From when I ate sweets (until Christmas 2020), rum ball cakes were one of my favorites.
I don’t know about other countries, but rum balls are often made from other sweet wastes in Poland. Why do I write about this cake? It is because, for me, the Beatles’ so-called “White Album” resembles a rum ball. From the musical “waste” of songs rejected from the previous albums or disliked by other band members, a delicious cake was made, which people consume (listen to) with great pleasure until today (I wrote this text on the 24th of August, 2024). For me, the “White Album” is totally different from other Beatles’ albums, compared to the “Abbey Road” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” albums. The last two mentioned albums are consistent. I always try to listen to them from the beginning until the end.
Each piece of music seems to evoke and appeal to the others.
They were created by cooperating members of the Fab Four band. Contrary to the ‘White Album,’ which is not consistent. Still, it does not mean it is not a genial album. I love listening to it. No doubt that on the ‘White Album,’ we can hear each genius’s pieces of work. It is an album where we can listen to artists who want to go in each artistic direction. The fact that we can hear most of the various kinds of music, starting from heavy metal (‘Helter Skelter’ by Paul McCartney), music from old Hollywood films (‘Good Night’ by Ringo Starr), and ending with blues (‘Yer Blues’ by John Lennon).
I do not have to mention that one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard appears on the White Album: ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (by George Harrison).
Without a shadow of a doubt, listening to the ‘White Album’ is as delicious as eating a rum ball. Luckily, it is also a much healthier pleasure. The ‘White Album’ diversity is something to be appreciated, just like the variety of flavors in a rum ball.
