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** Hardcore Beatles fans are dying to get a hold of [[Missing Episode|the legendary 27 minute long version of "Helter Skelter"]].
** There's a reason Ringo shouts "I GOT ''BLISTERS'' ON MY ''FINGERS!''" at the end of the White Album version.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Chocolate]]: "Savoy Truffle"
* [[Evolving Music]]: "Revolution" and "Revolution 1", two very different takes on the same song.
* [[Fake Out Fade Out]]: "Helter Skelter", and too many times to count on "Revolution 9".
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* [[Hidden Track]]: "Can You Take Me Back", the song fragment on Side 4 of the White Album (included at the end of "Cry Baby Cry" on modern CD tracks), which to this day doesn't even have an official title.
* [[Intercourse With You]]: "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"
* [[Last -Note Nightmare]]:
** Particularly "Long, Long, Long".
** "Helter Skelter" is a different sort of [[Last -Note Nightmare]], as it finishes with Ringo throwing his drumsticks across the room and ''screaming'' "'''I GOT BLISTERS ON MAH FINGERS!!'''" The version that wound up on the "White Album" was the 18th take of the day. That explains the blisters.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: "Revolution 1", compared to the single version.
* [[Long Title]]: "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Monkeys|My Monkey]]"
* [[Metal Scream]]:
** "Revolution", "Helter Skelter"
** The single, "Revolution", is a ''much'' faster and heavier (and louder) version of "Revolution 1". As Giles Martin said on the sleeve-notes for ''Love'', "even today it defines 'distortion'
* [[Mind Screw]]:
** "Revolution 9". While "Revolution 1" is a nice, slow, relatively tame rock song (especially compared to the harsher single), "Revolution 9" is eight minutes of pure, untapped, minimalist cacophony. A [[Last -Note Nightmare]], that really is a nightmare, regardless if it's a whole song...
** [[Broken Record|Number nine, number nine, number nine...]]
* [[Minimalistic Cover Art]]: ''The Beatles'' is all white, save for the name of the album embossed onto it, and on some LP printings, a unique serial number stamped on it (going for a bit of irony in something so plain also being unique from every other copy of it). Ever since, fans have called it "The White Album".
* [[Missing Episode]]: The 27 minute version of "Helter Skelter".
* [[MommasMomma's Boy]]: The titular character of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" is "the all-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son." And behind that tough exterior, he really does rely on his mom's defense when people start to question him - hence why he always brings her along on hunting trips "in case of accidents."
* [[Murder Ballad]]: "Rocky Raccoon", "Piggies"
* [[Obsession Song]]: "Julia".
* [[One -Scene Wonder]]: [[Eric Clapton (Music)|Eric Clapton]] came to the studio at his friend George's request to play on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". He delivered probably the best guitar solo to ever appear on a Beatles record.
* [[One Woman Song]]: "Julia", "Sexy Sadie"
* [[Out -of -Clothes Experience]]: Alluded to in "Revolution 9." "If... you become naked."
* [[The Parody]]/[[Affectionate Parody]]: The song "Back in the USSR" is both a parody of [[Chuck Berry (Music)|Chuck Berry]]'s "Back in the USA" and a decent imitation of [[The Beach Boys (Music)|The Beach Boys]]' distinctive "Surfing Sound".
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: "Piggies". "What they need's a ''damn'' good whacking." George's mother actually suggested the line.
* [[Protest Song]]: Subverted with "Revolution", a protest about protesters (and specifically those supportive of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, in John's "Chairman Mao" reference" - this may specifically refer to then-recent May '68 general strike and protests in France, where many student protesters marched holding up pictures of Chairman Mao).
* [[Punny Name]]: "Bungalow Bill" instead of "[[Buffalo Bill]]"
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** The ending of "Long Long Long" is way scarier. A case of [[Throw It In]] helps, as a wine bottle placed on the Hammond organ's Leslie speaker began to shake when Paul hit a certain note. George added the wailing voice and Ringo threw in the ominous snare roll. It sounds like a coffin is closing at a funeral while the widow weeps.
* [[Self Backing Vocalist]]: Paul on "I Will" and "Wild Honey Pie". John, who usually didn't do this, had a duet with himself (interpolating lines) on "Julia".
* [[Self -Titled Album]]: ''The Beatles'', although pretty much everyone knows it better as "The White Album".
* [[Shout Out]]:
** "Julia"--while it's about John's late mother, guess what the Japanese for [[Yoko Ono (Music)|"ocean child"]] is?
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