Posted on 11/22/2023 2:04:14 PM PST by DallasBiff
On the heels of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, The Beatles released what is commonly known as The White Album on November 22, 1968. The album consists of 30 tracks drastically different from the previous album, with a lot of interesting history. Below, we highlight some little-known facts about the album.
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Describes Joe and Hunter Biden to a "t".
Was it released to coincide with the 5-year anniversary of JFK’s assassination, or was it just a coincidence?
While My Guitar Gently Weeps was among their best.Revolution was good too.Otherwise,disappointing.
It was released in the UK on 11/22/68, a few days later in the US.
Ahh.
Don’t know. It was a hundred times better than they garbarge Sgt Peppers.
Hard to believe back in the day bands would release 2 albums in the same year.
My wife hates the Beatles. I like their later stuff.
I think even their junk is/was better than 95% of their “competition.”
Abbey Road blew them all away. They went out on a high note.
The white album has some good cuts, many bad ones. I quite like My Guitar Gently Weeps. But the album has been so overplayed that I can’t stand to listen to it any more. Seriously overplayed.
After my freshman year at UofCincinnati, my wife-to-be (and girl next door) moved to Hollywood with plans to transfer to UCLA.
One Sat afternoon I was listening to KHJ on my old clock radio sitting atop the refrigerator.
A guest DJ was playing all these new songs I had never heard and explaining what the song was about or what was happening in the recording studio.
the DJ? George Harrison
The album? The “White” album
A week later the album was released and I bought my first copy at a small mshop on Sunset.
As an aside, the 24-bit/96khz HiRez download with demos from George’s house & mastered by Giles Martin sounds fantastic!
I have this album in my collection. Still trying to figure out the symbolism of “Number 9”.
60 years ago now for us. I was 6 at the time. Had no idea who or what the US President was. I have a vague memory of the funeral that followed on a black and white tv.
New Left criticism
Further to the betrayal they had felt at Lennon's non-activist stance in “Revolution”, New Left commentators condemned The Beatles for its failure to offer a political agenda. The Beatles themselves were accused of using eclecticism and pastiche as a means of avoiding important issues in the turbulent political and social climate. Jon Landau, writing for the Liberation News Service, argued that, particularly in “Piggies” and “Rocky Raccoon”, the band had adopted parody because they were “afraid of confronting reality” and “the urgencies of the moment”. Like Landau, many writers among the New Left considered the album outdated and irrelevant; instead, they heralded the Rolling Stones’ concurrent release, Beggars Banquet, as what Lennon biographer Jon Wiener terms “the ‘strong solution,’ a musical turning outward, toward the political and social battles of the day”.
Yep, that is the best album ever. They broke up at the right time.
I play the 20 best sings on the album, and cut out the filler.
Revolution
Aah
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it’s evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
Alright
Alright
Alright
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We’re all doing what we can
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait
Don’t you know it’s gonna be
Alright
Alright
Alright
Al
You say you’ll change the Constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it’s the institution
Well, you know
You’d better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don’t you know know it’s gonna be
Alright
Alright
Alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Alright, alright
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney, John Lennon.
I’d say you are in a club with one member
I’d say you are in a club with one member
No, a lot of people feel that way.
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