If you could remove all "filler" OR if you could only have your favorite songs from the WA and make it into a fantastically-fantastic single album, how would you do it? (14 songs for the album)

After much debating with myself, this would be mine:

1) Back in the U.S.S.R
2) Dear Prudence
3) Blackbird
4) Martha My Dear
5) I Will
6) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7) Revolution (single version)
8) Cry Baby Cry
9) Happiness Is A Warm Gun
10) Don't Pass Me By
11) Glass Onion
12) Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
13) Honey Pie
14) Good Night

Wasn't it going to be a single album but they decided to make it a double to help fulfill their contract about how many lps they must produce?

I'd choose:

1.  Dear Prudence
2. Ob la di Ob la da
3.  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness is a Warm Gun
5.  Martha My Dear
6.  I'm So Tired
7.  Blackbird
8.  Rocky Racoon
9.  I Will
10.  Julia
11.  Mother Nature's Son
12.  Helter Skelter
13.  Long Long Long
14.  Cry Baby Cry

1. BackIn The USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. Martha My Dear
6. Im So Tired
7. Blackbird
8. Piggies
9. Julia
10. Everybodies Got Something To Hide
11. Helter Skelter
12. Long Long Long
13. Cry Baby Cry
14. Good Night

My versions only got four paul songs. I didnt do that on purpose. I think i prefer the double album though. All those funny little songs give the white album its weird quirky atmosphere.

1. Glass Onion
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. Martha My Dear
6. Im So Tired
7. Blackbird
8. Piggies
9. Julia
10. Everybodies Got Something To Hide
11. Helter Skelter
12. Sour Milk Sea
13. Cry Baby Cry
14. Good Night

Quoted from Kiss_My_Bad_Self, posted September 8, 2004, 9:40am at here

I think i prefer the double album though. All those funny little songs give the white album its weird quirky atmosphere.

Absolutely! This album really does have a unique atmosphere to it.

"It was great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles White Album. Shut up."

Wise words there Paul

Hello all, new guy here! I`m a life-long fan of the boys, and had to join when I read this topic - great one!

1. Back In The USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Ob La Di, Ob La Da
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
6. Martha My Dear
7. I`m So Tired
8. Blackbird
9. I Will
10. Julia
11. Everybody`s Got Something To Hide....
12. Sexie Sadie
13. Helter Skelter
14. Revolution 1

welcome.............

oh thats kind of hard cause I like most of the songs but i'll choose my fab later on

No, I like it the way it is.  Perfection

Quoted from Herecomesyoursun, posted September 17, 2004, 9:54pm at here

No, I like it the way it is.  Perfection

yeah, same here but I'll do this just for fun

1. Helter Skelter
2. Yer Blues
3. Back in The USSR
4. Happiness. is a Warm Gun
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6. Blackbird
7. I'm So Tired
8. Martha My Dear
9. Piggies
10. Dear Prudence
11. Obladi Oblada
12. Glass Onion
13. Sexy Sadie
14. Mother's nature Son

1. Dear prudence
2 obla di obla da
3 while my guitar gently weeps
4 hapiness is a warm gun
5 Marthat my dear
6 blackbird
7 birthday
8 everybodys got someting to hide except for me and my monkey
9  savory truffle
10 helter skelter
11 sexy sadie
12 piggies
13 back in the ussr
14 revolution

There are only about 3 songs on it that I don't like a lot.

I admit i have started to enjoy the white album a lot more recently

Same here.

1) Back in the U.S.S.R.
2) Dear Prudence
3) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5) Happiness is a Warm Gun
6) I'm so Tired
7) Rocky Racoon
8. Julia
9) Yer Blues
10) Mother Nature's Son
11) Sexy Sadie
12) Helter Skelter
13) Savoy Truffle
14) Cry Baby Cry

I think the White Album stands on a pedistal above all of their other albums... It's so different... It runs so well... Sometime, when I'm in another state of mind, my mind is completely open when I listen to the whole thing through... I love every SINGLE song on it, including Revolution 9... I just can't express with my vocabulary the beauty in this album... They're all on top of their games and they just all sound wonderful...

My version of the White Album:

1. Back In The USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4. Sexy Sadie
5. Rocky Raccoon
6. Yer Blues
7. Long Long Long
8. Helter Skelter
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10. Revolution 1
11. Blackbird
12. Don't Pass Me By
13. Hey Jude (with intro from Anthology disc 3)
14. Good Night

And that is one helluva White Album... Took me one half hour to compile. 

It shall be called... The Off-White Album...

01. Dear Prudence
02. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
03. While My Guitar Gentle Weeps
04. Blackbird
05. Rocky Raccoon
06. Birthday
07. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
08. Savoy Truffle
09. Long, Long, Long
10. Cry Baby Cry
11. Mother Nature's Son
12. Sexy Sadie
13. I'm So Tired
14. Glass Onion

I think the White Album is the Beatles true masterpiece creatively, musically & artistically which defines them during their late 60's era. 

