the pure essence of an album

rocky racoon over honey pie ? (and how come wild honey pie is still in here !?)

HUNNEH PAAAAAH!

i guess it must have been a drugged studio jam...but why keep it on the album !!

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2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
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5. Wild Honey Pie
6. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
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21. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
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26. Honey Pie
27. Savoy Truffle
28. Cry Baby Cry
29. Revolution 9
30. Good Night

Blackbird can go, Mother Nature's Son can stay. For now.

It's funny! Funnier than Rocky Raccoon anyway. Not as funny as Good Night tho (not as sweet either).

xpost awww I was hopinf Blackbird would make it through to the last few.

I have heard no albums ever!

"Don't Pass Me By" - it's lucky Ringo happened to be one of the Beatles

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8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
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28. Cry Baby Cry
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30. Good Night

I'm going to use my second cos-it's-a-double-album pick to get rid of "Helter Skelter", because i) I don't like it, and ii) it annoys me when people use it as a way of demonstrating the Beatles' (or McCartney's) versatility when it sounds so obviously strained.

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7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
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28. Cry Baby Cry
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"blackbird" and "julia" gone before "don't pass me by" and "wild honey pie" (just to name these weak ones...) !!?? wtf !

huh ? so we establish that we're allowed two shots for double albums ?
i'm gonna keep mine for an emergency shoot...

I can't stand Honey Pie. What is the point?

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Maybe there should be a "Beatles pastiches - C/D" thread, I love them! (Though I suppose Lennon's blues dirges are pastiches of a sort too).

It's almost honed down to a decent album now. If I'm allowed a second shot on double album grounds, I'm killing Piggies - sub-Animal Farm silliness.

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Also, the essence of this album is clearly 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun'.

Back in the U.S.S.R has to die. i'm surprised it wasnt the first, even before honey pie. gahd. also, I will is the essence.

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sorry guys...

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OK, knock out Wild Honey Pie, Bungalow Bill and While My Guitar (too overwrought) and you've got the Beatles' best-ever album.

There's at least one more song lingering I think is pretty much atrocious.

never understood why Savoy Truffle isn't more hated

In fact there's only four songs there I really like! This thread has really demonstrated to me that the goofy stuff is the only reason I enjoy the white album, pretty much.

Goodbye, Birthday

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get rid of "mother nature's son"
i think mccartney's down to one

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How could Wild Honey Pie outlast Sexy Sadie? That's insanity.

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this album is getting so good.

Adios, "Savoy Truffle," you're too meta for your own good. (Or, rather, you don't justify your meta with a good melody/interesting arrangement.)

"I Will," you survive this round, but if I had my druthers...

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"Savoy Truffle", "Glass Onion" and "Rocky Raccoon" are all in their own ways great candidates for the ESSENCE of this album, viz. hugely talented songwriters rapidly disappearing up their own arses.

Oh no, did I confuse "Savoy Truffle" with "Glass Onion"? Uh oh. At any rate, it's not a very good song, and I do still like this album a lot, so I think its essence would be a good song. I'd be with you on "Rocky Racoon" although I kinda hope it ends up being "Good Night."

You will not get your wish. The song always kinda bugged me.

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i wonder why bungalow bill and monkey are still here... i don't really like the album in the state it is now...

I always hated the CHUGGING on Glass Onion.

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"Monkey" is great! It's about the only one of the album's 'freakout' tracks which is any fun.

well, it's fun but i don't consider it an "essential" track of the album. more like one of the ok ones considering the white album concept. but i have to say i dislike "bungalow" much more !

shit. i was hoping glass onion would be one of the last three.

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peace BB

I cut "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" -- it's a fine and clearly classic song, but speaks to me much more of the aesthetic/vision of a single Beatle, in opposition to the band's essence. Some of the other remaining solo tracks have more of the whimsy and yes kindness that typifies The Beatles (for me).

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im surprised glass onion didnt last longer. its chugging is surely pretty good.

It's such fan-baiting wank though!

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Thank God BB is gone. I took out the schmaltzy crap from Harrison (possibly ruined for me by my high school principal's off-key rendition).

Ha! We wacked the same song. Clearly a sign of critical genius!

If "Revolution 9" can't win, I'll be buggered if I'm letting "Rev 1" do it.

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Great song but not essence of the album : “Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey”
BLAM!

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hum...we're getting to a pretty tight EP... but one seems a bit out of place amongst the "essential" (plus there are too many lennon trax left)...and I still have my second shot so... now you can cry...

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This is a baggy album with a fair amount of self-indulgent experimentalism. That makes it in essence more of a John album than a Paul album. Ipso facto, I Will goes.

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ok - WE ALL KNOW WHICH ONE IS GOING TO WIN

yeah, but i almost want to post with the really essential track removed, just to see what people do. it's the same feeling i have that i might just throw my glasses off a bridge. it'd be crazy, to my detriment, and irrational. but i kinda want to.

I don't even think it's a good track, I think it's laboured and overwrought, but it does probably sum the record up. Anyway I've had my two votes.

funny i just counted there are more lennon trax than macca's on the album. always thought it was the other way round as lennon was not in a very "productive" period whereas macca was on fire.

of the ones left (and maybe in overall), i much prefer dear prudence to happiness... (just in case we can make the odds wrong !)

whatever - its a great song; it is laboured and overwrought, but it also rules in 35 different ways. and the breeders cover rules.

I've got a vote left, so let's make this clear-cut:

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