Reviews (page 6 of 16)
echt heerlijk. john lennon diep in een crisis terwijl paul mccartney de tijd van z'n leven aan het hebben is. oh to be deep in the beatlemania writing rpf before that was even a thing.
There's a 5/5 album in there somewhere.
It may not even be the best Beatles album, but this could be the most important album ever made in the 20th century alongside sgt peppers.
le début c'est un roadtrip de début d'été et après jsp. pas mon style de musique pour la plupart
Wonderful, a journey into the experimental, into the innovative for each member. 10!
I knew the big songs but never heard the whole album before. Ya, nice.
Not helped by the only version that I could find being a Deluxe 2018 remaster, but this truly is self-indulgent wank. There are some classic songs on here which is why I'm not going the full 1-star but I don't get the love either for the Beatles or this album in particular. Specific criticism for Rocky Raccoon - what the hell is it? an embarrassing Bob Dylan ripoff, at least the first part of it. No.
I loved it
ya lo conocía y me encanta, no es mi favorito de beatles pero entiendo porqué es considerado de los mejores. canciones fav: while my guitar gently weeps; blackbird; i will
long album so bound to be hit or miss. but overall a hit
Listens: Many Standout Tracks: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter I am not articulate enough or musically inclined enough to describe how good this album is, but I guess I can try. It is musically diverse. Trippy and in some parts possibly drug-fueled. Psychedelic. Culturally important. Politically inclined. Fresh, even 58 years later. There's lyrics of love, sex, women, humiliation, capitalism, sadness, happiness, parody The lyrics and the recordings are rife with tension, frustration and controversy. This album is an easy 5. It's a top three Beatles album for me, but as I write this, I've decided that its not as good as Abby Road or Revolver. Unlike either of those two incredibly tight album productions, the second half (sides C/3 and D/4) sort of the album sort of drags on. With the exception of Sexy Sadie and Helter Skelter, and Side D especially, gets pretty out there even by my standards. I get that there's a lot of experimental stuff, but eight minutes of Revolution 9 gets me pretty bored, and I want to put the good stuff back on or switch to something else.
Woah I've never really listened to The Beatles' like full album, it's actually so good. My favorite from the first listen is Glass Onion.
Over an hour and a half long and somehow doesn't feel at all bloated. The standard of songwriting on display is insane. Some serious production for its time as well. Personal high points in Blackbird, While my Guitar Gently Weeps and Helter Skelter, but even the more jokey songs like Rocky Racoon and Honey Pie are just so unbelievably well written. No brainer 10/10. (Putting a song as avant garde as revolution 9 on a album from a band as popular as they were at the time takes some serious balls as well)
dnf when recommended….. i honestly tried but ive never liked the beatles. i do like back in the USSR and black bird tho
Taylor gave it a 3. Some great songs but also some weird songs you don’t want to listen to.
What a ridiculous album! Drugs, hey? Also, Paul is obviously the silly one. So much tuba, which I get given that it's the bass of the brass section. I get the critiques that this album is all over the place. Which is simultaneously it's weakness, but could also be it's strength. Depending on the strength of your drugs, of course. Still, the bangers are bangers. While my guitar gently weeps sounds absolutely fabulous. Happiness is a Warm Gun is just weird. Love the tenderness of Blackbird, but who doesn't? I should learn that on the guitar one day. Also, Dear Prudence. Yes please. I still think it's hilarious that I went through ten years of my life thinking that it was a Siouxsie and the Banshees song. The follies of youth. Oh, and once again, do the mono version. Gawd it's so much better. Otherwise you have Ringo bonking away in only one ear. Sure, listen to Revolution 9 in stereo for the fun effects, but John said that the album is better in mono. And are ya going to fight with John? I thought not. Speaking of Revolution 9. I just realized that Skinny Puppy borrowed heavily from this in on Love in Vein. Tres cool. Then again they also sampled (kinda) Helter Skelter on the Rabies album, so that somewhat makes sense. In a fucked-up Skinny Puppy kinda sense. Still, I love it. Anyhow four stars. Can't rate the Beatles less than that, right?
Mooie nummers, maar sommige ook niet.
4.8
listened
Great album! So much on here!
Love the Beatles.
It was mid I only liked like 2-3 songs on it
- absolute work of art - insanely beautiful - lowk shed a tear
I mean… yeah
i’ve kind of always been a self proclaimed beatles hater but this album is very enjoyable. honestly i’m enjoying the whole story a lot more than i would have expected. halfway through and looking up copies of the album for my record player lol
Blackbird forever
I have a fairly controversial opinion. I think the White Album is the Beatles' most overrated album. Don't get me wrong, there are some fantastic songs on here. If every song on this album was on the same caliber as Blackbird, it would be a 5/5 easily. However, there's also sooo much filler here. Songs like Why Don't We Do It In The Road never needed to exist. For that reason, it's a 3. P.S. I am Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da's biggest defender. People who hate Paul's "Granny music" just hate fun. Y'all need more whimsy in your lives.
My sense is that with this album the good outweighs the bad. There are some absolute gems on this album, but it also feels like they just recorded everything that popped into their heads.
4.5
Great.
stunned
Hard to write anything that hasn’t been written about this album. Occasionally I think a single album would’ve been better. Revolution 9 could’ve been replaced by Hey Jude! It’s John, Paul and George being more eclectic and grasping the rock revolution and more acoustic stuff than in ‘67. It’s a compendium of delights and some mad moments.
Yeah, yeah, yeah… a three because of a few songs but I never listen to them anyway.
really getting the itch to jerk off in a group and say the n word
Perfection, maturité et arrangements subtils et efficaces portés par des paroles touchantes
15 favorites but also my two least favorite Beatles songs. Makes that a 4/5.
revolution 9 absolutny peak
This is not a beatles album I've listened to that much. Or at least I felt so initially. After this listen it does feel very homely in a strange sort of way. it is just a strange album... feels sort of out of character for them, like it doesn't quite fit with the rest of their discography... I kind of like it
The world doesn’t need one more word written about this album. Four stars.
It's a toss up between this and Abbey Road for my favorite. They set out to do totally different things within the album framework so tough to compare. The stuff that most thing of as filler (Paul's pastiche pieces) I actually love. I grew up on this album so it is just dawning on me that my guilty pleasure enjoyment of that stuff stems from Paul here. This just feels like them at the peak of their powers. That shouldn't be the case since their unity as a group really starts to crumble here. But at the end of the day it is a double album where they hop into any genre they want and don't falter for a second. I genuinely love all of these songs. Even Revolution 9 is a lot more cohesive than other avant-garde collages I've heard and not near as scary as I remember. I wonder how long it took them to land on the track order, the first disc especially flows so well. 29th perfect album, 912 albums in. Rating: 5.0
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The album is good, but it doenst have any markeble song. For the beatles thats a "problem", but not a big one.
I listened to this so much as a kid and I can't imagine life without it. There is so much going on here and others have said more eloquent and thoughtful things about it. It's perfection from start to finish.
Pretty long, beatles always deliver
It’s a solid album, just not the biggest fan of the Beatles
First Beatles-album I listened to in full and in one play. The variety is impressive, so are some of the songs. As a whole not 100% my cup of tea, still it was fun to listen to some music history.
Too happy clappy for me
Definitely a solid album, lots of fun nostalgic songs
It has certified bangers but quite dull songs as well. Perhaps they will grow on me over time. 3/5
Unlike anything they’ve done before, and all the better for it. Incredible vocal performances and some genuinely moving moments are the highlights for me. Not my favorite Beatles album by a long shot, but it’s still pretty great.
Of course love the beatles, but this album isnt THEIR best as a collective group. The whole album really reflects on when they began to focus on themselves individually instead of performing as a band Each song is written and sung by the author (except for good night bc John Lennon is a bit of a coward) and they use the band almost as their backup band if that makes sense. Best songs to me: Back in the USSR, Happiness is a warm gun, Martha My dear, I will, Julia, Honey Pie, Sexy Sadie, While My guitar gently weeps
Blackbird war gut, Rest ist irgendwie schlecht gealtert
It’s the White Album: 5 stars.
I've listened to this album a few times over the years but despite that many tracks seemed new to me so I guess they weren't so memorable. There are of course quite a few well known classics mixed in. It's clearly The Beatles style, although there's big mixture of track styles. I'd often heart snippets of tracks that sounded like some other group. I don't know if this is The Beatles borrowing from others ot vice versa. Overall a decent album that I'll probably listen to again sometime, but to me not a blockbuster.
