The Beatles Past Masters- come up with a better name.

- The Studio Singles Collection
- The Beatles' 45s
- Fab Black Gold

 

Stray Singles and songs.

 

Love it. So many layers of word play there.

 

A sides title: Swinging Singles by the Beatles

Or From Us To You the Beatles

B sides title: Another Side of the Beatles

 

Meatley, Beatley, Big and B-Sidey.

 

Mast Plasters

 

The Beatles Collection - The Orphans

 

The Beatles Past Matters

 

Beatles - Stuff

 

Anthology. Which I always thought was a stoopid and misleading name for Anthology. A new generation of listeners could have thought they were getting singles and the like.

 

"And Your Beatles Can Sing"..............

 

I know many don't like the Past Masters title, and I don't love it either. But it's hard to come up with a title that indicates what it is. I would have simply called it The Beatles with a black cover. As a two disc set, it might have become known as The Black Album. A hype sticker or text on the rear cover could have explained what it is.

To the original post: "B-Sides and More" is also misleading since there are A-sides included. You'd have to call it "A-Sides, B-Sides and More" or something like that. That's why I'd simply go with "The Beatles".

 

Beatles '88

 

That's a nice idea. Well, it could confuse some people with the White Album (which is actually titled The Beatles) but since Weezer I think there's no problem with that.^^

 

Come Together: A Collection of Non-LP Tracks

 

Beatle Peedles....

 

Yes, Weezer did cross my mind when I thought about this, haha.

 

I agree, When i bought it years ago, I thought that's what i was getting, (i was new to The Beatles then). I was sooooo disappointed with volume 1.

 

"Tunes We Are Too Greedy or Too Unimaginative to Slap Onto an Existing Album."

 

Same here, but I loved it. I even believed some of those alternate takes were the original released versions.
I got to know their studio albums long after the Anthology series.^^

 

Let's declare this the winner.

And this too.

 

The music itself was great! My favorite version of "Eight Days a Week" is there! It's just all the interviews that made me feel that i wasted money. Volume 2 and 3 were awesome! It's weird to say my first experience with The Beatles was outtakes, but it got the job done for me!

For the topic though, I think past masters is a fine title!

 

- Sides Through Time And Space
- Revolver Volume 2 (and 3)
- The Beatles Strike Again
- Love Me Do (with From Me To You and 31 other songs)
- A/B Classics
- The Beatles' Million Sellers
- Beatlespan: Hits & Rarities
- Pure Beatles
- Shaved Beatles

 

Uncollected.

 

The Beatles' Bastard Children