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- This ALBUM THAT NEVER WAS features a variation on the Beatles' White Album, making it a single disc. This album collects the most commercial tracks the Beatles recorded during the White Album sessions and renders a reimagined record called The Beatles '68. The concept is reminiscent of the early American Capitol albums with the design being influenced by the Beatles '65 album design.
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I would have to put I Will on there . This is one of McCartney's most haunting love songs since Yesterday, definitely one of the best on the album...
Happiness Is A Warm Gun would be a certainty for me. One of the finest songs they made, in my opinion.
I think at one point Paul said it was his his favorite track from the W.A.
Ainsley Harriott’s right!
The first segment is gorgeous.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE LENNON SONGS
Yep, how do you prune those great songs down into a single album.
You forgot "Everybody's Got Something to Hide, Except for Me and My Monkey", one of the finest rockers of all time. Sheer energy put to music.
Long, long, long - probably the most underrated Beatls track. What a hauntingly dark and yet sweet, warm, beautiful song it is!
That should have been the closer.
If only the ending was different
Before I read the comments, I was going to write the same, pretty much word for word!
I've always loved that song. It really is one of Harrison's best. But I've never really liked the production of the White Album track. It seems too muddy or something. I have seen three separate productions of the 'White Album Tour' here in Australia, by A list musos here. They reproduce the album note for note with every instrument played. Long, Long, Long is a staggering song played live. It is just sensational. Btw Yer Blues played by great musos is out of this world.
@@grahammcbean6362 Yes, I agree about the production being subopotimal: recorded a bit too low and the guitar riff in D somehow doesnt do justice to this beguiling melody! A piano or another instrumental arrangement might have worked better...
Nice move. But in the end, I'd go along with Paul: "It's the bloody White Album - so shut up!" mysterious & unique = great
I agree. It’s my favorite album from front to back.
I absolutely love the White Album. Zero changes needed
About twenty years ago I had a very vivid dream in which The Beatles performed Freeda Paine's "Band Of Gold". At the time I didn't even like that song, but they just nailed it. So cool.
Cry Baby Cry was a great choice...a very underrated song!
I can't pass one my most underrated in 'I'm So Tired'
You only have to play it & you feel sleepy & then YOU GET ANGRRRY!
@@seltaeb3302 That "I'd give you everything I've got for a little piece of mind" line, right?
"I wish I was not a BEATLE"
Revolution would have made a great album opener and 'statement' for a new '68' album.
Always thought it was criminal that Sour Milk Sea got passed on.
Side 1
1. Hey Bulldog
2. Back in the USSR
3. Dear Prudence
4. Ob la di
5. While my guitar gently weeps
6. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side 2
1. Martha my Dear
2. Savoy Truffle
3. Sexy Sadie
4. Piggies
5. Glass Onion
6. Honey Pie
7. Helter Skelter
I dont see I'm So Tired...
@@evanlevitan2406 that's a tough cut to make. I wanted balance between John and Paul. John was delivering some of the best material of his career that year and the hardest rockers too.
@@catsofsherman1316 So tired must remain for PID clue
I just found your channel over the last few days. I love what you're building with such unique content. Keep up the great work!
Love this concept. Your song choices were right on point. The only thing i would change would be to switch out “Bungalow Bill” with “Sexy Sadie” or even “Lady Madonna.”
Those are good suggestions. Lady Madonna would have fit perfectly.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Lady Madonna. I think perhaps he didn’t think about it bc it was from early ‘68.
Oh Lady Madonna would be perfect for this concept especially since it was never on an actual album
One of the biggest mistake The Beatles ever made was not to include their singles on their ordinary
albums. The reason they gave was lame : they didn't want to cheat their audience by them having
to pay two times for the same song.
The truth was of coarse that back then having a hit climbing up the single charts was all that mattered.
They wouldn't risk that their fans dropped buying the single and was waiting for to spend their money
on the album only.
Their producer, George Martin said that the biggest mistake of his whole career was not to include
John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Paul's "Penny Lane" on "Sgt. Pepper."
At least when the CD's were issued I wish Apple Corp would have included the singles that naturally
belongs to each album - when there was space enough for them.
