The White Album

***An ok album

Finally gave me the excuse to listen to this all the way through that I've been meaning to for the last few years. Back in the USSR and Helter Skelter are two of my favourite Beatles songs, so I had good hopes going into the album. It's clear when listening to it how influential its been, every song reminds you of something else. Even the experimental soundscape at the end was reminiscent of early industrial. Honestly, enjoyed the album, a bit too long for me, but lots of good songs in there.

It’s crazy that I know the songs but never heard them in context of an album. This is fantastic and inspiring. I’ve never heard “don’t pass me by” and I definitely missed out. Great song. I definitely don’t know the second disc as well as the first disc. Is there a modern Beatles? And not just writing songs but these sounds. They pushed the clarity of recordings. I just love “revolution 1”.

docked a star for a certain song

A little bloated but still so many great songs. Sort of a transition point between Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road which are both incredible albums

A real musical potpourri. Classic

The original untitled double album to knock your socks off.

Lots of songs, some are pretty good. Not my favorite Beatles album. 3.5

This album pissed me off. There's some absolute classics on here. While my Guitar Gently Weeps and Blackbird stand out in particular. Back in the USSR and Happiness is a Warm Gun are both good too. However, for every great song there's a couple of average ones and for every average song, there's one that's absolute dogshit. Wild Honey Pie and Bungalow Bill are particularly egregious. Every time and artist thinks about making a double album, they should be forced to listen to this and cut out all the chaff.

pas vraiment mon style (sans surprise) c’est relax mais boring j’aime bien blackbird, mother nature’s son j’aime pas piggies 3/5 good vibes

Great John, Paul, George and Ringo album. Have long debated whether this gets a perfect score or not. So many amazing tunes but also a handful of major duds.

I never was fun of the Beatles, but totally acknowledged their immeasurable impact on the pop-music and music in general. My favorite version of Beatles is in the musical 'Across the Universe', which even more pointing that I'm definitely not a fun :) However, the album is great and I enjoyed listening to it!

I actually don't know if this is a top 3 Beatles album.

Some classics on this album. It's long though. Dare I say, too long?

Got two Beatles albums in a row!. I think I like this one more than Rubber Soul. "Dear Prudence" and "While my guitar..." are the highlights for me. Helter Skelter is almost a metal song before metal existed and I love the Avant Garde approach for "Revolution 9". Weird and fascinating. And I found hilarious the parody gag by the Simpson where Barney is recording his own "Revolution" song lol. It's a long album and I still have to digest all the songs. I've never been a Beatles fan but this one is a keeper.

Julia made me stop and just watch the horizon. I have two options, I change my name to Julia or I fall in love with one. Whichever comes first

the track listing on this is completely deranged . I will after why don’t we do it in the road ?? Paul your silence on this is deafening

So many classic and very recognizable songs, so it's hard make any knocks against this album.

Fine, really good and what not, NEXT

Every song here remains a banger (except Number 9, eff that). Doesn't feel like the 2 disc set it is, although I could do without Yoko screaming.

I have to admit, I don’t often listen to enough of this album to get to disc 2. However, this is a double album that merits its length. It’s hard to imagine the following 50 years of rock/pop music without both discs. Good stuff.

Look, this was my first time listening to this album, and I was fully enjoying it, thinking to myself, “Maybe I *do* like the Beatles!” and then that god-awful “why don’t we do it in the road” song came on and shattered everything and how the actual fuck was that song allowed to live?

C’mon, like I’d give this any other rating.

Chock full of great songs. The only misstep is Revolution 9. But as this is a double album, one song is not enough to drag it down.

Nostalgic it reminds me of old times

I'm currently playing the game with my son who's just discovered it, "what great single album is in the white album" and the usual suspects have been ejected -Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle etc. But its testimony to their magpie like nature and breadth of interests that it actually hangs together as a double album, with the filler as it were providing an interesting counterpoint to the killer. And killer it is with some.of their best stuff on here. Fully turbo charged by the changes in technology and Outlook. I also think that in many ways this album wears its influences to The Goons much more in evidence here- piggies, ob la di, , me and my monkey. Still a 4 though

The first half is good but there are some songs on the second half which could easily have been left out. Way too long and too much inconsistency between discs (1 is great, 4 is just average at best). The songs that I liked the most: Dear Prudence While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness Is A Warm Gun I'm So Tired Blackbird I Will Mother Nature's Son

the best album from the beatles i'm not lying

overrated

It's my favourite album by the Beatles for a reason, an amazingly creative album with so many different genres packed into it, and a mix of classic pop and rock songs plus avant garde tracks makes this an album well worth replaying

Probably one of the greatest albums ever made. So stylistically diverse, and a full gauntlet of emotions. Every time I listen I'm reminded of a new reason to like so many of the songs. A near perfect balance of everything you could want in an album

It's easy I'll give a 5 for every Beatles album heare. I now It's not considered a perfect album but it's perfect for me, as it is. And it contains some of the most best songs of all time.

Stadium Arcadium в дискографии The Beatles. Белый альбом битлов можно считать одним большим двусторонним сборником их творчества, прямо как Stadium Arcadium у не менее великих RHCP. Но если сравнивать эти два альбома, то заметно их серьезное отличие. Альбом перцев можно рекомендовать новым слушателям, ведь в нем есть все, за что мы любим эту группу, к тому же альбом слушается замечательно, не дает заскучать. В случае с The Beatles, я не могу с уверенностью сказать, что после прослушивания всего этого альбома у новых слушателей сложится точное представление о группе, ведь она многогранна и содержит разные черты в разных альбомах. Ко всему прочему белый альбом насыщен откровенно говоря серыми песнями, половина из которых успели устареть, а половина оказались странными экспериментами. И если за второе группу будет неуважительно осуждать (так как такие эксперименты были в новинку), то по поводу проходных песен можно сказать, что альбом затянут. B-side работает как его продолжение, так как на нем есть реально хорошие песни, но во многом, как и на многих альбомах битлов, приходится слушать и ждать хитов. Но к моему удивлению, во время ожидания очередного хита мне попались достаточно классные песни: риф из Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey я считаю одним из лучших за 29 прослушанных альбомов, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill настолько хороша, что даже странно, что она не так популярна. Говоря про хиты, стоит назвать While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm So Tired и Julia, которые навсегда в моем сердце и плейлисте. Уверен, что каждому есть что найти в этом альбоме. И хоть он имеет схожие с Rubber Soul минусы, так как сам по сути тоже является переходным в дискографии группы, но за счет своих легендарных песен (и невероятного соляка :) ) я готов ему поставить максимальную оценку, закрыв глаза на минусы. Белые 4,5/5 (5/5).

A little more folky in places than I would hope but who can ever be upset while listening to The Beatles? Also, they are such straight laced guys that I can believe that people didn't care about the subject matter of "doing it in the road" or "my finger on her trigger" lol. Like they somehow don't come off as super dirty and yet they are really dirty? Paradoxical, and yet it works! Really did NOT care for Revolution 9

This could have an amazing 30 minute album, but they decided to chuck in 60 minutes of guff to pad it out for some reason. Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, Blackbird, all great, but a lot of the other tracks really were unenjoyable and rarely in a way that was interesting. What was the point of Revolution 9 for example?

There won’t be another album on this list that has as many bangers as this one does, albeit helped by the length. Pretty much the entirety of sides 1 and 2 are 10/10. Yes, sides 3 and 4 get a little more experimental, which is challenging for some. But where would we be if the Beatles didn’t do a little experimentation? It’s not quite Abbey Road in my opinion, but literally nothing is. Lacks the sheer perfection from start to finish that AR manages. But it’s certainly got a good claim for the #2 Beatles spot. Simpsons: Obvs

Some good tunes, found it all fairly enjoyable. Far too long for top marks though, multi-disc albums should be banned from this! Decent album cover as well.

I came into this expecting to give it a low score, I'd listened to it a few times in the past and had written it off as interesting but not necessarily good. Listening this time I was waiting to get annoyed by it at some point but it never came. Revolution 9 isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but it did feel unnecessarily long. It's a good album, nothing felt like filler, and it's pretty influential. You get five stars, definitely belongs on this list.

Excellent album with a good variety of tracks. McCartney is exellent in this album, creating cute little ballads such as Martha My Dear and Honey Pie, but also some stomping tracks like Back in the USSR and Ob-La-Di. Harrison has always been my favourite Beatle, and it's nice to see him finally get (nearly) his fair share of the limelight in this album, with possibly the best song to ever come out of the Beatles, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, appearing on this album. Lennon's songs are nothing short of groundbreaking, as well. Happiness is a Warm Gun is a pocket symphony to rival the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations", while the tongue-in-cheek jab at ham-fisted blues artists, "Yer Blues" adds to the album's already colourful canvas. Revolution 9 is peak.

iconic

85% Best: Back in the U.S.S.R.; Dear Prudence; While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Happiness Is a Warm Gun; Blackbird; Don't Pass Me By; Yer Blues; Helter Skelter; Revolution 1 Must-Hear? Sure

Couple really good songs off the album. Although I think there were a more just ok filler songs.

