BEATLES 2XLP White Album No 0075962 UK68 1stP APPLE PCS7067 A MAGNIFICENT ALBUM

	£		74
	$		98

2XLP NUMBER No 0075962

ARTIST: BEATLES

TITLE: THE BEATLES AKA THE WHITE ALBUM

LABEL + YEAR:  APPLE TEXTURED LABELS PCS7067; UK 1st PRESS NOVEMBER 1968

CONDITION VINYL: VG+ TO EX DUE TO SOME VERY FINE HAIR-LINES, PLEASE NOTE: ALL PLAYS EX FROM SIDE 1 TO SIDE 4 WITH A CLEAR BRIGHT SOUND
 

MATRIX SIDE 1: YEX 709 – 1 STAMPERS 5 GAG

MATRIX SIDE 2: YEX 710 – 1 STAMPERS 6 GMH

MATRIX SIDE 3: YEX 711 – 1 STAMPERS 5 LM

MATRIX SIDE 4: YEX 712 – 1 STAMPERS 2 PD

CONDITION SLEEVE: EX NUMBERED No 0075962 GATEFOLD TOP OPENER  WITH FOUR COLOUR PICTURES & TWO BLACK INNERS WITH NO SPLITS ALL EX, PLEASE NOTE: SORRY NO EMI POSTER.

DESCRIPTION: A MAGNIFICENT MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!

All Music Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can.

This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess.

 Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the British blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced, so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires.

 Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrète collage "Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry," rivals Syd Barrett.

McCartney doesn't reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning -- the music hall romp "Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal roar of "Helter Skelter."

Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy Truffle," the haunting "Long, Long, Long," and even the silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure.

And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess.

Side 1:

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

HAPPINSEE IS A WARM GUN

Side 2:

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

Side 3:

BIRTHDAY

YER BLUES

MOTHER NATURE’S SON

EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY

SEXEY SADIE

HELTER SKELTER

LONG,LONG,LONG

Side 4:

REVOLUTION 1

HONEY PIE

SAVOY TRUFFLE

CRY,BABY,CRY

REVOLUTION 9

GOOD NIGHT

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