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	The White Album (Remastered) The Beatles EMI, 2009 average customer review:based on 85 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. The newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.

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This CD is amazing, it has all of the songs just like before, and its even remastered. For those of you who don't know what remastered is its just enhanced, the old quality is no more now it sounds like there really in front of you singing. I highly recommend this product and the price was amazing too. If you don't believe me try it out your self.


if I only had one

If you were only going to have one album of the Beatles this is the one to have. Wish I still had my vinyl. Not a big fan of remastering I'm still pickled pink when I listen to it. Oh the memories


Beatles are the gold standard

I've read many of the reviews of this album, cd, whatever, and I can't help but feel intensly disappointed by the 2010 perspective of this incredible work. You have no idea what the hell you're talking about unless you were there, in 1968, living this whole maelstrom. The draft, Viet Nam, civil rights, assassination, a very real and imminent nuclear threat, Cold War, Red Chinas' Cultural Revolution. It was a mess something of the order we're experiencing in the scope of this economic depression and all this context seems lost through time. The Beatles were the home base. They represented a sense of comfort and even clarity in a time when there wasn't much around. As confused as this album may sound to you, there was something there for everybody and everybody I know has a different favorite from this release. In that sense, it's a masterpiece. I mean, who loves everything Mozart wrote? Mozart operas are pompous, complex, emotional roller coasters, much like the White Album. It reverberated with uncertain direction and accurately reflected it's time in history extremely well.

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The road not taken



The Beatles albums "Sgt Pepper's" and "Magical Mystery Tour" were recorded c. 1967, a period of optimism and good humour in the band. After this material was taped, the Beatles went off to India to experience the inspiration of the Maharishi. Unfortunately, the disappointment and disillusionment they experienced in India, and the simultaneous commencement of tensions within the band, ended the "optimistic/psychedelic" feel of 1967.

This has two major effects on the White Album. First, many interesting tunes that were more in the Pepper style were suppressed and not put into the White Album. Thus, Lennon (who was the most disillusioned member of the Beatles) suppressed two masterpieces that were in a mystical/psychedelic vein, "Child of Nature" and "Across the Universe". The latter was eventually released as part of an album; the former was never released by the Beatles. Other snippets from India, like "Mean Mr Mustard/Polythene Pam" and "Because" were temporarily suppressed and passed on into later albums.

The second effect is that the Beatles began to record tunes that were in a quite different tone from their previous two albums. A lot of these tunes were sarcastic, cynical or satirical in tone. I don't particularly like this direction the Beatles were taking. They always sounded so unique; why did they have to write such a huge amount of material basically sending people up? The "sarcastic" tunes include: "Back in the USSR" (parody of the Beach Boys), "Glass Onion" (parody of the Beatles!), "Piggies" (a really crass satire of rich people), "Rocky Racoon" (parody of Dylan), "Sexy Sadie" (disguised attack on the Maharishi), "Yer Blues" (parody of British blues), and "Good Night" (parody of Broadway).

Now I happen to like Glass Onion/Sexy Sadie and most of these tunes are very good pieces of music. And I know the Beatles did a great deal of parody in other albums. However, I find something nasty and not-very-upfront about this album, so different from the earnestness of the usual Beatles fare.

Another problem I have is the effect of Paul's insistence that the Beatles should become a touring band again and should therefore restore their style to a more plain rock sound. That means that "White Album" has a minimum of in-your-face tape manipulation, studio trickery or weird electronic stuff. Another effect is that the Beatles sound is now more clashy and rock-y. Tunes affected by this (as it turns out truncated) change in direction include "Back in the USSR", "Yer Blues" and "Helter Skelter". Some rock fans applaud the more rocklike sound of this album (and "Let It Be"); I again miss the more weirdo sounds of 1967.

Having said all that, I do in fact like this album, mostly. My favourite Beatles track of all is "Happiness is a Warm Gun", a truly trippy song that consists of a medley of four apparently unrelated melodies that nevertheless seem absolutely inseperable and of one piece. (And I know it parodies doo-wop, ha ha).
I also love the misterioso bassline in "Dear Prudence", George Harrison's ode to disillusioned love in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", the charming "I Will", and the nicely done "Savoy Truffle". I'm even not entirely opposed to "Revolution 9", it has atmosphere.

I just wish the White Album could have avoided the cynical edge they had adopted since returning from India. Luckily they pretty much worked off this tendency by the next albums, though by that time the Beatles were a doomed "marriage".

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Tracks
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 | Happiness Is A Warm Gun | Martha My Dear | I'm So Tired | Blackbird | Piggies | Rocky Racoon | Don't Pass Me By | Why Don't We Do It In The Road? | I Will | Julia | Birthday | Yer Blues | Mother Nature's Son | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey | Sexy Sadie | Helter Skelter | Long, Long, Long | Revolution 1 | Honey Pie | Savoy Truffle | Cry Baby Cry | Revolution 9 | Good Night | The Beatles Documentary

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