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I have always been a fan of the Beatles, they are of my time, but I have always felt that the White Album was released to fulfil a contract rather than a creative decision of the band. In my opinion it was padded out with tracks that the Fab Four had rejected years earlier and then faced with a double album searched around in drawers or down the back of the sofa for material.

Assuming you agree with me what tracks would you remove to leave a single album?

Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I’m so tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Don’t Pass Me By
Why don’t we do it in the road?
I Will
Julia



Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature’s Son
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution I
Honey Pie
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Good Night

I tend to agree, and I would probably go with the tracks you've chosen.

That said, three of those tracks are amongst my favourites - Blackbird, I will and While my guitar gently weeps.

I've always loved this album. I like the saccharin/sweet contrast of say, Honey Pie (Paul McCartney doing what he does best) with the rawness of Lennon at his most plaintive (Yer Blues). I return to it often.

You ol' softie.

I've always thought there was a really good single album in it.
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird
I will
Julia
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution I

I have said before while I appreciate what The Beatles did for pop/rock music I was never a huge fan. Never owned any of their music as a band or solo artists (not even Mull Of Kintyre). Or The Stones, Hendrix, Dylan, Led Zep. I always liked the underdogs.
So I have never heard The White Album in it's entirety, I am now too old and there is far more new music for me to even bother now. I have heard the singles and more popular tracks but that's all...

But... but... <splutter> what about the Frog Chorus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fuVoSa3dc

The Frog Chorus was genius... for what it was, a children's song and video.
He'd had a dry run a few years earlier - remember Mary Had A Little Lamb