The White Album

Probably a little overrated but still a great pop rock album. They cover a lot of ground here including the experimental Revolution 9 and heavier Helter Skelter. There are also some absolute classics here such as While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The main problem is the sheer number of songs. Because the tracks are shorter there are 30 songs on here so it’s really hard to keep track. There’s also bound to be weaker songs which there certainly is. I get the filler is on purpose but it still doesn’t excuse their quality. Overall this was still a great album and worth seeking out the better songs here.

Tough one to review. I get what the band was going for here. Take the attention off THE BEATLES as an entity, defy expectations and expand creative muscle, and write songs in a bunch of different genres and styles. And there is a lot of great stuff here. But like most double albums, it is overstuffed. Some of it is not all that pleasing to listen to, even though it fits the concept. Some may just call that challenging, and that's valid. I just don't have the patience for an hour-and-a-half challenge that I would for a 40-minute challenge. That being said, when the Beatles do it, it's still better than the average band, which skews the scale.

Gud

Shocked it took me this long to get to a Beatles album. I've listened to the White Album a time or two before, but mostly I've repeatedly listened to the standouts. While the highs are undoubtedly high, there are some real lows and songs that drag down this from a stellar rating. Love how varied it is, but it is uneven. 4/5

Top 6 Songs: 1 - Blackbird (11) 2 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (7) 3 - Dear Prudence (2) 4 - Julia (17) 5 - Revolution 1 (25) 6 - Happiness is a Warm Gun (8)

Mannnn this deserves a 5 for dear prudence, blackbird while my guitar gently weeps among, Julia… such amazing tunes, but the bad songs are SO bad. Sometimes I feel guilty for not really liking the Beatles and then I hear a song like piggies or wild honey pie and I’m like no way fuck this band. Giving it a 4 but if I could omit a few songs it would be a 5

Even their lesser songs are so good in a cheesy way. Classic Beatles.

I like this album but it is too long

Beatles my wife

Unpopular opinion. There are great things on here. There are not great things on here. It's a hodge hodge. Still, it's a technical marvel, and one more example of how we live in a post-Beatles world.

Great but long

It's got some crackers on it. But there's a bit of dirge too.

Good but i little bit long

As I expected, not as good as Nico. There's a really good album somewhere in here, but it's probably around 45 minutes long rather than an hour and a half. I'd can all the tracks that sound like kids songs on it (Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon at the very least), as well as the weird sounding experiments that don't work (Wild Honey Pie and Piggies the worst examples, Revolution 9 has something to it but not enough...). Ob-La-Di is a bit too janky and twee for me (as are many of the Beatles hits). But, when it does hit, it's amazing - Helter Skelter is my favourite Beatles song by quite some way, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is also a stone cold classic. The album also showcases their range: you've got pure ballads, experimental stuff, proper pop, and a couple of songs that if they were a decade later you'd call punk. That merits a 4, not as high a 4 as Nico got, but a 4 nonetheless.

Not a great album in the sense of having consistently great songs, especially in the way some seventies double albums would. However, there is a loveable, freewheeling energy on this record that brilliantly captures the skills of each member and somehow makes it work greatly as a cohesive piece.

On tämä liian pitkä... mutta miten silti on saatu sellainen meno kuin jokainen kappale ois sinkku? Ja silti tuntuu kokonaisuudelta, kun kappaleissa on tietty sama keveys ja huumorikin osin. Ois ehkä multa kolme puol

Kaikesta venyttämisestä ja ajoittaisesta hupailusta huolimatta tällä LP:llä on niin paljon Hyviä Biisejä, että se ei pelkästään pakota kuuntelemaan, vaan myös jatkuvasti nauttimaan itsestään. On selvää, että Beatles ei ole ihan 100-prosenttisesti Minun Juttuni, mutta jos en anna tälle levylle neljää tähteä, niin mille sitten? Ihan oikeasti, tästä voisi koostaa kokonaisuuden, jonka keskiössä olisivat esim. Back in the U.S.S.R., While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter, Revolution 1... Kun tähän lisää pari vähän vähemmän nerokasta onnistumista, esim. Glass Onion, Dear Prudence, Julia jne., on jo melkein viiden tähden lista kasassa. Ehkä minun ei pitäisi olla näin yllättynyt, mutta olenpahan kuitenkin.

It’s a good album but I didn’t feel like it had a lot of continuity throughout… besides them just singing about nonsense… also Revolution 9 should be deemed cruel and unusual punishment

Zelden is er een dubbelalbum verschenen waarop alle nummers geweldig zijn. Dit album is helaas geen uitzondering. Maar ik moet zeggen dat het wel bijzonder veel afwisseling biedt. En het is stukken beter dan de Beatles van de beginjaren. Hoogtepuntjes zijn While my guitar gently weeps van Harrison, Julia van Lennon en Blackbird van McCartney. Eervolle vermelding voor Helter Skelter, waarmee naar men zegt de heavy metal begonnen is. Maar ach, men zegt zoveel

Heyyyyyyyy, so according to my uncle Manuel who I saw about 15-16 yrs ago, this was one of my dads favorite album. Don't think I've ever listened to it front to back though. Excited for this one! oooooh it's a 2 disc set. I didn't know that

Lots of notable songs here, a few curve balls that are a bit jarring and brings the score down a touch but some of my all time favourite Beatles songs on this album but as a whole not one of my favourite Beatles albums.

Several awesome songs, some clunkers, could have used and editor. Extra points for real guitar and drums, and extra points for being the Beatles. Can't give it a 5. Call it 4.5.

Whenever it was someone's birthday in our household, my parents would throw side 3 of the Beatles' 1968 self-titled album on to the turntable, and blast "Birthday." It was a fun tradition, albeit a strange one for a household that was normally full of anger and abuse most days of the year. Even though we had this album on vinyl (my dad would always lament that he had passed up the opportunity to purchase a copy of it on white vinyl for $20), "Birthday" and the first five seconds or so of "Yer Blues" were the only songs I had ever heard off of it until I was an adult. I can't remember when it was, but at some point, my brother was looking at the track listing on this album and pointed out some of the more eclectic titles of "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for me and my Monkey" to me, and we were both incredibly confused as to what was going on on this album, but I don't remember our curiosity ever taking us further than that. This is my third Beatles album that I've gotten on this list, and I had really high expectations going into it. This album has some of my favorite Beatles songs on it ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Dear Prudence," "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," and "Birthday") but I'm pretty sure this was my first time listening to it from start to finish. Just like the other Beatles albums I've listened to on this list (A Hard Day's Night and With The Beatles), this album is a masterpiece when it comes to the instrumentation. Every note is perfectly placed, and there's all sorts of wonderful things going on in the background that elevate the overall sound of the album. Each member of the band really seems to be at the height of their craft here, with George Harrison's guitar playing on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as the shining example of this. But as a whole, I don't think my expectations of this album were met. I can appreciate the ambition that went into crafting a record with so many different sounds and genres, but it just feels overblown and and self-indulgent. Hell, the whole band only performed on just over half the songs here, and it kind of shows. And at a total running time just over an hour and a half, it was a lot to get through this album in one sitting. I did enjoy the folk-inspired songs quite a bit though; it was really interesting to hear The Beatles put their own spin on the genre, and I thought they executed those songs really well, both in musical style and in lyrical content. I appreciate how ambitious this album was, how great some of the songs are, and how influential it was on music, but as a whole work it just fell a little bit short for me.

The famous White Album by The Beatles. This album is mildly experimental in nature with multiple styles of music throughout. Having been on a retreat in India and written most of the songs there, it feels like they wanted to just really get into their feels, yet at the same time it seems as though they placed all of the songs written since their last album onto this record. Whilst there are some absolute classic Beatles songs throughout this double album, I wish it was curated a little better. Best: Blackbird Worst: Good Night

Highlights: "Martha My Dear," "Blackbird," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Helter Skelter" I wouldn't call White Album jumping the shark, but it's definitely at the point where they had a right to be up their own ass and have no quality control. The majority of songs on here are like gags or quaint diversions. Some of these try a new direction -- you know, the awful ones, like "Ob-La-Di." The quality songs, some of their best, mainly revisit styles that have worked for them before. A lot of the rockers are the weaker songs: as heavy as "Yer Blues" is, it overstays its welcome; as strong as the riff on "Monkey" is, it's uneven as a song. It's weird how many of these songs are thrown off by awkward counts, *made* un-catchy, and it's weird how many of them are pointedly old-fashioned, pure kitsch. Even the at times spectacular production winds up as a gimick. The main thing that keeps this album afloat is their charismatic vocal performance. Whether this album can get pinpointed as highly influential or excellent rests on "Helter Skelter." And yeah, maybe that's enough.

I think this is good? Honestly it's 90 minutes long and has 30 tracks so it's hard to really get a good grasp on this after just one listen, but I think I enjoyed it. Plenty of iv6 chords and it was fun listening to all the different contexts they're used in.

Det håller fortfarande.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, and Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da are the standouts for me from this album. Incredibly creative album, sort of the Beatles throwing everything at the wall. I think that brought out some real highs, but as a double album of experimental tracks or things they wrote as challenges to themselves, it does end up feeling a bit bloated and unfocused particularly in the back half.

