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Post by ck100 on Nov 22, 2023 4:40:05 GMT
Any fans of The White Album by The Beatles? How has it held up after 55 years? I don't know if I'd say it's a masterpiece, but it is very good with only a few flaws to it. Sure, it has some filler, but even the filler for the most part is quite listenable. The only two songs I think should have really been dropped are Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie. If only Hey Jude and Revolution (The Single) could have replaced those two. I know we'd have two Revolution songs on the album in that regard, but there are two "Don't Cry" songs on the Use Your Illusion double album by Guns N' Roses. Anyways, there are plenty of classic songs by the members of the group here and the mix of genres makes the album a fun listen. I'd probably have it in the top three Beatles albums if it's not at the top.  |
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Post by yggdrasil on Nov 25, 2023 13:35:12 GMT
Sound of a band falling apart, more about separate ideas and snippets of experimentation than a coherent band album. Eternally fascinating though.
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Post by drystyx on Dec 5, 2023 17:29:14 GMT
It's one of my favorite albums. I consider Abbey Road their masterpiece, but this one is a good counterbalance to it, because Abbey Road was so much of a "thinking" album, and this one is a "non thinking" album.
This one had a few more of the "goofy songs" than most albums. Their best "goofy song", Bungalow Bill, is on the album. And also their worst, Everyone's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey.
So, those two cancel each other out.
I'd scrap the monkey song instead of Number Nine. The other "poor songs" to scrap would be "Dear Prudence", "Glass Onion", and "Yer Blues".
Number Nine is not great, but it is a risky innovative venture, which reminds me of the Pink Floyd "several species" song. When you first hear it, you think "WTF did I just hear", but it kind of grows on you.
The other "goofy songs" verge on goofiness and quality. Warm Gun, Raccoon, Sadie, have lyrics that make you think they're goofy, but they're also quality.
Ob La Di is a bit too goofy for me, but I can tolerate it, if some yokel wants to sing it, and some hot chick wants to dance to it.
Goofy also, but popular, is "Back in the USSR". It sounds like a song written in the shower, and is sort of a "shower song", or one to karaoke just for fun. I can see how the girls would want to dance to it.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song for the purists. It sounds terrible the first time you hear it, but it's "interesting". George liked to do "interesting things".
My pick for the best songs on the album
Good Night
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Cry Baby Cry
Bungalow Bill
Birthday
Revolution 1
The songs that eventually grow on you after a second or third listen:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Sexy Sadie
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
Revolution 9
Piggies
Mother Nature's Son
The weakest songs that I would have dropped if they cut it in half:
Eveyone's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey
Glass Onion
Dear Prudence
Savoy Truffle
Ob La Di Ob La Da
Why Don't We Do it in the Road
Honey Pie
Wild Honey Pie
And then there is the song that I would really like enough to put in the "best songs" list if it wasn't tainted by Manson. "Helter Skelter" is a very good song.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2023 20:00:29 GMT
Great album.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Dec 6, 2023 21:24:10 GMT
Shite Album more like!
Am I right, guys?!
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Post by petrolino on Dec 8, 2023 1:34:57 GMT
Great album.
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Post by C-3POtatoe on Dec 8, 2023 13:46:25 GMT
If I had to listen to one album by them. It'd be this.
Because it is the only one that has no bad song. I don't even like this band. But if I had to listen to one album it'd be their double album.
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