Wow! I did not expect to have such a musical feast while listening to the Beatles’ so-called “White Album.”
The more I listen to the Beatles’ albums (“Abbey Road,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Revolver” and the title “White Album” [the official name of this album is simple: “The Beatles”]), the more I see why practically all other bands were inspired by the Fab Four. Which songs (from those which I did not know previously) impressed me the most? There are many of them: “Dear Prudence,” “Glass Onion,” “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill,” “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” (Is warm and turn on camera happiness for me? Did the song “Helter Skelter” inspired Charles Manson to kill others or perhaps it was “Happiness Is A Warm Gun?”), “I’m So Tired,” “I Will,” “Yer Blues,” “Mother Nature’s Son,” “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey,” “Long, Long, Long,” “Savoy Truffle,” “Cry Baby Cry,” and “Good Night.”
Wow. It’s an impressive number of new songs for me to acquire. They are brilliant.
Not the first time (undoubtedly, not the last, for me) in my life, the Beatles proved how various and eclectic masterpieces they created. I wrote many times on the www.adammazek.com website that I started discovering the Beatles’ songs after listening to the “Abbey Road” album. Then came Sergeant Pepper. “Rubber Soul” and “Revolver” were not, for me, as revolutionary as the first two albums mentioned and the titled one. Still, perhaps, someday I will write also about these albums. While writing all these things, I asked myself how many times Beatles’ songs would inspire me to write something new. The more I listen to them, the more I feel it is a bottomless pit of inspiration. I hope, my Dear Friend, you are already familiar with “The White Album.” If not,
turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream
as John Lennon sang in one of the most magical Beatles’ songs, “Tomorrow Never Knows” from “Revolver.”
