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The Beatles The White Album
Super Deluxe Edition
6 CD, Remixes
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Back In The U.S.S.R. |
2 | Dear Prudence |
3 | Glass Onion |
4 | Ob - La - La |
5 | Wild Honey Pie |
6 | The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill |
7 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
8 | Happiness Is A Warm Gun |
9 | Martha My Dear |
10 | I'm So Tired |
11 | Blackbird |
12 | Piggies |
13 | Rocky Racoon |
14 | Don't Pass Me By |
15 | Why Don't We Do It In The Road? |
16 | I Will |
17 | Julia |
Disc: 2
1 | Birthday |
2 | Yer Blues |
3 | Mother Nature's Son |
4 | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey |
5 | Sexy Sadie |
6 | Helter Skelter |
7 | Long, Long, Long |
8 | Revolution 1 |
9 | Honey Pie |
10 | Savoy Truffle |
11 | Cry Baby Cry |
12 | Revolution 9 |
13 | Good Night |
Disc: 3
1 | Back In The U.S.S.R. (Esher Demo) |
2 | Dear Prudence (Esher Demo) |
3 | Glass Onion (Esher Demo) |
4 | Ob - La - La |
5 | The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (Esher Demo) |
6 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Esher Demo) |
7 | Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Esher Demo) |
8 | I'm So Tired (Esher Demo) |
9 | Blackbird (Esher Demo) |
10 | Piggies (Esher Demo) |
11 | Rocky Raccoon (Esher Demo) |
12 | Julia (Esher Demo) |
13 | Yer Blues (Esher Demo) |
14 | Mother Nature's Son (Esher Demo) |
15 | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Esher Demo) |
16 | Sexy Sadie (Esher Demo) |
17 | Revolution (Esher Demo) |
18 | Honey Pie (Esher Demo) |
19 | Cry Baby Cry (Esher Demo) |
20 | Sour Milk Sea (Esher Demo) |
21 | Junk (Esher Demo) |
22 | Child Of Nature (Esher Demo) |
23 | Circles (Esher Demo) |
24 | Mean Mr Mustard (Esher Demo) |
25 | Polythene Pam (Esher Demo) |
26 | Not Guilty (Esher Demo) |
27 | What's The New Mary Jane (Esher Demo) |
Disc: 4
1 | Revolution 1 (Take 18) |
2 | A Beginning (Take 4)/Don't Pass Me By (Take 7) |
3 | Blackbird (Take 28) |
4 | Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Unnumbered Rehearsal) |
5 | Good Night (Unnumbered Rehearsal) |
6 | Good Night (Take 10 With A Guitar Part From Take 7) |
7 | Good Night (Take 22) |
8 | Ob - La - La |
9 | Revolution (Unnumbered Rehearsal) |
10 | Revolution (Take 14 Instrumental Backing Track) |
11 | Cry Baby Cry (Unnumbered Rehearsal) |
12 | Helter Skelter (First Version Take 2) |
Disc: 5
1 | Sexy Sadie (Take 3) |
2 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic Version Take 2) |
3 | Hey Jude (Take 1) |
4 | St Louis Blues (Studio Jam) |
5 | Not Guilty (Take 102) |
6 | Mother Nature's Son (Take 15) |
7 | Yer Blues (Take 5 With Guide Vocal) |
8 | What's The New Mary Jane (Take 1) |
9 | Rocky Raccoon (Take 8) |
10 | Back In The U.S.S.R. (Take 5 Instrumental Backing Track) |
11 | Dear Prudence (Vocal, Guitar & Drums) |
12 | Let It Be (Unnumbered Rehearsal) |
13 | While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version Take 27) |
14 | (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Studio Jam) |
15 | Helter Skelter (Second Version Take 17) |
16 | Glass Onion (Take 10) |
Disc: 6
1 | I Will (Take 13) |
2 | Blue Moon (Studio Jam) |
3 | I Will (Take 29) |
4 | Step Inside Love (Studio Jam) |
5 | Los Paranoias (Studio Jam) |
6 | Can You Take Me Back (Take 1) |
7 | Birthday (Take 2 Instrumental Backing Track) |
8 | Piggies (Take 12 Instrumental Backing Track) |
9 | Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Take 19) |
10 | Honey Pie (Instrumental Backing Track) |
11 | Savoy Truffle (Instrumental Backing Track) |
12 | Martha My Dear (Without Brass And Strings) |
13 | Long Long Long (Take 44) |
14 | I'm So Tired (Take 7) |
15 | I'm So Tired (Take 14) |
16 | The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (Take 2) |
17 | Why Don't We Do It In The Road? (Take 5) |
18 | Julia (Two Rehearsals) |
19 | The Inner Light (Take 6 Instrumental Backing Track) |