307/1001 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

I remember borrowing this CD from my brother and listening to it as a child--that negative association colors most of my interpretation of the Beatles, but I'll give this a real chance. It's fun, and easy to listen to. Much better than the later work, and has some interesting technical tricks (particularly the stereo field guitars!) and thoughtful basslines. In the context of 1968, I can see how this would be massively influential upon many different later genres. AA/BB rhymes fit well, but in many cases I just don't "get" the lyricism, and it's both irritating and intrusive. Whether it is meant to be satirical or serious, I think the record suffers from including both. That being said, some of the compositional flourishes are innovative and impressive, if for or especially for that they're interpolated in a four-chord pop rock skeleton. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is practically a Skatalites or Specials song, and I like it. I might actually put parts of this on again, but the entire thing is punishingly long at over an hour and a half and definitely loses its charm by the second disc.

Not my favorite Beatles album, but still enjoyable. It is loooong though…

All over the shop. Not everything’s great, but the best bits put this to a 5 for me.

just a little too much for a 5 could i write poetry to this? y

Half of it is some of the best music ever written. The other half is some of the most self-indulgent and pointless music ever set to vinyl. Extra star for all of the "Paul is dead" clues sprinkled around this album.

Disc 1 would be an automatic 5

I always dock a star for double albums. Unless it's this or The Wall.

Even with some filler on it this is by far the Beatles most interesting album. Some absolute classics here. I could make some minor critiques for why its not perfect but it's much closer to a 5 than a 4.

Great!

One of my besties asked me what Beatles album do I like, then bought this album as my 14th birthday’s gift. And I’m soon going to be 16. memories. And man what can I say this is the best album that the beatles created in their whole career. 5/5

There are some great tracks on here, of course it’s the Beatles, but quite a bit of filler. You could get it down to 3 sides maybe even 2 if you were ruthless but still pretty damn good!

Overrated. This isn't bad, and there are some great songs on this (USSR, Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter), but the majority of it just feels like filler. So many songs that I can't even remember, and the album drags.

Well. I expected a lot, being a classic and all that, but the only thing it has a lot of is running time. If they ditched all the novelty songs they’d have something approaching a decent album. The only song I can say I really liked was Blackbird. Dear Prudence was done properly by Souixsie. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da was done better by Marmalade, but it’s still not great. While My Guitar Gently Weeps was done MUCH better by the Tom Petty/Prince supergroup. And TIL the Beatles song that’s referenced in Firefly! But yeah, Agent K should have saved his money.

It's generally good, but felt very disjointed - it's clearly a case of them being allowed to do... whatever they wanted with little oversight. This definitely has some of my favourite Beatles songs (While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Dear Prudence), but there's way too much that's just deeply strange stuff that's not even good as a novelty. I could've sworn Revolution was faster than this? Am I remembering wrong? Also Rev 9 is not nearly as bad as people complain about, after everything else it almost felt like a welcome change! Not my fave Beatles album, not gonna lie, but just okay.

Not my favorite, but it’s a classic according to others. Some good songs.

Come on now…

Só tem uma música boa

I imprinted on the Beatles as a kid, long after they had broken up. It was "Beatles VI", "Rubber Soul", and check this out: my cousin gave me "Sgt Peppers" by hiding in a bush on an Easter egg hunt. My name's still written on it in her girlish font. The White Album has occasionally been my favorite album. I used to assess my record collection annually, you see. This record topped the list a couple of times and has never been out of the top 25. Look, these days I could do without "Rocky Raccoon", "Revolution 9" and "Good Night", and "Don't Pass Me By" should be half its length. But my god, for a double album to have 26-1/2 tracks that I'm still not sick of after a ton of listens? Incredible. But, I'm biased. As I like to do, after I'm done writing and done listening I go check out other reviews. Everyone's entitled to their opinions of course, but some are seeing this record as only having a couple of good songs. To me, that's just plain nuts. Let's see: USSR, Ob-La-Di, Gently Weeps, Revolution, Dear Prudence, Blackbird, Birthday, all bona-fine pop-rock huge hit classics. Martha My Dear, Glass Onion, Mother Nature's Son, Long Long Long, Warm Gun, So Tired, Yer Blues, all revered. Helter Skelter is a candidate for the birth of heavy metal. Certainly it can be hard to take it all in at once, I guess. It's overwhelming. But still!

I'm going to start this off by saying I'm not a Beatles fan. That's largely because the fan base is annoying and I don't think a lot of the Beatles fanboys have their own opinions and they just parrot what they think other people want to hear about the Beatles so it puts me off of the band as a whole. I also think John Lennon is irredeemable and listening to him sing about any form of "peace and love" is revolting giving how violent of a person he was in his personal life. That being said, I tried to go into this whole album with an open mind. I do love some Beatles songs, but overall I find their performances of the songs... empty? And there was definitely some of that here. What bothers me about the songs on this album is a lot of them have tempo/rhythm changes within the song which is jarring and unpleasant to listen to. There seems to be little cohesion within the song itself. And I feel that way about the album itself too. Why is the Birthday Song on the same album as Helter Skelter and Dear Prudence? It just feels nonsensical. And it's not done in an interesting way, it just felt like they had lots of different songs left over and threw it on this one. Also, Revolution 9 is one of the worst songs I’ve ever listened to. That being said, the highs are really high. Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, Blackbird, and Revolution 1 are masterpieces and that can't be overlooked. I’d give this a 3.5 if I could but I’m going with 3. The lack of cohesion and how bad Revolution 9 is pushed a potential 4 down to a 3.

already heard

I mean, it's the White Album. I would feel bad for anything less than: 5⭐️

Already familiar with the album.

Prima prova, sembra iniziare bene come viaggio.

There are a few super-solid tracks on this album, but being a double LP, it suffers from serious bloating. The vast majority of the songs are like listening to someone singing a recount of their acid trip to the tune of the Scooby Doo theme song. 2 stars. Just because something is historically significant doesn't mean that it's good.

No one else could really do this, no point in saying anything having had this as long as I can actually remember. 5 Stars

Good album but so much long with 30 songs.

Enjoyed it. But it was a bit long.

Yeah it’s the fucking Beatles and I love some of these songs but I won’t lie at some point it got so boring that I opened my linkedin and still had the full disc 2 to hear

the best beatles album

I think this lands squarely in the top 5 Beatles albums, but it's no Hey Jude. Definitely great with a lot of variety, including Blackbird, one of my favorites. I absolutely detest the final cacophonic track (Revolution 9 - dang it Yoko Ono, ugh), which knocks this album squarely out of the top 3 list.

Genial con alguna canción discordante.

Not a huge Beatles fan, but this was the best of their albums we’ve had so far.

Better than others I’ve heard. Not my favorite. My friend liked it.

Just listened to this last week, but I'll gladly listen again. Only 3 throwaway tracks here (obviously Revolution 9, plus Obla Di and Piggies). Any Beatles album other than Yellow Submarine gets 5 stars from me.

Das sogenannte „White Album“ der Beatles, offiziell einfach The Beatles betitelt, ist eines der bekanntesten Alben der Band und entstand während einer turbulenten Zeit in der Gruppe. Aufgenommen wurde es in verschiedenen Studios, darunter Abbey Road Studios in London sowie Trident Studios. Es markiert eine Phase zunehmender individueller Entfremdung innerhalb der Band. Das Album wurde von den vier Mitgliedern, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison und Ringo Starr, geschrieben und produziert. Dabei fiel auf, dass jeder Musiker auf diesem Album zunehmend eigene kreative Wege ging, was zu einer Vielzahl von Musikstilen führte. Von Rock über Folk bis hin zu experimentellen Elementen deckt das White Album eine breite Palette ab. Zu den bekanntesten und herausragendsten Songs zählen „Back in the U.S.S.R.“, „While My Guitar Gently Weeps“, „Blackbird“ und „Helter Skelter“. Besonders bemerkenswert ist auch der psychedelische Einfluss, der die Songs wie „The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill“ prägt. Musikalisch und konzeptionell ist das White Album ein stark diversifiziertes Werk, das die Bandmitglieder in verschiedenen Phasen ihres künstlerischen Ausdrucks zeigt. Es enthält sowohl einfache, akustische Stücke als auch experimentelle, lautere Tracks. Diese Vielseitigkeit macht das Album zu einem prägnanten Spiegelbild der musikalischen Entwicklungen der späten 1960er Jahre. Insgesamt lässt sich sagen, dass The Beatles ein äußerst vielschichtiges und interessantes Album ist, das die Band in einem Moment ihres kreativen Höhepunkts, aber auch ihres inneren Zerfalls zeigt. Es ist ein bedeutendes Werk der Rockmusikgeschichte, das durch seine Vielfalt und Tiefe besticht, ohne dabei einen durchgängigen Sound zu verfolgen.

Why are there so many Paul haters here? A stellar album that feels chaotic at times but it’s amazing journey.