Instead we have a big bunch of fabulous hit songs that doesn't seems to belong anywhere.
Fair enough - they have been issued on "Past Masters 1 & 2" - but it is not the same.
Hope that they one day will re-issue all their albums this way.
@@spiritualarchitect4276 No, the second one includes other spy thrillers like Man From Uncle and I Spy.
Side One: Back In The USSR, Dear Prudence, Savoy Truffle, Blackbird, Long Long Long, Glass Onion, I Will Side Two: Yer Blues, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Birthday, I'm So Tired, Don't Pass Me By, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Helter Skelter. Five for John and Paul, three for George and one for Ringo. Also, having the album end with Ringo yelling, "I've got blisters on my fingers" would really work well...
That's a great line up and I agree with Ringo getting the last word!
Great selection 👍
Everyone has different White Album favorites, which shows it's by far their most versatile work. It's also an album I keep re-discovering songs that I had overlooked before. My favorites have changed as I age. Now, I can't imagine it without Long, Long, Long and Yer Blues. Also, without Happiness is a Warm Gun we wouldn't have Radiohead's Paranoid Android. I love your videos, so well researched, thank you!
I really enjoy coming up with new artwork for these Albums That Never Were, and the track listing always get a good conversation going. Thank you for the warm comment, Alexandra!
This album is so ingrained in my brain since it came out and with all of the history surrounding it, I can't take it apart without diminishing it. It's moody throughout. It gets somehow nightmarishly dark by the time you get to side 3 and then it drops 'Revolution 9' on you to scatter your mind. I know people generally hate that track, but it was 1968. It is what it is and after hearing it so many times and, like too many people, spent countless hours deciphering the clues leading to how Paul died, I can hear the symphony John intended.
I agree that any alteration makes it less somehow. It took me some years appreciate Revolution 9. Its importance is significant within the context of the album; the idea that a piece so “unlistenable” actually enhances the overall artistry of the album seems like an impossibility, but the Beatles did it.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Of course, the historical context of this being the motivation for the Manson killings makes it even more relevant. To think that a different version of this album might have changed things....hmmmm.
I agree with your dark and moody comment. Though there is quite a bit of straightforward rock and roll on the album too. I suppose I was about 14/15 when I listened to this album a lot. Side four particularly would always leave me in a strange state of mind. When thinking about it now I can still feel it all these years later. Strange juxtaposition of music. Revolution 9 followed by an orchestral arrangement of a lullaby!
Although I wouldn't replace any material from the White Album. If I was pressed, maybe get rid of or shorten Revolution #9 (1:12) and add Hey Jude (7:09)
I mean, Revolution 9 feels like a journey, so I wouldn’t agree with shortening it. When you get to the shouting at the end, it feels like you’ve been through hell and back, and having it clip between parts just feels off.
I would replace Obladi by Happiness is a warm gun because that song opens new ways in music.
Finally, a fun and imaginative way to play the "turn The White Album into a single album" game. Knowing Capitol, they would release the rest of the songs anyway in another grab-bag collection like "Yesterday and Today." Maybe they could call it "Making Ends Meet" or something.
If anything, they left off among others, "Hey Jude" and singles version of "Revolution!" Put out a three disc set!
Hey Jude, Revolution, Lady Madonna, The Inner Light, What's the New Mary Jane, Child of Nature, Junk, Sour Milk Sea, Circles, Not Guilty and the third record is ready!
@@dimitriballas5283 and hey bulldog! Instead of put the song in yellow submarine soundtrack
Great video!
I LOVE THE BEATLES!
Side one:
Revolution
While my guitar gently weeps
Ob la da ob la di
Julia
Happiness is a warm gun
Blackbird
Long long long
Helter Skelter
Side two:
Back in the ussr
Dear Prudence
Monkey
I will
Birthday
Mother nature’s son
Cry baby cry
Hey Jude
Yeah adding Revolution and Hey Jude would be Good too. When did they do Lady Madonna? Maybe that too.
@@sejrec56 - Around the same time - but they made a policy of not putting their singles on albums.
They didn't want to spoil the chance of their singles flying all the way up to "the top of the toppermost."
