The White Album

Discazo tiene unos temazos y no esta tan inocente como otros discos anteriores, más rockero, otras progresiones de acordes. Si, no entiendo porque tantos animalitos, pero aparecen cosas muy copadas como Helter Skelter que les da otro sonido. Es doble asique lleva su tiempo, pero vale la pena es una piezota!

who doesn't like the Beatles!! love to have this album for today!!! So rightful

In Moby-Dick, one of the reasons white is said to be terrifying is that by signifying so many things it begins to signify nothing, a meaningless void. This album is weird not in spite of tight, popular ballads amidst the other stuff but because of them. Nor are they taking 'weird music' and dumbing it down for the masses. They really are asking us to accept anything the Beatles could be, without trying to contain themselves within a narrative. Annoying thing to do, actually.

All time banger

5.8. Masterpiece

Damn near impossible to say something original or pertinent about this album. What fascinates on a deep dive listen is the approach the band take to song writing, especially given the producing complexity of Sgt Pepper before it: much here is stripped back, straightforward rock'n'roll - a band returning to where they first set out. And yet, there is still experimentation with form and style and structure, as well as forays into pastiche and parody. The Beatles challenge the listener - if we stray from our sound will you come with us? The answer is resoundingly yes - the magic is retained, the band turn sound into art.

They really did just throw everything at the wall here to see what sticks. And the crazy thing is that almost everything sticks. Even the silly throwaway songs are good. And the great songs are great. Except for Revolution 9. That song is just stupid and nobody should have to listen to it.

Upon hearing Sgt. Pepper's for the first time, Bob Dylan is reported to have said, "Oh, I get it. You don’t want to be cute anymore." That transition started with Sgt. Pepper's (and maybe even a little before that), but it really takes force on this album.

Beatles.

Loved it all the way through, despite having very little cohesion between songs - almost felt more like an anthology. So rare to have a 90 minute album hold my attention the entire time.

Fistly i'm suprised that the original name of the album is not "The White Album", it's just "The Beatles". Musically it's a masterpiece, The Beatles never disappoints with their music, they can make different rhytms and music genres without stop sounding like themselves. LOVED THIS ALBUM!

My favourite Beatles album.

A re-listen for me. One of the finest sonic journeys of the 20th century... Right up until Revolution 9. No but in all seriousness, stellar album, so many hits and gems. Favorite tracks: Yer Blues

The best album by the best band, top 5 stuff

Awesome album. One of the best.

Across the board, there are so many insane accomplishments from this release. The Beatles spanned styles and depth to create this masterpiece.

This is my all time favorite album of any band. This is by far a top 3 album for me. This album is just perfect. So many different styles they play. You can really tell by this point who wrote what song. This is 5 star easy!

This one is good.

Amazing! Of course! Classic. The songs are odd and delightful. They lend you a story for you to return.

I'm biased of course because I listened to this album quite a bit growing up. What a delightful mess of boundless creativity. I love it.

One of the greatest and most varied albums of all time.

Classic album

i mean, c'mon. probably the best.

TOP!!!!!*

Don't have to listen to give it 5 stars, but I will.

Very diverse, diplomatic Beatles album. All the boys get songs on. Excellent, no filler

It’s a long long long lil album … number 9, number 9,number 9. 5/5

Classic

Great album. A lot of classic numbers.

Progressive. Huge tunes. Classic

Probably their best album despite the fact that Abbey Road is perfect.

my favourite Beatles: especially "Helter Skelter" 🤘

Listening to this on vinyl this weekend. Yeahhhhhhhhh

A top 3 Beatles album for me.

9/10 Seamless listing experience With a hectic ending

Fav songs: back in the ussr, while my guitar, blackbird, piggies, good night

Tons of fun musical ideas, gathered from all over the spectrum, and assembled with humor. Probably I don't find any deep connection to anything here, but its influence is undeniable

The Beatles are a classic, always welcome and a joy !

One of the best Beatles album (not the very best, in my opinion). Really straddles the crazy psychedelic Beatles and the rock Beatles, and I think it kind of nails it perfectly.

I never appreciated the Beatles until I had a guitar teacher who was a huge fan. I wrote them off as boomer pop music and didn't bother to listen closely outside of the few hits I couldn't avoid. Then my teacher asked me to learn While My Guitar Gently Weeps. I had never heard of it before. I know, I know, Eric Clapton played guitar on the recording, so I can't claim that the guitar on this song is what opened my eyes to the Beatles. Well George Harrison wrote it so it still counts. I learned the song, but to this day never can come close to Clapton's performance (or Prince's, for that matter). Regardless, this is now one of my favorite songs of all time. Later my teacher showed me how to play Blackbird, and on top of just being a beautiful song, it is SO MUCH fun to play on guitar, and easy to loop over and over. I sometimes sit around and just play Blackbird idly while watching TV or something. Plus, it impresses the hell out of my friends who don't play. This album opened my eyes to the brilliance of the Beatles, promoting them from \"basic boomer band\" to regular rotation. Highlights (besides the aforementioned): Dear Prudence; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; Julia; Birthday; Helter Skelter, Revolution 1

A glorious mess

Beatles at the height of their creativity! Wonderful work

Cómo todo: lo mejor.

Incredible, but probably 4th overall

First time I‘ve heard a whole Beatles album as a whole. Loved it!

Never realized blackbird and piggies were on the same album. Obviously an incredible album.

C'mon, its the White Album. What else was it gonna get? To be honest though, I was suprised at how many non-mainstream songs there were here, I seriously didn't know a good portion of this, unlike other Beatles albums so far. Still great though.

This album is chock full of classic tracks. It's the gold standard of classic albums. I could list all the ones I enjoyed but it would be most of the album. So I will go with my favorite track, which would be While my guitar gently weeps, but Blackbird would probably come in a close second. The only songs I could do without on this are Wild Honey Pie, and Revolution 9. O understand it was experimental and ground breaking at the time, expanding the definition of what music is, but I can't listen to it, random recordings while someone repeated number 9. In spite of those 2 songs this is a top album for me

This album reminds me of childhood and listening to it with my parents. Good upbeat tunes and classics like black bird. Lots of excellent hits with catchy tunes but an expansive and diverse collection. Fits any mood.

Not the best Beatles album, but near the top

I'm excited to click through and get mad at the bad reviews!

Another album where every single song is a jam! You really can’t go wrong throwing this album on. I will be listening to this one a lot more.

This was the first album I listened to on this list and never truly appreciated it as much as I should have until much later. This album is objectively insane. I'll never understand how one band can do this much and still manage to make it all so good. Absolute banger from front to back, especially the Garth Merenghi cameo when he sings "Good Night". Really appreciated having an aspiring horror author come in to sing that before he made it big.

The world wouldn't be the same without it, although I have to think that Revolution 9 is the Beatles thinking they have such god status that people will just listen to any old noise they happen to make haha

Back In The U.S.S.R. Dear Prudence Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Blackbird I Will

A gem among gems. Disparate songs that nonetheless work. 5 stars

One of the best albums from one of the best bands ever.

I struggled with this rating. Do most Beatles albums get an automatic 5? I think there are between 15-17 songs on this album which are absolute bangers, including some of the greatest songs ever written. Even though not every song is on par with the best Beatles songs, I’ve decided it’s dumb to penalize this album for having some songs that are not on par with the greatest songs ever written. If you gave any other artist a year to write 31 songs and put them on an album, it’d probably stink. People knock this for its varied musical styles - I actually think that’s its greatest asset.

It's hard to say anything that hasn't been said already about the White Album. It is without a doubt the most important album ever produced not just for its artistic or cultural merit, but because of the historic implications of it. It is *THE* album you need to list to before you die. It's hard to think of another album that could merit that number one spot, even if many deserve a high ranking on this list. Historically the White Album led to the break up of the Beatles, with had huge implications for the future of music. Culturally, the White Album experimented with a dozen different musical styles and served as proto examples of some of several unique genres of today (including pre-heavy metal in Helter-Skelter, punk, and more). Artistically, it's simply a masterpiece and features some of the Beatles best work from Happiness is a Warm Gun, to Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Back in the U.S.S.R, and more AND THAT'S JUST DISC ONE. It's also delightfully weird at times, and even when not every song hits, it's hard to ignore the shear musical mastery in each and every song. For folks who are not into the Beatles, and I can understand why - not every band is for everyone - I would encourage you to look into the history of this album. The influence of the Beatles on modern day music cannot be overstated, and almost every band today has been influenced in some way by them, especially by the White Album. Those of you interested in music theory may actually get the most out of this, because there's just such a rich array of techniques, melodies, scales, and more and the Beatles have always demonstrated a rich and nuanced understanding of what makes music music.

Great classic album, albeit given the double album length and 30 songs the inherent variety contains a few fillers

It is a classic. I like the Beatles and some songs are great (Dear Prudence), but some are meh.

Great old memories

I hadn’t listened to this before, for my shame. Really enjoyed it, particularly while my guitar gently weeps but it had a lot of great moments.

The pastiches don't really work -- the guitar solos on Yer Blues are (intentionally?) terrible. But the rest does, and it's impressive how they're bringing all these new styles to an audience. Parts of the context are not great. While My Guitar Gently Weeps is probably my favorite track out of the entire Beatles discography. Maybe like 4.6/5?

