Listen to each of our Single Disc White Albums in these playlists: Dom’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948nA4T04x14LhGYWNgqzr5Ti.html&si=cRGCgonH2x0y-aF0 Michael’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948k3t_lWdfNNaeA6oWjUAYgC.html&si=ZhWF29b7_4Y4kiu8 Ryan’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948maMUyKUSz4q-_cDHgK30yf.html&si=vZfcUHOwgUqs34K5 Sam’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948njrccywhiB4PG5OQ8wH1pR.html&si=xg7liuHeMvQwvb5N
Long, Long, Long should be represented somewhere IMHO. It is such a rich, textural, spiritual track. Maybe George has three tracks (sorry, Piggies). Love the videos you all make. Thank you!
Even with a few not so great tracks; you really gotta hand it to them, I can’t think of a more diverse album than the white album. Almost every genre all in one and it still works. Great video lads!
That idea of closing with "Hey Jude" is brilliant. If I were going to split it, I would have released an album of rockers and an album of singer/songwriter-type material (including the acoustic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the latter and the electric version on the former). Stunning no one chose "Long Long Long." Not just a beautiful and dynamic Harrison song, but what a drum performance by Ringo. Paul's quote from Anthology (defending the album as a 2-LP release) is "It's the bloody Beatles White Album. Enough said."
Side A: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps & Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Side B: Birthday, Cry Baby Cry, Blackbird, Piggies, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Mother Nature's Son & Julia. Notes: First side unchanged and complete. Second side starts with Birthday first because it got played every birthday in my family growing up. The remaining songs are just my favorites in an order I like. Sorry Ringo you missed the cut.
Let's go the other way. What if it was a triple album. Include and disperse songs throughout the track listing that were recorded generally around the same time frame as the White Album. Hey Jude / Revolution / Lady Madonna / Hey Bulldog / The Inner Light / All Together Now / You Know My name... / What's the New Mary Jane. Could have been an all-timer!
Questionable choices depending on how strong your opinions are. I don't mind what they chose, but personally, I would have added "Long, Long, Long" somewhere. It's my favourite White Album song.
Shortest video ever. The rhythm track contained both John and Georges' guitars, the bass and drums all recorded live. That means it's definitely Paul. They could make a TH-cam short out of the topic, maybe? Lol.
A fun thing to do is make a playlist of all of Paul’s White Album songs and all of John’s White album songs. Solo albums with the Beatles as a backing group
I actually did something similar a year or so ago, here's my tracklist: Side 1: Back In The USSR Dear Prudence Glass Onion While My Guitar Gently Weeps Martha My Dear I'm So Tired Blackbird Happiness Is A Warm Gun Side 2: Yer Blues Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey Helter Skelter Long, Long, Long I Will Revolution 1 Good Night It's about 49 minutes, which can be fit on a standard LP. (Also the Pixies' cover of Wild Honey Pie is worth checking out)
I still imagine a fully realized version of A Case of the Blues appearing on The White Album. How cool is that song, even in its rough acoustic demo stage?!?
Yer blues Backing track: Ringo: drums Paul: bass John: rhythm guitar + first guitar solo George: lead guitar + erased guitar solo John and Paul: guide vocals Overdubs: Ringo: drum overdub George: new guitar solo John and paul: vocals ADT was added to both guitar solos
The discarded cover art for the scrapped A Doll's House concept was done by John Patrick Byrne, who did covers for Stealer's Wheel and Gerry Rafferty. He had a very identifiable style. You all left off Cry Baby Cry?! Not only is it perfectly suited for the white album, with all of that haunted house atmosphere and you can almost picture the children playing with a doll's house, but it's a great performance. Ringo's almost playing a breakbeat (I think it should be sampled, if possible) and I think it has George's best attempts at playing in British blues boom mode with a vibrato worthy of Clapton. It's also a great lead in to Rev #9 as Goodnight is a great lead out. I like Sam's comparison to the Shining. And Mike was the only one of you to include ...Me And My Monkey. That's one of my favorite late Beatles rockers and John's vocal is great, all the c'mons at the end, the raunchy guitar, the added percussion..., the song is so much fun. And did you all leave off Long Long Long? These three examples are why I think it needed to be a double album. I'm not a fan of Bungalow Bill or Rocky Raccoon or Don't Pass Me By but these quirky tunes add to the overall flavor of the collection. Also, great albums