by The Beatles List Price:$18.00 Our Price:$9.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2000
Label: Capitol
Average Customer Review: 4.5 Based on 972 reviews.
Sales Rank: 82
Tracks
1.
Help!
2.
Yesterday
3.
Day Tripper
4.
We Can Work It Out
5.
Paperback Writer
6.
Yellow Submarine
7.
Eleanor Rigby
8.
Penny Lane
9.
All You Need Is Love
10.
Hello Goodbye
11.
Lady Madonna
12.
Hey Jude
13.
Get Back
14.
The Ballad of John & Yoko
15.
Something
16.
Come Together
17.
Let It Be
18.
The Long and Winding Road
19.
Ticket to Ride
20.
Eight Days a Week
21.
I Feel Fine
22.
A Hard Day's Night
23.
Can't Buy Me Love
24.
I Want to Hold Your Hand
25.
She Loves You
26.
From Me to You
27.
Love Me Do
28.
A Hard Day's Night
29.
Can't Buy Me Love
Editorial Review
Proving yet again their willingness to dice 'n' slice their burgeoning legacy into new--if not exactly fresh--product, the Fab Four Minus One have released this single-disc compendium of their No. 1 hits. Though obviously superfluous to the faithful (who may also find themselves quibbling over the precise definition of "No. 1 hit" and the exclusion of seeming contenders like "Please Please Me" and "Strawberry Fields"), newly arrived visitors from the Pleiades star cluster and other neophytes will find it a concise and generous (nearly 80 minutes) single-disc introduction to the band's career-spanning, unparalleled dominance of pop music in the 1960s. But beyond being a mere trophy case of commercial success (and it won't be hard to find critics who'll argue that these singles aren't even the band's best work), it's also a Cliff's Notes take on a remarkable seven-year run of musical evolution, one that stretches from the neo-skiffle of "Love Me Do" through a remarkable synthesis of R&B, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley, gospel, country, and classical that still defies efforts to effectively deconstruct it. This is the pop monument equivalent of the '27 Yankees and '90s Bulls; it's every bit as obvious and dominating--and just as essential. --Jerry McCulley
Top Customer Reviews
Rating:
1 What a bitter disappointment!
As a life long Beatles fan, I can't begin to express my disappointment with this new release. I had hoped that this would be an opportunity for young people to hear how good the Beatles sounded to us older fans when these songs were originally released as singles. However, for the most part, the selections on this cd are not the original mono single versions, they are the same sloppy stereo outtakes that EMI has been foisting on us for the last 30 years. How could anyone who was not alive in 1964 listen to "I Want to Hold You Hand" on this CD and understand why this song changed so many peoples' lives? It sounds like it was recorded in someone's bathroom. As for the stereo versions of "I Feel Fine" and "Paperback Writer", they are painfully bad. This CD is just another way for EMI to make a few more bucks off of the memory of the greatest musical group ever. Fellow Beatles fans, I urge you not to be taken in. Do NOT waste you money on this worthless package. Hold out until the powers that be at EMI relent and give us either the original mono versions of these songs or newly remixed stereo versions.
Rating:
4 Top Feeding
This was a wonderful collection of many of the songs that I grew up with and wistfully placed on a higher plane of music than a lot of the tripe released todayI realize it was an authorized collection of Number One hits, but this collection didn't always explore the depths and reach of the Beatles material.Somehwere out there the has to be a collection of the songs that actually made many differences in my life (granted, that doesn;t mean that most people would have the same personal "hit list".All in all, this was a wonderful collection, and I would purchase it again (It might turn out to be a great tool for informing my 17 year old daughter about the group that actually opened rock and roll to broader dimensions--without me just jabbering to her about it).On a scale of 1-10, I would give it an 8.5
Rating:
5 The Beatles 1
Even though I find the Rolling Stones to be a bit better since they play with a harder edge; this group, i.e., the Beatles are one of the best ever. Their earlier nr 1's are not that great but as they mature the music gets more complex and the lyrics get almost sublime and they become similair to that of Martin Gore in the sense that they become a bit better and reflective and not as airy and stupid. Highly Recommended.
Rating:
4 Good, but does not do The Beatles justice...
...but then again what colection of Beatles songs on 1 cd could! Every song on it is great but there are song singles that i would have ike to have seen on there that weren't *cough* Strawberry Feilds Forever *Cough* I was also disapionted to see nothing from the White Album made it on. Not even the version of Revolution that was on the same single as Hey Jude. This is a good cd that i would suggest for someone who is just getting into The Beatles. As for people who already have just about every other Beatles cd, i can think of a handful of other cds that are worth buying instead.I also saw a review for this cd that disturbed me. I think it was some person named Infidel that said John and Paul are just simply milking the fans for their money. This could not be furthre from the truth. First of all John is dead. He was sadly gunned down in 1980 by a man who asked for his autograph just an hour earlier. So I don't think John will be making money off the sales of this any time soon. Second in the late eighties, when the rights to all The Beatles songs were being sold, the combined effort of Paul and Yoko was outbid my Pauls friend at the time (the friendship did not last long after this) Micheal Jackson. As far I know, he still owns the rights to the songs. (probaly not for long, because he'll probably eventually have to sell them to pay his lawyers.)So Paul won't isn't making a dime off sales fo this cd either. I happened to take a look at some of Infidel's other reviews. This person made statements such as an album made by Stevie Wonder in the 70's was completly ripped off from a Justin Timberlake cd. So I personally, would not believe anything this person as far as I could throw him.
Rating:
3 Beatles 1
Pretty good if you listen to tracks 1 - 14 and just start over. Songs like Come Together and the Ballad of John and Yoko shouldn't even be on a best of the Beatles album.
