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- Side 3 continues on... the boys get a little wild on this one and I am HERE for it. They go all kinds of weird places on this side (Just like the next!) but this is sheer musical genius. The way "Yer Blues" and "Mother Nature's Son" clash and is pure gold from John and Paul respectively. "Sexy Sadie" and "Helter Skelter" see the boys look to the future in a way and Skelter being maybe the heaviest song i've ever heard from them. I LOVE IT.
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This will only be up for a short time.
Loving it while it's here!
Consider patreon, then?
Making hay…
@Bipbop66 it is on patreon! He just puts it on TH-cam for the likes of me who shouldn't spend what little money they have on Patreon, and I'm very grateful 🙏
@@RoadienicknamedRory I’m making hay while the sun shines..not critical of Lee at all.
When they say nobody was doing this sort of stuff before the Beatles, they mean NOBODY was doing this stuff before the Beatles
56 years later "Helter Skelter" is still one of the most kick ass songs ever recorded!!!
One of the best albums of all time... ❤❤❤❤
Like Mozart and Beethoven these people will be remembered for 500 years.
Beethoven and Mozart haven't made it 500 years yet, maybe they'll be forgotten soon. Probably not :)
No one comes close to them-as Paul Simon once said “What planet are they from?” Helter Skelter- first Metal song 1968!
McCartney's bass playing on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide except for Me and my Monkey" is phenomenal.
Yeah, boy!
His bass playing on the whole album!!
The bass line on Boys
There's such an edge to The White Album. It's unnerving but fucking amazing
Some people, including George Martin, wanted to cut songs and make it a single album. As for me, I'm glad we have all these songs. The more Beatles, the better.
It was chock full of filler by Beatles standards but by the standards of everyone else? Pure gold at every turn. Yes as a 15-track single LP it would be their best ever. But even at 30 it may still be that! And there were still a few good tunes written along the way that didn't make the cut but showed up later on Beatles or solo LPs
The thing is, what I have learnt from reading many comments on the subject over the years on YT, is that:
1) everyone thinks they know for sure which those 'filler' songs are, and
2) nobody thinks it's the same songs - one person's definite 'throwaway song' always turning out to be amongst someone else's favourites...
So maybe keeping nearly all of them in was the right decision after all...
There's no filler on the White Album. The volume and eclecticism is what makes it so brilliant. Removing any track would weaken the best album ever.
@@thetoadsong
You're absolutely right!
As Paul once said "What are you bloody talking about, it's the Bloody Beatles White Album"😂
The most versatile band in the world
I"VE BEEN SCROLLING DOWN TO READ SOME OF THE MESSAGES LEFT HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TWO THINGS, IF I MAY. FIRST OF ALL, YOUR AUDIENCE IS THE BEST, MOST WELL BEHAVED, DECENT, AND MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE GROUP OF BEATLES FANS I'VE EVER SEEN. AND THE SECOND THING I'D LIKE TO SAY IS DIRECTED RIGHT TO YOUR LISTENERS. HEY EVERYBODY, HOW LUCKY AND EXTREMELY FORTUNATE WERE WE TO HAVE GROWN UP IN THE TIME THAT THE BEATLES WERE HERE AND MAKING THEIR INCREDIBLE MUSIC? I MEAN, WERE WE BLESSED, OR WHAT?
Nice
Please don't yell
There is no telling how Great The Beatles were.
It’s crazy to have this album with 30 songs and then have singles lady Madonna, hey bulldog ,Hey Jude and revolution as singles in the same year.
Humanity will be unpacking the quality and quantity of the Beatles' output for a long, long, long time.
…unbelievably productive-
And the handwringing around the breakup😳 George once said of them that they’d ’given their never systems’
So I still get irritated when I read about John being ‘lazy’ -
While I’m still endlessly enriched by their work to this day. I think they could’ve used a vacation! And in a way, trip to India was a ‘short’ one, whereupon the six or whatever weeks spent there birthed 30+ songs - unbelievable ❤
The B-side to "Lady Madonna" was "The Inner Light".
"Hey Bulldog" was released on the "Yellow Submarine" album.
@@waynec3563The single that should have been!
The Beatles kicked the door in and everyone else followed!🙏
Despite Helter Skelter being a ferocious metal prototype song, it still has the barbershop quartet style "Ahhhhhh" harmonies on it. They were geniuses!
