I don't know why someone just doesn't ask McCart to clear that up, once and for all. Same as Revolution 1: what are those weird noises in the first 10 seconds or so (sort of like chains rattling?) Why doesn't someone just ask McCart or Ringo, while we still can.
Please, be my guest and research the claim. There is video of a take with Paul, with yellow and red patent leather shoes (or some type of tap shoe). Readily available information. Thanks guys. forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/clicking-sound-in-blackbird-what-is-it.183404/
If you play it backwards it says I'm a devil your a devil. At the chorus I always knew Billy was lying about what the chorus meant they wanted to say I'm a devil in order to do that they needed to say jibberish sly satanist
from 1966 to 1969 they did Revolver, Sgt Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road and Let it Be. That doesn't count Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine movie soundtracks. Amazing output from amazing, greatest band of all time.
to think a band singing she loves you and shaking their moptops could go to putting out sgt pepper, abbey road.........i mean this is madness. so amazing.
"You give her everything you own just to sit at the table. Just a smile would lighten everything." HELL of a lyric, one of the best lines on the album.
This was half an hour of absolute gold. I loved how you explained some backstorys from songs and the albums story as a whole. It was awesome that you played every song! It sounded so much more alive than the digital remasters. This has got to be my favourite review from you (ok, I haven't seen every single one). You did an awesome job, really amazing!
Honestly, all I could picture while listening to it for the first time was Rocket in a world of anthropomorphic raccoons and angry that Dan took his raccoon girl 😂 it’s a generational thing I think.
Just listened to this yesterday for the first time in a few years. So many good songs I forgot about. Lennon had a lot of great tunes on here. Love "I'm so Tired".
The White Album is the darkest... I love it. Broken bent imperfect and almost perfect. Self referential but the least self-conscious of their work. Dark as fuck.
@@lordgarmadon2598 Not creepy. Just slightly haunted and grittier than anything they’ve done before. It’s off-kilter and avant-garde compositions, it can separate fans (who have no sense of humor or fun personality). With tracks like Glass Onion (especially on the eerie outro), Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, Helter Skelter, Revolution 9, Cry Baby Cry, the album seems slightly bloodstained. I still love every moment of it.
I've always thought "Come and keep your comrade warm" was one of the coolest lyrics in the history of Rock and Roll. There's just something so slick and badass about it to me.
Alongside Pepper it's my favourite Beatles album. I don't care if it is too long or if it does not flow as well as Revolver or Pepper, i like it precisely because it has such a variety of different songs and because it has four sides. Lennon once called it an encyclopedia of Rock, and i am inclined to agree.
@@kilgoretrout3966 I love that idea...the diverse opinions here on best and worst tracks show there's something here for everyone and that 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'. So, instead of arguing, let's go shopping! :-)
Cliffjumper 84 Agreed, most Queen songs sound nothing alike, Also, 70s Queen and 80s Queen sound like two completely different bands bit because of their shifting styles
That and Yer Blues reminds me why he is regarded as one of the best Rock n Roll singers ever. He and Paul were pioneering the next decade of heavy metal and hard rock.
16:21 Wow I literally had the same thought about Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon as a child! That's one of the many reasons that I love this album so much, it has songs that appeal to so many ages. Sounds like pretty generic praise but it just covers such a wide spectrum of so many things. Thanks for putting together such a great review that's almost as comprehensive as the album itself.
Wow, this is my first viewing of this show. I enjoyed it so much that I watched all of it in one sitting. Thumbs all the way up. You did your homework. A true fan would only care about the details you mentioned. I cared. I am now a fan of "Vinyl Rewind". Thank you, Colby Pollard
@@RollingOrmond Dude, you need to stop acting like you're fourteen. The Beatles are the greatest and there's a little you can do about it, throw away that need to feel special and alternative.
My favorite part on The Beatles Anthology video is when everyone starts talking about ‘how it should be 1 album’ and Paul says ‘ It’s the bloody Beatles White Album, it sold SHUT UP!’ Perfect!
The idea that people would prefer less Beatles to more Beatles is so weird to my brain, especially considering the number of demos made at the same time that were never made into full songs (Sour Milk Sea etc.).
There is quite a bit of filler. Take the marginal (and a few bad) songs out and it would have been a masterpiece. Many songs belonged on the Anthology project, and not on a Beatles album. It's still a great album though with some great songs.
Most favourite Beatles album, most creative, enjoyable and artistic out of all of the other albums including Sgt. Pepper's, encourage everyone to listen to every UK Beatles album, especially this one
Without question my favorite album of all time. Its wild diversity somehow coheres brilliantly, and it actually feels like a journey, a train ride through India, a travelogue. It was also an extraordinary time for music that allowed for such a wild panoply of sounds and ideas - no time before or since has allowed for such far ranging scope while reining in such far flung experimentation into an aesthetically focused whole. It's like the sixties in microcosm. This was the single greatest influence on me as a musician, and I think it explains why so few people seem to grasp what I'm after when I tackle many different ideas and approaches to music making. We could all use more of this kind of musical breadth and range from our musical artists today. And I think every track holds up brilliantly in context. The so called "weaker" tracks work as a kind of brilliant sorbet, freshening the palate between courses. As Salvador Dali said once about one of his paintings that had a tiny crutch rendered in the composition, if it hadn't been there the whole painting would cease to exist.
This is my favorite Beatles album. I love the way you touch on each song. I recently watched another review of the white album and the reviewer totally tore apart Cry Baby Cry. Since it is one of my favorite songs I was glad to see that you appreciated it.
