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The White Album (Remastered) | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  78 reviews
Sales Rank: 72
Format: Enhanced, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 094638246626
EAN: 0094638246626
ASIN: B0025KVLU6
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Back In The U.S.S.R. | | • | Dear Prudence | | • | Glass Onion | | • | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da | | • | Wild Honey Pie | | • | The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps | | • | Happiness Is A Warm Gun | | • | Martha My Dear | | • | I'm So Tired | | • | Blackbird | | • | Piggies | | • | Rocky Racoon | | • | Don't Pass Me By | | • | Why Don't We Do It In The Road? | | • | I Will | | • | Julia |
Disc 2
| • | Birthday | | • | Yer Blues | | • | Mother Nature's Son | | • | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey | | • | Sexy Sadie | | • | Helter Skelter | | • | Long, Long, Long | | • | Revolution 1 | | • | Honey Pie | | • | Savoy Truffle | | • | Cry Baby Cry | | • | Revolution 9 | | • | Good Night | | • | The Beatles Documentary |
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Product Description
The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the Beatles catalogue has seen since its original release.
Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. The newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.
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Album Description
Digitally remastered two CD digipak edition of this classic 1968 album from The Beatles featuring 'Back In The USSR', 'Birthday', 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'Helter Skelter', 'Dear Prudence' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.
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 The Beatles' Bold White Album February 8, 2010
Alan Caylow (USA)
Okay, say you're the Beatles. It's 1968. You've gradually matured and grown over the last five years with your music, going from the charming, boy-meets-girl pop of "Please Please Me" and "A Hard Days Night" to the brilliant, groundbreaking psychedelic pop of "Sgt Pepper" and "Magical Mystery Tour." What do you do next? Simple: you do something *totally* different. The Fab Four's 1968 release, "The Beatles," or "The White Album" as everybody calls it (even the Beatles themselves call it "The White Album"), was a completely different animal from anything the band had done before. This was a sprawling double album of raw-sounding, down-to-earth songs with no traces of psychedelia anywhere, all the way down to the album's plain white cover. Being a double album also allowed George Harrison the luxury of being able to contribute more songs to the party alongside all the great nuggets by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Heck, even Ringo Starr wrote a tune for it. This was also the point in time where the Beatles were just starting to splinter, with Lennon's new love Yoko Ono never leaving his side, not even in the recording studio, much to the other Beatles' dismay. But even so, the Fab Four delivered a brilliant album, so diverse in it's collection of songs. You've got your great rockers like "Back In The USSR," "Birthday," "Yer Blues" and "Helter Skelter," alongside gorgeous tunes like "Blackbird," "Julia," "Mother Natures Son," "Dear Prudence," and Harrison's signature "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Want lighthearted humor? That's here too: "Rocky Racoon," "The Continuing Adventures Of Bungalow Bill," the 1920's-ish "Honey Pie," and Starr's contribution "Don't Pass Me By." There's also room for a brave studio experiment from Lennon with "Revolution 9," a lengthy sound collage put together by Lennon (with Lennon and Harrison making vocal cameos throughout) that will either enrapture or befuddle the listener, but that I've always personally enjoyed, simply because it's so weird. It's hard to believe that this is the same band that did "Love Me Do" five years prior, but, by gum, it is. Now THAT'S musical progression. The Beatles "White Album" is a treasure-trove of musical styles and substances, and the Beatles, at least musically-speaking, were still very much at the top of their supremely brilliant game.
Possibly the best album the Beatles ever made...definitely the longest! February 7, 2010
Myles McGonigle (Lovington, IL, USA)
The Beatles (aka the White Album, so named for the pure white cover, the first Beatles album cover to be released without the band members' picture on it# is the only official double-disc album the Bealtes made during their career. Not counting the British EP for Magical Mystery Tour, this is the first album made after the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. It's also the first album made after their trip to India, and that trip is very much reflected on the album. The strong Indian influence is felt in such songs as The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, Sexy Sadie #John Lennon's subtle dig at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi#, and others. This album is also viewed as the beginning of the end of the Beatles as a recording entity, as much of the music was written individually and basically utilized the other band members as sidemen.
The Beatles contains some of the strongest songs of the group's career, including Paul McCartney's Back In The USSR, George Harrison's When My Guitar Gently Weeps #featuring an uncredited Eric Clapton on lead guitar#, and the original version of Revolution #here titled Revolution 1#. It also contains the single most bizarre recording in the Beatles' official catalog, Revolution 9 #"Number nine...number nine...number nine..."). In between are the Beatles trying out various and sundry different song styles, from the then-popular hard blues sound (Yer Blues) to Forties-style pop ballads (Honey Pie) to the closest the Beatles ever came to heavy metal (Helter Skelter). The last song, along with Revolution 1 & 9, and Piggies, a George Harrison composition on the album, was unfortunately used by mass murderer Charles Manson and his family in the grisly slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of director Roman Polaski) and three others.
As always, there are a few tracks that could probably been left off the album; indeed, the band's producer, Sir George Martin, has been quoted as saying that with a few omissions, this could have been the best single-disc album the band ever made. In my opinion, though, that would have been sad. The world would have lost such oddities as Revolution 9, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, and possibly even Ringo Starr's first recorded composition, Don't Pass Me By. To my mind, the album is perfect as is, and I think is a great starting point for any budding Beatles fan.
 Not much better February 4, 2010
Robert E. Rice (Everett, washington United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
They had a chance here (hear) to make this better than the original CD release but instead of remastering the multitrack tapes they chose to send the original two track master through a modern AD converter and call it good. So the bass is a little better, but that's about it. They could have cleaned up the individual tracks and really made a difference with "The Beatles" but they didn't.
The mid period albums have shown the greatest improvement from remastering. Revolver is the stand out.
Overall I'd say that the remastering effort come's up short of expectations. .
 Okay January 24, 2010
Thomas De Mann (Las Vegas, NV)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an avid Beatles fan but was disappointed in this cd. I haven't heard the White Album since I owned it on vinyl. Revolver, Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour were much better productions. However, I love the Beatles and didn't mean to be rude. They are the Beatles but other cd's are far better. It happens! Still worth a buy since this is a classic.
At least my Mother's Gravy used to move about January 22, 2010
Daniel Belton (Worthing, UK)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having a modest but effective sound system I was surprised to be not impressed by this version of my fave Beatles LP.
It sounds lumpen, bass laden and somehow charmless. Just another darn moneyspinner for the suckers on the line.
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