Execlude this album from its name and call it the HORRIBLE album but this is so out of time. The 60s are over and the beatles are history. Dont buy this album, Buy the Rolling Stones "Exile on the Main Street" Which is a BETTER Double album than this Horrible Piece of Trash.

This is one of my favourate Beatles albums.It is one of their best.The 2 discs are loaded with great music.It includes such songs as "Back in the U.S.S.R., Ob-La-Di,Ob-La-Da, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Now, for something a little strange.At the end of "I am So Tired",there is some weired mumbaling, very interesting, eh?But besides that, this is a must have for ant Beatles fan!!

I was outrageously impressed with other Beatles albums when I first listened to this album, and so I was disappointed with what I heard. It's nothing like the previous or latter music that they made. Many of the songs have an outtake quality to them. I thought at the time that only 5 or so songs were top notch. But on repeated hearings I have grown to appreciate this album. I would agree with another reviewer that this album, along with Abbey Road, did not have as much immediate appeal but soon grows on you.

For instance, I didn't like 'Helter Skelter' for a long time. Now I consider it a really electrifying performance. At first, I never really noticed 'I'm So Tired'. Now the bass guitar accompaniment and the vocal lethargy comes across as brilliant.

Many of the songs have beautiful melodies and harmonies.

'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' demonstrates how great the Beatles functioned as a composing team. The original, as heard on the Anthology, is pretty boring to my ear. Although George had a great melody to act as a backbone for this song, and his/Clapton's guitar melodies are wonderful, listen to McCartney's intro and contributions from the others to make this a real masterwork. (George Harrison himself credited the intro to McCartney, by the way. Don't think that McCartney was a non-participant in those songs that weren't his).

This is a fantastic album.

I dont see why this album is held so highly. I mean sure it's got some great songs, but it is mostly just wierd filler songs (rocky racoon, why dont we do it on the road and wild honey pie). Another very strange song is Revolution 9, I wouldnt call it filler but i just dont get it. But nevertheless it does have some great songs like "Back in the ussr", "dear prudence", "birthday", and "revolution 1". The highlight of the album is of course "While my guitar gently weeps" written by geroge harrison except Clapton guest stars on the guitar. Another stand out track is "Helter Skelter". Its so a head of its time, when i first heard it I thought it was some new punk band playing it. Although it is a good album it would be much better and probobly a 5 star album if they cut out the crap and just left in the following.

1.Back In The U.S.S.R.
2.Dear Prudence
3.Glass Onion
4.Ob-La-Di Ob-La-da
5.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6.Im So Tired
7.Blackbird
8.Julia
9.Birthday
10.Yer Blues
11.Mother Nature's Son
12.Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
13.Helter Skelter
14.Long, Long, Long
15.Revolution 1
16.Revolution 9

Though the sound of the new 30th anniversary edition is the same as the '87 CD edition, at least EMI did away with the shoddy tracking(Bungalow Bill's Spanish guitar on the tail end of Wild Honey Pie's track as well as other anomalies).As an album itself, the white album is probably the most brilliant yet bewildering album ever. You get great music by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr, but not The Beatles. By 1968,group unity was virtually non-existent. Each member worked on their own tracks(sometimes Paul would play, as well as over-dub his own music without the rest),while the others only functioned as session players. The music however isn't without merit. From Back In The USSR all the way through Goodnight, the album has a diverse, yet chaotic appeal that would be disastrous in anyone else hands. The album goes from rock(Helter Skelter, Yer Blues, While My Guitar..,Everybody's Got Something To Hide..)to pastoral(Dear Prudence, Mother Natures Son, Blackbird)personal(Julia, I'm So Tired, Sexy Sadie)to even whimsy(Obla-Di,Obla-Da, Martha My Dear, Piggies, Birthday)with an ease that only The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie.. has ever come close to achieving. Even though Anthology 3's white album out-takes show the tension between the group wasn't on tape, the real tensions were ahead. And although an ironically titles album, it paves the way towards their 70's solo albums.