So many great songs on this but it’s also really long and there is stuff that’s rubbish on it. Helter skelter alone makes it very close to a 5 though.
Welcome back to another episode of "1001 most overrated albums of all time", today we have the Beatles' white album. I never really got the hype surrounding this group, they're basically the prototype of the typical sellout mainstream band. Everything they did worked due to overmarketization, so much so that people bought their stuff just because they're the Beatles. I'm still of the opinion that it was a good thing that they split up and John Lennon got shot. Now that the venting part is over, let's talk about the music displayed here. It obv. doesn't have a bad quality, but there's day and night between the actual good songs like Blackbird or Helter Skelter among the majority of filler songs. Overall underwhelming and mediocre for the most part in terms of style, creativity and theme, but certain songs stand out really strongly. I wish The Beatles would've been an actual rock band and followed the style of Helter Skelter, but what we got instead was 3 cool musicians + 1 retarded hippie asshole.
Classic. So many different sounds on this album. Helter Skelter is a personal standout as it feels way ahead of its time as far as heavier, noisy guitar rock goes.
Eher langweilig und zu lang. Blackbird ist aber ein Banger
Classic!
not my typical but i liked parts of it. faves were ‘back in the ussr’ ‘while my guitar gently weeps’
ok such a classic. i already know a few songs from this album so it's not entirely new to me however i did discover some new favs for sure. i do have to say though my favorite song on the album remains i will. it's such a simple yet beautiful song and will remain of my favs from the beatles. overall, i think it's a very great and timeless album.
not my speed. might give it a listen when I'm older
s white album isch e experience. es isch z lang, s paar slngs sind nur goofs aber fuuuuck het das viel lieder fürd ewigkeit druf woni soooo so sos o gern han. füfi.
muss ehrlich sege ich weiss nöd, öb ichs white album schomal ganz glost han, ich bezwifles back in the ussr findi funny aber han nie gwüsst wasi würkli devo sött halte OBLADI OBLADA CHANI EIFACH NÖD ERNST NEH ok hans nerviger in erinnerig gha JAAAAA WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS es isch au soo en guete titel martha my dear isch easy villsitig ok jz verlürets mich langsam was söll ich mit dene lieder ahfange don't pass me by findi grad echt eifach nur langwilig birthday isch na funny mitem switch au wenni s riff am ahfang fast scho obnoxious find everybody's got something to hide macht spass! ahh omg stimmt helter skelter isch daa druff!! hans nöd insaaaane gern tbh aber ich finds huere geil hends das gmacht UND DE SCHLUSS VOLL VERGESSE revolution 9 chammer chli rauche? han interludes eig gern aber 8 min jäää hejoooo tutmer leid luca aber iwie hanis album nöd cheggt
listened to on my vinyl so far like a lot gives very much late may early june vibes i give it like an 8/10 i would have to listen to it more but i like it so far i also like the song birthday and it has a lot of classics
Great! Just Great!
Don't get me wrong, there is quite a lot of great things here, and some even better than the rest, but also some real strange things, yes very beatles, but just left me thinking this album wouldn't be missing anything if a few songs weren't on it.
I love the white album, as it was one of my first Beatles exposures. Love the variety, even of there are a few duds.
General enjoyable. A few songs are not my cup of tea and kind of annoying. 3.5
overall a GREAT album, I wouldn't say there is no skips tho. Some of the greatest songs ever written came from it(my top three): while my guitar gently weeps, happiness is a warm gun or helter skelter. I wouldn't necessarily listen to wild honey pie again but I was quite surprised by long, long, long, it was not a song I particularly listened to before but I loved the drums and the vocals on it. A few of my favorites also included dear prudence, I will and blackbird.
Please don't make me listen to Beatles twice in one week. Maybe some day
Wow post Sgt Peppers Beatles this should be brilliant and is … mostly But the Beatles are thier own worst enemy Imaginative , yes Revolutionary, check Pushing boundaries , definitely Genre bending , again yes Good , Hmm ... probably Great … no Brilliant, beautiful songs with interesting changes are intermixed with songs that feel like someone taking the piss. Ob-la-di … sounds like a song for school kids to sing - oh wait that’s why I dislike it Continuing on to the story of bungalow bill - great in bits but the chorus and refrain fell like a joke Can any album with these on be a 5 Obviously, the Beatles are great - and there are enough great songs on this album (some that got plenty of radio play and other lesser-knowns) to warrant a 5-star rating. But - there are a lot of crap on this album too. It sounds like the Beatles were just like, "fuck it we are the Beatles “ Yet another double album that is harmed by too many filler . I do love that they were not concentrating on a polished product but this is a step too far. Even if there are elements to love in all songs. Is don’t make me cry an album track ? If this were a single album ? A sure fire 5 star if it was cut to 1 album In giving it 4 over a 3, mostly as I appreciate the space a double album gives to experiment
My dad got this for X'mas as a double CD from my mum ages ago.
Honestly didn't love it
I generally don’t like our constant need as a culture to label things the “Greatest ______ of all time”, especially when it comes to art. But god damn
Brilliant, quirky and The Beatles
Not good
mid. sehr abwechsligsriich, aber zum teil so chilbi musig style woni ned so fühle. my guitar gently weeps esch en banger tho
A mixture of styles and genres, the White Album is one of the beast albums by the Beatles and features many of thier iconic songs. Opens with "Back in the U.S.S.R.", and continues with "Dear Prudence", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
It was emmmm not like there other album
So many songs on this album or bangers. As an album as a whole feels like a mishmash of randomness. Thats why for me it is a four stars and not 5.
Masterpiece
What a great album. So many great songs. I am on the fence about giving it a 5 star…Let’s go!
I really wasn't sure about this after one listen. But again with certain bands and reputations I'm more inclined to give them a second chance. Of course there are some absolutely brilliant songs on here (Blackbird , While My Guitar...) but also a lot of stuff I've never heard. The lyrics are often a bit simple, or plain silly, but the tunes are quality. Could have been a 5, but I can't give a 5 to an album that has a track of jumbled sonic mess. It's a skip every time (though I will make an exception when I finally review The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway)
Although it does have a pretty big handful of forgettable tracks, The White Album also has the highest concentration of great Beatles' songs in my opinion. More than any other, it seems to really explore a wide range of sounds and genres with each song being unique. It's really close between this and Sgt. Pepper for my favorite Beatles' records, although I'm definitely not the biggest fan.
The first half of this is great. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Back in the USSR, Martha, Blackbird, Oh Bla Di (yeah it's catchy), others. But the rest is a mix of quite nice or bang average or (some) not very good. With Helter Skellter mixed in. I've never been the greatest Beatles fan but while I can appreciate the sheer range of things here, a bolder producer might have suggested an edit.
almost all of this individually is just great but there is just…so much of it. there is so many songs. so. many. songs.
This is so good. There are so many incredible moments, fascinating ideas and playful joyous bits of music in here and since I am very familiar with it the double album was isn't as annoying as others (but still, it is looooong), but it's more that in there they have some stuff that should have been b-sides, that should have been deep cut tracks that only avid Beatles fans needed to hear. You can't have revolution number 9 on a 5/5 album, you just can't. As clever as it was at the time, as forward thinking. But there is easily a 5/5 album in there, probably a long one. while my guitar gently weeps is just glorious. Blackbird, USSR, dear prudence, I will, helter skelter, there is so much greatness... but they added more that wasn't 5/5 and it must just be a 4, which makes me a little sad.
Great album, giving it 5 in spite of Revolution #9 just because there was so much good stuff otherwise.
Got bored an stopped listening
pretty good, the beetles just aren't for me.
Lots of variety and styles throughout the album. Thought it was a little long and lacked a theme but very enjoyable nevertheless.
