The Beatles (White Album)
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Topic: The Beatles (White Album)
Posted By: chopper
Subject: The Beatles (White Album)
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 10:26
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Given that, generally, the commercial stuff is on the first 2 sides and the weirder stuff on sides 3 and 4, I'm intrigued to know which one will come out on top here. Me? I would probably go for side two.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 10:28
| I haven't listened to this one in a long time. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 11:10
Now's your chance to correct that then!
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Cristi wrote:Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 11:14
I overplayed it years ago, in fact I rarely listen to the Beatles these days. Maybe I'll give this album a listen, when I'm in the mood.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 13:24
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Good tracks scattered through most of it although I don't dig side four too much. Voted for side one
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 13:46
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Side one I enjoy the most consistently, but there are good tracks throughout. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 13:49
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No preference. The whole thing makes my ears happy. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 18:25
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Played it a few times, but rapidly decided it wasn't for me. One or two good tracks, but mostly very average. Not a Beatles fan, as you might have guessed. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 18:43
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For some reason, I enjoyed it more back in 1968. So, side 1 only. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 13 2022 at 22:49
| No preference. It’s a good album with many good tracks spread throughout. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 00:52
| Not sure, really, but my favourite Beatles song is While My Guitar Gently Weeps... so I guess whichever side that song is in. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 04:09
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Side One, but it is a close call. 1 > 3 > 4 > 2 ------------- 
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Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 08:45
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I could have marked "No Preference" quite easily. There is excellent material throughout this recording, including two of my favorite Harrison songs. I'm normally a McCartney/Lennon guy, "Savoy Truffle" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" are awesome though. But the question was to choose a side, and I chose Side 3. ROCK n' ROLL baby!
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 08:53
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side two contains many gems and fewer annoying/skippable tunes. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 09:40
| It's turning out much the way I thought it might - side one winning and side four bringing up the rear - though I kind of expected side two to beat side three. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 11:57
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No preference as it remains a mixed bag. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 13:05
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Hi, I think it is easy for so many folks to dismiss this album ... but go back some 50 plus years, and there was absolutely NOTHING that came out that just blew the doors off your ears in both content and total sonic adjustment to your likes and dislikes. Today, folks dismiss it ... because all the other bands are catering to their butt. The Beatles at the time, had another mission ... and let me tell you that it was very different, and it is something that TODAY, we dislike immensely and thin the band is stuck up. Guess what ... John would probably tell you to __________. George would say I don't care, this is what I want to do. Paul wouldn't listen because he already had a new melody or song in mind! Ringo ... I just play the drums and it's about the group. I don't think that folks today can relate to a lot of that ... as sad as that is, and the artistic stand that the band had to take at the time ... and did so very well and successfully, something that today would have too many trolls and pushers trashing it senseless! Try, one of these days, to go back some 50 years, and forget all the "music" that you like, or all the songs, and only play the stuff from that year for 24 hours ... you might learn something ... about "time", "place" and "space" that too many rock fans don't give a damn about! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 13:58
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Masterpiece. Side 1 (possibly their best side ever) > Side 3 >> Side 4 > Side 2. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 14:25
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Posted By: unclemeat69
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 15:17
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This album has some great songs and some crap on each side so I can't (won\t) pick. ------------- Follow your bliss |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: March 14 2022 at 23:52
Personally I can't stand the piece of nonsense, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Paul McCartney wrote on side one and for for that reason went for side two. The George Harrison song, Piggies, on side two, could also be described as a piece of nonsense, but it's so much better than than that Paul McCartney piece.
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Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 03:16
| My feeling about the White Album is you could take the best tracks and make a single album out of them, those that were good but couldn't fit on a single album could replace the filler tracks on Let It Be, and the dross (especially Revolution 9) should be consigned to the bin. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 07:14
Your posts rarely make any sense to me but on this occasion I have to ask - what the hell does that mean?
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 08:48
| I like all of it. No preference. |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 08:52
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Side 3 |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 15:19
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Side 1, although it's a very close call. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 15:32
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Not a huge fan of this album. It could have used some trimming. Side 1 is my fav. Savoy Truffle is my fav track
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Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: March 15 2022 at 16:29
That's the argument that has been made since the album was released (even by George Martin) but which songs would be included would depend on who you ask. It is the wild eclecticism that makes this collection so popular. After all, "Wild Honey Pie" was included because Patti Harrison liked it. "It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles White Album. Shut up!" Paul McCartney ------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: bigmac33070
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 08:35
| Ugh, not allowed to vote in polls yet. But, I would have to say side 4. Cry, Baby Cry is is in my top 3 Beatles songs of all time. Looking at the numbers, I guess I am in the minority. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 09:22
I rapidly decided back in the early 70s they were not for me. Every one knows my stance on the greatest boy band of all time....but why is this a Prog Poll??  -------------   
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 09:30
Because they are "Proto Prog" It says so on Prog Archives so it must be true!  Seriously though, I know you're not a big fan but they did have a huge influence on many bands from the 60's , 70's & beyond including a lot of our prog favorites so they should at least get some points for that.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 09:32
Yes you are! I would have put money on side 4 being the least popular but I thought maybe on a prog forum it would have picked up a few more votes. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 09:52
Correction above  .-------------
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 17 2022 at 10:22
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an album can in my opinion be "prog" even if there is technically not a single prog track on it. when an album covers lots of different styles, as the "White Album" definitely does, this makes it a prog album. my favorite side is side 3. I just say "Helter Skelter" -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 18 2022 at 03:38
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 18 2022 at 03:45
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I know Jude is not on White album, BTW Difficult to choose, as I'm not big on WA, but there are more tracks I really like on side A (3 - Gently Back In Ob-la-Di) than on B (1 - rackoon) C (1- Skelter) and D (1 - revolution1) ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 18 2022 at 07:48
Hi, Sorry to say this but you are so full of it. it's sickening. I have been on the Beatles side for the whole time, and am the only person that can relate to "Revolution #9" because folks here (or elsewhere) can only relate to "songs" that they know and have heard! It will be a cold day in heck that I say something bad about them, when together, and I find this album very important, and seriously explains each member's desire to try something else which we see in "Let It Be" (the film) and then the band called it a day and night. But the problem, HERE, is that folks that can not relate to the meanings and situations at the time, will only think of all these things in the album as SONGS and compare them to the ones they know and like. And that means that The BEATLES will look sad and weird and bad, because not enough people can remember, or relate to what the whole thing at the time and place was all about ... on top of it, the same folks don't give a sh*t because for them it's just a song ... and sometimes, the song is not just a song! But you don't get it, do you?
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 18 2022 at 08:12
Nope. I see words and sentences and I get you like the Beatles and you are superior to everyone else because you like Revolution #9 but the rest of it... And I still don't know what "Today, folks dismiss it ... because all the other bands are catering to their butt." means.
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Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: March 18 2022 at 18:38
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Side Two, by far...
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 22 2022 at 07:42
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 22 2022 at 08:38
Sadly, you are so lacking in self-awareness, you are completely oblivious to how much of a pretentious tw*t you sound like. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: March 22 2022 at 08:40
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: March 22 2022 at 10:31
You're right. Some of us just don't give a damn. Still, we truly enjoy life as it is, full of songs.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 22 2022 at 12:03
Well I get that you have an extraordinarily high opinion of yourself and a low opinion of everyone else but to say "am the only person that can relate to "Revolution #9" possibly tops the lot. And I still want to know what "catering to their butt" means.
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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 09 2022 at 10:07
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Side One (Back In The USSR...) ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |