Technically this album is called The Beatles, or even regarded as unnamed. It got the name The White Album because it's...white. Anyway, it seems to me that The Beatles had reached a new level of maturity on this album. They were no longer concerned with trying to incorporate every single instrument that they could think of into a record and use every type of studio gadget and trickery they could think of. Instead they focused on making music. The thing is that they didn't really focus on the music together. The album actually plays like a collection of solo sonds from each of them. The fact that George brought in his buddy Eric Clapton to play the solo for While My Guitar Gently Weeps and no one even knew it speaks volums to how disconnected the Beatles were at this point in their carer. They were at odds, so much so that Ringo actually quite the group in the middle of the sessions. They rest of the guys convinced him to come back after a few days.
Despite all of this though they made some great music here. It almost works as an album because of it's disjointedness. The Beatles seem to have the idea that if some of the songs sound similar, than they all should. But, if they are all different enough it will work as an album.
Then you get to Revolution #9. Good luck if you can get through this. I personnally think that John recorded this just to say "I can put out complete nonsense, and people will think it's great and debate about wehat it means for decades." Unfortunately, he was right.
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