Fantastic band, but this might be the most overrated album in their discography? It's essentially the sound of three men (let's not include Ringo in this) who couldn't bear the thought of giving space to someone else's material, so they just decided to make it a double album and fill as much of that space as they could. For quite a lot of people, that makes for a diverse, interesting, unique album, but I stare at that tracklist and even now I can't quite understand what they were thinking. 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' is preceded by 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill', 'Blackbird' is followed by fecking 'Piggies'...
Cut the tracklist down to the typical Beatles fourteen and you have another golden record, but in its current form it's hugely inconsistent and in no way deserving of a "super deluxe" edition, which I imagine will make it even fecking longer by adding bonus tracks.
Revised tracklist I'd keep:
1. Back in the USSR (McCartney)
2. Dear Prudence (Lennon)
3. Glass Onion (Lennon)
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison)
5. Happiness is a Warm Gun (Lennon)
6. I'm So Tired (Lennon)
7. Blackbird (McCartney)
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8. Birthday (Lennon-McCartney)
9. Julia (Lennon)
10. I Will (McCartney)
11. Helter Skelter (McCartney)
12. Long, Long, Long (Harrison)
13. Revolution 1 (Lennon)
14. Mother Nature's Son (McCartney)
You get a nice mix of Lennon and McCartney's two contrasting styles without anything that's out of control, and you get Harrison's standard contribution of one or two songs. And you get all that without having to endure ... the rest.