The Beatles : White Album＜Limited＞

メンバーそれぞれの個性が浮き彫りになったザ・ビートルズ後期の名盤。初の2枚組。ボーナス映像付(CD-EXTRA)(英国発売:1968年11月22日)

Rolling Stone - Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...THE WHITE ALBUM is an exhilarating sprawl - some of the Beatles' most daring and delicate work..." Vibe - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Q - Ranked #7 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...[Out of] boundless enthusiasm and creeping paranoia - comes [their] most peculiar record....Childish, colorful, antiquated and faintly macabre..." NME - Ranked #8 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.' Q - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's the most honest portrait of a band breaking some limits and banging their heads against others." Paste - "Each track is anchored by the unmistakable collaboration of The Beatles as a solid musical unit." Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.90) - Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...THE WHITE ALBUM is an exhilarating sprawl - some of the Beatles' most daring and delicate work..." Q (6/00, p.86) - Ranked #7 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...[Out of] boundless enthusiasm and creeping paranoia - comes [their] most peculiar record....Childish, colorful, antiquated and faintly macabre..." Vibe (12/99, p.157) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #8 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.' Rolling Stone - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t was the group's longest, most eclectic and emotionally blunt record -- an admission of frayed nerves and strained bonds in the zigzag of garage-roots rock, delicate balladry, proto-metal fury, country ham and radical experiment." Uncut - "[A] labyrinth through which dark currents run, beauty and surrealism mingling with absurdity and recrimination."

THE BEATLES (generally known as "The White Album" because of its cover) was a sprawling two-record set, highlighting the distinct personalities in the group as they matured and moved further away from each other. With the four Beatles playing like session men on each other's songs, the making of the album was fraught with tension. John Lennon's songs included a bitter take on people who read too much into the Beatles' lyrics ("Glass Onion"), reflections on loneliness and alienation ("Yer Blues," "I'm So Tired"), and the avant garde sound collage "Revolution 9." George Harrison's songs offered black humor ("Piggies") and tender sadness ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps," with Eric Clapton on guitar). Paul McCartney provided both light, lyric songs ("Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Honey Pie"), and rockers ("Back In The U.S.S.R.," the explosive "Helter Skelter"). Ringo Starr made his solo songwriting debut with the goofy country/ska lilt of "Don't Pass Me By" and sang the album closer "Good Night."|