Make The White Album A Single Album

Speed King · Nov 17, 2018

I agree, the White Album would be much better as a single album, my list is the same as 70's guy's list

Another double album that would've been better as a single? The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

joker1961 · Nov 17, 2018

That 70s Guy said:
Back In The USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Birthday
Yer Blues
Everybody's Got Something To Hide
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Cry Baby Cry

Speed King said:
I agree, the White Album would be much better as a single album, my list is the same as 70's guy's list

Another double album that would've been better as a single? The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

As both of you on the White Album not so with @Speed King about Electric Ladyland

Hurdy Gurdy Man · Nov 27, 2018

Get on a Vlog called "Vinyl Rewind" on YouTube.One installment is called "What if the White Album Was a Single LP".Intriguing argument for why only certain songs should have been included.Question remaining is would the rest of the tunes have remained unreleased until "Anthology 3"?Or would have some of the material been used to even further bolster "Abbey Road" or "Let it Be"?...........................

BikerDude · Nov 28, 2018

I think it's perfect as is.
Is it a bit of a rambling collection of very different styles?
Yes and that is awesome.
Like Exile on Main Street in a way.
I love the way that the great bands of the 60's would have so many different styles of songs on one album.

Personally I've stopped buying these "remixes" because I always end up finding the alternate versions just a pain in the neck that I end up skipping over anyway. They just get in the way.

Hurdy Gurdy Man · Nov 28, 2018

Having so many tunes go off in so many directions without laying down any true album wide conceptual unity and producing one of rock's finest long players is something perhaps only the Beatles and Brian Wilson may have gotten away with.Of course,the Beatles also got away with the seven minute hit single("Hey Jude")and Paul McCartney admitting he took LSD to the press which may have severely damaged the reputation of many smaller bands.Don't even get me started on that bastard Lennon.Instead of the naked album cover being a major black stain on his story,the controversy merely increased the value of his legend.The whole thing's kinda like the Big Man on Campus who seems to have his jolly way with life while playing the part of the king who wore no clothes and NEVER caught cold......

Dave78 · Dec 9, 2018

Here's my single-album version of The Beatles' white album:

Side 1
Revolution* (3.25)
Everybody's Got Something To Hide... (2.24)
Birthday (2.42)
Helter Skelter (4.29)
Back In The U.S.S.R. (2.43)
----------------------
Total Time 15.43

Side 2
Savoy Truffle (2.54)
Glass Onion (2.18)
Dear Prudence (3.56)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (4.44)
Cry Baby Cry (3.02)
----------------------
Total Time 16.54

* The non-album, single version of "Revolution" (not "Rev. 1" or "Rev. 9" from the album)

Also... I do like enough songs to comprise a Side 3, but does anyone really miss "Long, Long, Long", "Wild Honey Pie", "Piggies", "Sexie Sadie", "Goodnight" and "Revolution #9" that would be thrown onto Side 4? Not me.

Make The White Album A Single Album

Speed King

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Dave78

Dave's not here, man

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