attention, beatles fans

Well, your face sucks!

Ok, I've never seen your face, but Ob La Di is good times.

I think most of the songs do something for me, although "Cry Baby Cry" and "Don't Pass Me By" are average at best.

"Revolution 9" is useless...

 

I also redid the order a bit, just for fun. Came up with 17 songs of the 30 songs, although I could have probably took four or five more off if necessary.

1. Glass Onion
2. Helter Skelter
3. Back in the U.S.S.R.
4. Dear Prudence
5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Happiness is a Warm Gun
8. Blackbird
9. I'm So Tired
10. Revolution 1
11. Sexy Sadie
12. Julia
13. Birthday
14. Honey Pie (guilty pleasure)
15. Cry Baby Cry
16. Mother Nature's Son
17. Good Night

 

Considering my avatar and its caption, I feel obligated to post on this thread. 8)

In order from the album:
1) Back in the U.S.S.R.
2) Dear Prudence
3) Glass Onion
4) Happiness is a Warm Gun
5) I'm So Tired
6) Piggies
7) I Will
8) Julia

9) Birthday
10) Yer Blues
11) Helter Skelter
12) Savoy Truffle
13) Revolution 9
14) Hey Jude (bonus track)
15) Revolution-electric version (bonus track)

 

Definitely. Revolution 9 is the cap to a natural progression from "Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver, to "Carnival of Light" during the Pepper-era sessions. At least, we can ASSUME that, since "Carnival" is still unreleased. Dammit.

 

I'd rather listen to "Love Me Do" than "Revolution 9."

But I'm also the guy who believes they peaked in 1963-64. Not that they didn't have good moments afterward, I just like the early stuff best.

 

so, you're saying you're a red album guy?

 

Can't resist a thread like this. I'd also scramble the order a bit ...

SIDE ONE
1. Revolution 1 (electric version)
2. Blackbird
3. Savoy Truffle (as a fellow sweet-tooth, it's a guilty pleasure)
4. Back in the USSR
5. Happiness is a Warm Gun
6. Julia

SIDE TWO
1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Long, Long, Long
5. Glass Onion
6. Birthday
7. Good Night (thanks, Ringo)

"I'm So Tired" and "I Will" are tough to leave off, but I don't think anything more could have been crammed on two sides of vinyl.

And "Revolution No. 9" was a worthwhile experiment for John to try ... it certainly beats "Martha My Dear" and "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?"

 

Very definitely. Thanks for understanding.

 

Ah, the beauty of programmable CD players.

(Good point earlier on vinyl.)

I agree that Revolution 9 was crap and nothing more than double-album filler. But you gotta remember the Beatles were putting out an album every 9 to 12 months. Two separate albums would've been overkill with Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, and Let It Be still in the pipeline over the next year or two.

 

I wouldn't say they had anything in the pipeline . . .

Yellow Submarine was four songs that were basically outtakes, and a bunch of orchestral mediocrity from the movie.

Let It Be was an attempt to "Get Back" to being a band, Paul saying "I'm a jerk, but let's be friends!" Much of it written and worked out in studio.

Abbey Road was a final burst of creativity after Let It Be/Get Back failed.

 

Also remember they hadn't had a proper "album" since Pepper over a year prior. Magical Mystery Tour was an EP in England, and they went to India and wrote dozens of songs. If they had included everything they had in the pipeline, they could have done a triple-album easily.

 

The White Album -- To Each His Own:

Side 1:
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
The Continiuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
Julia

Side 2:
Yer Blues
Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)
Sexy Sadie
Cry Baby Cry
What's the New Mary Jane
Revolution (live vocal take from David Frost Show)

Side 3:
Back In The U.S.S.R.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
Martha My Dear
Blackbird
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
I Will

Side 4
Birthday
Mother Nature's Son
Jubilee/Junk
Helter Skelter
Honey Pie
Hey Jude

Side 5
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Piggies
Don't Pass Me By
Something
Isn't It A Pity

Side 6
Savoy Truffle
Sour Milk Sea
Not Guilty
Circles
Good Night