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On quality of songs and running order, I’d go with the following ideal White Album (excluding Don’t Pass Me By because it’s a terrible song and having 4 Harrison songs because his songwriting was much better by 1968)

Side A:

Back In The USSR / Dear Prudence / Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey / Mother Nature’s Son / Sour milk sea (Jackie Lomax version but with Beatles singing)  / While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic) / I will

Side B:

Happiness Is A Warm Gun / Blackbird / Not guilty / Julia / Helter skelter (but in a different version with less hysterical singing) / Long long long / Revolution (ending in discordant chaos a bit like Revolution 9   or in What’s The New Mary Jane ?)

Side 1:

1. Helter Skelter

2. Revolution 1

3. Glass Onion

4. Piggies (George)

5. Bungalow Bill

6. Dear Prudence

7. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Side 2:

1. Savoy Truffle (George)

2. Don’t Pass Me By (Ringo)

3. I Will

4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George)

5. Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?

6. Rocky Raccoon

7. Back in the U.S.S.R.

Damn.

Hello! First post here. I was browsing around for information on White Album outtakes and things like that, and I came across this thread that seems to be made for exactly what I am trying to do. I did manage to follow the 14 song rule technically, but the track numbers are a bit lopsided between the two sides. Here:

Side One:

1. Blackbird (2:18) – original mix
2. Dear Prudence (3:45) – fade-in to avoid the airplane sound effect and quick fade-out before the end
3. Sexy Sadie (3:07) – fade-in during the middle, cuts out during fade-out
4. I’m So Tired (2:07) – intro starts during the end to Sexy Sadie , fade-out is used on end of first chorus to create a longer section of silence
5. Helter Skelter (4:25) – cuts off before studio chatter
6. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? (1:37) – “I’ve got blisters on my fingers” inserted to match the beat, cuts before the last note
7. Wild Honey Pie (0:52) – features the airplane sound effect building up over the ending
8. Back In The USSR (2:36) – starts at first guitar notes, final note of WDWDIITR tacked on at the end with the cymbal disguising the airplane sound effect cutting off
9. Julia (2:54) – original mix

Side Two:

1. Birthday (2:44) – original mix
2. Piggies (2:03) – features the opening piano notes and the four-beat drum count of DPMB
3. Don’t Pass Me By (3:29) – starts after the first four drum beats, an added fade-out after the last chorus gets cut off
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (4:44) – original mix
5. Revolution 1 (4:33) – fade-in begins after “take two”, coda features multiple samples from Revolution 9 and Can You Take Me Back, R1 cuts out after a sample of “if you become naked”, followed by the coda from Revolution 9

The total time is 41:14. I know there are a ton of songs that most people would want on here, but I mainly tried to make it flow lyrically and emotionally, giving a concept album-like feel.

Side One

1. Back in the U.S.S.R.     
2. Julia                                                
3. Glass Onion
4. Blackbird                                
5. Savoy Truffle
6. Cry Baby Cry                
7. Revolution 1

Side Two                                             

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. I Will
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4. Sexie Sadie
5. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long Long Long