Would have been an even stronger classic album if it had Lady Madonna, Hey Bulldog, Hey Jude, and Revolution [loud version].
Those would have made it the best album of all time.
Agreed.
I love the selections for this album that never was. Makes a really fun video. Thanks!
I think the best album to imagine is, "Lennon '68" What a fantastic album that would be:
(side 1)
1. Revolution (single version)
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Bungalow Bill
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Julia
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
(side 2)
1. Hey Bulldog
2. Yer Blues
3. I'm So Tired
4. Me And My Monkey
5. Cry Baby Cry
6. Revolution 1
7. Across The Universe (Anthology take 1)
Very nice. Paul and George could get a side each to make it a triple album!
Paul helped write many of those songs, and he, George and Ringo greatly contributed to how they ended up sounding, so that's a daft idea.
So you really think Me And My Monkey, Cry Baby Cry, Julia, Glass Onion, Bungalow Bill, Revolution 1 ... are better songs than Back in The USSR, Blackbird, While My Guitar ..., I Will, Helter Skelter, Martha My Dear, Long, Log, Long, Mother Nature´s Son ...? Maybe you should take off your John-glasses ...!
To be clear I love these songs, but one should have kind of an objective musical assessment.
We could take all of Paul´s 12 songs, add Hey Jude and Lady Madonna - and have a great Paul-solo album ... but it would not be The Beatles! The White Album has great contributions from Paul, George and even Ringo, and that´s the real value of it.
One interesting way of paring down the track list would be to only include the 16 tracks that included all four Beatles!
Thank you Matt! Sour Milk Sea is amazing...George The Motivational Speaker!
I like the idea posted in the comments about there being two '68 albums - an acoustic one heavily featuring the Esher acoustic numbers released in early summer, and another angrier album released late fall. Both could have lead off with a version of Revolution: the acoustic one with Revolution 1 (perhaps augmented by Rev 9 such as Take 20) and the second with the Hey Jude B-side. Also, imagine what could have been had John and Paul give George more space on these. Sour Milk Sea? Yes! Not Guilty? Yes! Circles? No, thanks.
Circles is a rough one. His most dreary of all time! Yes, there are so many good directions one can go with the White Album era songs, it's staggering. Thanks for the comment.
So many great songs left out. Would definitely have happiness is a warm gun, and would have good night miles ahead of don't pass me by.
This is my favorite episode -- your liner notes even used the same type of lingo they used back then (I used to read the liner notes on my mom's LPs when I was bored)
Very interesting - Love the history ! Nice angels lp & bill Cosby album on display. That wonderfulness album is one of my first records and takes me back to my childhood. Happy New Year 2021
I love the James Bond soundtrack albums in the background. I had all of those!
Thank you! In the future I will be doing a video on those as well, so stay tuned!
That would be cool to listen . Thank you for your information.
Great album Matt. Fantastic! Very cool...
I love your channel Matt! I wish I could add your gorgeous record sleeve design to my collection 😍
The Beatles. You never mess with perfection. The Beatles are the greatest band ever. Nuff Said.
Most of their songs was perfection - but they way it was being packaged and sold was sometimes lame.
Especially the albums in the US.
Your mock album artwork is amazing! Down to the liner notes its spot on. Great job! Interesting track picks, but makes sense with the parameters you laid down. Great video.
Much thanks! More to come.
Very interesting - thank you.
The packaging is awesome. Great choice of images and the liner notes are period.
Much thanks! i have a few more _Albums That Never Were_ in the works so stay tuned!
I love how are you dead the album that never were it’s really good not just on the album covers but the Tracklistings himself. Thank you so much Matt are doing what you do.
This is madly brilliant! :-)
And the back cover art work, with members of the band smoking... :-)
fantastic series , at last someone talking about the fab four in a proper manner
Hypothetical Beatles albums. You know, if you put together all the Beatles songs that Ringo sang lead on, you'd have a pretty good album there, too.
Woa. I just noticed that you eliminated Happiness Is A Warm Gun.
One of my favourites from the white album was Happiness is a warm gun
I made my own 14 track white album but chose the songs I loved and not necessarily what would have been most commercial. A fun listen, I love this series!
