Ob-la-di-bla-da!

Wow. This album is so diverse. And so weird.

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That's just my opinion. But thats what it sounds like on here (maybe except for "Birthday" and "Wild Honey Pie"). But why? drugs? Yoko Ono? ego? who knows but it still is a great set. In my opinion the best songs are George's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Paul's heavy "Helter Skelter" and direct mocking of the Beach Boys with "Back In The USSR". John has some good stuff on here too (Revolution 1 and Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey) and Ringo's song isnt so bad either (Don't Pass Me By). I'm not sure but I think George's "Piggies" was directed towards certain other band members or one in particular but we can forgive him for that with "Savoy Truffle" (the man sounds like he is hungry). Some what lyrical [...] slapping if you will was displayed on here as well along with "piggies" is a line from John's "Glass Oninon". Overall its still a great double set and to think they were able to make two more albums albeit "together" (Let It Be and Abbey Road). On top of that even film the sessions from one (Let It Be).

Harrowing, gripping, brilliant, terrifying, scattershot -- much like 1968 itself

If there was ever a rock album that was a reflection of its time, it DEFINITELY was 'The Beatles' ('The White Album'). 1968 has been variously described as the year that came the closest this country ever came to an internal civil war -- the Vietnam War was reaching a peak of conflict, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the violence and chaos in Czechoslovakia, the demonstrations and protests at the Chicago Democratic Convention that year.