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi. When in north India at the Maharishi transcendental meditation retreat with many top names Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was inappropriately groped by the Maharishi who claimed he was looking for her center of breathing.. The Beatles decided to leave and John was given the task of telling him. Apparently he told the Maharishi w're leaving the Maharishi said why? and Lennon said if you're so fucking cosmic you tell me. Apparently the song sexy sadie was going to be 'Maharishi what have you done, you made a fool of everyone'
@l33reacts must-read comment!
John wanted to name it Maharishi and the others talked him out of it, changed it to Sadie. At some point John had the C U Next Tues word in there as well. Even John had to know that wasn't going to fly.
Some believe Magic Alex made the whole groping thing up because he wanted to go home.
Sexy Sadie is also sampled in Karma Police
@@SalvadorJoli No it's not, the piano line is just a bit similar
@@petersilktube I shouldn't have said sampled, I guess. It's inspired by sexy Sadie but not exactly the same.
"Long, Long, Long" is my favorite song on the album. There's just something very special about that recording.
It’s super chilled.
I agree completely
Yes, hautingly beautiful!!!
It's so moving. One of my favourites as well.
You are so right.
Birthday is the best birthday song of any era.
Like I've always said, Lee.
IN THE UNIVERSE OF POPULAR MUSIC, THE BEATLES WERE THE
"BIG BANG!"
I feel that Helter Skelter is the birth of heavy metal. The Beatles gave birth to many new style of Rock music!
At the grammy salute to The Beatles, on 9 February 2014, which was the 50th anniversary of their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show (properly called "The Night that changed America"), before performing Hey Bulldog (for the first time; the second time he played the drums on While my guitar gently weeps), Dave Grohl summed it up perfectly when he said, "I can honestly say if it weren't for The Beatles I would not be a musician. From a very early age I loved their groove and their swagger; their grace and their beauty; their dark and their light. The Beatles knew no boundaries and in that freedom they seemed to define what we know as Rock and Roll today!"
There will never be another band like the beatles.....500 years from now they will still be playing beatles music.....greatest band ever!!!
The best side three ever recorded. Play LOUD and dance yourself into oblivion. BLISTERS!!!!!
They really could write and sing in any style perfectly
The bass sound on this album is so chunky and meaty. One of my favourite bass sounds. It really shines on Yer Blues.
Yeah, the bass sound all over The White Album is unique and never repeated on any other Beatles album. Apparently McCartney would often play Keyboards or guitar during the original tracks and get George or John to play along on bass with the newly purchased Fender 6 string bass. And then Paul would overdub the bass part again on his Fender Precision to beef up the more trebly 6-string sound. So the sound we hear more often than not is 2 basses played together. Very different sound from Paul's earlier Hofner/Rickenbacker sound - Although the Hofner & Fender 6 reappears on Let It Be and then we are back to the Precision & the 6-string on Abbey Road (but this time not usually playing at the same time together).
@@marascusbomm Hmm. Interesting. I'd never heard that before. I thought the bass was just the overdub.
@@Kieop Well, many times the bass is indeed just played by Paul on the White Album, like Dear Prudence. But that unique & unmistakable chunky clicking bass sound that we are discussing here, like on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', is John (or sometimes George) playing it live on Fender VI bass (while Paul plays another instrument like piano or guitar) and then later Paul overdubbing his Fender Precision on top. And in fact for 'Back In The USSR' all 3 Beatles recorded bass parts (although from memory John's may have not made the final mix). My theory is The Beatles would have been well aware of the classic 1950's/early 60's 'tic-tac bass' technique of overdubbing a Danelectro or Fender 6 string bass guitar part with a pick to duplicate exactly the more boomy, less defined, upright bass part. Songs like 'Little Sister' by Elvis use this technique and I am guessing The Beatles had a nostalgic fondness for that sound.
'Everybody's Got Something...Monkey' is such an underrated banger. Love that track.
He wrote it after someone drew a cartoon depicting Yoko as a monkey on John's back distracting him. It pissed him off
One of the greatest album sides in modern music. The mic broke on Yer Blues. Then they dip into MNS. Crazy!!! The diversity
I have a friend who is younger than my youngest child. For his birthday his then girlfriend invited me to karaoke and said they were going to play "you think its your birthday " not realizing it was called Birthday. Its their answer to happy birthday. I grew up on that song.