20 | Lady Madonna (Take 2 Piano & Drums) |
21 | Lady Madonna (Backing Vocals Take 3) |
22 | Across The Universe (Take 6)" |
Disc: 7
1 | Disc 7 (Blu-ray): 5.1 Surround of Whole Album / Hi-Res Stereo Mix of Album / Hi-Res Mono Mix of Album |
Editorial Reviews
For 50 years, `The White Album' has invited its listeners to venture forth and explore the breadth and ambition of its music, delighting and inspiring each new generation in turn. The Beatles have now released a suite of lavishly presented `White Album' packages, including an expanded 6CD + Blu-ray package. The album's 30 tracks are newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio, joined by 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 1.18 x 8.27 x 8.27 inches; 4.7 Pounds
- Manufacturer : Capitol
- Item model number : 602567571C
- Original Release Date : 2018
- Date First Available : September 20, 2018
- Label : Capitol
- ASIN : B07HFYZY7D
- Number of discs : 7
- Best Sellers Rank: #22,180 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,711 in Classic Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Otherwise, this Super Deluxe set is excellent - 5.1 mix is stellar, having the Esher Demos is awesome, and I love the Sessions too. So glad to have it.
Well, enough reminiscing. If you're reading this, chances are you have a similar story. The White Album was a game changer. Not because it was so great, but because it was so DIFFERENT, so unexpected, at least for me. I didn't own Sgt. Pepper (yet), so the last LP I'd heard was Revolver (U.S. version), which was different enough, but nothing like this. Hey Jude and particularly Revolution had signaled a change on the horizon, but this was huge. The size, scope and fundamental change from "pop" to "rock" seemed to rest with this monumental work. To me, still a stranger to Cream, Jimi Hendricks, and even the Stones, it was a huge change.
Over the years, general appreciation for it has grown while my own appreciation for it has faded. For me, time rendered it overlong, not uniformly strong all the way through, having a "lo-fi" production, and indicative of a group splintering, not coming together.
Has all that changed with this release? Well, not entirely. But the stereo remix, 5.1 mix, demos and outtakes were too tempting to pass up, even with the ridiculous price tag (Jimi Hendricks Electric Ladyland box is a $46, and has a beautiful book, 3 CDs and a Bluray. So you tell me that $90 MORE than that isn't price gouging. Just go ahead. As far as the contents, there is not much to complain about. One can pick nits about little mistakes, like making John's French gobblededook between "I'm So Tired" and "Blackbird" nearly inaudible. But that would paint the wrong overall picture. I certainly had to work with my EQ, because the stereo remix sounded muddy when I first put it on. But with some judicious EQ, namely some reduction of the low end and increase of the high end, the results were fairly amazing. Things that were buried, particularly background vocals, literally came alive. It's still not Abbey Road, or even Sgt. Pepper, when it comes to fidelity, but it's a damn-side better than it has ever been, and by a long shot. The same careful EQ on the 5.1 mix yields even more amazing results. It is absolutely astonishing. Giles Martin keeps the spriit and basic sound of the original White Album, yet really improves definition and clarity. I don't think that was an easy assignment, and I give him kudos for it.
So, if you wanna dance to the music, you got to pay to the piper, in this case Universal Music, by far, IMO, the greediest bastards out there (at least in the music business). No way to own this right now but to pay $138 for it. Oh, you can get the download for less than half the price, but you'd be missing the essence....holding it as well as playing it (not to mention the 5.1). So, go on, make Universal Music's shareholders even wealthier...whether you can afford it or not.