Non si può certo recensire uno degli album più importanti della storia della musica!

Great Album

A little crazy but has many really amazing songs

This album contains some of my favourite Beatles songs (Blackbird, Back in the USSR), as well as some of my least favourite (Revolution 9, Obladi oblada). Even with those annoyances it's a clear 5 though.

Outstanding! I cannot add the accolades that already exist of the album - it was a seminal work of the Beatles and you can hear how the selection of songs hint at the upcoming event demise of the group as each Beatle really flexes their independent styles ( Ringo's "Don't Pass Me By" is an example). I had this as a vinyl album in my youth and loved all 4 sides (maybe side 4 was a little less liked)

In the midst of hostility and tension, The White Album's creation stands out as a testament to the Beatles' resilience and artistic brilliance, navigating internal challenges to produce an eclectic and groundbreaking collection of songs. The period of strain adds a captivating layer of complexity, highlighting the band's ability to create enduring art despite the looming separation less than a year later. McCartney's contribution of Hey Jude, not on the album, clearly indicates the exceptional quality of the material they were working with. The White Album, dislocated, long, and sometimes downright weird, is simultaneously glorious, uplifting, and magically unique. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 15 STAND OUT TRACK - Blackbird

Listened to it many times, it's an absolute classic, I love it a lot.

Great Beatles Album!!!!

So many classics. Lyrics are with delving into.

Awesome album, classic.

One of the best albums ever recorded. There are so many hits on it. Is it maybe the best album of all times?

In the twilight of their career, The Beatles finally made their self-titled album, more commonly known as the “White Privilege Album” in which they drew on their experiences from their gap year in India, some good and some bad. John, Paul, George and Ringo returned from their holibobs overflowing with ideas, some epic and some throwaway. The cliche goes that the combination of both is what makes The White Album what it is. The ridiculous jostles with the sublime for ninety minutes, and to me the overall effect is phenomenal. Much greater than the sum of its parts, “The Beatles” is an album it’s near-impossible to grow tired of. Using the studio as their fifth member, this time the band branched out entirely from each other, often writing and recording whole songs in isolation. The White Album is a battle ground. But who won? Lennon had just learnt clawhammer fingerpicking from Donovan, and plasters it all over his tracks as he starts to move towards the raw, unflinching songwriting displayed on “Plastic Ono Band”. He makes a strong opening with “Dear Prudence”, which has long been one of my favourite Beatles songs: a sincere, simple ballad with a knockout of a final verse. “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” is sublime, and a fan-favourite for its multi-layered approach. Later, there’s the lovely, lethargic “I’m So Tired”, plaintive “Julia”, eviscerating “Sexy Sadie” and all-out-thrill of underrated gem “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey”. Also, “Revolution 1” is my personal favourite version of the song, if only for the heavenly “shoo-bi-doo-wop” backing vocals. Meanwhile, McCartney is in buoyant and jaunty form as ever, taking more cues from music hall than ever before. “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” is absolutely NOT a fan favourite, but it’s so irrepressible that I can’t not like it. And then there’s “Martha My Dear” (a sprightly piano track about Paul’s sheepdog), “Rocky Raccoon”, and “Honey Pie”. “Granny music” critics assemble, but shame on them: I think all these tracks earn their place on such an eclectic album. And for all the showtunes, McCartney also rocks HARD here: he’s inspired enough to open with the rip-roaring ride of “Back In The USSR”, a Beach Boys parodying Russian surf-track. “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” may be asinine, but who could fault that powerhouse, shredded vocal? And he penned “Helter Skelter” after hearing The Who’s “I Can See For Miles” was the heaviest song ever written, and felt determined to beat it… consider it done. As if that weren’t enough, we also have the underdogs in their corners: George Harrison comes out swinging with “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (a contender for the signature song of his career), and “Long Long Long”, which is a beautiful, haunting comedown after “Helter Skelter”. And Ringo gets his first solo writing credit with the totally clunky (but somehow charming) “Don’t Pass Me By”, and contributes winningly earnest vocals to the closing lullaby “Good Night”. Oh, and the elephant in the room? “Revolution 9”. It would have been a stinker if it appeared on any other Beatles album, but here all bets are off the table. It’s ambitious and ridiculous and horrifying, and I like it. You know what? It’s a draw.

Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9,

If you have to pick one Beatles album to listen to, it would be hard, but the While Album should be in the running. It has some of the best materials from the Beatles psychedelic period (Dear Prudence), still has elements of their Power Pop stage (O-la-di, Oh-la-da) while pointing to the late stage of the band as well as future solo work (While My Guitar Gentle Sleeps, Back in the USSR). A double album like this usually has some filler, but that's kept to a minimum on the White Album. There are at least 9 songs on this album that are still in rotation on Classic Rock stations. A true classic and great place to start if you are wondering why the Beatles were so great,

So many of my favourite Beatles songs are on this album, and then you get to the songs on this album that aren't as good as the others, and even those are really good songs. On top of that, I think it's crazy that the Beatles were able to make a plain white square one of the most iconic album covers ever.

#3

Favorite album!

i aint listening to this shit fuck john lennon

Banger

The haters are plain wrong here. This album is more consistent than given credit, and flows quite well for the vast majority.

Own

The beatles.

What to say about this that hasn't been said? It's a masterpiece from top to bottom. This is the first double album that I've listened to on here that I haven't been bored at any point, it's just consistently high quality. Now it's certainly weird at times, and there are a few songs here and there that didn't quite work for me. I feel like the fun of something like this though is to see what resonates, and often the weird ones are standouts (I know this isn't a hot take or anything, but "Ob-La Di, Ob-La-Da" is such a banger). I will say that "Revolution 9" (second to last song) was an interesting artistic choice, you have to take some chances sometimes though. This is just really polished, consistently good across a long album, and has multiple standouts (Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Birthday, I Will...). While it's diverse as a whole, each song is fairly consistent on this one (unlike some other Beatles songs that are like 4 songs in one). This is really great, one of the better albums I've listened to. It's very famous, and very rightfully so. Favorite song: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Other: Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Don't Pass Me By, I Will, Julia, Birthday, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution 1, Honey Pie, Cry Baby Cry, Good Night 12/15/23

Can I give this album a 5 while also acknowledging the fact that it is incredibly flawed? Yes, yes I can. Let's be honest, there are some real garbage tracks on here, maybe more so than any other Beatles album, and a single LP probably would have fixed most of this (which is true for almost every double LP I can think of). But it does have Martha, My Dear, Dear Prudence, Rocky Racoon, Blackbird, Julia, etc. which more than makes up for Honey Pie (fuckin' Honey Pie, am I right)?

Not my boldest 5

Oh obvs amazing

5 il più disco mondo tra i dischi mondo di tutti i mondi possibili passati e futuri.

Yeah. Iconic. 1968. Blackbird. Back in the USSR. And on.

Number 9.Number 9.Number 9.

It's a hot mess of an anti-album and, me being a pro-post-modernism douchebag, I'm here for it. ✌️ Fave tracks - well, "Rocky Raccoon" is one of my karaoke go tos. 😆 "Back in the USSR", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey", and "Helter Skelter" are all monster tunes. Even the "filler" tracks feel less fillery than on their previous albums. And then we have "Hey Jude" recorded in the same sessions!

Amazing: a really quite long album from the Beatles but nearly every signal song hits the spot. There are only a few skips on this whole project which just shows the overall creative genius in some of these songs. An iconic album cover, songs and from the most famous band of all time. Perfect.

best album by the best band

Why don't we give it 5 stars?