9/10 Not being the best Beatles album is not a sin, still near perfect with some added weirdness. 2-27-2025

Classic Beatles Album,

Cuando acabé de escuchar este disco empecé a aplaudir, porque tenía la tranquilidad de saber que nunca más en mi vida iba a tener que escuchar tamaño engendro musical. El equivalente anglófono de Georgie Dann, son canciones para mover la cabeza a los lados. Tuve que ponerme el otro auricular porque estaba seguro de que lo que estaba oyendo era media canción. No era el caso. Me cago en la puta es que a veces parece que estoy oyendo la versión MIDI. Encima el disco es largo como la madre que los parió; de hora y media te salvo 10 minutos. No hay nada que haga bien que no haya otros grupos que hagan infinitamente mejor. La cosa más pavisosa del planeta, solo hay tres canciones memorables que son las que se ponen hasta la saciedad, porque el resto son bazofia. Disco más malo que Sean Lennon y su padre. Pesaos, más que pesaos. Es que me cago en dios, Hey Jude tarda cinco minutos en acabarse durante los que empiezan a chillar como monos mientras suena el nananá de los cojones, que parece un partido del Real Madrid. No me extraña que haya tantos hijos de puta en el mundo si hay embarazadas que se ponen esta mierda.

Not a big Beatles guy

Absolutely stellar. The Beatles at the top of their game. Bloated, for sure, but even the bloat is good enough that I don’t mind. Better use of Stereo than most of their discography, though I still prefer the mono mix. Have always adored the bird field recordings on Blackbird.

Damn it

Never got into the Beatles and I’m very disinterested in them sir some reason , this album gives the the same feeling

Classic

I have listened to this hundreds of times in my life, it is my best known Beatles album and it has so much to offer. Easy 5.

Many legendary tracks, many silly ones, many both…

Some gems, but incoherent overall. A bit of a chore to get through, but there's no denying the creativity. I had to put down everything and double check it was the Beatles when that heavy rock song came on, for example. 3* for overall experience (4* for innovation and creativeness, the drugs must have been great)

The greatest rarities and b-sides album of all time. I’ve always thought this album was a little overrated because of how random the song selection is (and how long it is) but listening through it yesterday there are so many great songs. I can’t rate every Beatles album a 5 so I’ll stick at a 4 but to quote Mits-92.5, who am I to critique the Beatles?

5.0 Ive said it before and I will say it again, who am I to critique the Beatles. This is my favorite Beatles album though. I just like how there are a few of some of the best songs ever written, and then some weirder tunes that are still wonderfully written.

Finally, some good fucking music While there are a few misses (Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 9) this album has so many amazing songs, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Rocky Raccoon, Yer Blues, Long, Long, Long and of course Blackbird

This is my second favorite Beatles album. Super long and not every song is a banger, but some of my favorite Beatles songs are on this one.

Was not expecting the first album to be one I know already. The Beatles are literally my favourite band at the moment so this was a nice surprise. Not my favourite by them but still a great double album full of everything.

Certainly the Beatles strangest album yet it at the same time encapsulated everything they were about. Not my favourite Beatles album but still a classic 5*

Great

Always a pleasure to listen to this album. I usually go straight to Abbey Road or Rubber Soul but often forget how diverse and sometimes even quite avant garde the White Album is.

Not just an album...an art event. Seems like it might be too long...but if you tried to eliminate anything, it wouldn't be the same. Just amazing songwriting.

I confess I didn't have time to listen to the whole thing today, but I filled in the gaps in my memory, and even allowing for side 4 it's still totally solid

It's a photograph of four friends going their own ways, some more willingly than others. It's also an album, a damn good one, the first Beatles album I fell in love with and the first record I bought on my own. It's a total mess. I love it.

They try a lot of different this and because of that the album seems like a mixed bad, but there are more songs here I enjoyed than the ones I didn’t.

Extremely varied and long. Tonally and musically all over the place, you have no idea what the next track is going to sound like, but I like that about it, bursting with ideas and creativity.

How can I possibly review the White Album? It's got a bunch of good songs. It's got a bunch of songs I'd happily never listen to again. Tim says "It's manifestly a 5." If I could make one album by choosing the best songs, I would agree.

Yeah took Beatles to another level!

Ætla að gefa þessari fjarka. Því fimmur eru fimmur. Frábær plata en hefði mátt skera fituna…

Mjög erfið plata að dæma. Mjög mikið af lögum, sum frábær en önnur sem hefðu mátt missa sín. Blackbird, While my guitar og Julia algjörar perlur. Alls konar stílar og margt mjög framsækið. Helter Skelter og Happiness is a warm gun. Svo er ótrúlegt að þeir hafi sett Revolution 9 á plötu.

The Beatles are the ultimate "guess you had to be there" band. I'm repeatedly told they're revolutionary, but it just sounds old and weird and boring. This album specifically is supposed to be a masterpiece but it's kind of not. and it's too goddamned long. 3 stars. it doesn't suck, I guess, but it's also not very good. I suspect it's going to have a crazy high score because everyone who was born after 1960 has been gaslighted and bullied into thinking The Beatles are the pinnacle of music.

Ob la di ob la fucking di to quote John Lennon during his scheduled takeover of the beatles. Had to skip Revolution 9 and also hated the original Honey Pie. The rest were all bangers. Personal faves are helter skelter, while my guitar gently weeps and back in the ussr.

Beatles

Fave Songs Thank god we're back to good Intro songs 🤪🤓 Disc 1 - Back in the USSR - Glass Onion - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Why Won't We Do It In The Road? DISC 2 - Birthday 🧚‍♂️🙏 - Yer Blues - Helter Skelter - Savoy Truffle I barely know Beatles songs except the classics like Hey Jude and Yellow Submarine. I can definitely hear how influential this album was as many bands seem to follow the sonic sound post '68. It was a fun listen but I inly like a handful of songs from both discs, it was another meaty gritty album. 3.5 is what I'd give it coz I'd listen to it if I was doing housework but it's not something I'd sit down and enjoy in it's entirety. I give it props for being the more interesting one since Speakerboxx. Happiness Is A Warm Gun sounds like Matthew mcconaughey idk why. And I dislike both Beyonce blackbird and Beatles. Birthday was super explosive and for it to be followed by Yer Blues is just 🤓🧚‍♂️🧚‍♂️

It's not the best Beatles but it's the Beatles

It'd been a long time since I'd properly listened to this album in full. Whilst there are some really great, even iconic songs on here, I do think it's a little let down by being a bit overlong and with a few too many tracks that just don't hit. I admire it's ambition, but probably one of the more inconsistent Beatles records (especially from this period of their career)

Too long but still The Beatles best album. First disc is especially impressive. Dear Prudence and While my Guitar Gently Weeps are both extraordinary

too much pep in their steps

4.5

Again, I loved this when I was 10 years old but it's history to me now. Respect.

I really do think it deserves a 5. From the more popular songs to Wild Honey Pie and Revolution #9. It was groundbreaking for its time and today provides insight into the band's experimentation and creative processes.

One of my first albums - enjoyed it but liked didn’t excite me like my nosier albums at the time - Rush 2112.

point1.

here’s my 1 disc version: dear prudence glass onion the continuing story of bungalow bill while my guitar gently weeps happiness is a warm gun I’m so tired don’t pass me by why don’t we do it in the road I will julia yer blues helter skelter revolution 1 cry baby cry

Amazing album, but there is a lot of fluff thrown in. 4/5

Great album. One.of.there best.

A monument to creativity! Charles Manson

Easily a 5 star record here if trimmed.

this contains so many of the beatles songs i’ve clowned on before. i really did enjoy sgt pepper’s, but this one just sounds like the result of what it was: a bunch of adult men arguing. some good songs, for sure. while my guitar gently weeps is a certified timeless banger, and i understand why it wowed people. the entirety of the album is not for me and it’s too long. sorry!

I have been big fan of the Beatles for the majority of my life. Accordingly, I’m coming at this review already biased. If I wasn’t listening for the first time, I think I would like these songs: Back In the USSR, O Bla Di O Bla Da, I Will, Martha My Dear, (all the Paul songs??), Blackbird, Birthday, Sexy Sadie If I didn’t love the Beatles, I would be rolling my eyes at and skipping these songs: Happiness is a Warm Gun, Why Don’t We Do It In the Road, Rocky Raccoon; Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 9, Everybody’s Got Something… Thoughts (trying to view this through a different lense): the range of the Beatles creativity is incredible. To think they arrived in America only 4 years previously (1964) singing Please Please Me and She Loves You (yeah yeah yeah). The shift, expansion, development in their artistry, dynamic, lyrics, music is incredible. That being said. I don’t think the White Album is a good introductory album to the band. Some of the songs get a little strange, alternative and perhaps, “something only a mother could love”. The mother in this case = those who love out-of-the-box stuff or love anything touched by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. I like that there is a broad variety of songs. You get Back in the USSR and Birthday but you also get Savoy Truffle and Long Long Long. The transition between songs as you listen to the full album is just lovely. As a Beatles fan forever (I certainly would have been one of those screaming girls with tears rolling down my cheek) I enjoy each song on the album, but these in particular: Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar, Martha My Dear, Rocky Raccoon, O Bla Di, I Will, Honey Pie, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Piggies, Blackbird. And all the rest of them!