(Side A)
1. Mother Nature’s Son
2. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
3. Savoy Truffle
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. Helter Skelter
6. I Will
7. Sexy Sadie
(Side B)
8. Glass Onion
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10. Martha My Dear
11. I’m So Tired
12. Blackbird
13. Don’t Pass Me By
14. Julia
Thanks for watching. Yes, I love doing these - especially the covers. Every track listing presented is different. I love that no two are alike! Your's is interesting to me because of the unique openers for each side. Thanks for the comment!
Omitting Helter Skelter would have changed history and the bizarre mystique of the album.
Yeah,no 'Piggies' either so Manson would have to blame something else for his bloody rampage
@@normandavidtidiman9918 Maybe he would have been influenced by Iron Butterfly, or the Moody Blues, instead.
Absolutely! Can't leave that off.
I did in fact think the White album should've been a single disc, when I first came to it. (I don't think that now!) The tracks I'd've chosen then might've been: Obla-di Obla-da, Blackbird, Piggies, Don't Pass Me By, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, I Will, Julia, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1, Savoy Truffle, Cry Baby Cry. Would that all fit? But now I'm glad I don't have to narrow it down. I love every bit of it!
Sour Milk Sea Inspired Choice!!! bravo Matt👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
if its a single disc then rev #9 goes out the window so forget it. i have always enjoyed it. it hang over the collection like a cloud. the whole fourth side centers on it -leading into it and leading away from it. i'm super glad they used it because if the beatles can do something that experimental... why can't other bands... but no one did. so... whatever. i love it.
great vid.
Kudos for remembering Sour Milk Sea. In my eyes, the first modern Motivation/Self-Help song, if that's an honor.
With more time, SMS could have been wonderful.
Mind you, even though it was a year out of date, It's All Too Much would provably have fitted in, too.
I appreciate the love for Sour Milk Sea! Ditto It's All Too Much. Thanks for watching.
You should do one on the differences between the US and UK versions of each album.
Plus you should do one on foreign versions of Beatles LPs that weren't released here or albums with alternate covers
Great idea....
In Australia the albums were released on Parlophone, so the content was the same as the UK, but they had an alternate sleeve for 'With the Beatles' -- which the band hated -- they saw it when they toured Oz in '64. And 'Beatles For Sale' -- it was yellow, with live shots of them playing at Melbourne's Festival Hall. It looked like it should've been a live album. Quite bizarre.
Damn, you might have just broken the code with this playlist. I might tweak a couple of side 2 numbers but this is a mighty fine listen. Really enjoying the channel, Matt, thanks for all you do!🙏🏼
Thanks for the warm comment. Plenty more to come!
We are no longer under the law of sin and death. Announcer I don't know your name but you are doing a great job and I am sure all these Beatles people truly appreciate your vids. They're so interesting. Thank you so much.
Much thanks, JBlue!
I can't imagine The White Album as a single disc. In fact, my White Album playlist ADDS Hey Jude, Not Guilty and the Sour Milk Sea edit that Matt plays.
Fun Chanel your added
"The Sgt Pepper myth is bigger but the White Album is far superior"- John Lennon
Why don’t we do it in the road has to be there. Lennon loved it
Ha, you cheeky bastard !
Love the Art design and Great selection! mine has 8 songs per side
Side One:
1. Birthday
2. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
3. Honey Pie
4. Savoy Truffle
5. Blackbird
6. Don´t Pass Me By
7. Martha My Dear
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
Side Two:
1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Cry Baby Cry
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6. Sexy Sadie
7. Helter Skelter / Revolution 9 (edited)
8. GoodNight
regards!!!
Side A:
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Ob-la-De Ob-la-Da
4. I'm so Tired
5. Revolution
6. Hey Jude
Side b:
7. Across the Universe
8. All Together Now
9. Hey Bulldog
10: Goodnight (acoustic version)
11. While my Guitar gently weeps (acoustic Esher version)
12. Blackbird
13. Helter Skelter (the end rift part cut out)
songs which were extremely difficult to cut: Martha my Dear, Sexie Sadie, Goodbye, World without Love, Sour Milk Sea, Don't pass me by
I love the white album♥️
Definitely I'd include Savoy Truffle in a single album.