Probably my favorite Beatles album and one of my favorites of all time

# Beatles, White Album 5*. I think this is the first 5* album for me on Album a Day. My favorite songs: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Dear Prudence Back in the U.S.S.R. Blackbird ## 1. \"Back in the U.S.S.R.\" McCartney 2:43 5* Slaps. Great guitar, piano, vocals. Background vocals are fun too. Some great audio tricks in the track that sound at home in modern-day like the ending electronic whistle. Sort of a play on Back in the USA. ## 2. \"Dear Prudence\" Lennon 3:56 5* Love the bassline and the acoustic guitar/sitar on top. The guitar licks over the top are great too! So good! ## 3. \"Glass Onion\" Lennon 2:18 4* I wasn't very familiar with this song and I really liked it. ## 4. \"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\" McCartney 3:08 5* Might be my favorite on this album. That bassline....the drums, how can you not start nodding or dancing. Sooooo great! I learned that this was McCartney's attempt at ska. John and George hated the song, calling it \"Granny music.\" ## 5. \"Wild Honey Pie\" McCartney 0:52 2* Just a weird song. A jam the group had in India, just recorded it out of boredom. ## 6. \"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill\" Lennon, with Yoko Ono 3:14 4* Inspired by the band's trip to India. Only track in the Beatles' catalog that features background vocals from Yoko Ono, who offered musical advice to the other members of the band. ## 7. \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\" (George Harrison) Harrison 4:45 5* I've always loved this song. Great guitars wailing away. Eric Clapton played lead guitar on the solo. Clapton was the only guest artist to ever contribute a guitar solo to a Beatles album. Loved that he chastises himself in the lyrics. ## 8. \"Happiness Is a Warm Gun\" Lennon 2:47 4* Banned on the radio because it was thought it was advertising drugs. It took 70 takes to record this song, with all the tempo changes. It's like an opera with different movements and style changes. I hadn't noticed this before. ## 9. \"Martha My Dear\" McCartney 2:28 3* Not as great as the others, but really good. ## 10. \"I'm So Tired\" Lennon 2:03 4* Recorded in India. ## 11. \"Blackbird\" McCartney 2:18 5* Love it. I didn't realize it was about the ending of racism in America. ## 12. \"Piggies\" (Harrison) Harrison 2:04 3* Loosley based on Animal Farm but instead of focusing on communism, he lampoons capitalism. ## 13. \"Rocky Raccoon\" McCartney 3:33 4* Based on American folk music. Catchy. ## 14. \"Don't Pass Me By\" (Richard Starkey) Starr 3:51 3* Ringo wrote this one! His first song. Country sound, but weaker vocals. ## 15. \"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?\" McCartney 1:41 3* Paul wrote this after seeing two monkeys have sex in the middle of the road in India. ## 16. \"I Will\" McCartney 1:46 4* McCartney's song to his future love interest. One of Pauls' best reviewed songs. ## 17. \"Julia\" Lennon 2:57 4* One of Dave Grohl's favorite Beatles songs. John's deceased mother was named Julia, and this song is about his love for his mother and to his new love Yoko Ono. ## 18. \"Birthday\" McCartney with Lennon 2:42 4* Just a jam between McCartney and Lennon. I don't remember how good the song gets after the initial verse. ## 19. \"Yer Blues\" Lennon 4:01 3* Fun song, but Lennon wasn't having fun, hence to why he says he's so lonely he wants to die. ## 20. \"Mother Nature's Son\" McCartney 2:48 2* Upbeat acoustic song about living in nature. ## 21. \"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey\" Lennon 2:24 4* A wild rock song by Lennon, that he considered a throwaway. ## 22. \"Sexy Sadie\" Lennon 3:15 2* Originally about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who made an inappropriate pass at one of Lennon's friends: Mia Farow. ## 23. \"Helter Skelter\" McCartney 4:30 4* Paul tries to make a raunchy, loud rock and roll song. Based on the name of a fairground ride. Charles Manson thought it was a prediction of an apocolypse between blacks and whites. They played so long their voices were cracking and you can hear Ringo saying, \"I've got blisters on my fingers.\" ## 24. \"Long, Long, Long\" (Harrison) Harrison 3:08 2* Pretty. ## 25. \"Revolution 1\" Lennon 4:15 4* Not as good as the one I grew up with. ## 26. \"Honey Pie\" McCartney 2:41 4* Catchy. ## 27. \"Savoy Truffle\" (Harrison) Harrison 2:54 4* George wrote this song for Eric Clapton who was said to eat too much chocolate. ## 28. \"Cry Baby Cry\" Lennon, with McCartney 3:02 3* Nice. ## 29. \"Revolution 9\" Speaking from Lennon, Harrison, Ono and George Martin 8:15 1* Too psychadelic for me. Yoko made it get weird. ## 30. \"Good Night\" Starr 3:14 3* Nice orchestra sound. Lullaby for Julian, sung by Ringo.

It's been said of this album that everyone agrees it's full of amazing Beatles song and filler Beatles song but no agrees on which is which. I happen to enjoy most of the stuff on here and it is still the Beatles at a creative peak. Revolution 9 still sucks.

Transformative in my music taste.

I mean it’s the Beatles. They are one of if not the most popular band of all time. Not my favourite album they ever put out but still a classic.

You already know

One of the best albums in the history of contemporary music. Classics that can not be missing in any list of music lovers.

A bit overly long and it definitely feels like it could be two albums at various points but even despite all that- it's the White Album. Probably The Beatles at their best.

Beautiful! So innovative and the use of stereo is a bit weird but, it was a new technology and they were experimenting. The best part is revolution 9, the sounds the panning, the cuts, the baby cries, the reverse audio, the chatter. Damn!

First time listening all the way through, did not want it to end. Even the goofy songs had so much more to them as a part of the album than independently. I felt so many emotions and will probably continue to use this as a sonic experience whenever I have a spare 93 minutes.

Way too long, this should've been two stellar albums; fortunately the album is redeemed by the sheer strength of the songs. Savoy Truffle really impressed this time, but my favourites remain: -While my Guitar Gently Weeps -Don't Pass me By -I'm So Tired -Happiness is a Warm Gun

I mean, duh. The first few times I listened to this album, I thought it could've done with some trimming (songs like Wild Honey Pie, Don't Pass Me By EGSTHEMAMM, Revolution 9), but I've come to seriously respect the charm these tracks add to such a disparate and diverse album. The stylistic diversity in this album is mind-blowing, and yet all (most) of the songs sound uniquely Beatlesque. Most tracks get better on each listen (but a few, like Ob-La-Di, get significantly worse). There are countless little details to keep repeat listeners interested. The playing is complex yet laid-back; very self-assured. The track ordering is freaking awesome, as it is in nearly all Beatles albums.

Any other group, this would be a masterpiece that defines the band. As it were, it almost broke up the Beatles. That being said, it’s still the Beatles and it’s — as usual — next to perfection.

Only the best

Here’s an album I’ve listened to many times. While not my favorite Beatles album, it’s definitely in the top five and it contains some of their best, most mature work. As a major Beatles fan, I know these songs like they were old friends.

Beatles

One of my Favourite Beatles albums, too many bangers, great listening - 9.8

A very long and at times, unhinged album. Full of great songs and experimentation. after listening to this I can understand why that Charles Manson thought John Lennon wanted him to murder people

Me gusta mucho

A sprawling and eclectic catalog of a band falling apart that I love and Geoff Emerick hates.

Ive probably mentioned this before, but I tried listening to a load of The Beatles as a teen and thought they were rubbish. Admittedly, listening to them in the mid-noughties would have certainly felt different to listening in the 60’s. Since listening again more recently, I’m finding myself loving them. I’m looking forward to this album today. Songs I already knew: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Helter Skelter Favourites: pretty much all of them Usually, a double album would put me off before even listening due to my fairly poor attention span. However, having lost of The Beatles to listen to doesn’t feel so bad. This album felt a lot more rocky than some other albums where they leaned more into psychedelia. They truly do demonstrate remarkable versatility over the few years that they were a working band.

classic

A kooky, incredibly diverse, rambling masterpiece.

love

I like the fact that this double album is all over the place. The quality of the tunes is very high, regardless if we're talking "Blackbird" or "Helter Skelter". This is one of my favorite Beatles records.

I’ve never really gotten the Beatles before. They certainly had good catchy songs but there’s hardly a shortage of them…then I listened to this and I can see why the are held up the highest. I’m only about 50 years too late but I can say that this may be one if the greatest albums ever made. I had to stop adding songs to my regular play playlists for fear that it would just be the whole album taking it over for over an hour (not Piggies though). Martha My Dear, Rocky Racoon, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide…, Helter Skelter the stand outs for me if I had to pick.

I think this is an hour of material that would rank among their best, interspersed by half an hour they would have lost under normal circumstances. By this point they were the band equivalent of sleeping in different beds so it was easier to include everyone's stuff rather than have fights about what would make the cut. John and Paul being in competition with each other and George trying to establish himself as a songwriter means they were all absolutely going for it. I'd take Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, While my Guitar... as my top picks but I love almost all of it. I skip Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie every time though.

Certified classic, fun and diverse throughout the entire album

Total all-timer. Revolution 9 notwithstanding...

Omg

The extra songs on the remastered version are kinda weird but as always it is the Beatles so we love it

Love it. I think everyone could find AT LEAST one of their new favorite songs on this album.

While The Beatles' guitars weep, our hearts sing along. So much creativity back in the U.S.S.R.

Probably not even in the top 3 Beatles albums but still a great record! Some of the best songs, and really a huge collection of material, albeit not as cohesive. 4.5

definitely my vibe but i'm biased lolllll i like the rustic tunesss

Albums do not get much more fun to listen to.

My 2nd album of this project and it's one that I've spent a good amount of time with already. Some of the greatest songs of all time are on here and are enough to outshine any tracks that underperform.

Really great album with a lot of legendary songs but ideally it should not have been a double albu..

Really missing Beatles rock band

One of my all time favorite albums ever. Listened to the record in Anna's dorm room a bunch in high school. Good memories. Favorite songs: Back in the USSR, Rocky Raccoon, Blackbird, Julia

Best and worst Beatles songs all in one

Brilliant and eccentric-the divisions between McCartney and Lennon’s musical visions are apparent, as is Yoko’s influence and Harrison’s growth. An album that takes you on a ride for sure! Not my favorite Beatles album, but does have some of my favorite songs on it.

It doesn’t get better than this

Iconic. Back in the USSR, Revolution 1, Helter Skelter, While my guitar gentley weeps. Some odd songs in between. Album is a little bloated. 5/5

A classic album for me. Or maybe three solo albums jumbled up. Lennon is on top form and as a Beatles geek I love the mythology. This album I had on double cd at school - really contributed to my musical taste.