Some absolute classics on this album. An absolute masterpiece with some psychedelic interludes…

Very long album, but good stuff once again from the Beatles

A Classic with some hits and others with eccentric taste

Classic album. Some genre defining sounds here that I’m sure influenced generations. One off though for me personally because not every one is a winner

Lots of good on this album. And also lots of silly, experimental songs on this album. One can see the creative differences at play between the Beatles, but overall they churn out another album with plenty of classics.

numbah nine numbah nine numbah nine numbah nine numbah nine

3.75/5 some good songs

i'm always kind of conflicted on this album. while it is a definite classic and it does have some of the beatles best songs on it, there are entire sections of the album that i don't return to very often. an example of this is the run from "piggies" to "why don't we do it in the road?", which i think is one of the worst in their entire discography. but at the same time, the variety is what makes this one of my most listened beatles albums behind revolver. and if we're talking about track runs, the run from "everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey" to "revolution 1" is probably one of the best in their catalogue and possibly best period. so while i can't give this a perfect rating like many others have, i still do consider this to be one of my favorite albums.

Whoo... lots going on here. Lots of good stuff packed in here, but it really does feel like 4 different albums mashed together. Provides some great Wiki reading holes as well...

Great, but not their absolute best. Dear Prudence and While my guitar are 10/10 though.

1/2 5 Star - 1/2 4 Star, with a 3 Star in there... So 4 1/2 stars. Obviously, I don't have to say much about my love for the Beatles. This record is not a fit for every day, or for some activities... but it sure is a great listen when you're into it.

1 - Back in the USSR 2 - Dear Prudence 3 - Ob-la-de, Ob-la-da 4 - While my Guitar Gently Weeps 5 - Happiness is a Warm Gun 6 - Martha my Dear 7 - I’m so Tired 8 - Blackbird 9 - Piggies 10 - I will 11 - Yer Blues 12 - Everybody’s Got Something to Hide 13 - Helter Skelter 14 - Revolution 1 15 - Good Night Chopped it in half and there’s still a few filler tracks. Can’t go lower than a 4 though for the great one on there.

First time fully listening to this overall a great album with a handful of songs that I just can't stand namely wild honey pie. Blackbird and while my guitar gently weeps were highlights. I still am unsure if there's an arc that is trying to be constructed throughout the album here but it ends nicely.

Quality

Was really enjoying this album’s experimental work until John took it too far with NUMBA NINE. Everything else was very good, definitely could have dropped some other songs, like Wild Honey Pie and had it be a single disc. Overall, very enjoyable, will listen again. 4/5

Ive always loved this album hard to ignore the weird amount of total duds here though 4.5

It's the white album

It's the big one. I like it.

as tonally weird as "Tommy" but more accessible to me.

I remember discovering my dads Beatles vinyl back in about 1991 and this album was always a strange curiosity to me. It was really pretty different to everything else. A combination and great tunes (Gently Weeps, Blackbird) and oddities (Piggies, Honey Pie). I was put off by some and instantly loved others. Time has made appreciate it all collectively. A decent album but not anywhere near their best. I’d like to give it 3.5 but I’ll round it up to 4 because… well, because it’s The Beatles White Album.

What can I say that wasn’t said before? Honestly, this albums has really great songs. It production techniques showed a leap forward. It is a great musical milestone. However, I think that they could have cleaned the song list a little bit and come up with a single kick ass record. That would have been an A+

That's good.. but it's too much stuff to be all good and, in fact, it isn't

So longggggg. But definitely some bright points and influential in scope.

The good songs are fantastic and sufficiently outweigh the cringe / mediocrity of the bad to make this a 4.

Not my favorite but there’s an intimacy and a confidence that are really nice. Feels like this is making music especially for themselves, what they had inside wanting out. And it took until this listen to realize I’ve been playing Blackbird wrong.

Lastig, voelt wel alsof het veel invloed heeft gehad, voelt ook meteen een stuk moderner dan hun vorige album. Maar er zitten wel heel wat nummers op die een beetje meh zijn

I feel guilty giving it 4 as such as classic album, but that’s what it felt like.

Beaucoup de chansons sont des 5; par contre, quelques électrons libres me font douter. En même temps, c'est ce que j'apprécie de cet album: la créativité, la prise de risque, le fait que les membres du groupe semblent avoir tellement de plaisir à expérimenter. Tellement d'airs me sont restés dans la tête par la suite aussi!

What a bunch of strange dudes. Top notch.

It's a bloated mess but there's so much great stuff on here, and even the songs I don't like add so much character to the album that I honestly wouldn't change a thing. I can't give it a 5 in good conscience as it can be such a slog to listen to all the way through, but on the whole it's a stunning collection of songs

Amazing how all over the place this album is. Saying that I’m meaning it in the best way possible. Could do anything/any sound as a band and make it sound great. Had to check auto play hadn’t started a new album by a new band for Good Night. Belter Skelter (auto correct changed that and I’m not correcting it) Obla Di, While My Guitar my stand outs, with Blackbird one of my favourite Beatles songs ever

Not particularly of the experimental songs but man this album has some bangers

Ekkert nema dásemd, með dashi af fíflagangi. Elsk ❤️

Interesting musically, didn’t know where we were going one song to the next.

banger

This album is pretty good. There are some good songs, but my god is this album long. It just kept going and going, so it felt like the album had a ton of filler songs between the songs I enjoyed. Favorite song: While My Guitar Gently Weeps Worst song: Birthday Worst 8 minutes of noise: Revolution 9

It's quite strange, very unique (Doubly so back at the time of its release) and certainly not boring. Of course it has a place on this list, no doubt about that. I think I will eventually go back to it to listen through again, because it's certainly a great album, though I don't know if it'll be my favourite Beatles album. Favourite: Back In The U.S.S.R

Var á ferðinni og hlustaði ekki. Samt klassík sem ég geymi til betri tíma.

Good but inconsistent. One of my lower ranked Beatles albums

One of the better Beatles albums in my opinion.

This album is super eclectic! I've listened to it many times over 30 years and do enjoy it because it is ridiculous. Great!

Racist

It’s The Beatles, it’s great… but, I always thought there were too many weak, filler tracks on this. If they cut half the songs it’d have been perhaps the greatest album ever.

7/10. Okay, yeah, I see why this is their only double album. Feels like they stretched themselves a little thin, butter over too much bread and all that. Fortunately, the bread is still pretty good.

A frenetic and dizzying musical tug-o-war between all four Beatles. I enjoyed it, but there was a major lack of cohesion. Lyrically, thematically, musically, it just pushes and pulls every which way. The tension between Paul and John is palpable! Bless George Harrison for being able to get While My Guitar Gently Weeps included. And Paul for writing Blackbird. I know this album is touted as the high watermark of the Beatles career, but it’s just too jarring a listening experience for me. Still a good time, just one that yanks your chain a bit.

p156. 1968. 4 stars. This might sound like heresy, but there is a LOT of filler here. Trim that out and you would have a 5 star album. On the plus side, there is still more inventiveness and melody here than most bands manage in a 10 year career.

timeless classic but dont recommend listening to this at night because the second to last song will make you shit your pants

boy don't you just love the old stereo split the album being split into 4 does mean there's space for quite a few classics in there

Good. A few tracks were a bit meh but overall i liked it. I'm also into weird music so if you don't like that it's probably just an annoying listen half the album.

Otro disco fantástico de uno de los mejores grupos de siempre. Canciones muy básicos, pero muy pegadizas. Muy melódicas y bien construidas. Muchas siguen perdurando en el tiempo

4* Because of Blackbird

Ma okej je ovaj samo ne toliko koliko i ovi drugi.

Ovo je njihov takoreć' eksperimentalniji album. Drugačiji od ostalih - i zato mi se jako sviđa. Imaš svega na ovom albumu - od laganice - rokerice do eksperimentalice. Gdje bih svrstao ovaj album kad bi' rangirao bar nekih top 5? Težak je taj top 5, bar kod njih. Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper i The White Album. Ovo nije po redu, zna se to sve izmiksat samo tako. Rubber Soul npr. u posljednje vrijeme najviše slušam, ali mi je baš drago što ću baš ovaj album danas slušati. Ali pazi ti to, toliko nakrcan album, a opet tako dobar. '68 ljudi moji - blueprint za metal (Helter Skelter) i eksperimentalnu glazbu (Revolution 9). 4.5/5 u mojoj knjizi - a to što vamo nema pola zvjezdice još uvijek smatram kriminalnim dijelom.

Why don't we fuck in the street! Little piggies

Brialliant.

Well-written album, great breadth of music. This album showcases what the Beatles are all about, writing catchy and fun songs. But nothing really hits you in a meaningful way.

Niet mijn meest favoriete album van de Fab Four, maar zeker in mijn aanzien gestegen.

