L. Bangs' The Ultimate Beatles (3-disc set)
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 09/12/2006 - 10:44
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- Disc One
- 1) Love Me Do
- 2) I Saw Her Standing There
- 3) Please Please Me
- 4) There's A Place
- 5) Twist And Shout
- 6) Don't Bother Me
- 7) I Wanna Be Your Man
- 8) She Loves You
- 9) I Want To Hold Your Hand
- 10) Can't Buy Me Love
- 11) A Hard Day's Night
- 12) I Should Have Known Better
- 13) And I Love Her
- 14) Things We Said Today
- 15) I Feel Fine
- 16) Eight Days A Week
- 17) Ticket To Ride
- 18) Help!
- 19) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
- 20) Yesterday
- 21) You're Gonna Lose That Girl
- 22) Day Tripper
- 23) We Can Work It Out
- 24) Drive My Car
- 25) Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
- 26) Nowhere Man
- 27) Girl
- 28) I'm Looking Through You
- 29) In My Life
- 30) Run For Your Life
- Disc Two
- 1) Paperback Writer
- 2) Rain
- 3) Eleanor Rigby
- 4) I'm Only Sleeping
- 5) Here, There And Everywhere
- 6) Yellow Submarine
- 7) She Said She Said
- 8) And Your Bird Can Sing
- 9) For No One
- 10) Tomorrow Never Knows
- 11) Penny Lane
- 12) Strawberry Fields Forever
- 13) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 14) With A Little Help From My Friends
- 15) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- 16) Getting Better
- 17) Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
- 18) A Day In The Life
- 19) All You Need Is Love
- 20) Hello, Goodbye
- 21) I Am The Walrus
- 22) The Fool On The Hill
- 23) Hey Jude
- 24) Revolution
- Disc Three
- 1) Back In The USSR
- 2) Dear Prudence
- 3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- 4) Happiness Is A Warm Gun
- 5) I'm So Tired
- 6) Blackbird
- 7) Rocky Racoon
- 8) I Will
- 9) Julia
- 10) Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
- 11) Sexy Sadie
- 12) Helter Skelter
- 13) It's All Too Much
- 14) Get Back
- 15) Don't Let Me Down
- 16) Come Together
- 17) Something
- 18) Here Comes The Sun
- 19) Golden Slumbers
- 20) Carry That Weight
- 21) Let It Be
- 22) The Long And Winding Road
- 23) Across The Universe
Author Comments:
Expanded and thoroughly revised 11/1/06
Not a single song I'd disagree with.
Thanks!
I tried so hard to squeeze Blackbird onto the second disc, but it just wouldn't fit... :(
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I probably would've made it a three-disc set! But that's just because there's too many songs I wouldn't want to leave out.
Hmm, perhaps I should try to make a CD
I probably should have, but I didn't...
I'd love to see your tracklist if you make a disc!
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L. Bangs
I'm gonna try to make one one of these days, just to fight boredom.
But don't blame me if it ends up being a 5-disc set!
I'll be watching!
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L. Bangs
You win! It is now three discs... :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I think my choices here would probably disagree with yours more so than the Dylan list. At the very least, I would definitely find room for "Here, There, and Everywhere." Very interesting that just like Blood on the Tracks, your favorite Beatles album only has two songs from it.
Anyway, I still really enjoyed reading these lists and hope you'll post more, whether they're real mixes or only theoretical. (How about a Stones compilation?)
Yes, Abbey Road only scored two places, partly because I couldn't squeeze the long She's So Heavy on here (it was my penultimate chop, with only Blackbird ahead of it), and partly because I felt the glorious second-side song suite just couldn't hold up nearly as well chopped into separate tracks.
I struggle on these compilations trying to include key tracks with personal favorites. The Beatles are probably harder and easier than most, as the key tracks are more obvious but leave less room for other tunes.
You read my mind. I'm currently working on one for The Rolling Stones, with a few on the backburner I've worked up some basic lists I need to flesh out (David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Prince, and Bruce Springsteen). Progress is a little slow because I try to assemble the best sounding sources for each collection, all of which find actual life thanks to my CD burner! :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Fair enough about Abbey Road. I feel like the second side kinda separates itself into two distinct medleys though (Money/Sun King/Mustard/Polythene/Window and Slumbers/Weight/End) where the second (and IMHO better) one is only 5:26 total. But to be fair, "Carry That Weight" does reference the "You Never Give Me Your Money" chorus, so I can see how it wouldn't feel right to separate those eight songs. "Her Majesty" would've been easy to fit on, but I guess it's not that essential, though it is very funny.
Ah, your point about key tracks does make a lot of sense. I thought you were a bigger fan of a few of the lesser-known Sgt. Pepper's songs...
I look forward to future installments!
Why the decision to make this a 3-disc set?
Not that I'm complaining
A little living with the two-disc set convinced me that your earlier comments were correct. Too much was missing.
I'm liking this collection. :)
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs ("Now, to finish that Stones set...")
Yes, finish the Rolling Stones set. I'm curious about that one :P
Well, I'm curious about all of them
I'm on it!
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L. Bangs
And I, at last, am finished.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
I'm working on my own Beatles list. It's another one of my lists with my top 33% of an artist's work. I don't know about you, but for me, even though I've heard the songs a 'million' times over the years, I find I still need to compare songs with multiple listenings during the days it takes me to put together the lists.
Absolutely. I ripped so many songs onto my computer and spent many a minute listening to several back-to-back in an attempt to prune my collection to three discs. I found the earlier years (represented on the first disc) the toughest to hack back.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs