing and recording of the Let It Be album but they did manage to regroup and put out their best album, Abbey Road, in the end. I haven’t heard this in a while and it’s turning out to be a nice middle of the week listen during a hard work week and as listening to good music often does, I’m feeling better now about getting through the rest of the work week.
I know it's historically acclaimed album. But personally, I did not enjoy disc 2 that much.
Iconic album Kind of sounds like a child's book... with dark content... Blackbird is a hearty work of art
I almost want to give it 5, there's just a few songs that miss for me, when you compare 'Martha my Dear' to 'Back in the USSR', the album feel a bit disjointed, but all in all an excellent album, breath of fresh air from Norah Jones!
My second full listen through of this album and I went in with an open mind and came out understanding. I still think revolver is better but I can’t give 69 Love Songs a 5 but not this - the influence is too clear and it follows a similar pattern - very long, some incredible songs, very few bad songs (looking at you, Revolution 9). But I like the mix of styles and the more grounded sound. Light 5.
This is a great album although I think it would have been even better if a few songs had been cut. That said, my favorite Beatles is here (While My Guitar...) so it has to be a 5.
I know I've said this for all late period Beatles albums, but I cannot belive this came out only 4 years after "I Want To Hold Your Hand". This is a completely different band and I don't know of a single other group that could make such a massive transformation so quickly. Yes there is fat on here. No I don't ever need to hear Revolution 9, Piggies, or Wild Honey Pie ever again but the rest is excellent. I've tried making a swingle album version of the white Album before and I just cant do it. Here are 4 artists just throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks, but because its the Beatles, almost all of it does even the sketches like "why don't we do it in the road" or the outro of "Cry Baby Cry" are excellent. My other highlights: Happiness is a Warm Gun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Mother Nature's Song, Long Long Long, Dear Prudence, Yer Blues and so many more. Greatest Band Ever.
love the Beatles
Back In The USSR: 7.7/10 MBPW Dear Prudence: 7.2/10 MBPW Glass Onion: 3/10 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da: 6/10 Wild Honey Pie: 5/10 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill: 7/10 MBPW While My Guitar Gently Weeps: 6/10 Happiness Is A Warm Gun: 7/10 MBPW Martha My Dear: 7/10 MBPW I’m So Tired: 7/10 MBPW Blackbird: 8/10 Piggies: 7/10 PW Rocky Raccoon: 7/10 MBPW (Peak fade) Don’t Pass Me By: 6.4/10 Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?: 4/10 I Will: 8/10 PW Julia: 4/10 Birthday: 7.8/10 MBPW Yer Blues: 7.8/10 MBPW Mother Nature’s Son: 6/10 Everyone Got Something To Hide Expect For Me And My Monkey: 7/10 MBPW Sexy Sadie: 4/10 Helter Skelter: 3/10 IVE GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS! Long, Long, Long: 6.7/10 Revolution 1: 6.2/10 Honey Pie: 6/10 Savoy Truffle: 7/10 Cry Baby Cry: 3/10 Revolution 9: 2/10 Good Night: 5/10
this album is so long and so from the 60s. it was a hard one
Album #2 January 13th Favorite Song: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da I've got mixed feelings about this album. The music contained inside of it is good for the most part. There doesn't seem to be any general theme going on, but there are a lot of love songs. Some of the songs in it are really good and nostalgic for me but there are others that I would prefer not to hear again. I would definitely listen to some of the songs by themselves outside of the album but I don't think I would spend the time to listen to the whole thing all the way through again. There are some catchy songs that I could definitely see myself singing in the car. While there were some "bad" songs, I do appreciate the amount of different instruments they used throughout the album, it was cool hearing some variation between the songs. Because of the good songs inside of it I will rate this a 6.5/10.
I’m always put in a good mood when I listen to the Beatles
Good tunes but at least 15 songs too long
Great
Chaotic brilliance all coming together
A great album with some of the best Beatles songs but loses a star for some filler. 3.5
Some classics, some new favourites and a couple of duds. While long but while good
Great trip down memory lane, possibly the best
невероятно революционный альбом. на нем есть все: от тяжёлых гитарных рифоф, до самых мелодичных песен в дискографии битлов.
Classicone of my favorites of all time
Great album
Great
A lot of influences in the sounds of this album and when it hit, it was great. Still a few duds hanging around
I love The Beatles, they’re constantly fighting with Pink Floyd for my favourite artist. I listen to them relentlessly every year. Having said that, I am firmly in the camp that the White Album would perfect if they just trimmed the fat off it. This album has some great songs on it: Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Julia but Jesus Christ there is some shit here too. Obviously a big part of this album is just how fractured this band of near-brothers had become. Some parts of the White Album just feel like solo work, there’s a bit of the Beatles charm missing (and half the time it’s because the rest of the Beatles are missing such as on Back in the USSR which has no Ringo, Blackbird is purely Paul and Julia is purely John). It’s such a strange album and that’s certainly an interesting part of it, it just feels like when you finally reach a good part of the album you get hit with shit like Wild Honey Pie. Probably the only Beatles album I can’t give a perfect score to.
Having heard this on and off for 50 years I think it is rather over hyped. George Harrison at his best and a collection of music hall tunes and parodies of American popular music. Some very fine songs indeed but the demos album left me a bit cold. The hippy fascination for art nouveau and the 19th century (music hall) was charming but always a bit of a puzzle to me.
