The Beatles self-titled/White Album MFSL Mobile Fidelity Double/2 LP Mint-
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The Beatles ~ The Beatles (White Album)
- Original Master Recording Half-speed Mastered Limited Edition
- Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs - MFSL 2-072
- Double Vinyl / 2 LP set
- Vinyl are Mint-
- Vinyl look Mint-, except labels and very minor visual imperfections.
- Vinyl play Mint-.
- Labels are VG++ to Mint- with faint marks from the VPI clamp.
- Gatefold cover is VG++: small and minor corner-bends, a few indentations and other very minor imperfections.
- The thick, record-protector lyric-sleeves are VG++ to Mint-.
- Out of print MFSL.
- There is a glare from the camera and the window-lighting; on the cover is particularly noticeable on the top-edge; notice how the glare moves as the angle shifts. Cover is VG++ with no discolorations.
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 Beatlescult 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 Georgeand 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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