The Beatles - The White Album | vinyl album review

In his longest video review to date, The Vinyl Geek tackles The Beatles, the self-titled, double LP from 1968, affectionately known as The White Album. #TheBeatles #WhiteAbum #vinyl
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[parkermaciejewski]

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

[vinnyreed]

We need to hear the 27 minute
version of Helter Skelter

[Mean_MrMustard]

The tapping in "Blackbird" is actually Paul's feet, with tap shoes. Not a metronome. Sorry, just thought I'd clear that up! :)

[steviecopeland]

The best part of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da is John and George yelling "ARM", "LEG", "FOOT!", at various times.

[steven_heron]

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.

[farrellmcnulty]

"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.

[kainefreunde]

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!

[woismith]

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.

[Jbones]

I love the remastered mono vinyl. Just insane that they put out Pepper & this a year apart, what a band.

[MichaelCorleone]

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.

[downtherabbitholephotograp]

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".

[Bill]

The amazing thing about The White Album? showed the world they could do any genre masterfully...Can't think of another group that can.

[rhill]

John's voice on "Everybody's Got..." is the best.

[tragiclifeform]

“A slight rattle could be heard...”

[carlospadinmartinez]

you just simply can't have enough of the Beatles. thank you very much for this review 😀👍

[OrbitronFactory]

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.

[nathanardern]

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

[vict]

Told my daughter that Rocky Raccoon was about Rocket's grandfather and now she is getting deep into the Beatles.
Whatever gets them, right.

[Lmclean]

Happiness Is A Warm Gun and Sexy Sadie have probably been spun at least 9000 times for me. Absolute classics.

[singlesideman]

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.