The Beatles (White Album) [VINYL]

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Yet the low notes on the acoustic guitar during “Julia” make a much stronger impact on the new pressing, and Lennon’s voice comes across as more centered, focused, and emotionally naked.

The remixed WA album is the equivalent of SG Pepper in terms of sound quality, and where the White Album exceeds its predecessor album, is in its depth of previously unheard music, with 3 CDs of outtakes (up to 50 song variations), and the totally new "Esher Demos" album of 27 songs never officially released before. He was unhappy with the group's first attempt to record the track, and so invited his friend Eric Clapton to come and play on it. It debuted at number 11 on 14 December 1968, [176] jumped to number 2, and reached number 1 in its third week on 28 December, [177] spending a total of nine weeks at the top. The majority of historians categorise The Beatles as postmodern, emphasising aesthetic and stylistic features of the album; [230] [i] Inglis, for example, lists bricolage, fragmentation, pastiche, parody, reflexivity, plurality, irony, exaggeration, anti-representation and "meta-art", and says that it "has been designated as popular music's first postmodern album". Martin composed an orchestral introduction to the song but it was rejected as "too bizarre" and left off the album.

I have a copy that was barely ever played according to the original owner, but is in VG condition because of those rough sleeves.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Ono's presence was highly unorthodox as, up to that point, the Beatles had generally worked in isolation, rarely allowing visitors, wives and girlfriends to attend recording sessions. First let’s get the vinyl geeks out of the way: This is the 1978 white vinyl UK reissue of The Beatles, aka The White Album. The stereo version of the LP includes almost a minute more music than the mono, which culminates in Starr famously shouting "I've got blisters on my fingers!Showell’s mastering tends to present low frequencies with more clarity and bloom than on his other pressings (e. The rock n' roll tracks are purely rock n' roll; the folk songs are purely folk; the surreal pop numbers are purely surreal pop; and the experimental piece is purely experimental. Backed by Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell, he first played it on 11 December 1968 at The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus; a version recorded with the Plastic Ono Band in September 1969 appears on the live album Live Peace in Toronto. Harrison and Starr chose to distance themselves partway through the project, [44] flying to California on 7 June so that Harrison could film his scenes for the Ravi Shankar documentary Raga. In the United States, mono records were already being phased out; the US release of The Beatles was the first Beatles LP to be issued in stereo only.

Capitol, no matter US or Canadian (SEBX-11841 white vinyl is Canadian 1978 release AFAIK) always used copies, often third or sometime later copies of UK master – sound never had a chance to be as good as on UK pressings. All the new ‘White Album’ releases include Martin’s new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original four-track and eight-track session tapes. The final song on side three is Harrison's " Long, Long, Long", part of a chord progression he took from Bob Dylan's " Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". Lennon wrote the track about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence Farrow, who rarely left her room during the stay in commitment to the meditation.Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" evolved from a jam session and was originally untitled. In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that because of its wide variety of musical styles, the album can be "a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view". Unlike other Beatles CDs in this reissue campaign, the discs for The Beatles featured solid black-on-white labels instead of the then-conventional black-on-transparent, and releases that packaged each disc into a separate jewel case (rather than a multi-disc "fatbox") sported white media trays rather than the typical dark gray. For 50 years, The White Album has invited its listeners to venture forth and explore the breadth and ambition of its music, delighting and inspiring each new generation in turn.