(Charlie Manson sort of misconstrued this one and a few others on this album.) 'I'm So Tired,' with its 'Give you everything I've got for a little piece of mind!' plea captures the particular horror of insomnia 'Yer Blues' is a howling cry of desperation 'Mother Nature's Son' is bucolic bliss. The album features McCartney's hardest-rocking song, 'Helter Skelter,' often considered a precursor to heavy metal, written to capture the delirium of a wild carnival ride. 'Happiness is a Warm Gun,' with its multiple time signatures, plays on cartoonist Charles Schultz's 'Happiness is a warm puppy' line and while you may think it's about handguns, it's really about heroin addiction. 'Birthday' is a frenzied celebration with great pounding drums from Ringo. There's the gallop of Lennon's anti-hunter 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill,' McCartney's ode to old-style domesticity 'Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da,' Harrison's standout 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (with additional guitar from pal Eric Clapton, the first time a prominent guest musician was used by the band). 9.' It's tape loops and noise, orchestral bits, piano snippets and spoken word collage, the spooky-sounding 'Number 9, number 9.' and the sports chant of 'Block that kick!' The so-called 'White Album' ranks as one of the top double-albums in rock history - and also one of the most stylistically sprawling. 1968): Their first eight-track recording, it opened with McCartney's sly Beach Boys tribute/send-up 'Back in the USSR' and included the most inscrutable track of the Beatles' career, the ominous sounding 'Revolution No. 'The Beatles' (aka 'The White Album') (Nov. There are two Harrison songs and Ringo's country/rockabilly take on an early (as yet unrecorded) Beatles song, 'What Goes On.' The album closes with another of those sounds-like-fun-but-is-really-threatening romps: 'Run for Your Life' is vicious. 'Nowhere Man,' about a universal feeling of being displaced, has a lovely, sad drift and 'In My Life' may be the best song ever about the power of memory to hold onto love and affection over the years. Harrison employs the sitar and Lennon gives us a coy sexual innuendo in 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).' Lennon said the song was about an extra-marital affair he was having and the key line is 'Isn't it good/Norwegian wood.' That's Liverpool slang for 'knowing she would.' McCartney gives us another love ballad (partly in French!) 'Michelle,' and we guess that lots of babies got that name in 1966. More folk-rock (Dylan, Byrds) influences. 1965): The breakthrough album? The first indicator of the more mature Beatles? Perhaps.

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