I did.
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If you're reading this you already know the original album's songs, so I won't waste anyone's time describing the music on the original album. I will say that the new remix of the album is an improvement. While staying close to the original album's emotional feel, the new remix has cleaned up the sound and in doing so subtle sounds have been brought to the surface that were buried in the older mix.
The "Esher Demos" is the Beatles unplugged. You hear the band working as a band--the acrimony that would later split the band apart is absent. These (a few tracks showed up on volume three of the "Anthology" series) are beautiful, relaxed versions of the album's songs in good/excellent sound--clean and open sounding--especially for tracks recorded fairly casually at Harrison's home. You'll hear various combinations of Beatles on these tracks--not all four band members are heard on every track. Even at this stage these demos are fairly close to the finished versions of these songs.
The discs of outtakes (with snippets of chatter) reveal the band working well together--and again without the problems that would surface a year or so later. When it came to recording these songs the band came together to produce outtakes in various stages that are interesting to hear. These particular tracks are instructive, giving an idea how many of these songs came to fruition--besides being fun to listen to. Listen to the takes of "Helter Skelter", or "Revolution", or "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", or take 5 of "Yer Blues", or the unnumbered rehearsal of "Let It Be"--all are good examples of the goodies included on these outtake discs. The instrumental backing tracks help fill in the picture of the album coming together but are not as strong as the vocal outtakes. But overall, you can hear why all these particular tracks were chosen--for the most part they point toward the finished versions we all know. The Blu-Ray has great sound and adds even more value to this box set.
The packaging is quite nice. The 12 1/2" X 10 1/4" X 1" thick 164 page hardcover book has a glossy white cover with "The Beatles" embossed close to the bottom of the cover. And true to the original album there's a number printed on the cover--mine is 0038324--a nice touch. The book comes in a clear plastic slipcase with subtle see-through photos of the four Beatles on the front, and a list of tracks on the back of the slipcase. There's two CDs on the inside front cover and on the facing page is the Blu-Ray disc. The other discs are in the back of the book. Each disc comes in a plain white cardboard jacket with a list of songs on the back cover. Each disc slips into it's own pocket which holds them securely.
There's a forward by McCartney, and an introduction by Giles Martin. A long essay by Kevin Howlett ("The Way to White") which lays the groundwork for this album. The essay by John Harris ("Can You Take Me Back, Where I Came From?") puts this music in context of the era. Andrew Wilson's essay ("White On White") goes into detail about the making of the artwork which is quite interesting. And the final essay by Howlett ("It's Here!") is about "The most important musical event of the year occurs today.", which is a good summation of 1968 and this album. Plus there's a piece by Howlett on the group photo session ("The Mad Day Out") which gives more detail about this period. All the essays about the album are worth reading and help put this album in perspective. The track-by-track text (by Howlett) is very informative with a fairly long essay on each song including valuable recording information. There's also a section of lyrics reproduced from original copies.
There's many color and b&w photos throughout the book, printed in crisp quality. There's a repro of a prototype cover, corrections to a printed lyric sheet, the making of the photo collage which is on the large size (folded) poster, which has lyrics on the reverse side. Plus there's four color photo portraits (8" X 11") that were included in the original LP. All in all the artwork on this 50th Anniversary of "The White Album" (or originally called simply "The Beatles") is in keeping with the original album's look and feel.
If this album is important to you, you probably need this multi-disc version--there's a lot of worthwhile tracks on the outtake discs. But some people will be satisfied with the 3 CD version with cleaner sound and those "Esher Demos". But for those who really like this album, this is a great look past the original album. And in a year of Led Zeppelin, Cream, Jeff Beck, the Grateful Dead, Hendrix, and other bands all releasing albums, "The White Album" stands out as a refreshing change of pace from all that heaviness..
