THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM - APPLE 1ST PRESS STEREO PCS.7067/8 1968
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THE BEATLES-THE BEATLES TYPE DOUBLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO
APPLE 1ST PRESS with DARKER GREEN SIDE ONE LABELS with "Sold in U.K." and An E.M.I. Recording" LABELTEXT and MATRIX NUMBERS:
YEX 709-1 YEX 710-1 YEX 711-1 YEX 712-1 CATALOGUE NUMBER PCS 7067 YEAR OF RELEASE 1968 COUNTRY OF RELEASE U.K. SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD - GARROD & LOFTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL FULLY LAMINATED WITH INTERNAL FLIPBACKS. Numbered 0477329 and small Stereo printed upper right rear. INSERTS/EXTRASNONE
GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s)TOP EXCELLENT+ (VERY NICE CLEAN records with MINIMAL playwear, and just the MINIMUM HANDLING marks and wear. Both records play really well with a great STEREO sound and reproduction.
LABELSEXCELLENT+ (CLEAN LABELS with NO writing rips tears stickers/removal marks with LIGHT spindleusage and MINIMAL handling storage and ageing marks)
SLEEVE Front board.Inner gatefold EXCLEAN SLEEVE with NO writing rips tears stickers or removal marks. Front laminate is clean and shiny with VERY LIGHT rubbing wear and pressure marking, and a bit of watermarking at the top of the spine. INNER GATEFOLD is clean with VERY LIGHT handling and ageing. Stamped number is clear and unworn.
Rear Board EX Rear board is clean. Unmarked with just VERY LIGHT ageing and handling only a little bit of the watermarking carried over from th front. Printed "Stereo" is clear and unfaded Flipbacks EX+ Internal flipbacks are clean unworn and stuck fast. Spine EX- Spine is complete with a crease down the centre and "some" visible writing. Top & front edges EX Edges have VERY LIGHT wear only Opening EX Openings have very light usage and light wear Corners EX All corners have light wear only. INNER /EXTRASN/A
DETAILSEach 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.
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