Great arrangements, the Beatles rule. some goofs that could have been cut Martha my dear is really good Rocky Raccoon is a banger goof Julia is so pretty the album has a bunch of minisongs that feel almost unfinished, but they just have 1 really good idea songwriting feels shockingly modern pretty sure this is my favorite Beatles album

Amazing! Not a track I consider bad here. At worst, it gets questionable. So many good cuts! The praise this thing gets is deserved. Fabulous!

Strange yet somehow marvellous

A classic, lots of solid songs. Great cover as well.

My fave album by the Dan Four

the MF white album baby!!! just absolutely iconic. so many good beatles songs. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS MY DEAR GEORGE MY BDAY TWIN. a lot of good wedding songs. can’t get better

# 77 : What Can I say! It's the Beatles,

A classic

Certainly among the most legendary albums, full of classic songs that still sound fantastic more than a half century on. One of the things I was thinking about was the length of this album, 93 minutes, and the fact that it's their only double album. On one hand, like almost any album this length, some things could have been cut to possibly make it stronger. But if that had been the case we probably never would have heard Revolution 9. Would they even have made it to Helter Skelter had they not been stretching out in this way? It's amazing that they produced this much great music in a time so tumultuous within the band.

This might be my favorite Beatles album - warts and all. Raw creativity just flooding out of them. A musical rollercoaster ride of the highest order. All over the place in the best way. Like an exquisite buffet. "Oh I'll try some of that, and some of this, and a couple of those, and what's this???" So much fun to hear them really cut loose and just let it all hang out, even if they were falling apart at the seams in the process. This is the sound of exceptionally talented people with complete creative freedom, going in every direction at once. I'd also like to point out one more thing: sometimes people rip on Paul, hell, even John did, saying his tunes are soft, etc... Dude wrote "Helter Skelter." It's called range.

Probably my favorite Beatles album. Has a ton of range and some songs are basically genre-creating. Sure, there are a few somewhat forgettable tracks but it definitely hits more than it misses. I don't think I really have anything else to add the the general dialogue around this album but... what an album for sure.

Easiest 5 stars ever.

I mean, it's The White Album

Class

Vraiment beaucoup de hits qui marchent bien en standalone (While my Guitar, Back in the USSR, Blackbird, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter...), mais aussi une cohérence d'ensemble impressionnante. Un statut culte tout à fait mérité.

J'adore. Écouté moins régulièrement que d'autres albums des Beatles, peut-être parce qu'il est plus long, mais c'est à tort, tout est bien de bout en bout (sauf la piste expérimentale à la fin mais bon). Je suis en général plutôt John Lennon, mais mention spéciale à certaines chansons non-Lennon et néanmoins fabuleuses sur ce double album : While my guitar gently weeps, Blackbird, Helter Skelter. Un 5/5 sans réfléchir, comme probablement les autres albums des Beatles à suivre.

Cat: it’s the Beatles White Album. I think you start with perfection and talk your way back, which is really hard to do. Beautiful songs. Rock and roll songs. Fun songs. Love songs. There are other albums I say I like more, but this has everything.

One of the seminal albums of my youth.

Superb

Hard to argue with The Beatles...great album, lots of songs. All of them are a pleasure to listen to. Forgot how much I enjoyed listening to the Beatles.

A Classic.

Love the eclectic nature of the album, still sounds relevant and interesting in 2023.

Cannot get less than five stars.

So good!

See Logan's Review

What an album. After 11 months without a major release and a whopping 18 months since their last full album, the Beatles are showing off that they are producing so much material they can randomly do a double album instead of single. That being said, to flesh out all the way to a double album there is some definite filler in here (not much but it's there). Knowing all the other material they were working on that would find spots on later albums and even their solo careers, I don't know why they decided to put tracks like Wild Honey Pie on here. But of course being the Beatles even the filler kind of serves to highlight the surrounding songs when listened to in proper album context. Despite how much I love this album, it contains the one part of the Beatles discography that I always skip: I always end this album two tracks early. Revolution 9 is just too experimental and garbagey to listen to more than about once a year, and Good Night sucks so I just end the album instead of skipping. The album was recorded with the four Beatles working separately on a lot of it as they went through a period of internal strife. For the most part you can tell the songs where they worked separately as they have a single Beatle's instrument or singing super highlighted with little harmony. At this point in their career John and Paul were producing so much high quality stuff that the music transcends whatever internal conflict they had and comes out as yet another set of fantastic tracks. This is also the first album where George has one of the most famous contributions to the album in While My Guitar Gently Weeps. This is the time where his writing production skyrocketed in both number and quality, which shows over the rest of the Beatles' career and into his solo act. Ringo also contributes a composition in Don't Pass Me By, which is forgettable. What an opening. That jet fade in for Back in the USSR, crossfade to Dear Prudence's flowing guitar arpeggios, to Glass Onion is three great rock tracks to get you in the mood. As you move through the rest of the album you're greeted with the typical Beatles fare: great chord progressions, great melodies, great instrumentation, great album pacing, a variety of styles, and of course sprinkled in are a number of all-time classics. It's not hard to forgive the album of Good Night, Revolution 9, Wild Honey Pie, and Don't Pass Me By when they are counterbalanced by Back in the USSR, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, I Will, Mother Nature's Son, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1 and Cry Baby Cry. Random tidbits: -Helter Skelter is considered to be a major influence in the development of early heavy metal. -Yoko Ono's line in Bungalow Bill is the only female lead line in the Beatles catalogue. -Eric Clapton plays lead guitar on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. -Blackbird is played by every person who has ever owned an acoustic guitar but somehow everyone stills likes hearing it anyways. -Everybody's Got Something to Hide is one of the only songs where I have never been able to properly sync up my mental beat counter with the song before the rest of the instruments come in. I have tried so hard. -Revolution 1 is amazing but Revolution is still better. I'm beginning to think these Beatles characters were pretty talented. Fun game: create your personal single disc version of the white album. Limit it to 23 minutes on each side of the LP, and order the tracks so both sides flow well. It's so hard.

10/10

THE ONE AND ONLY. THE SUPER BEST White album. It´s the perfection.

This is why I love this site, it's so great for discovering unknown albums from bands I've never heard of

Deserves the reputation it has. Thought the Beatles fans were overhyping but they're actually good lmao. So many songs that sound and feel timeless.

Min absoluta favoritskiva med Beatles. Första LPn har inte ett dåligt spår. Andra plattan är kanske inte fullt lika vass men den har å andra sidan Helter Skelter som är en av världens bästa låtar. Toppbetyg!!!!!

Classic Beatles

An interesting and incoherent look into what the Beatles would mostly become in their solo work. Most notably, Paul did not go on to continue making Heavy Metal music.

Even as a massive Beatles fan I’ve never been especially attached to the White Album. I still liked it a lot, but in my mind it couldn’t hold a candle to the Beatles’ “true masterpieces” like Revolver or Abbey Road. My thinking was always influenced by the infamously fraught recording process, where a chaotic and disjointed set of sessions resulted in a pretty chaotic and disjointed album. I guess for me this album represented the beginning of the end for my favorite band, so it was hard to have too much affection for it. All that being said, I’ve rarely done full listens of the White Album, and actually doing one for the first time in a long time helped me realize how much this album teems with creativity. The Beatles try any genre, any style, throw em all at the wall and see what sticks, and they all come out a bit of fun at the worst and masterful at the best. They might be tired and annoyed at each other, but they’re also utterly unserious and having fun at flower power culture’s expense, from tearing down their own mythos in Glass Onion to dismissing the hippies' all-bark-no-bite politics in Revolution 1. And of course John, Paul, and George are all pretty close to the top of their game as writers. When the first side alone features Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, they all could have gone home and celebrated a hard day's work (night?) in my book. Could this album still have been improved by cutting the obvious chaff like “Wild Honey Pie” and “Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Yes. Is it still chaotic, disjointed, and overlong? Yes. None of that takes away from its magic and beauty. It is, warts and all, the Beatles. Best song: Blackbird

What a truly tremendous double album from one of the greatest bands of all time. Standouts include Back In The U.S.S.R., Glass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1, Cry Baby Cry, and Good Night.

So fucking essential. And influential. An argument can be made that it has elements from every single album on this list, even the albums with a 1 rating. One could also argue that it's essentially four solo albums, but better than any of the "official" solo albums each member would release in later years. It's the sound of the Beatles breaking up, while also serving as a breakthrough for George Harrison, who finally decided to put down the sitar and find his guitar. A double album that somehow didn't have room for either "Hey Jude" or the fast version of "Revolution". I'm not sure what it says about me that I like all of John's songs. It probably makes me a candidate for scream therapy. Even the "filler songs" have aged well, although, in the interest of full disclosure, I decided to listen to the 2018 Mix this time (having already listened to the album repeatedly for 50 years), and extra time spent polishing those songs might have helped. I used to insist that cutting this album in half and eliminating the "filler" would make this the Fab's best album. The bulk of my time with this album was back when it was released on compact disc. I'd wear out Disc 1 while rarely spending any time with Disc 2. This was famously the first album The Beatles recorded after the death of their longtime manager Brian Epstein, meaning these fellas no longer had anyone around to tell them "No". The Beatles wanted to make a double album, so they made a double album. So go ahead and keep the filler. Don't skip over Revolution 9 or Piggies. As Paul says, it's the freaking White Album. By The Beatles. And it's possibly their best album.

