Why is The White Album The Beatles' best album?

Why is The White Album The Beatles' best album?

That's a funny way to spell Abbey Road, user

Second best.

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because bigger is better

Am I the only one that thinks magical mystery tour was their best?

Yes
Almost, Satan.

yes

I used to when I was younger

it's not but its my current favorite. it was nice to let each individual spread their wings like that. if you really look at it, they were such a great cohesive 4 bodied machine before this but it was really great to let them all shine the way they did. We got some of Paul's best songs and compositions (I Will, Mother Natures Son, Martha My Dear, Helter Skelter) as well as some of John's most personal songs (Julia, Good Night, Yer Blues) and some of George's most interesting (Long Long Long, Piggies).

I love this record hahah

Yes, congratulations. You are the only person on the entire planet Earth that thinks MMT is the Beatles' best album.

Cause it was fucking random? The first time listening to it you didn´t knew what was next, they were working apart and had different ideas on the songs and got like a collage of kinds of music.

yes

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as “the greatest or most significant or most influential” rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

I agree 100%. every song is so different depending on who was performing. The album is also more than double the length of a regular Beatles album so there is even more opportunity on it to experiment with. I love it.

Revolver 50th Anniversary is coming up, apparently.

i opened this thread just to post this
thanks, mei

I Am The Walrus is such an offensively bad song.

No it's not >:(

Revolver > Abbey Road > Sgt. Pepper > Rubber Soul > The White Album > Let It Be > A Hard Day's Night > Magical Mystery Tour > Beatles For Sale > Help! > Please Please Me > Yellow Submarine

Because it displays the songwriting and musical talent of The Beatles as 4 individual song writers. All of the tracks on the album are written by one of the Beatles. No Lennon/McCartney songs. Only Lennon & McCartney songs. And it's wonderful.
It's not "Random" it's just a different type of composition put together by four very different songwriters.

Try again.

you forgot to mention While My Guitar Gently Weeps

>Let It Be above AHDN and MMT

what the actual fuck

If you strip away it's "classic" status, it's really obvious Lennon was trying REALLY hard while writing it. The lyrics, the music, literally everything about it, is so stereotypically "psychedelic" and "DUDE WEED LMAO". The Beatles and Lennon have written far subtler and better psychedelic songs it's strange that Lennon would try so hard to say so little.