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Your Ideal Beatles Album
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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"We love them, yeah, yeah, yeah -- and with archival footage like that, you know The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years can't be bad..." -Rotten Tomatoes review

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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

   

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Hmm… Toughie.a-hard-days-night-paul-7

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

a-hard-days-night-ringo-8Shh…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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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 LPapple01

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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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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  

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

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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)

A Day In The Life

Side 2 

Here Comes The Sun

I Am The Walrus

Norwegian Wood

Don’t Let Me Down

Helter Skelter >

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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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:

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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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Would have Beatles music on it.

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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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Not much to disagree with there! 

Seeing the closer for side A has reminded me that it has been a VERY long (embarrassingly so) time since I listened to Long Tall Sally .

 

Will Volume 3 be Ringo presents: Drums?paul-mccartney-facepalm_gifa-hard-days-night-george-10

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Not quite, they only had 2 volumes, but here’s my next fantasy album:

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The Beatles, Live At Budokan:

Side A:

Drive My Car

Instrumentation:

Paul McCartney : Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S)

John Lennon : Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Vox Organ, Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

Paperback Writer

Instrumentation:

Paul McCartney : Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S)

John Lennon : Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

Nowhere Man

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Gibson J-160E)

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

I Feel Fine

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino)

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

If I Needed Someone

Instrumentation:

George Harrison : Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar (Rickenbacker 360/12)

John Lennon : Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Backing Vocals

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

Yesterday

Instrumentation:

Paul McCartney : Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar (Epiphone Texan)

What Goes On

Instrumentation:

Ringo Starr : Lead Vocals, Drums

John Lennon : Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Backing Vocals

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster)

Side B:

Help !

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Gibson J-160E)

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

We Can Work It Out

Instrumentation:

Paul McCartney : Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S)

John Lennon : Vox Organ, Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Gibson J-160E), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums, Tambourine

And Your Bird Can Sing

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino)

Paul McCartney : Lead Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

Mal Evans: Bass Guitar (1964 Rickenbacker 4001S)

In My Life

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino)

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

George Martin: Vox Organ

Think For Yourself

Instrumentation:

George Harrison : Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster)

John Lennon : Vox Organ, Backing Vocals

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

The Word

Instrumentation:

John Lennon : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino), Vox Organ

Paul McCartney : Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S), Backing Vocals

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

Day Tripper

Instrumentation:

Paul McCartney : Verse Vocals, Bass Guitar (Rickenbacker 4001S)

John Lennon : Chorus Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (Epiphone Casino)

George Harrison : Lead Guitar (Fender Stratocaster), Backing Vocals

Ringo Starr : Drums

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Your ideal Beatles album is three albums? Might as well combine them all into one album with 200+ songs.

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