The whole Piper session was recorded in the same studio and time as Sgt. Pepper's. Even Floyd watched The Beatles recording Lovely Rita and Syd immediately wrote Scarecrow.
My ultimate favorite Beatles album ever, first heard it on Capitol Stereo Cassette when I was 5 years old, totally changed my life, my favorite song Bar None is Back In The USSR. I think this is the only Beatles album that I have more than 10 copies of, and I can't wait till next year when Giles Martin remixes the album
The White Album is by far my favorite Beatles album. There's just so much variety that you can't help but be amazed by it all. For a long time, I steered clear of it due to Charles Manson's tarnishing of it (especially Helter Skelter), but now Helter Skelter is one of my favorite Beatles songs.
^^^ as much as I love Across the Universe and Dear Prudence, this is the most beautiful Beatles song imo since John wrote this being whole heartedly dedicated to his mother
this was such a great introduction to the white album for me! after only hearing helter skelter, blackbird, and while my guitar gently weeps from this album in particular, i’m glad i was able to hear the whole thing and become so in love with it! thank you.
great work man! I didn't plan on spending 33 minutes listing to a review of The White Album. But I stumbled on this video and was glad I did. In full disclosure I've always been somewhat displeased with the White Album. I feel it's very unfocused and somehow you made me sort of see the organized chaos in it all now. I sorta gree with George Martin it should have been one album but I think allowing more material to be released helped do away with some of the stress built up within the group. I almost think this album made Let It Be an Abbey Road possible.
Thank you. Yeah there's a part of me that could see it as a single album release, but it's so hard to go back now, like what would you take out, so many great songs
Love your channel. As a 62yr old that longs for the very special time that rocks and my evolution coincided. There was so much fertial ground to still explore in rock. The White album is a classical tribute to that time. Albums were art through sound and there is a good reason that the Beatles were and always will be the best. As you state, all the songs have to be taken in context of an album. Its hard to imagine the songs individually. Its sad to see her rock has gone. All I can say , its better to love and lost than never to have loved at all. Thank you for all your work and effort to showcase these timeless works of art. Rock N Roll will never die!
great timing, just listened to this album again last night from start to finish. probably my favorite beatles album. logic, longest album which means more beatles. that and I love the diversity yet with a scaled back approach.
The open ended sessions started with the Rubber Soul sessions when they were up against the clock, to release an album for Christmas in 1965, and they continued from then on. As they were EMI artists in an EMI Recording Studio, all studio time was free.
Nice vid! Last night I visited the concert of The Analogues in Rotterdam. A precise Beatles coverband with original instruments of those days. My White Album copy ( I own it for 50 years now) has been revived for me. Love it! Now buying a vinyl playing device (again). Thanx!!
@@eggboi8475 But they probably won't know the artist. When somebody says the name Led Zeppelin, most people will know what that band is. Not as much with Queen. And besides, Queen is pretty much known for only Freddie Mercury. If someone says Brian May they'll be like "Who's that?" When some says Jimmy Page they'll be like "Oh I know that guy!" And it's not different for other people, most people will be like this.
Great review of one of the best albums ever recorded, in my opinion. I've been a huge Beatles fan since their iconic appearance on Ed Sullivan when I was 9 (yeah, I'm old! lol) and the White Album is one of my favourite albums of theirs. So much really good material on it -- as you point out in your review, Side One alone is worth the price of admission. Very well done review!
I love the album. It's one of my favourites and I can't wait for the 50th anniversary box set, I really want to hear the outtakes from the sessions. By the way, have you heard the LOVE version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? It's the acoustic version from Anthology 3 with strings added by George Martin. I think it's my favourite version of the song.
Jakub G I don't know if they are planning to release a 50th anniversary edition, because there hasn't been one of neither "Rubber Soul" nor "Revolver"😭
Jakub G they should release a 52nd anniversary deluxe of help rubber and revolver next spring... then white album let it be with movie Blu Ray at Christmas and 50th of Abbey road in 2019 then call it a day.
I was a freshman in college when this was released and all of us in the dorm were mesmerized by this album. We spent hours in our rooms analyzing each and every track. You just can't imagine the power and influence the Beatles had on us all....here, there and everywhere. Terrific review.
I've heard rumors about them thinking about adding a marker in as a package with the album as a "do it yourself cover" type thing, but that idea was scrapped. No idea if it's true or not but that sounds really cool.
Even though i know the Beatles from pop culture, i never really listened to their music. Thanks for doing a detailed review of one of their biggest albums. :D
Every note in this album is a dagger in the heart that feels so good. Childhood nostalgia. Growing up with the Beatles music is the best way to grow up. Parenting not necessary.
Excellent review and analysis of the album. Thank u so much. This was truly enjoyable. My personal favorite song of the White Album would b While My Guitar Gently Weeps. A real master piece. God bless and have a great week.
Great review! I enjoyed it a lot, thank-you. It always surprises me how many people are unfamiliar with this album. I think this is/was for two reasons: 1) they had started to go a bit weird (although still great) and 2) people just didn't buy double albums. Their loss - it's a great album!
This album is a classic on all four sides. I might prefer this to even Sargent Pepper’s. The gentleness is the many selections that are offered by The White Album. I am still impressed! What an amazing work of art!
Good job Dude... I was 17 years old when this record came out and I was from "I want to hold your hand" a big fan. They were a breath of fresh air thru my High school years. Keep on doing this!!! David
The perfect antidote to Sgt Pepper the White Album. Every track is completely different to each other. Brilliantly diverse songs by the greatest band of all time.