Hun andere albums zijn beter
Incredible, I’ve listened to a number of songs from the album, but have never listened from start to finish - such a consistent album for the number of songs, no real misses. Particular favourites that I was less familiar with previously; Rocky Racoon, Piggies, Glass Onion, Everybody’s Got Something to Hide, Helter Skelter & Good Night. Holy shit - REVOLUTION 9 🤯
Fav Song: while my guitar gently weeps
mehh
Jako prej jsou beetles beetles ale
#2 álbum que escuché. esperable este álbum acá!! una obra maestra, y DEL 68!!! súper innovadores!! tantos Tantos TANTOS temas buenísimos en este álbum. yer blues, everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey, helter skelter, happiness is a warm gun, while my guitar gently weeps, y habia hecho una lista más larga pero saqué temas. x algo los beatles son los mas grandes y de mis favoritos!!! algo que me da gracia es la diferencia entre los temas de paul (i will, o-bla-di o-bla-da, martha my dear) y los temas quebradísimos de john (son muy largos los títulos ya me dio paja) y todo esto se lo debemos a la dr0g4 AGUANTE EL LSD
Początek był słaby ale później co raz lepiej, po prostu nie mój typ muzyki ale rozumiem czemu może być lubiany
Lovely
Early beatles kills
Fine. Obviously this shows off a lot of their technical ability, but as an album for me it was a bit much
Revolution 9 my beloved
It's the Disneyland of Beatles.
A real classic. Some of the best Beatles' songs on it (While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness Is A Warm Gun back to back is a crazy combo). The first heavy metal song (Helter Skelter). Experimental Revolution 9. But I think generally it could be a bit shorter.
Banger efter banger. Första hårdrocklåten i Helter Skelter.. albumet har allt!
Such a good album, I don’t care what anyone says. Only song I’d skip is Revolution 9, just not a fan. Love every other song though!
🥇ob la di, ob la da 🥈blackbird 🥉martha my dear HM: back in the USSR, while my guitar gently weeps, i will, revolution 1, honey pie
In the running for best album ever. Hard to beat. Probably the album I’ve listened to the most.
Three words to scare me: "double Beatles album." Still don't like them. Sorry. Hate the production, the vocals, the lyrics, the meaningless songs. "Back in the USSR" is alright but it goes steeply downhill from there. The sheer whiplash between songs - there's no cohesion here whatsoever. So many inane novelty songs - how is this one of the most respected bands of all time? If there are any earnest songs on here (it's hard to tell), they're completely undermined by everything else. I'm always going to come to each Beatles album with an open mind thinking this could be the one, but this one absolutely is not.
Some of my favorite Beatles Songs are in this album and I think this is there greatest albun... It's just unreal...Can I give it a 1968/5?
Some of my fav Beatles songs are in here, but now I've found a few new favs after listening to the album as a whole!
My sister had this album and one time I put it on when no one was home and Revolution Number 9 scared me so much I was afraid even to turn it off so I ran out of the living room and hid under my bed, terrified. I'm not going to argue that this is the best Beatles album. It definitely isn't. But if I can only listen to one Beatles album for eternity, it's likely to be this one. It's got a lot of tunes, so you get quantity. I mean, I'm definitely not bringing Please Please Me, which maybe clocks in at 30 minutes. It's also got some soul crushers. As a child, Rocky Racoon used to make me cry. I felt so bad for poor Rocky! While My Guitar Gently Weeps is another crusher and probably George's finest work. The story of how it was recorded is crazy - John and Paul were such douches they wouldn't take it seriously...until George brought his pal Eric Clapton in to play lead guitar and John and Paul were so starstruck they got their shit together and played the hell out of it. I mean, Paul's piano bit at the beginning is mind melting. George also done good with Savoy Truffle. And then you've got a lot of John tunes right when his creativity was still voluminous and expanding and he comes up with a set of tunes I can only describe as avant garde. Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Are you fucking kidding me? Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Sexie Sadie (I understand the original lyric was "Maharishi, You Fucking Twat" and the band had to convince him to not be so direct). Revolution is a classic and interesting given the times. And if Julia doesn't make you weepy when you think about his mum he lost young then yes, you're the asshole. Tack on I'm So Tired and Cry, Baby Cry and I think it's fair to say we are catching John at his peak. There are some other food tunes on here. Blackbird is one of Paul's best, like Rocky. Otherwise, if I'm honest Paul doesn't necessarily have his best outing in this album. Especially next to John's heavy shit, Paul's tunes in here can come off as lightweight.
Even though I've never listened to this album in its entirety before now, I'm really impressed at how many songs I *have* heard over the years, and I can certainly see/hear why this seems to be generally considered The Beatles' best album, and one of the best albums of all time. I don't really agree with that latter estimation, but I'm also not a huge Beatles fan so I'm probably not a good judge of that. I feel like there are just as many duds on this double album as good songs, and only a few great songs: "Dear Prudence", "While my guitar gently weeps" (I didn't realize until I read the Wikipedia entry that Clapton guest guitared on this, which makes this probably *his* greatest song too), possibly "Happiness is a warm gun", and the beautiful "Blackbird". I also enjoyed a few not-so-perfect tunes that were more gimmicky but still appeal to me, especially "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da", "Rocky raccoon", and "Helter skelter". Regardless, though, there's no denying the immense influence of this album and its place in Western music history, despite the kind of incoherent eclecticism that hovers over the whole album and paints a picture of a band desperately pumping out the remainder of what they could manage to put together (and often only in pieces, given how few tracks have all four of them playing together).
Edited review: I believe this is one of the greatest albums ever made. Is it perfect? No. But I can't give any album that brought us so many incredible songs (Back in the USSR, Ob-La-Di, While My Guitar, Happiness is, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, Julia, Helter Skelter) less than a 5. Previous review: If you rate this less than a 5, I'm going to have to reevaluate my relationship with you. Counseling may be necessary.
A true classic of creativity and style
wegen Revolution No9 gekauft
4.5
Love this album, one of my favorites from the Beatles, especially toward the end of their run.
the first time I listened I was sleep deprived and irritated so the whole thing was just background and meh. Second time was pretty good I was tweaking
3.97/5 Stars Top Songs: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Glass Onion, Why Don't We Do It In the Road
a bit too whiny
Das album ist sehr gut um es nebenbei zu hören und ein paar vereinzelte Lieder sind sehr Ohrwurm tauglich Lieblingslieder: The continuing story of Bungalow bill Julia Everybody‘s got something except me and my monkey Lieder die ich schon kannte: I will Blackbird
Weird. Some good, some terrible. Don't understand the hype.
Liked it
So many good ones on this. But dang, Helter Skelter always hits and I don't know why I ever forget it.
Double albums almost always drag on way too long. This is no exception. I have no problem believing that cutting this down to a single album would make it one of the best albums of all time. It is pretty much there as it is. This is all over the place. Every track switches genres. The genius of The Beatles is that they make it work. Sure, there are a few duds (and 2 maybe 3 tracks that should have never been recorded), but the rest are nearly perfect. When I got Abbey Road earlier this year, I said I couldn't decide which album of these 2 was my favorite. I listened to both back to back, and it's definitely Abbey Road. The filler in the White Album puts it back a step. On the other hand, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favorite Beatles song.
This is a superb record absolutely crammed with classics. I appreciat the more stripped back and focused quality of this album. Impeccable songcraft. Cry Baby Cry is lowkey my favourite track on this one.
Fantastic album
Better than coldplay
I joke, I know, and while it's easily my least favourite of later stage Beatles Albums, it is still the Beatles.
suitable for ren and stimpy background music
Its all over the place and thats the charm
I wish we could give half stars because this is a very strong 4.5 for me. I’m rounding up to 5 stars because I love a lot of these songs, but they could’ve trimmed the fat a little especially on disc two. I understand they probably wouldn’t have had enough material for a double album at that point, but I think the outcome would’ve been better.
Grew up on the Beatles. Grew up on this album. What a treat to revisit.
I have such mixed feelings about this album. While I think some of The Beatles best songs are on this album, it also contains some of their absolute worst. It's such a polarizing album that I can't give it much more than 3 stars. Can't Miss Songs: Dear Prudence Mother Nature's Son While My Guitar Gently Weeps Blackbird Skip Songs: Revolution 9 Piggies Good Night Martha My Dear (fuck off Paul)
My favorite one.
Didn’t have time to listen to the whole thing
langweilig wtf😭 ich fühle mich wie in den 80s (1680) happiness is a warm gun is tuff blackbird!! 3/10 (pluspunkt wegen der menge der lieder)
didn’t finish, too long, but liked the vibe
This album was the first time I realised the Beatles are really capable of anything. All songs are really diverse and unique which probably has a lot to do with the fact that all members wrote songs for this one album. This also means you can't judge the full record as something cohesive and makes it feel more like a compilation album. This is of course especially noticeable when you hear the sixth beatle Yoko Ono's influence in Revolution 9. Taking that song out of consideration this album is really solid and my second favourite records of the Beatles in general.