Solid album by a stellar band.
Always good music
8/10
Sé que estoy sola en esto, pero me duerme The Beatles ZzZz
What to say but
Не плохо. Я и до этого их слушал, но особо не обращал внимания на все песни их альбома. Мне понравилось
I mean it is a classic for a reason. Also, I think the thirty tracks here could show contemporary artists how to do what usually may be thought of as a "bloated tracklist." Taking thirty tracks to do folk, satire, Beatles-core ballads, classic rock, proto-metal, ASMR, and sound collage (non-exhaustive list) shows how runtimes justify themselves. Also, it is only in so many tracks in such a long, far-reaching, experimental album that songs like "Birthday" can be justified. It is about the gestalt!
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Nothing else to say on this one but the greatest album of all time
didn’t listen to all of it
I know that this album seems not that exciting, even a little boring to me since I grew up listening to so many artists who were heavily influenced by the beatles sound and techniques.
Not my thing but ok
Not a Beatles fan, but this has always been and will forever be a masterpiece. No-one can convince me otherwise.
Man, this one is rough. Overall disc 1 of this album is like a 4 or a 5, but the second disc is all over the place. Every song is either something crazy and groundbreaking, or its forgettable and...bad. And like every song it alternates. Like I'm sorry, I dont enjoy listening to "experimental" music. And maybe there's some cultutral context I'm missing, like maybe this album was really important when it came out, but I don't think its aged as well as something like Revolver or Rubber Soul. Overall, I like just over half of the songs on this album, and 10 or 11 of them are on disc 1. So the question I have to ask myself is do the great songs make up for the bad ones...
Decades ago I was reading Helter Skelter, the book about the Manson murders, and it mentioned this album a lot. So as I finished reading the book while listening to this album. For a Beatles album it's good. Long, but decent. It also has my favorite Beatles song on it, While my Guitar Gently Weeps. Granted, Eric Clapton played guitar on that tune so that could be why it's my favorite. It's one of their weirder albums, no real theme behind it, so that makes it an interesting listen when you could get a Blackbird or Helter Skelter. Not a bad album but it's still the Beatles so kinda mid in my opinion...
Brilliant. A masterpiece. Respectfully, still didn't make me a fan.
ai que tudooo
Paar gute Lieder aber holt mich einfach nicht ab. Die guten kennt man eh irgendwoher. Bissi boring
Beatlesin "valkoinen tupla" on kaikkien rönsyilevien kaksoisalbumien äiti. Aiempien levyjen aurinkoinen psykedelia on jäänyt taakse ja kokonaisuus muistuttaa enemmän neljän eri muusikon tekemää soololevyä. Biisien kirjo on erittäin laaja; puolentoista tunnin aikana kuullaan särmikästä hard rockia (Helter Skelter, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey), akustista herkistelyä (I Will, Julia, Mother Nature's Son), lastenlaulut mieleen tuovia lallatuksia (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill) sekä muutama aivan karmaiseva raita (Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 9). Vaikka tämä ei olekaan suosikkini bändin tuotannosta, White Album on silti erittäin palkitsevaa kuunneltavaa, josta löytää joka kerta jotain uutta, vaikka kaikki tylsimmät biisit tulevat peräkkäin toisen levyn loppupuolella.
You could take the best songs from the White Album and pare it down to a single album, and the result could easily be argued to be the greatest album of all time. The rest of the songs are still good though. And maybe I’ve listened to a lot of bullshit in the last few years, but Revolution 9 was nowhere near annoying or unlistenable as I remembered
Sprawling and disjointed in the best possible way. The White Album sees the Fab Four going their separate ways creatively, forging their own identities as artists. And Ringo is there too. Of course not every single one of these thirty songs work, but I can't imagine cutting any of them. They all contribute to the intential chaos of the record. And even with so many song, some of their best contemporary tracks were left off ("Hey Jude" anyone?). Classic. Key tracks: Back in the U.S.S.R. Dear Prudence Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is a Warm Gun Martha My Dear Blackbird I Will Julia Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey Helter Skelter Revolution 1 Honey Pie Good Night
Als je The Beatles overrated vindt, dan heb je niet goed geluisterd. Het kan misschien niet je ding zijn, maar het is goed. Als je dat ontkent, dan zou ik even opnieuw naar de muziekgeschiedenis kijken. Ik heb het album in stukjes geluisterd, wat natuurlijk niet goed is, maar dat maakt even niet uit. Gewoon bizar goed album. GEEF ME MEER POPULAIRE MUZIEK WAARBIJ EXPERIMENTATIE CENTRAAL STAAT. (was geen fan van de smakgeluiden aan het eind van good night, voelde iets te ASMR) Ja bizar dat de albums hiervoor allemaal met 4-track recording opgenomen is (als in, je hebt maar 4 tracks en daar moet al je muziek op). Nu hadden ze 8 tracks, wat dus betekent dat alles mooier klinkt want er is minder noise! Mother Nature's Son is een extreem lief liedje.
This is actually my first time listening to the "White Album" in full. I get the hype now. My only criticism is that it drags on ever so slightly. Not my favourite Beatles album, but still incredibly strong. 'Blackbird' remains one of the most beautiful songs ever made