In the words of Robert Smith of The Cure: **absolutely nothing**

When did he say that?

In Killing an Arab

can't believe nobody's ever asked this before

I can't believe anyone is asking it now

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Right. That's what I meant. Ugh

All this time and you didn't have an answer prepared 😔

I'd remove all the songs except Revolution 9 and replace them with the beatles.

Yeah let's replace Revolution 9 with Not Guilty, Sour Milk Sea, Circles, and Junk. 

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lol good one

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It would still be better than most other artists' output lol

Me removing the filler from Pink Floyd's The Wall

I knew someone who downloaded it but they’d only downloaded the first part. It stopped at Empty Spaces so they never knew what the fuss was all about.

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Guitar Gently Weeps, a filler!? It’s one of their best ever songs.

It's a joke.

I'd make it longer! How about a 42 track, 2 hour and 15 minute White Album!! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5rvoQUUyZwIMl7Q1jULhbP?si=OywT8oVLQouszwUV9PefFg&pi=lwErvUQXSDSza

Hell yeah

This is what I respond to all "single white album" posts. 😆

Everyone always talks about shortening it to a single LP, when really expanding it to three would've been the best way to go about it.

First I did it as a joke. Then...

I wouldn’t - the songs that are usually picked for this question give the album character and make it the quirky masterpiece that it is.

It’s like I keep saying: remove any of the songs and it’s not the white album anymore.

Nice pfp

Thanks! I should have the new release of RR&A arrive in the next few days

This answer is way too reasonable

Some Beatles fans seem to hate fun and quirkiness, for some strange reason. I agree with you 100%.

I genuinely do not understand how you even could be a fan of The Beatles while harboring that much distaste for the things that make The Beatles, The Beatles.

Fucking EXACTLY.

There are some genuinely bad songs on this album and it's okay to admit that.

None of them are bad imo. I’ve been listening to this album for 40 years and there aren’t any that have stuck out to me as bad. I’ve understood that Rev 9 isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. It’s only until I started following this sub that it occurred to me that people might not like some of the others.

all of them

Where's all this Birthday hate coming from? That song is one of the best on the album

Paul’s use of “cha cha cha” in Birthday influenced David Bowie when he wrote “cha cha cha” in the chorus to Changes.

I like Birthday too. But many new listeners don't know this is the first song from disc 2. So they think it's in the middle of it. It's a "welcome" song, to start the other disc.

You think people would like it more if they knew it was the FIRST song on the second disc? That’s a con for me personally

I’d add another 13/14 bits and pieces (Los Paranois) and make it a triple personally

Has anybody heard of the mother fuckers?

same

What leg would you rather I removed? The left or the right one?

It's perfect as it is. Bad songs make good songs sound better

take some bad songs, and make them betterererer

This post again 

If you lift a few tracks from Yellow Submarine, The Esher demos and past masters it could have been another psychedelic pop album! Dear Prudence Glass Onion Hey Bulldog Lady Madonna Child Of Nature Circles While My Guitar Gently Weeps Mother Nature's Son Revolution 1 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey Hey Jude P.S. Ive always thought Mrs. Vandebilt has a major white album sound ala Bungalow bill!

I’m going to do this great idea

Thanks! Enjoy 😎

no.

The question was what songs you would delete if you had to delete 13 songs to make it a single album

make the disc two times bigger

“Is this a 33 or a 45?” “Uhhh… It’s a 12”

Thank you for the laugh this morning.

Number 9

I have a playlist of side 1 & I have playlist of side 2 without Rev#9. It goes from Cry Baby Cry straight to Goodnight. It’s a pretty sweet transition.

[It's great, it sold, it's the bloody Beatles' White Album, shut up!](https://youtu.be/p9xDBTpLz-8?si=nfX7uHOKTsrcCIJd)

The continuing story of Bungalow Bill, piggies, revolution 1 ( substitute it with revolution fast version), and savoy truffle

How about the original story of bungalow bill? I mean, we need a back story

No

Savoy truffle is amazing though. 

