Beatles White Album 1968 Original Double (2)LP Apple mstly VG++ #0850656 +shrink
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Description
The Beatles ~ The Beatles (The White Album)
- Made in the U.S.A.
- 1968, 1st and Original STEREO pressing.
- Double Vinyl ~ 2LP Set
- Limited Edition, low number #0850656
- Apple Records - SWBO-101
- Vinyl are VG+ to VG++, mostly VG++; Vinyl play VG+ to Mint-, mostly VG++ to Mint-. Some quiet passages have tics and clicks that grade at VG+, but it mostly plays VG++ or better. Discs have various marks, most are faint and inaudible; has paper-inner-sleeve scuff-marks and some handling marks and faint scratches.
- Labels are clean; some manufacturer imperfections on side 1, outer-edge has water-damage-look, VG+ to VG++. Side 2 label is Mint-. Side 3 label is VG++ to Mint-, very small, very minor water-damage-look on small portion of outer-edge (near "Stereo"). Side 4 label is VG++ to Mint-, very minor and faint "hairline" mark (possible spindle-mark near spindle-hole).
- Gatefold cover is VG++ to Mint-, very small and minor corner-bends and wear, expecially worn on lower-right corner. Shrink-wrap is intact with Original K-mart sticker. Shrink has shelf-wear.
- Poster is VG++ to Mint-, some wear on the seams of folds.
- Photos are Mint-, except John Lennon's photo has a faint, minor imprint from the record and Ringo Star photo has some minor, faint scuffs.
- The light-blue photo-cover paper has a small tear and some minor creases.
- Out of Print, original album.
"Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the British blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced, so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrète collage "Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry," rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn't reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning -- the music hall romp "Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal roar of "Helter Skelter." Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy Truffle," the haunting "Long, Long, Long," and even the silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess."
-allmusic.com
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