I don't ever want to hear Hey Jude again. The White Album would say is my favorite album of all time. And Apostrophe and Close To The Edge
We are obviously men of different tastes even while appreciating the same artist:
I'll take
Waka Jawaka over
Apostrophe always and forever.
What is it about the White Album?
It is so obviously a compilation by 4 solo artists.
The happiness of the teamwork so evident in earlier days is almost gone.
Paul's stuff is so treacly as to make me skip the cuts, John's is so drenched in heroin distemper as to make me cringe, even though his and Georg's cuts are my favorites fro the most part.
Even Martin had enough of 'em and walked out on vacation, engineer Geoff Emerick quit outright and both Ringo and George quit even though they were both coaxed back.
I don't say it's "bad", it's just that the percentage of stuff I like is so much lower than the earlier periods.
And I think Lennon and McCartney actually
needed to buffer each other, each on their own is too much of one thing.
Paul is non-alcoholic beer (UGH) and John is pure 180 proof distilled spirits (which I'll at least drink).
Anyway I think it's just that all the bad vibes are subliminally if not manifestly evident and bring down the rating of the album for me.
Like I said I just prefer the happier earlier stuff.
NO snark intended, seriously, but let's not forget a guy like Charles Manson took that piece of art and identified with it.
HE was picking up on the dark side of psychedelia peeking out from behind the doors of John's id and Paul's ego, if I may wax so cornball.
It was obvious by
Abbey Road things had been patched up quite a bit.
For my tastes I'll take "As You Said" and "Deserted Cities of the Heart"from
Wheels over "Your Mother Should Know" and "the Fool on the Hill" always and forever.
And regret giving up "Baby You're a Rich Man" and "Lady Madonna".
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"Badge" is a great song - the arpeggiated riff in the chorus is pure George (for that riff's twin, listen to "It Don't Come Easy" which George basically wrote for Ringo).
Right, in fact it was hearing its relative in "Here Comes the Sun" that first made me go look at the credits on
Goodbye and realize that "L'Angelo Mysterioso" had to be a nom-de-plume for George.