'The Beatles' at 50: the new White Album, ranked

For five decades now, Beatles fans on both sides of the Atlantic have been arguing about The Beatles. Not the band itself, but the self-titled double LP released in the U.S. on November 25, 1968. It’s the one more commonly named for its near-blank cover: The White Album. 

The longest Beatles album by far, with an astonishing 30 tunes, the White Album is also the band’s most uneven release. The strain in the group that would result in its breakup just over a year later was starting to show. Not only were John, Paul, George and Ringo writing their own songs, they also had increasingly disparate ideas of what good music sounded like.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | 'The Beatles' at 50: the new White Album, ranked