Your 'perfect' Beatles white album?? What if you had to cut it in half....

Pretend that your job is to edit the white album onto a single disk. You must choose ONLY HALF of the songs to stay and half must go. This means 15 songs, max for this game. Here is my perfect white album...insane editing decisions....no filler. See if you can do this in less than 20 minutes. I couldn't....had a REALLY hard time choosing between "Blackbird" and "Glass Onion". Welcome to hell, my friends....good luck:


Dear Prudence
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Piggies
I Will
Julia
Sexy Sadie
Long, Long, Long
Revolution 1
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry

 

Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
I Will
Julia
Yer Blues
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Revolution I
Savoy Truffle
Cry Baby Cry

 

It took 7 painful minutes...

Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Julia
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Helter Skelter
Savoy Truffle
Goodnight

You've gotta have 2 songs for George, and one for Ringo,
as that's what the fabs would've done on a single lp in '68

ps - left out the 2 Revolution versions 'cause they can't top the single

 

Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
I Will
Julia
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
...Me and My Monkey
Helter Skelter
Cry Baby Cry

 

Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Gently weeps
Martha
Happiness is a warm gun
I'm so tired
I will
Julia
Yer blues
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Revolution
Honey Pie
Savoy truffle
Revolution 9
Good night

Perfect!

 

We did this a while back: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=42516&highlight=white+album+single

I no longer agree with all my choices back then so I'll create a new list...

SIDE A
* While My Guitar Gently Weeps
* I Will
* Sexy Sadie
* Happiness is a Warm Gun
* Martha My Dear
* I'm So Tired
* Blackbird
* Glass Onion

SIDE B
* Yer Blues
* Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
* Savoy Truffle
* Helter Skelter
* Dear Prudence
* Cry Baby Cry
* Can You Take Me Back?

 

I mostly agree with my old choices, but I had to add a 15th song. That was Savoy Truffle. The order of the songs is not perfect. If one song had to be deleted because of time restrictions, I would now scrap Yer Blues.

Back In The USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
Blackbird
Julia
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Sexy Sadie
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Helter Skelter
Revolution
Savoy Truffle

 

Except that you chose 16 songs...

 

Okay, well then consider this thread the remastered version...

 

I may be alone here, but I like the slow version WAY more than the single.

 

Sounds good. My choices needed a remastering.

 

The choice has been made already. Just give me the first disc...

 

And resequenced...

Side 1
1. Revolution 1
2. Mother Nature's Son
3. Back in the USSR
4. Blackbird
5. Dear Prudence
6. Julia
7. Helter Skelter
8. Long, Long, Long

Side 2
1. Birthday
2. I Will
3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4. Savoy Truffle
5. Cry Baby Cry
6. Martha My dear
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Plus, I'dd add a bonus EP of Revolution 9 and Goodnight, but that's not allowed.

 

Too fast, damn it! So "arrivederci" "Yer blues", I prefer Dirty Mac's version anyway. Couldn't believe how many of you folks like to have "Obladi-di" on your version and how few "Revolution Nr. 9", though.

 

You're not alone my friend.

 

aw, don't get me wrong - I DO like all 3 versions -
1. The single
2. Rev 1
3. Rev 9

 

Here's my old post:

Here's my 12 track LP! It goes by the old Beatles formula. One track by George on each side, one track by Ringo per album. The rest is divided by John and Paul!

Side one:
1) "Back In the U.S.S.R."
2) "Birthday"
3) "Dear Prudence"
4) "Yer Blues"
5) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
6) "I Will"

Side Two:
1) "Revolution #1"
2) "Don't Pass Me By"
3) "Mother Nature's Son"
4) "Julia"
5) "Rocky Raccoon"
6) "Savoy Truffle"

Now that we can have 15 songs, I'll revise my list.

Side one:
1) "Back In the U.S.S.R."
2) "Birthday"
3) "Dear Prudence"
4) "Yer Blues"
5) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
6) "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
7) "I Will"

Side Two:
1) "Revolution #1"
2) "Don't Pass Me By"
3) "Mother Nature's Son"
4) "Cry Baby Cry"
5) "Julia"
6) "Rocky Raccoon"
7) "Sexy Sadie
8) "Savoy Truffle"

 

"Revolution #9" is not a "version". Are you kidding? It has nothing to do with the pop song "Revolution", IMO.

 

I couldn't come up with 15 I wanted to keep! Here's my list, not that I love "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" that much, but it seemed like an opener...

SIDE 1
1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
2. Cry Baby Cry
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide...
4. Martha My Dear
5. Savoy Truffle
6. Mother Nature's Son

SIDE 2
1. Dear Prudence
2. I Will
3. I'm So Tired
4. Blackbird
5. Yer Blues
6. Julia

 

Well, here I go:

1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Glass Onion
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. I'm So Tired
6. Blackbird
7. Piggies
8. Don't Pass Me By
9. Birthday
10. Yer Blues
11. Helter Skelter
12. Long Long Long
13. Revolution 1
14. Honey Pie
15. Cry, Baby, Cry

 

Actually it does have some snippets taken from some rough tapes of "Revolution" in it with John singing (or shouting) "Right" and "All Right" a number of times. The songs are related...it's kind of like a crazy relative of Revolution. However, I wouldn't call it a "version of Revolution".

 

This is tough. I find myself giving the axe to a lot of stuff I love. Here's what I have left:

Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Ob La Di Ob La Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Rocky Raccoon
Piggies
Don't Pass Me By
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Julia
Birthday
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long Long Long
Cry Baby Cry

I find it interesting that I picked most of my songs from the first album.

 

This is remarkably easy for me. Since I don't have a nostalgiac connection with the album and find many of the songs to be silly, I'm hard pressed to come up so many I would keep.

Not in any particular order:
1. Back in the USSR
2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (my favorite tune on the album, 2nd favorite all time Beatles tune)
3. Blackbird (love this one)
4. Revolution 1
5. Helter Skelter (for historical significance I suppose)
6. Happiness is a Warm Gun
7. Glass Onion
8. Don't Pass Me By (Ringo!)
9. Dear Prudence
10. I Will
11. Honey Pie (now I'm starting to run out of songs I like)
12. Martha My Dear
13. Yer Blues
14. Mother Nature's Son
15. Good Night

 

I know Ob-La-Di is a trifle, but it makes me smile!

 

15 is the exact number for me. Anything more is nice, but not necessary. Anything less would have forced a song to be pushed to the next album(whatever form that would have taken in this alternate universe). I have no opinions as to sequence...that's the band's job.

1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
5. Martha My Dear
6. I'm So Tired
7. Blackbird
8. I Will
9. Julia
10. Yer Blues
11. Mother Nature's Son
12. Sexy Sadie
13. Helter Skelter
14. Long, Long, Long
15. Revolution 1