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12.23pm
8 August 2019
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Ok, being honest, I didn’t fully understand what you meant but I didn’t find your original reply to be anything but sincere and quite insightful, so I don’t get what you’re apologizing about.
Which thread was it? I would love to read about that.
I don’t see this thread as just “pulling songs out of the White Album “, but to me is a sort of possibility to reimagine history in a totally different way, and pulling a totally different album (in my humble opinion, a better album) out of already excellent material.
Cheers, @sigh butterfly
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11 June 2015
Offline Thanks for your kind words CS. Wasn’t apologizing for what I said, but for disrupting the flow of the thread with an off topic post. It’s kind of funny, I’ve tried reimagining the album but instead of a single disk I end up with three 
. You and mmm have got me reconsidering my prior attempts at editing though, so I might try again. For a start, I’m definitely moving Prudence to a more sheltered and supported spot among the tracks (maybe after Martha) 
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10.20am
8 August 2019
Offline Take into account that Dear Prudence has that windy sound at the beginning that automatically ties it to Back in the U.S.S.R. Which poses another interesting question: can changes be done inside the track themselves? ‘Cause in that case we could even propose the idea of interlude tracks being mixed with rehearsals of the 2018 mix, and tiny portions or tracks like the French talking at the end of I’m So Tired , or the strings at the end of Glass Onion , or Can’t You Take Me Back to be removed, replaced and even repeated for some kind of leit motiv.
In that case I might even have to rethink my single version all over again.
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12.03pm
11 June 2015
Offline The thing is Prudence is tired of living in the shadow of those pesky Ukraine girls! It is her time to shine 
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Seriously though, your idea about tinkering a bit using newly available material is intriguing. The Apple police are not very active right now, so we could even upload some examples. There are some talented folks on the forum that are editing whizzes 
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10.26am
28 April 2020
Offline I’ve just joined and this is my first post!
I’m glad that the ‘White Album ‘ wasn’t released as a single album, as I like all the snippets and filler tracks. My least favourite tracks though are … ‘Don’t Pass Me By ‘, Rocky Raccoon ‘, ‘Honey Pie ‘ & ‘Goodnight’ but only because of the schmaltzy strings. The version with just the piano is lovely. I don’t dislike the previously mentioned songs but they would be the ones I listen to least. The album is better jsut listening to as a whole though!
Anyway, after a great deal of deliberation … and this selection is not set in stone …. oh, I can’t find a place for a Ringo song sadly, so this album will join ‘AHDN ‘ and ‘Let It Be ‘. (I don’t really count ‘MMT’ as an album?), here is my single album!
SIDE 1
1. Back In The USSR (just a great song and album opener … bought it as a single back in mid-70s)
2. Dear Prudence (maybe my favourite song on the album and in my Top 10 Beatles songs?)
3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Not a favourite song but it is very catchy and deserves to be on the album)
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (just brilliant!)
5. Yer Blues (another great John song and fabulous musicianship)
6. I Will (one of Paul’s catchiest, simplest melodies!)
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Another favourite song and a great closer of Side 1)
SIDE 2
1. Revolution 1 (maybe not as explosive as the single version, but I like it including the backing vocals)
2. I’m So Tired (another stand out song)
3. Birthday (I love this one. Paul’s vocals are fantastic. He was entering his period of outstanding vocal prowess!)
4. Savoy Truffle (just love this big and brash song!)
5. Blackbird (one of Paul’s best acoustic songs)
6. Sexy Sadie (I’ve always liked this one but it was hard leaving out a few of the other stand out songs)
7. Helter Skelter (a blistering finale!)
So 6 John songs, 6 Paul songs (ok, ‘Birthday ‘ is a little bit John too) and sadly only 2 of George’s. I had hoped to include ‘Long Long Long’ too but it just didn’t quite make the cut. I do enjoy listening to Revolution 9 , but it is too long for a single album, so I’m glad they stuck to releasing a double album!