Hey man just wanna say a big thanks for this, at first I was kinda daunted by how long the album is but having you break down every track helped me understand it and now I love this album so much ❤️❤️❤️ long live the Beatles
Vinyl geek, first let me say WELL DONE!!!!! I was eight yrs old when this album came out. I had three older teenage sisters that bought EVERY Beatles album as it was released. Brought them home and we listened and listened until the next one came out. The White Album for me was like escaping to another world when I listened. So many of the things you said really struck a cord with me as they matched the way I felt about the songs, as a kid. I also thought Rocky Raccoon and Bungalow Bill were somehow the same or related or something! Thank you so much for taking me back.
this is the best Beatles album imo and one of the greatest albums of all time for me probably second only to houses of the holy by led zeppelin Martha my dear and Cry baby cry are my favorite tracks
Hey Vinyl Rewind, terrific review of the White Album. I am 70 years old and having grown-up in the analog age and been there from the get go with the Beatles; I could not agree with you more with your breakdown of the songs. Thank, really enjoyed it.
My fave in the catalogue. The sheer brilliance and depth in song and styles is what makes it exceptional. I love it as a double and wouldn't have it any other way. It's a storybook of 20th century musical styles that was never before done and never will be. Greatest rock album of the 20th century..
Eric, you're an amazing & knowledgable Beatles historian! The White Album was the 1st Beatles album I heard as well, as a teenager. We must be similar ages. Thanks for your show Vinyl Rewind. It's great! ..especially with this new resurgence in Beatles interest with the release of the Get Back film in late 2021.
My favorite Beatles album. It's is diverse, but there's also a sound to it that runs through everything, a kind of deep sound, especially in the bass lines- even when it's just guitar, it still has this deep sound.
The White Album has recently become my number one Beatles record, i never fully understood it at first but after a few listens it's become my favourite and i listen to it constantly ! Really great review 👍 very insightful
I came across this channel yesterday and have been binging videos since then. Seriously the production quality, the song breakdowns and the backstory you add to the albums is all awesome. And let me say the vinyl geek is a really great host. Just wanted to give some appreciation for the hard work thats put into this channel and man I wish I had found it earlier.
Your comments were so intense that made me to listen to the White Album again and over and over. Thanks alot for everything, even the missing things in the content.
Berj. A Matter of fact! Did you know? Pink Floyd was recording there first album in a abbey road studio? When The Beatles were recording there last album Abbey Road in the next Studio at Abbey Road Studios!
I can go on a Beatles jag and listen for 2 hours straight no problem. My favorite Beatles tunes have always been John's, like "I am the Walrus," "Looking through a glass onion," and "Strawberry Fields." But there are so many more. We used to wait anxiously for these albums to come out in the stores then we'd go down and buy them. The Beatles meant so much to the '60s. They got us through a lot of rough times.
The song "Julia" makes me always feel ill as the first time I used snus (extra strong white, Odens to them who know) I had to go and throw up while "Julia" was playing
To me « I'm so tired » is a masterpiece. Using the second of the chords to paint the unsetteldness is a stroke of genius and the song is the best description I know of burn-out. It's a signature of Lennon to have made songs on subjects never approached before in that art
Great review. Can't beat the Beatles! Off Amazon I bought a cd of demo versions of a lot of these songs, Cool to hear on acoustic guitars and mostly unfinished. It was worth the money just to hear George do Sour Milk Sea. Give Peas A Chance...
Sexy Sadie has grown on me more and more over the past few years. The wobbly piano riff at the beginning is one of my favorite Beatles moments. And the line "she came along to turn on everyone" gives me goosebumps. Dunno why.
Surprised you don't think I'm So Tired and Sexy Sadie are great songs.Julia is the best Lennon song on album? Not Happiness is a Warm Gun? I don;t think Yer Blues was meant to be a parody.Or even a comment on blues rock.
I’ve only heard this bad boy on CD so thanks for the opportunity to breathe in how the album sides actually split up. Album sites meant everything in those days.
My favourite Beatles album. Also to me, this is my comforting Christmas album for no other reason but I would listen to it on repeat one December when I was discovering it about 22 years ago. Thank you for your amazing review. Top quality intelligent passionate unbiased video review that we can always rely ont from you. Please don't ever stop.what your are doing man ❤🎶🎙⏺
It's so nice to hear and see your appreciation and the value you give to music in these days of low attention span swiping. I remember taking the bus for 35 miles to buy my one monthly record. Most of those records I didn't really like at first listen but, sufficiently intrigued and considering the effort to get them and pay for them, I would listen thoroughly until I got what was going on. Suffice to say, I still listen to them today along the offerings of the incredible musical adventure of the 20th century.
You talk a little about how each cover of the album must now be unique thanks to the aging process. A few years ago in 2013, a guy opened what he called a record store that only stocked The White Album. It was really an art project that showed just how unique each cover was: hyperallergic.com/65570/we-sell-white-albums/
Thanks Vinyl Geek for your great reviews, you know your stuff! As for the Beatles what can I say, love this album and all their others. They were a HUGE influence on me and countless others. Sounds cliche but there really never will be another band like them. I was 15 when this LP was released and I'm so glad I was around then, such a great time for music.
I stumbled upon this....I'm not even sure how, but I really enjoyed it. It also reminded me of one of my greatest concert-going experiences. This was the first album that Phish performed as a "musical costume" for Halloween 1994. I drove out to upstate NY just to see the show, and nobody knew what they would play until they actually played it. I can't explain how thrilling it was to hear Back in the USSR, and then immediately start going through my mental rolodex to anticipate what other songs they would play. There was a real collective sense of anticipation for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," because we expected a truly special interpretation of the guitar solo. Trey did not disappoint.