You could cut 25% of it and still have two 5 star albums. USSR, helter Skelter, yer blues, me and my monkey, birthday - all monsters. While my guitar, mother natures son, blackbird, cry baby cry. Even all the silly McCartney story songs are enjoyable interludes. Didn’t wanna just blindly give the Beatles 5 stars every time, but…

I love the way the daft songs (Piggies, Rocky Raccoon, I'm So Tired) are sinister or have a sinister subject matter; the way it lacks the psychedelia of yesteryear but still sounds weird as fuck (maybe more so); it's sheer variety of music and genres; that it's a generous double album; the tales of the stormy atmosphere at some of the sessions; the mix of loud and quiet songs; the mix of silliness and seriousness; that it's a bunch of songs that sounds like it was recorded by grown ups. And I love the way it ends with a sinister nursery rhyme (Cry Baby Cry) followed by musique concrete (Revolution #9) followed by a lullaby (Goodnight); the abrasive Revolution makes the lullaby Goodnight all the more lovely. Revolver might be the best Beatles album on a song per song basis, but this is my favourite and my desert island Beatles choice. It's so different to anything else on so many levels and I never get sick of it. Single album? Pah, should have made it a triple and added some of the outtakes!

Great stuff

What an album

Undeniably great but there are enough duff tracks to detract from my enjoyment of the whole thing as an album

Just a phenomenal piece of work. Nothing is 100% perfect, but to have such a range of musical styles and so many songs that land so well in there is outstanding. Plus it always takes me back to a certain time and place in my childhood.

"I've got blisters on my fingers!" Difficult for me not to give this a 5.

I own this on vinyl and love it. There are some tracks that are meh (eg. Revolution 9), but the vast majority of this album is absolutely perfect and I love it so much. Five stars, easily.

A bit overstuffed, but a shocking achievement given its scope and scale. This exercise continues to highlight how good the Beatles really are. They hold up! “Long, Long, Long” stood out on this listen as a song I’d never really appreciated before but found really excellent and beautiful this time through.

Day400 - a milestone album on a milestone day

I was going to give this four stars, because duh, it’s The Beatles, but damn, the second disc especially is just unnecessary. So it’s gonna be one of those three-star must-listens (I still think it’s a must-listen, #75).

Þessi plata inniheldur mörg af mínum uppáhalds Bítlalögum og hún hefði flogið upp í fimm stjörnur ef ekki hefði verið fyrir djammsessionið í lokin á B-hliðinni. Það drap svolítið stemmninguna sem byggist upp

Pretty okay album, I wouldn't say it was the Beatles' best but contains their best song so its not too bad. This is the Beatles stripped back to basics but tbh I prefer their more progressive/psychedelic stuff, at times it can sound underdeveloped and too simple but LP 2 is a stark improvement with a needed injection from the electric guitar. However the album does also provide a track I refuse to ever listen to again in Revolution 9 with it being like if 'Fitter Happier' was 8 minutes long. Not sure how its Leo's favourite, has he listened to Sgt peppers or Abbey Road? 7.5/10 Not too bad. Thursday 6th of February 2025. Top tracks -> While My Guitar Gently Weeps -> I Will -> Birthday -> Revolution 1

Vid 52år lyssnade jag för första gången genom hela White album. Mitt problem med Beatles är att de spelats så mycket så jag har inte tagit mig tid att lyssna aktivt. White album är spretig och låtarna går berg och dalbana mellan en skyhög högsta nivå och riktiga bottennapp. Precis den Beatles skivan jag kan behöva

Fav: Helter Skelter Least Fav: Revolution 9 Helter Skelter is the best Beatles song imo

maybe not my fave beatles by as great of a distance as i expected, but that was entirely a result of connecting so strongly w/ abbey road again...push comes to shove, this is still my queen. my rediscovery that this is not just exactly as good as i remember but having experiences Even Better then the ones i had as a teen thanks to the 2018 mix was unbelievable. this and revolver are The records that set the tone for my attraction to eclecticism, theres a straight line between these albums kicking my head open and pretty much anyone since ive ever considered to be my "favorite artist" (bjork, ween, devin,). but the white album in particular remains potent and engrossing for its perfectly orchestrated disharmony...while revolver's various styles are anchored by the band operating as a joyful unit, the white album manages the magic trick of stringing together clashing egos with a nearly subconscious dream logic that can only be articulated after a million listens but is dictating ur experience from the very first time. perhaps the best argument in history that in the world of albums, u hear the Structure before u actually hear any of the songs. and really, in the world of music, or art, or perception of the universe At All, every moment is enabled by every previous moment. something endlessly and eternally vital to my view of art and life in here. the watusi. the twist.

Even though there are some songs here that I don't care for, It is still undoubtably a 5 star or A album for me.

Very weird 4/5

Un capolavoro

Odd and beautiful and fun. All the things that made The Beatles great

I never got into the whole 'White Album' is perfection bit. I'm not a huge fan of some of the lyrics and songs on this album but in listening to this album, listen to the fun these guys are having in the background, not since the 'Get Back' sessions where you see the creative process at work do you get to witness the lads enjoying themselves rather than feeling enslaved to the recording process. 4/5

A ton of bangers that make up for some odder, yet comforting songs like Piggies.

The White Album has lots of good songs but its sheer sice of songs makes it all bit messy. Surely this Beatles album is better than so much other stuff by other artists but not as great as their masterpieces.

In this album: John: A+ Paul: B- George: B- Ringo: 😎✌️🌟❤️

Not as good as "best of the beatles" but it's OK.

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I go back and forth with this one. It was my favorite Beatles record for a long time - well, the first LP was. As I’ve grown older and more anti-McCartney I’ve liked it less. There are some great tunes on this - but it is over bloated with throwaway tunes. Once you get to the second LP it becomes a true slog. This is despite truly standout songs like Savoy Truffle and Sexy Sadie. On a whole this is a nostalgic four stars - should probably be a three if not for the memories.

YAWN

Good, but not my favourite Beatles. (10 known/14 new)

the great songs are great but it’s half filler, i don’t care what Mojo says

Insert Tim Face

EZ 5

Probably one of my favourite albums of all time! Just way ahead of its time! Too many classics to name- although side 2 is phenomenal- I will, Blackbird, Rocky Racoon. I am guessing there will be more Beatles albums on the list…

Fully expected to come into this and hate it, but I swore I was going to keep an open ear. Thankfully I did because this album has some hits on it. The band fully wears their inspirations on their sleeves because this album is chock full of blues and black rock and roll sounds throughout most of the tracks. My favorite songs are "Martha My Dear," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Di," and "I'm So Tired." Man, am I glad I actually listened to this. Not being a Beatles fan, I felt kind of left out of a lot of music conversations, every loves them. Now, when these conversations arise I can join in and actually know what I'm talking about. Will I go out and listen to their albums on my own? No. But, this is a good album. I wish we could give half ratings because this album is a good 3.5/5, so kinda disregard the stars.

Enjoyed that.

Long, like a "worst of the back catalouge" collection.

I mean it’s the Beatles.

How dare John Lennon criticize "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" when he wrote the trash that is "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill." One star automatically deducted for that one.

Solid album.

The genre isn't my cup of tea but I still found it a pretty good listen.

This album was a fun surprise. I have always loved the song Blackbird, but I have actively sought out anything further. I personally loved the uniqueness of each song, and I downloaded both Piggies and Happiness Is a Warm Gun.

Have listened many times

This album has a lot of variety. It seems kind of disjointed, like it was all thrown together. But it still feels artistic with interesting songs. Overall, I'm not very impressed with this album.

Full Disclosure: I am a Beatles fan, through and through. Interestingly enough, as a Gen Xer, I didn't discover them until my 30s. Didn't fall in love until my 40s. Not that I avoided. I just...thought they were oldies. Until I didn't. This eponymous white album is one I didn't particularly prefer for years. I would have said it's my least favorite post-touring-Beatles album. Well, I'm really glad I got this album today. Yes, of course there are plenty of songs on here that sound like, and likely are, demos. Lot's of joking around. Studio noise. It's messy. Some might say bloated, but I think everyone...well, John and Paul and then, to the extent they allowed, George...was differentiating and creating their own music. I think Ringo really starts to swing here. Like, I think he and Paul, across the final two albums (which really are a de facto double album, Abbey Road and Let It Be) vaulted into the conversation of greatest rhythm sections in the history of such things. Anyway, I'm rambling and actually not doing any fact checking, lol. Let me say that I love this 90 minute, 30 song, overstuffed double album that is absolutely all over the place and yet still somehow pristinely sequenced. (It's probably still my least favorite album from Rubber Soul onwards, though. But, like, all of those albums are clustered near each other with solid A grades, at least. And technically I'd give this 4.5 stars, which is 9/10.)

While not my favourite Beatles album (this week), I love the White Album. Been a while since I listened to it from start to finish - it is a cornucopia of different styles and is therefore a little disjointed, but it is great to dive into - I even enjoyed "Rocky Raccoon" and "Revolution Nr 9" this time, and that's not always the case. There are some truly exceptional, wonderful songs here which come close to their best; the rest are rarely less than really good although it is true that by this time The Beatles were really operating as individuals, with little real collaboration in the songwriting. Things were starting to fragment, the indicators to their subsequent solo careers are evident, but what a soundtrack the breakup had.