I wouldn’t say it’s amazing. It’s okay

Best on the album

Agree

No

So I’m with George Martin. I would have made it a single album. But even then, it is really difficult to pare it down to the typical 14 tracks. Assuming you take out the obvious choices that come up on this sub- Rev 9, Honey Pie, etc- it’s still really hard to do. If you want to up the ante- include the singles from ‘68- Revolution, Hey Jude, and Lady Madonna.

Honey Pie is a fucking incredible song and people are just heartless lame losers.

Wild honey pie

Thank you

Only this one

The best way to do a homemade white album sequence is keep it as two albums but each one is like 30-35 minutes. And if you want you can add a couple of songs like Hey Jude, The Inner Light, Lady Madonna

Alternative take, if you had to put the better songs on one disc and the lesser on the other one, how to split it?

That seems like the worst way to do it. I'd separate by theme/vibe (like I've done "disc 1: day, disc 2: night" while trying to keep them equal in quality. If you really wanna know my least favorite songs... Piggies, Bungalow Bill, Rev 9 are up there

None. The album is fine as is.

nothing. its the bloody beatles white album!

Just Revolution 9 (replace it with Not Guilty)

I’ve tried making myself a playlist before of the white album as a single album (as George Martin apparently said it should have been). It’s tough. Rev 9 is the first to go along with anything sung by Ringo. (I can’t believe there are people who think #9 is good and worth listening to more than once). You can only keep two George songs so LLL and Piggies are gone. Sadly I’m leaving off most of the novelty songs that are nice but not really serious like Bungalo Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Yer Blues, Honey Pie, Birthday. I’m keeping Obi-di and Glass Onion though. Rev 1 is great but there’s no room for it since it is a retread of a single. I’m so tired and Julia also probably have to go, sorry John. I’m keeping mother natures son and I Will because they’re just better.

Rev 9 100%

To make a 1 disc road CD-R I remove Revolution 9 and Good Night. Those songs aren’t very good at the end of a long drive.

Just add Sour Milk Sea. Cant understand how it didnt make the cut.

Love the entire 2 Albums. No reason to change any of it.

wild honey pie makes my head hurt

If I had to trim down, it'd be: Revolution 9...Wild Honey Pie... Honey Pie...Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-Da...Why Don't We Do It in the Road... Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey... Birthday...The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill...Good Night...Cry Baby Cry...Piggies. I enjoy several of these songs, but if I'm doing simple process of elimination, it'd be these.

“ 9” was the dumbest song I ever heard,

The best song of the Beatles was”Love Love Me Do” but I’m just “Another Guy”☮️🐢🐢

Nothing

While I readily admit that I don’t have any great love for the white album, I wouldn’t go dropping tracks from it. There are tracks I don’t like, sure. But they’re part of the whole. Since it’s the Beatles’ album, not mine, they get to decide what’s on it.

Take out Wild Honey Pie and Piggies, bring in Sour Milk Sea and Circles

Don't forget all 101 takes of Not Guilty. (Actually I really love that song!)

No single song

Its my favorite album, so i love all the songs. If i had to choose... Revolution 9 or Piggies

I would start by deleting all the posts that ask this boring question

It’s very hard to choose. My initial choice would be “Don’t Pass Me By”, but apparently it was The Band’s (the name of the band is The Band) favourite song on the White Album. Lots of country fans love it, and it’s admittedly Ringo’s first songwriting credit. “Revolution 9” is iconic and arguably The Beatles’ greatest accomplishment, a landmark in the musique concrète genre, depending on who you talk to, so I definitely wouldn’t remove that. That’s like removing the Stargate sequence from “2001: A Space Odyssey”. It’s just not the White Album without it.

Revolution #9 as the Beatles greatest accomplishment is laughable...