'I got blisters on my fingers!'
Ringo!
This also happens when you play the Guitar to much.
@@AlBarzUK Yes, a spontaneous exclamation of real pain!
ME fingers! lol
@ Me Irish Grandfather was babysitting me (5 yrs old), and as I rushed into his kitchen after playing outside, I started drinking milk out of the milk carton… As he sat at the kitchen table drinking a beer he asked me, “Hey Bob, why are ye drinking all that milk?” “I’m thirsty, I answered”. To which he replied, “It’s not Thursty, it’s Saturday!”
They jammed for another 20 minutes at the end of Helter Skelter. So they edited most of that out and brought it back with true ending of the jam, when Ringo's decalres, "I got blister's on my fingers".
Why oh why has their studio jamming not been edited and issued? The little I heard in Get Back was simply amazing and I wanted more of it.
The long take of Helter Skelter (27 minutes) was the first version. There is a 13 minute take of the first version on TH-cam from The Beatles.
The released song was version 2.
Helter Skelter was the hardest song ever made, up to that point in time, and Paul made it that way to prove a point, and show up a musician friend who said his band had recorded the hardest song yet. Paul said, basically, "Hold my joint." 😂
This album proves just how great The Beatles truly were, even more than Sgt. Pepper's, IMO, because of the diversity of styles and wild experimentation. I love Sgt. Pepper's but the White Album is a whole other ball of wax. Thanks, for posting this, even if it won't stay up for long. ❤👍✌️
Well, kind of. Paul *read* someone from The Who saying they had made the raunchiest loudest noise ever (I Can See for Miles, I believe).
@@OroborusFMA The thing is that "I Can See For Miles" is quite tame. I used to have all of the Who albums on vinyl (I'm 74) and I never thought they were heavy or raucous or raunchy in the least.
The Who album that "I Can See For Miles" was on was "The Who Sell Out" and I always have thought of that album as being embarrassingly SILLY & STUPID. Maybe two good songs...
What's amazing is how so many of their songs there was no previous template.
Helter Skelter...they invented heavy medal too!
Heavy metal. Although they should have got a heavy medal for inventing it.
One of the ‘tightest’ groups ever. Their history even before they got to EMI Abbey Road was unbelievably prolific. They were brothers, so close.
Back in the day we had been spoiled by years of torrential production of incredible music from the Beatles. I think I was numb or a bit jaded by the time the White album came out. It’s only after revisiting decades later that I now give it the respect it deserves. I am not enamored by every track, but as I always say: The Beatles’ song you like least is still better than 95% of the songs released at the time.
I just want to yell with my arms up in the air during Helter Skelter. I love it so much. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘.
Listen closely and you will hear a rubber ducky in Helter Skelter.
People always say that Sgt. Peppers was the most influential album of all time. But I think it was the White Album. Because it contains all the musical styles that defined rock music from that point (1968) until well into the 1970s. The White Album is the root of 70s rock.
Abbey Road, maybe, with its high polish and early use of synthesizers, perhaps. If you listen to The Cars first album (1978) it has Abbey Road all over it, for example.
Oh yeah, the White Album is all that. The progression from one Beatles phase to another. Mind blowing.
I absolutely agree. 70's and even part of 80's music owe a lot to the White Album.
Without a doubt Sgt. Pepper was the most influential album of all time if you knew the time it was released and the state of music back then. Sgt. Pepper was an esoteric (or closed) concept album about the life of Billy Shears. The Beatles had to be both clever and cryptic about it for fear that the BBC would ban the album. As it was the BBC did ban two songs: "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and "Fixing A Hole".
The turnout to the album has the Beatles saying: We couldn't speak any other way. Of course things radically changed and just one year later they could have been up front about what their fictitious character Billy Shears did.
Sgt. Pepper spawned numerous progressive rock bands like Family, The Moody Blues, The Soft Machine, The Move and others and also influenced the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Cream and others.
@@JimDeferio So what DID he do?