One of great album of all time

Guter Flow, viel Abwechslung, macht insgesamt einfach Spaß.

All killer, no filler is an apt description (except Wild Honey Pie). A truly amazing album.

One of the best albums of all time and perhaps my favorite.

This is an easy 5 for me. Often a double album is stuffed with filler. Not here. There are so many great tunes with incredible songwriting. It seems a miracle that it was achieved.

Yeah, the Beatles are great.

I think I would rate every Beatles album 5 stars, but there are a few, including this one, that would get more than 5 if it was an option.

One of the best albums of all time

Meh

Come on now. 💅

FUCK YEAH

5/5 I'm having a hard time being partial about this album because it was one of the few physical items my biological father left me so, I have a emotional connection to it. Yes, it does that psychedelic, funky, artistic, experimental de-evolution that many albums of this era did (breaking ground for other people). However, before it goes south, it has so many beautiful love songs, and insane songs about having sex in the road and fun to sing ballads about ordinary people and messages about revolution. Were they starting to get full of themselves and a little too Frank-Zappa-Meta? Sure, but the social commentary mixed with the animal themes, the average Joe take and the rock and roll, just does it for me.

Wow. 30 tracks, and SO much creativity and variety. How could I not give this 5 stars? Too many brilliant moments to list. Turns out The Beatles were pretty good!

Love the Beatles, love this album

I mean, it's the white album!

I'm a young Beatles fan and I've been avoiding this album for years. It's a double album with masterpieces such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Blackbird" cramped together with goofy songs like "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da" and meme songs such as "Revolution 9" and "Wild Honey Pie". It's a bit intimidating to dive into the world of Beatles at their wildest and most experimental. After listening to Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma", their most experimental album, I reckon listening to such adventures need a bit of energy to do so. Today, however, this album blew my mind, as many Beatles albums usually do. Side-A is an absolute masterpiece. I didn't even care about "Wild Honey Pie", all of them are bangers in their own unique ways. Side-B is a bit more challenging to listen to. It has more aggressive and heavier songs like "Helter Skelter" and the one of the many amazing gems I've just discovered, "Yer Blues". "Revolution 9" is not that bad imo, it's a nice albeit poorly executed sound collage about human history. Overall, I can see why this is many Beatles listeners' favorite. It's a glorious mess of many styles and moods. It's an adventure to listen to. I've always thought that they like it only because it's "experimental" or has "many styles". But it turns out it's an absolute banger of an album.

Here's one we definitely don't need to question if its inclusion on this list is justified. The whole thing is definitely on the long side, but it never gets too old, through the sheer variety between tracks, all of them executed quite well within their style. This also gives the impression that there isn't much chaff or filler here / just different tastes. The only tracks I would cut out of all 30 are the last two. Great album.

The great songs on here on about as great as it gets for pop-ish structured tracks. There are some weird things thrown in there - avant garden one-upmanship I guess. But the good vastly outweighs the bad and it's not hard to give this a 5 star rating. There is some merit to the argument that this is an example of why artists shouldn't do double records. I think the best true double album release I can think of was Mellon Collie (which BTW would def be on my list), but the thing it does really well is kind of stick to the album aesthetic even when the songs are truly incredible The White Album doesn’t have much of an ‘aesthetic’ Personally I dig the ‘avant garde’ additions but they’re pretty annoying for full front-to-back listens when you just want to hear the ‘real’ songs Comparing to a similar double album my listening group just had recently Tusk by Fleetwood Mac (which I realize no one really liked except me haha) I think it’s a similar process leading to a similar result. Both bands were very fragmented socially during the recording and the effects of ego and drugs were apparent. John McVie (the ‘Mac’ from Fleetwood Mac) was quoted something like Tusk “sounds like 3 records recorded by 3 solo artists” and I kind of feel the same way about The White Album

Come on now. I gotta do the white album? It's such an important album for music as a whole. Like damn. It's got history. It's got bops. It's infinitely interesting. What else would anyone want? And it's not cause I'm "supposed" to like it. The Beatles in general have always been a part of my life. It's some of the first music I remember hearing and loving. Thanks family for that one. It's a 5 easy. It's a 5 for sure

One of the best of The Beatles

Helter Skelter went so hard a bunch of people got murdered.

One of my favourite albums ever.

4.6 Probably one of my least favourite Beatles albums it's got some great bangers but just awful awful songs (it did not need to be a full double LP let's just say that, one and a half maybe). fave songs: martha my dear, i will, helter skelter, glass onion

One of my favourite albums

It's just pure genius, man. Nothing else to say. Favorite tracks: Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter

Gonna give 5 for the 5 star content. But there’s a lot of guff in here which could have made it lower. Some of the dross is a 2

There’s nothing I can say about this album that hasn’t been said already.

greatest album ever made

Normally i skip revolution 9, but even with it, it remains a good album

PREFS : TOUT MOINS PREF : RIEN

The common critique that the White Album receives is that it is too bloated and should have been cut down. I disagree. What we see here is a period of unfettered creation that signifies the beginning of the end. This is an album of competing personalities writing wildly different material under the singular name of the Beatles. It works though, partly because we know the story of how tumultuous 1968 was for them. The tumult gets its greatest expression in the penultimate track, Revolution 9, a nine minute amalgamation of unsettlingly arranged studio chatter and snippets of music. It is generally reviled due to its oppressive atmosphere and its perceived lack of justification. However, unpleasant as it is to listen to, I think it's necessary. This is a postmodern album; it eschews convention purposefully and destabilizes the notion of genre and the concept of a unified album. Revolution 9 literally carves up and repackages studio sounds into something unrecognizable before falling into the dreamy 'Good Night' with its classic Hollywood style string arrangement. It's all a bit tongue in cheek. To those who still say the album is too long, I offer this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9xDBTpLz-8

White Album: I think I agree with Liz now about double albums. Just too much Beatles here and it feels like there is some filler. They should have cut some of this. I could’ve done without the 8 minutes of Revolution 9. I probably could do without Wild Honey Pie, Don’t Pass Me By, Piggies, Why don’t we do it in the road, Helter Skelter, bungalow, bill Weird that they wouldn’t include Hey Jude. Wikipedia said they had demos for Jealous Guy and Junk? It’s a great album but It could’ve been a much tighter/ stronger album. It doesn’t flow the way sgt peppers or Abbey Road do. Still a 5 though- it includes so many great songs: Blackbird, Mother Nature’s Son, Happiness is a warm gun, Dear Prudence, Julia, While my guitar gently weeps, Martha my Dear, I’m so tired.. I really like Lennon’s singing. I appreciate the experimentation and the punkness of the record.

This Beatles album is not iconic like Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road, but it's pretty damn good. The tracks are not as coherent - a concept album this is not; in fact, the song selection is very eclectic. Still, The Beatles were on the peak of their songwrighting here, and their driving force was undoubtedly Paul McCartney. Some of his songs are very self-indulging, even outright silly (Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon), and for all the creativity, the band might have been wise to self-edit and trim the 1:33 h running time a little bit. But really, in the face of the quality of most of these songs, this is just nitpicking. Back in the U.S.S.R., Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Blackbird and Helter Skelter alone would make for an absolutely classic of an album. And this is only a small selection of the songs penned by McCartney. But even if John Lennon took a bit of a backseat as a member of the Beatles during this time, he was no slouch when it came to songwrighting. He provided a much needed counterpoint to McCartney's style of writing, providing both more experimentation and more moody and edgy songs. Glass Onion, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Julia, Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 are all a case in point. George Harrison, meanwhile, was coming into his hown as a songwrighter. His output was not as high as that of Lennon or McCartney, but he made that up with quality. Piggies is a fascinating track with harpsichord and the backing of a chamber orchestra. But While My Guitar Gently Weeps is an absolute monster of a song with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, which can rightly be called one of the best tracks the Beatles have ever recorded. And then there is Ringo Starr, the Beatles' legendary drummer, who was always a little bit overshadowed by his bandmates when it came to penning songs. Here, he provides the equally strange and charming Don't Pass Me By, and especially the gorgeous Good Night, the album's closing track. Having all these remarkable, classic tracks (among others of varying quality) on a single collection makes for an instant classic album. I'll deduct half a point for the lack of trimming, but this album is one of the (clearly less than 1001) albums that really deserves to be on this list and to be listened to by everyone. 4.5/5

Classic

One of my favorite albums

Four or five stars? There's a bit of fluff on this, but so much gold too.

Err mer gurd! What a banger! The track list is something to marvel at, even without listening. It has a bunch of my favourites.

Ok ok. If this was distilled down to 14 tracks, it would be perhaps the greatest album ever. As it stands it's just in the top 10. Plus we get 14 extra pretty kooky Beatles tracks. So good decision to go for the double.