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8 August 2019
Offline I like your tracklist but poor Ringo
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6.20am
14 June 2016
Offline Love the tracklisting as is, but quite like the idea of having Helter Skelter as the last track on the album, mainly for the “when I get to the bottom I go back to the top” lyric, encouraging a never ending loop of the album.
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7.45am
8 August 2019
Offline Timothy said
Love the tracklisting as is, but quite like the idea of having Helter Skelter as the last track on the album, mainly for the “when I get to the bottom I go back to the top” lyric, encouraging a never ending loop of the album.
Ok, I just had an idea. What about Cry Baby Cry as the last track and then you have “Can you take me back where I came from” as the looping reference? Maybe even HelTer Skelter as an opening track, and sthen you bring it full circle, given the first piece of lyric is “when I get to the obttom I go back to the top of the slide”, Helter Skelter being the top of the slide. (You can put Back in the U.S.S.R./Dear Prudence as a side B opener?)
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14 June 2016
Offline Jules said
Timothy said
Love the tracklisting as is, but quite like the idea of having Helter Skelter as the last track on the album, mainly for the “when I get to the bottom I go back to the top” lyric, encouraging a never ending loop of the album.
Ok, I just had an idea. What about Cry Baby Cry as the last track and then you have “Can you take me back where I came from” as the looping reference? Maybe even HelTer Skelter as an opening track, and sthen you bring it full circle, given the first piece of lyric is “when I get to the obttom I go back to the top of the slide”, Helter Skelter being the top of the slide. (You can put Back in the U.S.S.R./Dear Prudence as a side B opener?)
Love it, even better.
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4.26am
7 May 2017
Offline The only thing I’d change: Swap Yer Blues with Revolution 1 and then substitute the latter with Not Guilty .
Then we’d have on Disc 2/Side 3:
1. Birthday
2. Not Guilty
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8. Yer Blues
Yes the only track I would swap out is Revolution 1 , not 9…
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10.14am
19 October 2016
Offline I have never wanted to boil it down to a single LP, I love the sprawl of the double. But the spirited discussion here inspired me to think about it. Like others, I don’t have a Ringo vocal here. That’s an issue. But other than that, I think you can edit it down to one disc with a good John/Paul/George balance, good pacing, etc. My side one has 8 songs and side 2 has 7. Side one clocks in at about 22 and a half minutes, side 2 at 23 and a half.
Side One:
1. Back In The USSR – just a great album opener, with the jet sound effects.
2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide – keeping the energy going….
3. I Will – lovely melody and a change of pace
4. I’m So Tired – already a great transition from I Will , let’s keep it that way
5. Mother Nature’s Son – ironic sequencing here with what follows
6. Sexy Sadie – an underrated masterpiece
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps – totally amazing, maybe my personal favorite on the album
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun – a masterpiece, classic side closer
Side Two:
1. Birthday – a great side opener.
2. Yer Blues – just an absolute crusher
3. Blackbird – one of Paul’s all time best, from my perspective
4. Julia – beautiful
5. Long, Long, Long – incredible drumming and atmosphere, another one of my White Album favorites
6. Helter Skelter – picking up the pace
7. Dear Prudence – leaving on a high note, one of the greatest songs in the entire catalogue
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sir walter raleigh12.09pm
9 June 2020
Offline Try as you might, but reducing the White Album down to just one disk leaves you with another problem – what to do with the tracks not selected? Some of your rejected tracks deserve recognition and not just relegated to B-sides. The Beatles might have done themselves a favor by releasing two separate albums, with the second album being released 3 or 4 months after the first one. But in doing so, they would need to be sure that both albums were equal in quality. Which gets us back to the exercise we are engaging in here. So my questions for all of you are:
Would each of the disks, as they are now, be as good if released separately?
If each disk were to be released separately, would you make any swaps between albums?