Gave it a second listen to, and I'm changing mine around

1) Back in the U.S.S.R
2) Dear Prudence
3) Piggies
4) Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
5) Martha My Dear
6) Honey Pie
7) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
9) Blackbird
10) Helter Skelter
11) I'm So Tired
12) Don't Pass Me By
13) Revolution (single version)
14) I Will

1.Back In The USSR
2.Dear Prudence
3.Birthday
4.Happiness is A Warm Gun
5.While my Guitar gently weeps
6.Helter Skelter
7.Sexy sadie
8.Dont Pass me By
9.RockyRacoon
10.Im so Tired
11.Yer Blues
12.Honey Pie
13.Julia
14.Good Night

But the point, Sadie, is to remove all filler (if you think there is any) or to pick your 14 favorites.  So many people are coming in saying, "It's a Masterpiece on it's own" that it's defeating the purpose of the thread, because no one is questioning how great the album is.

To kinda quote Joe from a long time: This is not a life/death decision.  No one's holding you at gunpoint if you change the album incorrectly -- it's for fun.

OK, trying to construct it like a Beatles album (2 George, 1 Ringo), I would go with this.

1.  Back In The USSR
2.  Dear Prudence
3.  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4.  Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5.  Blackbird
6.  Julia
7.  I'm So Tired
8.  Sexy Sadie
9.  Helter Skelter
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Birthday
12. Yer Blues
13. I Will
14. Goodnight


It's very hard, though.  I left off some pretty good stuff and the sprawling nature of the album is what makes it so good, IMO.

As the same way as "Revolver" did it

1.Back In The USSR
2.Dear Prudence
3.Mother Natures Son
4.Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5.Sexy Sadie
6.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7.Helter Skelter
8.Rocky Racoon
9.Blackbird
10.Savoy Truffle
11.Dont Pass Me By
12.Piggies
13.I Will
14.Good Night

I'm one of those "it's great the way it is" contingent too, but I do understand the point of this thread so here are my 14 White Album favorites.

"Back In The USSR"
"Dear Prudence"
"Blackbird"
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"Revolution"
"Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
"Julia"
"I Will"
"Birthday"
"Yer Blues"
"I'm So Tired"
"Don't Pass Me By"
"Savoy Truffle"
"Good Night"

Hey Polly you are nice sweet Girl





A Osmond Brother??ß

!!!!!!! 

::blushes::

Thanks!

And yes, it's an Osmond...that's when I met Donny, here in Boca Raton.

Cut out some of the sillier stuff (Wild Honey Pie) and some of McCartney's poorer songs, and you have (arguably) the best Beatles album ever.

As it stands, it just scrapes into the top 5.

Hmm..for the White album, the die is cast as far as I'm concerned. But here's my list:

Side 1
1 Back In The USSR
2 Dear Prudence
3 Honey Pie
4 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5 Yer Blues
6 Mother Nature's Son
7 Blackbird

Side 2
1 Helter Skelter
2 Long Long Long
3 Everybody's Got Something To Hide...
4 Martha My Dear
5 Sexy Sadie
6 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7 Revolution 9

I wouldn't be able to decide on just 14 songs from the White album. I'd be able to choose a few to get rid of right away, like Revolution 9 and Wild Honey Pie, but after that it would get a bit harder.

I've read the George Martin wanted to trim the White Album down to a single disc, but I'm glad they didn't.  It seems we all have very different ideas about which songs to cut and which songs to keep.

Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Rocky Raccoon
Don't Pass Me By
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
I Will
Birthday
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long

I like the White Album, but it's not one of my favorites.  There's some great stuff on there, but there's a lot of stuff I find unlistenable also.

WB

1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
2. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. Martha My Dear
6. Blackbird
7. Piggies
8. Rocky Raccoon
9. Don't Pass Me By
10. Birthday
11. Mother Nature's Son
12. Honey Pie
13. Savoy Truffle
14. Cry Baby Cry

hmmm...let's see.

1 - Back in the U.S.S.R.
2 - Dear Prudence
3 - Obla-di, Obla-da
4 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
6 - Blackbird
7 - Rocky Raccoon
8 - Martha My Dear
9 - Birthday
10 - Mother Nature's Son
11 - Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)
12 - Sexy Sadie
13 - Savoy Truffle
14 - Cry Baby Cry

I can't cut out one song,let alone half the songs from the greatest double album ever made-it's blasphemy. On second thought,yea I can.
The Continuing Story of Bungalo Bill
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
Piggies
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Don't Pass Me By
Julia
Cry Baby Cry
Savoy Truffle
Yer Blues
Sexy Sadie
Bonus Tracks:
Revolution 1
Revolution 9
Goodnight
Long,Long,Long

Paul could have then released his first solo album:The Paul is Also White Album