Originally released : 11-22-1968
Release date        : 08-23-2004
Album name          : The Beatles (White Album)
Artist              : The Beatles

Ripped by           : Velvet Kevorkian
Genre               : Rock
Label               : Capitol

Encoding Software   : Lame EOS
Quality             : --alt-preset standard

Tracks              : 30
Size of Files       : 166,10 MB

Disc 1

01  02:43  Back In The U.S.S.R.
02  03:56  Dear Prudence
03  02:18  Glass Onion
04  03:09  Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
05  00:53  Wild Honey Pie
06  03:14  The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
07  04:45  While My Guitar Gently Weeps
08  02:44  Happiness Is A Warm Gun
09  02:29  Martha My Dear
10  02:03  I'm So Tired
11  02:18  Blackbird
12  02:04  Piggies
13  03:33  Rocky Racoon
14  03:50  Don't Pass Me By
15  01:41  Why Don't We Do It In The Road
16  01:46  I Will
17  02:54  Julia

Disc 2

01  02:43  Birthday
02  04:01  Yer Blues
03  02:48  Mother Nature's Son
04  02:25  Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Mo
05  03:15  Sexy Sadie
06  04:30  Helter Skelter
07  03:04  Long, Long, Long
08  04:16  Revolution 1
09  02:41  Honey Pie
10  02:55  Savoy Truffle
11  03:02  Cry Baby Cry
12  08:22  Revolution 9
13  03:12  Good Night

Total time: 93:34 min

Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is
an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything
and everything they can. This makes for a frustratingly
scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical
experience, depending on your view, but what makes the
White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a
rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the
Beach Boys send-up "Back in the USSR" and the British
blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced,
so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes
or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best
ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the
Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrete collage
"Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's
closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles
cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry,"
rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn't reach quite as
far, yet his songs are stunning -- the music-hall romp
"Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the
ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal
roar of "Helter Skelter." Clearly, the Beatles' two
main songwriting forces were no longer on the same
page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still
had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While
My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy
Truffle," the haunting "Long Long Long," and even the
silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter
who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a
delight with his first original, the lumbering
country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it
sounds like it was meant to share album space together,
but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound
through its mess.

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