Listening to The White Album. Ask me anything.

[coloradodem2005]

[wtmusic]

1. Is "Sexy Sadie" the coolest song ever written?

or is it "Everybody's Got Something To Hide..."

or...

or...

[coloradodem2005]

2. I like "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

or "Helter Skelter".

[wtmusic]

3. hard to choose

the White Album has an amazingingly diverse collection, many of them downright classics...

one exception is "Glass Onion" :thumbsdown: -- strictly filler

[coreystone]

26. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a really great cut from that album!

The demo is so laid back in comparison to the finished, released version. Harrison is outside of London in his "demo" studio. He is using a nylon string guitar (classical) with nothing else. In the demo there is additional verse which is not in the released version. The morning before the Beatles were going to do some work on that track, George and Eric Clapton were riding around London before the session. George was trying to get Clapton to play the main guitar part. Eric was very hesitant because of a respect for the Beatles "space". Eventually, Clapton was greeted with open arms by the rest of the Beatles in the session. The great "crying" guitar part was on that track as a result of the friendship between George and Eric Clapton.

I have always considered that to be one of the top five tracks of that album; I have others!

:-)

[leyton]

21. Not my thread, but...

Yes! I love everything about it.

[coreystone]

28. "Sexy Sadie" is actually about the disappointment of Lennon...

regarding the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. John had seen, in his eyes, that the Maharishi was somewhat of a phony. Musically, it is very fun to play; as the song musically is intertwined in an endless circle.

[wtmusic]

40. and the melody

goes across the chord changes, which are a chromatic bastardization of the old "ice cream" changes

I guess that's why I like it

[coreystone]

44. Me Too! :-) eom

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Take these broken wings and learn to fly....

All your life...


You were only waiting for this moment to arrive.

[New Earth]

5. why not the Black Album?

[coloradodem2005]

6. I'm in a Beatles mood.

[benny05]

7. Why don't we do it in the Road? N/t

[benny05]

8. Humor Aside

My mother always disliked "Why Don't We Do It in the Road". :-)

I preferred the 2nd side, which had:

Martha My Dear (about a dog)
I'm So Tired (blues)
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon (funny)
Don't Pass Me By (one of Ringo's finer moments)
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
I Will (nice love song)
Julia (nice way to remember your mom)

[coreystone]

46. "Blackbird" was said to have been a reaction by McCartney to ..

the "race riots" in America during the 1968 period after reading a newspaper account of these events. I also have heard that Quincy Jones had attributed this song to the plight.

:-)

[LoZoccolo]

29. Have you heard the Grey Album?

http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html

[coloradodem2005]

35. Why Jay-Z? Metallica's Black album was first.

[LoZoccolo]

37. Jay-Z's album was released in an acapella version...

...so that people could make their own remixes of it.

There is also a Double Black Album that mixes Jay-Z and Metallica.

[New Earth]

47. whatever you do, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE BLUE ALBUM

it's the worst 311 album ever. i love them, but the album sucks, bad.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

9. she came in through the bathroom window

[coloradodem2005]

10. Wrong album. That's "Abbey Road".

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. opps ...here comes the sun...heh

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Same, wrong, album, heh.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. wow i'm having flashbacks....dear prudence..huh

[coreystone]

22. "Dear Prudence" is about Lennon and an obscure relationship with...

Prudence Farrow, Mia's sister. During the time that the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's site in Rishikesh was building up his "entourage" of "students", John went to her cottage to have her start mixing with the other people there. She had been in her cottage for about three weeks meditating.

:-)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. BZZZT wrong album! Play again, heh..

[Borgnine]

15. How many references to past Beatles songs are there in Glass Onion?

And can you list them all?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

17. Okay for starters, "Strawberry Fields Forever".

(I told you 'bout Strawberry Fields,
You know the place where nothing is real)

Then, "The Fool On the Hill" (I tell you man he's living there still)

"Fixing a Hole" (in the ocean)

That's all I got right now...

Drawing a blank on the rest of the lyrics

But I agree with the other poster that Glass Onion is kinda lame compared to the rest of the album but still fun.

[coreystone]

23. Sure! ....

:-)

"Strawberry Fields Forever", "'I Am the Walrus", "Lady Madonna", "Fool on the Hill", and, "Fixing A Hole"!

:-)

[Borgnine]

24. Glass Onion is fun...

...if you consider it Lennon's roadmap to "Paul is dead" clue songs.

[coreystone]

30. Lennon did an interview for 'Playboy" a short while before his death..

When asked about "'I Am The Walrus", Lennon had indicated that it wasn't until after he had written the song, that he had realized that the Walrus was really the "bad guy". I have always been skeptical about how open Lennon was in some of his interviews; sometime it seemed like a lot of double talk to me; perhaps because of many reasons.

:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Forward or backward?

[coloradodem2005]

19. Forward.

I guess Paul is not dead.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. :)

[mcscajun]

18. When did you first hear that album?

and how many times since then, do you think you've listened to the whole album, not just parts?

[coloradodem2005]

20. I know I have listened to the whole album.

I have had it for 3 years.

[benny05]

52. 1968 first time

Probably the entire time, Revolution number 9 withstanding...jeepers, at least 60-70 times, maybe more.

[LoZoccolo]

27. Do you also like Oasis? n/t

[coloradodem2005]

31. I do. But don't have anything by them.

From what I know, I always thought Oasis was closer to The Kinks than The Beatles.

[dbt]

32. Who said "Lads, I think you have enough songs for ONE great disc?"

[coreystone]

33. Boy! Y'a got me on that one! I would say George Martin...

without doing a bit of researching. Correct if my guess is wrong!

:-)

[coloradodem2005]

34. George Martin?

[dbt]

36. Correct answers, coreystone and coloradodem 2005!

Duplicate prizes will be awarded and you get some Great Parting Gifts, including the Home Version of Democratic Underground.

The more I read about Sir George Martin, the more I like the old boy. He says the closest parallel to music is Impressionist painting!

[coreystone]

38. George Martin, Geoff Emerick (engineer), and so many....

were so much, all, a part of the "machine" that produced some really great music of the times. Martin really never was substantially financially rewarded for his expertise.

I might suggest a great read: "All You Need Is Ears" by Sir George!

:-)

[dbt]

41. Got it, read it, loved it, it rocks!

I found it rather telling how little there actually is to making a "record."

"No amount of technology will fix a bad performance." Ya gots to love that old man!

[coreystone]

43. "In My Life" the last album produced by George Matin was great...

Released in 1998, the artists and selection of Beatle written songs was sooooo fine! I loved them all, especially the simple guitar work by a great former "Yardbird" Jeff Beck on "A Day In A Life"!

The whole CD was excellent!

:-)

[coreystone]

39. I didn't realize there was a "Home Version of Democratic Underground"...

I think I would prefer to keep this site "online" so that I might be able to turn of the "buzz" when I choose to do so. I appreciate the award, but, is there a substitute prize?? ;-)

Most Sincerely,

coreystone

:-)

[dbt]

42. You may be forced to accept the Actual Cash Value of the prize.

Choose carefully!

:think:

[coreystone]

45. :-)

[coreystone]

48. I have enjoyed your appreciation of the music that the Beatles..

produced. If you look under this site:
http://www.freshwidow.com/chimpsongs/songs01.html

you will find some very rough ideas of mine that are far, far in the past for me!

Thank you for the enjoyment of your posts!

Sincerely,

coreystone

[dxstone]

49. Aaaaahhhh... there is nothing better than the Beatles...

There music is so pure and pristine, like an azure sky of deepest summer... turn 'em on, and it's as if some great bird of heaven-spun metal had flown into the room, and ya feel all those malanky little hairs on the back of your plot standing endwise...
Music is magic. Music is the best.
I live in Cleveland, and it's a beautiful day today, very sunny and warm... I'm listening to Traffic myself--John Barleycorn, to be followed by The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (which title track is one of my favorites of all time)...
Glad I found this post; The Beatles will be next now... man, those were the days... Stevie Winwood's magic and sadly forgotten voice (who remembers Blind Faith? The Spencer Davis Group?)... Clapton with Cream, The Beatles, Joplin & Hendrix & Morrison...
The Beatles, though... they are simply the best. They are like psylocibin; you listen to them and the universe simply shines and glimmers and smiles down at you and you connect with its incredible beauty and goodness once again...
I don't mean to sound like an old fart, but it's sad that the kids these days (I DO sound like an old fart!), they don't even know... I've talked to kids who don't LIKE The Beatles, and I think, yaaarghh!... that's like not liking when the sun shines!...
The Beatles are the Sun Kings. They are invincible. They will never die.
D X Stone
ps: You did say ask you anything, right?
In that case, I'd like to ask you and any other interested parties to come see a wee fun lil' graphic of

Dick Cheney's Head Exploding!

at
http://www.presidentevilonline.com/sn_explosion.html
A great weekend to all!

[Borgnine]

51. If it makes you feel any better...

...I'm only 21 and I'm a huge Beatles fanatic. I also agree with everything you said.

[Ivan Sputnik]

50. "Can you take me back where I came from,

can you take me back?"

Is that the coda to "Cry Baby Cry" or the intro to "Revolution 9"?
I like it.