Good album but lots of repeats

Apostasy, maybe: Tommy Jones's joke in "Men in Black" about having to buy The White Album again when a new gadget replaces CDs, this is my least favorite latter-stage Beatles record. It has one sublime song ("Blackbird"), and a number of good to great tunes (e.g., "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), but a lot of it is, frankly, self-indulgent. Sorry, fanboys.

lame af

I really love rocky raccoon.

Sometimes I'm glad I was a teenager when CD's became a big thing. For the first time they gave us the capability of instantly skipping certain songs without lifting a needle or awkwardly pressing FF/Stop/Play over and over until you got it right. If you're familiar with this album at all I'm sure you know what song on this one I'm glad I can instantly skip. Despite the presence of this one "song", this is still an amazing album.

Started to blend together towards the end.

Going strictly by number of bangers, this is the best album ever made

a game i like to play with double albums: cut it down and resequence it to 45 minutes. any singles, demos, outtakes from the recording sessions are fair game. here's my tracklist for the white album: 1. Glass Onion 2. Martha My Dear 3. I'm So Tired 4. Sexy Sadie 5. Don't Pass Me By 6. Julia 7. Revolution 9 8. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me & My Monkey 9. I Will 10. Cry Baby Cry 11. Why Don't We Do It In the Road 12. Happiness is a Warm Gun 13. Long, Long, Long 14. Hey Jude alternatively cut "revolution 9" into a few short tracks and put it in between tracks, rap skit-style. if you won't let me have "hey jude," replace it with "rocky raccoon" 3 times.

Some good songs, some not so good songs 4/5

Poor, poor Beatles. You fell into the same trap that so many other bands have found themselves in. You though, "We've got enough material for two albums, so let's just record a double album!" Unfortunately, just like nearly every other band that tried it, you did not have enough material for two good albums, at least according to the standard you set for yourselves. If you took out the filler, this album would be fucking amazing, certainly in competition for the best Beatles album. Instead, I wouldn't put it in the top 5, despite having some of my favorite Beatles songs. 4/5 What hath man wrought?

Classic. Incredible. How do you write so many good songs in so many genres. Top marks.

A disjointed cacophony but still One of my faves.

While this album is still top tier Beatles material, it feels a bit cobbled together and bloated. Definitely not as cohesive as Abby Road or Sgt. Pepper's. If this had been trimmed down from a double LP, it would have done us all a favor by giving us a good 35 minutes back in our day. With that being said, it still has some incredible tracks (Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter, and Good Night) and it shows the brilliance these guys had, even when they really didn't want to work with each other, but chose to anyway.

Another fine Beatles album that gets a little long in the tooth after a while. This is good, but not Abbey Road good.

Let me start this off by saying that I love the Beatles, my parents bought me up on them but this unfortunately is not my favourite Beatles album cause it seems to me like it’s a solo Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr album, all trying to out experiment each other like they were all doing their own thing with little collaboration. Is it controversial to say this could have been a single album and not a double? There are some brilliant tracks on here but also some that I feel just fill out the 2 discs.

One of the best albums The Beatles ever put out, but still bogged down by some significant bloat. That’s not surprising since it’s their first double LP, but songs like Revolution 9 are enough to drop this a point or two. 9/10

A top listen, but I had to skip revolution 9.

I like all the tracks except the 2nd to last on disk 2, Revolution 9.

First off, who gave these people a second audio channel? Seriously, they use stereo way too aggressively. Sound stage? Nah, drums left ear, guitar right ear! It adds nothing to the music and is just annoying and distracting. Okay, now to serious stuff. This is my first The Beatles album. Furthermore, I've actually been avoiding listening to them. But why? They're The Beatles. Aren't they one of the biggest bands of all time? Of course, I'm aware of all the praise they get. But whenever I hear someone talk about The Beatles, it is almost always about how "influential" or "monumental" they are and rarely anything about the quality of their music. I'm not trying to downplay the band's impact on the music industry, but this is not what I'm looking for when choosing what music to listen to. Call me a philistine, but I don't care how important a specific song or album was to the history of music or how technically impressive it is—I just want it to sound good. Of course, I've seen praise for their music too, but none of what I had heard or read made me excited to listen to it. That's why I avoided The Beatles—I was afraid that I was not going to like them. I realized that there was a pretty good chance that if I heard their music, I was going to become one of the very few people that don't care for them. And it's not like it's a simple unpopular opinion. Liking The Beatles is like some sort of a default opinion everyone who dares consider themselves a music nerd is simply expected to share. Not praising them is almost seen as flat-out wrong and an attribute of annoying contrarians and attention seekers. And I'm neither... well, at least I hope I am. Look, I hate not sharing probably one of the most popular opinions in music as it will now forever sit at the back of my mind whenever I see people discuss the band and certainly don't want to be the person to go, "The Beatles? Yeah, they're mid," but unfortunately, this is what I got out of my first experience with their stuff. So, does The White Album sound good? Well, yes... but I'm not impressed. Sure, It has a couple of bangers (Back In the U.S.S.R., While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter), but there are 30 songs here and most of the other ones are just decent to good. There's nothing wrong with the music here; I certainly didn't have any trouble getting through the album, but "decent to good" is not something you're supposed to expect from one of the most popular albums from arguably the most revered bands in history. The White Album is good, but it didn't grab my attention and felt like road trip music—pleasant but not exiting. Maybe it was revolutionary at the time of recording, but it's not really an argument. The problem is not that it's old, the problem is that its outdated. There are amazing bands like Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes, Led Zeppelin, and many more that came immediately after The Beatles yet for me their music still feels gripping and fresh many decades later. And yes, it's likely that The Beatles actually influenced the creation of at least some of these bands, but it doesn't make their music any batter. The White Album, on the other hand, by today's standards, feels like simple pop rock with folk elements. Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't get the appeal. My opinion may change when I listen to some of their other albums, but for now that's that. Your mileage may vary. 7/10

Hard to know what to think. It's THE White Album. And the tunes are nearly all good. The beginnings of heavy shit are right there in Helter Skelter, and Revolution 9 is a fucking Experience. But somehow the structure of this album just feels like... there isn't one. We're the Beatles, throw everything we wrote down in a list and publish it. Maybe I just need more listens, but some spots were a chore that I don't fancy doing again. Still, can't take much away from the achievement that it is

2+ Stars (6/15) God I hate double albums!!! If this was cut down to the best 10 songs then it'd be pretty good.

It’s The Beatles White Album.

Best double album PERIODT xx but the first side is significantly better than the second.. whatever they’re still good

Amazing album. Favourite songs: Glass onion, Happiness is a warm gun, I’m so tired, Piggies, Julia, Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey, Sexy Sadie. 5 stars

First, we have to acknowledge that the Beatles aren’t four lads from Liverpool, but four aliens sent here to enlighten us with their music. How else to explain the way they changed the world in seven short years? And it’s as if they were gonna show all the musical ways they had changed the direction of music through their previous ten albums in one sprawling, messy, gumbo slop of a double album. I do think it may have benefitted from some editing to make it a tighter single disc…maybe. While there’s clearly no singular theme with just about every musical genre represented in some form or fashion, the songs from all four songwriters (go Ringo!) are just so good. Except for number 9; I’ve tried to dig into its avant garde vision but I can’t do it. Though my favorite three Beatles’ albums can change daily, The White Album is always in the mix. The easiest of five stars yet.

Veel geweldige nummers, maar te lang en een paar mindere nummers.

Masterpiece.

Never been the biggest Beatles guy, last time I listened to this was probably 14 years ago. Does it need to be this long? Songs I like: Back in the U.S.S.R (interesting lyrics, great guitar and energy) Martha My Dear Rocky Raccoon I Will (it's fine) Songs I don't like: Dear Prudence (boring) Glass Onion (boring) Blackbird (feels patronizing, and is subtle enough that they could say it isn't about race, so what's the point) Piggies (leave the pig-political commentary to Orwell and Pink Floyd) Don't Pass Me By (sounds like a parody of The Beatles) Julia (worse version of Hermione by David Bowie) Birthday (uhhhhh) Songs I love: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (peak) Happiness is A Warm Gun (love the melodies, nonsense lyrics that sound great, satisfying song) I'm So Tired (simple, great) Songs I hate: Obla-do, Obla-da (or however it's spelled) The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (good to know Paul and John both had the ability to suck a lot) Why Don't We Do It in the Road (you already know) Only half of the songs have all 4 Beatles on it, and you can tell. It sometimes feel like 2 and a half solo albums stuffed into one giant piece. I'm not sure why they gave up on incorporating multiple genres in one song, I generally find that side of them more interesting. I guess the egos and the stories behind the songs all add to the mystique, but they don't exactly add to the music.

One of my favs from one of the best bands of all time!

The sheer number of songs on this album makes it a long listen, but most Beatles songs are under the 3 minute mark. The album is a bit of a hodge podge thematically. They should've given George and Ringo more writing opportunities, some of the best songs on this album were written by them, and some of the worst by Lennon-McCartney (apart from the most famous singles). The stories about the making of this album is fantastic, stories about Rishikesh and the eventual dissolution of the band. All in all, a very good album.