Revolution 9 haters have no idea what the song was trying to do

Yeah, seriously. The downvotes are silly, but expected. I guess because we come across as pretentious, and people think we’re trying to be smarter than them. But really, Wikipedia is free, YouTube is free. Doesn’t take long to look this stuff up and learn about it. John Lennon was a smart and intelligent, talented dude. To say he made a mistake is to insult his judgment and his creativity. Personally, I’ve never heard musique concrète utilize repetition and motifs until I heard “Revolution 9”. Ironically enough, John made the genre more accessible, which is something only a popular music artist experienced in songwriting could do. That’s why I consider it such a landmark. Because normally, musique concrète is extremely difficult to get into. A lot of it sounds like random sounds, because it lacks repetition. But John went ahead and added repetition. He gave it form, and organized a bunch of sound effects like a pop composition. George Martin loved it. Paul only initially didn’t like it, because he wasn’t part of it (apart from his sampled piano playing), and because he was too conscious of releasing something like that on a Beatles album. These days, Paul always makes sure to bring up how he was the first Beatle to get into musique concrète and tape loops. But we’re all still waiting on “Carnival of Light” to be released.

I’m guessing you have absolutely no background on musique concrète. “Revolution 9” is absolutely a pivotal evolution of the genre. The amount of hard work it took to accomplish such a production masterwork using only analogue equipment, using state of the art equipment with over a dozen assistants at one’s disposal holding tape loops with pencils (something that most musique concrète composers would not have access to), is nothing to sneeze at. Sure, there’s no songwriting involved, and no band chemistry, as its entirely a studio collage. But it’s absolutely one of the highest points in The Beatles’ catalogue.

Number nine Number nine Number nine number nine number nine

nothing. instead I'd make Sgt Pepper double album by including tracks from MMT soundtrack + Yellow Submarine Beatles songs.

Delete Wild honey pie and bungalow bill. I would replace Revolution 9 and I with Revolution Take 18, which is awesome. Rev 18 is also long — about 10 minutes. But it’s great. Rev I is basically the first 4 minutes of Rev 18. I would replace ob la di with the acoustic driven ob la di from Anthology. Finally, I would add Hey Bulldog with the leftover space from deleting bungalow bill. Hey Bulldog was unreleased at the time of the White Album’s release. Bulldog could have been in the lineup with then other animal based songs - raccoon, pig, bulldog.

Since no one want to kill the sacred cow here, I’ll give it a shot. Here would be my choice of a single LP version. More John-heavy, with the requisite Ringo tune and some avant-garde thrown in. I think it stacks up very well. Side 1 1. Back In the USSR 2. Dear Prudence 3. Happiness is a Warm Gun 4. Blackbird 5. Don’t Pass Me By 6. I’m So Tired Side 2 7. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide… 8. Sexy Sadie 9. Mother Nature’s Son 10. Helter Skelter 11. Long, Long, Long 12. Revolution 9 13. I Will

I’d keep everything and add a jazz fusion song in 17/16 but switching to one bar from why don’t we do it in the road every 4th bar.

I’d only delete Revolution 9

Revolution 9, Bungalow Bill and Wild Honey Pie.

Look, fans are going to be arguing this point until kingdom come. Everyone has tracks they like, everyone has tracks they dislike, and that’s FINE. It shows the group at their best and at their worst, and the fans decide which is which. They can use structured playlists to create their own Frankenalbum or, if they’re not driving, make generous use of the skip button. If I HAD to make a change, I’d remove R9 and replace it with It’s All Too Much and Hey Bulldog. (In that universe, they could have put R9 and Carnival of Light out on the Zapple label along with any other tape collages they had lying around). But I’m fine with leaving it as it is.


None!!!

It's Okay to Leave Your Dog in a Hot Car. This one aged too poorly.

There’s a few really crap songs I would delete like Bungalow Bill, Piggies, Savoy Truffle, Goodnight, Ob-La-Di. To be honest I’m not a fan of the album. 

I could never delete anything It would be a butterfly effect and I know I was the cause

Zero. It's perfect in its imperfection.

None

Wild honey pie, bungalow bill, Martha my dear,Julia, revolution number 9, goodnight .

Which Beatle would you delete to make the band a proper trio

None. Okay MAYBE Don’t Pass Me By but THAT’S IT.

