Friendly Arguments: The Beatles - White Album (w. Davey Cretin
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- Welcome to Friendly Arguments, where my guest and I disagree about the merits of a particular album or artist. In this episode Davey Cretin from Cretin Classics and I discuss The Beatles legendary White Album. This is possibly my favourite Beatles album, but Davey only likes about half the songs on this album! We go through the album track by track and see where we differ and, in spots, where we agree. Enjoy!
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Thanks for having me on, bicyclelegs! This was a very cool show to do and different from my usual fare. Although l love The Beatles, this probably sits just outside of my top five records in their oeuvre. I enjoy The White Album more than, let’s say Please Please Me, but not nearly as much as Abbey Road.
I made a slight flub talking about Mr. Eric Clapton. I like a lot of his solo output through 1989’s Journeyman, the album AFTER August. Once the 1990s hit, I feel he lost a lot of his fire and did too much music in the adult contemporary vein. Again, just my opinion.
I look forward to more collaborations with you in the future.
Thanks again for having me on!
Cheers 🍻 from The Big Apple. 🍎
Rock Out, Prog On and Pogo!
Your pal and mine,
~ The Dynamic, Dynamite, 🧨 Divine, Davey Cretin, from CRETIN CLASSICS.
PS: Wow, what a bad hair day l had. To paraphrase the great John Lennon, “My hair looks like Granny $h!¥.” Bwhahahahahahahaha!
Thanks for doing the show! And your hair was fine.
Hey Davey, did you work in NY record stores? NYC or Long Island?
@@peterock4210 ~ Queens County, Nassau County and Suffolk County; over a three decade plus span of time.
@@daveycretin664 yeah, you look super familiar and I lived in all of those counties. 😂😂 I just subbed your channel. (Watched your excellent Kansas vid. )
@@peterock4210 ~ Thanks for the sub and the kind words! It is greatly appreciated. I worked at Take One Video and Records in Queens; Titus Oaks Record Exchange in Hicksville and Huntington; Music Arcade in Westbury; and Mr. Cheapo’s in Mineola and Commack. Oh, and Vinyl Bay 666 in Plainview. Sorry, 777… not 666. My bad. I’m not good with numbers.
Great show! Very much enjoyed your breakdown of the tracks on this classic record. I suspect Davey likes the white album a lot more than he’s letting on.
Thanks!
Dear Prudence- guitar picking style influenced by Donovan
Oh Bla De Oh Bla Da- Great ragtime piano melody.I believe George Martin played piano on this track.
Black Bird- Counterpoint melody inspired by Bach
Bungalow Bill and Rocky Raccoon- Western movies and books were very popular in the late 60s.
Have a good weekend 😊
The piano on Ob-La-Di was actually played by John.
@@bicyclelegsmusic Thanks
The White Album and Blood on the Tracks are my two favourite albums of all time.
I love everything about The White Album. The way it sounds. The way it looks. The way it smells. The way it feels. Everything!
Me too!
It was only fairly recently that this album became my favourite. Before that, it was Sgt. Pepper. What changed my mind was that the songs that people disparaged, I finally decided that I liked all of them. Each song is different and this ensures that the album has depth and covers a vast expanse of musical landscape. In so doing, it fulfills what I consider to be the function of a double album.
I agree, take any of the parts away and it’s a lesser album.
Great to watch both of you talk about a legendary band. I am a very unusual bird when it comes to the Beatles. I love all their material but only up through 1966. My collection stops with "Revolver". I greatly prefer their earlier material. I don't dislike their later material, but it doesn't remotely connect with me the same way the earlier albums did.
That’s fair enough! I’m partial to the early beat era stuff too.
@@bicyclelegsmusic Lennon fans to be sure!
I love this album - my #1 Beatles album. Yes, there's filler but even if take that away, you're still left with a great double album. And I do think Revolution 9 belongs
I wouldn’t remove a note!
Yay I like these shows and the white album is such a fun album to pick apart the good stuff is outstanding the other stuff well it's fun to discuss
Thanks!
The White Album would be my favorite Beatles album if it had been a single album with the best tracks. I enjoy it regardless. Thanks for the friendly banter and discussion about this great work of art.
Thank you! Your position seems to align with Davey’s, whereas I wouldn’t change a note of it. But we all hear things differently, that’s the beauty of music!
@@bicyclelegsmusic Agree. Diversity and uniqueness is what makes the World go round. If we were all the same, it would be very boring and rather scary to be honest. I very much value your opinion and respect it, Bicyclelegs. Thanks for the great content.
A pleasure, thanks for watching!
@@bicyclelegsmusic I love when you and a guest dissect albums like this. It's such a joy to watch and listen to your takes. I think I sit between you and Davey on the "White" album. I think it should be a single album. However, I liked a few songs that Davey didn't care for. Such as Piggies(a mini masterpiece that should have been expanded to a prog epic, that harpsichord and orchestral strings in the baroque pop style get me every time and the song serves as an Orwellian satire on greed and consumerism), Julia, and Why Don't We Do It In The Road. I also think the album would have been even stronger with the upbeat, single version of Revolution, Hey Jude, and Hey Bulldog.
Hi Daniel, to be honest with you I’ve never listened to a full album by The Beatles unfortunately but I might check out their albums. Of course I know their well known songs and whatnot, me and my college band last year performed “Oh! Darling” and I played the bass line surprisingly well!! 😅👍
Cool!
@@bicyclelegsmusic It took me a while to learn, did you know that George Harrison played bass in that song?? 😀👍
That appears to only have been revealed in 2019 with the release of the Abbey Road deluxe box set.
@@bicyclelegsmusic Yeah, the original says Paul played the bass line when he didn’t. 😂😅
🤠 Forest. Trees.
Lol
@@bicyclelegsmusic🤠 Heh. Gestalt Theory; The Beatles were hip to it.
There definitely is a gestalt to the White Album. I don’t think you can remove any part of it without affecting the whole.
Going into this video I thought I was just lukewarm on the White Album. But while it's still not one of my top Beatles albums (those are Revolver and Abbey Road) it turns out I really do like a lot of the songs.
My major point of disagreement with the video is that I really like Don''t Pass Me By. But I'm a second-generation Beatles fan and both of my parents were Ringo fans so take that how you will. I'll back up bicyclelegs on Honey Pie. It's a much, much better music hall song than When I'm 64. But I'll also give Davey the point I think he was making that When I'm 64 is a better Beatles song. I don't hate Revolution 9, but I also don't love it. For me it doesn't work for me as well as Tomorrow Never Knows. TNK in a modern context is credible sample-collage electronica, except the Beatles did it all in the analog domain.
And yes, "Good Night" is the perfect ender for the album.
Thanks for your insights!
I ranked this album 12th out of the 13 studio albums. Way too much filler as I concur with Cretin from Cretin's Classics. Just can never get into the full album. Top 3 tracks for me are While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Back in the USSR and Dear Prudence.
Fair enough.