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19 October 2015
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What would be your all-star lineup of 12-15 Beatles tracks on one album? Not necessarily your favorite songs, but the ones that would make an album the best thing you’ve ever heard. For me, it would be :

1.) Magical Mystery Tour

2.) Tomorrow Never Knows

3.) Happiness Is A Warm Gun

4.) I Am The Walrus

5.) Norwegian Wood

6.) Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!

7.) While My Guitar Gently Weeps

8.) Hey Bulldog

9.) Get Back

10.) Dear Prudence

11.) Helter Skelter

12.) All You Need Is Love

13.) A Day In The Life

14.) The End

19 October 2015
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Great album………

I’ll have a real think about this….

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19 October 2015
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Mine is this (I had to think hard about this):

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15 December 2015
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Tough task. And trying to sequence the tracks…oy vey !

1) Paperback Writer

2) Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

3) I Need You

4) Nowhere Man

5) Girl

6) Rain

7) Penny Lane

8) Yes It Is

9) Got To Get You Into My Life

10) In My Life

11) While My Guitar Gently Weeps

12) For No One

13) With A Little Help From My Friends

14) Strawberry Fields Forever

15 January 2016
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Hmm… Toughie.

Mine would go something like this

1. Strawberry Fields Forever

2. Penny Lane

3. Across The Universe (Naked)

4. No Reply

5. Something (Anthology)

6. I’ve Just Seen A Face

7. All You Need Is Love

8. Here Comes The Sun

9. Blackbird

10. Hey Jude

11. Octopus’s Garden

12. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

13. Real Love

14. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

Shh…The last one is one track. Really though, it’s impossible to compile all the best Beatles songs in one album. Even the Red and the Blue albums aren’t enough for me! 1 does a fairly decent job at making it all concise, but it is sorely lacking Strawberry Fields Forever , Revolution , and Please Please Me . But everyone has different favorites, and most of mine are here on this list I’ve just compiled.

edit: Honorable mentions go to If I Needed Someone , Help !, Revolution , and While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology)

edit again: I also totally forgot I’ve Got A Feeling

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15 January 2016
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Extremely tough, definitely! Good list though. I spent about an hour on mine only to realize I did not really incorporate music before 1965.

15 January 2016
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Beatles 1962-1966 Red LP, and the 1967-1970 Blue LP. apple01

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29 April 2016
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I’m gonna use the traditional 14 tracks, two for George and one for ringo. Here goes:

1. Boys

2. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You .

3. Day in the life

4. Penny Lane

5. Helter Skelter

6. In My Life

7. I’ll Follow The Sun

8. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

9. Something

10. The Ballad Of John And Yoko

11. A hard days night

12. I Saw Her Standing There .

13. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

14. The End

29 April 2016
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Mine would go something like this:

Come Together
Something
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus’s Garden
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Her Majesty

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29 April 2016
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Silly Girl said
Mine would go something like this:
Come Together
Something
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus’s Garden
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Her Majesty

I might have this same line up in my collection somewhere!! I will have to look though.

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29 April 2016
12.34pm

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Side 1:

Side 2:

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29 April 2016
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I’m certainly not going to improve on many “real” Beatles albums, but…

Side 1

Rain

Hey Bulldog

Penny Lane

Strawberry Fields Forever

Across The Universe (Anthology)

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away> (no gap)

Side 2

Don’t Let Me Down

Tomorrow Never Knows > (string these three together w/no gap or fade out/fade in whichever works best)

I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

I wasn’t deliberately giving Paul and George the short shrift, but it does look that way.

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2 April 2017
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Here’s one, I took Let It Be and made it so it fit in more with the film, adding songs like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Don’t Let Me Down that didn’t make the album but were in the film and put them here:

The version of Two Of Us on here contains a minute of Paul’s Piano Piece before John says his “I dig a pigmy by Charles Horty and the def aids…” and we go into the actual song itself, which is the version seen in the movie with John and Paul on acoustic guitars and George playing bass on his Tele, the version of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is from the movie when Paul’s playing piano and John and George are both playing guitar and Paul playing the bassline on his piano, the version of Across The Universe on here involves just John singing and playing his acoustic guitar and unlike the version on Let It Be , the speed is unaltered, the version of Dig It on here is extended to 1 minute 51 seconds, the version of Let It Be on here is the single version, Paul does not play bass at all on side 1.

Side 2 is their live performance at the Apple Rooftop, completely unaltered and in perfect order.

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2 April 2017
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Would have Beatles music on it.

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6 April 2017
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Here’s part 1 in a series of albums with songs that all use a certain instrument model.

George Harrison Presents Rocky:

Side A: Before The Rainbow

Drive My Car

Nowhere Man

You’re Going To Lose That Girl

Taxman

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

I Want To Tell You

Think For Yourself

Side B: After The Rainbow

Magical Mystery Tour

Glass Onion

I Am The Walrus

Happiness Is A Warm Gun

Revolution

All You Need Is Love

Hey Jude

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6 April 2017
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That sounds like a fantastic album! I have almost no qualms whatsoever with listening to that lineup! At least 3 of those songs are in my top 10, with about 7 in my top 20, so I’m going to listen to that now, I think.

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