I was born a little late to understand the impact the Beatles had - My parents also didn't listen to them, so my first exposure was through references in TV shows and movies. That aside, this album has a lot of really catchy songs, back in the U.S.S.R was a strong start to the album, and I've heard ol-la-di, ob-la-da previously (and loved it) It was fun to hear how playful this album got.
Some of the Beatles best work, drawing you in with a ton of fun before landing you with masterpiece after masterpiece
Some all time bangers, but too long and tonally too all over the place
It's the freaking White album. There's nothing I can say here that hasn't already been said.
Revolution 9 is bullshit.
Some killer, hell of a lot of filler. 3.5/5
Classic, obvs
So good
(5) ok i’d heard most of the popular songs but i heard a majority for the first time today this album is just banger after banger
Not my favorite Beatles album and the first disc is superior (except for Helter Skelter) but it’s still objectively awesome
I now understand why some people find hippies intolerable
Over-rated. Couldn't wait for the end.
I've never listened to The Beatles before, but now understand the appeal. Long album, but great to listen to.
Masterpiece. Perfect combination of the accessible and experimental. So many moods and genres covered - it’s impossible to get bored. The Beatles completed music with this one, everything else is sounding dull in comparison
If this album was 12 tracks it could probably be one of the greats of all time. As it is, there's a lot of absolute nonsense filler twaddle and I'm just struggling to deal with it! 3.5 stars
8/10 - Really incredible first album with a lesser second album. In its totality it’s a 8/10 but the first album was a 10/10. A few good songs on the back half of the project, but with this many songs, there wasn’t a way for this album to be all hits and no misses. My 3rd or 4th favorite Beatles album, but in most other bands catalog this would be their pinnacle. The Beatles were just that good.
I love the scattered nature and length of this album. Obviously the fat could've and probably should've been trimmed, but that's part of the enjoyment. On the first disk I would've cut out Wild Honey Pie and Don't Pass Me By, and on the second disk there's Birthday and Revolution 9. This thing is so dang good but I can't rate it higher than this with some of the misses. Low 9/10
No. 38 What a strange, lovely, and perfect album.
2.4
Obviously
4.5/10 They are great if you have the emotional complexity of a weevil.
3 good songs
This is awesome. I wasn’t sold on it at first. It of course has some amazing classic songs right off the bat but there were a few weird ones where I didn’t know where they were going on but it makes sense now. Really cool.
A ver son los Beatles. Y es el White Album. Es cierto que este siempre ha sido el clásico suyo que menos me he escuchado. Supongo que porque es bastante largo y por eso siempre escuché más bien temas sueltos. De hecho la primera mitad la tenía bastante más controlada pero la segunda me desorientó bastante. En cuanto sonó Back in the USSR fui super feliz y me vinieron un montón de recuerdos chulos, creo que me había olvidado de que existía ese tema. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Blackbird, While my guitar gently weeps,… Un montón de temazos preciosos que me hicieron super feliz a lo largo de la primera mitad recordando la primera vez que escuché estas canciones. La segunda mitad no la recordaba tan extraña, bien pero raro, y he de decir que Revolution 9 me gustó bastante más de lo que recordaba.
Such a great album, with a lot of really fantastic tracks to start it off, especially While My Guitar Gently Weeps. While I do appreciate the ingenuity of it, honestly I don't think it had the legs to quite reach a 5, as the second half of the album has a lot of songs that drag or don't mesh. I think I may revisit this one later on in the list to try it again and see if it changes, but for now, it's a 4.
Halfway decent. Not a huge Beatles guy! But Dear Prudence has been stuck in my head since I heard it yesterday so it's at least that good. For me, it's a vocals thing -- the voices are not really for me, and I'm awful at listening to lyrics. But the rest is great.
Brave
I couldn’t possibly note every little bit of this album after one listen, given it’s thirty songs over two discs and one and a half hours. But I’ll get some main points down. Firstly, I know Back in the U.S.S.R. and Helter Skelter well because I listened to them quite a lot when I was about 12. And for a lot of Beatles tracks, especially the popular ones, I think that this is the audience they’re meant for. They seem juvenile. It’s only when actually listening to the albums that you can see not just how influential they were (very), but just how great they were to listen to cohesively. A lot of prog rock stems from While My Guitar Gently Weeps, a lot of shitty hard rock is just Helter Skelter worship, and the piano in Karma Police is a near-copy of Sexy Sadie. So that side of things is undeniable. If you’re the best-selling musical act in history and you’re given free reign to experiment (just look at the insane sound collage of Revolution 9), it’s no wonder that many acts afterward were influenced to do the same, to varying degrees of success. Is it enjoyable though? Over the long runtime, I can’t say it is. There are spots where you can feel as if you’re in the studio with the Fab Four, and spots where the song is genuinely great (see: Happiness Is a Warm Gun). And in all, it’s a great musical achievement, but not something you’d stick on for fun.
5/5 A+
Do you really need any other Beatle album than The White Album? Let's be real here.
Classics. underligt nog massor med låtar jag aldrig lyssnat på
Ett av världens bästa album, vad ska man säga? Lite dopat av längden såklart men går inte att komma ifrån. Bonustips till alla som mot förmodan inte sett är att kolla när Prince golvar alla i While my guitar när George väljs in i Hall of fame!
Vet fan inte va jag ska skriva ens. Älskar till och med McCartneys lite utskällda tramslåtar. Kan tillstå att dont pass me by och piggies är svaga… sistnämnda till och med lite obehaglig. MEN - de trängs ju med flera att de bästa låtarna som någonsin skrivits. Ges inte 5a spelar man tuff.
Så spretigt och för långt, men man fick iallafall Blackbird och While My Guitar så...
Mina päron spelade tre grejer när jag växte upp: Beatles, Paul Simon och Nat King Cole. Alltid samlingsskivor. Så jag har lyssnat väldigt mycket Beatles men på väldigt få låtar. I vuxen ålder har jag ibland slagit på ett album eller ett annat. Och jag tycker nästan alltid att dom känns så röriga. Det är som att dom gör en låt av varenda idé dom får och tar med varenda låt på sina album. Samtidigt är ju vissa av dessa miljarders låtar helt vanvettiga. Tycker också att denna inte har så mycket piss som jag trodde den skulle ha, trots att den alltså är två år lång. Det är så mudder fucking svårt. Borde lyssna igenom igen för att landa i ett rättvist betyg men som Morbrorn frågar sig: Vem har tid?
tw: jag är en beatles hater. så är det och förblir det efter att ha lyssnat på det här alldeles för långa albumet. så här känner jag: bara för att man kan skriva en låt betyder det inte att man behöver göra det?? och som den där memen: någon sätter på beatles och det är 8/10 gånger the worst song you ever heard. men 2/10 gånger är det typ mästerverk?? vilket göder mitt hat mot dem. team george i alla fall.
Spretigt men allt utom Revolution 9 flyter som smör in i hörselgången. Vad betyder det egentligen? Hur ska man kunna bedöma utan att ta in mytbildningen. "Åååh de var så trötta på varandra här". Nu slår vi på klippet när Prince smeker upp While my guitar gently weeps.
Maybe it’s a bit all over the place. I’d still go with a five
Ganz okay, ein paar Banger
I do not particularly enjoy the Beatles (I used to really hate them despite liking Abbey Road) but this album was fine. I don't enjoy hearing John Lennon say "sexy" but other than that it was a rather neutral listening experience. while I may never understand the hype surrounding the Beatles, I suppose I can thank them for inspiring countless generations of musicians that I love.
- pikkase häirihtee kun tuo beatles teksti albumitaiteessa on snadisti vinossa - damn nää kaverit on ollu tuotteliaita, tässä levyllä on joku 100 biisiä ja nää julkas levyt myös vuos ennen ja vuos tän levyn jälkeen - mun ongelma monien beatles biisien kanssa on se että nää kuulostaa ihan laskenlauluilta, mikä tää obladi biisiki on wtf - parhaita biisejä dear prudence, while my guitar gently weeps, blackbird - on myös aika sekava kokoelma biisejä - yks biisi siitä että nussittais vaan tiempäällä, hell ye - oli varmaan uraauurtava aikoinaan mutta nykyään melko yhdentekevä
I just don’t fw the Beatles
I don't think there's a bad song on this record.