It’s not the album I’d play to non-believers to convince them of the Beatles’ genius as there are a lot of songs on here that sound like jokes, or unfinished (both may be true, but usually in a good way). It might be the album that best displays the breadth of what they could do, though. In amongst some stone cold classics like While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, Blackbird and Back in the U.S.S.R. there are some excellent John Lennon compositions (Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Cry Baby Cry etc), and some genuine oddballs, just because it’s The Beatles and they could do what they liked. I remember being a bit underwhelmed when I first heard the album but now I find something new to enjoy with each listen. There’s some filler of course, but not as much as I first thought (and it’s part of the fun anyway). The first disc is great. 4.5

In 1967, The Beatles were focused on making cohesive albums rather than just focusing on singles. The result was Sgt. Pepper, and even down to the intricate album art, it was clear that The Beatles were putting a lot of time into recording and crafting complete albums. So how do you follow a monster like Sgt. Pepper up? You do the exact opposite! At least that’s what The Beatles thought. The White Album, as it has become known, is a double album released by the Beatles in 1968. The album consisted of many seemingly “loose” songs, thus there is no definite flow throughout the album. This throws a lot of people off. A lot of people also don’t like the “filler” tracks. Personally, I think many of the filler tracks are fun. I really love how the Beatles explored different musical styles throughout the record, such as folk, blues, proto-metal, and even avant-garde. Overall, this was a really fun listen and a great album, even if it isn’t as cohesive as their other efforts.

I fuck with this album hard

I really like that this whole thing is getting me to listen to the Beatles, I feel like I sort of know they're good and am aware of their big hits, bur to really take the time to listen to full albums is nice. Enjoyed this and found it kinda playful :)

Obviously one of the best with some of my fav Beatles on. Why don't we do it in the road is up there

This album shows the clear influence as it's all over the place. Blues, rock, psychedelia, etc While I don't prefer to listen to The Beatles, I can see why this album is so loved by critics

It's great, and I'm enjoyed. There are some classics songs and other new discovered.

It's hardly a hot take to say this is a sprawling masterpiece and that disc 1 is a lot more accessible than the more experimental disc 2. My personal preference tends to be for more concise albums, and there is a single album of pure bangers amongst the 30 tracks here. However, the weirder songs and 'grout tracks' really work here and are an essential part of the piece. Rating: 4.5/5 Playlist track: Back In The U.S.S.R Date listened: 13/09/22

Disc 1 almost perfect album but there’s a lot of misses on the 2nd

Pretty good until after helter skelter then hot garbage

Stórkostleg klassík. Mörg uppáhalds bítlalögin mín.

Some amazing tracks, some random tracks. But on the whole a great album!

It's a pretty long album at 30 tracks but was found it quite enjoyable overall.

Banger after banger

Not my favorite Beatles album but still very good.

The album where Paul is fixated on honey pies - the wild and domestic kinds - for some obscure reason. With 93 minutes this includes a plethora of first class Beatles songs: 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun', 'Blackbird', 'Revolution' to name some. But in all honesty it does also contain some fillers ('Wild Honey Pie', 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road?'), and I found side three to be actually quite weak. The record would probably have been stronger if Harrison had been allowed to get more songs in the final tracklist. My biggest surprise with this re-listen was that 'Revolution 9' was... not that bad? I actually quite enjoyed it, and they seemed like they were having fun.

What a great collection of songs

Pop, rock, 1968. One of the most famous album in the world by the most famous band ever. It contains huge masterpieces such as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Helter Skelter" and a lot of other great tracks but it is probably not as cohesive like "Abbey Road" or "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". In the end this is in my top 5 Beatles' albums, but not in my top 3.

I totally forgot how blues, americana folksy this album gets at certain songs (and then early heavy metal with Helter Skelter??? Amazing). The fiddle in Don't Pass Me By, the lyrics in ballad of Rocky Raccoon. Besides the fireside tunes, there's so many other catchy, goose-bumping songs on the White Album (While My Guitar Gently Weep, Dear Prudence). I get why it's always quoted as one of the best Beatles albums. I think it is, too. One of my favorite Beatles songs actually, Happiness is a Warm Gun, is on this album. On this listen, my standout song was Martha, My Dear. The White Album to me is like a pizza from your favorite place. It's always amazing, but you forget how so because you've been eating it for so long. Also, like tomatoes on pizza that came to Italy from China, and the pizza from Italy that made its way to the greasified USA version, the Beatles talent was taking the components of something already great (Chuck Berry's guitar, Motown records, etc.) and churning them into popular smashes. The White Album is a hit machine.

87/100: Much more filler than I was expecting listening to it in one go. I think this album gets a lot of praise because of the drama and turmoil going on amongst the Beatles behind the scenes, but I think for all of the groundbreaking songs on this album that possibly benefitted from that turmoil, just as many made their way on the album that probably wouldn’t have made it on earlier Beatles albums. I think this is the struggle in producing a piece of art as innovative as The White Album is, for every novel shot in the dark that lands (“Helter Skelter,” “Happiness is a Warm Gun,” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”) there are just as many, and sometimes more, that miss the mark entirely (“Revolution 9,” “Piggies,” “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road,” and “Honey Pie”). It might be unfair to hold that against the Beatles because that’s a part of the process of making good art—how can you know what will stick when no one has ever made music like this before—but I can think of many other innovative albums that are better coherent albums than this, hence the less than stellar review.

Very cool album and kind of crazy how many good songs are on the one album, quite enjoyed it but not something I would listen to a lot

i agree that this is an album that belongs on this list. some tracks are skippable, but the album as a whole is iconic. favorite track is good night.

It has good songs but a bit too long with a decent amount of filler. That said, I have listened to this album so many times that even the filler has grown on me a bit.

Can’t believe I never listened to this before. There are some true bangers on here, but they’ve been so overplayed that they sound cliche now. Suffering from success. The terrible terrible song “Revolution 9” keeps this album from being 5 stars.

16/29, 55%

Loved this album, so many iconic songs.

Overall pretty good! Hard to set aside the charles manson mystique around it

im a beetle slut so it's hard for me to rate any of their albums below a 4 but this one has some special tracks but it's also a bit all over the place because the band started having arguments at this point of time but still a solid album👍

Very decent and memorable experience. Classic Beatles album

I know that this album is regarded as one of their best, I didn't know it was a double album. I enjoyed and can see why The White Album is held in such high regard.

It's the Beatles.

A bit too sprawling and uneven to be counted as truly great, but credit where credit is due-the Beatles fearlessly throw everything at the wall to see what sticks, and most of it does. Even ideas that aren’t fully formed contain intriguing lyrics and melodies, showing just how far they’ve come as a band.

Didn't Helter Skelter inspire Charles Manson

It's the famous Beatles White Album. A record I've heard dozens of times during my life, and it's the typical double-album with double-album issues. There are some masterful songs on here, but also some songs I loathe with such a passion I could never rate it as high as some of the Beatles' other works than are just amazing albums start to finish. An album where I start skipping songs is just not worthy of 5*. Still, the album never gets boring and the Beatles play a wide range of songs and styles. Stay for: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Julia, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long Skip every time: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Honey Pie, Sexy Sadie, Revolution No.9

An extremely easy summary to write. The best songs on The White Album (e.g., Back in the U.S.S.R., Happiness Is a Warm Gun) make the album a firm 4, whereas the worst songs on it (e.g., Wild Hairy Pie, Good Night) prevent it from being a 5. Job done. Okay, I suppose I better look under the bonnet. After Sgt. Pepper cemented them as the most feted longhairs on the planet, the Beatles fled to India to to learn Transcendal Meditation and to try and comprehend their extraordinary position on the world's stage. Ringo returned to Blighty within a fortnight, because he was craving a nice, juicy steak after all that curry malarkey. Macca stayed a bit longer, and John and George longer still. George especially became further entranced with Indian culture, and the stay at Rishikesh saw his blossoming as a capable songwriter. The group wrote songs voluminously whilst in India, but the recording sessions in London proved highly trying. Their recently formed business Apple Corps sapped the Fabs' cash amid a series of failed projects. Along with this, the bandmembers had grown more distinct from each other artistically, fragmenting their previously unified vision of the band's direction. Ringo left for a period, upset at all the bickering and his apparent peripheral status within the band. With egos and hostility percolating in the studio, the bandmembers rejected George Martin's suggestion that they edit the album into a spliffing single album of the best songs from the recording sessions, and so came to pass the Beatles' double album. Oh, and Yoko had begun hanging out around the studio. There's that familiar challenge concerning the White Album, over what 15 songs you'd choose for a single-record edition of the White Album. I suspect that everyone would choose pretty much the same songs. To restate that, the White Album meanders wildly in terms of quality, but a consensus over which tracks are good became established rather swiftly. As such, the supposed innovations of the White Album have faded so much that the contemporary listener struggles to see the invention. Yes, I know that may seem comparable to that dismissal of Hamlet as a ropey old plot strung along with the mouldiest of clichés, yet I think that I not only can defend that position, but also argue that the White Album wasn't that innovative anyway. Take Helter Skelter, for instance. The standard assessment of Helter Skelter is that it's the song that forges heavy metal with Macca's declaration that he wanted to write a song as loud and dirty as possble. I humbly suggest that this is piffle. Jimi Hendrix had released the much louder, much dirtier, much heavier, much better Purple Haze the previous year. But no, fanboys insist that credit must go to the Beatles just because of those murders. Or what about the claim that the White Album is the first postmodern record? Without getting too abstract, one definition of postmodernism that consistently works is that it's the stuff that came after modernism. By that definition, rock n roll itself is a postmodern construction. Or for a more rigorous candidate, you have David Bowie and his band adopting the personae of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars to record The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars, an album telling the fable of the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. That's far closer in spirit to If on a winter's night a traveller. The White Album isn't postmodern just because the Fabs were too atomised to enact proper quality assurance. I recognise that I have only named two examples. I have written long enough already, and you don't need me cracking out the microscope to examine every instance of the White Album not being quite as novel as its reputation claims. Why not give it a go yourself? For starters. try tackling the role of pastiche on the album. And console yourself with the thought that innovation is not quite a virtue in itself: your bright idea of an onion milkshake will shock, but not because it's new. You can love the album even if it's not the Nikola Tesla of music. Anyway, in conclusion, just read the first paragraph again. I'm off for a kip.

