# What is the best song off of "The Beatles" (White Album/Disc 2)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732 "2010-10-01T15:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/21 "2010-10-01T21:54:13Z")
I also wanted to send some love to Good Night. It’s just a basic waltz, but the orchestration is pretty, and effective lullabies are hard to come by. When my daughter was between 3 and 6 I probably sang that song to her several hundred times. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/22 "2010-10-01T22:00:51Z")
If Revolution, rather than Revolution 1 was on the White Album this would be easy… But as it stands probably the most difficult of all these polls. I voted for Dark Horse: Long, Long, Long. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/23 "2010-10-01T22:25:23Z")
> [@K364](#): > > But as it stands probably the most difficult of all these polls. I voted for Dark Horse: Long, Long, Long. About time that one got a vote. If I hadn’t been determined to vote for the much-maligned and misunderstood “Revolution 9”–even if the two discs had been combined, that would have been my pick–I would have been torn between “Long Long Long” and “Cry Baby Cry,” probably going with the former. I really had no idea that Disc Two in general would be so unpopular. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/24 "2010-10-01T22:55:45Z")
I guess I should come out of the closet and say that I too voted for ‘Revolution 9’ - this is a great disc, but none of the other songs sound as exciting and, well, revolutionary as that one does to me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/25 "2010-10-01T23:09:21Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > I guess I should come out of the closet and say that I too voted for ‘Revolution 9’ [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDDfW2pMhk) recently blew my little mind. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/26 "2010-10-01T23:43:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > > [@multimediac17](#): > > > > I guess I should come out of the closet and say that I too voted for ‘Revolution 9’ > > [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDDfW2pMhk) recently blew my little mind. That is amazing. I’d love for Paul to release ‘[Carnival Of Light](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_light)’ one day but I’m not sure he ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/27 "2010-10-02T15:03:25Z")
Love “Savoy Truffle.” _I feel your taste all the time we’re apart_ is one of my favorite lines of any song. However, “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey” rocks. And I chose it. Really, “Helter Skelter” Is good, but I think Paul was trying to hard. My opinion, of course. “Yer Blues” is another I could have chosen. I don’t see that Disc 2 is bad, just different. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/28 "2010-10-02T16:45:03Z")
I love Sexy Sadie, Cry Baby Cry, and Mother Nature’s Son. I could go the rest of my life without hearing Birthday again. But \*\*Revolution \*\*- either version - is one of my favorite songs from the boys. So there ya go. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/29 "2010-10-03T04:59:21Z")
“Sexy Sadie” is better if you sing along with the original words: “Maharishi, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone…” But, I have to vote for one of the first heavy metal songs, “Helter Skelter”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/30 "2010-10-03T16:46:01Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > But, I have to vote for one of the first heavy metal songs, “Helter Skelter”. The first time I listened to the White Album and heard “Helter Skelter,” I thought, “Wow, I never knew The Beatles were a heavy metal band!” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/31 "2010-10-03T16:57:16Z")
Helter Skelter, the world’s first heavy metal song 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Carmady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@Carmady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carmady)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/32 "2010-10-04T01:04:24Z")
I think I like this slightly better than disc 1.I absolutely love all of these: Yer Blues Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Sexy Sadie Helter Skelter Long, Long, Long Revolution 1 Cry Baby Cry My favorite goes back and forth between “Yer Blues” and “Long, Long, Long.” At the moment I want to vote for the latter. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/33 "2010-10-04T02:16:51Z")
Went for Yer Blues, in a tight race with Helter Skelter and EGSTHEFMAMM. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/34 "2010-10-04T14:20:48Z")
I love “Helter Skelter,” but I love “Mother Nature’s Son” just a little more. So that’s the one I picked. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732/35 "2010-10-18T19:29:40Z")
The best moment on the White Album is the transition from _Helter Skelter_ to _Long, Long, Long_. (Well, either that or the opening lines of _Happiness is a Warm Gun_.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-song-off-of-the-beatles-white-album-disc-2/555732.md?page=1)