What to say about one of the greatest and most kaleidoscopic album of all time? I once thought I (finally) understood the track ordering while on mushrooms in Amsterdam. I don't remember but I still think the Beatles are talking to each other through song in this sprawling opus which shows the breadth of what they were capable of. If only a single album could get top rating, it might have to be this one (even with Revolution 9 included).
Lots of ups and downs, as this album feels too long and not cohesive enough. There are some amazing songs and a lot of fillers.
Too many songs, but a good album, rare gems
Sprawling and ambitious. What I appreciate the most, and what others see as a negative, is that no two songs sound the same. Sometimes you get halfway through an album and you feel like it’s been the same song repeatedly. But here so much experimentation means I’m never bored. I do wish “Revolution 9” wasn’t on there. But even with that I consider this a masterpiece. 5/5
I enjoyed the album. I think this is the first album from The Beatles I've heard in its entirety.
Best Track - "Back In The U.S.S.R"
Simply put, it's a work that demonstrates that each of the members had a secret life that the others were unaware of, and this album was a clue that they shared with each other among the four of them.
It's growing on me. I like Rubber Soul and Revolver more on those first listens though
gosto gosto gosto
I don't like the Beatles. I know they're good, I know they're influential, I know it's supposed to be great music. But I don't like them. This album has not changed my mind.
My first real exposure to this album, and it's a great album, and I flip-flopped between 4 and 5 stars. A lot of great stuff, a few items I didn't care for. I understand we're taking music to strange new places with this one, just a few points where it took me out of the album.
Very long but very good. Great background music and some classics hidden in there
i mean det är ju beatles dvs för bra. kul att lyssna på flera mindre kända låtar
the white album, more like the shite album
Vá, enn og aftur. Ekki furða að Bítlarnir séu bestir. Þetta er plata sem hefur húmor, fjölbreytileika og nýjungar. Svo eru sum lögin bara rúmar tvær mínútur. Fleiri hljómsveitir mættu pæla í því. Fimm stjörnur plús
Love it 4/5
Just get it out of the way: there's songs on here that aren't top Beatles songs (Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, f'n Honey Pie, etc.). At the same time, there's songs on here that are some of their absolute best and just best songs ever made. The range is really crazy. Not much I can say that hasn't already been said a million times. Even so, gotta say HELTER SKELTER is an absolute monster! Gets me fuckin' HYPED. I seriously love how crashing and detuned and heavy and fuck all it is. Ends in blisters. ONE of the BEST FUCKING SONGS EVERRR. Plus I don't give a fuck: REVOLUTION 9 is fuckin' GREAT. It's a legit compelling piece of avant noise and I think they hit the fuckin' mark. It honestly always zooms by for me, probably 'cause I appreciate and don't hate. I'm like "awwww - it's over already?" It's like people put all their hate for Yoko into Revolution 9, like she's the one who made it. Everyone's always like "it's not even a real song!" with a slight snarl. Or I tell someone I'm into it and they're like "No You're Not!" as if it's literally impossible to feel anything but loathing for Revolution 9. Haterz I swear. An interesting album, an odd album, a (mostly) great album. Totally essential though. Gotta have it.
I have thoughts on this. Its a bit of a mess. I know the Beatles aren't necessarily lyrical behemoths, but what is it with these dumb kids bops about characters with alliterative names - Sexy Sadie, Rocky Raccoon, Bungalow Bill. I like Glass Onion with its meta lyricism. "The Walrus was Paul" is a great tease, John knew what he was doing. I don't like Revolution 9. I can't buy in, and I'm down for experimentation, so lets applaud the "creativity", but this is barely a song and it sucks. Mainly the best moments are the songs I already was familiar with - Back in the USSR, Blackbird, Revolution 1, and definitely While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But also shout out Happiness is a Warm Gun, and Ringo's Good Night. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Dear Prudence are more tolerable than I was expecting. Overall, like most double albums I think its bloated and there would be a great single album in there. Maybe something like this: Back in the USSR Dear Prudence Glass Onion Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness is a Warm Gun Blackbird Helter Skelter Revolution 1 Revolution 9 (would be a bolder statement in a 10 track album) Good Night That album would be 4 something, but the bloat drops it for me. 3.4/5
This really felt like a mix of experimentation. Most of the tracks flew past my ears. A few were good and Revolution 9 felt like something I would hear in a modern art gallery.
As someone who doesn't really care for the Beatles one way or another, this was pretty good particularly for a long album. It flowed well, and I only got bored at the very end (thanks Revolution 9)
A lot of good songs, but feels all over the place from time to time. For me, it kind of lacks the structure/"identity" I expect from a 5/5 album. Probably slightly above 4, but not the full 5/5.
Album is unnecessarily long, but Blackbird is such a great song
Back in the USSR is an amazing opener. Followed immediately by the lovely deceleration of Dear Prudence. Blackbird is incredibly beautiful and well constructed; the same can be said of While My Guitar Gently Weeps. But it’s hard to sustain that kind of quality through a double album. The White Album features a number of very experimental pieces, and those contribute to its lore and influence. But some of those experiments, while interesting, are not so listenable — like would I listen to this twice in a row? Would it work to have these tracks on “random” during a party? Some of the experiments become a little self indulgent. That’s fine, I appreciate the effort. But it does not necessarily make for a superior listening experience. This is a fantastic, amazing, and influential album it’s a spectacular 4.
4 for The Beatles is a 5 for most other bands. It's a 4 in comparison to their other albums. Turn this into a single album, and it's an easy 5
This is my favourite Beatles album. Lots of filler but that's part of the charm. Would have benefited from excluding the vanity project revolution 9 but apart from that it's peak Beatles.
Fully biased review of my step-father's favorite album: this album makes me think of Sunday afternoons in January in our triple deckah in Jamaica Plain, feeling cold with 2 sweaters on because we weren't allowed to turn the heat up past 58, the plastic wrap on the windows wafting in the breeze from the poorly fitting windows, and trying to do 9th grade Latin homework in my bedroom while this was blasting in the living room. ugh, hate this album.
This was a fantastic album
Let's get one thing out of the way. There's a lot of cheese across this album. "Glass Onion," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Wild Honey Pie," "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill," "Martha My Dear," "Piggies," "Rocky Raccoon," "Don't Pass Me By," "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?," "Honey Pie" and of course, the eight-minute avant-garde wankfest, "Revolution 9." Do I think any of these songs are great? No. I'm also not really a ballad guy, so you can throw "Blackbird," "Mother Nature's Son," and "Julia" on the list of stuff I'm not crazy about. Wow, that's a lot of songs to not like, how can I possibly give this five stars? Because there's still a lot of great music left. "Back In The U.S.S.R," "Dear Prudence," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," "I'm So Tired," "I Will" (the rare ballad exception), "Birthday," "Yer Blues," "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey," "Sexy Sadie," "Helter Skelter," "Long, Long, Long," "Revolution 1" (even if it is the lesser version of this song), "Savoy Truffle" (yes, I like it, shut up), and "Cry Baby Cry." That's a lot of good music, including several classics, so as a collection of songs it's got enough to be a five-star album for me easily. But even the songs I don't like I wouldn't classify as filler. As much as the album was the boys being divided and working on their own stuff, I think the album works as a cohesive listening experience, partially due to the songs being mostly very short (the album averages out to 3:06 per song and that's including Revolution 9) and partially due to some ingenious sequencing, so whatever you're listening to at any given moment, you've got something different coming up next. It is my most played Beatles album. When I had a 90-minute commute to work, very often "Back in the U.S.S.R" would be blasting when I pulled out of my driveway, and Ringo would be singing "Good Night" to me when I pulled into the parking lot at work, and I never got bored or annoyed. I even listened to Revolution 9 all the way through, a track I hated for a long time until it eventually grew on me, at least to the point of tolerance. We live in a time of artists deliberately creating music that is as uninteresting as possible so they can get Spotify plays as background noise. The White Album is the opposite of that. It grabs your attention throughout.
I've already listened to his album (32). Side A is stellar, but then it gets progressively less wonderful. Even though it's amazing to think that this was released in 1968, we gotta admit that there are a few duds in there.
Ehhh like 4 good hits and the rest just blend into each other. I don’t see how this is a mind blowing album. It’s also super long, I don’t care for the majority of these songs
5 - mastapiece
I should maybe listen to this more, to appreciate it more. With one song I was like 'this is really fun' and I looked at the title and it was Yer Blues, which makes sense, I like blues.
