No. Twist and Shout peaked at #2: The Beatles' cover was released on March 2, 1964 in the U.S. as a single, with "There's a Place" as its B-side, by Vee-Jay Records on the Tollie label. It reached No. 2 on April 4, 1964 during the week that the top five places on the chart were all Beatles singles.
I have only posted about the Red album because I have thought that it is the one that needs expanding and because I have thought the Blue is pretty good as it is, but after expanding Red in stages to where it now has seven tracks each from A Hard Days Night and Rubber Soul and six from Revolver the selections from some albums on Blue seem skimpy, so I decided to forget about LP side restrictions and add one song per side, and also do some other changes. The albums that I thought needed more representation are Sgt. Pepper, "White Album" (especially) and Abbey Road, and I decided to remove three tracks as well, one for personal reason, and two that I don't think are quite worthy. Here's what I ended up with: "Strawberry Fields Forever" "Penny Lane" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" "With A Little Help From My Friends" "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" "She's Leaving Home" "A Day In The Life" "All You Need Is Love" "I Am The Walrus" "Hello Goodbye" "The Fool On The Hill" "Magical Mystery Tour" "Hey Bulldog" "Lady Madonna" "Hey Jude" "Revolution" "Back In The U.S.S.R." "Dear Prudence" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "Helter Skelter" "Blackbird" "Get Back" "Don't Let Me Down" "Here Comes The Sun" "Come Together" "Something" "Oh! Darling" "Because" "Let It Be" "Across The Universe" "The Long And Winding Road" I picked using "modern glasses", looking at songs that would not necessarily have been considered at the time, but are now among the more popular. "Hey Bulldog" is perhaps the prime example of that, it's the most questionalble inclusion, but I thought it would be cool to have something from every album, and I know it is also not in the correct place according to how these albums are constructed (using released date), but it is the place where it made most sense for the flow to put it (roughly by recording date). Also remember this is my personal version, I fully expect to be flamed for removing a singe A-side, but I just can't stand that song, sorry... Think of this as a Blue album from an alternate universe where that song was released as a Lennon solo single.
This is very much about my personal preference, I strongly dislike "The Ballad of John and Yoko", while I absolutely love "Don't Let Me Down". As I said, in the universe that this Blue comes from "The Ballad of John and Yoko" was released as a Lennon solo single (which it sounds like anyway). I understand that in reality it could never not have been on here, so that is my excuse. Actually this whole exercise came about because I wanted to remove it and add a "White Album" track in it's place. With it gone "Old Brown Shoe" followed along, I like that track quite a bit, but don't really think it is worthy of this company, and I also think "Octopus's Garden" is only here so Ringo can have a composition, it's ok, but I decided to delete it too.
Fantastic albums, but needed more than one song from Beatles For Sale. Could've included No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's In Black or Every Little Thing.
I love BFS to but too many songs from that one album. I was thinking just Baby's In Black and/or I don't Want To Spoil The Party. Are we taking about one full 79:59 album or two 60 minute disks or two full 79:59 Red Album disks? With 2 hour and 40 minutes for the 1962 - 1966 period there is room for a massive complete collection of that period.
Confused. I get the alternative universe thing but that isn't what this thread is about. Any new Red or Blue release should be what the general public would like the most. I hate Love Me do but I wouldn't leave it off. The new Red and Blue is for the public not one person. Maybe I misunderstood.
For years, I've been meaning to undertake a project to photoshop the early 70s solo Beatles onto that same building, collecting the best solo work from those first few solo albums into a third compilation. It can be the Green Album (completing the primary color theme). (Not trying to start a tangent about the contents of that theoretical third compilation).
For a collector, Red and Blue are a needle, better colored vinyls, but White Album it’s the only color, the Beatles!
For a collector, Red and Blue are a needle, nice colored vinyls. But the White Album it is the only color, being the Beatles!
Love your album cover - and your list. This is what I'd want: 1. I Saw Her Standing There 2. Please Please Me 3. All My Loving 4. I Should Have Known Better 5. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 6. I've Just Seen A Face 7. Nowhere Man 8. Norwegian Wood 9. In My Life 10. Rain 11. Tomorrow Never Knows 12. Strawberry Fields Forever 13. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 14. A Day In The Life 15. I Am The Walrus 16. Revolution 17. Dear Prudence 18. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 19. Blackbird 20. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 21. Don't Let Me Down 22. Here Comes The Sun 23. Across The Universe I had posted this list in another thread and admitted there's probably too many John songs here but ...
Hey, Johh here. If the Red and Blue were to be re-released today CD. Assuming one 79:59 disk for THE RED and two 79:59 CDs max for the Blue. All original stereo mixes unless otherwise stated. Add: I Should Have Known Better (new edit), If I Fell, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, Rain, Tax Man, And Your Bird Can Sing. Add : Abbey Road Medley (authored as 1 track - 16 minutes approx.), All Together Now (1999 Remix), Hey Bulldog, Good Morning, Two Of Us, Happiness Is A Warm Gun (remix).
