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White Album as a single disc?
11 May 2015
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Maybe in theory. Offhand though, no: I can’t think of any comparable double album that manages to do everything the White Album does. Definitely can name ones that are more consistent overall, at least in my opinion; but none of them manage to touch all the bases that The Beatles does.

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Why anyone would want to make the White Album into a single LP is beyond me. I may not like each song, but I definitely like more than 14 of them! But let’s play along and make *my* ideal White Album then…

In no particular order:

  1. Back In The USSR
  2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  3. I’m So Tired
  4. Blackbird
  5. Piggies
  6. I Will
  7. Birthday
  8. Mother Nature’s Son
  9. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey)
  10. Sexy Sadie
  11. Helter Skelter
  12. Revolution  1
  13. Cry Baby Cry
  14. Good Night

Bonus Disc:

  1. Revolution
  2. Honey Pie
  3. Savoy Truffle
  4. Don’t Pass Me By
  5. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?
  6. Julia
  7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

And even after cheating with the bonus disc thing, there are still a few songs I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out on. If anything, I could even make it a triple album by adding some of the bootlegs. 

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Quite simply there is too much good material for a single album and maybe not quite enough for a double. This is masked by the clever sequencing. I suspect the beatles were trying to get through their contract with EMI quicker in releasing it as it was but i might be wrong on that score.

 

Anyway my go 

1 Back In The USSR /Dear Prudence /Glass Onion /blackbird/While My Guitar Gently Weeps /Martha My Dear /Happiness Is A Warm Gun .

2 I’m So Tired /mother natures son/everybodys got something to hide/long,long,long/revolution1/helter skelter/Julia .

 

But an impossible task.

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robert said
I’ve put this on another forum topic – but if you wanted to make the White Album a single album – just use John’s songs – it is an amazing record with just his tunes.

not a knock against Paul or George – but using only Paul’s songs just doesn’t make as great an album.

This is a killer album:

Dear Prudence

Glass Onion

The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

I’m So Tired

Julia

Yer Blues

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey

Sexy Sadie

Revolution 1

Cry Baby Cry

Revolution 9

Good Night

Completely agree with that, but i would put first Glass Onion , then Bungalow Bill then Prudence, and then as you said. 

And while my guitar instead of Revolution 9 , and Dont pass me by insted of good night…

but i really like it as it is, only track i always skip is obladi…

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This is my first post, so i thought it should be on the very heated debate that is, the White Album as a single disc?

Side A

1) Back In The USSR

2) Happiness Is A Warm Gun

3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps

4) Helter Skelter

5) Yer Blues

6) Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?

7) Revolution 1

*Get up, walk over to record player, flip record over*

Side B

1) Glass Onion

2) Dear Prudence (transitions from violins at the end of Glass Onion )

3) Blackbird

4) Long, Long, Long

5) Savoy Truffle

6) Cry Baby Cry

7) Revolution 9

 

Why I left certain songs out:

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – It’s a bit stupid

Wild Honey Pie – It’s a bit pointless

The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill – Yoko…yoko-ono_01

Piggies – Just kinda wierd…

Rocky Raccoon – Paul, you are from the wonderful Britain

I Will – Just a bit boring

Birthday – Bit stupid

EGSTHE4MAMM – Pointless

All of the others I wanted to include but couldn’t choose over my absolute favourites (even Revolution 9 , I admire how John realised he could get this kind of music maximum exposure, and would be played in millions of households).a-hard-days-night-john-1

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Quick derail:

Welcome to the forum, @At least Im clean! Love your username and avatar a-hard-days-night-ringo-10 apple01

Okay, back on topic… 

*looks at topic title* 

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That name reminds me of the “Clean Old Man” in was it Help ! or A Hard Day’s Night …?

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Quick derail:

Welcome to the forum, @At least Im clean! Love your username and avatar a-hard-days-night-ringo-10 apple01

Yes, he is a very clean man, isn’t he?

 

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A very high percentage of the time I read White Album solo record lists they leave out my favorite song, “Long, Long, Long.” So I am definitely satisfied with the double album.

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ahdn_paul_06 Hum, not bad. I think I could listen to that… although I see you left off my namesake song, as usual. a-hard-days-night-john-7

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Yes, this is an impossible task, but still a fun thought experiment.  Like @castironshore said, too much good stuff for 1 album, but certainly a few we could cut from a double album if we absolutely had to.

Here’s my attempt at the impossible.  I’m sticking with the 2 George, 1 Ringo rule – as well as rearranging the order to better suit the track listing.  I’ve noticed a lot of people start with Back to the U.S.S.R. – don’t get me wrong, BttU followed by Dear Prudence is the perfect album opener.  But for a single album, a different track listing would be appropriate.  However, using Anthology stuff or the single version of Revolution is cheating!  So here goes, White Album forcefully axed down to a single 14-track disc, best case scenario:

Side A

1. Revolution 1 – John’s first overt attempt to really speak out about world events, what a great opener this would have been

2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – a no-brainer

4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

5. Martha My Dear

6. Piggies – seems to rank low, but I love this song musically and lyrically and as a fan of Orwell’s Animal Farm, I appreciate George’s barbed jab at the uppercrust in their starched white shirts

7. Blackbird – simply too beautiful to leave off

Side B

1. Birthday – this barely made the cut, but just isn’t Side B without those drums

2. Dear Prudence – one of the Beatles’ best ever, imho

3. Sexy Sadie

4. I Will

5. Helter Skelter – it’s no White Album without this song.  A bold middle finger to all pop music, and a long way from Love Me Do .

6. I’m So Tired

7. Good Night – always felt Ringo’s vocals were iffy, but I love it nonetheless

 

Some songs I really, really hated to cut:

Julia – one of my favorites, but too similar to Dear Prudence which is just simply better

Mother Nature’s Son – beautiful but Paul’s ballad had to be Blackbird

Rocky Raccoon – weird to think of White Album without it, but as I’m not a fan of country, it had to get cut along with Don’t Pass Me By (though I love both)

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The more I look at these lists the more I think the album would lose so much by being compressed down to 12-14 tracks. As noted by many making the attempt it is the variety and quality that make it so special – it has a wonderful loopy weirdness that few double albums manage to match.

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A very high percentage of the time I read White Album solo record lists they leave out my favorite song, “Long, Long, Long.” So I am definitely satisfied with the double album.

Ya, I did that to make my 80 minute CD, and do love the song. Just finished watching Harrison’s Living In A Material World DVD and that was the song they ended it with.  Classic.ahdn_george_01

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There’s only five or six tracks I like on the whole album, so for me it would be a MMT style double E.P

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Domino said
There’s only five or six tracks I like on the whole album, so for me it would be a MMT style double E.P

High standards?

Or have you not listened to it much?

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Domino said
There’s only five or six tracks I like on the whole album, so for me it would be a MMT style double E.P

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Domino said
There’s only five or six tracks I like on the whole album, so for me it would be a MMT style double E.P

Interesting opinion on the album @Domino – would you like to give an example double EP that would suit your preferences? I’d be interested to see it.

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trcanberra said

Domino said
There’s only five or six tracks I like on the whole album, so for me it would be a MMT style double E.P

Interesting opinion on the album @Domino – would you like to give an example double EP that would suit your preferences? I’d be interested to see it.

Hi trcanberra, my E.P would be,side 1

Back In The USSR

Dear Prudence

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Side 2

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Don’t Pass Me By

Revolution 1

Those songs are the only ones that I listen to from that album. All four have a writing credit on it so they’re all happy. George Martin got it right, saying that it would make a very good single album.

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^ Thanks @Domino , interesting mix of songs.

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