White Album:pinnacle of Beatles & Music in general

chopper wrote: Finnforest wrote: My version of the White album - a single album. Dear Prudence Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps  Martha My Dear  Im So Tired Blackbird Piggies Rocky Raccoon I Will Julia Mother Nature's Son Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter Honey Pie Cry Baby Cry Good Night Not sure how it works out time wise......At first I was going to juggle the track order, but I think I like the two sides like they came out.  And now if you'll excuse me I'll be ducking the incoming tomatoes, eggs, and empties..... Nice choice, but no "Back in the USSR"? and I would have "Long Long Long" rather than "Honey Pie". In fact, pretty much anything else rather than "Honey Pie".

Yeah, I'd gladly skip Honey Pie as well .
I love the White Album. I love its free and fun eclecticism and wealth of material, regardless of the status of the band at the time. Most of what I considered duds initially have grown on me...Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Honey Pie are still rather painful experiences though.

I'd include it in my top 3 alongside Abbey Road and Revolver.

The Beatles is my favourite album of theirs, for its sense of humour, eclectic mix of styles and general brilliantness, however Revolver is probably their peak in terms of an overall album.

From a Prog frame of mind perspective, the White Album is grossly disjointed and lacking any flow or coherence, but it contains great songs anyway, one of my favourite Beatles albums even if I reckon its weaknesses. It's too bad they did not attempt to build up a concept album with it, it could have been the 1960's The Wall.

ExittheLemming wrote: ^ the oft maligned Revolution 9 is such because a very bad imitation of Stockhausen will never cut it as far as innovation or pushing the boundaries go. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was McCartney who had the avant garde wanderlust , not Lennon (whose first love was always very basic primal rock'n'roll)

Ian MacDonald claims this track is actually superior as art to anything by Stockhausen.

There is very little variation in their output after The White LP. Take all the The White LP and post-White songs, mix them and the outcome would be a very homogeneous quadruple album.

ExittheLemming wrote: Dean wrote: The "doubles" - The Beatles LP and Magical Mystery Tour EP - are, (without a shadow of doubt), my two favourite Beatles releases - the former because it is an unrestrained extravagance and the latter because it isn't. Like that makes any sense at all, disciplined or undisciplined, both are sublime for the former and the latter - ain't that a classic win win they can't lose lose scenario

How can it not make sense? The Beatles LP could have been easily curtailed to a single album, (and there was a lot of pressure at the time to do that), the Magical Mystery Tour EP could have easily been extended to a full album, (and again, there was a lot of pressure at the time to do that). Of course at the time, considering that anything the Fab Four released would have been hailed as "genius" and sold by the truck-load, they were always in a win-win scenario.  

The "doubles" - The Beatles LP and Magical Mystery Tour EP - are, (without a shadow of doubt), my two favourite Beatles releases - the former because it is an unrestrained extravagance and the latter because it isn't.

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Anthony wrote: Stool Man wrote: Anthony wrote: Stool Man wrote:   (Magical Mystery Tour was not an album, it was a double single.) In the UK it was a double EP, in the USA it was a full album with the same tracklist as the CD version. It wasn't an LP where The Beatles come from until 1976.  Capitol Records did it, one of those cash-in  hybrids Isn't that exactly what I posted? As far as I know, The Beatles come from the UK.

Revolver is a perfect album I find. Every track is great. They really hit a good stride there.

Edited by DisgruntledPorcupine - March 29 2013 at 21:10