need to breathe, to ebb and flow. This is why greatest hits albums always seem to be missing something and are rarely, if ever, listed among great albums. Also, people always disagree on which tracks are expendable. I've heard criticism of Dear Prudence, which is inexplicable to me. So I would leave it a double album. Then the question becomes, what to do with Revolution #9. It's definitely skippable and it mars the album, imo. In its defense, it does segue well between Cry Baby Cry and Goodnight. And, to go with the doll's house metaphor, Rev #9 is like an attic where all the old, dusty, and creepy stuff is hidden away, like in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. But, OTOH, it's over 8 minutes long and that's too much of a creepy thing. Also, I think it's kinda lame that they put Revolution #1 as the 4th side opener when a better version had been released on the single. So, I think they could've repaired side 4 by replacing Rev #1 with Hey Bulldog and by improving Rev #9 by remixing and radically editing it down from over 8 minutes to something in the 2 - 3 minute area. And then maybe add a Beatles version of Goodbye (my fave of Paul's old timey songs) and/or Sour Milk Sea. All Beatles but John played on the Lomax backing tracks plus Clapton and Nicky Hopkins, who did session work for ....Gently Weeps and Revolution (single version) anyway. Maybe John or Paul could've done the vocals...? I was 12 when this album came out and it was one of the first records I bought. I think Ryan is right that people often referred to it as "the double album" before "the white album" became the go to handle for it. I really enjoy GT&E! Thanks!
I love this topic! Last year I created my own White and “Whiter” albums on Spotify and, not to toot my own horn, is my preferred method to listen to the White Album. (Edited to add my track listings, and I was also functioning on diplomacy and what would have likely been put on the albums) White Album: Side 1 1. Back in the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Don’t Pass Me By 5. I Will 6. Sexy Sadie 7. Happiness is a Warm Gun Side 2 8. I’m So Tired 9. Blackbird 10. Yer Blues 11. Mother Nature’s Son 12. Long, Long, Long 13. Cry Baby Cry 14. Helter Skelter Whiter Album: Side 1 1. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3. Savoy Truffle 4. Why Don’t We Do It In the Road 5. Glass Onion 6. Junk, McCartney I version - controversial take 7. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill Side 2 8. Martha My Dear 9. Not Guilty, Take 102 10. Revolution 1 11. Honey Pie 12. Rocky Raccoon 13. Julia 14. Good Night, Anthology 3 version - another controversial take (but I love how the strings fade in at the end)
Ok here are a couple subjects off the WHITE album…for you guys to investigate.. Who is on bass for WHILE MY GUITAR? Giles Martin said it was Lennon, but it sounds like it may be augmented on the bridge..ALSO is that really a FRETLESS GUITAR on HAPPINESS IS…?
Gents, congrats on great channel and topics. Anyone fancy doing cover of Beatles cover of Don’t Ever Change so I can finally get those chords nailed down? All the best 👍
Speaking for myself, in the UK in '68, we called it The Beatles' double LP. But what a band - they let, in the end, the FANS give it the ultimate title of 'The White Album'!
the channel Ryan brings up is called Almost Beatles Songs. y'all should have him on for an episode. guy knows his Beatle lore and is a competent musician.
Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic version), Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (anthology version), Blackbird, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Revolution (single mix), Birthday, Yer Blues, I Will, Long Long Long, Mother Nature’s Son, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter… but that is so difficult. Great pod guys - keep up the good work.
First off…I WOULD NOT CHANGE IT AT ALL…it is the best double album ever exactly like it is. BUT if I had to make two great single albums he is what I would do…first album would be the HARD ROCKIN’ all electric 4 piece (mostly) band songs and I would stick to the songs on the album..not bring in other recorded songs… Beatles WHITE HOT WHITE ALBUM. SIDE 1. Back in the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Happiness is a Warm Gun 5. Birthday 6. Savoy Truffle 7. Yer Blues. SIDE 2. 1. Helter Skelter 2.Everybody’s Got Something…3. Sexy Sadie 4. Why Don’t We Do It (a full band version!) 5. Long Long Long 6. Martha My Dear 7. Revolution 1….. I will leave the first album like that. The second would be mostly acoustic based. Will think on that for later… OH , I was alive at the time I was 15, and I can’t remember it NOT being called the “WHITE Album” …it came out right about Christmas 1968 ..this is all VINYL of course…the album came photo cards off all 4 and a photo collage on the inner sleeve. I think my sister still has the original from 1968.