Personally, I think each album would be excellent as stand-alones, with these exceptions: Take Wild Honey Pie , Why Don’t We Do It In The Road and Revolution 9 and put them in the vault. Instead, make room for Not Guilty or other songs that George Harrison might have wanted to record.
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Take Why Don’t We Do It In The Road and put them in the vault.
I’ve got an even better idea: Take Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? and put in on Abbey Road , let it slightly fade into another similar snippet and call them and the 2 to 3 next songs a “medley”, and suddenly everyone on the world is gonna love it. 😉
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7.12pm
8 August 2019
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Take Why Don’t We Do It In The Road and put them in the vault.
I’ve got an even better idea: Take Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? and put in on Abbey Road , let it slightly fade into another similar snippet and call them and the 2 to 3 next songs a “medley”, and suddenly everyone on the world is gonna love it. 😉
If you took a bridge out of a song that’s beloved (say “Girl” for instance) and made it its own song everybody would stop liking it. But given it’s inside another song that has a lot of better stuff going for it, the transition seems fitting. Your hate on the Abbey Road Medley for having “sub-par” music on it I’m not saying it isn’t justified, but thinking other people liking it because of context are wrong is kind of numb. Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam are excellent transitions. And the overall experience feels like a journey, and that’s what it ultimately comes down to. Just like any album that has a “weak” track. I don’t think Why Don’t We Do It in the Road? fits Abbey Road at all. It’s just too repetitive and blues-ish.
Although I will agree I don’t like it when people compare the Abbey Road Medley fully to other Beatles songs because they are clearly dfferent compositions. Especially there being no connection between She Came In Through The Bathroom Window and Golden Slumbers . If you ask me, the Abbey Road tracklist should be either like this:
8) Because
9) You Never Give Me Your Money
10) Sun King
11) Medley 1: Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam /She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
12) Medley 2: Golden Slumbers /Carry That Weight /The End
13) Her Majesty
Or like this:
8) Because
9) You Never Give Me Your Money
10) Sun King
11) Mean Mr. Mustard
12) Polythene Pam
13) She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14) Golden Slumbers
16) The End
17) Her Majesty
Which is rightfully the official tracklist, and there’s not hint at all for a “medley” anywhere. Songs should be connected directly for it to be a medley, not just some vague sounds, otherwise Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends or Back in the U.S.S.R./Dear Prudence are medleys. Also, there’s a Here Comes The Sun lyrical reference on Sun King , as well as melodical similarities between Because and You Never Give Me Your Money . So Side B might as well be a medley as a whole
Well, anyway
Don’t put Why Don’t We Do It in the Road? on Abbey Road , I don’t agree, I disagree
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5.07pm
10 October 2020
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1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (the first four songs in sequence work beautifully; why mess with perfection?)
5. I’m So Tired (an inside joke…John was fed up with recording Ob-La-Di, with so many takes)
6. I Will
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Cry Baby Cry (two songs about “crying” in a row)
Side Two
1. Revolution 1
2. Blackbird (about the Civil Rights Movement…another “Revolution “)
3. Don’t Pass Me By (Ringo has to have a song, even though it’s not among the best)
4. [I’m leaving this one open for discussion: possibility a: Savoy Truffle , to get another George Song in; b: Yer Blues …a response to being “passed by”
c: put “Julia ” after Blackbird before DPMB]
5: Sexy Sadie [or make Sexy Sadie Song #4 and put “Honey Pie ” here to set up one of the most jarring contrasts ever…or not]
7: Good Night [if this counts at “The” Ringo song, then I guess #3 could be Julia followed by Savoy Truffle ]
8.48pm
10 November 2009
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This is a really hard. If it would been a 14-track LP with the official releases it would be in my opinion like this:
Side One
1) Back In The U.S.S.R.
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6) I’m So Tired
Side Two
1) Birthday
2) Yer Blues
4) Sexy Sadie
6) Cry Baby Cry
7) Revolution 1
But, if i include the outtakes, singles, unreleased songs the order will change like this:
SIDE ONE:
1) Not Guilty
2) Revolution
3) Back In The U.S.S.R.
