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manurock

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  • Posted: 11/22/2018 15:03
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One of the Beatles' iconic album, the White Album, turns 50 today. What do you think of it 50 years after? Has it stood time? Your favourite tracks are...?

While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favourite here, and top 3 Beatles song IMO. Although the double album has a few songs which aren't necessary (even they said some time later that they should have made two single more selected albums) I still find it a milestone in pop and rock music and in culture, like their previous, Sgt Peppers, was.

Also, it seems that these next years we are going to have many 50 year anniversaries on key music albums. It's happy to remember them but also sad when we try to find similar top class influential albums in the past years (sounds like a bit of an oldie, and I'm only 25! Cool)


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BTW I am relistening to this album and something clicked on me - I realised where @RockyRacoon's username comes from (right?)!


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I believe that the White Album is fine just the way it is, and I also believe that if there is stuff laying around for 50 years unreleased, it's been unreleased for a reason. I love this album, by the way. I always have and always will. In its intended form that has survived and flourished for 50 years now. But, hey...spend away. It's gonna be expensive.

In that spirit, for the Beatles fan in all of us and for the ones we all know, I offer this special commemorative 50th anniversary White Album t-shirt for sale just in time for the holidays. Just $25 each. Quantities are not limited! Order yours today. Just send me money and these can be yours!


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Well i have it #1 so you know what i think. a great song that doesn't get tons of press is Glass Onion. I bought the deluxe vinyl issue.
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A near perfect album. (And it would have been perfect if they had left out Obladi.)
A true miracle. Best? Rocky? Guitar? Martha?
A different one every time I listen to it.
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a wonderful patchwork album, with no spirit of seriousness, polished just the right amount by George Martin to cross the decades comfortably
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An endlessly rewarding treasure trove, whatever the mix. The new one is a good opportunity to revisit this labyrinthine monument. And the outtakes are a revelation: the album was much more of a band effort than previously thought.
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The last four album I listened to in its entirety.


I couldn’t go past Warm Gun, the album scared the hell out of me for some reason.

The Helter Skelter takes on this anniversary release are phenomenal.

Wish they’d included Not Guilty.
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manurock wrote:
BTW I am relistening to this album and something clicked on me - I realised where @RockyRacoon's username comes from (right?)!


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Lol yep! That's exactly where it came from. I came up with the username for a different music forum site probably like a decade ago and it just stuck when I decided to sign up for this site like five or so years ago.
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White Album is for sure one of my favourite albums of all time. I bought the CD with the Esher Demos. I wanna get the vinyl as well, the remix. But not till after Christmas.

So many favourite tracks but if I had to pick one it would be Happiness Is A Warm Gun.

And I like Ob-La-Di, and not just cos it is a childhood favourite although my parents had the 7" of The Marmalade's cover version which is cool too. I didn't hear the Beatles' original of Ob-La-Di till I was 13. I didn't hear the White Album till I was 17.

And I almost never skip Revolution 9. I love it. It's so weird and fun. And bonkers.

I may even put it in my top 10 of my top 100. It's hovering just outside the top 10 at the moment. At one point, just over 10 years ago it was my favourite album and I played it over and over. I still play it loads.
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