Dude. A 30 song double album. THIRTY! Are you kidding me? And other than Revolution #9 which a lot of folks didn’t care for, including me, all the tunes were so amazing, so different, so, just so fuckin Beatles. I will never tire of them, even after 60+ years, their shit just gets better. It is so crazy. But anyway- thx Lee. Fun times as always. Even though I have 2 copies of every Beatles album, plus the vinyl stuff, I still love comin here and listening with you. Peace my brother.🎸🎸🥁🥁🎹🎹✌️😎
Maybe this is controversial, but I am glad Revolution No. 9 is on this album. I mean it’s not even a song and it lasts far too long and there isn’t really anything redeemable about it EXCEPT for the fact that it’s there and the Beatles did something crazy and different AGAIN!! Only the greatest band in the world could produce the most hated track there is, and I love it for that very reason. Even there worst thing gets all the attention
@@AnthonyMinsky#9 was surpassed on the dislike list by John and Yoko with Kiss, Kiss, Kiss, at least #9 will send you sleep!
@@iainsmith2434 Then there's the unreleased What's The New Mary Jane
Unlike almost everyone 😏
I actually like #9.
John had discovered the avant garde art world including conceptual art and sound art - he loved it because it’s weird and it’s about ideas.
This was the nonlinear sonic chaos of a revolution. He did a great job.
Of course few pop rock fans would like it, but I appreciate that he attempted to expand minds and expectations 😉
@@dcg4mn I love Revolution 9.
Birthday….often taken for granted, but man it rocks!!
Lennon's Vocals on Sexy Sadie!
Still sends Shivers up my spine!
My Desert Album!
So much diversity.
The greatest album side of any album ever. Period.
They could have made six or seven “conventional “ albums, spread out over 10;years with this masterpiece
It made TH-cam! Thank you for covering this album the right way, all the way through. ✌️❤️🎶
The variety, the music, the moods, the legends. Beatles White Album.
Hearing these songs in their proper context makes such a massive difference - remember this is the way they wanted them heard and was the only way at the time to hear them
So glad to see all the White Album up. So many amazing tracks. I have a real soft spot for 'Mother Natures Son'. Such a beautiful song.
Got the album for Christmas of 1968, i was fourteen, and wore the grooves off!
Was known as the Christmas album in our house because my brother got it one year. For a long time I thought all fans called it that, hah!
Ok, I got thru all three sides, and I'm now waiting for the fourth
This has been awesome thx
My parents bought me this album for my 18th birthday and a new stereo to play it on (many, many years ago). Birthday has always been a favourite!
Almost all the White Album was composed in India and worked on once back in England. Birthday has Patti Boyd Harrison in the studio. It might have been her birthday. Yer Blues was done live in a small, closet size room. One of Lennon's best vocals. To hear you call out Big Momma Thorton was a treat. My how you've grown musically of late, my friend. Kudos. On Mother's Nature Son I think it's Ringo slapping his thighs keeping time. No need to explain Me And My Monkee; Sexy Sadie was about slandering the Maharishi due to John's mistrust of him in the end. Love the sound of the piano in the opening. Lennon's singing is also great. Magic Alex visited them in India and left the impression that he had a mission to get the Beatles out of there and back to England. It has been suggested by Cynthia Lennon herself, that Magic Alex is the person that started the rumor about the impropriety between the Maharishi and Prudence. And Lennon ate it up, left and wrote a song about it. So as you can see, many more versions to that story than wiki page cares to explore. Helter Skelter is a slide in the UK and Paul is just making loud hard and heavy rock. The song got used by Charles Mansion as a McGuffin to incite his "family" to commit murder thus making the song infamous in its day. George Harrison once stated that the name of his song initially was 'It's Been A Long Long Long Time' but he thought it a bit too long long long. Side 3 is epic. Side 4 is the closure. Great react Lee. Thanks for posting it.
Let's start a side with Martha My Dear and the next with Birthday. Just to show everybody that we can do everything. I'm always in two minds about which album is my favourite of all time, Abbey Road or The White Album. As much as I appreciate experimentation and unpredictability, Revolution no 9 is not something I enjoy in the mix of me rocking, swaying and grooving to the rest of the songs. But then I hear Mother Nature's son, Blackbird, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps etc etc etc and think: "Wow, that is an incredible album!"
John actually had Maharishi in the lyric. It was George Harrison who said you can’t say that right out like that and suggested using Sexy Sadie, which John liked.
Greatest album of all time!!
You're absolutely right!
They wrote so many songs from so many different genres. Opening the door for many new artist.
Comparing earlier albums to this shows their progression and experimentation with different instruments. Obviously they had free reign to do whatver they wanted here. Love to see how much you're into them Lee - can you imagine being around at the time and living it. As you can see by the comments our generation listened to this album over and over and over again. Pure genius.
