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Jun 24, 2017dissymissylessy rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
this album was the first I ever borrowed from a library. HEY BUNGALOW BILL really got to my childlike ears, maybe it was Yoko singing along in the chorus,with, "But when he looked so fierce,"and I am sure I liked the jet sounds of Back In the USSR. There just is not a weak song here, and there are 32, in all. YER BLUES is a real goodun, also. I'm glad I stopped smoking, decades ago. HONEY PIE is good, with what George claimed to be John's best guitar playing as the interlude. DON'T PASS ME BY is decent. What was I smoking then? Anything, including butts I could find, on the ground. Merits, Camels, Benson and Hedges, Tareytons, Marlboros (my original brand, the brand Elaine bought for herself and her kids), oh any old kind you were smoking, and I could ask you for. Yes, that stop-start song by John Lennon which references the conflicting desires to smoke or not to smoke, called IM SO TIRED, is on this album. What a gem. He even references Sir Walter Raleigh ('He was such a stupid get'). That song got me to thinking, up in that apartment on Hermann street that Craig and Julie were renting, and later rented by Jocelyn. I visited one time to Craig and Julie. the one time I visited Joss, Roddy Bottum, keyboardist for Faith No More, was there. I don't know why he was there; I was playing Surprise Surprise Sweet Bird of Paradox on her music player. Roddy turned up his nose at this. SSSP can be found on Walls and Bridges, John's L.A. album that also has Elton john on it (and is likely the finest of his solo work: just listen to SCARED. harrowing. STEEL AND GLASS (who is it? who is it?). NOBODY LOVES YOU WHEN YER DOWN AND OUT ("Everybody loves you when yer 6 foot in the ground"); the instrumental, BEEF JERKY. Julian, the first son, sitting in on drums, for a YA YA outtake. PIGGIES, and SAVOY TRUFFLE could be the best songs of the whole collection, and they were by Beatle George. hardly anyone knows him as a trenchant social commentator. that role didn't start for him on this album..check out RUBBER SOUL, for the beginnings, with the oft-underrated THINK FOR YOURSELF. not to forget DON'T BOTHER ME, on this album, WITH THE BEATLES. I don't know how so many were misled, WTBs is the album being discussed here: The WHITE ALBUM is elsewhere in this catalog, most likely, under that title. Well, well, well, well: we music fans are not like accountants, or mathematicians, after all. . . . or even those who clean houses for a living.