Quintessential Beatles. One of their strongest offerings. Great songwriting with a variety of sounds.
Genial
Strong start, but was really waiting for it to be over after a while.
Good to spend time with a classic, gorgeous moments
Got to relisten to this yesterday, the elbow I’ve gotten the more of appreciated the track towards the end. Long, long, long, sexy Sadie, honey pie, good night, there’s so many tracks that I didn’t really follow or understand when I was younger. Maybe because it’s the end of a double album? But I really do thoroughly love this album, it deserves to be ranked up there with the best.
It's so long. That's too much Beatles. A couple of songs really surprised me by being actually good, but the rest of it was just... well, Beatles. They're not very good, you're just old.
Jag har blandade känslor kring detta album. Alla låtar separat håller god kvalitet, vissa bättre än andra. Tyvärr är hela albumet en ofärutsägbar mishmash av låtar, det känns som att jag har satt någons Beatles-spellista på shuffle. I samma anda är albumet på tok för långt. Jag hinner bli trött i huvudet innan jag ens lyssnat på hälften. Två besvikna stjärnor, för rent musikaliskt är låtarna så catchiga.
''It was great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' white album, shut up!'' as Paul McCartney said. Sure it has some lesser songs, but it's the Beatles at the peak of their creative output stuffing a double album full of all sorts of great and wacky tracks. The tracks here are all very different and enjoyable in their own right and they somehow flow together well. The relative inconsistency is part of the charm, and let's you discover new favorites even after years of listening to it.
Una locura la magia que hicieron en 2 discos. Masterpiece. 8/10
There are a lot of Good songs but the album is all over the place. Sounds like they just threw everything this album. Still a Good album mostly
The point where the Beatles realized they could just put anything on wax and people would go nuts for it.
It's the white album. What more do you want me to say?
Nostalgic and is still pretty good
A classic
Great. Obviously.
One of the fives fives that ever fived. While my guitar softly sings, back in the USSR, don't pass me by... The hits do just keep coming. I don't think I will be rating every beatles album a 5, but this one sure is.
I’ve been listening to this album my entire life. I have two CD copies and three vinyl copies and one cassette tape copy so you know how I feel about this.
Ready for this hot take? I think The White Album is one of, if not THE most overrated album of all time. Sure, it's got some undeniable Beatles hits on it that are great. And now the big BUT: there's so much crappy filler on here that drags the album into the mud. At least half of it could be trimmed out and this could have been one of the greatest albums of all time. Half of the album is iconic and sprinkled in around all the good stuff are all the demented 60s fairy tale sounding crap. Alright, the good parts of the album? You already know all the standouts on this album. There are too many to list. Some moments during my listen that really stood out to me this time: the sick bassline on "Dear Prudence" - I tried to focus on the bass on the whole album more this time around and it really is quite good - the guitar on "Blackbird" is the peak of the album - and "Helter Skelter" still absolutely slaps. People will automatically rate this a 5 because it's the freaking Beatles and they've been told this album is a masterpiece and they must like it. Hard disagree, it's a 3. A 4 could be justified if you really like a lot of the dreck. Its way too long and, yeah, sure, there are a few great songs but you have to dig them out from under piles of rubbish. There. I said it. Get wrecked White Album.
Amazingly well crafted and full of variety
Mi disco favorito de los Beatles, la mejor banda de la historia (no digo para mi, sino para la humanidad toda). Así que lo primero es anticipar que este disco va a tener sus 5 estrellas. Es perfecto sin ser "perfecto" ya que tiene canciones que no son tan buenas y que en otro disco hubieran restado, pero aquí forman parte de un mosaico que hace que estas canciones (me refiero básicamente a Revolution 9 pero usemos el plural) se engrandezcan y engrandezcan al disco. Algo parecido pasa con la "suite" de Abbey Road. Es un disco doble. Cuantitativamente es el disco Beatle con más canciones geniales (veinte y pico de 30 canciones). Es el disco más variado de los Beatles, con canciones que - por última vez - nos muestran a los Beatles experimentando en el estudio, canciones que nos anticipan el blues, folk y rock que vendrán en Abbey Road, canciones solistas, canciones hechas por los cuatro miembros de la banda (solo AR comparte ese rasgo), canciones folk, canciones proto-reggae, canciones de rock and roll, canciones infantiles, canciones experimentales, canciones orquestadas, canciones, canciones y más canciones. Muy buenas, super memorables, super divertidas. Ringo publicó acá una de sus dos canciones en los Beatles (sin contar temas hechos con otros miembros): Don't Pass Me By. Es buena. Harrison compone cuatro canciones (una por cara, como le dejaban): While My Guitar Gently Weeps (posiblemente su mejor canción - una de las mejores en todo caso, con la participación de Eric Clapton), Piggies, Long, Long, Long y Savoy Truffle. Las cuatro son muy buenas y, excepto Long, Long, Long, favoritas del disco. El resto está compuesto entre Lennon y McCartney. Para esta altura McCartney ya era el líder indiscutido de la banda, pero el álbum blanco es el único disco 1967-70 donde Lennon realmente le da mucha pelea a Macca, tanto cuantitativa como cualitativamente. Las mejores canciones del disco, en mi opinión, le pertenecen a él: Dear Prudence (¿Mejor canción del disco? Posiblemente), Sexy Sadie, Glass Onion, I'm So Tired, Cry Baby Cry, Julia (Desgarradora!), Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Bungalow Bill, Revolution, Yer Blues.... TODAS de él. Vean esa lista de canciones, carajo. McCartney en este disco un poco se auto-rebajó, con canciones más pasatistas, más románticas. En cualquier otro disco hubiera dicho que estas canciones son peores que las de Lennon. En el Álbum Blanco no, acá son NECESARIAS para que las de Lennon destaque tanto. Y el nivel de estos temas sigue siendo soberbio: tenemos canciones de rock and roll: Back in the USSR, Birthday, baladas románticas: Blackbird y I Will, canciones medio retro con un piano como Martha My Dear y Honey Pie y después, sacando el protoreggae Obladi Oblada, tenemos canciones realmente buenas a la altura de las de Lennon. La mejor de todas es Helter Skelter, el momento más pateaculos de toda la historia Beatle, o el folk Rocky Racoon, pero también tenemos canciones en las que Macca muestra su creatividad como Wild Honey Pie o Why Don't We Do It on the Road, que suelen ser ignoradas pero son fantásticas. He visto críticas a este disco, diciendo que tenía que haber sido un disco solo, blablabla. Miren la lista de temazos que nombré. Les puede no gustar uno o dos, pero ¿se imaginan tener que sacar diez de estas canciones? Perderíamos MUCHO. ¿Se imaginan haber puesto algunas de estas canciones en otros discos? Hubiera sido un error. En Abbey Road o Sgt. Pepper mucha gente hubiera descartado a TEMAZOS como I Will, Savoy Truffle o Julia como "canciones menores". Es en el Álbum Blanco donde encuentran su lugar. Lo amo. Si tuviera que casarme con un disco (?) creo que this is the one. Cinco estrellas de acá a la China y más allá.
25/1001 What more needs to be said about this album? Everything and the kitchen sink is on this one. This is top tier for me. 10/10
A 9 out of 10 for me - great album - so diverse and clever, but also humorous sbd quirky
2.5
Is this the greatest double album ever made? I'm normally not a fan of double albums. They're usually filled with a bunch of b-sides that would actually make for a solid album if they were just cut. I'm not saying White Album isn't an exception. I think there are plenty of examples, like "Glass Onion" which feels ripped straight off of Magical Mystery Tour, and lots of little diddies like "Bungalow Bill" and "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" But, most of these songs are good enough that any band not called The Beatles probably wouldn't consider them filler. Can I do without "Piggies"? Sure, and even though it might feel like a throwaway song but it's still a baroque bop. At the same time if including some tripped out nonsense of "Revolution 9" means getting "Blackbird" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", I'll take it. At the end of the day, if you took all the truly great songs from this album and cut the fluff, you'd still be left with too many for a regular length album. Classic Beatles.
A showcase album for each member of the band. Helter Skelter was way ahead of it's time.
How can anything by the Beatles get anything less than 5 stars? My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of the greatest songs of all time. Rocky Racooon - wow. I have no negative words. This is a great album, one of the best in the world!
