I loved the white album the lenght it was! There isn't a song I could take of the album without ruining it! the fact it was a double album just made it that extra bit special to the Beatles album history! and gave each beatle equal number of songs on the album really!

Quoted from McLennon

I loved the white album the lenght it was! There isn't a song I could take of the album without ruining it! the fact it was a double album just made it that extra bit special to the Beatles album history! and gave each beatle equal number of songs on the album really!

Well, George only had 4, to Lennon's 13!

Well in comparison to other albums thats still pretty good!

Quoted from McLennon

Well in comparison to other albums thats still pretty good!

He had 3 on Revolver

...and he had two of the four "new" tracks on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.  50% of the new Beatles material.  Not bad eh?  

Certainly not! The White Album's very purpose, it's charm, comes from that lengthy, perhaps "unnecessary" material. I mean, for every album there's going to be roughly twice as many tracks as those that end up on there, and this is just The Beatles including those takes. I know many people who dislike "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", "Wild Honey Pie", "Rocky Racoon", and the other genre-expierimental tracks, and I can never understand why. My only complaint would be, maybe they could've excluded "Revolution 9". (although that's another example of the quirky, expierimental tracks on there) and included for it's length 4 or so shorter tracks.

My favorite Beatles album, one of the best ever. I wouldn't change The White Album for the world.

There are a lot of songs on the White Album that some people hate but other people love. Honey Pie (GREAT song) and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, for example. There's something for everyone on the white album... unless you happen to be into, like, Mongolian folk music or gangsta rap.

Quoted from Mairi

There are a lot of songs on the White Album that some people hate but other people love. Honey Pie (GREAT song) and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, for example. There's something for everyone on the white album... unless you happen to be into, like, Mongolian folk music or gangsta rap.

I like both of those genres for one and secondly...

I've always been of the opinion that every genre birthed after The White Album's release can be traced directly back there. I'm including in this Rocky Racoon as an influence on what eventually became standard fair in gangsta rap (no joke, think about it for a second).

Well Rocky Raccoon is more of a talking blues in the style of A Boy Named Sue or Subterranean Homesick Blues, but I do agree that TWA opened a lot of doors. Helter Skelter was basically the beginning of metal.

Here is a rather basic but nevetheless interesting snippet of Paul discussing the artwork of the 'White Album'
(Ignore the horrible narration and tedious image slideshow)   (so pretty much everything!)

- I think this interview was directly used in "Many Years From Now" or maybe "The Anthology" - I forget now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNCNE61SfgI

Quoted from Mairi

There are a lot of songs on the White Album that some people hate but other people love. Honey Pie (GREAT song) and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, for example. There's something for everyone on the white album... unless you happen to be into, like, Mongolian folk music or gangsta rap.

Damn! I knew it was missing something!!

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da should have been a single.

Quoted from Mairi

. There's something for everyone on the white album... unless you happen to be into, like, Mongolian folk music .

Yak in the USSR?

Quoted from Kevin

Yak in the USSR?

Ha!!!!!

Quoted from BlueMeanie

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da should have been a single.

It was over here. With While My Guitar Gently Weeps as the b-side. I'm pretty sure it was a single in other countries as well.

Quoted from Bobber

It was over here. With While My Guitar Gently Weeps as the b-side. I'm pretty sure it was a single in other countries as well.

Well I never knew that. Was it a big hit? Or is that a silly question?

It's always been a bit of a mystery to me why they gave away such an obviously massive hit to Marmalade.