'As double albums goes, it has the making of a half-decent EP'

I'm paraphrasing, of course . . . but not by much.

Via yesterday's New York Times, a reprint of a very youthful Nik Cohn's original scathing review of The Beatles 'White Album'.

Released the same week as The Rolling Stones's 'Beggars Banquet', Cohn found it thin and wanting by comparison.