As a Beatle fan, I can recognize the White Album as the complete train wreck that it actually is.
It is both a great album and the worst. For the prototypical metal song, "Helter Skelter", there is that abomination known as "Revolution #9."
It is at once both an example of what going beyond boundaries can do, and a reason why you sometimes need to have someone to rein things in.
It is equal parts stunning, goofy, exquisite, inane, insane, exceptional, and excrement.
Four blokes from Liverpool, nicking from the best (as John said at times), going beyond restraints - and, sometimes, beyond what technology is capable of doing. (The Beatles - the proper name for the album - was only partially recorded on eight-track systems.)