Sexy Sadie was my fav of this side
I have spent my day dealing with the dentist and two different offices of BS. Thanks for making it easier!
Did you have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle? 😅
I remember getting the cassette of the white album and listening to it on my boom box. It was magical. I sat up and thought, why hasn’t anyone told me about this album? Why am I just now hearing it? People should be telling everyone to listen to this album. It is by far the best album of all time.
Helter Skelter is a perfect illustration of what I mentioned earlier. You are encountering it a second time a long time later while this huge amount of experiencing context grew up around you. I think it's fantastic.
Man! I love all the Beatles albums, but this one takes the cake!!
Yeah, I haven’t listened straight thru the sides like this in decades. You’re right it’s a mind trip of the Beatles and sounds and music, an adventure, a tour de force
As a kid of 8 or 9 I only listened to sides 1 and 2. I discovered this side when I was 14 and or 15, after I really got into harder rock (for the most part) and went crazy over it. Helter Skelter was my big favorite, followed by Yer Blues. The contrast from song to song is just wild, most of this side is constant extreme changes - Yer Blues to Mother Natures Son to Everybody's GOt Something... to Sexy Sadie to Helter Skelter to Long Long Long, just all over the place. You can't really categorize this album, other than insanely diverse. Not another band in the world who can do all those styles and do them so well. A lot of bands from that era were really diverse, but The Beatles were at the top.
I absolutely refuse to listen to anybody. That tries to make an argument that The Beatles aren't the greatest band ever. Why? Because there is no argument. That's not. A put down of any of the other great fans that have ever existed. It's a statement based on who they are not who the others aren't.
In my family, we play the birthday song for every birthday!
Okay here we go Lee❤ i am on board for all of this. Birthday song is the greatest it's so freaking up there with all the fun stuff.😂
Jamming out to The Beatles in the metaverse - what a great turn of phrase.❤
Thank you Lee!!!
No, really, thank you, Lee !!!
Sadie 😂 love the wah wah background singing❤ its about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It was even going to be called Maharishi...
The Beatles are unbelievable and hypnotizing 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🕊💎🙏👍🩵💚💜
Nilsson does a nearly spot on exact cover. It's almost like Paul wrote it for Harry. It's such a beautiful song and it takes me back to my childhood playing outside without a care in the world.
That Birthday song just rocks. Love everything about it. Perfect birthday song ever❤
One of my favorite albums
Sexy Sadie is about the maharishi.
It really does my heart good to see young music fans getting into the Beatles.I was born in 1957 and they were the soundtrack of my youth.I see you are also into many artists from the 60s and 70s,there is plenty to choose from,though the Beatles are the pinnacle.Keep listening 👍
I'm your age, and I tell people I imprinted on the Beatles , although I do remember some earlier music (Sealed With a Kiss, Roses are Red ). For me, all rock music is in comparison to the Beatles. And they led every year with their latest album and we would think, oh, OK, this is what we are doing now.
@@freda1182
Imprinted - that’s good🤘🏽 would apply to me.
I was ten when they exploded, a tad too young but I was certainly aware as they saturated the atmosphere and media -I watched them on Ed Sullivan.
Three years later at age 13 I bought Sgt Pepper and never looked back: I’ve always remembered the Summer of Love as the Summer of Sgt. Pepper - everyone played it a million times.
We waited anxiously for each new album, and that excited breathless suspended moment lowering the needle onto Track 1 for the first time - we never knew WHAT the hell to expect (I mean Come Together?😱 come! on!) … they were always ahead of us and pulled us along, almost as if each album announced a new era til their next was released 😉
I’ve always thought that the only filmmaker who might possibly get anywhere near depicting that magical moment would be Spielberg.
This album is an Absolute Masterpiece. The more you listen to it, the better it gets.
there was a restaurant in chelsea (manhattan) in the 80s that would shut off the lights and blast this (Birthday) when it was someone's birthday and they were bringing out a cake.......loved it. forgot the name, 23rd st bet 8th and 9th.
This is my favourite side. It just ROCKS! Every song is so heavy and layered (with a few exceptions); every time you listen to them you hear something new. Some of their best individual vocals: John on Yer Blues, Paul on Helter Skelter and George on Long Long Long.