Totally awesome! I have a single white playlist on my phone, my objective was to halve the number of trax 15 and field the strongest team possible. I share some of your choices but trax I could not exclude are Happiness is a warm gun, Yer Blues, Why don't we do it in the road & Savoy Truffle and I'm so Tired. The single I would choose would be the double George: While my guitar gently weeps BW Savoy Truffle.
...Great...again. I really dig your style, probably we are are same age...and thanks for reminding me of Sour milk sea..what a great song.. =)
I love Sour Milk Sea and I snuck it on here even though most disagree about its merits.
Here's my single disc, using just the songs on the album. John & Paul get 5 each, George gets 3, Ringo 1. I went with mostly commercial songs on side 1 and what I think are the standout tracks. John, Paul and George each get a rocker and a ballad on side 2. You could substitute 'Julia' for 'Cry Baby Cry' as I hated to lose that song.
1. Back in the USSR 8. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Dear Prudence 9. Savoy Truffle
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 10. I'm So Tired
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 11. Mother Nature's Son
5. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 12. Cry Baby Cry
6. Don't Pass Me By 13. Helter Skelter
7. Blackbird 14. Long Long Long
This was a slow grower for me, I think it’s perfect as is now.
I would've added most of your line up on there, but it would go like this with me;
Side One:
1.Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-la-idi-Ob-la-da
5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
8. Martha My Dear
9. I'm So Tired
10. Blackbird
11. Piggies
12. Rocky Raccoon
13. Don't Pass Me By
14. Why Don't We Do In The Road?
15. I Will
16. Julia
Side Two:
1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, long
8. Revolution 1
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Not Guilty
13. Revolution
14. Hey Jude
To me, there would be two versions of Revolution, Revolution 1 would've been the eye opener into how they recorded it and then near end the very uptempo raspberry beat Revolution and accompanying it and closing out the album iconic no. 1 hit for them in '68 "Hey Jude." leading them off into the Get Back and Let It Be projects.
I just found this post. What a great exercise. As I was watching what you did and why I was impressed with the seriousness of thought you put into this. I love the album artwork and verbiage. Also having three solos in a row was a great choice.
I don’t know what life would have been like without having Rocky Raccoon and Piggies. When I was in 7th grade I went to Girl Scout Camp and they were staging a Learning Trail that had different stops where the girls would learn something new. I asked if I could teach a song. The leaders trusted me to choose and teach a song. I chose Piggies. The girls loved it and the counselors were horrified. 😆 I didn’t think damn was a swear word.
I must think about this and see what angle I would use and then sift through the songs to see what would be appropriate.
Your Piggies story is a good one! Thanks for the comment, Becky!
This is my version of a single LP. I'm still calling it "The Beatles". I almost had "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" (rock version) on it, but remembered that they still fancied A-side or double A-side singles back then (like "She Loves You" or Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane") so I left those off to fulfill that status:
1 Back in the U.S.S.R.
2 Dear Prudence
3 Glass Onion
4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6 Helter Skelter
7 Sexy Sadie
Side B)
8 Piggies
9 I'm So Tired
10 Blackbird
11 Don't Pass Me By
12 I Will
13 Julia
14 Birthday
You hit the biggies! Nice tracklisting.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks! Since I'm new here, I'll list a "what if" album I compiled six years ago, where John had not been assassinated and they reunited briefly in the mid-to-late nineties. I call this work "Pie in the Sky" (in homage to the legend of the man on the flaming pie). Many of these tracks are outtakes, a B-side or two - including one from the Traveling Wilburys - the three anthology related tunes, and several pieces that were also finished off by others doing their best instrumental impersonations:
Free as a Bird - John
This Loving Game - Paul
Nowhere to Go - George
Don't be Cruel - Ringo
Help Me to Help Myself - John
1882 - Paul
Maxine - George (still with Petty's count-off)
Brian's Blues - John
Cosmically Conscious - Paul
I Don't Want to Do it - George
Now and Then - John
Yvonne - Paul
Horse to the Water - George
Real Love - John
This is one fantasy album that, were it on vinyl, I would have worn out the groove!
