Originally Posted by Gavin B.

With the White Album, one should consider the fact that it's a two volume album with 28 songs and 20 of those songs are up to par with the other Beatle albums and only 5 to 8 of the songs were filler. It's my favorite album by the Beatles of the post-Sgt. Peppers era and I like for the same reason many people dislike it: It's sprawling, overly ambitious and chaotic effort that baffled the critical establishment with it's wild mood swings and dark themes. McCartney's Rocky Raccoon & (Lennon's)Bungalow Bill sounded like children songs but each song had macabre undercurrent of mayhem and violence. Harrison's Piggies and [McCartney's] Helter Skelter had similar themes.