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albummaster
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- Posted: 01/22/2016 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1880): The Beatles (The White Album)
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Today's album of the day
The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1968.
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Overall rank: 11
Average rating: 88/100 (from 2058 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
9. Martha My Dear
10. I'm So Tired
11. Blackbird
12. Piggies
13. Rocky Raccoon
14. Don't Pass Me By
15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
16. I Will
17. Julia
18. Birthday
19. Yer Blues
20. Mother Nature's Son
21. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
22. Sexy Sadie
23. Helter Skelter
24. Long, Long, Long
25. Revolution 1
26. Honey Pie
27. Savoy Truffle
28. Cry Baby Cry
29. Revolution 9
30. Good Night
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Applerill
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- #2
- Posted: 01/22/2016 21:15
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Their highest highs and their lowest lows.
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 01/22/2016 21:26
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| Applerill wrote: | | Their highest highs and their lowest lows. |
This I can't definitely agree with. Undoubtedly the Beatles most adventurous album.
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Grzywa
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- Posted: 01/22/2016 21:41
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| Applerill wrote: | | Their highest highs and their lowest lows. |
There is an element of truth in it, but the ratio is like 5:1. There are 4-5 stinkers, but most of the other tracks make up for that a thousand times.
Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Julia, Blackbird, I Will, Sexy Sadie are the highlights for me. That's a lot for one album.
And yes, I dig Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, which is a class pastiche of ska for me, with a great bassline and... one of these tracks that turn children into Beatles fans. That worked with my son.
And yes, I dig Revolution 9. Just put on your headphones, turn off your mind, relax and do not expect anything. Let it flow.
I would risk saying that The Beatles here turned into something like an "alternative" band, with all this variety, weirdness, and lack of cohesion.
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- Posted: 01/22/2016 22:34
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For sure my favourite Beatles record. I love how incohesive it all is. I don't share the popular view that this album is mostly filler; the only song I really struggle to get through here is Bungalow Bill.
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Lowkey
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- #6
- Posted: 01/22/2016 23:01
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Listening to this reminds me of the setting of drinking tea with The Beatles.
Lovely record, one of my favorites.
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O.T.
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- Posted: 01/22/2016 23:38
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It burns, even when it's a bit bored there is fire all around the music and it creates more fire. Such a wild time. I like that it offers ideas in a way that sometimes seems like going through a newspaper. Maybe it examples, what the byrds had in mind with "The notorious Byrd brothers" - but there was no coffee table in their world, no music hall and no cookies of that kind. And I still wonder what kind of cookies the Beatles had.
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I really like the comment that digs Ob-la-di Ob-la-da and revolution No 9.
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- Posted: 01/23/2016 00:18
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This may be my favorite Beatles record. It stands out because it's such a blatant mess, which is the only reason this album is what it is. You got stuff like Blackbird, Helter Skelter, Don't Pass Me By and Revolution 9 (yes, I like it) all coming together and it still works somehow. And though some tracks would be garbage in any other album, they just add to the glorious mess on this one.
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leechris
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- Posted: 01/23/2016 02:32
- Post subject: White Album
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Great album. Has 2 of my favorite Beatles songs - Happiness Is A Warm Gun and the defence of Yoko Ono Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me & My Monkey). Neither like nor hate Revolution #9 - can appreciate the sampling needed to make it happen.
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AgainstMeAgainstYou
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- #10
- Posted: 01/23/2016 06:34
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| Applerill wrote: | | Their highest highs and their lowest lows. |
Aye, this is exactly my issue with it. The best two songs and worst three or four they ever did are on this record.
Has no place being at #11. I don't even know if it's the 11th best of THEIR records hahahaha
If you want to hear this album, with all the variety and weirdness and variations on song lengths, but without any of the crappiness, may I suggest...
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Honestly? White Album is like a 6.5/10, maaaaybe a 7 because of HiaWG.
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