The Beatles
– The
Beatles
2
x vinyl LP, Reissue, Canada, 1976
Capital
Records
The
first thing I think of when I hear the words “White Album” is
Rutherford Chang, who is an artist that only collects The Beatles'
The Beatles,
better known as the White Album. He even opened up a shop in Soho
New York featuring his record collection. The beauty of it is that
he doesn't sell his copies, but buys them from people who come to his
shop/gallery. What a wonderful way to pay tribute to The
Beatles.
Beyond
that this is another iconic album cover from the Fab Four. British
to the core, they had Richard Hamilton design and make the artwork
for this incredible minimal package. If Sgt.
Pepper was the maximum
of packaging, then this album will be the totally opposite, but here
less is way more than Pepper
or any other Beatle
album.
And
since it is a minimal package (of sorts) it is ironically the largest
Beatle album, because it's a double vinyl album with 30 songs. The
Beatles is a supermarket
of Beatle sounds and concerns. It's a shame that this wasn't their
last album, because it says everything that is possible regarding a
Beatle world. Let It Be
and Abbey Road always
represent a house cleaning of sorts. Just getting the left-overs,
and of course The Beatles' left-overs are someone else's gourmet
meal.
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