Well, not really thirteen songs but ehhh 1. Revolution 9, it takes up 8 minutes, and it's just TORTURE to listen to the whole thing. 2. Wild Honey Pie, it's a filler song (Paul even said it in an interview) and it's useless. 3. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, it's really boring (for me) and kinda corny in fact. 4. Rocky Raccoon, this one is just like TCSOBB but shorter and sung by Paul. 5. Don't Pass Me By, don't get me wrong, it's an okay song, just not on a Beatles album. (Ringo could have put it in his solo albums) 6. Can You Take Me Back (from Cry Baby Cry), don't remove this one though, just cut it from Cry Baby Cry.

wholly agree

I would’ve made it longer lol, making the first successful triple album years before ATMP or Woodstock. Adding songs like Not Guilty, What’s the New Mary Jane, Junk, Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias, Sour Milk Sea, Hey Jude, Revolution. Maybe even, mocking John, releasing ‘While my Guitar Gently Weeps 1’ using the Anthology version. I love how this is an usual question to throw sh*t to Revolution 9. Its cultural impact remains still to this day. Many people talk about it, for the good and the bad. If there is a leftover song in the album, it is Wild Honey Pie, so answering the question, I would delete that one.

Rev 9

Wild Honey Pie and Bungalow Bill don’t do anything for me but I can’t delete 13 tracks.

Revolution the slow version

Remove all Beatles material, replace with burping and farting noises.

The only song I ever skip is Birthday, I think everything else adds to the album and doesn't make it weaker, just different. It wouldn't feel like the White Album without the others to me.

It’s an incredible album but obviously I would delete revolution 9 and replace revolution 1 with the fast and heavier single version

As far as I am concerned, this is the correct answer.

Lop off Goodnight and it's a 10/10 instead of a 9.9/10

Revolution 9, the rest of the album's great i love it

None

None

Wild Honey Pie, Don't pass me by

Revolution #9, Why Don’t We… Never listen to them anyway.

What? Just no.

Zero songs. I would not change any album, I would not make anything happen that didn't, I would leave the Beatles legacy exactly as it is. Exactly as it unfolded in my life.

None

None.

noneee

None. It was created by The Beatles. Who am I to second guess them? How many successful albums do you all have? Did you have a huge impact on history and culture? Is your music that YOU personally created going to be around in 50-60 years? As Paul McCartney famously said, “We’re the fucking Beatles”!!!!!!

None

None. Shut up, it's a perfect album, better than Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and Rubber Soul. It's the perfect introduction to The Beatles, it has everything from beautiful ballads to hard rock, psychedelia, avant-garde, early heavy metal, classic rock, psych folk, ragtime, among many many others, it's my favorite Beatles album, and I wouldn't change a thing.

Ussr. I just really don't like that song. For me, the album starts with Prudence

The premise of your question sucks.

This is really tough because every time you remove a song you're removing someones favorite, you're removing history, you're basically destroying the white album, even removing rev 9 or wild honey pie it's just not the same. But for the sake of your hypothetical here is my try at a 17 song White Album : Back in the USSR Dear Prudence Glass Onion Ob La Di, Ob La Da While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness is a Warm Gun Martha My Dear I'm So Tired Blackbird Rocky Raccoon I Will Julia Yer Blues Mother Nature's Son Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter Cry Baby Cry Heres the songs I removed : Wild Honey Pie Bungalow Bill Piggies Don't Pass Me By Why Don't We Do It in the Road? Birthday Everybody Except Me & My Monkey Long, Long, Long Revolution 1 Honey Pie Savoy Truffle Revolution 9 Goodnight

you removed like the best songs

I believe I did the exact same, except I kept Long, Long, Long, and I removed I Will as my last pick. Very close! Long Long Long has always been a favourite of mine so I could never remove that...

yeah it was a tough one to remove, but I feel they didn't nail the song in the studio, like the drums are a bit harsh, and the ending is a little out there, I feel if they would've focused on the chill aspect of the song and kept it subtle and peaceful it could've been better

Trim up Revolution 9 and put on Sour Milk Sea and/or Not Guilty and it'll be perfect-er. Revolution 9 can be like 6 minutes instead of 9 or whatever it is. I appreciate Revolution 9, but lets get real here. Like if I was George and I busted my ass for this band, I'd be sorta pissed. 9 fuckin minutes of noise and they can't put on Not Guilty? The song we played for like 150 takes and you are hogging up the side?