Really fantastic review! I am embarrassed to say that I've never heard this album . . . although my parents were of this generation, my mother was a Kinks/Stones/Bowie person and my father listened to the contemporary music of the time (The Police etc.) and I just never went down this road. I am loving watching your Beatles reviews and just picked this one up.
Great review. And also the finger picking style on Julia is travis picking. Its the same picking on the beginning of happiness is a warm gun and the whole picking style in dear prudence.
Maybe Paul really wrote “why don’t we do it in the road” as a response to where they should do the Abbey Road photo shoot
Lmao imagine
Neilious all the people
@@linknowhereman living life in peace
@@adrielfrom2190 uh uh uhhh
I don't think that's why he wrote it. It was uh...something else....
We need to hear the 27 minute
version of Helter Skelter
Hobo Jones babe hopefully on the Anniversary edition
That sounds amazing. Unfortunately doubt thatd ever see the light of day til like all 4 are gone
@michael fitzgerald i had a feeling it wouldn be. But itd still be pretty cool to hear it
Dennis Moore well there’s a twelve minute version of you look it up on youtube
*blisters on fingers intensifies*
The tapping in "Blackbird" is actually Paul's feet, with tap shoes. Not a metronome. Sorry, just thought I'd clear that up! :)
But great review nonetheless.
I don't know why someone just doesn't ask McCart to clear that up, once and for all. Same as Revolution 1: what are those weird noises in the first 10 seconds or so (sort of like chains rattling?) Why doesn't someone just ask McCart or Ringo, while we still can.
No debate. That's a metronome.
I've always heard it was a metronome.
Please, be my guest and research the claim. There is video of a take with Paul, with yellow and red patent leather shoes (or some type of tap shoe). Readily available information. Thanks guys.
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/clicking-sound-in-blackbird-what-is-it.183404/
The best part of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da is John and George yelling "ARM", "LEG", "FOOT!", at various times.
If you play it backwards it says I'm a devil your a devil. At the chorus I always knew Billy was lying about what the chorus meant they wanted to say I'm a devil in order to do that they needed to say jibberish sly satanist
@@jeremyb5468 By Billy you mean Billy Shears. Yeah that guy ''replaced'' Paul.
@Alec Frawley I'm sorry bro some folks like living in the bubble of safety I'm not trying to scare you. It's all true tho
JeremyB shut your dumb ass up
"DICK"
I love the remastered mono vinyl. Just insane that they put out Pepper & this a year apart, what a band.
They recorded the Let It Be album in this period as well, but it wasn't mixed and released until 1970.
Under 2 years they have recorded Pepper, magical Mystery Tour, the White album, Let It Be & Abbey Road :)
from 1966 to 1969 they did Revolver, Sgt Peppers, White Album, Abbey Road and Let it Be. That doesn't count Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine movie soundtracks. Amazing output from amazing, greatest band of all time.
to think a band singing she loves you and shaking their moptops could go to putting out sgt pepper, abbey road.........i mean this is madness. so amazing.
yeah and Magical Mystery Tour between the two!!
"You give her everything you own just to sit at the table. Just a smile would lighten everything." HELL of a lyric, one of the best lines on the album.
Keep in mind that line originally referred to the Maharishi collecting donations from his devout followers.
Where would we be without women?
What song is that lyric from?
@@bddrex Sexy Sadie , it's in the last verse
This was half an hour of absolute gold. I loved how you explained some backstorys from songs and the albums story as a whole. It was awesome that you played every song! It sounded so much more alive than the digital remasters. This has got to be my favourite review from you (ok, I haven't seen every single one). You did an awesome job, really amazing!
thank you
Side 4 is garbage.
RUclips is compressed digital.
Mitchell side 4 rocks
Told my daughter that Rocky Raccoon was about Rocket's grandfather and now she is getting deep into the Beatles.
Whatever gets them, right.
Honestly, all I could picture while listening to it for the first time was Rocket in a world of anthropomorphic raccoons and angry that Dan took his raccoon girl 😂 it’s a generational thing I think.
It's the lie that tell the truth, my friend.
I mean, Stan Lee reportedly was inspired by the song for the name at least
gonna use that with my kid
Actually, Rocket Raccoon was inspired by that song…at least according to Wikipedia
Just listened to this yesterday for the first time in a few years. So many good songs I forgot about. Lennon had a lot of great tunes on here. Love "I'm so Tired".
The One and Only Billy Shears I love that song as well
"Yer blues"
Yes I'm lonely
Wanna die
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
If i ain't dead yet; girl you know
You're the reason why
A sequel to his "I'm Only Sleeping".
The White Album is the darkest... I love it. Broken bent imperfect and almost perfect. Self referential but the least self-conscious of their work. Dark as fuck.
ironic...
*get it?*
Everyone says the album is scary or creepy, i don't get it. Because of Manson?
@@lordgarmadon2598 Not creepy. Just slightly haunted and grittier than anything they’ve done before. It’s off-kilter and avant-garde compositions, it can separate fans (who have no sense of humor or fun personality). With tracks like Glass Onion (especially on the eerie outro), Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, Helter Skelter, Revolution 9, Cry Baby Cry, the album seems slightly bloodstained. I still love every moment of it.
@@_PuppetMaster86 How is The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill creepy?