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Everything is housed in a large hard cover book with a gloss white cover and a clear plastic outer sleeve which includes the track listing printed on the back and the 4 portraits of the band on the front in black and white. Once you slide that off the book cover has the embossed Beatles name and an edition number below, made to look like the original vinyl pressings, gloss and all. The first couple of thick card pages contain the newly remastered album on two discs inserted into white embossed card sleeves made to look like the original album. A third slot on the opposite page houses the blu-ray. The book is thick and filled with a bunch of well written related info, track breakdowns and of course tons of images... the rest of the audio content is in the back of the book, a large pocket sleeve/page contains a reprint of the original poster/lyric sheet and the classic 4 portrait cards, all looking the best I've ever seen them. I worked in used record stores back in the 90's, so I've seen a bunch of these inserts from various pressings! The final 4 discs containing the Esher demos and sessions discs sit in the two final card pages. The demos and sessions discs are all worth the price of admission, there are some pretty amazing moments in here... and all very well mastered and mixed.
The new stereo mix is a real improvement to my ears, everything sounds so clear and spacious, it gives you a new perspective on everything. Bass, drums, vocals, guitar tones... all the best they've ever sounded, a real treat! The 5.1 mix, amazing... Giles Martin really hit it out of the park here. As in past 5.1 mixes he stays grounded for songs like While My Guitar Gently Weeps by really pulling you into the middle of the song rather than whipping guitar solos around 360, but has a little more fun with Helter Skelter or Piggies. Blackbird sounds like I have Paul McCartney circa 1968 in my living room and those great Lennon and Harrison songs, they all just pull you in and put you center stage. Revolution 9? All I can say is, love it or hate it, surround sound just makes sense on that piece. :)
Overall this collection is a must have for fans. It's a deep dive into the creation of an album with a band entering the last phases of it's life, still a bit of the 60's thing going on but also new ideas and individuality shining though, hints of things to come for all involved... even though they were still working together as a group on many of the songs, I always looked at this album as a collection solo songs enhanced by each other and a few new friends along the way.
Buy it if you love the album, or maybe go for one of the less expensive versions if the white album is a little further down on your list of Beatles faves... there's a definite cost factor on this super deluxe edition, this sucker is pricey but it is chock full of musical goodness!
Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2018
Everything is housed in a large hard cover book with a gloss white cover and a clear plastic outer sleeve which includes the track listing printed on the back and the 4 portraits of the band on the front in black and white. Once you slide that off the book cover has the embossed Beatles name and an edition number below, made to look like the original vinyl pressings, gloss and all. The first couple of thick card pages contain the newly remastered album on two discs inserted into white embossed card sleeves made to look like the original album. A third slot on the opposite page houses the blu-ray. The book is thick and filled with a bunch of well written related info, track breakdowns and of course tons of images... the rest of the audio content is in the back of the book, a large pocket sleeve/page contains a reprint of the original poster/lyric sheet and the classic 4 portrait cards, all looking the best I've ever seen them. I worked in used record stores back in the 90's, so I've seen a bunch of these inserts from various pressings! The final 4 discs containing the Esher demos and sessions discs sit in the two final card pages. The demos and sessions discs are all worth the price of admission, there are some pretty amazing moments in here... and all very well mastered and mixed.
The new stereo mix is a real improvement to my ears, everything sounds so clear and spacious, it gives you a new perspective on everything. Bass, drums, vocals, guitar tones... all the best they've ever sounded, a real treat! The 5.1 mix, amazing... Giles Martin really hit it out of the park here. As in past 5.1 mixes he stays grounded for songs like While My Guitar Gently Weeps by really pulling you into the middle of the song rather than whipping guitar solos around 360, but has a little more fun with Helter Skelter or Piggies. Blackbird sounds like I have Paul McCartney circa 1968 in my living room and those great Lennon and Harrison songs, they all just pull you in and put you center stage. Revolution 9? All I can say is, love it or hate it, surround sound just makes sense on that piece. :)
Overall this collection is a must have for fans. It's a deep dive into the creation of an album with a band entering the last phases of it's life, still a bit of the 60's thing going on but also new ideas and individuality shining though, hints of things to come for all involved... even though they were still working together as a group on many of the songs, I always looked at this album as a collection solo songs enhanced by each other and a few new friends along the way.
Buy it if you love the album, or maybe go for one of the less expensive versions if the white album is a little further down on your list of Beatles faves... there's a definite cost factor on this super deluxe edition, this sucker is pricey but it is chock full of musical goodness!