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The Beatles [sound recording]

di The Beatles

Altri autori: Richard Hamilton (Progetto della copertina)

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(Easy Piano Personality). This super songbook contains 20 Beatles hits arranged for easy piano: Across the Universe * Birthday * Blackbird * Do You Want to Know a Secret? * The Fool on the Hill * Golden Slumbers * Good Day Sunshine * Here, There and Everywhere * I Should Have Known Better * I Will * If I Fell * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Norwegian Wood * She's Leaving Home * Yellow Submarine * and more.… (altro)
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Writing technique: C
Writing musicality: B
Performance technique: B
Performance musicality: A
Arrangements: A
Coherence/concept: C
Pacing/listenability: B
Recording/mastering: C
Cover art: C

Enjoyment: A plus

GPA: 3.0/4 ( )
  comfypants | Sep 13, 2016 |
When this came out nobody had ever made music like it. ( )
  unclebob53703 | Mar 4, 2015 |
Product Details

* Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 2
* Label: Capitol
* Catalog Number: 46443
* ASIN: B000002UAX
* Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 894 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
9. Martha My Dear
10. I'm So Tired
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Disc: 2
1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, Long
8. Revolution 1
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
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Editorial Reviews
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Better known as the "White Album," this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ("Revolution #9"), this has it all. Some records have legend written all over them; this is one. --Chris Nickson
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You'll never crack the code, May 14, 2003
Reviewer: Juan La Princi "Mr. F. Bombalate" (livin' just enough) - See all my reviews
There are a few albums from the rock era that I feel I've been in a relationship with since the first day I got them. "The Beatles" is one of those albums. I found it under my Christmas tree in 1968, and I've been engaged with it at some level ever since. It is not the best Beatles album, objectively; nor is it my favorite. But it has always compelled my attention.

At the time it came out, I was 12, but even then it was clear that we were no longer in Pepperland or on a Magical Mystery Tour. This album wasn't yet more "progress" toward some new musical form. Musically, it embraced values never before associated with the Beatles as I understood them: Parody, pastiche, rock and roll revivalism, music-hall nostalgia, avant-garde experimentation, political agitation, intimate confession, trivial nonsense. It is, simply, a series of highly personal statements from the three songwriters, coalescing around no particular theme other than the right to personal expression.

"The Beatles" is not, to me, "the sound of the Beatles breaking up." That's the storyline a lot of Beatle historians apply to this album. If they're basing this judgement on the fact that the individual songwriters' imprints are on each song, you'd have to argue that the breakup began much earlier, around the time of "Beatles for Sale" or "Help!" Lennon-McCartney were rarely a songwriting "team" in the sense of George and Ira Gershwin. Their partnership was always about strategy, i.e. how to ensure that third-rate songs would not be included on albums just for the sake of fairness. "The Beatles" instead simply shows the evolution of each of the three songwriters (on this album, George emerges dramatically) as they each embraced new musical ideas and applied their life experiences to their art. Having helped break all the molds for what was acceptable songwriting in their previous work, they each now proceeded to take full advantage of the freedom they'd won. Some of the dumber cuts on "The Beatles" demonstrate, perhaps, the expression "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Paul, in particular, seemed frightened to step out too often without the crutch of some existing form that he could parody or pay tribute to, i.e. "Honey Pie," "Back in the USSR" or "Rocky Racoon." But, while you can say that, you have to acknowledge that in this massive album, there are perhaps half a dozen Paul songs that are among his best and most original: "I Will," "Blackbird," "Mother Nature's Son," "Helter Skelter" for four examples.

Lennon's direction was to become more nakedly confessional, as befits someone who was dealing with such turbulent emotions at the time. He gives us some of his most beautiful songs, like "Dear Prudence," and some of his most intense, like "I'm So Tired," "Revolution," "Yer Blues," and "Sexy Sadie." Often, as in "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill," "Glass Onion," or "Everybody Has Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey," he seems to be writing in code, and that sense of allusiveness gives the album much of its cracked character. And of course, he's the guy who assembled the collage, "Revolution 9," which is to rock and roll what "Finnegans Wake" is to English literature--a dream that floats between meaning and nothingness.

George seems to be captured here in a moment of great self-discovery as an artist; you can hear his talent finally come together in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," which I remember at age 12 was to my ears the best thing on the album--and still seems to be so. Prior to the White Album, he had these cautious little songs on the early albums, and then embraced India, which while sometimes satisfying seemed weird and out of place. His songs here sets the stage for "Something," "Here Comes the Sun" and then his monumental early solo work. At age 12, I thought "Long, Long, Long" was a emotional powerhouse--and I still do.

A few months after I got "The Beatles," the Charles Manson murders took place, and eventually the DA made the case that somehow, insanely, the murders were inspired by songs on this album. Around the same time, the media were full of bizarre speculation that Paul McCartney was dead, and that clues were all over this album. It's no accident that half-insane people might mine "The Beatles" for hidden messages and evidence of conspiracies. The world it depicts is strange and almost claustrophobic--all the more so for its haphazard approach and its odd switches in tone from childish delight to fiendish paranoia. But even those of us who live normal lives and dream normal dreams can acknowledge that "The Beatles" has a hold on your consciousness that is unlike anything else the group did, and unlike anything else that came out of the rock era. ( )
  pantufla | Jan 24, 2006 |
Disc 2 of White Album without original packaging
  DavidDuBois | Apr 11, 2023 |
1-1 Back In The U.S.S.R. 2:42
1-2 Dear Prudence 3:55
1-3 Glass Onion 2:17
1-4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:08
1-5 Wild Honey Pie 0:52
1-6 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 3:14
1-7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4:45
1-8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2:44
1-9 Martha My Dear 2:28
1-10 I'm So Tired 2:03
1-11 Blackbird 2:18
1-12 Piggies 2:04
1-13 Rocky Raccoon 3:33
1-14 Don't Pass Me By Written-By – Starkey* 3:50
1-15 Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 1:41
1-16 I Will 1:45
1-17 Julia 2:54

disc 2:
2-1 Birthday 2:42
2-2 Yer Blues 4:00
2-3 Mother Nature's Son 2:48
2-4 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 2:24
2-5 Sexy Sadie 3:15
2-6 Helter Skelter 4:29
2-7 Long, Long, Long 3:06
2-8 Revolution 1 4:15
2-9 Honey Pie 2:41
2-10 Savoy Truffle 2:54
2-11 Cry Baby Cry 3:02
2-12 Revolution 9 8:22
2-13 Good Night 3:11 ( )
  carptrash | Dec 6, 2022 |
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.
 

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(Easy Piano Personality). This super songbook contains 20 Beatles hits arranged for easy piano: Across the Universe * Birthday * Blackbird * Do You Want to Know a Secret? * The Fool on the Hill * Golden Slumbers * Good Day Sunshine * Here, There and Everywhere * I Should Have Known Better * I Will * If I Fell * Lady Madonna * Let It Be * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Norwegian Wood * She's Leaving Home * Yellow Submarine * and more.

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