The White Album: Birthplace of Mordern Day rock and roll?

I think it just happened to be the first major rock record that aimed at a really wide variety of different sounds and different perspectives on the same basic framework. Thus it was inevitable that various individuals would pick up a few of those threads and run with them ...

Sorry for the obvious response, but I don't think there's anything hugely surprising wrapped up in the phenomenon.

But as I listen to it today, I find that it is fascinating how influential that album was on the modern rock scene, permuting to this day.

Another song: Beetlebum - Blur (and maybe blur self titled) - direct influence from the white album.

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http://www.dustandgrooves.com/rutherford-chang-we-buy-white-albums/

That '100 x Side 1' clip turns into something like a Muse album about halfway through.

(try listening from 14:30 onwards)

http://www.dustandgrooves.com/rutherford-chang-we-buy-white-albums/

― koogs, Monday, March 4, 2013 8:59 AM (1 hour ago

Also:

People used to have good handwriting.

Yeah, I really like the idea of all these people's impulses to add their own art to a blank album cover (plus the deterioration, mold etc.) becoming art in its own right.

Whoa.

The one with the mold on it reminds me of a wall in a place I used to rent.

My dad's friend had one covered in rainbow squiggles, coloured in during one inspired acid trip. This is so cool.

Love this: http://s10.postimage.org/tlypvnpcp/image.jpg
(from this blog: http://defacevalue.com)

I want a bunch of yellow submarine stickers to stick on random things

lolling at 'Sabre Dance' with added banana from the first Velvets album.

...also 'The Sound of Music' with added sky full of bats.

White Album maybe birth of the mixtape or something. I think sonically "Abbey Road" has a much more 70s rock sheen to it.

I'm trying to think, if i could only collect one record, which one would it be?

"The Velvet Underground and Nico." Then you could start band after band after band …

so the aforementioned Sabre Dance guy was on to something.....

The white album was a blind alley. Some good songs (of course, it was by The Beatles, and it was a double album), but didn't really lead to much at all. Except giving an indication of how they would sound as solo artists in the early 70s.

It "led" to over 30 million copies being sold worldwide, several of its songs becoming worldwide-recognised standards, and over 40 years after its release is still recognised as being a stone-cold classic. Not to mention it's one of those Beatles albums that seems to have its own little 'cult'. Not bad for a so-called blind alley.

http://brianmooreshead.clubfans.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/bigmatch.jpg

Indeed.

haha

Not to mention it's one of those Beatles albums that seems to have its own little 'cult'.

Tbf, most of those people have died in prison though Charlie still gets a parole hearing every few years.

*facepalm*

Regarding the OP from 11 yrs back, any release by the Beatles probably = no duh. But also less massively popular albums that year by VU, Beefheart, Blue Cheer and Caravan seemed to spawn multiple musical sub-genres.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/listening-to-the-beatles-white-album-100-times-all-at-once

Rolling my eyes and then I read the article and listened to the track and wow it sounds really weird and cool. Sort of like Zaireeka!

this thread title feels like classic 'early ilx talking of your ass premise' but i actually agree with it -- i remember coming up in the '90s listening to a lot of alt rock and not being surrounded by a whole lot of Beatles music beyond the unavoidable hits, and when i started listening to their albums in the early 2000s, The White Album was a real 'woah' moment of instantly recognizing how a lot of things came from them that i didn't associate with the Beatles before hearing it.

xp I felt the same way. I'm halfway through Bungalow Bill and it's gotten kind of amazing!

this thread title feels like classic 'early ilx talking of your ass premise' but i actually agree with it

Dunno, the ilxors in 2001 probably got to the bottom of this, but it seems there was a point in the recording of rock'n'roll when the technology and basic mindset (i.e. arrangements, panning, mixing) got to a kind of consensus where - at least while rock-y music exists - everything sort of sounds "modern". 1968 seems as good a place to pin this as any, but it's not really specific to the White Album - loads of music from that year sounds very much advanced compared to 67, 66.

Feel like Abbey Road is really the shiniest and crispest studio recording by the Beatles. Stuff like "Come Together" and "The End" sound like they could have been recorded at any point in the 70s imo.

oh yeah to an extent it's totally the timing and the recording advancements that were happening -- Electric Ladyland sounds palpably more 'modern' than Axis, Beggars Banquet more than Satanic Majesties Request etc. but White Album in particular birthed so many bands' sounds/attitudes, and mostly not the bands we think of as cute retro 'Beatlesesque' bands. and the specific way in which the album is sprawling and angsty and messy and pulled in opposite directions even compared to other ambitious double albums of the era is echoed in a lot of modern albums.

When the drums kick in on Dear Prudence was where I started seeing the demons.

A long time ago, probably around the time this thread was started, I downloaded this bootleg remix "outfake" of "Glass Onion" off of Napster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOLgDPnJ-8

Do you know from where this version was released and if there's a cleaner version out there somewhere?

I've been going through Beatles forums, where let me tell you, many a fan isn't very appreciative of such outfakes. The track is pretty old - like I said, I downloaded it 15 years ago and some of the descriptions of it say it has a "Lenny Kravitz intro".

I've even been to listserv and back. Got any ideas?

I remember that intro, but have no idea if it's for real or not. That shift in the mix when it goes into the real song is kind of a tell. It may be someone just jamming to a OOPs'd track.

I use to have a bootleg Xmas Album CD with this and "Lullaby for a Lazy Day" tacked onto the end (probably from 91-92). Still enjoy both, fakes though they are.

It's definitely a fake. I was just wondering where it came from.