Probably my favorite Beatles album.

I'll give this album 4 stars because it has some great singles, but I thought it was an incoherent mess that also had some mediocre tracks.

I mean it's Beatles isn't it. I've heard most of these songs before, but was still surprised by some bits, such as Revolution 9... I thought the album ended and I got some random psychedelic band on. Helter Skelter was much 'harder' than I remembered too.

Listened to the remastered 2009 version - some things seemed a little over produced so some sound took over the vocals

i was surprised to realize i had never listened to the white album all the way through. i enjoyed hearing many new songs! i wasn't expecting this amount of experimental music, though. this album recorded and released in 1968 definitely shows the year with its brand of experimental music. some songs were just weird, but others like "piggies" were charming enough to forget any eclectic aspects. this album demonstrates a more grown-up sound, different from the solid pop their beginning--which isn't to say one is better than the other. the hits on this album are unbelievable. memorable, catchy, delightful, beautiful. the album balances itself so nicely. "back in the ussr" starts you off high. the album bounces between sweet, somber, fun. george's "while my guitar gently weeps" is the scene stealer. "glass onion" contains throwbacks delightful for even a casual beatles fan. "blackbird" is a lovely, soft number, worthy of its hit status. "ob-la-di" and "birthday" are plain fun, undeniably. how can you not clap along with "bungalow bill"? the guitar on "helter skelter" goes so hard, and edges this album toward some harder rock. no two songs are alike! we end with "goodnight," a simple and gentle song i wasn't expecting for ringo but provides a perfect end to the album. we all know beatles' songs were not equally distributed through its four members, but george's songs are always delightful; this album is no exception. it's always a treat to listen to new george music. an album i was so excited for, threw me some surprises, and left me so satisfied. an album which its hype is so, so valid.

My 100th album on this project! And what an iconic one! This double album is packed with music! Not only that, but there is so much diversity and variation of styles from song to song. This album is interesting if for no other reason than that it's on the precipice of the 60s ending and the 70s beginning. Sounds from both decades permeate this album, showing just how influential the Beatles were on both decades. Helter Skelter is also a song I personally enjoy a lot, partially for this reason -- I love how McCartney just went full force on this song, his goal to make something loud and raw and "dirty". Not only did he achieve that, but it's obvious that the song would inspire heavy metal sounds of the 70s. Other songs on this album (While My Guitar Gently Weeps) would go on to inform other definitive sounds of the 70s as well. I'll be the first to admit that I am not the biggest Beatles fan, and that a lot of what they do is lost on me. While I found this album to be great, I don't think the entire album is at the same caliber as the best songs off of the album; there was definitely some filler (thanks, Lennon). Nothing on the album is BAD, but not everything is downright great. That said, this is a good album for George Harrison, as it features his best Beatles song ever (and one of the band's best songs in general), While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Savoy Truffle is another easy standout from Harrison's side of the catalog, which also features on this album. An interesting album that, in my opinion, really challenged and pushed the state of music at the time. I would rank this album at about a 3.5, so I'm going to go ahead and round up to 4.

There’s some absolutely epic songs on here but man could the Beatles be weird sometimes

back in the USSR is very beach boy vibes. Each track has its own sound which I love

Wow, this makes me happy. I haven't listened to this album in decades. I used to listen to my dad's vinyl copy over and over as a kid. I still anticipate a skip about 1 min in on "I'm So Tired" where his record was scratched. I wasn't sure if this would hold up for me. In general, I don't love the Beattles. But there is so much to love about this album and it's not all nostalgia. So many of the songs have a heaviness, a gritty, bluesy feeling. Then some are just weird and goofy. It's a really fun album

It’s The Beatles. There’s a certain level of quality there. Too many filler songs hurts a record that has some all time great tracks.

Some of my absolute favorite Beatles tracks on this one. The range of sonic and lyrical experimentation here is astounding, and demonstrates how innovative the band could be once they dropped the pop focus. The use of early distortion tones is a key feature to note - my dad told me how the blown-out intro riff on 'Revolution' floored him at the time because nothing else before it had sounded quite like that. I do think this album falls a bit short of 5 stars as there's no hope of cohesion as a full LP given how many genres and styles exist alongside one another, but the highs are plentiful and represent the most exciting and out-there tracks of the Beatles' long career.

A sprawling epic pop rock adventure. Silly, engaging, rocking, light, heavy and more.

Took forever, nice to finally know what all the songs are.

En klassiker, mere eksperimenterende, stadig simpelt, både poppet og rocket

This album rates pretty high for me because it was one of the first ones I got on CD. That first side is just so strong, back to back to back killer tracks, although "Wild Honey Pie" is a bit of a filler. The second side has "Don't Pass Me By," which isn't bad for a first track by Ringo. Little heavy on the keys, making it feel very calliope-like. The third side doesn't have a real clunker, although Sexy Sadie is probably the one I like least of those, but it's still real good. Then there's side four. First off, I like the single version of "Revolution" that was released. I think it's much better than Revolution 1. I wish they had included it as a bonus on the remaster or something. Then there's "Revolution 9." Look, I get that they were experimenting with all different styles throughout the album. Sgt. Pepper is strictly an album of its time, but it opened up everyone to the possibility of doing more than just "rock and roll." The White Album is more malleable, much looser in form because of the experimentation. Having said that, "Revolution 9" is just... boring. Boring and too long. So I usually skip it. "Good Night" closes ou tthe album, and it's a bit too mich treacle. SO since I've skipped "Revolution 9" I usually skip that too. So there you have it. I've played this album so many times since it was one of my first CDs. But even so, there are still a few tracks I tend to skip, so as much as I have a fondness for it, I can only give 4 out of 5 because of those weak tracks.

There are definitely some lowlights on this album; how could you not have any with 30 songs? But give credit to the sheer vastness of the production - a double album with many good songs. Is it great? TBD. I call BS on those who criticized the lyrics for being too simple. There are a lot of double meanings and songs that you only truly understand if you think through it a lot. Side One is pretty solid though I've never really liked Ob La Di Ob La Da and the next two tracks dip (though I love the underlying meaning of lyrics in Bungalow Bill). Back in the USSR is still fun and Dear Prudence is beautiful. While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness is a Warm Gun are songs that show the musicianship the Beatles lacked when they were younger. Side Two is a bit more of the same - so good to start, including I'm So Tired and Blackbird. And then it gets a little weird with Piggies through to Why Don't We Do it In the Road, though the first has some thought-provoking lyrics and when you know the back story behind the others they're more interesting. But the last two tracks pick it up again with two sweet pieces by Paul and John in I Will and Julia. Side Three is probably my favorite for its energy. Birthday is a joke but kudos to it being mostly improvised. And it is fun! Yer Blues is a solid blues attempt. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey is a hidden gem for rock lovers or lovers of early Beatles. Helter Skelter, like Yer Blues, shows the Beatles virtuosity in being able to do something heavy, pretty damn well. If they ended after Side Three I'd say it's 5-star. Side Four makes things iffy. Revolution is a great song with the musical arrangement on the eventual single, not with the one on this album (still good because it's lyrics are awesome). Honey Pie and Savoy Truffle grow on you but both are a bit juvenile. Cry Baby Cry is pretty good, but not as good as stuff on the other sides. Revolution 9 is terrible. Good Night sounds like the end to some cute kids movie; it's actually kind of endearing. Maybe I'm overweighting Side Four or some of the other so-so tracks but after an internal struggle I landed on 4-star.

If I had to pick one word to describe The White Album, it would be UNEVEN. The White Album has some of the Beatles' best songs, a bunch of ok but generally uninspiring (and often derivative) songs, and then some songs they should have left on the cutting room floor (e.g., Wild Honey Pie, Piggies, and Revolution 9). Basically, if they were to take the best songs and a few of the ok songs they'd have a great single album. Maybe the Beatles were over-convinced of their greatness, but someone needed to tell them NO on making it a double album (sounds like George Martin tried unsuccessfully). If I were to pick which songs to turn into an amazing single album, this would be the track listing. I added Hey Jude and the single version of Revolution because they were recorded in the same sessions but only released as singles. I kept the order they used, except for adding Hey Jude. I'd probably find a different spot for Julia because it's just too mellow to have Blackbird followed by Julia. Similarly, Helter Skelter is a little stark following Mother Nature's Son: Back in the USSR Dear Prudence Glass Onion Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (apparently a lot of people hate this, but I like it). While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Amazing song - of course, everyone should hear Prince's solo in the 2004 Rock Hall Tribute to George Harrison) Blackbird Julia (this is one of the ok ones I pulled in to fill up the single album) Birthday Mother Nature's Son (another ok one to fill the album) Helter Skelter Revolution (single version, but Revolution 1 is still good) Hey Jude (not on the album, but recorded during these sessions) Goodnight (always holds a special place for me because my son used to fall asleep listening to Jason Falkner's Bedtime with the Beatles and his version of Goodnight is magical). Total run time = slightly under 46 minutes. One great album, boys.

