"If I had to rank them I'd go:
1. Rushmore
2. Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. The Darjeeling Limited
6. Bottle Rocket
But I love 'em all. I'd say all six would be in my top 150…"
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Is the White Album Too Long?
The White Album begs the question: WWGMD (What Would George Martin Do)? GM has been quoted as saying if the Beatles would have pared down this double LP to 14 songs it would have been brilliant. I've often sided with him, but I never actually thought it out. So, I decided to make my own, perfect White Album playlist. It wasn't easy. I knocked it down to 20 songs pretty quick, but then . . . things got difficult. I made some cuts which I regret, and I know some of you will ridicule, but it's all in the interest of making a perfect album. Besides (pun intended) just think of the great B-sides that would be available now! Oh, I couldn't get it down to 14, but I did knock it down to 15 songs, 45:15!
Here it is The Beatles: Max Jack Edit:
Side A:
1. "Back in the USSR" (no need to mess with one of the greatest opening tracks of all time)
2. "Revolution" (the superior-- and shorter-- version from Past Masters Vol. 2. The best song on many of my favorite records is in the two-slot, so that's why I bumped it up)
3. "Dear Prudence" (I know, you're not used to the segue, but it works!)
4. "Glass Onion" (no change)
5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Here we go, lots to dispose of here. Good-bye, "Ob-La-Di," "Wild Honey Pie" and "Bungalow Bill"-- these were no brainers)
6. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" (no change)
7. "I'm So Tired" (makes for a better Side ending than "Martha My Dear")
Side B:
1. "Matha My Dear" (nice way to start the second side)
2. "I Will" (the next song on my initial cut, was "Blackbird" but it was too similar to "MMD"-- Luckily, this fits nicely)
3. "Blackbird" (by now you've realized that I've skipped "Piggies" [no biggie, terrible song], "Rocky Racoon" [my very last cut, I love it, but it just doesn't fit!] and "Don't Pass Me By" [sorry, Ringo])
4. "Sexy Sadie" (bye, bye "Birthday" [good riddance], "Yer Blues" [When I bought The Beatles in tenth grade, this was my favorite song-- listening to it now, it seems like a parody], "Mother Nature's Son" [Great song, but in the end not as good as some of the other Paul tracks I've left], "Every Body's Got Something to Hide" [another tough choice])
5. "Long, Long, Long" (a song that I think doesn't get talked about enough-- this is the experimental Beatles that I love, I mean, it doesn't sound like anything else they ever did!)
6. "Helter Skelter" ("LLL" into "HS" is my favorite segue on my version of the album)
7. "Cry Baby Cry" (adios, "Honey Pie" [didn't think twice] and "Savoy Truffle" [good song, but in the end "HS" is sooo much better, and they're pretty similar]
8. "Julia" (Scram "Revolution 9" and "Good Night" [too much like a traditional lullaby, "Julia" is a much prettier song to end the album])
Sacrilege, I know, but this is an album that would rival Revolver for supremacy atop the Beatles discography!
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Comment by tim traynor on February 25, 2012 at 12:26am -
Glad you have "Cry Baby Cry," on there. In the new novel "THE HI-TEC ROCKS," the reason the song was written is in the Prologue. (In Amazon sample chapters) The girl it was written about wouldn't find out about it for 6 years–during an extraordinary night at London's legendary "Revolution Club, "during her birthday celebration–for which THE BEATLES will reunite for a final time. (Doesn't everyone want a happier ending than the one they actually had?)
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Comment by Eric Collins on February 24, 2012 at 10:11am
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This is the one I like...Ringo's drooms sound like cannons!
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Comment by maximum jack on February 24, 2012 at 8:24am -
Here's the version I think is superior from Past Masters Vol. 2:
Here's the White Album version:
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Yer Blue IS a parody...so no wonder it seems like one!
My own White Album cassette from years back was much less surgical. I dumped "Revolution #9" and "Honey Pie," but added the best take I could find of "Not Guilty," which I thought was a pretty cool track from those sessions. I think I also added the upbeat version of "Revolution" with the "ow shoo-be-do-wah's" - is that the one you're talking about? It was pressed onto a single that was given to people who attended a Beatlefest at some point. The end result worked for me.
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Comment by Gail Manchester on February 21, 2012 at 2:50pm -
OK then, baby you can ride in my car!!
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Comment by maximum jack on February 21, 2012 at 12:16pm
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I love, love, love "Rocky Racoon" I remember memorizing the words in 10th grade. Singing RR aloud in a bar or car full of people? Guilty as charged.
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Comment by Gail Manchester on February 19, 2012 at 10:54pm
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Interesting, I have always thought The White Album was a bit of a crazy quilt.
Rocky Racoon, my vote for best song to sing aloud to with bar or car full of people ... Maybe the best explanation that no one ever wants to car pool with me.
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