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White Album (Ltd Ed Numbered Reissue)

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White Album (Ltd Ed Numbered Reissue)
Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything they can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up “Back in the USSR” and the British blooze parody “Yer Blues” are delivered straight-faced, so it’s never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with “Dear Prudence” and “Julia”; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrete collage “Revolution 9″; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo’s closing number, “Good Night”; celebrates the Beatles cult with “Glass Onion”; and, with “Cry Baby Cry,” rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn’t reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning — the music-hall romp “Honey Pie”, the mock country of “Rocky Raccoon”, the ska-inflected “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and the proto-metal roar of “Helter Skelter.” Clearly, the Beatles’ two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it’s clear from “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” the canned soul of “Savoy Truffle,” the haunting “Long Long Long,” and even the silly “Piggies” that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp “Don’t Pass Me By.” None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess.

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide


Product Specification :

Release Date :08/19/1987
Format :Audio CD
UPC :724349689527
Label :Capitol
List Price :34.98

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10 comments so far

stevegte
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This album is totally awesome - has so many different sounding songs on it. Everyone contributes and it's great. The only songs on this album that are sub par is revolution #9 -which is not a song, but a mystery and Goodnight which is like a child's song.
A must have for any Beatles fan!
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October 13th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
klssn@sbcglobal.net
 2 

wide selection with complete listings of songs on cd/album. makes it easy to find an old favorite when you can only remember either the title or album title alone.
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October 13th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
beatlesfans20
 3 

i like this one too OFCOURSE the first cd is way better than the 2nd one though songs like 1 3 4 7 9 10 11 12 14 16 17 RULE the others are good as well but not as good
but it is certainly not their best
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October 13th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
hedi8302
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This isn’t my favorite Beatles album, there’s so much crap on this album. They should have released it on single record and made one good compilataion .
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am
skinnydaisy
 5 

This is maybe the Beatles masterpiece. It changed rock history. Everything is amazing in it, just buy it
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October 14th, 2009 at 12:44 am
bommrock
 6 

This is one of the Beatles best. Some groundbreaking material here that changed rock.
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October 14th, 2009 at 1:14 am
dr_ass2001
 7 

THIS ALBUM IS ON THE PURPLE CAPITOL LABEL IN MY COLLECTION OF OVER 500 VINYL RECORD ALBUMS. MY STEREO MAKES MY FABULOUS ALBUMS SOUND LIKE NEW A FEW SCRATCHES. SORRY NOT FOR SALE I TREASURE MY BABIES.
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October 14th, 2009 at 1:55 am
mbstacy90
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For a band that was previously known by many for slickly produced (i.e. Seargent Pepper’s) and sometimes sappy pop rock (i.e. A Hard Day’s Night), The White Album permanently placed The Beatles in a whole new light to rock music fans…It established them as not just the best looking or most radio welcome POP bands but as one of the best if not the best ROCK band in the world. Where Seargent Pepper’s was sonically and melodically superior to previous albums, The White Album pushed their musical and song writing boundaries into beautifully powerful uncharted rock territories. Unlike previous Beatles albums which seemed to center more around the radio single there are more than a few harder rocking, experimental, and less radio friendly songs such as Revolution 1, Helter Skelter, Yer Blues, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and Revolution 9. These type of songs, although hinted at on earlier records such as Revolver and Rubber Soul, did not come to fruition until the White Album. The addition of this style to Beatles songwriting repertoire greatly contributed to the diversity and appeal of The White album. Its influence on the rock music that has followed is immeasureable.
Of course on The White Album as with every Beatles record there are plenty of the type of sweetly melodic songs the Beatles were known for such as While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, and Mother Nature’s Son.
The combination of hard rockers, mellow mid-tempos, and everything in between makes the White Album a collection of songs as diverse and strong as any album ever recorded. From Back in the USSR to Good Night it takes the listener on a trip full of emotions and surprises with each and every irresistibly inviting turn. No one song is at all like the next however like any great record there seems to be a common yet inexplicable thread throughout tying it all together into an intriguing and thought provoking musical package. The thing I find particularly amazing is that although there are 30 songs on the record it seems neither too long nor too short - another attribute of a great record. Songs such as Dear Prudence, Birthday, and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da are both like nothing you’ve ever heard before and yet somehow sound strangely familiar - an important charteristic of great songs.
The White Album, which I believe to be the most creatively diverse and powerful of all the great Beatles records, was a triumphant turning point in their career and spurred them down the path towards more classic however I believe less groundbreaking work on Let it Be and Abbey Road.
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October 14th, 2009 at 2:29 am
abeatlesno1fan
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i loved all the harrison contributions
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October 14th, 2009 at 3:17 am
wolfsblood66210
 10 

the beatles show their excellence on every track. i might have tossed Goodnight into the dustbin in favor of one more classic song like What’s the New Mary Jane, but all else is perfect
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October 14th, 2009 at 4:04 am

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