Some really great songs and some really weird songs.

I've listened to this album 10 000 times and I still can't remember anything about Long, Long, Long.

A wonderful Beatles album with a variety of songs. This album is long but being a fan of the Beatles it’s only appreciated. This album has a little bit of everything that made their other albums great. Obviously that means this one isn’t too cohesive or flowing but it doesn’t necessarily matter if you just want to hear more Beatles. Excellent album. 8.4/10

I've heard this one recently, so I will skip listening to it this time around. I feel like it's one of their least talked about records, despite it being so heavily praised. There's some great songs on here, but it's not all good. There's almost too much material here, so unless you already like The Beatles this won't do much for you. Easily a top 5 Beatles album for me, though.

I always eagerly look forward to this album and finish it disappointed. Some songs are among my favourites (including Blackbird, Martha, Glass Onion, Dear Prudence, while my guitar), others are quite poor. George Martin was right: should have been an amazing 2-sided LP, but we know selecting songs would have broken up The Beatles way before Let it be and Abbey Road. Pick and choose your favourites into a playlist and avoid the mishmash of great, awful, good, weak.

Some great songs, most of which you've already heard a thousand times. Some filler, some stuff that doesn't work. All in all it's decent. Could have been a killer single album.

It’s the white album. Nothing more needs to be said.

Some undeniable classics on here obviously, but there’s also some incredibly weird tracks (what the hell is Revolution 9?). I appreciate The White Album and it’s place in the top whatever albums, and it has some of my favourite Beatles songs, but are the 31 songs each a great listen, would I be listening to it in full regularly? No, probably not.

The Beatles on 'The Beatles' seem to be doing what beetles do best, often working alone, solitary, and independent of the others. You can almost feel them starting to distance themselves from one another. But all species evolve, and in their case they would adapt and move on, successfully. Think of some of this as the molting phase- ‘Glass Onion,’ ‘Helter Skelter,’ and ‘Long, Long, Long’ seem like flashbacks of the LSD influenced, 'The Magical Mystery Tour.' There’s also a splash of early Beatles’ here and there with ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ and ‘Birthday.’ But then there’s an awful lot of solo material from both Lennon and McCartney, almost as if they’re feeling their respective ways to wherever the next place is. Between Ringo’s obligatory good-natured but corny tune, ‘Don’t Pass My By,’ and just plain weird shit like ‘Revolution 9,’ 'The Beatles' tends to wander. But its still the Beatles, so its still great. At least the great parts are great. Out of the thirty songs, Lennon scored the best with eleven good ones, McCartney in second place with seven, and Harrison a solid four. However, if you consider Harrison’s average, four of four a winner, that’s batting a thousand my friends, just edging out Lennon, by contrast, with twelve out of thirteen. McCartney, unfortunately, had the same number of songs as Lennon, but five of those stunk (as well as a couple of their shared ones), giving him not much better than a 50% average. Mind you, this is purely my judgement, and adversely affected by offerings like ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ and ‘Honey Pie,’ McCartney numbers that Lennon referred to derisively as ‘granny music.’ So, my scores are admittedly subjective. But I’m going with that, and if you like to come along and wander with me just a bit farther down this path, I’d like to propose my own alternate LP track list, and on just one record, as opposed to the double album set on which we all grew up. Leaving the order untampered with, 'The Beatles': Side One: 1) Back in the U.S.S.R. 2) Dear Prudence 3) Glass Onion 4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5) Happiness Is a Warm Gun 6) Martha My Dear 7) I’m So Tired 8) Blackbird 9) Piggies 10) Rocky Raccoon 11) I Will Total Length: 28.41 Side Two: 1) Julia 2) Birthday 3) Yer Blues 4) Mother Nature’s Son 5) Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 6) Sexy Sadie 7) Long, Long Time 8) Revolution 1 9) Savoy Truffle 10) Cry Baby Cry 11) Good Night Total Length: 32.80 And the songs we left off? Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (my only Lennon reject), Don’t Pass Me By, Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?, Helter Skelter, Honey Pie, and Revolution 9. If it were in the name of making a tighter single record LP, are there any amongst these eight that you just couldn’t live without? Finally (drum roll), awards for the best four songs, one on each side, and side one’s pick should be no surprise: George Harrison’s ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps,’ with honorable mention for McCartney’s always unique melodic bass lines, at times playing entire chords and offering counter melodies and such. Side two goes to Sir Paul himself with ‘Rocky Raccoon.’ I remember this playing on the radio practically every time we climbed in my Dad’s big ol’ Pontiac Bonneville for a Sunday afternoon ride to Baskin r’ Robbins. Side three: the Lennon rocker, ‘Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey. Great guitars accompanying Lennon’s biting sarcasm and surreal lyrics. And my pick for side four: Another Harrison work, ‘Savoy Truffle.’ This sounds like something right off 'Revolver.' And special thanks to producer Chris Thomas for his terrific horn arrangement on this and others. I don’t know what this means exactly, but two of the best belonged to George, and along with Lennon’s one, most sound like the complete Beatles playing as a unit. Rocky Raccoon was pretty much all Paul. A shadow of things to come?

High points are obviously very high, there's no real consistency to the album though and some of it is very forgettable.

I mean, what is there to say except it's The Beatles' White Album. While My Guitar Gently Weeps has been among my most loved songs since the first time I heard it as a child. It still provokes emotion now, it's so beautiful. I didn't give this the full 5 because being forced to sing Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da in infant school has left scars. Not so much the singing but listening to 30 other seven year olds reguarly ruin it leaves lasting marks on a person.

Its the beatles. Some cool things but not really for me.

4, lots and lots on this, very long

Yeah it was good. Liked the production. T’was odd. Rocked hard in 68’. I’m really tired. The album was good. I’ve got blisters on my fingers.

Not my favorite but there’s an intimacy and a confidence that are really nice. Feels like this is making music especially for themselves, what they had inside wanting out. And it took until this listen to realize I’ve been playing Blackbird wrong.

Plenty of songs, loads of variety. Some real oddities but enough very good songs. Overall rather sprawling but it is a double album so offers room for experimentation.

I can respect being eclectic but holy shit dude. Almost every song on this album was good in its own right but had no continuity from one to the other. Also what the fuck was revolution 9. Back in the ussr and obladi = classics. Also liked the blues songs

Such a great and diverse album

This album is mostly great but the greatness is combined with some annoying experimental songs that left out would make this a solid five star experience. Now it is a mediocre four.

classic!

Good album; really interesting how it explores so many different styles.

I am very familiar with the band THE BEATLES and their ninth UK (or tenth US) studio album entitled, THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM, I like the album, but I’m not a big fan of their latter experimental work beginning with MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (1967). After listening to THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM, I still liked the album, there are some great songs, but still some throwaway tunes which bring the rating down. In 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, THE BEATLES’ self-titled/eponymous album (aka THE WHITE ALBUM) Is joined by following five BEATLES albums: WITH THE BEATLES (1963) / A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964) / RUBBER SOUL (1965) / REVOLVER (1966) / SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (1967) / ABBEY ROAD (1969) Rate Artist: THE BEATLES (4.50) Rate Album (Year): THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM) (UK 1968 Original) (4.0) Rate Album (Year): THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM) (UK 2018 Box Set) (4.0) Ranking of THE BEATLES - THE BEATLES (aka THE WHITE ALBUM) songs No. Title Length Ranking The Beatles (aka The White Album) CD1-001 Back In The U.S.S.R. 2:41 10.0/10 CD1-002 Dear Prudence 3:55 10.0/10 CD1-003 Glass Onion 2:18 09.0/10 CD1-004 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:08 10.0/10 CD1-005 Wild Honey Pie 0:53 07.0/10 CD1-006 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 3:13 09.0/10 CD1-007 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4:44 10.0/10 CD1-008 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2:44 08.0/10 CD1-009 Martha My Dear 2:28 08.0/10 CD1-010 I'm So Tired 2:02 07.0/10 CD1-011 Blackbird 2:18 10.0/10 CD1-012 Piggies 2:04 08.0/10 CD1-013 Rocky Raccoon 3:32 10.0/10 CD1-014 Don't Pass Me By 3:50 09.5/10 CD1-015 Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 1:41 07.5/10 CD1-016 I Will 1:46 09.0/10 CD1-017 Julia 2:54 07.5/10 CD2-018 Birthday 2:43 07.5/10 CD2-019 Yer Blues 4:01 09.5/10 CD2-020 Mother Nature's Son 2:46 08.0/10 CD2-021 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 2:24 08.0/10 CD2-022 Sexy Sadie 3:15 07.0/10 CD2-023 Helter Skelter 4:29 08.5/10 CD2-024 Long, Long, Long 3:07 07.0/10 CD2-025 Revolution I 4:15 10.0/10 CD2-026 Honey Pie 2:41 09.0/10 CD2-027 Savoy Truffle 2:54 07.0/10 CD2-028 Cry Baby Cry 3:01 08.0/10 CD2-029 Revolution 9 8:21 06.0/10 CD2-030 Good Night 3:13 07.0/10 US 2018 Box Set (20 Bonus) Release 252.0/300 = 8.40 / 2 = 4.20 Esher Demos CD3-031 Back In The U.S.S.R. 3:00 09.0/10 CD3-032 Dear Prudence 4:47 10.0/10 CD3-033 Glass Onion 1:55 07.0/10 CD3-034 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:10 10.0/10 CD3-035 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 2:40 09.0/10 CD3-036 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2:41 10.0/10 CD3-037 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 1:55 09.0/10 CD3-038 I'm So Tired 3:10 06.0/10 CD3-039 Blackbird 2:34 10.0/10 CD3-040 Piggies 2:05 08.0/10 CD3-041 Rocky Raccoon 2:44 10.0/10 CD3-042 Julia 3:56 07.0/10 CD3-043 Yer Blues 3:31 08.0/10 CD3-044 Mother Nature's Son 2:24 07.0/10 CD3-045 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 3:03 07.0/10 CD3-046 Sexy Sadie 2:26 07.0/10 CD3-047 Revolution 4:06 10.0/10 CD3-048 Honey Pie 1:59 09.0/10 CD3-049 Cry Baby Cry 2:27 09.0/10 CD3-050 Sour Milk Sea 3:43 06.0/10 US 2018 Box Set (20 Bonus) Release 420.0/500 = 8.40 / 2 = 4.20

