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long dead post, but i made a playlist about 10 months ago so i thought i would talk about it here when i found this thread:

behind under the spoiler tag i’ll put the track listing of the playlist first and then i’ll put my explanations after:

the original album has a whole spread of genres (rock and roll, blues rock, baroque pop, country) i decided to stick with the rock stuff and the soft stuff. that’ll give us the most variety of content without it seeming like a disjointed mess.

i started thinking about how the album started and i didn’t wanna lose that intro of Back In The USSR and Dear Prudence . they bleed together like one song and it feels right. i almost went with going into Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey , but i kinda liked the feel of Revolution 1 a little more for something early on, funny considering it’s the side 4 opener on the original. Revolution 1 is a slower/softer rocker which is a nice lead in from Dear Prudence , and the electric guitar is a nice way to lead to Yer Blues . i don’t remember why i thought this, but i put Martha My Dear in. maybe i thought the fade out on Yer Blues made for a good time for a genre change. but it leaves the listener open to a surprise when we lead into Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da . and the piano in ob-la-di through out the song, leads into the start of Sexy Sadie . the start of the psychedelic phase of the album. Sexy Sadie ‘s fade out goes into Happiness Is A Warm Gun john singing with soft guitars “she’s not a girl who misses much..” and then it goes to rise up, louder and bigger it goes down a little and stays at that height and then a brief  inhale and it gets a little louder but not like at the peak. and then the song stops silent for the last 5 seconds. side 1 comes to a close.

side 2 begins by continuing the psychedelic sound with While My Guitar Gently Weeps . it fades out, getting quieter and quieter. and then the bass/drum start bursts the volume back up with Glass Onion . the creepy orchestra concludes the song to comfort you saying “no more loudness, have something soft now” and the psychedelic phase of the album concludes and we go into blackbird. from there we go into Long, Long, Long which continues the quiet theme of the latter half of the side. and continuing with long, long long’s theme of love, we go into i will and then Julia . and finally concluding the soft guitar stuff we have Mother Nature’s Son . which has beautiful soft guitar but it also has the horns to fill it in like a big goodbye. i think it’s a nice end and remember that creepy orchestra comforting you saying “no more loudness”? i’m sorry, it lied and now you’re knocked out if your seat with the bejesus scared out of you. and there’s dawn of metal staring you right in the face with helter skelter.

i had a lot of fun when i made this playlist. i always thought of the playlist like a car ride. first side has more of the energetic stuff with more john songs, and the second side gets quieter with more paul songs. and you got a couple george songs in there too. you’re relaxed and you get out of the car about to go in the house and ready to go to bed and… suddenly i realized i forgot to put some ringo on the album

it’s the next morning now, i realized ringo said it should’ve been 2 albums. the White Album and the whiter album. the whiter album would be all the tracks leftover from making the first playlist.

for me the remaining tracks would be

Wild Honey Pie , The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill , I’m So Tired , Piggies , Rocky Raccoon , Don’t Pass Me By , why don’t we do it in the road, birthday, everybody’s got something to tide except for me and my monkey, Honey Pie , Savoy Truffle , Cry Baby Cry , Revolution 9 and goodnight. i’ll have to think about this. i’ll be back later with a playlist.