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The Beatles (The White Album) |  | Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 2695
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
MPN: 46443
UPC: 077774644327
EAN: 0077774644327
ASIN: B000002UAX
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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Disc 1
| • | Back in the U.S.S.R. | | • | Dear Prudence | | • | Glass Onion | | • | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | | • | Wild Honey Pie | | • | Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | | • | Happiness Is a Warm Gun | | • | Martha My Dear | | • | I'm So Tired | | • | Blackbird | | • | Piggies | | • | Rocky Raccoon | | • | Don't Pass Me By | | • | Why Don't We Do It in the Road? | | • | I Will | | • | Julia |
Disc 2
| • | Birthday | | • | Yer Blues | | • | Mother Nature's Son | | • | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey | | • | Sexy Sadie | | • | Helter Skelter | | • | Long, Long, Long | | • | Revolution 1 | | • | Honey Pie | | • | Savoy Truffle | | • | Cry Baby Cry | | • | Revolution 9 | | • | Good Night |
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Media Type: CD
Artist: BEATLES
Title: BEATLES (WHITE ALBUM)
Street Release Date: 01/01/1987
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording
Better known as the "White Album," this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ("Revolution #9"), this has it all. Some records have legend written all over them; this is one. --Chris Nickson
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 One of The Beatles best albums March 8, 2010
Robert Blank (Arcadia, FL USA)
I have had this album on vinyl ever since it came out but until nowI had no way to play it. This album is great! It shows how versatile the Beatles were, it has some music from various genres.
 never judge a album by it's cover...especially a blank one February 25, 2010
dpstq (Fl)
One can look back at The Beatles albums and find a great collection of work that spans seven consistent years. But if looked at in a introspective way, they become a snapshot of the band's state of mind.
Please Please Me - Help! where the days of the clean, teen, mod-top band. Rubber Soul & Revolver where the pills that opened there minds to what they could do in terms of grand techniques for making a album and Sgt. Pepper was there rocket that took there imagination more higher & more bright, it was an explosion that made everyone aware. Mystery Tour was then the sparkles that floated down & around off of Pepper. Then once all of this excitement ends, then comes the blank out stage...in the form of The White Album.
When people heard Pepper for the first time, the band was at the point where everything on the album was a great leap forward, with The White Album nothing is recognizable. Each member is in his own respected corner for making the type of song he wants in whatever way (which may answer the question of the album's blank cover...there are no boundaries.) This is like a blindfold type of album, you can't see where it's going or where it's coming from, but the experience you hear along the way is amazing yet odd at the same time.
This can also be seen as The Beatles stepping out of sight and becoming a third person view, giving way to the song "Glass Onion" about there cult as a band, but at the same time disregarding the band as a whole & focusing on what one member wants out of himself. This all adds up to a variety of sounds, to the dance around beat of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", camp fire folk sing-a-long of "Bungalow Bill", the loud roaring sound of "Helter Skelter" and the non-fan favorite "Revolution 9", which makes sense to have before a song like "Good Night". As "Revolution 9" sounds like a blurry dream that slowly turns into a confusing nightmare, but once it's done with, the rock a bye lullaby of "Good Night" steps in. Plus, "Revolution 9" can be shown as the highlight, because more then any other song, it in-bodies the "no rules free-for-all" spirit of the album.
With the White Album, it presents itself as a body of work that is nothing...but a free roaming net that will catch anything in its path, then it will unconsciously make the best it can with whatever it has...which is what makes the album astounding.
White album rules! February 4, 2010
Mitchell Abrahams (Miami, Florida)
Don't let the minimalism of the all white album cover fool you. The content is anything but that.
What a prolific album and musical group. Their hiatus in India brought new found awareness to their writing and creativity. So much so that they ended up making the album a two record set. The content was so extensive and fresh that they didn't want to leave anything out. Some very raunchy and rough rock-and roll (ie: "Why don't we do it in the road" which is one of my least favorites on the album and "Helter Skelter")to 1920's Vaudeville (ie: "Honey Pie")not to be confused with "Wild Honey Pie" which is nothing more than a 52 second dity of scales. Yet the beatles somehow make the most simplest melodys and hooks sound great. This album contains ballads (ie: "The Continuing Story of Bugalow Bill" and "Rocky Racoon") and some country. Yes, Beatles play crountry ie: "Don't Pass Me Buy" a la Ringo.
Some Blues "Yer Blues", a mix of a lot of fun songs "Obla De Obla Da", and what would the Beatles be without their Love songs: "Julia", "I Will" (my personal favorite). With so much content the album still manages to have some sort of cohesiveness. They shared their personal lives with us through their music.
Political statements with "Revolution", "Blackbird" and Harrison's "Piggies" and their addictions with drugs, ie: "Happiness is a warm gun", "Everyone's got something to hide except for me and my monkey" and if you want some fun, take Ob-la-de, La-da. Ob-la-de, Ob-la-da is also asking you to see things from the other side as our rolls in life change. The psycadelic and erie "Glass Onion" does the same in a mix of political statements (see how the other half lives) and their own lives. Let's all look through a glass onion.
I think that what the Beatles had that no other group has been able to accomplish is to get to the roots of Rock and Roll. Blues, Country, and Jazz = Rock and Roll. And they don't forget that! With the likes of "Birthday" and their own tribute to the Beach Boys with "Back in the U.S.S.R." As a matter of fact, i originally thought it was the Beach Boys when it fist came out. This CD has it all! Listen for the classical strings they add to their songs.
My original white album has the ware and tear of endless hours of listening fun. And it has the scratches to prove it! With this CD i hear much more than i ever knew was there. So i'm experiencing this album all over again. But it does seem a little forced by the computer age. The cleanliness of the music makes it sound too contrived. That's my own personal feeling. There's something about siting on the floor crossleg and going through the album's paraphanailia while it's playing on a stero phonograph that is missed these days. Good luck trying to play the end of "I'm so tired" backwards to hear john say "Paul is dead man". LOL Why didn't they make a seperate section on the CD for that kind of stuff, that would be really cool, all cleaned up, we'd be able to clearly hear what john said. Or maybe the mysterious words should probably stay that way.
Overall the CD is great! There's a little documentary about them which is nice but i thought it could have been more detailed, longer, and more creatively done. But that is a minor setback compared to the content of this massive collection of creativity. I like it better than Sgt. Pepper, because its raw and not as finely finished as St, Pepper was. But they were always about change and moving foward. And that they did.
Hope you enjoy "The Beatles"
Yoko's best work January 21, 2010
William Milsten (Jacksonville, FL United States)
This is one of Yoko's best albums. Yes, you can barely hear her on any of the tracks, and yes those other guys are really annoying, but you must get past the clutter to find the gem inside. This is Yoko's best work.
just in time for Christmas January 17, 2010
J. Ballard (USA)
I was a little late getting around to buying this album. I went to every store in town trying to find it with no luck. I decided to look online and take a chance for it to be delivered before Christmas. I got it with a few days to spare! The CD was new and sounds great. He loved it!
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