The White Album

[Psmith]

Apparently made 50 years ago, although that seems hard to believe.What have I done in all that time ,etc...
I think the double LP is a curate's egg and would have made a decent single album.
Revolver and Rubber Soul are much better IMO
Anyway, this is probably my favourite track:
Blackbird
https://youtu.be/Man4Xw8Xypo

[Red Baron]

Good choice - as are Revolver and Rubber Soul.

This is my favourite from the White Album though. I just love George - and a decent piece of guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dONCnY_Yg

[Phillip Phlopp]

I always felt that the Beatles had a contract with their record company based on a number of albums and the mop-haired pop combo dug around the back of their sofas and in their bins to find enough lost or discarded material to fill this double album.

There's some great tunes though and a couple of rock songs like Helter Skelter, Birthday and a bluesy Revolution 1. And there's Revolution 9.

[Lisa]

Good choice - as are Revolver and Rubber Soul.

This is my favourite from the White Album though. I just love George - and a decent piece of guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-dONCnY_Yg

All of this!

[Undie]

I'm really not a fan of the Beatles, as an act that pushed boundaries and changed pop culture I'm right there but musically with a few exceptions I can take or leave them.

As far as The White album, I like Back in the USSR and it's Georges stuff I like more of so While my guitar too

[Gaspode]

I agree with Undie, I appreciate what The Beatles did for pop music but have no great love for them. Although I do love Strawberry Fields Forever..

[Red Baron]

I love the Beatles, I love how they changed the dross on the radio into something worth listening to when I was tiny and couldn't reach the dial to escape the 'Light Programme - Music while you work, housewives choice, presented by men used to anger me even then!

As with all bands, some of their work is great - and some meh.

[Psmith]

Yes,if you didn't like Billy Cotton or skiffle things were a bit grim before they came along.

[Red Baron]

Sing something simple......

[Psmith]

The BBC were playing up to three popular music discs a week at one time.Fortunately the pirates put an end to all that.

[RockitRon]

I remember being slightly underwhelmed when it came out.
There are more than a few half-songs, throw-aways, studio doodles and jams, and they were scattered, seemingly haphazardly, through the album (rather than being joined together in a medley, like most of side two of Abbey Road). So you get jokey Bungalow Bill followed by While My Guitar...., or the banal Why Don't We Do It In The Road, followed by the sublime I Will.
I grew to love it like the rest of their output, but I'm not keen, to put it mildly, on Giles Martin's meddling for the 50th anniversary release. He's ramped up the volume and bass, and pushed some of the guitars and other instrumentation to a less prominent role on some tracks. It doesn't sound right to me.

[Maximus]

The Beatles are beyond compare and made some of the most perfect popular music of the 20th Century.

I don't listen to them much though and only own the two greatest hits packages.

In a way I prefer to 'forget them' so when I do hear them I remember exactly how good they were.