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If all the officially released Beatles songs were played in a row, how long would that music marathon be? There may be issues of methodology (maybe??) of which songs and/or albums are counted, so if you respond let us know what you decided to include in your count.
I did find one q&a from Yahoo! Answers, but I'm thinking there might be some more insight to be gained on the topic from asking the folks on this forum.
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Well, using one version of each song, according to iTunes, only 9 hours 38 minutes. I mean, I guess that's a lot, but it seems like it'd be more
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Offline You could work that answer out if you just added up the length of each and every track they released. Never felt the urge to do so, though. It would take too long.
A lot of hours, I imagine....
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Offline fabfouremily said
You could work that answer out if you just added up the length of each and every track they released. Never felt the urge to do so, though. It would take too long.A lot of hours, I imagine....
iTunes does it if you put them all into a playlist.
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Offline IveJustSeenAFaceo said
fabfouremily said
You could work that answer out if you just added up the length of each and every track they released. Never felt the urge to do so, though. It would take too long.A lot of hours, I imagine....
iTunes does it if you put them all into a playlist.
I haven't got all their songs on my itunes. I see you did it, though. I also thought it'd be more than 9 hrs or so.
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Offline Ahhh Girl said
If all the officially released Beatles songs were played in a row, how long would that music marathon be? There may be issues of methodology (maybe??)
Here is an issue of methodology: Ahem, methodologically speaking, do we include the songs on the Anthology collections? All of them, including the many repeated variations of songs, or just the new ones like "That Means A Lot ?" I am inclined to round off our marathon as: "A Day In The Life ." 
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Offline I don't really conisder the Anthology albums ''real'' Beatles albums, so I wouldn't include those, personally.
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If we are talking about the official core of their discography in stereo (14 albums - including Magical Mystery Tour , Yellow Submarine and Past Masters , some repeated songs due to the Yellow Submarine compilation and different versions of the same songs) the runtime is:
10 hours 20 minutes 43 seconds (Kind of the same length as the marathon recording of 10 songs for Please Please Me 
)
With Volumes 1 and 2 of BBC:
14 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds
All of the above + Anthology's 1, 2 and 3:
21 hours 21 minutes 28 minutes
I have yet to hear On The Air - Live At BBC volume 2, though much of the material I already heard it on The Complete BBC Sessions bootleg (the most complete up to now, with some shows still missing).
Even so, we are still missing some stuff that was released officially: The Tony Sheridan records, Star-Club, Live at Hollywood Bowl, and alternate mixes spread everywhere.
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Offline When the Beatles remastered catalog came out in 2009, my dad and I listened to the whole thing in one marathon session, and I want to say it took us from about 7:00 p.m. until 1:00-2:00 a.m., give or take. We skipped the instrumental pieces on "Yellow Submarine ," and repeats, I think. We would have also skipped things like "Revolution 9 ."
On second thought, that's not possible. I just pulled that entire catalog into WinAmp, removed all the songs I'm sure we skipped, and it still comes out at 9 hours and 49 minutes. We may have only made it through the core catalog, not including the Past Masters singles, which would have put us closer to 8 hours. We may have opted out of a few early cover songs, like "Chains " or "Boys " as well.
Anyway, yeah, I'd say you're looking at anywhere from 8 to 10 hours of listening time. Sounds like a sweet way to pass an evening.
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Offline PeterWeatherby said
When the Beatles remastered catalog came out in 2009, my dad and I listened to the whole thing in one marathon session, and I want to say it took us from about 7:00 p.m. until 1:00-2:00 a.m., give or take. We skipped the instrumental pieces on "Yellow Submarine ," and repeats, I think. We would have also skipped things like "Revolution 9 ."
On second thought, that's not possible. I just pulled that entire catalog into WinAmp, removed all the songs I'm sure we skipped, and it still comes out at 9 hours and 49 minutes. We may have only made it through the core catalog, not including the Past Masters singles, which would have put us closer to 8 hours. We may have opted out of a few early cover songs, like "Chains " or "Boys " as well.
Anyway, yeah, I'd say you're looking at anywhere from 8 to 10 hours of listening time. Sounds like a sweet way to pass an evening.
I did heard their entire catalog (from Please Please Me to Past Masters + The Anthology 1 & no skipping) around 5 years ago, while doing a long final homework. I sat down at around 6 pm and ended the homework at around 6 am, barely had some sleep (like an hour).
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Offline TheOneBeatleManiac said
PeterWeatherby said
When the Beatles remastered catalog came out in 2009, my dad and I listened to the whole thing in one marathon session, and I want to say it took us from about 7:00 p.m. until 1:00-2:00 a.m., give or take. We skipped the instrumental pieces on "Yellow Submarine ," and repeats, I think. We would have also skipped things like "Revolution 9 ."
On second thought, that's not possible. I just pulled that entire catalog into WinAmp, removed all the songs I'm sure we skipped, and it still comes out at 9 hours and 49 minutes. We may have only made it through the core catalog, not including the Past Masters singles, which would have put us closer to 8 hours. We may have opted out of a few early cover songs, like "Chains " or "Boys " as well.
Anyway, yeah, I'd say you're looking at anywhere from 8 to 10 hours of listening time. Sounds like a sweet way to pass an evening.
I did heard their entire catalog (from Please Please Me to Past Masters + The Anthology 1 & no skipping) around 5 years ago, while doing a long final homework. I sat down at around 6 pm and ended the homework at around 6 am, barely had some sleep (like an hour).
That sounds like murder.
Lovely, lovely murder.
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Offline PeterWeatherby said
That sounds like murder.
Lovely, lovely murder.
That's right. It was there where I finally embraced them as my favorite and the best band of all time. 
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Offline Ahhh Girl said
What if you want to include the different versions of songs such as mono and stereo?
Do we include all three official releases of "Across The Universe ?" Both versions of "Penny Lane ," with and without the piccolo trumpet tag ending? Do we toss in George Martin's instrumental music for "Yellow Submarine ?" We need someone to step in and establish some guidelines for this marathon.
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Ahhh Girl said
What if you want to include the different versions of songs such as mono and stereo?Do we include all three official releases of "Across The Universe ?" Both versions of "Penny Lane ," with and without the piccolo trumpet tag ending? Do we toss in George Martin's instrumental music for "Yellow Submarine ?" We need someone to step in and establish some guidelines for this marathon.
I wish I were knowledgeable enough to make the guidelines. Perhaps we could play around with different lists/combinations.?.?
What got me to thinking about creating this conversation was the project going on that was thought up by Into the Sky With Diamonds and is being managed by Faceo to rate all the songs and see if we can come up with a "best of" list. How long would it take someone to listen to all those songs if they wanted to refresh their memory on all of them?
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Offline Ahhh Girl said
Bungalow Bob said
Ahhh Girl said
What if you want to include the different versions of songs such as mono and stereo?Do we include all three official releases of "Across The Universe ?" Both versions of "Penny Lane ," with and without the piccolo trumpet tag ending? Do we toss in George Martin's instrumental music for "Yellow Submarine ?" We need someone to step in and establish some guidelines for this marathon.
I wish I were knowledgeable enough to make the guidelines. Perhaps we could play around with different lists/combinations.?.?
What got me to thinking about creating this conversation was the project going on that was thought up by Into the Sky With Diamonds and is being managed by Faceo to rate all the songs and see if we can come up with a "best of" list. How long would it take someone to listen to all those songs if they wanted to refresh their memory on all of them?
Using the criteria from that, it's 211 songs, for 9 hours and 30 minutes.
Speaking of which, are you going to do that?
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Offline IveJustSeenAFaceo said
Ahhh Girl said
Bungalow Bob said
Ahhh Girl said
What if you want to include the different versions of songs such as mono and stereo?Do we include all three official releases of "Across The Universe ?" Both versions of "Penny Lane ," with and without the piccolo trumpet tag ending? Do we toss in George Martin's instrumental music for "Yellow Submarine ?" We need someone to step in and establish some guidelines for this marathon.
I wish I were knowledgeable enough to make the guidelines. Perhaps we could play around with different lists/combinations.?.?
What got me to thinking about creating this conversation was the project going on that was thought up by Into the Sky With Diamonds and is being managed by Faceo to rate all the songs and see if we can come up with a "best of" list. How long would it take someone to listen to all those songs if they wanted to refresh their memory on all of them?
Using the criteria from that, it's 211 songs, for 9 hours and 30 minutes.
Speaking of which, are you going to do that?
My brain bleeds at the thought. But, what is the deadline? I might can be persuaded to do it -- for a sugar-free Irn Bru and Curly Wurly. I think I'd work on it better under pressure. I'd have to make my decision quickly and not second guess myself.
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To avoid the page long quote
The end of February is the deadline.
I don't have either of those things, but here's an apple
and Paul
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Offline IveJustSeenAFaceo said
To avoid the page long quote
The end of February is the deadline.
I don't have either of those things, but here's an apple
Now, come on. I'll have to cave now that you gave me an apple and Paul. You know me too well. Send out a reminder 3 days before the end.
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