I mean revolver does have the darkest song in my opinion which is Eleanor rigby but yeah white album is pretty dark at some points
I've always thought "Come and keep your comrade warm" was one of the coolest lyrics in the history of Rock and Roll. There's just something so slick and badass about it to me.
You do realise that the song is an impersonation of The Beach Boys.
Inspired by The Beach Boys who were in turn inspired by Chuck Berry. Yeah. But they didn't write that lyric. Paul did.
That IS a great line, Steve :)
Mike Love gave him the idea of the Ukraine Girls.
Touché, Farrell McNulty.
“A slight rattle could be heard...”
*rtrtrtrtrtrtrtRtRtRTRTRTRTRTRT*
Alongside Pepper it's my favourite Beatles album. I don't care if it is too long or if it does not flow as well as Revolver or Pepper, i like it precisely because it has such a variety of different songs and because it has four sides. Lennon once called it an encyclopedia of Rock, and i am inclined to agree.
precisely. its like a Beatles flea market. :)
@@kilgoretrout3966 I love that idea...the diverse opinions here on best and worst tracks show there's something here for everyone and that 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'. So, instead of arguing, let's go shopping! :-)
@PaperCup Haha that’s right.
The amazing thing about The White Album? ......They showed the world they could do any genre masterfully...Can't think of another group that can.
great point
I’d say Queen is also great at shifting genres
@@cliff1634 what genres did queen do?
Don Master progressive rock, hard rock, pop rock, synth pop, synth rock, and funk. There’s probably others but those are the basics
Cliffjumper 84
Agreed, most Queen songs sound nothing alike,
Also, 70s Queen and 80s Queen sound like two completely different bands bit because of their shifting styles
John's voice on "Everybody's Got..." is the best.
And the bass...
That and Yer Blues reminds me why he is regarded as one of the best Rock n Roll singers ever. He and Paul were pioneering the next decade of heavy metal and hard rock.
16:21 Wow I literally had the same thought about Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon as a child! That's one of the many reasons that I love this album so much, it has songs that appeal to so many ages. Sounds like pretty generic praise but it just covers such a wide spectrum of so many things. Thanks for putting together such a great review that's almost as comprehensive as the album itself.
Wow, this is my first viewing of this show. I enjoyed it so much that I watched all of it in one sitting. Thumbs all the way up. You did your homework. A true fan would only care about the details you mentioned. I cared. I am now a fan of "Vinyl Rewind".
Thank you,
Colby Pollard
*scratches left arm* i need more beatles videos man
Not only is this your longest review, it's also your best :D
thank you
You truly deserve so many more subs
Kind of like the album itself
Really appreciate this. And now the 50th anniversary edition
*Laughs in Demon Days*
Happiness Is A Warm Gun and Sexy Sadie have probably been spun at least 9000 times for me. Absolute classics.
Self-indulgent tripe. The Beatles could pawn off anything to their zombie fans.
@@RollingOrmond Dude, you need to stop acting like you're fourteen. The Beatles are the greatest and there's a little you can do about it, throw away that need to feel special and alternative.
Lmclean89 sexy sadie is the best song ever. When our doggie sadie passes on i will play it on loop for ten years
@@RollingOrmond calm down millennial, your opinion means shite.
@ Lmclean , without a doubt these are two of Lennon's finest. Even in the depths of despair his genius came shining through.
you just simply can't have enough of the Beatles. thank you very much for this review 😀👍
My favorite part on The Beatles Anthology video is when everyone starts talking about ‘how it should be 1 album’ and Paul says ‘ It’s the bloody Beatles White Album, it sold SHUT UP!’ Perfect!
Two beats one.
The idea that people would prefer less Beatles to more Beatles is so weird to my brain, especially considering the number of demos made at the same time that were never made into full songs (Sour Milk Sea etc.).
@@experi-mentalproductions5358 I do wish a few of the filler songs swapped for the really good songs on yellow submarine hey bulldog and
There is quite a bit of filler. Take the marginal (and a few bad) songs out and it would have been a masterpiece. Many songs belonged on the Anthology project, and not on a Beatles album. It's still a great album though with some great songs.
Most favourite Beatles album, most creative, enjoyable and artistic out of all of the other albums including Sgt. Pepper's, encourage everyone to listen to every UK Beatles album, especially this one
I always felt like this album was a great look into what we would see from the Beatles after their break up.
Without question my favorite album of all time. Its wild diversity somehow coheres brilliantly, and it actually feels like a journey, a train ride through India, a travelogue. It was also an extraordinary time for music that allowed for such a wild panoply of sounds and ideas - no time before or since has allowed for such far ranging scope while reining in such far flung experimentation into an aesthetically focused whole. It's like the sixties in microcosm. This was the single greatest influence on me as a musician, and I think it explains why so few people seem to grasp what I'm after when I tackle many different ideas and approaches to music making. We could all use more of this kind of musical breadth and range from our musical artists today. And I think every track holds up brilliantly in context. The so called "weaker" tracks work as a kind of brilliant sorbet, freshening the palate between courses. As Salvador Dali said once about one of his paintings that had a tiny crutch rendered in the composition, if it hadn't been there the whole painting would cease to exist.
This is my favorite Beatles album. I love the way you touch on each song. I recently watched another review of the white album and the reviewer totally tore apart Cry Baby Cry. Since it is one of my favorite songs I was glad to see that you appreciated it.
I always thought that the end of "long, long, long" was really similar to the ending of "Bike" from Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Oh, the end of 'A Day in a Life' is closer to Bike's end
The whole Piper session was recorded in the same studio and time as Sgt. Pepper's. Even Floyd watched The Beatles recording Lovely Rita and Syd immediately wrote Scarecrow.