I like it. Old classics.

4/5

The Beatles' White Album is an oft-discussed contender for greatest double album of all time, and has a runtime of roughly the same length as a feature film. This will test my patience. White Album has a strong first half, that much is for certain. Back in the USSR kicks things off with great energy, Dear Prudence is one of the best songs ever done by The Beatles, I actually enjoy Ob-La-Di for it's simple fun, the list goes on. Though there are weak spots along the way (looking at you, Wild Honey Pie), the eccentricity gives the album a sort of carefree fun quality. This serves a stark contrast from the album cover, which is nothing. Somewhere after Blackbird, I feel as though we've lost the plot. Sure, they're well-made songs, but they're songs that sort of just wash over me. One of the pitfalls of making so many great songs is that the good songs sound just okay. This is also a pitfall of double albums, in that it becomes difficult to maintain consistent quality the longer the tracklist gets. Sure, there are plenty of great songs to talk about on White Album, but there are an equal amount of songs that get lost in the mix. Piggies, I Will, Mother Nature's Son, and many others are perfectly fine songs that lose momentum due to the other tracks that are miles better. White Album is a lesson in Beatles songwriting. It showcases how they are both good musicians and fantastic songwriters. I mean, gosh, Helter Skelter did heavy metal a full year before Black Sabbath. And props to Revolution 9 for scaring the folks at home

The so-called White Album was an example of the change of mood in rock music towards a simpler and more traditional way of making music. It's an album my parents listened to and so I have a more emotional approach to it. (8/10) FT: While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Hapiness is a Warm Gun, Blacckbird, Dear Prudence

To say that White Album is experimental is like saying that grass is green and sky is blue. It's quite a mixed bag, it has some of The Beatles' best work and some of their least memorable. Regardless of inconsistency it's still an amazing achievement in their discography. Some bands can only dream to achieve the heights of this album but the Beatles have had even better ones. Truly one of the best bands of all time.

These Beatles seem to be good at that music thing. Favourite Songs: Dear Prudence. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm So Tired, Helter Skelter, Good Night

It's notable that a ninety-minute album can feel so purposely incomplete. The band is technically brilliant, but seem to be combining these songs toward an entirely different end than Sgt. Pepper's. The lynchpin of my reading is While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and my affection for that song is due in no small part to nostalgia. The first disc is killer; With the second, it seems a step down from the band's output. Still great to my ears, though this album seems extremely vulnerable to one's overall opinion of the Beatles.

A few duds on this one, but there are obviously some absolute stand outs.

it's a 4 I suppose. I'm not trying to be edgy by not giving it a 5, it's just ok to me. It starts off super strong and then gets a bit forgettable. And personally I've always found that Number 9 track extremely annoying.

A bloated classic. Would have been a great single album.

The best of this album IMO: - Glass Onion - Wild Honey Pie - Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Rocky Raccoon - Julia - Yer Blues - Sexy Sadie It lives up to the hype. Honestly super enjoyable. "Side one" is the best out of the four. Album is long though. 4.1/5

I think there are two kinds of people: those whose families listened to the Beatles and those who didn't. I'm in the 2nd category so even though I remember reading a John Lennon bio in high school and covered Back in the USSR, I never listened to the Beatles that much. I certainly didn't get the dance hall flourishes that they use on some of their songs. I knew a lot of the songs on this album because of covers so it was nice to listen to the whole album. It is especially interesting as a document about their trip to India.

It's the beatles!

A sprawling, messy album that highlights a pop sensibility backed with vaudeville and experimentalism, as well as some kick-ass guitar. Holds up a lot better than I'd remembered, especially on headphones.

Revolution 9 😍😍😍

Fitting that this comes up shortly after the release of Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary. Apparently the sessions for the White Album were the start of the fractures that led to the Beatles break up. Lennon even said "the break-up of the Beatles can be heard on that album". I guess it's a double-album in part because it's basically several solo albums jammed together and only 16 of the 30 tracks have all four members contributing. This definitely contributes to the album, it's all over the map musically. I find most double-albums to be a bit boring at some point but I think this avoids it mostly because it's so diverse. Some great stuff on here for sure but it's never really been my favorite Beatles record. This also becomes the point where Paul's contributions start to get a bit too saccharine. Also, small rant. I hate when people credit the Beatles for "inventing" all sorts of genres on this record. For instance people say they invented heavy metal and/or punk rock on Helter Skelter. I like the Beatles but this is a crazy statement. Both of these things are true: They are a great band and the most overrated band in history.

“Musically, there is beauty, horror, surprise, chaos, order. And that is the world; and that is what The Beatles are on about. Created by, creating for, their age.”

Not my favorite Beatles album. Very all over the place musically which is both its strength and weakness. The highs are very high the lows...well even the lows are pretty good. I want to give it 5 stars because it's very enjoyable, but it just isn't a 5 star album.

Some really classic Beatles and some wacky stuff too. 4/4 beatles

It's the Beatles, so it was good, but it's supposed to be one of their best. I just don't see how. Still good, all things considered.

7/10

First ever listen to that album! It’s a doozy. I see why folks put it in the list of best ever. Epic, and such a variety of sounds. Never been much of a Beatles fan—but respect where respect is due.

Grew up with this album so no chore here. Wildly uneven, starts with a piss take, ends with a piss take. Not sure even the Beatles wanted us to take this album seriously. Lots to enjoy, lots of fast forward.

7/10

Nice

I've actually never listened to the entire album because so many of the tracks from it are widely available. I found a lot of filler, but also a lot of nice gems. Revolution 1 is a nice alt version. Revolution 9 is an interesting avant garde track that is sure to raise a few eyebrows. I had to check twice that Good Night was by them because its sounded so different, Wiki informs me that the vocals are by Ringo and he can actually sing! Long, long, long and Yer Blues are good. But despite the filler there's a lot of killer. The strength of this album is the fact that its all over the map but it still hangs together quite well.

damn this is an hour and a half long? But theres a ton of good songs on here and some deep(not that deep) cuts that arent referenced in the Beatles doscog

Not a big beatles fan but I enjoyed most of this album

There are many great songs on this album most on disc 1. However, it did not need to be two discs. Disc two suffers and only a couple of songs are noteworthy.

Some of finest

Beatlesin parhaimmistoa oleva ylipitkä lätty. Sisältää monta hittibiisiä, jonkin verran täytebiisejä ja sitten himpun verran ihan täyttä sekoilua (tai äänitaidetta, jota en ymmärrä). Tämän olisi voinut tiivistää yhdeksi täysin timanttiseksi levyksi, niin vitonen olisi ollut taattu. Mikähän siinä on aikanaan ollut, että kaikista Beatles-levyistä on tullut sekametelisoppaa, vai onko se juuri se juttu, että koskaan ei tiedä mitä seuraavaksi tapahtuu? Omat suosikkibiisit löytyy ykköslevyn alusta, U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence ja Glass Onion.

Normaaliin Beatles-tyyliin aika hajanainen (ja tällä kertaa myös ylimittainen) kokonaisuus. Parhaimmillaan jumalaisen hienoja sävellyksiä (While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Glass Onion, Blackbird, I Will), mutta huteja löytyy enemmän kuin monelta muulta Beatles-levyltä. Pääosin kuitenkin erittäin nautinnollista musisointia musiikkihistorian merkittävimmältä orkesterilta. Ei edelleenkään ihan vitosen arvoinen kokonaisuus levyn selkeiden puutteiden takia, mutta erittäin vahvalla nelosella mennään.

Marvellous album, though could probably be edited down into something even better.

Never listened to it in it's entirety before. A lot better than I was expecting somehow.

