Glass Onion (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #3)
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Glass Onion appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #3) (this album) (1968)
- Love (track #3) (2006)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #133) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 3 (track #6) (compilation) (1996)
- Anthology 3 (track #20) (compilation) (1996)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #124) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #124) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #124) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #113) (compilation) (1982)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/17/2025 10:02 |  swed | 3,606 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/03/2025 08:59 | ItNrok | 452 | 89/100 |
| ! | 11/02/2025 21:43 |  LukasAntoine00s | 4,865 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/25/2025 11:38 | Garyf1972 | 8,018 | 62/100 |
| ! | 10/22/2025 17:46 | FlapJackJoey | 1,064 | 89/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.2/100, a mean average of 83.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.8.
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Contundente, si bien lejos del nivel de las más grandes del álbum, una heredera del cuerpo y el espíritu del Sgt. Pepper’s
Just like with "I Am the Walrus", John wrote this song mostly to confuse people who looked for hidden meanings in the songs of the Beatles. Maybe the most memorable line in the song is "the Walrus was Paul", which later helped fuel the "Paul is dead" theory.
Not a highlight of the album, but it's still a Beatles song.
I used to think nothing of this song, but it's slowly grown into one of my favorites, as well as one of the best off The White Album.
Nice track with a lot of references to old Beatles songs :)
Brilliant play on words, naming various Beatles songs, it's total nonsense really but works absolutely superbly in the context of the album. A thoroughly enjoyable track.
i love the strings in the last 30 seconds
Grzywa 01/07/2016 20:22 | #156077
An overlooked good song from Lennon. I love the references to Beatles' songs (The Walrus was Paul, Lady Madonna tryin' to make ends meet, I told you bout the Strawberry Fields).
GandalfORiley345 05/17/2014 13:41 | #112066
Certainly the drummer in this song is Ringo, cause the 2 songs before are by McCartney as a drummer, great songs
Jasonconfused 01/27/2013 04:40 | #63006
Great song. The assortment of instruments makes this song as great as it is.
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