Loved some. Enjoyed some. Skipped some.
I absolutely love some of the songs and hated other ones. Such a frustrating album. For that reason I give it a two.
This whole thing has always been the Beatles mixtape to me. A wide variety of eclectic shit like proto metal/hard rock "Helter Skelter" to the folk vibes of "Blackbird" to avant-garde weird stuff "Revolution 9" to the humorous Beach Boy parody, "Back in the USSR"...it's all over the place and without apology. And by 1968, they had the artistic license and freedom to do whatever the fuck they wanted. Sure, make a 30 song double album with some truly beautiful and great songs (While My Guitar Gently Weeps) with some up tempo almost reggae shit (Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da)...this album doesn't flow and it doesn't have to. I don't listen to the Beatles as much as I should...and that's not a knock on them, it's just that I grew up listening to them a fair amount and never really feel the need to return to their music. There's just so much to listen to....but I was really happy to see this yesterday because this album and the Beatles are always something you can come back to and it'll always be great.
Ok, so far sm blessed this week. To je en izmed najbolj highest rated albumov od teh 1001. Pa tud meni je ljub že od prej & spet je blo že neki cajta, kar sm ga nazadnje poslušala. Jupi! (Sm pa pozabila, da je 1 uro in pol...) Kle ne bo odkrivanja tople vode. Začnemo z "Back in the U.S.S.R.", k ma Beach Boys vajb. Lol, to prou takoj vidiš, da je mogl razburit neki folka. Zmer mi je blo všeč, kako se prelije komad v "Dear Prudence", k je pa preprost en njihovih lepših. "Glass Onion" mi je bil besedilno zmer zabaven z vsemi referencami & na splošno všečen; "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" se prou vid, da je McCartney napisal (mal ma Ram vajb že); na obstoj "Wild Honey Pie" sm že pozabila, ampak sj je bl a random intermezzo; "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" se začne s flamenco kitaro? Fak, res dolg nism poslušala & fak, kok se dojame ker komad je kdo primarno napisal. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" je en boljših komadov ever. In ja, George Harrison je musically moj najljubši Beatle. (Veselim se dobit njega klele!) "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" je tud amazing. " Martha My Dear" je kjut, " I'm So Tired" je relatable & všeč mi je bil zmer the progression v komadu. "Blackbird" - flawless. "Piggies" - lol. "Rocky Raccoon" - honky tonk. "Don't Pass Me By" - waw, Ringo komad (se sliš). "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" je kul, čeprou je to basically vse kar je komad - to spraševanje. "I Will" je fleten. "Julia" je lep in žalosten. (Sredina! Mal pavze.) "Birthday" je silly; "Yer Blues" v bistvu tud; "Mother Nature's Son" je lep; "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" je spet mal silly; "Sexy Sadie" je lepo zavit diss track; "Helter Skelter" je fakin amazing in spet en njihovih boljših komadov ('I've got blisters on my fingers!); "Long, Long, Long" se for some reason ne spomnim? Ampak zj k ga slišim, dojamem, da je Harrison komad & I immediately love it. "Revolution 1" je hud, mam pa pomoje overridan v spominu nek cover, ker se ga spomnim kot hitrejšega. "Honey Pie" je kjut; "Savoy Truffle" mi je tak dopolnilo "Glass Onion" v vajbu (na splošno je druga polovica dokaj silly al instrumentalno al besedilno al oboje); "Cry Baby Cry" - čist sm pozabila na obstoj tega komada; sledi mu the monstrosity known as "Revolution 9" (a se je že kdaj kdo lotil poslušat Beatle & somehow začel s tem komadom? Prou spomnim se, ko sm js prvič to slišala kot najstnica, lol.) in vse skp se zaključi s pravljičnim komadom, kjer ma Ringo vokale, "Good Night". Kok eklektičen album.
I love this album and have listened to it since I was a kid. Still a big fan. I love everything from the strange to the sweet both lyrics and music. Classic for a reason. ♡
Important music.but not really my genre.
Let me start by saying there are some really good songs in this album. But the rest is an absolute slog. It's too long and I found myself having to push through with surprising effort. It's weird that 79 albums in, this is almost the one that derailed me (plus getting sick).
I think on my relistening to the entire Beatles discography that White Album may now be my favorite of the band. Of course the length and sheer amount of Beatlemania that is on display here surely helps the group, but the songwriting all across the board is arguably the best the boys ever had. It is weird and a bit janky with how varied the tracklist is, but when taking a step back you can see just how surprisingly well it flows together for the most part even with the constant genre shifts. It is a larger than life painting of the band to this point with everything in between and even some new sounds they never dabbled with before. Some of my favorite tracks from here have to be Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (I song I always quote unironically), Helter Skelter, and Rocky Raccoon to name a few but just about every song here I enjoyed quite a fair bit. Of course on each disc of this project there is one odd song that feels even more out of place than the rest and it is Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9, I tried getting down with both tracks but they simply never clicked with myself despite me really trying to open my mind. Honestly for this album being 1 hour and 33 minutes and only really having 2 misses in the entire runtime, the shortest and longest song here, that isn't too bad. The band was coming down from their Psychedelic Pop/Rock phase after really throwing themselves out in the open and releasing some really stellar tracks, but now are returning to a strictly Rock phase. You can still feel the hints of the remaining Psychedelia remaining but for the most part the band had mostly cut entire ties with those sounds to finish off their years in a more rocking way. I found this album, even with it's noticeably large length, to be quite replayable and enjoyable throughout the entire runtime. It is catchy, funny, thoughtful, and an all around good time for any Beatles fan like myself. White Album may not be everyone's favorite from the group, but I think to a certain extent it is their most impressive as it really challenged the band to go places they never had been before while sustaining their fans for the duration of what is for most a very harsh runtime. All in all White album is nothing short of a classic and while I do wish those two filler tracks were cut out, it still doesn't stop it from being a classic that should continue to be praised over 50 years later.
Its one of the greatest albums ever. So experimental while still having a theme running through it. Outstanding
Beauty in simplicity, just like the cover. An interesting listen after Cheap Thrills, it's a contrast between raw irreproducibility and catchy with intention. That said, it still binds together and there is enough personality in the music to be sticky. Outstanding!
Super interesting to listen to it in full - some great tracks (obviously), but some weird ones as well - fun.
Day 81 9/10. Too hungover for notes. Highlights Rocky Raccoon Helter Skelter
Amazing!!! An important piece of history!
Imagine one (if not the biggest) band in the world releasing an almost perfect album with 1h33 of amazing music. What a time it mist have been to be alive! Just INCREDIBLE!!
No es su mejor, pero son los beatles, que mas quieres
Too drug addled.
Not a fan. Found it very repetitive and rambly. So many songs weren't memorable.
the best
Pre: ? Post: childish and gimmicky st times , amazing at other times, really can tell who's song it is per track
Never fails
More good stuff on here than I remember
dang it, I can't not give this five stars. it earns it. yeah the album is really long, but it covers so much ground, and nails so many different sounds, it amazing they could imagine it all. my favorite might be "I Will" it's just so nice on the ears
I feel like I can't not give this five stars even though some of the silliness and experimentalism (aka junk) is not my jam. But listening to other 60s era rock albums on this list has made me realize just how astronomically superior the Beatles were to every other band in that era.
Nice
Bloated. 2/5
The highs are high, the lows are low, but it's mostly just okay
Fantastic Album!!!!
Yeah it's good! It's got a lot of hits! And also songs that are good and riveting but not my favorite! So I give it a 4.
Pretty shameful this is my first full Beatles album to listen to. Music like Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Hendrix etc. always appealed to me more growing up. Of course I've heard a good chunk of these throughout the years but listening from start to finish is an enjoyable experience. There's an argument to be made that the album has 10/15 songs too many, particular when you compare the classics on disc 1 vs disc 2. Regardless I enjoyed both albums and found some gems I'd never heard before. Top end of 4 stars for this album, likely an easy 5 if it was a tight 15 track album. Just loses it's steam on disc 2. "I've got blisters on my fingers" Favourites: Back in the USSR, Glass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Yer Blues, Helter Skelter Least Favourites: Wild Honey Pie, Mother Nature's Son, Honey Pie, Revolution 9 Rating 8/10
(4) I loved this album as a kid. I had the record; and would play it for my birthday every year. But, I know it too well to critique it, there are a lot of songs here that are fun but not of greatness, rocky raccoon, back in the USSR; this is not their greatest album. Rubber Soul is a lot better.