Yoko Ono actually said that George encouraged them to make “Revolution 9”. He played a big role. I love “Not Guilty”, but “Revolution 9” is arguably The Beatles’ greatest accomplishment, depending on who you talk to. A landmark in the musique concrète genre. It’s actually 8 minutes, and was trimmed from 9 minutes. I guess it could have been trimmed to 6 minutes, but I feel like it’s very well-paced. Those 100 takes (not 150) of “Not Guilty” weren’t all complete performances. In fact, some sources claim that it was George’s decision to abandon it. Let’s be honest, either “Piggies” or “Savoy Truffle” could have been shelved in favor of “Not Guilty”. Although I do love “Savoy Truffle” a lot.

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Very true.

Number 9…Number 9…. Number 9….

1. Back in the U.S.S.R. 2. Helter Skelter 3. Revolution 9 4. Wild Honey Pie 5. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 6. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 7. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 8. Honey Pie 9. Birthday 10. Everybody's Got Something to Hide 11. Sexy Sadie 12. Mother Nature's Son 13, I'm So Tired

of course, downvoting people you disagree with, how mature

Ob-la-di Ob-la-da. Make it a single instead, with Glass Onion (which I really like but which I don't think is specifically vital to being on the album) as the B side. Glass Onion (see above). Revolution 1. It's better on the Hey Jude single. Revolution 9. Put it as a B side. Piggies. Sexy Sadie. Savoy Truffle (but replace it with Circles). I Will Cry Baby Cry. Nice song but not quite as vital to the feel of the album as some. John could save that for his solo career. Don't Pass Me By. Wild Honey Pie. That's only 11 songs but Revolution 9 is so long that it's hopefully enough.

What the fuck? I Will is an amazing song. same for Glass Onion

I Will is just sappy Paul, nothing substantial. Glass Onion is a very good song indeed but feels out of place and would be better enjoyed as an unexpected B side.

I Will is a lovely song even by Paul standards imo, definitely not one of his throwaways. It stands out as a love song, because it's about the love of your life who you still haven't met yet. One of my favourite Paul white album songs tbh! I guess it's a matter of taste. Imo Glass Onion fits with the madcap energy of the White Album, and also flows well with the album as a whole.

Sexy Sadie is top 5 on the album

#9

Don’t pass me by Birthday

Just one: PIGGIES

R9

All of em

Wild Honey Pie is really the only song I'd replace. Not Guilty should have made the cut before that

Personally, I think the Esher Tapes make as good a listen as the White Album.

I never liked Honey Pie.

None

None every song is perfect.

Long Long Long

Nothing, except for shortening Revolution 9. It doesn't need to be as long as it is to have the effect it has IMO.

Rocky Raccoon no question

ob la di, wild honey pie, martha, piggies, rocky, dont pass me by, why dont we do it, birthday, yer blues, sadie, honey pie, rev 9, good night any white album tracklist needs lady madonna / the inner light / revolution / hey jude

Wow what a horrible opinion

the real horrible opinion is thinking this album is a classic in any way lmao. textbook 7/10

Birthday 🎉

All the dumb as hell ones. Ob la di ob la da, wild honey pie, the continuing story of Buffalo Bill, piggies, Rocky raccoon, revolution 1 (but replace with the single version), revolution 9. BYE!!!

Wow that’s a bad opinion

Well good thing my opinion is my own and it has no effect on you whatsoever.

I listen to vinyls so it’s impossible …

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Wild Honey Pie Piggies Rocky Raccoon Don’t Pass Me By Why Don’t We Do It In The Road? Mother Nature’s Son Long, Long, Long Revolution 9 Good Night Birthday I Will Yer Blues

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You are the first one who underatood the question

I think everyone underatood the question it’s just a dumb one.