2:06 - In another interview George Martin said that his judgement and suggestion for a single album was based on hearing the demos that the band brought to the studio. However the group wanted to record as much as possible as it would help fullfilling quite a bit of their contract which was renewed in 1967 and had a clause for amount of songs. This approach would have a significant effect because some tracks just did not exist on the Esher Demos or were just very early drafts like HIAWG. 37:40 - Not Guilty was out before the final sequencing session, seems like George didn't know how to improve it, so he pulled that song. It's kind of unfinished, unfortunately. 44:30 - I remember in recent years the story appeared that the original idea was to have transparent cover or none at all, and similar thing for the discs themselves, some "super high tech" from Magic Alex no doubt, but this was too expensive to produce. Not sure if the story is true though, but the statement was "the music on it is what's important". 50:55 - Yeah the story that "A Beginning" was an original intro to Don't Pass Me By is hard to believe to be honest, it just doesn't fit at all. Wasn't it a part of Yellow Submarine score?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who would have the acoustic version of Gently Weeps. The Love version with the orchestra is incredible. No disrespect to the album version, but it does not compete. My dad used to sing Good Night to me as a kid to help me sleep, so it will always be a must and the closer.
I was lucky enough to see the Dirty Mac filming Yer Blues at the Rock and Roll Circus. I've always liked that song. You need to maybe imagine what songs George Martin would have picked? Six each from Lennon and McCartney and a couple from George although Ringo needs to be in there too.
The demo of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with acoustic guitar and harmonium is a masterpiece. Too bad that couldn't have been a prelude to the album track.
Here's my single-album White Album-preserving their own sequencing where possible, sticking to the classic 14-track format, and assuming Ringo needs one... SIDE A: 1) Back In the USSR 2) Dear Prudence 3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4) Happiness Is A Warm Gun 5) Martha My Dear 6) I'm So Tired 7) Blackbird SIDE B: 8) Lady Madonna (I do what I want) 9) Mother Nature's Son 10) Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me And My Monkey 11) Savoy Truffle 12) I Will 13) Revolution (not Revolution 1) 14) Goodnight
To make a single White Album disc, there are rules the Beatles themselves (wanted to) follow(ed): 14 tracks 2 Harrison songs at least 1 Ringo vocal Equal John-Paul material. Unavoidable songs: Back in The USSR Dear Prudence While My Guitar Gentle Weeps And then you could make a choice to use all the acoustic 'Rishikesh' songs like Blackbird, I Will , Revolution 1 and Julia Or make it a rock album with Birthday , Savoy Truffle, Helter Skelter and Monkey Or a poppy album with Martha, Glass Union and Sexy Sady So many options 😛
Should have been one, great album. But everybody was releasing at least one double album back then. Ringo said they could have released a second album called The Whiter album. Also, you can't reduce the tracks to a single album but you can save some and write new ones later to complete another great album. Having said that there was a point in my life where i loved every track as well as the order (Rev 9 excluded of course).
John Denver also covers "Mother Nature's Son." He changes "see her waters rise" to "watch her waters rise," which works better in terms of both alliteration and rhyme. I'm surprised, in retrospect, that McCartney didn't think of that revision.
No it doesnt scan. The emphasis is on the "esses", not the "w". Sit beSide a mountain Stream, See her waterS riSe. LiSten to the pretty Sound of muSic aS She flieS
"I don't think Blackbird was envisioned as a sort of civil rights thing, I think Paul just filled that in later on... That wasn't stated until much later" --- Incorrect. Paul mentioned it to Donovan at Abbey Road in 1968 during sessions for Mary Hopkin's 'Postcard'. The metaphor is more universal than *just* civil rights, but there's no doubt that was an important inspiration, coming just after the murder of MLK.
Yeah, somebody included Not Guilty. It's better than Savoy or Piggies. I would have included Hey Jude if it stayed as a double album. But since were talking about condensing it down to one disc, I would choose Birthday as a single b/w Sexy Sadie. By the way, Michelle was a single everywhere but in the US and UK.
A Doll's House would have been the truly perfect title for the White Album. A shame it was taken. There's a photo of the four of them, together yet isolated, each in one window of a house (at Friar park i think), which would have been a great alternative cover image.
