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8.42am
4 September 2009
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If the White Album was released as a single LP in 1968, what songs would you have put on it? (Please use the standard rule of 14 tracks. Two being for George and one being for Ringo). I know this topic has been covered many times all over the internet, but I've never done it and Im curious as to what you fine people will say. My LP:
1. Back In The U.S.S.R
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6. I'm So Tired
7. Blackbird
8. Birthday
9. Yer Blues
10. Sexy Sadie
11. Don't Pass Me By
12. Helter Skelter
13. Savoy Truffle
14. Cry Baby Cry
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12.18pm
31 March 2008
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I've never done this either. Here goes.
Side one:
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Martha My Dear
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Helter Skelter
Julia
Side two:
Blackbird
Revolution 1
Sexy Sadie
Mother Nature's Son
Cry Baby Cry
Dear Prudence
Long, Long, Long
If we're allowed unreleased songs from the era too, I'd add Junk and Not Guilty (studio versions of both), though I'm not sure what else I'd leave out. Probably a couple of John songs, as it's already quite Lennon-centric.
I'd have also put out a separate six-track EP, like the UK Magical Mystery Tour , or maybe turned it into a proper album with the unreleased songs mentioned, plus Across The Universe , Revolution 9 , Ob-La-Di and Savoy Truffle :
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6.12pm
12 September 2009
Offline Great question. And no surprise, I guess, that Revolution #9 isn't showing up on these lists…
(a little cheating – I am using the fast version of Revolution , and I'm putting 8 songs on the second side, because – just because)
Side One
Revolution (fast version)
I'm So Tired
Side Two
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Rocky Racoon
Mother Nature's Son
"We were just a band, who made it very very big, that's all."
6.14pm
I always thought the White Album would've been better if it was like Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home', with one half acoustic, one half electric.
Side One
Don't Pass Me By
Side Two
Mother Nature's Son
Honey Pie (not on acoustic guitar, but doesn't fit on the other)
Across The Universe (I can dream, right?)
Dear Prudence (both acoustic and electric)
12.35am
hmm. this is very difficult since i like all of the White Album (even Revolution 9 … if you listen to the album without pause, it really fits with the flow of the album). i'm also using unreleased stuff when i come up with my list
Side One
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Side Two
Junk
Mother Nature's Son
that was by far the most difficult thing i have ever done. i'm not even entirely happy with the choices i made with this but as far as “flow” goes, i think it would've been a great album
1.04am
21 August 2009
Offline Woah, great question. Extremely difficult, but good. Hmm… this is going to create a ton of conflict in my mind, I know it.
All right, here's my master White Album .
Side One
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
Revolution 1 (Yes, slow, John-preferred version)
Side Two
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Mother Nature's Son
UGH, too too hard! I so wanted to include While My Guitar Gently Weeps , and Revolution 9 and Long Long Long. Curse you 14-track LPs!
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1.25am
ooh…so difficult…lets see hear…
Side 1
1.Revolution (fast version)
2.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5.Piggies
6.I'm So Tired
7.I will
Side 2
3.Birthday
4.Mother Nature's Son
7.Goodnight
9.23pm
2. Glass Onion
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Blackbird
6. Piggies
8. Julie
9. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
10. Sexy Sadie
11. Helter Skelter
12. Revolution 1
13. Savoy Truffle
14. Don't Pass Me By
6.04am
1 December 2009
Offline Hm, I've seen this question asked before, but not with the strict 14 songs/2 Harrisongs/Ringo stipulation – that'll make it a bit more challenging! If we're bending the rules to include “Revolution ” and “Not Guilty ” etc. then “Hey Jude ” should be allowed too. But I'm sticking to the album proper:
Side One
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di…
5. Bungalow Bill
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side Two
1. Birthday
2. Piggies
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
4. Don't Pass Me By
6. Blackbird
7. Revolution 9
Pretty obvious which of the four sides I value most. As for the song I most regret excluding, all I can do is cry, baby, cry.