It's a corker even if not my cup of tea. Jaunty and weird.

Kill ur darlings in would say

Not my favorite Beatles album but still great material.

Pretty good album.

Can't stand the Honey Pie songs, Bungalow Bill, and especially Revolution #9, but there's a ton to like here. The most uneven album of their later years, but still has so many essential songs. Best track: Dear Prudence

Un poco ya sabíamos todxs que esperar. Debo decir que, aunque nunca había escuchado todo el álbum, “Blackbird” y “Helter Skelter” sí son dos canciones que me gustan bastante. Mención honorífica incluso a “Birthday” por divertida

He intentado que me gusten los Beatles de una manera que no he intentado, creo, con nadie más, jaja. Sin embargo, no sé, no logran cuajar en mí. Luego tanta influencia (asumo) hace que muchas cosas me suenen a los Beatles, o incluso con bandas en el momento, como Pink Floyd. Agradable este disco, con altibajos para mí o sin mucha cohesión. No logro encontrar voces distintivas, pero la instrumentación está suave. "Dear Prudence", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "The Continuing Story..." (que se parece mucho a Pink Floyd), "Rocky Raccoon" (muy divertida, todo suena bonito además) y "Savoy Truffle" (que The Kills ahora pienso homenajearon con "Bitter Fruit") fueron las que más me gustaron. El final, al menos la edición remasterizada de dos discos, con "Revolution 9" y "Good Night" se me hizo muy extraño. Más parece el inicio de otro disco y la primera pues muy buena en su experimentación, la segunda suena a canción de cuna, justo, y que pudo usarse en La Bella Durmiente de Disney. 8/10

5th August 2021 Listened in the morning and throughout the day on my phone while working. One of the most influential albums ever, I'm not sure how I feel about the more experimental aspects of this but no doubting it's place in history. Number 8

The only album worthy of 2

I can tell it's objectively good - but it's still not my favorite music I've heard!

Not the Beatles' best album, but it's definitely one of their best. Some favourites included While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Glass Onion, and Sexy Sadie.

Nicht Ihr bestes, aber halt Beatles

Had decided long ago that I did not particularly enjoy The Beatles. Guess I hadn’t listened to this in a long time because I was definitely wrong. 4.5 out of 5 for me.

Thoughts: I mean, it's a classic Beatles album. Some *very* high highs here, but this double album is very front loaded - I skip 7 of the last 11 songs.

love anything by them!

Kinda crazy this was made in 1968 as it sounds like a lot of stuff made after it, really goes to show how influential the Beatles have been on music! Catchy vocals, driving guitar chords, rock music was never the same haha favs - Blackbird, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Excellent album and a true classic. My only wish was that the album was a bit shorter. I think some songs could be cut. My mom listened to this album a lot, and I've only now realized just how much.

Very weird. Each song was a different experience.

I feel a little indoctrinated already but hits are hits and there were too many to ignore. This album went from cringe to experimental to pop classics and was both fun and foundational throughout. Was very long with many songs that lacked much cohesion or flow.

I’m conflicted by this album. It was the first Beatles album I ever listened to, and it has them at their most experimental, but it also has just so many bad songs: “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” and “Revolution 1” particularly stand out (no, I did not mistype “9” there; I said “1” and I meant “1”). The Beatles’ worst songs are all on this album. At the same time, I love it; I just recognize it takes a lot of effort to love it. I will say the production on this album is phenomenal. Favourite track: “Happiness Is a Warm Gun”

There are so many interesting ideas in this album. I loved the parodies of the Beach Boys, and there were lots of memorable guitar licks and chord progressions. Some of the Beatles' most creative work.

I really enjoy listening to this album - my favourite songs are Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Martha My Dear and I Will. But there are some songs that I don't enjoy so that's why I'm giving it a 4/5 stars.

THIS IS LORDE - MELODRAMA

About three times as long as it should be. Some great, timeless songs here though.

Its not perfect, but it tells the story of the Beatles better than any other album. As discussed, you can make an easy 5 star album out of it, but for the presence of a few fillers (and the fact Revolver is better), it gets 4.

Un commentaire sous forme de mea-culpa: il est de notoriété publique que j'ai consacré une grande partie de mon existence à critiquer la trinité du surcotage Beatles/Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones, la presence des Beatles dans ce groupe de privilégiés étant en grande partie dûe à leur affreux tube Yellow Submarine. Force est de constater que cet album est de grande qualité, c'est donc une grande partie de ma personnalité musicale qui s'effondre, la trinité n'étant desormais plus qu'un duo. Messieurs Beatles, vous ne perdez rien pour attendre, Pink Floyd/Rolling Stones: à très vite

solid

very much a mix of greats and rubbish. Beatles in crisis. Skipped quite a few tracks. Blackbird on headphones

Solid album. Some epic songs. It's fascinating to me the variation in Lennon and McCartney's songwriting style, it feels like your feeling different influences coming through even if both were credited.

Another classic

Takes a few listens before the ‘filler’ tracks start to make a bit more sense. There’s a lot of good stuff on here

Good album but a few filler tracks

4/5 Everything has been said about this from others

classik

a melange of Beatles classics. An interesting amount of unvarnished satirical raw energy. Enough variety that some of the lesser tracks fall through the cracks.

An eclectic collection, but I can't say I didn't enjoy some of the tracks even if some of the lyrics are nonsensical. The fact that my hearing issues make me not able to listen binaurauly probably impacted my enjoyment a good bit since it seems they used those types of soundscapes often.

I stand by what i said about the Beatles when we reviewed the Rolling Stones. The amazing highs here (Back in the USSR, While my Guitar, Blackbird, Helter Skelter) are soaring and better than anything the Stones ever did. Most of the album tracks wouldn't have made a stones b-side and are well below average. Some of the album tracks however are majestic (Yer Blues, honey pie, Rocky Raccoon). Did this need to be a double album and 30 songs long? No. There's a perfect 11 or 12 song album in there somewhere- its just a little bloated. Was it a massive step forward for rock n roll music globally? Absolutely. Did I enjoy listening for the first time since my post Oasis beatles phase in the early noughties? Of course I did. The lows are too low for a 5. but lets remember the highs! 4/5

We need to do more drugs

Quite a varied influence here from soul blues and rock to music hall style.

Merka at jeg er litt ferdig med beatles, men det er jo et godt album.

Re-listening for the generator; catching up to this one late to give it the continuous listen it deserves. So much interesting varied material; some of which, like the achingly beautiful "Blackbird", I saw Paul himself play in the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University in 2017. Awesome show, great album. (P.S. - "Good Night" is one of the best closers ever, particularly as the chaser to the legendarily inscrutable "Revolution 9".) 8/10

very listenable

Beaucoup de classique sur cette album, mais pas mon pref des beatles. 4.75

not really a fan of double albums. should have been 1 album of really good songs

Albumet starter ganske svakt, men med en gang WMGGW starter, er det en syk opptur. Når album 2 kommer, går det ganske opp og ned. Mange sykt fine eller kule sanger, ispedd med noen jeg ikke er så fan av. Alt i alt, et veldig bra album med høye høydepunkt, med noen ganske store dypp.

Sexy sadie bester Song

I mean, what can you say about this album that hasn't been said? It's such a complete experience to listen to this album, even though some songs are simple, and poppy, there are songs like "Yer Blues" that are sadly unheard by people, which is criminal. this is definitely one of my top 20 albums i'll probably ever hear in my life.

Classic

Yup. A few tracks that are just blatantly bad but with over 30 tracks and a handful of gems, it’s an easy 4.

Some weird and skippable tracks on this album but the good tracks are so good they make the whole listen worth it

good but not good enough

There's a bunch of rubbish on here, but also some ab so lute slappers

absolute classic innit man

My album today is the White Album by the Beatles. There looks to be a lot of upheaval during the recording of this album. And people talk about how fragmented and disjointed the album is. It's also the first album where Yoko Ono became part of the recording process apparently. Which affected the connection between Lennon and McCartney. I think it's always something that sounded like the individual parts of the album didn't always come together to make a cohesive presentation like other albums. But there are songs and moments on the album that stand up there with any of the major work that the Beatles have done. It's always been a great listen, no matter where I've been in my life. Maybe just because it's not as polished or thematically connected like previous ones - people don't like it?

Listened to this a fair bit several decades ago... Many great pieces but I'm not sure that it holds up so well as other selections from the band's catalog. Some serious self indulgence and filler in the mix.

Excellent

Fantastic album with some of my favorite songs (Glass Onion, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter), but there's also some filler. Did we really need piggies?

Way too long. 5 or so great songs, a few lesser heard good songs, and some awful songs.

Lots of good songs, but lots of ok songs

This was my self-appointed "favorite Beatles album" when I was a kid (despite not hearing all of the Beatles albums). I'm not sure it holds up to it's reputation. Some great songs on here-- Blackbird, Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da, Helter Skelter-- but there's also a lot of just plain weirdness, and very ego-centric "we can do no wrong" energy, with a lot of songs seeming like they could probably use a little more studio precision. This was the beginning of the end for this band, so the schizophrenic nature of the record makes sense. Still a solid outing, the Beatles are one of the greatest of all time for a reason.