But, OTOH, the album having no title and no cover art was a great reaction to the overly flowery psychedelic packaging of their two 1967 albums. At that point it was all about change and movement.
I think this should’ve been making the whiter album instead, aka taking only the weird songs and making an album out of them. Maybe that can be its own video
Now that I think of it, I am not a huge fan of overrated Beatles songs. I forgot who said it, it might have been Dom with "Hey Jude", but it is pretty understandable. "Something" used to be one of my favourite songs, but its popularity ruined it for me. Obviously, I don't hate the song itself, it's just probably one of the most overplayed songs out there. I can't get over that chord progression, George was such a genius.
Great show you guys got! But I do have to say I like when you stick to the gear stuff rather the song stuff. Talk about the Rics, the amps, the 6120, Johns black washer on casino, what amp settings? What strings? talk tone, talk…..gear. Love when you talk about your own personal gear.
Listen to each of our Single Disc White Albums in these playlists:
Dom’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948nA4T04x14LhGYWNgqzr5Ti.html&si=cRGCgonH2x0y-aF0
Michael’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948k3t_lWdfNNaeA6oWjUAYgC.html&si=ZhWF29b7_4Y4kiu8
Ryan’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948maMUyKUSz4q-_cDHgK30yf.html&si=vZfcUHOwgUqs34K5
Sam’s White Album: th-cam.com/play/PLNC0aLv8948njrccywhiB4PG5OQ8wH1pR.html&si=xg7liuHeMvQwvb5N
Long, Long, Long should be represented somewhere IMHO. It is such a rich, textural, spiritual track. Maybe George has three tracks (sorry, Piggies). Love the videos you all make. Thank you!
Even with a few not so great tracks; you really gotta hand it to them, I can’t think of a more diverse album than the white album. Almost every genre all in one and it still works. Great video lads!
That idea of closing with "Hey Jude" is brilliant. If I were going to split it, I would have released an album of rockers and an album of singer/songwriter-type material (including the acoustic "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on the latter and the electric version on the former). Stunning no one chose "Long Long Long." Not just a beautiful and dynamic Harrison song, but what a drum performance by Ringo. Paul's quote from Anthology (defending the album as a 2-LP release) is "It's the bloody Beatles White Album. Enough said."
Side A: Back in the U.S.S.R., Dear Prudence, Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps & Happiness Is a Warm Gun.
Side B: Birthday, Cry Baby Cry, Blackbird, Piggies, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Mother Nature's Son & Julia.
Notes: First side unchanged and complete. Second side starts with Birthday first because it got played every birthday in my family growing up. The remaining songs are just my favorites in an order I like. Sorry Ringo you missed the cut.
Let's go the other way. What if it was a triple album. Include and disperse songs throughout the track listing that were recorded generally around the same time frame as the White Album. Hey Jude / Revolution / Lady Madonna / Hey Bulldog / The Inner Light / All Together Now / You Know My name... / What's the New Mary Jane. Could have been an all-timer!
With side 6 being just Carnival of Light 😂
Along with Sour Milk Sea and Not Guilty for my money, definitely could hear them within the scope and broad umbrella of the White Album.
@@eddlp2293 plot twist: it turns out to be Wild Honey Pie on loop for the entire side.
Sour Milk Sea, Not Guilty, Circles, Junk, Hey Jude, Child of Nature, Revolution, Carnival of Light, Every Night, Teddy Boy, etcetera.
Questionable choices depending on how strong your opinions are. I don't mind what they chose, but personally, I would have added "Long, Long, Long" somewhere. It's my favourite White Album song.
I'd love to see a video about the Hofners. Maybe you could get EJ from Backbeat Vintage on that one.
I think we all need a video on who really played bass on She Said She Said
Edit : I would buy that merch is you released it
The basic track has two guitars, bass and drums. Which means four people had to be there. It is definitely Paul.
It’s Paul, he counts down the song
nah it is a fact that paul is playing bass
Shortest video ever. The rhythm track contained both John and Georges' guitars, the bass and drums all recorded live. That means it's definitely Paul. They could make a TH-cam short out of the topic, maybe? Lol.
A fun thing to do is make a playlist of all of Paul’s White Album songs and all of John’s White album songs. Solo albums with the Beatles as a backing group
I actually did something similar a year or so ago, here's my tracklist:
Side 1:
Back In The USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Side 2:
Yer Blues
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
I Will
Revolution 1
Good Night
It's about 49 minutes, which can be fit on a standard LP.