I wanted to be a hater for this one really bad. I love the Beatles, but so far I never had this album in my top 3-4 records by them. It IS much better than I thought it would be. I'd still rate it maybe their 4th best, and it does have a lot of fillers, but it has to be at least a very high 4
Pretty good. I do love the more uptempo songs on this album, Back in the USSR being the standout for me.
Considero que este debe ser un gran álbum para los fans de los Beatles, pero para alguien como yo que tiene una reacción un tanto indiferente de su repertorio este álbum es demasiado largo y se percibe como una selección de temas de los cuales muchos podrían haberse descartado en pos de un álbum más cohesivo y menos ecléctico. Además es un álbum doble de una duración de más de 1 hora y media, lo cual nuevamente insisto, para los fans es un tesoro, para mí es un tedio. Esta cualidad ecléctica del álbum habla de un grupo que demostraba muchos conflictos internos entre los integrantes, diferencias creativas y un proceso de eventual quiebre de la banda, que se refleja en un álbum desarticulado. En resumen, al álbum le falta coherencia y es demasiado largo. Esto es una lástima, porque eligiendo los temas adecuados en una cantidad apropiada este podría haber sido un excelente álbum para mi gusto. Por supuesto, no considero que sea un mal álbum, tiene grandes canciones en él, simplemente creo que hay demasiado relleno entre lo mejor del material.
Siin albumil on head Biitlite klassikat. Aga on ka sellist täidet, mis oleks vabalt võinud albumilt välja jääda. Album on kahepoolne ja kestab üle pooleteise tunni ning ühe pika kuulamisega hakkavad lood sulanduma ning nende lugudega samastumine läheb aina raskemaks. Kui albumilt oleks pooled (või äkki kolmandiku?) lood ära võetud ja järele jäänud vaid parimad palad, siis oleks see tõesti 5/5. Aga kahjuks nii ta pole ja jääb tunne, nagu poisid lihtsalt läksid hulluks selle plaadi tegemisel ja neil polnud filtrit. Ma mõistan, kuidas see plaat (või plaadid) mõjutas järgmise 30a muusikat ning kuidas tol ajal see 2 plaati saada ühe plaadi hinna eest oli haige diil. Aga tänapäeval on teda ühe jorus raske kuulata.
Klassikko
obviously
This is The White Album. And George is flexing.
Quite arguably the best Beatles album out there. It's so full and varied, really shows them at their peak. I've always thought, though, that this is the album where you can hear the band break up. So much individuality on display on this album that at times it loses the focus on the band.
Although filled with some of the best Beatles material, there's also a lot of filler in this album which detracts quite a lot. If this was a leaner album, I'm quite convinced it would be their best, but as is I'm not too interested to listen to it again. I'll just look for the hits I enjoy
Some songs in here I really liked but they’re surrounded by so many less enjoyable songs. Another of those that could be a really strong album if it were cut down. Fav song: Blackbird Least fav: Revolution 9
When I tell you number 9 is one of the worst songs I have heard not just in the album listening so far but in my life. I saw it on the list, thought of the Simpsons episode and laughed thinking it might be similar. It came on and I thought ‘wow this is super similar’ then I saw it had 7 more fucking minutes to go. It made me want to dig John Lennon up, shoot him again, log back in to my Letterboxd and rate Yesterday a 1. God help the next person I see wearing round rim glasses. Specific rating 2.0 (-2 for Number 9) Fav song- obla di obla da Least fav - number 9
Some gorgeous and iconic songs, lots (and lots) of kind of fine songs and then a couple of truly shit songs. Obviously it's an iconic album but I'm more than happy to only hear the songs off this album that have made it to the greatest hits. Favourite Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (or Blackbird) Least: Revolution 9
Amazing álbum!
As a standalone album, 4/5 As a Beatles album, 3/5 Some killer, but mostly filler. As John would say, there's too much of Paul's songs about "granny shit" on this record. Comes off twee and childish in parts. But it's still the fuckin' Beatles, so whatever. 3/5
Yes alright fine it IS true that there ARE two or three tracks on this monster album so bad that they merit knocking a star each off the rating (you can feel free to guess which ones) but without those tracks this would have been a seven- or eight-star album so I feel perfectly justified in handing it a five anyway. This album has Dear Prudence on it! It has I'm So Tired! It has Helter Skelter! Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey! Happiness is a Warm Gun! It's got fucking Blackbird, for Christ's sake! It's the bloody Beatles' White Album! Shut up!
I don't like the Beatles.
Kind of a hard album to rank, it feels bloated with a lot of songs that weren’t very good and could have been scratched, but then it also has some of the best songs the Beatles ever made, so overall I feel like it deserves a 4
Such and eclectic mix - something for everyone.
I never get the weird Beatles songs until I hear them in context. Then the whole thing makes sense. I think this is much greater than the sum of its parts
This is the second time I've ever listened to a Beatles album, which frankly is an embarrassingly low number for me and because of that I think The White album was a difficult place to kick off my Beatles journey. Mainly because the album sounds like a compilation album, it's a complete mess, it's twice as long as it should be and you could cut at least 40% of the tracks. It would be excusable if there was a through line throughout the tracks but they're all over the place. Do Helter Skelter and Blackbird need to be on the same record? (I know, I know, it's two different discs but it's still one album). That being said, the highs are phenomenally high. Dear Prudence, Julia, Cry Baby Cry and as already mentioned, Blackbird and Helter Skelter, are some of the most influential and best written songs ever there's no denying that and I think that is what gets it the plaudits. But if you are thinking of an album as a singular piece of work, not just 30(!) tracks it's just not doing it for me the same way it does for others. It feels like the emotion and feelings in the songs gets lost amongst some filler. I believe one day I will be a true Beatles fan and I read this back the same way you would read back a year 9 Facebook status but that day hasn't come yet. I assume Will will find this at some point so shout out to him, please don't take it too personally.
I mean...what is there more to say that hasn't already been said....I WANT to give it 4 stars for Number 9 and a few others...but when 90% of Disc 1 are just literal classics that will never get old including Blackbird - how can you not rate 5?
9,6
Numbah nine.. I go back and forth between this and Abbey Road being my favorite Beatles album. It's impossible to pick but the only thing holding this back is its length. Overall I don't mind the length of this album since most of the songs are good, but I do feel like the first half is quite a bit better than the second. The first half alone is a 10/10. Second half is probably an 8/10... Regardless, this album rules. Because of its length, this album has more bangers than any other Beatles record. Picking a favorite is almost impossible if not for "Gently Weeps" being here. Then theres "Dear Prudence", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", "Rocky Raccoon", "Don't Pass Me By", "Helter Skelter", the list goes on and on. Truly a phenomenal album. Favorite track: While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4.5/5
A couple of good songs but I feel overall it’s a pretty mediocre album considering it’s the mighty Beatles!
Some great songs but a lot of other ok ones. An album which might have been better if edited form to one LP rather than a double
On this album, up is down, left is right and inside is outside. Perhaps tired of the conceptual weight of the *Sgt. Pepper* and *Magical Mystery Tour* Technicolor extravaganzas, the The Fab Four intentionally put a perverse twist on their sound, embracing parody and pastiche, and putting ironic distance between themselves and their material. Only a few of the tracks, like "Dear Prudence", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Blackbird", are played straight; nearly everything else is warped, fun-house mirror style. Regardless, the band remained committed to presenting these songs in the best light possible, even on near-novelty songs like "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill" and "Rocky Raccoon". As a whole, it has a very specific character different than the rest of the band's catalog; however, 90-plus minutes of deliberate weirdness can be a bit much for one sitting.
Historic album. (Mostly) stylistically consistent, but lacks lyrical depth. The Beatles ability to create catchy songs is on full display, but there are definitely a few duds (which is inevitable in an album with 30 tracks). However, the duds are overshadowed by so many iconic songs which are recognizable as some of the best tracks from the single greatest band of all time. I really didn't enjoy WDWDIITR and there is absolutely nothing profound about Revolution 9 (although I listened to all of it).
*1968. *Side 1 and Side 2 are incredible. *There's no reason this needs to be 93 minutes... Side 3 and 4 could've easily been cut. *Hard to argue with the impact of this album and the singles. Wow. RATING - 8.5/10