The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album) [1968]

CD 1 
01. Julia 
02. Back In The U.S.S.R. 
03. Dear Prudence 
04. Glass Onion 
05. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 
06. Wild Honey Pie 
07. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 
08. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
09. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 
10. Martha My Dear 
11. I'm So Tired 
12. Blackbird 
13. Piggies 
14. Rocky Raccoon 
15. Don't Pass Me By 
16. Why Don't We Do It In The Road 
17. I Will 

CD 2 
01. Birthday 
02. Yer Blues 
03. Mother Nature's Son 
04. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 
05. Sexy Sadie 
06. Helter Skelter 
07. Long, Long, Long 
08. Revolution 1 
09. Honey Pie 
10. Savoy Truffle 
11. Cry Baby Cry 
12. Revolution 9 
13. Good Night

Personnel:
George Harrison – lead, harmony and backing vocals; lead and rhythm guitars 
John Lennon – lead, harmony and backing vocals; lead and rhythm (electric and acoustic guitars) 
Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and backing vocals; four and six-string bass guitar; 
Ringo Starr – drums and assorted percussion, lead vocals on "Don't Pass Me By" and "Good Night"
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Eric Clapton – guitar on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"
Jack Fallon – violin on "Don't Pass Me By"
Pattie Harrison, Yoko Ono, Mel Evans, Jackie Lomax, Maureen starkey – backing vocals

And
    Ted Barker – trombone on "Martha My Dear"
    Leon Calvert – trumpet and flugelhorn on "Martha My Dear"
    Henry Datyner, Eric Bowie, Norman Lederman, and Ronald Thomas – violin on "Glass Onion"
    Bernard Miller, Dennis McConnell, Lou Soufier and Les Maddox – violin on "Martha My Dear"
    Reginald Kilby – cello on "Glass Onion" and "Martha My Dear”
    Eldon Fox  – cello on "Glass Onion"
    Frederick Alexander  – cello on "Martha My Dear"
    Harry Klein – saxophone on "Savoy Truffle" and "Honey Pie”
    Dennis Walton, Ronald Chamberlain, Jim Chest, and Rex Morris – saxophone on "Honey Pie"
    Raymond Newman and David Smith – clarinet on "Honey Pie"
    Art Ellefson, Danny Moss, and Derek Collins – tenor sax on "Savoy Truffle"
    Ronnie Ross and Bernard George – baritone sax on "Savoy Truffle"
    Alf Reece – tuba on "Martha My Dear"
    The Mike Sammes Singers – backing vocals on "Good Night"
    Stanley Reynolds and Ronnie Hughes – trumpet on "Martha My Dear"
    Tony Tunstall – French horn on "Martha My Dear"
    John Underwood and Keith Cummings – viola on "Glass Onion"
    Leo Birnbaum and Henry Myerscough – viola on "Martha My Dear"

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. --- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

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