The White Album is a breath-taking experience and it is one of the greatest albums of all-time. I mean I rate it higher than both Sgt. Pepper and Revolver. Revolution 9, I don't know any thing about this experimental, sound collage, but I guess it's a Yoko Ono/ John Lennon collobration. Some people say that it's the most important Beatles song. What do you know and like about this and the White Album.

silverchild said:

I like that song And it is worthy of every minute of it's.. (&@&^#^%(^$'snessness.

silverchild said:

I really wouldnt consider this the most important beatle song.. in fact, its irrelevant to any other Beatle.. An Important Beatle song must include unity of all beatles.. plus... lets be realistic, this is a not a song.. its a mentally visual collage of sounds. There's no instrumentation, no singing, nothing to claim it a song.. its a sound collage.

And its John who is doing it. It was actually a time consuming process.. they didnt have computers, ect.. back then and from my knowledge they had to cut the loops out.. tape them back play the loop and so on.. very time consuming.

but yes, its a collage, which inspired an entire underground scene who built their careers around simular stuff.

I would say The White Album is the most important Beatle music.. simply cause it has space and unity on both disks.. these guys were going through a f*cked time.. and the result is a great album.
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number nine..number nine..number nine..(played bakwards)..turn me on dead man..turn me on dead man..turn me on dead man..At the time, there was a rumour that Paul mcCartney was actually dead & this was alluding to that..

can't stand it. it's only second to "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" as worst Beatles song.

silverchild said:

Load of self-indulgent, meaningless crap. It's The Beatles's "Metal Machine Music". I love "The White Album", but I always skip that track.

Shapeshifter said:

I have to agree. As much as I love The Beatles, and John in particular, "Revolution 9" is nothing but an ego-trip run amok. I always skip it.

That being said, I really love the White Album. It's very raw and diverse. It could have been a lot tighter, but then it wouldn't be The White Album.

Darla said:

Yep true, and you will hears sounds of a car crash.....

I always skip this one too...coz it is annoying

It's very strange but I like it.

JonSnow said:

Yeah, exactly. Imagine if they'd dropped "Revolution Twaddle-Bollocks #666" and replaced it with "Hey Jude" ...

I quite like it. I mean, I wouldn't listen to it on repeat or anything, but as a mild diversion, it's cool.

Has anybody ever heard the cover version by The Shazam? It's hard to imagine anybody being able to "cover" it - but they did and it's brilliant!!!

Shapeshifter said:

It was said there was a fued between McCartney and Lennon... Lennon hated Obla dI .. and McCartney hated Revolution 9.

point being that they wanted both off the record.

GrayKing said:

Wtf?! That's a great track.

Here's the cover version by The Shazam...

http://s21.yousendit.com/...3D113F0615

It's much, much better than you would expect any cover version to be.

ALL-RIIIIIGHT!!!

If you want to hear a sample of the track before downloading the whole thing, go to their website, http://www.theshazam.com/ to hear a clip.

Revolution 9 never bothered me. And to tag it with Ringo singing Good Night.
Talk about going from one extreme to another. Nice bizarre touch.

Nothing wrong with a little experimentation to push people out of their comfort zone. Then again, I like Sun Ra.
I took it as maybe John's rebellion against the public's expectations of Beatle music.

It's funny to me when artists get accused of being "self-indulgent" on certain material.
Isn't just the act of releasing original material you expect others to listen to "self-indulgent" in itself?

As a rule, I leaned toward the White Album's mellow tunes with a few exceptions.

Blackbird
Dear Prudence
Julia
Martha My Dear
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's Got Something To Hide
Savoy Truffle

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

You steal all my women, but dang you're my boy!!

I mentioned Savoy Truffle to a coworker recently, and she just gave me a blank stare. Ahhh, Tennessee...

GrayKing said:

Beatle bait

ThreadBare said:

Regarding the women, i'm not opposed to sharing with ya.

Savoy Truffle is just a flat-out cool tune. (supposedly about Clapton's sweet tooth)
And now that I think about it, Glass Onion should have been on my list too.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Wow.

I wanted to give this album a review, but it seems it is too close and personal for me to even rave about it...

It is probably because I spent so much time with album as a teenager.

And for many other reasons I poored loads of my soul into some of the Anthology recordings of these songs.

Cloudbuster said:

sure, if you're on crack

My Top Fifteen Beatles Songs

Something
Two Of Us
In My Life
Strawberry Fields (Forever)
Revolution #1
Hey, Bulldog!
Don't Let Me Down
Long, Long, Long
Hey Jude
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Across The Universe
Here, There & Everywhere
Only A Northern Song
Because
Do You Want To Know A Secret?

GrayKing said:

I have to say; this song only makes sense if you flick your Monty Python-esque button on.

The White Album was Charles Manson's favorite Beatles album

(but even he skipped Revolution #9, and preferred Blackbird, Piggies and Helter Skelter)

I was listening to the White Album a few times this weekend. Then I threw on Danger Mouse's Grey Album afterward.

Wild.

The Jay-Z track "Interlude" is redone using samples of "Revolution 9" and sort of becomes the hip-hop equivalent to it.

jackflash said:

Don't you just love Bono's introduction of U2's Rattle & Hum version of Helter Skelter?

I like "Revolution 9" for what it is: an expirement. However, an expirement isn't always listenable.

My favorite on the album (although it constantly changes) is "Long, Long, Long."

RanMarJam said:

Long Long Long is such a lovely track.. it hardly ever gets mentioned.

My favorite has to be Happiness is a Warm Gun. I know it's kind of an obvious choice, but it just packs a punch. But Cry baby Cry is right up there.

JonSnow said:

can u taake me back where i came from can u take me back.. can u take me back where i came from brother can u taaake me baackkk

Never quite sure what to think of 'The White Album' really. I find it a frustratingly patchy record but then I guess that is what serves to make it more interesting.'The White Album' smacks of a certain 'we can do anything' confidence. Certainly there are songs where aloofness or pretentiousness like George's 'Piggies', Paul's'Honey Pie'- stand in the way of feeling and substance. But the sheer abundance of material especially as far as Lennon is concerned, ensures it remains in my opinion a flawed masterpiece.

As even Charles Manson found, 'The White Album''s array of sonic terrorism, pop disposability and finger-plucked acoustic dreamscapes provides something for everyone. 'Helter Skelter', 'Yer Blues','Julia' and'Sexy Sadie' are all diverse and set apart from each other.

Opening with 'Back In The USSR', takes their ability to transform influences (namely The Beach Boys and Chuck Berry) to a new level. 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' is the album's epic, Lennon at his most musically daring and emotionally complex.

To me,'The White Album' is many things. It shows that, even stretched to the limit, The Beatles' riches were manifold. Their instinctive conceptual genius was unmatched in '68 and remains unchallenged 30 years later.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Which book did you lift that from?