Many complaints over the years have centered on the length of this album, but ignore them -- each of these songs are fantastic in their own way (yes, even "Revolution 9"), each set a template for entire branches of rock music, and each has their time and place. Some albums are summer albums; some are winter albums. The White Album says, how about something for every season? And what's more, it delivers. Skip around if you want, sure, but you'll land on something that's perfect for wherever you are, whenever you are. What could be more perfect than that?

Pillar rock album. Very enjoyable listen

Classic!

good

Desmond has a barrow in the marketplace Molly is the singer in a band Desmond says to Molly girl I like your face And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on brah La-la how life goes on Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on brah La-la how life goes on -And- Your inside is out when your outside is in Your outside is in when your inside is out So come on come on Come on its such a joy Come on its such a joy Come on let's make it easy Come on let's make it easy Make it easy, make it easy Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey Enough said, really. 5/5

An amazing album - after Sgt Pepper they wanted to get back to their real style of music - however the mix of Pepper like sounds, blues, romantic melodies and strange words (Ob-La-Di …. etc.) seems like a reverse retrospect - bottom line: I enjoyed this album when it was released and enjoyed re-listening today! Glass Onion !!!

Probably more of a strong 9 for me but classic so 5/5

NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9.

Yay, more Beatles! I don't think I've actually ever listened to this one all the way through in one sitting, so that was nice. There's a few songs on here I'm not really crazy about, but given that it's so long, I'll give it a pass. I've also never listened to Revolution 9 all the way through before now, so that was something. There's a lot of really good stuff on here. I'm a sucker for the more acoustic stuff. It's a pretty obvious 5 for me. My favourite song was Revolution 9. Just kidding, I'm not insane. My favourite songs were Mother Nature's Son, Honey Pie, and Don't Pass Me By.

yala

It's always a fantastic journey to listen to this album in its entirety. It's a very cohesive album despite it a double one and it being very diverse stylistically (rock, pop, proto-heavy metal, blues, avantgard etc). The White Album has the best songs of Lennon, a lot of great McCartney tunes, Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps, among others, and Ringo's first song he wrote for the band. Even Revolution 9 is an interesting piece of music concréte, an atmospheric college of sounds. The Beatles once again showed what geniuses they were.

Not the best Beatles, but an easy 5 none the less. The were so far ahead of everyone at the time.

Ik heb blaren op m'n vingers!! Misschien wel meer dan ooit zijn de Beatles op dit album het muzikale equivalent van Monty Python (dat het volgende jaar van start ging). Veel experimenten, veel muzikale lolbroekerij. 'Back in the USSR' is een parodie op de Beach Boys, Paul mag zich uitleven met cowboyliedjes en vooroorlogs klinkende deuntjes. Andere nummers zijn gewoon gekte, en ja, het klinkt alsof hadden ze toen heel misschien mogelijk gebruik gemaakt van bepaalde middelen. Ik zou er persoonlijk geen diepere betekenis achter zoeken... Meer rechtoe-rechtaan-nummers zijn er ook, zoals de klassiekers 'While my guitar gently weeps' en 'Blackbird'. Veel maffe instrumenten en af en toe een ruw randje ('Helter skelter'), en 'Revolution 9' is een soort conceptkunst die bijvoorbeeld Pink Floyd de weg zou wijzen naar wat er zoal mogelijk was. Een (wit) album dat veel biedt, veel doet en gemaakt is door een stel eigenwijze mafkezen op het toppen van hun kunnen.

Even with Revolution 9, this one gets 5/5 (mainly because I always skip past that one).

Great

Good album, very Beatles style. Haven't heard a lot of the songs but will listen to it more

Belles découvertes, gros mélange rythmé

Perfect !!

Back in the USSR has a cool guitar solo. Blackbird is a beautiful song!! 💝 Rocky Raccoon is a cute song :) Helter Skelter was a good song I enjoyed sexy Sadie and honey pie too. Overall really well put together album that I could listen to anytime. Had a bit of everything, but wasn't musically boring at all - each song was really interesting and creative. 5/5

Lo he escuchado un montón de veces en mi vida, yo creo que es el disco de los Beatles que más me gusta(PSP)

Honestly when I think of an “album,” this is usually what comes to my mind. The biggest band in the world, fresh off a stretch of 3 classic, creative, and cohesive albums, find themselves without a manager and a direction. So they go to India, write a bunch of music, record it, and say f*** it and release it. Every good album needs drama, every good album needs filler tracks to keep the pace. There are days where I get tired of hearing Sgt Pepper or Revolver, but listening to the White Album is always interesting. And yes, that means I even like “Wild Honey Pie,” “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road,” and “Revolution 9”

Always amazing

I feel like I gave a lot enough explanation of why it’s an important album already. For a non Beatles fan this album is probably waaaay too long but I’m obviously a huge fan so it’s like a gold mine of classics as well experimental tracks that makes you feel like you’re in the studio for a day hearing all the a-sides and the b-sides they’re working on. I will, mother natures son, Julia, and blackbird are some of the best acoustic songs ever and show they can be great songwriters even without the orchestras and experimentation that made so many other Beatles songs great. 👍: while my guitar, mother nature’s son, happiness is a warm gun, I will

Let me start by saying: I love all things unconventional. I love anything that purposefully subverts expectations. This album, from what I have learned, does just that. The Beatles were the biggest band of all time, and used this album to completely dissolve themselves of the responsibility a band of that stature would have to make consistent music for a specific audience. I love not just what this album does and says about music but about art in general. That the very creation of it is what’s important. I also really enjoyed playing this on vinyl, I took the album in small chunks through the day and it was the perfect vibe. No notes.

Probably five MEH songs on this entire album of thirty songs? One of the best of all times.

I always forget how long this album is. And how strange some of these songs get.

Not usually a Beatles fan but I did really like this

I grew up in the 70s. Now the Beatles have never really been out of style, but by the time I discovered this album in the mid-80s, no one my age particularly wanted to listen to them. I DID NOT CARE. If you were riding in my car, you were going to listen to "Wild Honey Pie" and "Revolution 9" and you were going to like it, damn it. If I was going on this journey, I was taking everyone I knew with me. My whole 17th year in this world revolved around this album, which I played endlessly. I was a weird pre-alternative kid who loved the Smiths and REM, but this album spoke to me. It still does, more than almost any other album. It opened my mind to all kinds of possibilities in music. This is probably one of the most creative and diverse albums ever made. The songs really don't connect at all and it absolutely should not work to put them together, but somehow it works. That's a testament to the talents of the Beatles that they managed to pull it off, in spite of personal tensions and creative splintering. In fact, I would say that this tension allows these songs to live together in this space. It's that disjointed sensibility that gives this album its fire. It's all at once melodic and whimsical, ethereal and lovely, even abrasive and gleefully weird. You have several of the most well known and beloved Beatles songs ever made, mixed in with all kinds of odd little gems that you don't hear much if you're not a fan. This album remains a stunningly vital work, over 50 years since it came out. It never ceases to be entertaining and it always encourages us to expand our ideas of what music should be. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Helter Skelter; Long, Long, Long; I'm So Tired; I Will; Blackbird; Dear Prudence; Don't Pass Me By; Julia; Martha My Dear; Happiness Is a Warm Gun; Rocky Raccoon; Good Night; Mother Nature's Son; Why Don't We Do It in the Road?; Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey; Glass Onion; Cry Baby Cry; Wild Honey Pie; The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da; Savoy Truffle; Honey Pie; Revolution 1; Sexy Sadie; Yer Blues; Piggies; Back in the U.S.S.R.; Birthday; Revolution 9

i mean, AMAZING.

Absolutely crazy album that I had no idea had so many of their biggest hits on it. It's funny to say that this is a huge departure from their normal music, but Sgt Pepper's was the album before this one. However, this is still a big departure, in a much different way from Sgt Pepper's. Not all the artistic decisions land for me, which is going to happen in an album as long as this. You cannot deny a legend though. Favorite tracks: Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Yer Blues

I understand why dad loves this band, this album is loooong (which may be to it's detriment) but it's still filled with some absolute belters! Back in the USSR is a great start, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Yer Blues, Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey, Helter Skelter(!!!), God this is good. Also I get the 'number 8' Simpsons joke much more now, but wiersly I really liked Revolution 9 still. Huge album with a huge reputation that it definitely deserves

Evidemment

My favourite Beatles Album by a country mile. So much to unpack here. It goes to a lot of places, proto metal, country, early sampling...a peak of creativity over perfection.

Messy, it's got some tracks I don't usually revisit, but wow. It's the White Album.

It's the White Album.

Dear Prudence is one of, if not my favorite song ever. There’s quite a bit of filler spaced throughout but I believe if you got rid of the fillers and kept the bangers down to one disc it’d probably be the greatest album of all time. As it stands, it’s merely an incredibly great album.

ну classicss love so much while my guitar gently weeps :зз

Really well-made. Really long, but packed with good songs. More experimental, which I like. Hard to list all songs I liked. Cool melodies, lush orchestral pieces. + Wild Honey Pie, Glass Onion, Bungalow Bill, Martha My Dear, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, Julia, Mother Nature's Son, Me And My Monkey, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Revolution 1, Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, Good Night

love all the different genres on here

Only thing better is The Grey Album.

Holds up.

