Are you satisfied with The Beatles Red and Blue compilations?

this last tune would be a great addition to the red album, not blue.

 

Red- short on length and Revolver

Blue- Yes fine

 

I’m curious. You began buying the records in ‘62 which suggests you lived in Britain. Then you got the James Bond intro which was on the American version. Did you move? Or, buy the import?

 

The best thing about the red album is that there's hardly anything from the boring Revolver album, luckily those compilations were made before Revolver became over rated.

 

It may be overated but it is still damn good and Far, Far less overated than that Pepper LP you may have heard of from time to time!
P.s. (And is every pre 66 album better too than Revolver?)

 

For me they are still the perfect introduction. 45 years later and some people still aren't sure? Only here!

 

I think Revolver is their second worse album after Beatles For Sale.

 

I don't much listen to compilations but these served their purpose for a few years. I graduated to the actual albums and never looked back. Good memories of discovering the Beatles, I wouldn't change a thing.

 

Just below Yellow Submarine?

 

I hit the 1978 UK colored vinyl pressings on EMI/Apple. The red and blue that is.

I think I will play all eight sides this weekend. See how I feel about the running order now after all these years.

 

I rate YS higher.

 

I need alka seltzer!

 

... does it cure bad musical taste?

 

Now that I think of it, these 2 albums are probably the most I've purchased over and over again over the decades of any albums. (8-track, LP, Cassette, CD, CD Video-Bootleg, LP several times again)

Baby You're A Rich Man would have been cool on the Blue album!

 

Red:
Remove: Michelle and Girl
Add: Taxman and Got To Get You Into My Life

Blue:
Remove: Old Brown Shoe
Add: Dear Prudence

 

Yes

 

Old Brown Shoe is indispensable for me.

 

I love Old Brown Shoe but think it’s too much to of a deep cut to be included here. Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite Beatles song but I don’t think it belongs on these compilations.

 

I voted "No" & there is plenty I'd change about both comps... good/adequate but lots of room for improvement on both...

 

When one looks at what was included and what album it is from, there has to be the comparison to the US albums.
On 1962-1966 the songs were split thus;
Please Please Me 2
With The Beatles 1
Hard Days Night 3
Beatles For Sale 1
Help 4
Rubber Soul 6
Revolver 2
With 7 not on albums.

However if you look at the US albums.
Meet The Beatles 2
Second Album 1
A Hard Days Night 3
Something New 1
Beatles 65 1
Early Beatles 2
Beatles VI 1
Help! 3
Rubber Soul 4
Yesterday and Today 5
Revolver 2
With two not on an album at the time. (Well Paperback Writer is on Hey Jude, but outside the timeframe).

So for the USA, Yesterday and Today had the most songs (just two of then from the UK RS).

 

When I started getting Beatles albums in 81, the Red and Blue were essential, as they were the only way apart from getting a load of singles to get the non-album singles, these two along with rarities and MMT, plus the All You Need Is Love single collected all the stuff not on the core 12.

 

I agree. Tomorrow Never Knows is not an appropriate Red Album cut. It's to be savoured forever as the last track masterpiece on Revolver. As it should be.

 

I always found Old Brown Shoe to be quite dull and seemed to go on and on.

 

.....you can pick holes in them, but they came out 45 years ago and have never been replaced/superseded, which is a tribute to the original selections, even if it was Allen Klein......

 

What would you prefer instead chronologically for the last side?