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6) Yer Blues
SIDE TWO:
9) Cry Baby Cry
11) I Will
12) Julia
13) I’m So Tired
Well i loved the double album, but i may put the rest out of the songs in their continuation: The Whiter Album as Ringo said it on Anthology
Oof, ten years have passed since I made this list? Wow.
I still think most of the first list I did would be my go-to single disc White Album , but I would make small changes to the second side.
Side One
01) Back In The U.S.S.R.
02) Dear Prudence
04) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
06) I’m So Tired
07) Don’t Pass Me By
Side Two
08) Birthday
09) Yer Blues
11) Helter Skelter
12) Long, Long, Long
13) Revolution 1
Then I would follow Ringo’s suggestion of ”The Whiter Album” consisting of:
Side One
01) Glass Onion
02) Martha My Dear
03) Blackbird
04) Piggies
05) Rocky Raccoon
06) I Will
07) Julia
Side Two
08) Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
09) Sexy Sadie
10) Honey Pie
11) Savoy Truffle
12) Cry Baby Cry
13) Good Night
(No 14th track here)
And perhaps a third album ”The Whitest Album” can be compiled from the rest plus other recorded songs/demos during the sessions:
Side One
01) Not Guilty
02) Wild Honey Pie
03) The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
04) Why Don’t We Do It On The Road
05) Revolution 9
Side Two
07) Sour Milk Sea
08) Junk
09) Child Of Nature
10) Circles
11) Revolution
12) Hey Jude
Probably will go back to this in another ten years, if the site and me are still around, and if my opinion has changed from today. 
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Offline if there was something that combined Revolution 1 (Take 18) with Revolution 9 into one thing (as John originally wanted, iirc), it would make making a 1LP White Album a lot easier
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if there was something that combined Revolution 1 (Take 18) with Revolution 9 into one thing (as John originally wanted, iirc), it would make making a 1LP White Album a lot easier
True. Take 18 is absolutely incredible. It’s one of the best Beatles things ever. Descending into madness and then “okay, I’ve had enough.” Totally John. I’d accept that take to merge two tracks into one, in this one disc concept.
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Offline 1 ‘Back In The USSR ’ (Radio Edit)
2 ‘Dear Prudence ’ (Radio Edit)
3 ‘Glass Onion ’ (Radio Edit)
4 ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ’ (Radio Edit)
5 ‘Wild Honey Pie ’ (Radio Edit)
6 ‘The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill ’ (Radio Edit)
7 ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps ’ (Radio Edit)
8 ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun ’ (Radio Edit)
9 ‘Martha My Dear ’ (Radio Edit)
10 ‘I’m So Tired’ (Radio Edit)
11 ‘Blackbird ’ (Radio Edit)
12 ‘Piggies ’ (Radio Edit)
13 ‘Rocky Raccoon ’ (Radio Edit)
14 ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ (Radio Edit)
15 ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?’ (Radio Edit)
16 ‘I Will ’ (Radio Edit)
17 ‘Julia ’ (Radio Edit)
18 ‘Birthday ’ (Radio Edit)
19 ‘Yer Blues ’ (Radio Edit)
20 ‘Mother Nature’s Son’ (Radio Edit)
21 ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey’ (Radio Edit)
22 ‘Sexy Sadie ’ (Radio Edit)
23 ‘Helter Skelter ’ (Radio Edit)
24 ‘Long, Long, Long ’ (Radio Edit)
25 ‘Revolution 1 ’ (Radio Edit)
26 ‘Honey Pie ’ (Radio Edit)
27 ‘Savoy Truffle ’ (Radio Edit)
28 ‘Cry Baby Cry ’ (Radio Edit)
29 ‘Revolution 9 ’ (Radio Edit)
30 ‘Good Night ’ (Radio Edit)
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