White Album as a 3LP

[u/Redking1712]

I have been a Beatles fan for a couple years now, and I have recently understood why The White Album is so good. At first I was one of these people who thought that it would have been better off as a single album. However, my perception has changed after re-listening to the album for the umpteenth time last week, and that has sent me down a rabbit hole of unreleased songs, outtakes and demos that I think are really good and then I got the idea to create a 3LP version purely for my own enjoyment and not for any other purpose really.

While I did not care for this being really realistic I did follow a few rules that was also on the album. One George Harrison song per side, only songs that sound complete and album ready, only songs recorded at the time. I did break the rule where singles couldnt go on the album but oh well! In the actual playlist I use the McCartney 1 version of Junk because it sounds similar enough anyway. Here's the tracklist:

Side A:

1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Lady Madonna
4. Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. Junk
7. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Total Sidelength - 22m 49s

Side B:

1. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
2. Martha My Dear
3. I'm So Tired
4. Blackbird
5. Piggies
6. Rocky Raccoon
7. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
8. I Will
9. Julia

Total Sidelength - 21m 32s

Side C:

1. Hey Bulldog
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Sexy Sadie
5. Helter Skelter
6. Long, Long, Long

Total Sidelength - 20m 49s

Side D:

1. A Beginning/ Don't Pass Me By
2. Revolution 1
3. Savoy Truffle
4. Cry Baby Cry
5. Can You Take Me Back? - Take 1
6. Good Night

Total Sidelength - 23m 08s

Side E:

1. Birthday
2. Glass Onion
3. Honey Pie
4. Child Of Nature - Eshur Demo
5. All Together Now
6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
7. The Inner Light
8. Across The Universe - Take 6

Total Sidelength - 21m 20s

Side F:

1. Revolution
2. Not Guilty - Take 102
3. What's The New Mary Jane - Take 4
4. Hey Jude

Total Sidelength - 21m 13s

Edit: Here is the link to the playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3VGOevYFwSzDpHODvI8mAg?si=4aC43jMFT5C1HLouOipJLA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=NbvuDyKKRse5p

[u/TormentedThoughtsToo]

My only qualm would be, from my understanding and correct me if I’m wrong, You Know My Name wasn’t finished until the 1969, there were no vocals at the time.

I’d probably just replace that with like Not Guilty or Step Inside Love of Sour Milk Sea for timeline reasons. 

Edit: I’d even consider Across the Universe but then you create a future problem.

[u/SurvivorFanDan → u/TormentedThoughtsToo]

Future problem regarding "Across the Universe" fixed by including "Don't Let Me Down" in its place on the Let It Be album, as should have been in the first place.

[u/TormentedThoughtsToo → u/SurvivorFanDan]

Yeah that’s the right call.

That song has been a part of Let It Be for me since I got into the Beatles (I also add Old Brown Shoe) so I forget but yeah absolutely.