Well, interesting game RR. This is my favorite Beatle album so choosing songs that I like along with your suggestions of considering egos, and considering what I know now to be the popular cuts from the LP, here are my choice songs for the "condensed" White Album:


1."Glass Onion" Lennon
2.Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" McCartney
3.Wild Honey Pie" McCartney
4.The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" Lennon
5.While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Harrison
6.Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Lennon[/b]
7.Little Piggies" Harrison
8.Rocky Raccoon" McCartney
9.Don't Pass Me By" Starr
10.Birthday" McCartney/Lennon
11.Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" Lennon
12.Helter Skelter" McCartney
13.Savoy Truffle" (Harrison)
14.Cry Baby Cry

There were many that I knew immediately simply HAD to be on the album like Rocky Racoon, Little Piggies, Bungalow Bill, and Ob Li Di, Ob La Da, simply because they are not only different but good songs. smile

While My Guitar Gently Weeps has such a nice tone to it and is one of Harrison's best, while McCartney's Helter Skelter is so opposite with it's rough edge. Oh, and Lennons' Happiness is a Warm Gun another one of a kind. smile

I suppose I felt obliged to give poor Ringo his due, even though I am not crazy about either of the tunes. Not that he does them badly. They are not on my list as favorites. But, I went with "Don't Pass Me By."

And I'm leaving off others I like simply because there is no room: I'm So Tired,and Martha My Dear.

I only left off Revolution 1 because it was released on a single (the best version IMHO). Revolution 9, I guess I never really liked or just didn't get it. The only song I'll skip if I play the album.

TIS

Last edited by The Italian Stallionette; 03/12/10 09:05 PM.
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