The Beatles - The Beatles (The White Album)
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Free Music Notes for The Beatles (The White Album)
Free Music Review: Greatest Studio Album by a Rock-n-Roll Band
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the reviewers said it best with this line...
"It is, simply, a series of highly personal statements from three songwriters, coalescing around no particular theme other than the right to personal expression."
I couldn't agree more.
Free Music Review: Lots of Beatles music
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a classic Beatles album - it gives the listener a very diverse view of their styles and capabilities.Free Music Review: Some Good, Some Bad
Hit: 3 Stars
This was the first album I ever owned that didn't have Batman on the cover or barnyard animals singing on it. My parents bought it for me for Christmas, and I've loved the Beatles ever since. It contains some great songs, and George Harrison's contributions are uncharacteristically strong. But it also contains a lot of crummy music by a band who I think probably just had entirely too much time and money on their hands at the time. This could have easily been one record instead of a double-album, and it would have been better for it.
Free Music Review: Forty Years Later
Hit: 4 Stars
Unbelievable that this album was written and recorded forty years ago. There are songs on it that are so fresh. "Blackbird" remains one of those simplistic works of magic that can happen in a studio. Some songs are pure rebellion and some are all about searching for whatever. This album was created during and right after their trip to the Ashram which ended poorly - this album is such a picture of not just the Beatles history, but a picture of musical and world history.Free Music Review: The Beatles Explore Their Navels
Hit: 3 Stars
I saw "Across The Universe" recently, and Evan Rachel Wood's version of "Hold Me Tight" reminded me how good the song was, and indeed the whole "Meet The Beatles" album and '63 period: tight arrangements, invigorated voices, the sound of a band out to prove itself and excite its listeners.
Cut to five years later. As the gradual loosening of their standards due to their drug-intake since Sgt. Pepper continues, one finds a distinct air of the Beatles taking their audience for granted and a "they'll buy anything" attitude in the sprawling tedium of the White Album, which unfortunately works with their repackaged corpses to this day. For every bit of brilliance in numbers like "Back In The U.S.S.R." and "Cry Baby Cry," there's lobotomized dreck like "Dear Prudence," "Rocky Raccoon," and "Bungalow Bill" to wade through, as if they could care less. Call it art, call it farting on the 8-track, the fans'll buy it, because we're the Beatles.
By comparison, listen to the Rolling Stones' "Beggar's Banquet," released in the same period. Sure, it's a third the length of the White Album, and the diversity of style isn't comparable, but each track on "Beggar's" sounds like a band intent on giving their audience value for money, with lyrics and a sound trying to communicate what's happening in the streets NOW. Goods like "Wild Honey Pie," "I'm So Tired," and "Revolution #9" are really kind of repulsive in their self-absorption, and not even four decades of steam-rolling hype should convince you to spend your recession-era dollars on it.