Rocky Raccoon (track) by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #13)
Rocky Raccoon appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #13) (this album) (1968)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #143) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 3 (track #21) (compilation) (1996)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #134) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #134) (compilation) (1982)
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While writing songs for the White Album, Paul started to experiment with different music genres. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Helter Skelter are examples of this, but Rocky Raccoon is definitely a third one. In the lyrics Paul sings about a cowboy called Rocky Raccoon who ends up in a conflict over a love triangle. The dinstinctive sound of the track lies within George Martin's Old West-style honky-tonk piano playing and John's last time playing harmonica for the band.
micah88800 11/17/2019 22:58
Devicive for Beatles fans. A lot of people don't like it for it's un-beatles likeness. I'm of the opposite camp. I love this track. The out there songs that wouldn't fit in Sgt Peppers or Abbey Road is the whole point of the White Album. They had ideas coming out of their ears and just dumped them all into one project. The lack of structure is actually what I like about the White Album. It's fun to dig through all the songs individually and not really care if the "fit" or not
It's a pretty good track, but I don't think it's helping the average on this album.
Sweet little track :)
Up to Piggies, the White album is untouchable, up there with the best Beatles records. But Rocky racoon is the moment where the album starts to get messy(especially with Don't pass me by, and, why don't we do it in the road, coming up next), where some of the worst songs the band ever did(again, look above) start to crop up. Okay, Rocky racoon, is fun, and silly, but it isn't very good. If this song had appeared on Sgt. Pepper it would have ruined the entire record. I don't hate Rocky racoon, it's fairly enjoyable, but it's one of those handful of songs on the White album that I could quite happily live the rest of my life without ever hearing again. I certainly couldn't say that about Happiness is a warm gun or Blackbird.
This song makes me so unreasonably happy. Definitely one of my favorites from The Beatles.
GandalfORiley345 05/18/2014 05:10
Great lyrics, and lyrics and the armonic sounds really good, Long Life Rocky Racoon
Jasonconfused 01/27/2013 05:09
Clever lyrics and I love when it picks up!
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