Even though the album was too long and had too many fillers, it was still an interesting and enjoyable album

En meget blandet omgang. Flere vildt gode sange men også meget lettere fjollet

d1 - 5 d2 - 3.5

Some good ones.

I like it

Its a bit all over the place with mixed genres, but still somehow, much like Sandinista by The Clash, the end result come together(!) as a great album. Had no idea Eric Claption played guitar on Whil My Guitar Gently Weeps!

This album is among the weirder and eclectic ones, from the more eclectic and weird period of the Beatles. It has strong songs mixed with weird and somewhat boring tracks, but a weak Beatles album remains a strong album overall. Can't get to Rubber Soul fast enough!

Non il mio preferito ma ci sono una serie di pezzi iconici

First listen favorites: Happiness is a warm gun Don't pass me by Revolution 9 Honorable mentions: Martha my dear Why don't we do it in the road (lmao)

70% good, 30% utter shite.

Onhan tuolla ykköslevyllä paljon hyvää kamaa, mutta kakkoslevyllä menee aika kuraks. Menemme siis välimallin kolmosella.

Beautiful and weird, all over the place in a good way

Meh

6/10

Picked up a bit in the final few songs (Cry Baby Cry’s my favorite on here) but a lot of filler for what I expected to be a masterpiece. Should’ve ended with whatever the hell Revolution 9 is versus Good Night

Beatles on hyvä bändi, ei sitä käy kiistäminen. Onko se kuitenkaan niin loistava bändi, että se voisi tehdä puolitoistatuntisen mestariteoksen, jossa on 30 loistavaa biisiä? Ei ole. Tämä ei ole huono albumi mutta aivan tarpeettoman pitkä se on ja se syö myös laatua. Jos levyllä olisi 9-14 levyn parasta biisiä, voisii tälle antaa kenties 4-5/5. Nyt ei voi antaa kuin 3/5 vaikka miten on Beatlesia ja vieläpä klassikkoalbumi. Aiemmin listalla ollut Sgt peppers on parempi Beatles-albumi. 3/5

Not bad, but not great either. A lot of skippable nonsense, with a few solid songs. My first Beatles album, and I had extreme fatigue by the time I got to Disc 2. I'm no stranger to long albums or songs, but they need to be worth it, and this album was most certainly not.

First impression: Back in the USSR is an awesome tune so when I first put this on I had high hopes (I was an avid Beatles listener at one point, but it’s been awhile and the white album never really interested me so it was a semi fresh listen) yet I was met with utter disappointment. Sure dear prudence is an alright song but there are some tracks on this album where you can tell they were high off their rocker. I mean revolution 9?? It sounds like analog horror so I guess you can say it was ahead of its time. Other tracks like why don’t we do it in the road, piggies, wild honey pie were uninspiring. However I must admit tracks like Back in the USSR, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, I Will, Helter Skelter are spectacular. Additionally I noticed a romanticization/ fetish for guns in this album with tracks like Bungalow Bill, Happiness is a Warm Gun (notably a great track), Rocky Raccoon so idk exactly how I feel about that theme. What I’m certain of though is my feelings towards the song blackbird. I know technically it’s an amazing song, but it annoys me beyond end (maybe due to it being so overplayed). Overall a decent album, but I prefer their earlier stuff to be honest. Favourite Track: While my Guitar Gently Weeps (Helter Skelter is a close second) One sentence: John, George, Paul, Ringo… what shrooms were you guys on??? Will I revisit? Mainly spectacular tracks

Too long, a lot of filler here but still some great songs nonetheless

Good

The Beatles have some weird, experimental songs! I think I prefer some covers over the original (ie While My Guitar Gently Weeps) I really like their bluesy songs Conflicted because some of my all time favorites are on here. Yet there's some stuff on here that I'm just not into.

Very tight and clean musicality. Some big hits, some are more experimental (had kind of a punk song?) Overall enjoyable.

The first track is rlly good and I didn’t realise this is what my friend was singing Back in the ussr 🎵 🎶 The rest is kinda boring I’m sorry 😢 Why am I apoligising 😭😭😭😭

overall a very good album. some great songs with a few that perhaps were more relevant/interesting when this came out but just haven't aged well. I own this album and listen to it sporadically - not sure I would buy it today though, so only a 3

Obladi obalada

30곡이라니 길-어 크리스마스 느낌 나는 노래 많음 베스트: Good night

яке юсср..

How do you rate a hot mess like this? A few absolute classics and influential tracks but a lot of weirdness and very little cohesion. A band pulling itself apart. Exciting! Good?

Great album, I’ve just heard it far too much

It sounds like an album from a band who are ready to go their separate ways. It gives everyone their moment but this leads to it being an inconsistent mess. Judicious editing would have cut this down to a potentially great album but it misses more often than it hits, though the hits are great. This may have been down to a reluctance to offend members of the group… Compare this to Pet Sounds, where every song serves a purpose and has its own story to tell, and you see how much of a mess this is…

I’m going to be controversial here and say I didn’t think this was as great as others might. There are some obviously great songs on here (‘dear prudence’, ‘while my guitar gently weeps’ (since hugely overplayed but I think the original holds up well), and ‘blackbird’) but there are some duff songs too (‘wild honey pie’, ‘don’t pass me by’, ‘savoy truffle’). Overall it just seems to lack the focus and musical storytelling of many of their other albums in favour of a quantity over quality approach. I found the stylistic changes jarring at times and though that might appeal to some, it didn’t use the album as a vehicle to provide as cohesive an artistic vision as something like ‘revolver’ does.

Me gustó. Ya había escuchado algunas canciones del álbum, las más famositas, y siguen siendo excelentes. Por ahí se hace largo el disco, no es tanto un problema porque las canciones son ingeniosas y muy "beatle". Tienen ese sonido distinguible muy de ellos, de los 60' entre el pop y el rock y la psicodelia. Por momentos se hace excesivo, pero lo escucharía de vuelta. 7/10

I’ve been wanting to listen to this album for ages !! The Beatles are iconic obviously, and so is this album. My fav song by them is on this album !! Fav song is ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’.

This showcases their versatility but it comes across very disjointed. No denying the mania they inspired but to listen today isn’t special.

A nice album marking a new stylistic evolution for The Beatles. Gone are the days of fun, quirky pop ; it's a very modern-sounding record, with some songs straight-up going into experimental territory (like the amazing Revolution 9 - I would absolutely listen to 60 minutes of that !). It's really a mixed pot, though. I guess the popularity of this record is due to the fact that it features so many different styles that everyone can find something in it. I really like some of the songs (Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter...), but many others leave me indifferent, and a couple of them just annoy me. The Beatles have always been hit-or-miss for me - most of their albums have some brilliant songs, but fail to keep me entertained all the way through. I fully acknwoledge their importance, but they're just not that special to me. This one is also too long for my taste. It's hard to keep focused for 30 tracks in a row (and it was probably not meant to be listened like that, anyway). I'll come back to some of the songs, but not the full album. 6/10

One of the better ish Beatles albums

not a big fan of the beatles. but not a bad album

I'm not trying to be edgy, I just don't understand the hype 3

It mostly sounds like themepark music to me :< Do like while my guitar gently weeps

Oh the Beatles, I will never be able to form a solid opinion on you, but this was fine?

solid, but not a favorite

Hard to bash a band like the Beatles, and this album is so beloved that I feel I have to tread lightly. If you have a favorite band, you will no doubt have a favorite album. And if you have a favorite album, by extension you must have a least favorite album. And The Beatles (aka White Album) is my least favorite Beatles album. Which is hard to say, harder to defend. But here goes... We've previously had this debate at our house about this album. There are some GREAT and all-time songs on this album. But there is some genuine crap on there, too. Always felt if you could just cut out the garbage and pare it down to a single LP, this would have been one of their best. Of all time. A product of their extended voyage of discovery to India in 1968, Lennon and McCartney claimed some of their best songs were created at this time. Is Blackbird one of the best songs ever written? Yes, yes it is. Is Julia a great song? Yes. Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da is an absolute classic. Try NOT singing along with it when it comes on. Rocky Raccoon, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Why Don't We Do It In The Road... All bangers. On the other hand, Sexy Sadie and Piggies will always be overshadowed by the film Helter Skelter. Wild Honey Pie, Glass Onion, and Revolution 9? Dogs. Did Revolution 9 drive Charles Manson insane? It certainly could have. It probably was a short drive, if you know what I'm saying. I really see in this album the fracturing of the Beatles as the world knew them, and likely the "beginning of the end." They only recorded a couple more albums before they said, "That's it." The infighting and lawsuits and money just became too much. And don't get me started on Linda... Like I said, great songs here. Just not great start-to-finish. My lowest rating for a Beatles album, no doubt.

Nice

I'm quite a weather vane when it comes to the Beatles. Sometimes it's just too pop and mostly annoying. This album just feels decent on the Beatles scale for some reason and has a good vibe.

I tried to give a fuck but I just couldn’t

Good album, but u didn't think I will be searching out for a vibe. I did really like Revolution 9 though - the Hip Hop lover in me? 3.5

I would have rated it higher if it wasn't a double album. There's absolutely wonderful stuff in there, but the weaker material drags it down. Still a very enjoyable album.