My ultimate favorite Beatles album ever, first heard it on Capitol Stereo Cassette when I was 5 years old, totally changed my life, my favorite song Bar None is Back In The USSR. I think this is the only Beatles album that I have more than 10 copies of, and I can't wait till next year when Giles Martin remixes the album
Juat in time for Christmas 2018, for ourselves, that is :)
Who's giles Martin? Is that George Martin's son?
50 percent crap
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Yes
The White Album is by far my favorite Beatles album. There's just so much variety that you can't help but be amazed by it all. For a long time, I steered clear of it due to Charles Manson's tarnishing of it (especially Helter Skelter), but now Helter Skelter is one of my favorite Beatles songs.
Julia might be the most beautiful song John wrote for the Beatles
Cough dear prudence Cough
TheReverantChoir h
^^^ as much as I love Across the Universe and Dear Prudence, this is the most beautiful Beatles song imo since John wrote this being whole heartedly dedicated to his mother
Well, I think the song : "Because" is quite beautiful.
Charles McBrian
That’s a close one
Gotta disagree with you about I'm so Tired. One of my all time favorite beatles songs :)
Same
I literally listened to this album right before I went to bed.
M1Garandstudios How did Revolution 9 faired?
this was such a great introduction to the white album for me! after only hearing helter skelter, blackbird, and while my guitar gently weeps from this album in particular, i’m glad i was able to hear the whole thing and become so in love with it! thank you.
This review made me go up to my local record store and buy this album, hell yea dude you're the man
I thought it was just me...I wanna go buy it too..lol
“Yeah,” not “yea.”
@@jrh11254 who cares
"Sorry that I doubted you, I was so unfair
You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" is the greatest lyric in rock.
Tony Bates The lyric "and you lost your hair" references "When I'm 64" (When I Get Older Losing my Hair) and also the Paul is Dead myth
Craig Willis
I just think it's funny - is that the usual outcome of being in a car crash, losing your hair? Beautifully silly.
I think it's a lot more horrifying than silly if you see it in the right context
It's a combination of two unrelated excuses, which is why it's so funny.
great work man! I didn't plan on spending 33 minutes listing to a review of The White Album. But I stumbled on this video and was glad I did. In full disclosure I've always been somewhat displeased with the White Album. I feel it's very unfocused and somehow you made me sort of see the organized chaos in it all now. I sorta gree with George Martin it should have been one album but I think allowing more material to be released helped do away with some of the stress built up within the group. I almost think this album made Let It Be an Abbey Road possible.
Thank you. Yeah there's a part of me that could see it as a single album release, but it's so hard to go back now, like what would you take out, so many great songs
Vinyl Rewind yeah especially since a single vinyl record would have forced them to cut A LOT of songs.
Love your channel. As a 62yr old that longs for the very special time that rocks and my evolution coincided. There was so much fertial ground to still explore in rock. The White album is a classical tribute to that time. Albums were art through sound and there is a good reason that the Beatles were and always will be the best. As you state, all the songs have to be taken in context of an album. Its hard to imagine the songs individually. Its sad to see her rock has gone. All I can say , its better to love and lost than never to have loved at all. Thank you for all your work and effort to showcase these timeless works of art. Rock N Roll will never die!
great timing, just listened to this album again last night from start to finish. probably my favorite beatles album. logic, longest album which means more beatles. that and I love the diversity yet with a scaled back approach.
oh yeah, listened to the mono version. my prized possession. The Beatles in Mono, vinyl box set 😎
Ah, yes. I too appreciate the Ringo Starr ASMR at the end of "Good Night".
The open ended sessions started with the Rubber Soul sessions when they were up against the clock, to release an album for Christmas in 1965, and they continued from then on. As they were EMI artists in an EMI Recording Studio, all studio time was free.
Nice vid! Last night I visited the concert of The Analogues in Rotterdam. A precise Beatles coverband with original instruments of those days. My White Album copy ( I own it for 50 years now) has been revived for me. Love it! Now buying a vinyl playing device (again). Thanx!!
"They were literally the biggest band in the world" they are the biggest band in the world
Like McDonald's, billions and billions of Happy Meals served. Not appealing to everyone means your band has edge.
2 most famous bands in the world are Queen and The Beatles and there’s a reason for that
@@eggboi8475 Nah I think Led Zeppelin's more famous.
From birth everyone knows we will rock you and we are champions
@@eggboi8475 But they probably won't know the artist. When somebody says the name Led Zeppelin, most people will know what that band is. Not as much with Queen. And besides, Queen is pretty much known for only Freddie Mercury. If someone says Brian May they'll be like "Who's that?" When some says Jimmy Page they'll be like "Oh I know that guy!" And it's not different for other people, most people will be like this.
Great review of one of the best albums ever recorded, in my opinion. I've been a huge Beatles fan since their iconic appearance on Ed Sullivan when I was 9 (yeah, I'm old! lol) and the White Album is one of my favourite albums of theirs. So much really good material on it -- as you point out in your review, Side One alone is worth the price of admission. Very well done review!
I love the album. It's one of my favourites and I can't wait for the 50th anniversary box set, I really want to hear the outtakes from the sessions. By the way, have you heard the LOVE version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? It's the acoustic version from Anthology 3 with strings added by George Martin. I think it's my favourite version of the song.
Jakub G I don't know if they are planning to release a 50th anniversary edition, because there hasn't been one of neither "Rubber Soul" nor "Revolver"😭
They do. I think Giles Martin confirmed it...
