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The Beatles - Anthology 1 Audio CD

A fair review of the The Beatles "Anthology 1" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Beatles reviews here, or go back to the The Beatles tabs.

The Beatles Band: The Beatles
Title: Anthology 1
Rating:
Release Date: 1995-11-21
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Free as a Bird 2: We Were Four Guys...That's All [Interview] - John Lennon, Jann Wenner 3: That'll Be the Day 4: In Spite of All the Danger 5: Sometimes I'd Borrow...Those Still Exist [Interview] - Mark Lewisohn, Paul McCartney 6: Hallelujah, I Love Her So 7: You'll Be Mine 8: Cayenne 9: First of All...It Didn't Do a Thing Here [Interview] - Paul McCartney, 10: My Bonnie 11: Ain't She Sweet 12: Cry for a Shadow 13: Brian Was a Beautiful Guy...He Presented Well [Interview] - John Lennon, David Wigg 14: I Secured Them...A Beatle Drink Even Then [Reading] - Brian Epstein 15: Searchin' 16: Three Cool Cats 17: Sheik of Araby 18: Like Dreamers Do 19: Hello Little Girl 20: Well, the Recording Test...By My Artists [Reading] - Brian Epstein 21: Besame Mucho 22: Love Me Do 23: How Do You Do It? 24: Please Please Me 25: One After 909 [False Starts] 26: One After 909 [Complete] 27: Lend Me Your Comb 28: I'll Get You 29: We Were Performers...In Britain [Interview] - John Lennon, Jann Wenner 30: I Saw Her Standing There 31: From Me to You 32: Money (That's What I Want) 33: You Really Got a Hold on Me 34: Roll over Beethoven 35: She Loves You [Take] 36: Till There Was You 37: Twist and Shout 38: This Boy 39: I Want to Hold Your Hand [Version] 40: Boys, What I Was Thinking... 41: Moonlight Bay 42: Can't Buy Me Love 43: All My Loving [Version] 44: You Can't Do That 45: And I Love Her [Version] 46: Hard Day's Night [Version] 47: I Wanna Be Your Man 48: Long Tall Sally 49: Boys 50: Shout 51: I'll Be Back [Take 2][Demo Version] 52: I'll Be Back [Take 3] 53: You Know What to Do 54: No Reply [Demo Version] 55: Mr. Moonlight 56: Leave My Kitten Alone 57: No Reply [Take] 58: Eight Days a Week [False Starts] 59: Eight Days a Week [Complete] 60: Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!

Best of the Anthology Albums
Has many early previously unreleased material including the Ed Sullivan show. Great album. Great to listen when you're in a funky Beatles mood to listen to something other than the standards.


Ah! The Old Stuff
I want to see what people dislike about the product. Well, before I go into an description of Anthology 1, I must say:
When I want to consider buying something, I read the "1 Star" reviews first. I read the 1 star reviews for Anthology 1 & 2, and I found a very disturbing one about 2. It said that the Beatles were terrible, and thought they got too much credit. Well, the first thing I thought was: was the anthology the only thing you listened too? Because you can't make a good judgement if you have not listened to their actual records! Geez, how people jump right into an idea, and never come out.
The next 1 star review I read was about #1, and it complained about the poor quality of some of the songs, perticually the first couple on the 1st disk. I thought then: Well, of course it's bad quality because they made the early songs under bad recording devices! Once again the ingnorance of some people. I think ofr any Beatles fan the anthology would be a good addition to your collection. It has a lot of early stuff, not seen before. Also on the second disk includes different takes of the songs through Beatles For Sale, and live recordings.
You will also find interesting little speeches by the band, and others.


The Beatles Anthology 1

I was helped by the wide availability of titles and on the Amazon. First of all Availability, value for money.


Great for diehard fans. OK for others.
It contains clip after clip of sound bites and off-takes of popular tunes. The Beatles Anthology 1 is a staple of diehard Beatles fans. If you're looking for a greatest hits collection, this is not it. If you want to learn more about the Fab Four's journey to find themselves and their music, this is the album.


Love it. But...
No other band could do what The Beatles did (and most likely none ever will). First of all, this set is great. My only quibble is with the amount of needless editing. Several tracks take a hard hit. 'Can't Buy Me Love' Take 2 - here with a guitar solo from take 1 crammed in for no good reason! Not only that but the booklet lists this as stereo and it is not. The full Take 2 has been on bootleg since the late '80's in stereo. Also edited is the 1963 take of 'One After 909'; understandable since two takes were used to create a master. But a much better edit was made for the aborted 'Sessions' album in 1984, with a better quality guitar solo. The track 'Shout!' from the BBC special Around The Beatles is included in true stereo, yet entire chunks of the song are missing, editing it down from over 2 minutes to under one and a half!

As I said the booklet lists many of the songs as being in stereo, yet if you really listen to them (like through headphones) you'll hear that they are at best 'mock stereo', at worst having only one instrument shuffled from one channel to the other. Listen to how the Beatles original 4-Track recordings were mixed compared to these outtakes from the same sessions. You'd think they'd have tried to mix them they way they did the 1960's originals for a more authentic sound.

All in all, this is a CD to get to be sure. But it won't kill bootleg recordings unless they quit editing things for no good reason.


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