I adore the ride cymbal in Everybody's Got Something to Hide. I love how the bell of the ride sounds like a fire bell. Also in that song, the drums and bass are so in synch. Just amazing groove. I love the energy of Birthday, the purity of Mother Nature's Son, the sentiment of Sexy Sadie and the eeriness of Long Long Long.
Bought this album for my 1st girlfriend, Christmas '68. It was a kingly gift, around $6.99! I had jus turned 15. Mind-blowing album with so much to react to and dissect and enjoy!
❤ Adorable story
if you are will do any more albums, then Abbey Road is a must. Their final masterpiece
I'm not due for Thanksgiving dinner until Sunday afternoon so I'll spend Thanksgiving listening to the white album with you.
Glad to have you my friend, I hope you enjoyed 🙏
Best birthday song.......EVER!!
Wow!!! So awesome! Thank you Lee. And yes, you do look like Paul.
Paul who?
@TangoEliott uh, Paul McCartney???
@dawnschneider187 sorry, bad joke
I used to lie on my back with my head between the speakers on our "Radiogram" so I could feel the bass on Long Long Long. You bring back such great memories for us old guys. I wish you could have been there. You would have loved it. It was a blast. Thanks!
Thank you Lee!
Finished 3of 3. You have to understand when us boomers first listened to these albums, we were listening on “crappy” hi fi. Now through high tech equipment, it’s like we’re listening for the first time. Keep up the good work sir.
The "Helter Skelter" track that you listened to is the Giles Martin re-mix. The guitars are subdued in this version and the background "noise" increased. I have three original vinyl White Albums and the guitars are LOUD and prominent on this song.
One more thing: Many did not have this album when it first came out because it was a double album and EXPENSIVE for us teenagers and college students. Album rock on FM radio stations hadn't become a big thing yet so all we heard on AM radio stations was "Ob La Di Ob La Da", and "Back In The USSR". This was partly why when Led Zeppelin began in 1969 many thought that Zeppelin had invented heavy metal because they never heard "Yer Blues", "Helter Skelter", "Purple Haze" & "Foxy Lady" by Jimi Hendrix or "Spoonful" by Cream or "In The Gadda Da Vida" 17 minute version by Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer. It wasn't until much later that we began realizing that Zeppelin was just copying other bands and was actually plagiarizing some.
I have been with you since you started this...(I should give you some support...I'm piling up sponsorships...) and I have been rewarded with your growth. I really enjoy your Beatles and Steely Dan reactions. I've come to look forward seeing your posts. The fact that you remarked in passing that C. Manson was likely a CIA project gave me pause; I didn't expect, and am delighted that you are aware of this! When you open your mind to the possibility, and read the research on this (mostly by Tom O'Neil, but also by Mae Brussell) and put into perspective just how much resistance there is to positivity in the advancement of the human project- well, I love an open mind. Fare thee well, young brother.
Thanks Lee- sublime White Album- and just in time for my birthday. 🎸🎂🎯🦃❤ I love these guys so much.
Still up!!
So awesome revisiting this masterpiece with you
Imagine coming up with a great rock song, as an alternative to “Happy Birthday” 🎂
This may be my fave side of the whole thing. I don't think a song warped my young, impressionable brain like "Sexy Sadie" did. It opened me up to odd cadences, metaphors, subversive pop music... I was ruined for life!
Love the look in your eye while listening to this. Sometimes, it just hits you, just right. Especially these boys, eh? ❤❤❤
This side is sensational!
Yeah! 👍
You gotta play the full version of Helter Skelter!
No one has ever sung this to you on your birthday sweetie Lee!!!? Blasphemy!!! ❤😂
I'm a life long professional musician and 'Birthday' was the go to song when we had a Birthday in the crowd. I've played it hundreds of times times .😊
How crazy is it that Manson called his revolution Helter Skelter and the whole scheme was blown when Susan Atkins (aka Sadie, yes that’s right, Sadie) blabbed to her cellmate. “Sexy Sadie, what have you done. You made a fool of everyone”
Glad you posted this. Reminds me of how great the White Album is. I'll take it over Revolver.
I remember when I was a kid loudly jamming out to Helter Skelter and having to turn up Long, Long ,Long, to hear it.
I listened to this album over and over again as a kid, but listening to it again recently, I cannot remember ever hearing "Long Long Long"
I feel ya! I don't remember thinking that it was on this album. I thought it was on some later album; it's ahead of event this record...