The Beatles "1" Compilation. Why So Successful when Past Masters Wasn't?

I understand why those songs were excluded from 1, I'm just saying that they could have been included if the concept had been slightly different (i.e., UK A-sides collection).

 

The 1+ remix release, that has the videos along with the songs mixed in surround is excellent. Enhanced clarity, instrument separation and bass and drums like it should heard are what I love about it. I don’t get upset about little things like tambourines being slightly louder in the mix etc..

I don’t miss one moment of sleep worried about the new mixes being substantially different than the originals. Nor do get upset that the surround mixes are not Uber discrete.

I also have 1 available on Apple Music which now has ATMOS mixes. Those are really interesting but I prefer the 5.1 mixes in the end.

 

Peak CD sales was mid-to-late nineties. I think 2000 was the top year in history.

They released too early in the eighties and too late in the new century to take full advantage of peak CD sales. And they still sold 31 million copies of 1.

 

But it was released in November of 2000 so right at the very top

 

Past Masters were mostly what didn't make it to albums, no? So what's the significance of comparing the two? 1s was always a #1 hits album. Past Masters wasn't.

 

If you want to call all their English songs superfluous, there isn't much left.

 

An odd question for a forum full of die-hard Beatles fans. I'm not but can still answer that:

"Past Masters" isn't supposed to be a "Best of". It's a completist collection of all official studio recordings that are not already contained in the 13 studio albums. In other words, it's "Rarities (Expanded)".

 

Reminds me of the excellent London Years compilation by the Rolling Stones

 

Past Masters is essential if you want all the B-sides and you even get the German versions of a couple of songs.

 

They could do an early fade out on Hey Jude

 

Naw. I want to hear McCartney's continued effort to sound like a hard rocker with his screaming.

 

Two*

 

Past Masters mops up all the tracks not on post 1987 official catalogue albums. Excludes singles included on the US Magical Mystery Tour LP as that is now an official worldwide album. As you say no1s is just that though the exclusion of Please Please Me is revisionist due to the chart used being of less importance (and accuracy) in 1963.

 

Don't be so dramatic, especially after telling someone who posted informative information that there's "no need to rant". Nobody's trying to control anything or getting on an "ego-trip" over decades old compilations. It's a discussion, like fans of other bands have about their compilations.

 

You weren't. It was a good post full of information I didnt know even though I've been interested in that kind of thing for years.

 

1 is the best of
Past Masters is the rest of

 

i would not be without either 'past masters', and i do not own '1'.

 

I remember an interview with Ozzy Osbourne where he said he had a copy of Beatles 1 in every room in his house. I imagine his house is pretty big so that’s quite a few copies right there.

 

Hmm. Reality according to Ozzy? Lol.

 

I'd say that Red & Blue are "the best of" and 1 is "greatest hits".

 

The peak of the CD era was the year 2000. The very year this compilation was released.

 

I'm not sure how kicking out legit #1 singles Eight Days a Week, Yesterday and Long and Winding Road is supposed to satisfy casual fans. Also, denying superior US B-sides to #1 singles like I Saw Her Standing There and I Should Have Known Better, for This Boy and Things We Said Today. There is actually room left (on 2 CDs) and then some to include US #1 singles and the US B-sides to #1 singles:

I Saw Her Standing There
I Should Have Known Better
Eight Days a Week
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
Yesterday
Act Naturally
The Long and Winding Road
For Your Blue

However, once you expand outside #1 US singles to get at Twist and Shout you instantly encounter Do You Want to Know a Secret? If only Twist and Shout as well as All My Loving, And I Love Her/If I Fell was a UK release.

 

imagine years of thinking you are a serious/serial/cereal fan and never heard Strawberry Fields Forever

the Bob Marley Legend-only route to serious fandom

 

Ya, why you shouldn't compare them and begs the question: why was the thread created?

 

"Beatle-boomer", "Beatles worshippers", "control", "ego trip"...all in two sentences!

There is no doubt BB's (I'm abbreviating) get very technical about Beatle output. For everyone that I would guess are the targets for this, "1" doesn't really matter - we all have the OGs, the comps, etc. It's duplicative. It's just fun to discuss it. The release that caught my eye and has meaning is 1+. But that's another story.

Just trying to get along here. This is a fun thread to check in on.