Beatles.. 3/5

Itsarightinnit

Give this a 6. It's the Beatles init and anyone who says they don't like the Beatles is a crab. Blackbird is probably my favourite song ever, between that and yesterday anyway because they were the first songs I properly leant on guitar. After listening to the Beatles anthologys it gave me a new respect for some of the lesser tracks on here. This is a beast, inject it into my veins high 5.

Now we're talking. Don't even know where to start with this as it's just ridic the amount of invention and absolute bangers on this album. Songs were pouring out of them at this point to the point where quite a few sound like ditties or unfinished gems. Part of the charm of this album is the chaos that comes from it, especially the John songs. Standouts: Too many to mention but... USSR Dear Prudance While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness is a Warm Gun I'm So Tired Blackbird Monkey Helter Skelter Revolution 1 Lowlights: Revolution 9 is nonsense. The last few tracks on Side 2 don't offer much tbf As high a 5 as you'll get from me. Even with the silly nonsense, it's an insanely great album.

Double album 1968 (last one by the Beatles) Back in the USSR Obladi oblada Bungalow Bill While My Guitar Gently Weeps Blackbird Rocky Raccoon (6 of 17 tracks on disc 1) Birthday Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter (3 of 13 tracks on disc 2)

Didn’t realize that I was listening to a remastered edition until part way through the first song. Couldn’t say what was different but I just knew it sounded a little less familiar. Great album but it does feel a bit bloated in parts. Some songs are very forgettable.

Moments of brilliance surrounded by unfinished business and mere ideas

Such variety, such masterful songwriting. Even songs that are considered amongst The Beatles’ worst are still fascinating to listen to and lend to the album’s enigmatic quality.

10/10

The are some great songs in this album. Then again, there are some quite bad as well. 5/10

Random, enjoyable and different.

This is very very long and kind of all over the place genre- and mood-wise. The songs that are good are really good (Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps) but there's too much filler for this to rise above a 3

One of the best albums of all time, but too much filler 😢.

Deeply emotional, made me think of a number of later musicians, has much love within, perfect guitar compositions as well and experimental and psychedelic stuff. The Beatles do amaze me, a remarkable masterpiece to embark on my musical journey.

Great album, Some absolute corkers in this one, some pretty spoony ones also

Doesn’t have the same energy and catchy sounds of other Beatles albums. Disjointed and boring with a couple of good songs.

I don’t have much to add for this album that hasn’t already been said the past almost 60 years, but I’ve long thought that if you just take John Lennon’s songs from this (maybe give or take Revolution 9) and put them on separate album it’d be one of the greatest albums of all time. The fact that all of John’s songs are surrounded by so many great Paul and George songs is insane. It’s not a perfect album by any stretch, there are possibly more skippable songs on the White Album than any other Beatles album on the back half of their discography. But the messiness is part of the fun and part of what makes it such an standout album in rock history.

Love this record! It has so many ebbs and flows but it ultimately makes the time pass while imagining this wonderful world that John, Paul, George and Ringo have created! It definitely has many classics such as while my guitar gently weeps, dear prudence, back in the USSR, revolution and many more! Love this, highly recommend being. Little stoned it makes the music flow very nicely 😋

This is just amazing! And also weird and strange - I love it. And always have. Even though it is not the best Beatles album, it was and is still such an amazing tour through song/music display for others to learn from

a very long album that only became a little boring in the last 20 mins or so.. enjoyed the album overall and the diverse mix of sounds and genres 8 out of 10

Can't believe it's taken me this long to listen in full, there's amazing non single songs on here

Strange one this. Some tracks are absolute brilliance such as While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Helter Skelter. Others are comparatively low-key but beautiful such as another Nature’s Son and Long, Long, Long. There’s honestly many strong tracks on here. I even really enjoyed Revolution 9. There aren’t many pop bands that would release an album that moves between blues, folk, proto-metal and musique concrète. It’s genuinely impressive how cohesive it all feels. My only complaints would be that a few very short, basic tracks that do feel like filler, and there maybe one or two too many novelty songs. Some of the wackier songs are definitely worth their inclusion however as it wouldn’t be The Beatles without them. It’s more that it just adds to an already long runtime. All said though, The White Album is a huge achievement. Given the amount of tension within the band at the time, it’s a testament to their incredible creativity and talent as musicians that such a sweeping collection of music was produced.

Always a favorite. Never get tired of a good ol’ listen to this one.

Classic!

Most influential album of all time?

If they took the 10-12 best songs from this package and made one record, it would be an all time best selling classic. As it is it’s merely excellent, a showcase of their individual incredible talents.

Still sounds fresh every single time I hear it. Even some of the lesser songs add to the surreal vibes of the album as a whole. I’m always blown away by how perfectly it flows from song to song, always throwing something new at you, always staying fresh. 30 songs, many of which have a claim of being some of the best rock and pop songs ever written. God it’s so good.

Decent album, with a few good bops. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Martha My Dear, I'm So Tired, Why Don't We Do It In the Road? all solid tracks. Didn't make it all the way through disc 2. Favourites: Back in the U.S.S.R, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun.

If listening to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band is like looking through a kaleidoscope and seeing all sorts of psychedelic patterns and shapes, then listening to the White Album is like looking through a kaleidoscope and seeing patterns consisting of inner-fighting and clashing views, a mishmash of genres from standard rock & roll to proto-heavy metal to a sound collage, and the number nine. The White Album is a rather interesting album. With most of the songs written while the band were at a Transcendental Meditation training course in Rishikesh, India and recorded as arguments and differences broke out among the four that would eventually lead to their break-up, this album is pretty much where the Beatles peaked creatively, with lyrics that are satirical ("Back in the U.S.S.R.", "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"), political ("Blackbird", "Revolution 1"), and informed by the trip to India and this album's troubled recording ("Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey", "Sexy Sadie"). And while you have your typical Beatles pop rock, there's plenty of songs that are different genres, whether that'd be blues rock ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "I'm So Tired"), "Paul's granny music", as John Lennon described "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", proto-heavy metal ("Helter Skelter") or a sound collage consisting of the number nine ("Revolution 9") that is definitely the Beatles at their most experimental and avant-garde and probably would have never been made had John never met and fell in love with Yoko Ono. At the same time, though, you can tell how kinda messy this album is, and that prevents me from seeing this as their masterpiece. Division between the four Beatles led to a fragmented recording session where the band rarely recorded together and instead worked separately. Thus, the mishmash of genres with each song, and you can tell that each Beatle were developing different ideas on how to craft a song, whether it'd be George Harrison's guitar-driven approach or Paul's inspiration by old-hat jazz that he grew up with (again, "Paul's granny music"), and when a filler song like "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" strikes, that's when you can tell that songs like those were recorded when they were starting to run out of ideas. While this album is good, it unfortunately marks the beginning of the end of the Beatles. Favorite Tracks: "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Blackbird", "Sexy Sadie", "Helter Skelter" Least Favorite Track: "Wild Honey Pie"

I am a 1965 Beatles all the way, but it is so amazing to hear and enjoy their music and sound evolution on the later records.

Tremendous

The White Album by The Beatles is a brilliant record, and at times close to perfect, even if it does feel a little too long. There’s an argument that if this had been trimmed down to a tight 11 or 12 tracks, it could be their very best album. As it stands, it’s more of a sprawling collection of ideas, but what a collection it is. The range on display is incredible, jumping from rock and blues to folk and experimentation, and showing just how versatile the band had become. At its best, it’s outstanding. Songs like Glass Onion, Blackbird, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps highlight the individual strengths of each member and just how strong they were creatively at this point. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da has always been a bit of a hidden favourite for me, and Back in the U.S.S.R. is a brilliant, high-energy opener that sets the tone. There are moments where it drifts and feels indulgent, which is where the length becomes an issue, but the highs are so good that it hardly matters overall. Favourite tracks: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Back in the U.S.S.R. Least favourite tracks: Revolution 9, Mother Nature’s Son, and Cry Baby Cry feel unnecessary Album artwork: Classic, simple, and instantly recognisable

Classic album of course! For my taste some fillers on it too…Could have been an all-time favourite 12 song album for me! Absolutely loved Revolution 9, especially with headphones on!

B+ Back In the U.S.S.R. 5 Dear Prudence 4 Glass Onion 3 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3 Wild Honey Pie 3 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 4 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5 Happiness Is a Warm Gun 4 Martha My Dear 5 I’m So Tired 5 Blackbird 4 Piggies 3 Rocky Raccoon 5 Don’t Pass Me By 3 Why Don’t We Do It In the Road? 3 I Will 3 Julia 5 Birthday 3 Yer Blues 3 Mother Nature's Son 4 Everybody's Got Something to Hid Except Me and My Monkey 3 Sexy Sadie 4 Helter Skelter 4 Long, Long , Long 3 Revolution 1 3 Honey Pie 4 Savoy Truffle 3 Cry Baby Cry 3 Revolution 9 2 Good Night 4 I was very curious how this rating would shake out. And honestly, I think it's very fitting on the cusp of a four. It's so up and down and individual. There's no flow whatsoever. But so many great songs. What an amazing album.