Always a pleasure to spend time with this weird, wondrous, sprawling album. We talk a lot about the huge influence that The Beatles had on music and culture. I think them releasing this album, where odd little experiments and silly jokes commingle with fantastic songwriting, gave countless future artists the permission to make other strange, rambling albums in a similar vein. And what a wonderful gift! The White Album continues to give other artists permission to get weird if they want to. I'm very grateful for that. This is The Beatles' funniest album for sure. I still can't get over "Back in the U.S.S.R." It must have started as a joke - part Beach Boys parody, part political satire - but because they're just so good at writing songs, it ends up being a catchy jam and a great song. And "Glass Onion," where the lyrics troll Beatles fans searching for secret meanings that don't exist. I love how the druggy experiments like "Wild Honey Pie" made it onto the album. It gives you a little insight into what being in the studio with them must have been like - goofing around, laughing and always creating and recording. There are also a bunch of stunning songs that might not have made it onto a less adventurous album. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is incredible, but dark and twisted. And "Helter Skelter" always blows my mind. Like, in addition to everything else they did, did The Beatles also play a role in inventing heavy metal?? And I haven't even mentioned the absolute classics - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Blackbird" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" are on this album. "Revolution 1" has always been a favorite of mine too. I could go track-by-track because there are a ton of gems here. But I'll shout out one more - "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is a personal favorite. I love its energy.

When this came up and I started looking over the track listing I had to do a double take to check that this wasn't some form of greatest hits or era's-compilation sort of release. It's so good. "Dear Prudence" "Obla Di Obla Da" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" "Blackbird" "Helter Skelter" "Revolution 1" are all truly amazing and legendary tracks. While My Guitar.. and Blackbird are two of my favorite Beatles songs. Both very different and both highlighting guitar creativity along with the magic that can happen between a perfect vocal and a perfect guitar part. This is a 5/5 of course and is probably one of the highest rated albums on this list for all users.

Revolution 9 is the most Yoko Ono thing ever. The rest of the album is damn near perfect.

Are you kidding me? Fundamental.

Great

I'm too under qualified to explain why this album is so good but one thing I do know is that Blackbird could be the best song ever written.

Beautiful. A lifetime of memories wrapped up in 1 album.

Vinilo. Aunque hay alguna canción demasiado experimental.

Gotta love the beatles

I was excited to listen to this iconic album, ranked #29 on the RS Top 500 behind Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Sgt. Peppers and Revolver. From Wikipedia: "Featuring a plain white sleeve, the cover contains no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed. This was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's previous LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Back in the USSR is classic Beatles: fast paced, synchronized voices, that timeless sound. Dear Prudence is a beautiful love song. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is a bouncer. While My Guitar Gently Weeps is moaning, slow and deliberate. Blackbird is simple, hopeful and incredibly poetic. Rocky Raccoon, a fan favorite, is a jangly saloon piano sing-a-long that's different than many Beatles songs. I've heard the riff to Birthday 1000X but didn't know it was The Beatles. I really enjoyed the mangy track Yer Blues. Great album. Timeless and packed full of hits.

the best beatles album.

As Batman loomed over the dead baby, his throat cracked. He'd been waiting all weekend for his chance to piss all over the dead daughter of the man who stole his favourite pair of leather shorts. Batman smiled, released his penis and a sturdy stream of urine splattered all over the lifeless infant. He finally had his revenge.

Like winning the quadruple in album form

5/5. Classic. Brilliant from start to finish.

Some of the best Beatles songs, some of the worst. Never not interesting

Banger album.

Wonderful

A glorious mess of explosive creativity 5/5

Classic.

I mean. It's the Beatles. And not only that, it's my favorite Beatles album. I've always that this was peak Beatles - mature, ironic, not too woo-woo, a little stranger than earlier albums. I know that intelligent minds could differ over what the BEST Beatles album is, and this might not get the majority vote, but it's my favorite.

Beautiful to hear.

This one was a hard choice for me. Torn between a 4 and a 5 because the album is great, I’ll listen to it again certainly, but it doesn’t blow the roof off when looked at overall, and gets a little too quirky for me to immediately place at the top of the top. The one deal breaker for me is Blackbird. I just love this song, it has brought voice to heartache and given me hope so many times. Of course there are other great songs on this album, Helter Skelter, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Dear Prudence, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, but the 5 stars is due to Blackbird in the end.

I’ll admit: first time listening to this album from start to finish. Came in grumpy (can’t give The Beatles all the stars just cause they’re The Beatles! Grrr!). Then songs like Happiness is a Warm Gun, Julia, and Helter Skelter kept coming on and I thoroughly loved it and I’m giving it all the stars.

on est pas là pour être objectifs (tqt Piggies c pas sur toi)

Brilliant

Legendary.

they simply do not make boy bands like this anymore — a group of adrenaline-pilled, disillusioned 20-somethings who pour all their vigor, joys and sadnesses, anger and anxieties, into a 30-song double album that’s as thematically concise as it is sprawling. the Beatle’s colloquial White Album is an overly indulgent, disjointed epic inspired by any and everything, reeking of the brewing dysfunction that would lead to the Beatles’ eventual disintegration. it’s also a brilliant masterwork. not for nothing, The Beatles were not afraid to just have fun. songs like “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”, “Why Don’t We Do It in The Road?” and “Dear Prudence” showcase their ability to write wildly and comically, and the joy is incredibly infectious. but The Beatles also know when to bow their heads for a moment of somber introspection. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (easily one of the best songs on the record), “Blackbird”, and “Julia” expose the underbelly of a band who masked visceral emotion with hip-swinging tunes about stupid nothings. they show their disdain for a political climate fueled by greed (even though their political inclinations are toned down here), but then follow them up with pastiches of people in their lives and made up individuals. it is pure chaos rolled into an album that, listened front to back, tells the story of a group of people who constantly sought the beauty in the mess and horror of a dying world around them. this is not a funeral for that world, mind you — it is a celebration of its contradictions, and its strength exists in its non-singularity.

Maybe I'm too influenced by the media and the Beatle's propaganda, but this is one of my favorite albums. Even with the wide range of styles found here, I enjoy all the songs. Its influence is spread worldwide, and many bands and musicians were made around the concepts they developed on this album, so a 5-star rate is the minimum rate possible for it.

Did not feel 90 minutes which is a huge compliment. This album is fucking bonkers in the best way. It has rock and roll, jazz, 1920 showgirl tunes, lullabies, hollywood film scores all whilst being Beatles tunes. What a band. I cannot imagine what people thought each time they released something new. Must of been so exciting.

“It was great, it sold, it’s the bloody Beatles White Album, shut up!”

The beginning of the end for the Beatles. I always feel a little bittersweet listening to the white album because (more than even Let it Be) I feel like I can hear the pain of these four friends discovering that they are all different people than they once were and just can't work together anymore. But what a strange unique and wonderful album that they managed to produce. Lennon's songs tend to stand out as the high points, Happiness is a warm gun, Glass onion and The continuing Story of Bungalow Bill all show a sublime mastery of melody, dynamics and Lennon's signature bizarre lyrics. Subsequently there is a tendency to write off McCartney's "granny music shit" (John's words, not mine) but personally I wouldn't want to live in a world deprived of the unashamed fun of Rocky Racoon or Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da or indeed the wonderful creation that is Blackbird. My favourite part of the album comes right at the end with Revolution 9, an experimental piece that is so large in its scope and ambition that even at 8:22 (the longest Beatles track) it feels like they could barely fit in all the ideas they wanted. Its tempting to put this down as yet another influence of Yoko's influence on John but when you dig a bit deeper there appears to have been far more involvement from Ringo and George than you'd first think, but we will never know the full story behind exactly how it came to be, which gives the piece a wonderful mysterious quality. An of course how do you finish an album after 8:22 of pure experimental weirdness? With the pure corniness of "Goodnight", in a way I see them as companion pieces, Revolution 9 being pure tension and stress and Goodnight putting a very soft and surprisingly emotional full stop on the album. I always think Ringo's voice was incredibly under utilised and he is on great form here and his whisper of "Goodnight everybody" at the end of this remarkable album always makes me feel a bit emotional. Simply one of the greatest albums ever made and I don't think I could ever fully understand someone who couldn't find at least something to like in it.

