The Beatles (White Album) [VINYL]

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The positive spirit of the session disappeared immediately, and engineer Ken Scott later claimed that "you could cut the atmosphere with a knife". Authors such as Fredric Jameson, Andrew Goodwin and Kenneth Womack instead situate all of the Beatles' work within a modernist stance, based either on their "artificiality" [232] or their ideological stance of progress through love and peace. Harrison, too, was not formally credited at first, but was identified as "L'Angelo Misterioso" on the cover. If you have collected/heard some, or all, of the "Esher" bootlegs before, throw them away, as the versions here are vastly superior. The album is now with all my other vinyl, in Bags Unlimited LP boxes, in storage for … coming up on 20 years now, I imagine.

Abbey Road staff later commented that Starr was usually the first to arrive at the studio, waiting in the reception area for the others to arrive.All but two tracks exist in official mono mixes; the exceptions are "Revolution 1" and "Revolution 9", both direct reductions of the stereo master. Lennon went straight to the piano and smashed the keys with an almighty amount of volume, twice the speed of how they'd done it before, and said "This is it!

In addition, the effects on Eric Clapton’s guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” as well as the organ and Mellotron, better integrate with the other instruments.

was put between " Cry Baby Cry" and " Revolution 9", [101] while recordings of Cilla Black's hit " Step Inside Love" and a joke number, "Los Paranoias", were released on Anthology 3. In a 2003 appraisal of the album, for Mojo magazine, Ian MacDonald wrote that The Beatles regularly appears among the top 10 in critics' "best albums of all time" lists, yet it was a work that he deemed "eccentric, highly diverse, and very variable [in] quality".