This is a great album, even if it isn't my favorite Beatles album. The length isn't that bad, especially since there are a lot of good songs on here, but there are a few songs that could definitely have been left off (looking at you Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Why Don't We Do It in the Road). My favorite songs by side. This was hard because the best songs are on the first two sides. Side One: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Side Two: Blackbird Side Three: Birthday Side Four: Revolution 1

Good vibing album with some classics. Its not perfect – around 4.5, but it is above a 4 so I'm giving it a 5.

I think a lot of the time, people misinterpret the word overrated to mean outright bad. This is often not the case and I can think of no better band than the Beatles to exemplify this. This album is great. It's foray into psych rock is my favorite thing about it. Even the poppier tunes like Back in the U.S.S.R., Obladi oblada and Birthday are fun as hell. However, it's almost impossible to separate the music from the massive ego trips nearly every member of this band is on. The result is an album that's almost as fun to talk about as it is to listen to. Likely my favorite from the Beatles discography.

Háát… nem lettem rajongó, de attól amit viszont megjegyeznék, hogy már értem honnan inspirálódtak Tally Hallék.

This has long been my favorite Beatles record. As I get older, it definitely loses its luster but I still love it. There are some incredibly weak tracks on here, and honestly a fun project is to re-sequence this record to make one really great LP rather than a double album with several peaks and valleys. Overall brilliant but not perfect by any means.

i have a hard time getting into the beatles but this album has the best songs of all the ones i have heard

Lots of genres which was fun. Beatles doing Beatles things

Barely went with a 5 on this one. It has some great songs but as a double album there are quite a few songs that distract from them.

Once again, back to the Beatles. There is some incredible work on this album but also baffling choices that make me feel like I'm losing my grip on reality. This is a 5-star album living in a duplex home with a 2-star album - a common curse of these double albums. It's insane to me that the Beatles chose to place one of the most beautiful and poetic songs of the decade ("Blackbird") here next to "oink oink piggies." Then I guess we should thank this album for - as improbable as it sounds - inspiring the Marvel character Rocket Raccoon. The low point of the White Album is probably "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" I think sides 1 and 2 are pretty solid overall, with only a couple of real clunkers (the offenders mentioned above). I even like "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." The quality seems to dip on the other disc though, with a lot more songs on sides 3 and 4 that I marked as neutral or "thumbs down." I do like "Birthday" and "Revolution 1." I don't dislike the experimental "Revolution 9" near the end - it's a cool and enjoyable experimental piece - but it feels incongruous with the rest of the White Album.

meh

I’m sure I’m in the minority, but I’d not heard this album in its entirety, only the more popular tracks were the ones I’m familiar with. I have never been a huge fan of The Beatles, even though they’re undeniably the greatest rock band of all time. 4 out of 5 for me, but I’ll take The Rolling Stones over The Beatles every time.

Great album interesting to read about all of the differences in there.

Listened to this one so many times…hundreds, maybe. 5/5

Possibly my favourite Beatles album. It's incredibly eclectic and features some of the highest of high points and some real low ones (looking at you, Obladiblada). But the greatness of the great songs and the general feeling of a selection box of treats makes up for any possible faults.

Eclectic noodling from the 4 lads which is rather Fab…..

In my view. The best album from this four pack.

Uneven as far as Beatles albums go...still a worthwhile listen. Dear Prudence and Blackbird are highlights. 5/5

An all time favorite

The Beatles are considered the best pop/ rock band in history. Probably the main reason for this is because they ARE! This is likely because they can put out albums like this with 30 songs and not one of them sounds the same as any other. Moods, melodies, emotions, totally different and all... amazing? How they managed to accomplish what they did is rather more surreal than sensible, but here we are. Very much because of their impossible range and just plain perfection in what they do, I can not really think of any band more deserving the best band in history title. I love to be a dragon slayer, but who can replace them at the top?

One of the greatest

This album has some classic Beatles songs: "Dear Prudence", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Ob la di, Ob la da", "Revolution". The rest of the tracks are far lesser known, and kind of quirky and fun. That's the thing: listening to The Beatles makes music fun again.

Absolute classic.

Classic!

I listened to this 3 days ago 2 Beatles albums in a row

It's funny how you can love an album even though a couple of the songs sometimes rip your knitting. This is probably John Lennon's strongest Beatles album. His songs most sound like the group playing together and as such give a spine to the thing while Paul swings about all over the place giving the thing breadth. I like his granny music. We also get a George song so good even Clapton sounds great on it. Ringo's tune is great too. Revolution 9 is not among the knitting rippers.

The FOUR Dudes from Liverpool. Great album.

Maybe one day I will see what everyone else does in this album. But aside from some a handful of my favourite tunes (Helter Skelter, Savoy Truffle) this album is all over the place. More miss than hit

This was the first Beatles album I ever tried to get into. It left me not liking them for years but i think i just wasn't ready to appreciate it. It's completely all over the place but has so many wonderful tracks of all sorts of different genres. The incoherence does take away from it slightly, but not enough to dislodge it from its 5 stars.

7.76

5.0

Yeah this is as experimental 60s pop could get, i wouldnt really consider tvu&n pop, this is a great double album and the best beatles album.

This isn’t one of my favorites ever but I know that if I was there when this dropped it would’ve blown my mind. Helter Skelter is awesome, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Revolution 9. On the cusp of rounding up to a 5.

Look. Let me be extremely blunt here: THE WHITE ALBUM is a mess. That extends all the way from the state of the band at the time, to the album's conception, to its recording, to the final product itself being a double album. As I expressed over in my review of ALL THINGS MUST PASS: if they don't have the tunes to back them up, double albums, more often than not, can run the risk of coming off as the ultimate ego trip from an artist, with the idea that everything they made is so good they can't afford to cut even one. I said in that same review, too, that even George Martin had famously said years later that he thought this should've just been a single album. And from the onset, ALL THINGS MUST PASS seems to have one clear advantage over THE WHITE ALBUM: cohesion. ALL THINGS MUST PASS was constructed from all the songs Harrison had hoarded for himself while the band was still together. THE WHITE ALBUM, on the other hand, is considerably more patchwork; stitched together from songs from four different songwriters all going in different directions and trying different things. All THINGS MUST PASS roots itself in folksy rock, while nearly everything seems to have a seat at the table in THE WHITE ALBUM. Hard rock and ballads; proto-metal and baroque pop; dirty blues and clean orchestration; goofy songs and serious songs; happy, upbeat tunes and sad, downbeat ones; sappy sincerity and bitter irony... Heck, there's even eight straight minutes of musique concrete courtesy of the infamous "Revolution 9". It can almost play like an unorganized playlist of various artists, the way you're thrown from genre to genre and soundscape to soundscape. It's not surprising that, inspired by Martin's comment, nearly everyone has tried to reorganize this beast into a more cohesive single disc. Of course, all of that is what's so beautiful about this album. 'Coz let's not act like patchwork can't be art in and of itself; that just because something's stitched together from various sources makes it any less art than a pristine painting. I mean, you just need to look at the poster included with the album: a hodgepodge scrapbook of random photos, drawings, film strips and whatever else could be added. That poster, pretty much, is this album. And I hafta commend the band, too, for just **going for it**. They assembled all these desperate ideas and slapped them together under a pure white cover and no name besides their own, pretty much saying, "This is us, separate and together, for better and for worse, the good and the bad — make whatever you want out of it." And people have. Like, are you aware of the Instagram account "We Buy White Albums"? It's an account whose whole purpose is to, well, buy other people's copies of THE WHITE ALBUM and display them for the world. You can see, people have taken that blank, white cover as a canvas. For their own art, for notes to themselves or others... Even the smallest scuffs make each copy unique, reflecting everyone's experiences with it. 'Cuz, of course, no one's going to like every song on it — "Revolution 9" makes sure of it. And, sure, some people have used THE WHITE ALBUM for, well, let's just "less than savory" things — hello, Charlie. But whatever songs you end up latching onto; whatever experiences you have with it; whatever you make of it... That's all unique to you. Even people's own single album constructions, even if track listings line up exactly, the exact reasons will always be different. And that's a beautiful thing to consider. It helps, too, that the music is generally amazing. Like, put aside any essay pontificating about "what this album means to me"; it's The Beatles in my favorite stretch of their career. Even if it's that weird transition point from SGT. PEPPER'S to ABBEY ROAD, and even if they all kind of don't like each other too much, the songs themselves are still phenomenal. I could just list off a bunch of my favorites, and even without explanation, you could still get it. From the 1-2 whombo of an opener "Back In The U.S.S.R." and "Dear Prudence"; to the wild ride through meta references "Glass Onion"; to two of George's best songs ever, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Long, Long, Long"; to the hard n' heavy rockers like "Helter Skelter" and "Yer Blues"; the smaller moments like "I Will", "Julia" and "Blackbird"... And others I can't think of descriptions for: "Sexy Sadie", "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Revolution 1", "Everybody's Got Something Except Me And My Monkey", "Honey Pie", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", "Rocky Raccoon", "Mother Nature's Son", "Birthday", "Cry Baby Cry"... Even the much maligned "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Heck, I can't even picture this album without "Revolution 9", the ultimate mingle-mangle (check my **thesaurus use**). It just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't there. So... Yeah, that's about the size of it, I think. To be honest, I haven't come back to THE WHITE ALBUM as a whole very often. This listen-through is maybe only the second time recently I've travelled all the way through it, and the first time was part of a general Beatles marathon. But: "as a whole." As I'm sure I've made clear, I don't find the whole to be the point. Whatever you get out of it, **that's** what's important. Which, sure, maybe that kind of take isn't unique to this album — I think I also came to about the same conclusion with 69 LOVE SONGS, and I pretty much feel that way about the SMiLE sessions — but this is the album where I feel the strongest about it. Oh, and if you couldn't tell — it's a 5. So, if you've come across this review and somehow haven't heard this album already, go ahead. Go find your own WHITE ALBUM, whatever it may be. And if you don't want to, or if you just don't like it, well, to quote Paul McCartney: "It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles WHITE ALBUM. Shut up!"