I hope they will do a 55th anniversary ediitions of Rubber Soul and Revolver.
Jakub G they should release a 52nd anniversary deluxe of help rubber and revolver next spring... then white album let it be with movie Blu Ray at Christmas and 50th of Abbey road in 2019 then call it a day.
You seriously make fantastic content and deserve way more subscribers and views
I agree
Thank you so much for more Beatles content! :)
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I was a freshman in college when this was released and all of us in the dorm were mesmerized by this album. We spent hours in our rooms analyzing each and every track. You just can't imagine the power and influence the Beatles had on us all....here, there and everywhere. Terrific review.
the Beatles are still badly missed. No one fills their part anymore in any way. Too baaaaaad....
Thanks for the up load Eric. This was my favorite album growing up in the late 60'S.
You really deserve to have a million followers. Thank you, dude 🎶
I've heard rumors about them thinking about adding a marker in as a package with the album as a "do it yourself cover" type thing, but that idea was scrapped. No idea if it's true or not but that sounds really cool.
Even though i know the Beatles from pop culture, i never really listened to their music. Thanks for doing a detailed review of one of their biggest albums. :D
Every note in this album is a dagger in the heart that feels so good. Childhood nostalgia.
Growing up with the Beatles music is the best way to grow up. Parenting not necessary.
Excellent review and analysis of the album. Thank u so much. This was truly enjoyable. My personal favorite song of the White Album would b While My Guitar Gently Weeps. A real master piece. God bless and have a great week.
Great review! I enjoyed it a lot, thank-you. It always surprises me how many people are unfamiliar with this album. I think this is/was for two reasons: 1) they had started to go a bit weird (although still great) and 2) people just didn't buy double albums. Their loss - it's a great album!
Best Beatles album review I have ever watched. Thank you.
This album is a classic on all four sides. I might prefer this to even Sargent Pepper’s. The gentleness is the many selections that are offered by The White Album. I am still impressed! What an amazing work of art!
This is hands down my favorite Beatles album, so much content and great compositions. You deserve more subscribers for this fantastic video sir👏
Good job Dude... I was 17 years old when this record came out and I was from "I want to hold your hand" a big fan. They were a breath of fresh air thru my High school years. Keep on doing this!!! David
Honestly, how have you not hit 1M subs yet.
Glad you brought up the sequencing. Alot of bands should use this model when they sequence a long album. Not a wasted moment.
The perfect antidote to Sgt Pepper the White Album. Every track is completely different to each other. Brilliantly diverse songs by the greatest band of all time.
This is definitely my favorite review from vinyl rewind. Thank you for taking the time to share these interesting facts with us!
without a doubt, The White Album is the finest Beatles album ever released. my all time favorite alternative recording
Hey man just wanna say a big thanks for this, at first I was kinda daunted by how long the album is but having you break down every track helped me understand it and now I love this album so much ❤️❤️❤️ long live the Beatles
your content is so good. you're a cool guy! Wish I could have a drink with you
I'm really glad to hear the backstory for Sexy Sadie, because I was never sure what it was meant to mean, and now I get it.
Great video, why not review an album by The Doors. :)
I like the doors,so why not?. Go commit
If he does, I hope it's LA Woman.
Vinyl geek, first let me say WELL DONE!!!!! I was eight yrs old when this album came out. I had three older teenage sisters that bought EVERY Beatles album as it was released. Brought them home and we listened and listened until the next one came out. The White Album for me was like escaping to another world when I listened. So many of the things you said really struck a cord with me as they matched the way I felt about the songs, as a kid. I also thought Rocky Raccoon and Bungalow Bill were somehow the same or related or something! Thank you so much for taking me back.
thank you
this is the best Beatles album imo and one of the greatest albums of all time for me probably second only to houses of the holy by led zeppelin Martha my dear and Cry baby cry are my favorite tracks
Brother Brace Dude this album and Houses Of The Holy are my favourite respective Beatles and LZ albums too, we have to be in the minority right?
Hey Vinyl Rewind, terrific review of the White Album. I am 70 years old and having grown-up in the analog age and been there from the get go with the Beatles; I could not agree with you more with
your breakdown of the songs. Thank, really enjoyed it.
That was really fun to watch, thanks! Your presenting is really engaging and your enthusiasm is infectious :) Half an hour flew by!
My fave in the catalogue. The sheer brilliance and depth in song and styles is what makes it exceptional. I love it as a double and wouldn't have it any other way. It's a storybook of 20th century musical styles that was never before done and never will be. Greatest rock album of the 20th century..
Just discovered this channel and have to say it's already one of my favorites! American Football needs to be an album you review.
Eric, you're an amazing & knowledgable Beatles historian! The White Album was the 1st Beatles album I heard as well, as a teenager. We must be similar ages. Thanks for your show Vinyl Rewind. It's great! ..especially with this new resurgence in Beatles interest with the release of the Get Back film in late 2021.
My favorite Beatles album. It's is diverse, but there's also a sound to it that runs through everything, a kind of deep sound, especially in the bass lines- even when it's just guitar, it still has this deep sound.
The White Album has recently become my number one Beatles record, i never fully understood it at first but after a few listens it's become my favourite and i listen to it constantly ! Really great review 👍 very insightful
Just two words.
A. This Album changed my world. B. This album made me a musician.
Should I add anything else? Best lp ever.
I thoroughly enjoyed this trip through an indisputably great album with a review that was, at the same time, respectful without being fawning. Thanks!
I came across this channel yesterday and have been binging videos since then.