The main issue I have with this list is there are 14 songs on it.
Capitol Records was infamous for putting only 11 or 12 songs on albums.
So, from a royalty aspect, which Capitol followed, there are too many songs.
And I would also include one of John’s songs that had not been used up to that time, “Hey Bulldog”
I do like the cover 👍🏼
You're right about the 12 tracks but I had a hard time getting it down to 14! Hey Bulldog would have been a good addition.
Capitol Records stopped doing that in '67 with Sgt. Pepper's.
Just herd about you tonight, watched several of your clips🤙 then this, so that’s the end for me, thanks this was ridiculous imho
Hi -- just found your post and enjoyed your take on the White album --- I put together a Beatles 68 album that has 6 tracks on side one and 8 tracks on side 2 to go with the 68 theme -- Side 1
Revolution 4.15
Dear Prudence 3.56
Cry Baby Cry 3.02
Yer Blues 4.01
Back in the USSR 2.43
While my guitar gently Weeps 4.45
Total Length: 22 minutes 42 seconds
Side 2
Birthday 2.42
Glass Onion 2.18
Blackbird 2.18
Savoy Truffle 2.54
Sexy Sadie 3.15
Martha My Dear 2.28
Helter Skelter 4.30
Happiness is a Warm Gun 2.47
Total Length: 23 minutes 12 seconds
Thank you for taking the time to put the side lengths on! Great list!
Hey Matt, at the 1965 Sam Houston Coliseum afternoon show, in 1965, when introducting Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Lennon brings up the idea of "Beatles 1980" , would be cool to have that as an album that never was. Whenever I am coloring a video, I always tune into your channel, great content!
Thank you!
Extremely interesting.
Loved this! Very valiant attempt. And that cover mock up...superb! The only caveat I have with it is that the drunks at Capitol would never have crammed seven tracks per side!
You're right - it should really be 12 songs. Capitol would never have given us that much value for a buck. Thanks for the comment, Paul!
@@popgoesthe60s52 It's not just 7 tracks per side, it's a 7 track side two that includes Hey Jude, a track that's about three songs long by itself! I know this is blasphemous, but you know as well as I do that it's true: the ONLY WAY Capitol would have allowed Hey Jude on an album they compiled is if they either made it the closer of a four song album side or else if they faded out Hey Jude at about 3:35.
@@popgoesthe60s52 I doubt that Capitol would have knocked off two tracks after taking Sergeant Pepper with no changes. By 1968 there was enough music press to raise an uproar if Capitol went back to editing what the Beatles submitted. The Beatles and George Martin were already furious with Capitol for revising their work, and the new US rock journals would have had a field day crucifying 'the man.'
Hey Matt, I love listening to your channel. The ol' single White Album is a great conversation piece. I have done one before myself and burned it to CD lol. However, I do have to say coming from the Capitol angle would have been unlikely at that time. The Beatles had already demanded that Capitol release the albums as provided by then. And given they released singles independently from albums I haven't included them. I've gone with what was available at the time. The remaining songs and extras, such as Sour Milk Sea and Not Guilty, would have filled up a second album in any case, pretty much, or at least the 'next' album! Anyways, thanks for your work. Here's my list :).
1
Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird
Cry Baby Cry
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (that wouldn't have got left off, it's a great song anyway)
Happiness is a Warm Gun
2
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Don't Pass Me By (the Ringo song)
Revolution 1 (merged with Take 20, John should have gone with his first instinct here)
Yer Blues
Thanks for the list, Graham - much appreciated.
I like the concept of an album compiled by Capitol executives. Brilliant!
I've participated in this topic in many chat rooms and I don't think I've seen two people agree on what to include or leave out. And that's just with the tracks that actually appeared on the White Album. If you include passed over tracks and and 1968 releases - oh my!
I like your choices or, ah-hum, Capitol Records' choices. It would have been a HUGE selling album.
Thank you Dale! I took the pressure off myself, letting the Capitol execs take the blame for any of my selections!
