I bought "The Beatles 1" a while back and loved every song, recently I decided to get all the Beatle's cd's I could find. Today I went to my local discount store and got these:


-Please Please Me
-With The Beatles
-A Hard Day's Night
-Beatles For Sale
-Help!
-Rubber Soul
-Revolver
-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
-Magical Mystery Tour
-The Beatles (The White Album)
-Abbey Road
-Let It Be
-Past Masters, Vol. 1
-Past Masters, Vol. 2
-Yellow Submarine (1999 Reissue)


Later on I am gonna get all 3 of the anthologies. Will my Beatle's studio recordings then be complete or is there other songs out there on cd's somewhere that are missing?

You need the BBC Sessions and the original Yellow Submarine. The reissue was more of a greatest hits. You need the actual album with George Martin's score.

That's a good collection. You have all the studio albums. The only other two discs I would recommend is 1962-1967(Red Album) and 1967-1970(Blue Album). These two discs were the last two were released by the studio that wasn't a re-issue, compliation, etc... They were both released in 1973 and are greates double CD greatest hits albums.

Thanks for your reccomendations guys.

Wasn't there a "Meet the Beatles" album and also a "Beatles Christmas Album" ?


check here this guy has a great discography page of many of my favorites including the beatles.

The 1962-66/red album is a bit of a rip-off, since you only get about an hour's worth of music for the price of a 2-disc set. However, if you really want to be a completist, it might be worth picking up because it has some true stereo mixes of some of their earlier songs. Also the 1967-70/blue album contains some better remastering/mixes, such as "Old Brown Shoe" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

If you have the bucks, it should be worth your while hunting down the bootlegs to hear complete and alternate versions of a lot of their best songs. Some of them appear on the Anthology albums, but most of them combine the different takes.

You also need the cd singles of Free as a Bird & Real Love from the anthologies. They both contain extra songs that are not on the anythologies. Also the cd single that was released for the Live at the BBC (I can't remember the song right now) but it also had extra stuff not released on the 2 disc BBC release.

Unfortunately I am not home right now but there is also an album That was released with The Beatles & Tony Sheridan's stuff as well. I will post that info later when I get home.

I keep seeing tracks from the "black" album on file-sharing programs - what is that? I've downloaded many of them, but they all suck. Even though I'm pretty sure it actually is the beatles, they sound like they're drunk or something.

If memory serves, the "black" album comprised of outtakes from the Let It Be sessions, combined with some of their early 1970s solo work. It's apparently someone's concept of what The Beatles would have done for an album if they hadn't broken up.

I'm still waiting for the entire Beatles catalog to be remastered, however. The remastered quality of the CDs is really primitive sounding by today's standards. It was fine for the time it came out when CDs were still a newfangled format. But I find albums like A Hard Day's Night all but unlistenable because it's so shrill sounding. Then again, extra bass sound wasn't used that much until a couple years later, since at the time it was felt if you put too much bass on, it would cause the stylus to jump and skip the record.

looks like i still have a ways to go. now if i could only get them all on VINYL...=)

Pick up "Love Songs" too. It was a 2-lp set back in the day, and had all their love songs together on one really cool album.

It was never officially released on cd, but if you search on eBay, you may be amazed in what you find.

I have a CD of this in my 4runner, and it's always in the rotation of my listening pleasures.

(BTW, you can also still find the vinal of this on eBay too.)

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You're missing "Tropical Tribute to the Beatles," which is an absolute must-have.

I'm not sure if Meet the Beatles ever made it onto CD since it was just a concoction for the US market, with many of the songs from "With the Beatles" (the UK release). It's interesting because some of the most popular Beatles songs in America were on "meet" and not "with" ("I want to hold your hand" and "I saw him standing there"). It just gets confusing because the early beatles albums in the US didn't match up very well with the UK ones.

I agree, it's good stuff.
I bought on vinal about 6 years ago at a Beatles convention for about $10.