(Also the Pixies' cover of Wild Honey Pie is worth checking out)
Me too! Mine was inspired from the Tomorrow Never Knows podcast last year
I still imagine a fully realized version of A Case of the Blues appearing on The White Album. How cool is that song, even in its rough acoustic demo stage?!?
The White Album is my favourite Beatles album hands down.
Yer blues
Backing track:
Ringo: drums
Paul: bass
John: rhythm guitar + first guitar solo
George: lead guitar + erased guitar solo
John and Paul: guide vocals
Overdubs:
Ringo: drum overdub
George: new guitar solo
John and paul: vocals
ADT was added to both guitar solos
The discarded cover art for the scrapped A Doll's House concept was done by John Patrick Byrne, who did covers for Stealer's Wheel and Gerry Rafferty. He had a very identifiable style.
You all left off Cry Baby Cry?! Not only is it perfectly suited for the white album, with all of that haunted house atmosphere and you can almost picture the children playing with a doll's house, but it's a great performance. Ringo's almost playing a breakbeat (I think it should be sampled, if possible) and I think it has George's best attempts at playing in British blues boom mode with a vibrato worthy of Clapton. It's also a great lead in to Rev #9 as Goodnight is a great lead out. I like Sam's comparison to the Shining.
And Mike was the only one of you to include ...Me And My Monkey. That's one of my favorite late Beatles rockers and John's vocal is great, all the c'mons at the end, the raunchy guitar, the added percussion..., the song is so much fun. And did you all leave off Long Long Long?
These three examples are why I think it needed to be a double album. I'm not a fan of Bungalow Bill or Rocky Raccoon or Don't Pass Me By but these quirky tunes add to the overall flavor of the collection. Also, great albums need to breathe, to ebb and flow. This is why greatest hits albums always seem to be missing something and are rarely, if ever, listed among great albums. Also, people always disagree on which tracks are expendable. I've heard criticism of Dear Prudence, which is inexplicable to me.
So I would leave it a double album. Then the question becomes, what to do with Revolution #9. It's definitely skippable and it mars the album, imo. In its defense, it does segue well between Cry Baby Cry and Goodnight. And, to go with the doll's house metaphor, Rev #9 is like an attic where all the old, dusty, and creepy stuff is hidden away, like in The Portrait of Dorian Gray. But, OTOH, it's over 8 minutes long and that's too much of a creepy thing. Also, I think it's kinda lame that they put Revolution #1 as the 4th side opener when a better version had been released on the single.
So, I think they could've repaired side 4 by replacing Rev #1 with Hey Bulldog and by improving Rev #9 by remixing and radically editing it down from over 8 minutes to something in the 2 - 3 minute area. And then maybe add a Beatles version of Goodbye (my fave of Paul's old timey songs) and/or Sour Milk Sea. All Beatles but John played on the Lomax backing tracks plus Clapton and Nicky Hopkins, who did session work for ....Gently Weeps and Revolution (single version) anyway. Maybe John or Paul could've done the vocals...?
I was 12 when this album came out and it was one of the first records I bought. I think Ryan is right that people often referred to it as "the double album" before "the white album" became the go to handle for it.
I really enjoy GT&E! Thanks!
I love this topic! Last year I created my own White and “Whiter” albums on Spotify and, not to toot my own horn, is my preferred method to listen to the White Album. (Edited to add my track listings, and I was also functioning on diplomacy and what would have likely been put on the albums)
White Album:
Side 1
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Don’t Pass Me By
5. I Will
6. Sexy Sadie
7. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side 2
8. I’m So Tired
9. Blackbird
10. Yer Blues
11. Mother Nature’s Son
12. Long, Long, Long
13. Cry Baby Cry
14. Helter Skelter
Whiter Album:
Side 1
1. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3. Savoy Truffle
4. Why Don’t We Do It In the Road
5. Glass Onion
6. Junk, McCartney I version - controversial take
7. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Side 2
8. Martha My Dear
9. Not Guilty, Take 102
10. Revolution 1
11. Honey Pie
12. Rocky Raccoon
13. Julia
14. Good Night, Anthology 3 version - another controversial take (but I love how the strings fade in at the end)
I'M WITH SAM
"NOT GUILTY" ALL THE WAY!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend ❤😊
Ok here are a couple subjects off the WHITE album…for you guys to investigate.. Who is on bass for WHILE MY GUITAR? Giles Martin said it was Lennon, but it sounds like it may be augmented on the bridge..ALSO is that really a FRETLESS GUITAR on HAPPINESS IS…?