Next: Turn “Sgt. Pepper 's” into a double record! (By adding “Strawberry Fields”/”Penny Lane ” and the best of the 1967 recordings that ended up on “Magical Mystery Tour ” and “Yellow Submarine “)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
12.11am
Long Long Long (without the aaaaah-part)
Everybody Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Revolution (Single version)
Mother Natures Son
5.26am
12.52am
15 November 2009
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Here we go
Side One
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology Version… George playing it solo… awesome)
I'm So Tired
Rocky Racoon
Side Two:
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Revolution (single version)
Wow… this was easier than I thought it would be
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4.39am
26 January 2010
Offline DragoNevermore said:
Here we go
Side One
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology Version… George playing it solo… awesome)
I'm So Tired
Rocky Racoon
Side Two:
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Revolution (single version)
Wow… this was easier than I thought it would be.
Yeah thats because you picked 18 songs!!!!!! haha
Interesting that most people wouldn't change Back In The USSR as the opening track. Me neither, The opening track is so important, if its great you're into the album straight away
mine would be:
Side One
2 I'm So Tired
3 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4 Julia
6 Mother Natures Son
7 Don't Pass Me By
Side Two
8 Why Don't We Do It In The Road
10 Blackbird
12 I Will
14 Long Long Long
I wasn't happy having to leave stuff off for Don't Pass Me By. You learn things about your taste doing these things. I was surprised that i left off most of the heavier songs. The albums lighter but still very very cool. Im going to program this onto my MP3. God i need to get out more!!
Onward my friends, and glory for the thirty ninth!!
9.21am
Side 1:
1. Back In The USSR – 2:43
2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – 3:09
3. Cry Baby Cry – 3:02
4. Birthday – 2:43
5. Martha My Dear – 2:29
6. I Will – 1:46
7. Blackbird – 2:18
8. Piggies – 2:04 (Harrison)
Side 2:
9. Rocky Racoon – 3:33
10. Don't Pass Me By – 3:50 (Starr)
11. I'm So Tired – 2:03
12. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – 4:45 (Harrison)
13. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey – 2:25
14. Helter Skelter – 4:30
Total Time: 39:20. Still A Pretty Long Album 
9.30pm
20 February 2010
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Side 1
1. Revolution (Fast)
4. Birthday
5. Glass Onion
6. Everybodies Got Something To Hide
Side 2
1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3. Sexy Sadie
4. Piggies
5. Black Bird
6. Rocky Racoon
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10.08pm
5 February 2010
Offline I would just put Revolution #9 on there 14 times. That’d show ’em.
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11.19pm
13 November 2009
Offline Alternating forwards and backwards?
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!
10.35am
27 February 2010
Offline A real challenge!
PaulRamon: I didn’t read the “14 tracks” part! here we go, take 2:
OK, first, the discarded ones:
“Wild Honey Pie ” (don’t like it)
“The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill ” (yoko sings here)
“Martha My Dear ” (Paul trying to be an old man when he was a twenty-something-years old)
“Piggies ” (I really hate it)
“Rocky Racoon” (“spaguetti western” Paul)
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?” (I really hate it)
“I Will ” (idem Martha…)
“Helter Skelter ” (really tough one, I’m a superfan of U2, in fact I discover The Beatles through the cover in the “Rattle and Hum” album, but the original version sucks… wait, U2’s cover sucks too!)
“Long, Long, Long ” (I hate it too, George)
“Revolution 1 ” (I like the fast one, and it’s a single, so, no problem at all)
“Honey Pie ” (Paul impersonating his grandpa)
“Cry Baby Cry ” (cute one, but not indispensable)
“Good Night ” (too soft)
“Birthday “, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ” and “Blackbird ” (I don’t want them to get out, but we need 14 songs…)
The final track list:
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
2.01pm
26 January 2010
Offline The point was to pick 14 songs Marcelo, Where did you get 17 from? How can you dislike so many songs from The White Album ? Maybe a U2 forum would better suit you!! 
Onward my friends, and glory for the thirty ninth!!
4.05pm
27 February 2010
Offline PaulRamon said:
The point was to pick 14 songs Marcelo, Where did you get 17 from? How can you dislike so many songs from The White Album ? Maybe a U2 forum would better suit you!!
Damn! They told me “Maybe a Beatles forum suit you” back there!
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
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