The White Album - Beatles Review

The Beatles (White Album)

Being totally dissalusioned with the music industry from time to time convinces me to back-track to "discover" some of the artists that have gone before.

Although the Beatles are nothing new to a majority of the population, I have recently got a dash of Beatlemania, beginning with the John Lennon broadway musical (admittedly not really about the Beatles themselves, but showcasing the works of a former beatle is a good start), progressing to a few beatles songs, to the white album, to owning every album post Help!!!

Everyone knows the history of the Beatles so im not going to go into that too much, but I will try to focus on the album itself since thats what this update is all about.

Never before or since has an album touched upon as many genres as the White Album, as it bounces endlessly from Hard Rock, to Country, to old fashioned shit that your Grandparents might have enjoyed to little ditty pop songs to incomprehensible Avant-Garde claptrack (that I actually enjoy).

Each member of the Beatles was at their creative peak in this album (in my opinion anyway), probably in some intergroup plan for supremacy. You could imagine John thinking to himself

"Fuck you McCartney, Im gonna write a song that you cant even understand, with no bass!"

and McCartney hearing said song would retort (to himself)

"Fuck you Lennon, I'm going to write a song that sounds like it was written in 3 minutes by a 13 year old that needed to hand in some lyrics for music class or he would have got his ass kicked by his music teacher"

and then Harrison saying to himself

"I like happiness and flowers and that sort of thing, yeah, so Im going to write a song about chocolates"

and then Ringo saying

"I like trains, and I think I want to be the voice of some kids show later on.. yeah.. oh you want me to play the drums? Nah i think im gonna quit the beatles.. you can play the drums Paul, you are better than me anyway"

then George would say

"Let's give Ringo some flowers and Choccies when he comes back, because I think he would like flowers"

But in the end, although the style is wiggity-wack, it just totally works, it maybe could do with a few songs being cut from it (Like why cant we do it on the road, ive written better lyrics than that in my sleep) but overall its top shelf. I give it 4 thumbs up