The Beatles Bible - Topic: Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

BBCSessions1963 on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:39:48 +0000

It's a shame many songs were left out. More than half of the Decca Audition is and some unreleased Beatles songs only recorded at George's house. I would like to see those, as well as some Cavern rehersals, as well as takes of other songs, possibly insturmentals would be a nice touch?

Beatles in the Blood on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:34:26 +0000

Joe said
I think it's the second best in the series, behind 2 but ahead of 1. There are some excellent tracks on it - an alternative Helter Skelter, Junk, Not Guilty, All Things Must Pass and Something demos, Mailman Bring Me No More Blues, and Come And Get It. You should really have those in your collection.

Well looks like I'm not the onlyone with the best taste in anthology's

DrBeatle on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:32:57 +0000

I like the Anthology sets and I remember being in high school and eagerly buying each one at my local indie record store on the day they were released in the dark days before the internet, lol! But, while the edits of different tracks and versions is good for the general public, I still go to my bootlegs mainly for outtakes and alternate versions.

thewordislove94 on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:08:39 +0000

I love the anthology albums, but I feel bad when I have to find a bootleg for the songs that the album is missing. My favorites are You Know What To Do, Leave My Kitten Alone, That Means A Lot, Not Guilty, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

GeorgeTSimpson on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:13:06 +0100

I completly agree. Anthology 3 is also my favourite one, because that's my favourite beatles period and it features unreleased songs, kinfauns demos, alternate versions and of course interesting stuff from the get back sessions, and I also love the unreleased songs, the alternate versions (of which some are very different) and also the live songs

Old Siam Sir on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:30:52 +0100

The anthology series (d.v.d/book/audio) are a necessary piece to any complete Beatles collection. The real gems of the audio series are the unreleased songs. Tracks like Not Guilty, Come and Get It, That Means Alot, If You've Got Trouble, You Know What to Do, What's the New Mary Jane, 12 Bar Original, Leave My Kitten Alone, etc. make the series worth owning in my opinion. Obviously Free as a Bird and Real Love are great songs worth having. It is also nice to here the different versions and work-throughs of classic Beatle tracks. I love the ...

meanmistermustard on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:55:01 +0100

For me the anthology series are a good introduction to the bootlegs, however there is so much amazing music out there that is not officially available eg the complete bbc sessions, the strawberry fields outtakes, what youre doing take 11, some of the live concerts (candlestick park '66), the esher demos.

Plus the anthology has the most pointless edit ever known in the history of music namely Not Guilty. I have no idea what they were thinking when making a great song into a piece of worthless garbage, turning a heavily frustrated song into a gutless whimper. Worse still they were using ...

GeorgeTSimpson on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:34:02 +0100

I'm a big fan of the Anthology albums they're amazing, it's better than any bootlegs, i think if you've got anthology you don't need bootlegs i just miss very few songs (love of the loved, it's for you, tip of my tongue, carnival of lights, window window)

meanmistermustard on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:28:42 +0100

mr. Sun king coming together said:

I know all that. But if you want people to buy Anthology, you need it to be good music. You can't have it be complete shit. So they edited it to make sure it was an enjoyable listen, on top of an interesting listen.

If they wanted an interesting and enjoyable listen with the Anthology's they should have ditched Mary Jane. Neither interesting or listenable, just 6 minutes of unlistenable garbage - 6 minutes!! Even the remix didnt make it bareable.

mr. Sun king coming together on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:04:56 +0100

meanmistermustard said:

mr. Sun king coming together said:

Alissa said:

I suppose my only beef with the albums is the tampering with tracks that were meant to be… untampered with!

No. No no no. These same edits (Or similar edits) would have occurred in 1965 as occurred in 1995. These songs were viewed as, let's be honest, the crap. Therefore, to make what wasn't good enough 30 years earlier worthy of release, they edited. In much of the same way things were edited in 1969. Was it "tampering" George Martin did on Strawberry Fields, editing two separate takes into one song (the exact process used ...

meanmistermustard on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:22:53 +0100

mr. Sun king coming together said:

Alissa said:

I suppose my only beef with the albums is the tampering with tracks that were meant to be… untampered with!

No. No no no. These same edits (Or similar edits) would have occurred in 1965 as occurred in 1995. These songs were viewed as, let's be honest, the crap. Therefore, to make what wasn't good enough 30 years earlier worthy of release, they edited. In much of the same way things were edited in 1969. Was it "tampering" George Martin did on Strawberry Fields, editing two separate takes into one song (the exact process used in Anthology)? ...

mr. Sun king coming together on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:47:23 +0100

Alissa said:

I suppose my only beef with the albums is the tampering with tracks that were meant to be… untampered with!

No. No no no. These same edits (Or similar edits) would have occurred in 1965 as occurred in 1995. These songs were viewed as, let's be honest, the crap. Therefore, to make what wasn't good enough 30 years earlier worthy of release, they edited. In much of the same way things were edited in 1969. Was it "tampering" George Martin did on Strawberry Fields, editing two separate takes into one song (the exact process used in Anthology)? Of course not. Same thing here. ...

meanmistermustard on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:44:27 +0100

The Anthologys are a great intro for getting into bootlegs.

Along with the many hightlights (In Spite Of All The Danger, TNK, You Know To Do to name but 3) there are many pointless edits (While My Guitar Gently Loops Endlessly, Not Guilty senselessly butchered into such a crummy version, How Do You Do It? (why on earth edit one line)) and some of the later year takes (Hello Goodbye, Penny Lane, I Will) are too similar to the final released versions to arouse interest.

And why ignore take 11 of What You're Doing yet include take 4 of Mr Moonlight!!

Georgie on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:21:43 +0100

These were my first Beatles CDs. When I was younger all I had to listen to the Beatles were those CDs and old cassettes of my parents. I'd actually say it was a bad thing because now I'm only used to those particular versions of those songs. So it throws me off whenever I hear the released songs because I'm used to the unreleased ones. So I'm with IMDeWalrus on them.

IMDeWalrus on Anthology Albums 1, 2 & 3

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:06:54 +0100

I have to admit I don't listen to the ANTHOLOGY albums very often -- but there are really wonderful moments on each that make them worth owning.... for me, the highlights include the unreleased songs like "Leave My Kitten Alone", "That Means A Lot", and "Not Guilty", as well as the Decca recordings (interesting to really hear Pete Best's drumming style)... plus the alternate versions of "Strawberry Fields", "Norwegian Wood" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"... and most especially George's spine-tingling first take of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". I also really liked hearing some of the live performances included in ANTHOLOGY ...