Vocalion
Junior Member
Many have suggested (George Martin included) that the exalted White Album could have been so much better had it been pared down a bit, and not made into such a vanity project for the individual members (I'm paraphrasing a bit on that last point).
I tend to agree with that, though the album has of course developed a reputation built at least in part by the very idiosyncratic nature of the song list. If you were George Martin then, and had free reign to cut the song list down to a more conventional 14 songs, which ones would make the cut? I know many will say " Oh no, I couldn't, it's perfect as is." Well......try. For me, in sequential order as they appear on the album:
Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
I Will
Julia
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
I tend to agree with that, though the album has of course developed a reputation built at least in part by the very idiosyncratic nature of the song list. If you were George Martin then, and had free reign to cut the song list down to a more conventional 14 songs, which ones would make the cut? I know many will say " Oh no, I couldn't, it's perfect as is." Well......try. For me, in sequential order as they appear on the album:
Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
I Will
Julia
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter