there are some fine ideas here and beautiful analysis, but then after all of that it would not be The White Album, but something else.
Music - great and wonderful stuff. Better than Snapple.

I think any double album is going to be picked apart by music dorks trying to make a "better" playlist. Some deserve this treatment, others don't. I love the eccentricity of this album, though, so I'd keep it as is.

quote:

Originally posted by Chamberk:
I think any double album is going to be picked apart by music dorks trying to make a "better" playlist.

I prefer music geek, thanks.

quote:

Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

quote:

Originally posted by Chamberk:
I think any double album is going to be picked apart by music dorks trying to make a "better" playlist.

I prefer music geek, thanks.

Hey, be glad I didn't go with my first instinct and say music nerd! :P

Nerd would be fine, "dork" implies penis-- or at least that's the connontation I've always had. Geek and Nerd just signify misfit. I'm perfectly fine with being a misfit, I hope I'm not a dick.

hey, a musical penis would be worth quite a bit.
Skin flute.
!!!

quote:

Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
Nerd would be fine, "dork" implies penis-- or at least that's the connontation I've always had. Geek and Nerd just signify misfit. I'm perfectly fine with being a misfit, I hope I'm not a dick.

Dork is a whale's penis. Geek is a man who bites the heads off chickens.

...

Live chickens.

Yummy!

Saying that "dork" means "penis" in this day and age is like saying that "indie music" is "music released by independent labels."

Oh, I went there.

BUMP!

Now that I've finally listened to The Beatles in its entirety, I think I should comment (not that my opinion is really any different, but I feel more permitted to speak than when I hadn't heard it.) It's not the "singularly gripping musical experience" AMG led me to believe I might have, but was really more "frustratingly scattershot". But even then, I wouldn't change it. Even with my "don't compromise the artist's vision" kind of mindset put aside, honestly, my favorite songs on the so called "White Album" are all the silly ones - Rocky Raccoon, Don't Pass Me By, Revolution 9, and especially Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (probably one of my favorite songs ever, 'tis a wall of happy.) I liked a lot of the more serious tracks too, but I think that sense of humor is what carried it for me (interestingly, I did fall asleep toward the end, so it passes the double album benchmark )

WTF.

This is my playlist, which I've worked on for a LONG time --

SIDE ONE
Back in the USSR
Julia
Wild Honey Pie (ending only with Spanish guitar lick)
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Martha My Dear
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
I Will
Honey Pie
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey

SIDE TWO
Glass Onion
Dear Prudence
I'm so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Revolution 1
Goodnight

Comments: I always hated Helter Skelter, Revolution 9, Don't Pass Me By, Wild Honey Pie, Long Long Long, Birthday, Yer Blues, and Sexy Sadie. I like Cry Baby Cry, especially the Paul section, but John's section seems a little half-baked (great chords, though). Mother Nature's Son is a nice song, but sloppily produced. Ob-La-Di I loved as a child, but now annoys me to no end. Savoy Truffle almost made it onto the album, but it's not a great song. Best songs: Dear Prudence, Back in the USSR, I'm so tired, Blackbird, . . . Me and My Monkey, Rocky Raccoon, Revolution 1. Songs that I think are slightly underrated that I would never axe: . . . Bungalow Bill, Piggies, Why Don't We Do It in the Road?. Songs that I think are good, but only if in the proper sequence: Goodnight, Honey Pie, Martha My Dear. Good songs (near great): Glass Onion, While My Guitar . . ., I Will, Julia, Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Glass Onion is a fantastic Side Two opener. My version has four John Lennon songs in a row, but I think they flow extremely well together, and his songs, with the exception of Back in the USSR, Blackbird, and Rocky Raccoon, are leaps and bounds above the others. His singing especially on Glass Onion and I'm so tired are the highlights of the album.

This version of the album also loosely ties up thematically. It opens up with a Beach Boys parody, and (nearly) closes with a somewhat Beach Boys-like song (which is to me perhaps the best produced song on the album, and would have made a great single). My version cuts out the dark bits that made the original sound murky (Helter Skelter, Revolution 9, Cry Baby Cry, Long, Long, Long) -- I think that's a good thing -- more in line with Rubber Soul/Revolver/Sgt. Peppers/Abbey Road, and less like Let It Be.

I've sequenced this album about 100 times in iTunes, and I'm finally happy with it. I truly believe that the album would have been the best Beatles album ever if they listened to George Martin.

The first side has the most well-produced songs (with the exception of the opening and closing two on side two). Side two has more informal sounding songs, my favorites of which are I'm so tired, Blackbird, and Rocky Raccoon. Rocky Raccoon has a beautiful melody.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Sergio,

quote:

I always hated Helter Skelter

What?

My personal edit would be to replace 'Revolution#9' with two nice songs that were ready but discarded when the album was put together: 'Junk'(that later appeared on 'McCartney' and 'Not Guilty' (that appeared on 'George Harrison').

It would have been nice if 'Revolution #9' had been expanded to a separate experimental album that would have delighted some fans (like me) instead of bothering most fans.

although it isnt horrible, helter skelter is 1 of the most if not the most overrated beatles song.

Comrade Sergio poses an intriguing argument; one I can't agree with, but nonetheless well thought out.

Posted by Chamberk :"indie music" is "music released by independent labels."

The only definition. There, I said it.