We discussed the bass for While My Guitar Gently Weeps in episode 5 👍
Also I think a few of us think that guitar solo is not actually the fretless guitar, but we’ll probably do an episode covering that at some point
Gents, congrats on great channel and topics. Anyone fancy doing cover of Beatles cover of Don’t Ever Change so I can finally get those chords nailed down? All the best 👍
@@GearThereEverywhere thanks…I agree, probably George on a Les Paul not a fretless guitar.😁
Speaking for myself, in the UK in '68, we called it The Beatles' double LP. But what a band - they let, in the end, the FANS give it the ultimate title of 'The White Album'!
the channel Ryan brings up is called Almost Beatles Songs. y'all should have him on for an episode. guy knows his Beatle lore and is a competent musician.
Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic version), Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (anthology version), Blackbird, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Revolution (single mix), Birthday, Yer Blues, I Will, Long Long Long, Mother Nature’s Son, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter… but that is so difficult. Great pod guys - keep up the good work.
Paul is not here because he said he hates the white album! 😂
bullshit
First off…I WOULD NOT CHANGE IT AT ALL…it is the best double album ever exactly like it is. BUT if I had to make two great single albums he is what I would do…first album would be the HARD ROCKIN’ all electric 4 piece (mostly) band songs and I would stick to the songs on the album..not bring in other recorded songs…
Beatles WHITE HOT WHITE ALBUM. SIDE 1. Back in the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4. Happiness is a Warm Gun 5. Birthday 6. Savoy Truffle 7. Yer Blues. SIDE 2. 1. Helter Skelter 2.Everybody’s Got Something…3. Sexy Sadie 4. Why Don’t We Do It (a full band version!) 5. Long Long Long 6. Martha My Dear 7. Revolution 1…..
I will leave the first album like that. The second would be mostly acoustic based. Will think on that for later… OH , I was alive at the time I was 15, and I can’t remember it NOT being called the “WHITE Album” …it came out right about Christmas 1968 ..this is all VINYL of course…the album came photo cards off all 4 and a photo collage on the inner sleeve. I think my sister still has the original from 1968.
2:06 - In another interview George Martin said that his judgement and suggestion for a single album was based on hearing the demos that the band brought to the studio. However the group wanted to record as much as possible as it would help fullfilling quite a bit of their contract which was renewed in 1967 and had a clause for amount of songs. This approach would have a significant effect because some tracks just did not exist on the Esher Demos or were just very early drafts like HIAWG.
37:40 - Not Guilty was out before the final sequencing session, seems like George didn't know how to improve it, so he pulled that song. It's kind of unfinished, unfortunately.
44:30 - I remember in recent years the story appeared that the original idea was to have transparent cover or none at all, and similar thing for the discs themselves, some "super high tech" from Magic Alex no doubt, but this was too expensive to produce. Not sure if the story is true though, but the statement was "the music on it is what's important".
50:55 - Yeah the story that "A Beginning" was an original intro to Don't Pass Me By is hard to believe to be honest, it just doesn't fit at all. Wasn't it a part of Yellow Submarine score?
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who would have the acoustic version of Gently Weeps. The Love version with the orchestra is incredible. No disrespect to the album version, but it does not compete.
My dad used to sing Good Night to me as a kid to help me sleep, so it will always be a must and the closer.
No Revolution 9?? 😢😢
I was lucky enough to see the Dirty Mac filming Yer Blues at the Rock and Roll Circus. I've always liked that song. You need to maybe imagine what songs George Martin would have picked? Six each from Lennon and McCartney and a couple from George although Ringo needs to be in there too.
Personally I've always loved 'Wild Honey Pie' - I'm surprised to see it hated on so widely!
No Long Long Long? No White Album.
The demo of While My Guitar Gently Weeps with acoustic guitar and harmonium is a masterpiece. Too bad that couldn't have been a prelude to the album track.
Here's my single-album White Album-preserving their own sequencing where possible, sticking to the classic 14-track format, and assuming Ringo needs one...