Seriously the production quality, the song breakdowns and the backstory you add to the albums is all awesome. And let me say the vinyl geek is a really great host.
Just wanted to give some appreciation for the hard work thats put into this channel and man I wish I had found it earlier.
thank you
Your comments were so intense that made me to listen to the White Album again and over and over. Thanks alot for everything, even the missing things in the content.
Amazing content!!!!!! loving the Beatle stuff!!!!! Still waiting for the Pink Floyd Animals reviewww!!!!! love this channel
Berj- same here. love that album
Berj. A Matter of fact! Did you know? Pink Floyd was recording there first album in a abbey road studio? When The Beatles were recording there last album Abbey Road in the next Studio at Abbey Road Studios!
SR 0 WOWWWWWW NO WAYYY THAT'S AWESOMEEEE
Wrong, it was Pepper..... Piper and Pepper 1967....Abbey Road 1969
SR 0 actually the Floyd was recording Piper during Pepper... by the time of Abbey Road the Floyd were releasing UmmaGumma
I can go on a Beatles jag and listen for 2 hours straight no problem. My favorite Beatles tunes have always been John's, like "I am the Walrus," "Looking through a glass onion," and "Strawberry Fields." But there are so many more. We used to wait anxiously for these albums to come out in the stores then we'd go down and buy them. The Beatles meant so much to the '60s. They got us through a lot of rough times.
The whole album works as a collage, they spent hours and hours working on the running order. It works beautifully as a whole.
Best album ever made. Sorry I can't stay and listen to you talk about anymore I have to go listen to it now thanks.😎
I remember cracking up when I found out he was singing about Clapton and a candy box.
Good review, Buddy. Hey, I was there and heard the initial impact and you nailed that part too. Good work.
thank you
The song "Julia" makes me always feel ill as the first time I used snus (extra strong white, Odens to them who know) I had to go and throw up while "Julia" was playing
To me « I'm so tired » is a masterpiece. Using the second of the chords to paint the unsetteldness is a stroke of genius and the song is the best description I know of burn-out. It's a signature of Lennon to have made songs on subjects never approached before in that art
Great review. Can't beat the Beatles! Off Amazon I bought a cd of demo versions of a lot of these songs, Cool to hear on acoustic guitars and mostly unfinished. It was worth the money just to hear George do Sour Milk Sea. Give Peas A Chance...
Sexy Sadie has grown on me more and more over the past few years. The wobbly piano riff at the beginning is one of my favorite Beatles moments. And the line "she came along to turn on everyone" gives me goosebumps. Dunno why.
Surprised you don't think I'm So Tired and Sexy Sadie are great songs.Julia is the best Lennon song on album? Not Happiness is a Warm Gun? I don;t think Yer Blues was meant to be a parody.Or even a comment on blues rock.
I’ve only heard this bad boy on CD so thanks for the opportunity to breathe in how the album sides actually split up. Album sites meant everything in those days.
Have you done Pink Floyd’s The Wall? If you haven’t you should totally do it. It is an amazing album!
not yet
TheRetroGamer this álbum is far better
astro boy no
astro boy you’re wrong
there’s a starman eating beans nah you're wrong.
My favourite Beatles album. Also to me, this is my comforting Christmas album for no other reason but I would listen to it on repeat one December when I was discovering it about 22 years ago. Thank you for your amazing review. Top quality intelligent passionate unbiased video review that we can always rely ont from you. Please don't ever stop.what your are doing man ❤🎶🎙⏺
The Beatles are the Full Band. Their catalog encompasses so many different types of emotions.
It's so nice to hear and see your appreciation and the value you give to music in these days of low attention span swiping. I remember taking the bus for 35 miles to buy my one monthly record. Most of those records I didn't really like at first listen but, sufficiently intrigued and considering the effort to get them and pay for them, I would listen thoroughly until I got what was going on. Suffice to say, I still listen to them today along the offerings of the incredible musical adventure of the 20th century.
You talk a little about how each cover of the album must now be unique thanks to the aging process. A few years ago in 2013, a guy opened what he called a record store that only stocked The White Album. It was really an art project that showed just how unique each cover was: hyperallergic.com/65570/we-sell-white-albums/
Yes, I remember that, it must have stay in my subconscious
Thanks Vinyl Geek for your great reviews, you know your stuff!
As for the Beatles what can I say, love this album and all their others. They were a HUGE influence on me and countless others. Sounds cliche but there really never will be another band like them. I was 15 when this LP was released and I'm so glad I was around then, such a great time for music.
I stumbled upon this....I'm not even sure how, but I really enjoyed it. It also reminded me of one of my greatest concert-going experiences. This was the first album that Phish performed as a "musical costume" for Halloween 1994. I drove out to upstate NY just to see the show, and nobody knew what they would play until they actually played it. I can't explain how thrilling it was to hear Back in the USSR, and then immediately start going through my mental rolodex to anticipate what other songs they would play. There was a real collective sense of anticipation for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," because we expected a truly special interpretation of the guitar solo. Trey did not disappoint.
Really fantastic review! I am embarrassed to say that I've never heard this album . . . although my parents were of this generation, my mother was a Kinks/Stones/Bowie person and my father listened to the contemporary music of the time (The Police etc.) and I just never went down this road. I am loving watching your Beatles reviews and just picked this one up.
Great review. And also the finger picking style on Julia is travis picking. Its the same picking on the beginning of happiness is a warm gun and the whole picking style in dear prudence.
The Trevis pick...
The White Album sounds like it was recorded yesterday. It's so immediate. It inhabits everyone's mind, whether they've listened to it or not.