An album of wild shifts in tone and subject matter (and also an acid trip known as Revolution 9). Solid 5 Stars.

Well, it’s a 10 – let’s just establish that immediately. Just a trailblazer of an album. This is my second full Beatles album – my image of these guys is still based around their earlier 60s stuff (Hard Day’s Night, Can’t Buy Me Love, etc) mixed with the brilliance featured on Abbey Road. We’ve had some solo albums, but those are more indicative of their individual styles. Honestly though, this album does feel like they all kind of just made miniature solo albums and mashed them all together into a 30-song showcase. In that sense, this album has a lot less cohesion than I was expecting going into it, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing – it doesn’t fully align with my tastes for an album experience, but what’s here is so fucking good for 1968 in particular that the quality of almost every track simply overwhelms any complaints I could have about album cohesion. Back in the U.S.S.R. is an absolutely brilliant opener, and one of my favorite Beatles tracks ever. It’s a hard bar to top, and I’m a little biased, because I’m not sure if it ever really does top it. It does stay around that level for most of the album though – a few tracks didn’t click with me as well (namely Lennon’s stuff, which might be a bad omen for whenever his solo albums pop up here), but it’s a true testament to the quality of the band that they can kinda just fuck around, go write a shit ton of songs while they’re off getting stoned (or sorry, “spiritually rejuvenated”) in India, both at a group level and an individual level, and then whittle them down into something that’s this damn good. It’s really an enigma to try and describe this album, because so much of what’s on here feels like the blueprint for the deconstruction of rock & roll into several different genres, subsets, and styles for decades to come. It’s extremely avant-garde for its time, and in a way that benefits any current-day listener. It’s really easy to say “oh, this sounds like [x]” when it should be the other way around. I can hear everything from Muddy Waters, to Ray Charles, to Ella Fitzgerald, to Led Zeppelin, to Gorillaz, to Nirvana, to the White Stripes, and far far more scattered musically throughout this record – it’s all there, but all the credit in the world needs to go to Paul, John, George, Ringo, & George Martin as well. I hesitate to say they “pioneered” these soundscapes, but I can’t imagine a lot of this would be so heavily in the modern mainstream for the decades after without this album making it all feel commercially viable, and allowing the room for even further refinement & experimentation. There are parts of my brain that do wish this had been trimmed down to the very best of the very best – it’s the Beatles, so they could get away with a 30-song album in 1968, but there is definitely a bit of filler here that does pull down the record a bit. Abbey Road is a better album, in part because they knew exactly where to trim the fat down, and make a more cohesive experience… but I have to imagine Abbey Road doesn’t get that cohesion without this album throwing everything at the wall and making most of it stick. For what it’s worth, a lot of this is still too good to throw away, and I hesitate to imagine a world where nobody gets mildly tortured by the (actually catchy, sue me) Ob-La Di, Ob-La-Da, or truly tortured by the (extremely, extremely out there) Revolution 9, which simply didn’t click for me at all. Ultimately… it’s the Beatles. What else can I say? They had the star power to make this work, and they absolutely made it work. It’s a landmark album in its own right, and I really, really enjoyed it. It’s a pretty damn good 10.

what can I say that hasn't already been said. Dear Prudence is one of my favs of all time

ok ok ok ok not my favourite beatles album, but probably the best beatles album back in the ussr one of the best openers ever best song: blackbird worst song: n/a

An experimental masterpiece. Revolution(no. 9)ary

I’ve always kind of ignored/didn’t care about the Beatles but they’re not bad Jk they’re pretty meh, boring Fun opening song and it’s all downhill from there

Some bangers but a lot of duds…just not it, imo.

Superb!

Thick with classics. For me this is prime Beatles

Now we're talking. Album 75 for me and the first one I heard worth a 5. My favorite band ever and most of their tunes are classic and worth listening to over and over again.

Definitely had some iconic songs I loved, also had a lot of in between stuff..

Li beatles = 1 estrela VAI TOMAR NO CU JOAO LENNON EU LI O APANHADOR NO CAMPO DE CENTEIO E IREI RIR DA SUA MORTE JOAO LENNON

Again. Not my favorite band. But I have to give props to George Harrison here. WMGGW is one of the best songs written. A couple of other bangers here too.

number 9, number 9, number 9 ......turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man, turn me on dead man....some of the most out of left field music that came out of this album specifically. love this album so damn much.

Honestly, I never thought super highly of The Beatles prior to doing this project but it really opened my eyes to how good they are especially with The Beatles (The White Album as fans call it). This album had quite a lot more variety with the kind of music being played, more so than any of the other Beatles albums that i have listened to. And for the most part, it paid off with a lot of these songs actually being really solid listens and generally being very memorable. I do feel like this album is pretty long however and i personally think that it would be great if the album was trimmed down a bit. That being said, this is still a really solid album and definitely my favorite Beatles album by far. Best Song: Helter Skelter Worst Song: Revolution 9

I don’t know how it works. I’m trying to divorce the aura of “The Beatles” from the album and judge on its own merit. I don’t know if that’s possible. This album is a mish mash of styles thrown together from a collection of guys ready to call it quits and it somehow contains sublime songwriting, face melting guitar and instrumental work, avant gard masterpieces and it achieves cohesiveness being the exact opposite. I rate low purposefully if anything is on the border but this is just…it’s 5 and there’s really no question

#431. This is the fith album of theirs I've done so far, and the first one that even tries to live up to the Beatles hype. There's definitely some real good shit here, but a lot of unnecessary fluff as well. If this album was trimmed to like 45-50 minutes instead of an hour and a half, with nothing but the excellent songs and dropped a few of the less interesting songs, I feel like it could actually be the masterpiece that people act like it already is. 4/5: too long Song added to playlist: While My Guitar Gently Weeps I've created a playlist on Spotify that consists of the best and/or my favorite song from each of the albums in this book. This list can be found here if you are interested: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MAXDGLWlwLkFLb8veGfkA?si=FqkQQPgZTFWG0jAUJXLFZA&utm_source=copy-link

After listening to this whole record, if someone were to ask for 1 album to represent The Beatles as a band, this would be it. It spans every different styling of music that they produced over the years and has hits and hidden gems alike. While "Abbey Road" remains my favorite Beatles album, this quickly jumped up the list for me as top 3 for sure. Notable Tracks: - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Blackbird - one of the great songs ever written - Rocky Raccoon - Birthday - Helter Skelter 9/10

I enjoyed listening to this a lot. It’s got some of my personal favorite Beatles songs on it. I appreciate its experimental-weirdness and generally prefer The Beatles’ later albums.

I haven't listened this album before this challenge but I knew most of the songs. I guess that's normal when listening to one of the best bands in the world. I'm not a Beatles fan but I can definitely understand the hype.

It’s got some of my favorite classic hits but is very bloated with mediocre filler. One point should be deducted just for that cheesy Goodnight song at the end. Probably could have been a five star single album with proper editing.

fun album

While my guitar gently weeps

A very good Beatles album but not their best. Disc 1 is stronger than disc 2 and it's a very long album. Revolution 9 is bizarre and takes away from the album, in my opinion. 8/10 (4/5)

Lots of good songs, some clear classics. Nothing really bad, but it is a lot of music.

I wish that I had been alive when the Beatles were peaking because I want to experience first hand how groundbreaking their music contributions are. I grew up with all of their albums, so while I love them, I can’t appreciate how much of an impact these albums must have had on the music industry and culture at large. Not my fav of their albums but some absolute treasures.

There were a bunch of songs on this album ranging from annoying to good. Most were fine. I will refrain from saying overrated this time but I dunnoooooooooo it's not looking good

An album full unique tracks and a few very strange ones. Overall, pretty good. The strange tracks kind of killed it for me and it was a bit too long for my liking. 7 out of 10

I always thought that the Beatles is bad. Because their populars songs really are. But this album is nice.

Love love love. And I get to see Paul THIS WEEK in PARIS! Best ever.

9th Beatles album. Mid 60s. Clearly more on form and experienced than Hard Days Night. 30 tracks! Very varied. Lots of hits but also lots of silly songs. Some beautiful folk songs, some ggod rock. Ends with insane 8 minute cacophony and a kitschybmovie musical track. A bit all over the place, but some gorgeous songs.