I absolutely love the white album and being one of the biggest Beatles fans ever who is unbiased and experimental no longer at that type of thing I’m so glad that the Beatles White album was not a single album because that would take away from the brilliance of all the different styles all in one album.
As per your request, here's how I've answered this question for about 30 years of on-line discussions:
I keep in mind that YELLOW SUBMARINE was right around the corner, and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT and HELP! (the UK versions) both had one side of soundtrack songs and one side of others. With that in mind, I'd have the first two sides of The White Album released just as they were, but without "Wild Honey Pie," which makes no sense without Side 4's "Honey Pie." I'd then put Side 3 on side two of YELLOW SUBMARINE, and give John and Yoko "Revolution 9" for LIFE WITH THE LIONS (it'd be more at home there, and better than "Radio Play.") That leaves five tracks, plus "Wild Honey Pie" to deal with. "Savoy Truffle/Good Night" could be a single released around November, 1968, giving George his first lead vocal on a UK A-side (and Ringo another one, after "Yellow Submarine"), shelve "Revolution 1" and "Wild Honey Pie" for the ANTHOLOGY, and then decide of "Cry Baby Cry" and "Honey Pie" could be another single from the sessions or if those two could be used in the GET BACK/LET IT BE project. Obviously, "Honey Pie" couldn't be dressed up with the horns for that project.
However one works it out, remembering side 2 of YELLOW SUBMARINE is available for 6-7 tracks makes the exercise easier, methinks.
I always felt there were two ways to reduce the White Album to a single disk: 1) keep the songs in the original sequence, but remove the ones you don’t want, and 2) remove the unwanted tracks and re-sequence the remaining tracks into a new order. That would be a fun exercise.
But the White Album’s biggest curse is also its greatest blessing: it’s a wonderful kaleidoscope of moods and styles. Yes, there’s some junk, but those tracks only add to the overall atmosphere. Like the Beatles themselves, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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I've played the 'Make one really good single album out of the White Album' since I was a teenager. Somehow it never quite seems to work though.
I can't improve by reduction either. I get more enjoyment out of doing the artwork! Thanks for the comment.
BACK IN THE NEW TESTAMENT by APOLOGETIX, TAKE JUDE by APOLOGETIX, REVELATION by APOLOGETIX,3 great Beatle parodies
Putting side 1 and making side 3 side 2 would be a super single album.
I like your graphics...
Your 68 LP would have been a captivating work. A sort of glamorous take of the Beatles. Engaging. Charming.
I feel the problem with The Beatles LP is it should and could have been a three album set.
With Not Gulty, Gimme Some Truth with those John and Paul harmonies and all the other songs we know.
And to think critics roasted the album when it came out.
The beauty of the White Album is a new direction and a maturity.
What does Giles Martin say at 4:40? Something about those now writing books on their times with the Beatles having, at the time, completely dumped on (avoided working on?) a Beatles session??? Thanks.
I love the white album the way it is, changing it would be sacrilege.
Having lived through it, I can only say, the double album with its white cover, inserts etc was great fun. You really had to spend time with it to get to know your favorites. I think some songs like Birthday, Don’t pass me by, Rocky Raccoon, or helter skelter weren’t up to par for Beatles songs and would’ve been happy to exchange them for others in their catalog.
I love your picks. I would buy that album! If I was picking? I am one of those who loves the "White album" just as it is. But if I HAD TOO, I would change it to look like this....
Side 1
1. Revolution
2. Glass Onion
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Yer Blues
5. Helter Skelter
6. Savoy Truffle
7. Birthday
Side 2
1. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
2. Back in the U.S.S.R.
3. Dear Prudence
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
5. Martha My Dear
6. I'm So Tired
7. Don't Pass Me By
And to those who will say no "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "I Will", "Julia"...... I GET IT!! That is why I started off by saying "I am one of those who loves the White album just as it is. It was so hard to boil it down to 14 tracks. I think "Don't Pass Me By" is OK, not a personal favorite. But I had to give Ringo at least one song!
Very interesting idea , that record jacket & your proposed vinyl would have been a highly collectible bootleg ...
My rules: one Ringo song, two George songs, and the rest split evenly +/-1 song between John and Paul, the entire playlist should not exceed 47:30. (I didn't include Revolution 1 as Revolution was released as a single.)