SIDE A:
1) Back In the USSR
2) Dear Prudence
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4) Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5) Martha My Dear
6) I'm So Tired
7) Blackbird
SIDE B:
8) Lady Madonna (I do what I want)
9) Mother Nature's Son
10) Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me And My Monkey
11) Savoy Truffle
12) I Will
13) Revolution (not Revolution 1)
14) Goodnight
To make a single White Album disc, there are rules the Beatles themselves (wanted to) follow(ed):
14 tracks
2 Harrison songs at least
1 Ringo vocal
Equal John-Paul material.
Unavoidable songs:
Back in The USSR
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gentle Weeps
And then you could make a choice to use all the acoustic 'Rishikesh' songs like Blackbird, I Will , Revolution 1 and Julia
Or make it a rock album with Birthday , Savoy Truffle, Helter Skelter and Monkey
Or a poppy album with Martha, Glass Union and Sexy Sady
So many options 😛
I've loved this podcast so far. casual and human.
why not try an instrumental of HTE as the in / out music instead of Michelle?
Should have been one, great album. But everybody was releasing at least one double album back then. Ringo said they could have released a second album called The Whiter album. Also, you can't reduce the tracks to a single album but you can save some and write new ones later to complete another great album. Having said that there was a point in my life where i loved every track as well as the order (Rev 9 excluded of course).
John Denver also covers "Mother Nature's Son." He changes "see her waters rise" to "watch her waters rise," which works better in terms of both alliteration and rhyme. I'm surprised, in retrospect, that McCartney didn't think of that revision.
No it doesnt scan. The emphasis is on the "esses", not the "w". Sit beSide a mountain Stream, See her waterS riSe. LiSten to the pretty Sound of muSic
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"I don't think Blackbird was envisioned as a sort of civil rights thing, I think Paul just filled that in later on... That wasn't stated until much later" --- Incorrect. Paul mentioned it to Donovan at Abbey Road in 1968 during sessions for Mary Hopkin's 'Postcard'. The metaphor is more universal than *just* civil rights, but there's no doubt that was an important inspiration, coming just after the murder of MLK.
Guys, do one video on what would you leave out of the Sixtine Chappel . Michelangelo painted too much. ☺
Hey guys, would you consider starting a discord server to talk Beatles gear, isolated tracks and learning parts?
Hmm maybe, I’ll think about it, although I think Sam and Michael haven’t actually used Discord before so they might not be on it
Yeah, somebody included Not Guilty. It's better than Savoy or Piggies. I would have included Hey Jude if it stayed as a double album. But since were talking about condensing it down to one disc, I would choose Birthday as a single b/w Sexy Sadie. By the way, Michelle was a single everywhere but in the US and UK.
A Doll's House would have been the truly perfect title for the White Album. A shame it was taken. There's a photo of the four of them, together yet isolated, each in one window of a house (at Friar park i think), which would have been a great alternative cover image.
But, OTOH, the album having no title and no cover art was a great reaction to the overly flowery psychedelic packaging of their two 1967 albums. At that point it was all about change and movement.
@@stevehoran5595 True.
I think this should’ve been making the whiter album instead, aka taking only the weird songs and making an album out of them. Maybe that can be its own video
Now that I think of it, I am not a huge fan of overrated Beatles songs. I forgot who said it, it might have been Dom with "Hey Jude", but it is pretty understandable. "Something" used to be one of my favourite songs, but its popularity ruined it for me. Obviously, I don't hate the song itself, it's just probably one of the most overplayed songs out there.
I can't get over that chord progression, George was such a genius.
Great show you guys got! But I do have to say I like when you stick to the gear stuff rather the song stuff. Talk about the Rics, the amps, the 6120, Johns black washer on casino, what amp settings? What strings? talk tone, talk…..gear. Love when you talk about your own personal gear.
Mike here - you can blame me for many of the non-gear topics. Rest assured, we'll always get back to the gear for every non-gear episode!
@@MichaelSokil I appreciate the song stuff since you guys have a different perspective due to understanding the gear.
It was a very good double album but it could have been an epic single album. The best double album IMO is Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti.
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Ok when the first guy included literally ONE Paul song, I moved on with my life.
The rest of us are much bigger fans of Paul and his granny music haha
I hear you. My granny loves "Helter Skelter" but it's too quaint for me. @@GearThereEverywhere