Post Your One Disc White Album

[super nintendo chalmers]

Just did one for the commute. Clocks in at just under an hour.

A.
Prudence
Glass Onion
Weeps
Gun
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Don't Pass Me By
Do It in the Road
Julia

B
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Me and My Monkey
Helter Skelter
Long Long Long
Savoy
Cry Baby Cry
9

[Norah]

no

[zeb]

I tried to get people into this a while back but everyone wants to pretend they're a purist or something equally snobbish.

[zeb]

Plus: Where the hell is USSR, man?

[Lament]

Monday Morning
Warm Ways
Blue Letter
Rhiannon
Over My Head
Crystal

Say You Love Me
Landslide
World Turning
Sugar Daddy
I'm So Afraid

[mastaflatch]

well, if the idea was brought differently like, say, "post your top 20 or so favorites from the white album" i might comply but a One Disc White Album is another story in which i prefer not taking part. when a singled out song from it on the radio or elsewhere ends, i'm waiting for the next one to begin. the band's longest studio session took place when they made the track order to this and i think that the flow of the album is a work of art unto itself.

[McParadigm]

no

[super nintendo chalmers]

Oh jesus you nerds are touchy. Theres so much fat that can be trimmed from this record. It fun (to me, at least) to see what everyone keeps and what everyone tosses. Have fun listening to Obi-Di, fuckwads.

peace and love. peace and love.

Anyway, this is where I got the idea from orginally. Rick Moody (dude who wrote garden state has a really cool essay about Magnetic Fields 69 love songs. (http://www.believermag.com/issues/20030 ... icle_moody)

What about all those guys, and they are mainly guys, who have sat around winnowing The White Album down to a single disc? Well, first you get rid of “Revolution 9,” because it’s too long and too abstract, and then you get rid of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” despite the fact that one admires McCartney more as one grows older; out with “Bungalow Bill,” out with “Honey Pie,” “Martha My Dear,” because it’s about a dog, etc. Before long, you are left with a record that has on it “Dear Prudence,” “Julia,” “Happiness Is a Warm Gun,” “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Helter Skelter,” “Birthday,” “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey),” “Cry Baby Cry,” “Yer Blues,” and so forth. In short, you’ve got an unbelievably great rock and roll album. Does it do the Beatles a disservice? On the contrary. It indicates the bounty of material from which to choose. This is how some people pass an afternoon.

[Alex]

tracking capers and getting swayed

[mastaflatch]

Oh you nerds are. Theres fat that be this record. It fun (to least) see what keeps what everyone. Have to Obi-Di, fuckwads.

peace and. peace.

this post is clearly better that way.

[Lament]

I'll take the bait, SNC. Bear in mind, I don't consider myself a Beatles fan...

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey
Savoy Truffle
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Sexy Sadie
Dear Prudence
Yer Blues
I'm So Tired
Glass Onion
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Julia

[matt reeder]

I tried to get people into this a while back but everyone wants to pretend they're a purist or something equally snobbish.

Sorry friend, but this thread is heresy. There are definitely songs on the White Album that I don't really dig, but I wouldn't cut a single one of them.

[Gods' Die]

Shut the fuck up with leaving Revolution 9 on there...that's ridiculous.

[super nintendo chalmers]

Shut the fuck up with leaving Revolution 9 on there...that's ridiculous.

My friend just said the same thing. But yeah, I'm not that big a Beatles fan myself.

[Gods' Die]

First pass definites:
USSR
Prudence
Guitar Gently Weeps
Warm Gun
Rocky Raccoon
Yer Blues
Sexie Sadie
Helter Skelter
Revolution 1
Cry Baby Cry

Second pass if there's space:
Ob-La-Di
Glass Onion
I'm So Tired
Birthday
Me & My Monkey

[super nintendo chalmers]

It's so good, cause everyone's is different but the end result is the same, a damn good album.

[Mojopin]

I can't do it

[zeb]

The correct answer is:

A.
USSR
Prudence
Onion
Guitar
Gun
Tired
Blackbird

B.
Road
Blues
Son
Sadie
Helter Skelter
Revolution
Cry Baby

[McParadigm]

I can't do it

Don't try. This is a stip-worthy musical idea.

[Gods' Die]

I can't do it

Don't try. This is a stip-worthy musical idea.

It's impossible to strip some songs out of a record that's been around 50 years and has 30 songs on it? It's something I do de facto every time I listen to it by skipping the bloat tracks.