1 Back in the USSR
2 Dear Prudence
3 Glass Onion
4 Wild Honey Pie
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6 Happiness is a Warm Gun
7 I'm So Tired
8 Blackbird
9 Don't Pass Me By
10 I Will
11 Julia
12 Birthday
13 Yer Blues
14 Mother Nature's Son
15 Helter Skelter
16 Long Long Long
You packed a lot into this comp - nicely done!
Very close to what I would choose myself.
But "Wild Honey Pie" does not belong in this company.
If you had managed to squeeze in "Sexy Sadie" instead it would be close to perfection.
Minus Dont pass me by, which imo is one of the worst songs in the package
@@tomrogerlilleby2890 Just added Wild Honey Pie as I had time for filler.
@@sejrec56 I greatly prefer Don't Pass Me By to Good Night. If you're going to include a Ringo song, Don't Pass Me By seems to be the obvious choice.
A
1. Dear Prudence
2. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide
4. Sexy Sadie
5. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
6. Don't Pass Me By
7. Blackbird
B
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
9. Helter Skelter
10. I'm So Tired
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Julia
13. Long Long Long
14. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Sticking with album tracks only... what I think are the best songs on the album. Hard ones to cut were Yer Blues, Glass Onion, and Rocky Raccoon.
I’d be happy with side 1 and side 3 being the single LP.
A 3 lp/ 6 sided edition would be great. Using the leftover/not used tracks plus Hey Bulldog, All Together Now, All Too Much (the 8 + minute Version) and Only a Northern Song, Lady Madonna and The Inner Light, too.
I enjoy The White Album as a double LP. The only track subs I’d make would be Lady Madonna for Don’t Pass Me By, and Hey Jude for Revolution #9......but then we’d have been deprived of 2 great singles........
I'm including "Lady Madonna" and "Roccy Racoon" to replace sour milk and Martha. Gotta have Ringo on there right, nope I'm replacing "don't pass me by" by with "Yer Blues" and finally "cry baby cry" gets cut in favor of "Happiness is a warm gun". And as much as I appreciate your fine graphics, It stays white. Hehe thanks brother great channel.
I just started listening to a book, "Revolver" by Richard Rodriguez, which states that when the Beatles signed a new contract with EMI in January 1967, not only did they get a substantial raise, but the Beatles also demanded - and received - a guarantee from Capitol USA that they would put out all future releases with all the tracks and in the order submitted. Which is to say that if the Beatles once again put 14 tracks on this hypothetical album, then 14 tracks it would be. Or 15 or 16?
My sentiments exactly! While the “White Album” will always be considered a “classic late 60s” Rock album there are “bits” that could have been cut out. Going for a time period “Capitol” look may have been a good idea after all. We were beginning to lose the Beatles as a group and a commercial look may have drawn new younger fans to them. For the older fans it would have been “business as usual” and quite a “comfortable” fit. The stark cover of the “White Album” was confusing to say the least. “Hey Jude” would have been a proper closer. Great work, thanks!
Much thanks, Scott!
Man I loved this! Thanks Matt, the 'Beatles 68' concept is wild, and the cover is even wilder! And love the reference to 'drunken Capital executives' knowing what is best for mature listeners......hmmm..... Don't know what Dave Dexter Jr would be doing in '68, probably trying to drench everything in more echo..! 'Sour Milk Sea' was a real surprise, I have not heard it like this and I got hooked immediately. Starkey's 'Don't pass me by' - production wise I think it could have sounded so much better - de speed the whole song , add much more bass , drop the violins and replace with a pedal steel, and have all 4 Beatles singing the chorus like something out of Bonanza - that's my production rant.....(Oh, and also change the 'you were in a car crash, and you lost your hair' lyric, that is just shockinginly awful). Your selection is great, I'd go with that, but if any room could be found for 'Savoy Truffle', YES please! (but it's too compressed sadly...)
I love the idea of steel guitars on Don't Pass Me By! There are so many possibilities for a single disc, which is why I tried this "Capitol/commercial concept." Thanks for the comment!