THE BEATLES (“THE WHITE ALBUM”)
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THE BEATLES (“THE WHITE ALBUM”)
The Beatles, also known as "The White Album", is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's previous LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although no singles were issued from The Beatles in Britain and the United States, the songs "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a single in August 1968. The album's songs range in style from British blues and ska to tracks influenced by Chuck Berry and by Karlheinz Stockhausen.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Whatever else it is or isn’t, it is the best album they have ever released, and only the Beatles are capable of making a better one.
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Pitchfork
2009 - Indulgent, sprawling, overflowing with ideas and excess, the White Album became not only a monument to unbridled creativity but a rock archetype.
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Consequence of Sound
2013 - Each one of these songs, even the occasionally flawed inclusions, add to the charm and cohesion of the expertly-sequenced record, cementing its place among their crowning achievements .
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Pop Matters
2016 - The crabbed, irate, confounding nature of the Beatles' White Album -- a hard dose of reality compared to the fantasy offered the year before -- fit well with the zeitgeist of 1968.
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BBC
2007 - Perhaps The Beatles’ most ambitious studio album.
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The Guardian
2011 - Its flaws make it more interesting. And its sprawl, its endless variety and the Beatles' adventures into their subconscious makes it unknowable.
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Slant Magazine
2004 - The Beatles is rife with collaborative strokes of genius
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Louder Sound
they made an album that mapped out rock’s future
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The Telegraph
2009 - one of the greatest albums ever made
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Neon Modern Times
two albums worth of some of their best material they ever created
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All Music
Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. ... 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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Treblezine
It can be enjoyed as a whole or by its individual tracks, and those tracks are some of the most memorable in the band’s whole career.
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Hokey Blog!
2013 - The Beatles is a magnificent bastard of a double album, a disparate, chaotic masterpiece
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U Discover Music
2017 - Fifty years after its release, The White Album remains a groundbreaking record, lauded my many Beatles fans – though dividing the opinions of some.
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Off the Record
2016 - it is the group’s most eclectic output of music
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Noise11
2018 - The White Album songs still stand up today, a half-century later.
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Andrew Hickey
there are a number of threads connecting the album together – in particular there’s a strong sense of musical nostalgia here
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The Hip Quotient
2014 - I played this album till it was nearly grooveless
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Only Solitaire
Shows that nobody could beat the Fab Four at any genre.
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Mark's Record Reviews
Rules. The album rules. "Helter Skelter" kicks ass, "Mother Nature's Son" and "Dear Prudence" are harrowingly beautiful, "Back In The USSR" is a great rock and roller, and more!
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
Brilliant and amazingly eclectic, but long-winded. You know a record's good when Eric Clapton drops by to deliver a blistering guitar solo
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Adrian's Album Reviews
'The White Album' is entertainment, after all. Well, more than that actually, it’s a collection of songs ranging from the good to the great to the genius and it's an album to live in.
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
this album is a total masterpiece - it may not break much new ground, but it does lift the existing ground to a level never before approached
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Starling
This might very well be the greatest pop album of all time
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Just Another Northern Blog
2013 - However, The Beatles was human. It was filled with failed concepts and half-baked ideas. But it’s through this that, somehow, you feel alot closer to a band whose image often went before them.
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Total Wart Center
2004 - It has music for everyone in it, Rock, Blues, Metal, Acoustic, it has everything.
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