this is awesome

So terrible good…

Ah, the White Album. While it may not be the best Beatles album, it is a high contender for my favorite LP of there's, if not favorite album in general. It even sports what is perhaps my favorite song of all time, Julia. The album starts with, while not my favorite Beatles song, a great start to an album with hugh energy necessary for the ninety-three minutes ahead. It then flows perfectly into Dear Prudence, which is just super nice and calm, and I think of all things Rock Band really nailed in the visuals, adding color to the formally monochrome gameplay as the song heightens the sound. As we enter Glass Onion I remember thinking how I disliked the song for being a little to self referential, but I've grown to like it with this re-listen. Perhaps it's due to the focus on the severely underrated Magical Mystery Tour LP's songs. Next is Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is not that bad. I think people only hate it because John said he hated it so much, and it grew from there. It totally goes for the energy it sings about and nails it, and I think it's a great test to see if someone can just enjoy a happy song. This sentiment continues with Wild Honey Pie, which is absolutely hilarious, and is short enough where it isn't a bother. The first song that does actually irk me is The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, which chorus does grate me a little on so many repeats, and the vocals on the rest of the song doesn't help, but this is totally forgotten by the time you're getting into the opening notes on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which is a rare moment where despite being a famous song, absolutely earns it and does not lose any luster because of it. The absolute emotion coming from both the guitar and Harrison's voice speaks volumes to any listener, and is in my opinion one of the few times Clapton earns his recognition. We end the first side with Happiness Is A Warm Gun, and it's range from the beginning of the song to the end is such an impressive range of understanding how to write a song that it is an absolute joy no matter how it sounds. We start side two with a jolly song about a dog. How a song about a dog can be such a lovely tribute is astonishing, and may be the perfect example of how much McCartney truly loved things in his life with this joyful passion that sometimes other Beatles members feel too cold to take advantage of. I'm So Tired, while the weaker of the Lennon sleep duology, is really good at stripping back it's sound to let it stick in the listener, and to also build up the sound as Lennon sings "A Little Piece of Mind". Blackbird shows that McCartney once again is an excellent song writer. The guitar on this is fantastic and I've yet to hear a cover that recreates it just as well, and the vocals suit it perfectly. Not McCartney's best guitar focused song (how can you top Yesterday), but it is still amazing. We do next have a tad bit of a stinker in my mind with Piggies, which is a rarity for George, but this song has never worked for me. The harpsichord sounds too dainty, and the vocals almost sound drowned out by the orchestra at times. Perhaps a stripped down version would be up my alley more. Rocky Raccoon probably has my favorite outtake of any Beatles song, and tend to listen to more than the original, but this only makes me somewhat fresh-faced for this re-listen. I think it does an excellent job telling this simple story, something certainly not rivaling Dylan's storytelling, but just fun, which fits for once again Paul. The Old Timey piano hits this sweetspot for me that I think the harpsichord in Piggies was trying to go for. I may all be bias though, as my name is in this song. Next is Ringo's only song that he wrote himself other than Octopus's Garden (which George helped with anyway), and I should hate this, as the fiddle can come as annoying and Starr's vocal talent is less than ideal, but I don't. In fact, I quite enjoy this. It has the same energy some of the goofy Paul songs from earlier bring, while completely showing Ringo should have truly been a country music singer, and just so happened to be in the most famous rock band of all time instead. Why Don't We Do It In the Road? really shows that vocal talent I love about McCartney, and shows some of that not silly love song energy from Paul we'll see later with Helter Skelter. Paul gets a completely contrasting song right after with I Will, just a completely relaxing piece that is that silly love songs that McCartney fans, including myself, just adore. The little background instrumentation that happens is severly underrated in this piece. And then we get Julia. Dear God Julia. It's just so gorgeous. We have John just singing his soul out to his deceased mother Julia, who while their relationship is certainly... "interesting", it doesn't detract at all from the pure love in this song. The vocals, the lyrics, and the guitar playing just feel the most authentic the Beatles have ever and did ever feel, and while John has never been my favorite Beatle, he does earn my top spot for the song by a Beatle. I would write more, but I want to cut myself off now. Perfect way to end side two. Side three starts with Birthday, which I'm sorry but this song isn't that bad either. It is the perfect song for what the song is about, and Paul sounds genuinely more excited for my biethday than I have ever been. Just feels like an older Beatles tune, but if they didn't have to write about love for once. In my opinion this nails what Back in the USSR tries to capture. Which is of course why it is led up with John saying "Yes I'm Lonely, Want to Die" to really bring you back down from that pleasant high. A very bluesy number, which indeed makes this a song I'm not too crazy about, but that riff certainly sticks in your head, and those repeated lyrics I already mentioned are an excellent line to show people who don't know the lesser known Beatles discography. To pair with Julia we have McCartney's Mother Nature's Son, a very melancholic song, which feels like something you listen to while laying in the grass. Just so light and airy, and the orchestral brass giving it the weight to keep it tied down to earth. Not as emotional as Julia in my opinion, but glad this made it over of Child of Nature (especially so Jealous Guy could make to Imagine later on). What I would say is somehow the most forgettable song on the album is Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey, which other than John belting out the title, I completely forget the sound of after hearing. Not a bad track, but nothing crazy, and totally doesn't earn that ludicrous title. With Sexy Sadie I remember thinking it sounde reminiscent of a Hunky Dory era Bowie song, but I have since noted the actual influence in Radiohead's Karma Police. This used to be one of my favorite songs on the album, with it's 50's style doo-whop type sound really sticking in my mind and the piano focus only taking a backseat for the guitar in the chorus (save for that enchanting guitar ending) really feeling great to hear. Then Helter Skelter starts. Now, this song has been in my concious for years and years, so it's nothing new, but this seems so crazy for 1968. I'm not about to say the Beatles solely invented metal, because that would be really narrow-minded, but the raw power on this track is stronger than the album Raw Power. We end side three with another Harrison song, Long Long Long to really round out the semifinal part of the album, which is just a heartfelt message from Harrison, something he is quite good at doing. We start the final part of the album with a taste of what is to come in just a few songs. Luckily this one is far more casually enjoyable. While I don't like this version quite as much as the high octane rendition the original presents, this is still a good head bopper that really feels from it's era in a good way. Shoo-bops and all. Speaking of songs alluding to other songs, Honey Pie is sorely underrated, often being undermined by it's far weirder and shorter sibling, when it deserves to be a highlight of the album. The way once again Paul just shows a true love of the music he is making really presents an enjoyment rarely seen in the music industry. It's almost criminal that the show tune style this song goes for is not given a chance more often, as it really gives it this nostalgic feeling while still being thematically relevant to the lyrics presented. I like this kind of music indeed. Savoy Truffle is a track I always thought when I first went through the entire Beatles discography was a McCartney track because of how bubbly it is, with the horns really adding to the song, and the food allusions really just makes it so groovy to listen to. With Cry Baby Cry, which I was saw someone say was the most British song ever, is enjoyable on it's own, although a little simple, makes an excellent choice of adding a snippet of Can You Take Me Back at the end to have relaxed sound after a slowly building up song. Perhaps it's good to have to prepare for what's to come. Now Revolution 9 is... well, it's bad. Is it super experimental, and thus perhaps impressive for the time? Definitely, but it isn't enjoyable to listen to or even dissect, as it's been done to death. It's boring at best, and extremely uncomfortable most of the other time. It's coolest thing is how it messes with the audio channels, but the actual song presented should never be listened to as a song, and is definitely something I consider a sour point on the album, especially so close to the end. Luckily we get to end on an extremely peaceful note, with Ringo using his suprisingly soothing voice to basically sing as all a lullaby and bring us back to peace after that... experience. It's no wonder he went on to narrate Thomas the Tank Engine for a time. The sweeping orchestra really makes me adore this one too, and is a perfect placement and a perfect send off to this fantastic album. Now, this album does obviously have small issues, but there's so much fantastic stuff here that it really destroys any negatives this album may have, and makes it what I consider a near perfect album, and certainly good enough for the 5 star. I love this album, apparently enough to write something about each song, something I've never done and may never do again, and I just really appreciate getting to listen to this all again in one sitting, haven't done that in so long, and it really made me remember why I love the Beatles so much. Once again, fantastic album.

Strong contender for best album of all time. It is endlessly engaging, interesting and entertaining – and wildly so on all fronts. The full-on experimentation, the boldness and willingness to try on a lark, the offbeat McCartney and Lennon never better, each contributing both masterpieces and several priceless (and underrated) gems. George and Ringo at their best, too. If a mishmash, then a marvelous one. More like a transcendent embarrassment of riches.

What could I possibly say that hasn't already been said. It's an all-time classic amongst all-time classics.

Old favourite - have been listening to this for 30 years and it doesn’t get old.

The most chaotic Beatles album. The White Album is masterful, it's ridiculous, it's sentimental, it's goofy, it's obnoxious, then it's 8 minutes of random sound effects, then it's time to say good night. The album that introduced the world to heavy metal also includes multiple classic children's songs. Every song is practically a different genre. Even the low effort songs are awesome. I named my cat Martha because of this album.

beatles. everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey

This is probably my favourite album of all time. I still remember listening to it for the first time when I was 14 on a Walkman in my room. All I had were bootleg tape cassettes my parents probably recorded from someone’s CD. I don’t know what 14 year olds are like now, but liking the Beatles did my already low popularity no favours in the year 2000. I didn’t care, I knew I had found my jam. For the next few years (basically all of high school), I used all my birthday and Christmas money on acquiring every Beatles album. The White Album was one of the first (if not the first) album I purchased, with my first paycheque from corn detasseling. I bought this CD and a pair of baby blue Modrobes (what up Canadians?!). Anyway, despite being my favourite album, there are a couple songs I don’t really care for, those being “Julia” and “Good Night.” I think they have their place on the album, I’m just not into slow, sappy songs.

A mean, what do you even say about the White Album?

No sé mucho de música y de hecho es la razón por la que estoy acá, este álbum quizás para algunos no es tan bueno pero a mí me gustó mucho, no me ha aburrido y lo he disfrutado. Estuve todo el día escuchándolo

Feels like a greatest hits album which means it’s full of bangers but didn’t feel cohesive