Instead of having to buy each album to get an idea of how they changed their sound over the years, It's perhaps a far better option just to buy this. However , while the 27 tracks are hugely varied, certain pieces just shouldn't have made No. 1.
Here's an analysis of each track:

1) Love me do: A little mediocre really, but considering they were new to the recording and music industry, It's not a bad attempt. Good harmonica playing from John, yet this song did not quite convince George Martin...
Sounds like a revamped "I love you" sea shanty. 6/10

2) From me to you: Much more typical of their sound. Uses their classic harmonies. "If there's anything that you waont!" Satisfying and enjoyable to listen to. 7/10

3) She loves you: More fun and joyful than "From me to you", and
more intense. While all the tracks on this album are remastered, this one was left largely untouched, which is actually a plus. Cheesy fun with a great ending effect. 7/10

4) I want to hold your hand: In Pauline Lennon's book "Daddy come home" about John Lennon's father she accidently calls it
"I wanna hold your hand" which is excusable because the whole song's pretty whiny. Enjoyable yet repetitive. 7/10

5) Can't buy me love: This is where the Beatles were starting to come into their own. Paul put some real thought behing the arrangement. Good quality lyrics, great guitar solo,
and full of life. 8/10

6) Hard day's night: Strange "banging a saucepan" drumming, starts off a little empty and shallow, but the chorus can only be described as deep and harmonic. "When I'm home, everything seems to be ri-hi-ight...... Yep, this song certainly hits home and feels right when it gets to that line. 8/10

7) I feel fine: The "middle eight" bit really convinces you he feels fine, simply by the fantastic singing. Another, but this time, beautiful, chorus. Really one of their best early songs, in my opinion, for musical depth. Convincing, with lovely singing from John. 9/10

8) 8 days a week: As the best reviewer of this CD pointed out, interesting intro, rest of the song rather samey. It seems to running on only 1 or 2 harmonies. All the same, miles better than anything you get today. 7/10

9) Ticket to ride: Is it just me, or is this song great? This time, the intro blends beautifully with the rest of the song. Slightly different way of singing, and varied with great guitar riffs.
There's a sort of fast bits that speed up, but still fit well into the tune. The lyrics correspond very well with the rest of the tune.
By the way, did you know that it was originally called "Ticket to Rye" but they thought Americans would not understand what Rye was, so it was changed. 9/10

10) Help!: The first desperate yet lively Beatles song. Written by Lennon when he found everything was getting to much for him. Groundbreaking in the sense that there are depressing lyrics
sung in a lively, bouncy "Postman Pat theme tune" way.
Believe, the "bum bum bum bum" beat is almost identical.
Nothing wrong with that, though. 8/10

11) Yesterday: I think this song , while not that deep, is quite thought prokoving. I'm sure It's how we all feel when someone dear to us has left our lives, and how we all reflect how pathetic we are. It's a stark contrast in tone and mood from most other McCartney lyrics except perhaps "Eleanor Rigby". It's nice to hear the remastered original sounding as it was meant to sound. Superb. 9/10

"This is where it all started" - John Lennon
Rubber Soul and onwards is where the beatles started to lose their cuddly image and moved onto more subtle music reflecting what they really felt, really changing Rock and Pop into what we know today.

12) Day Tripper: This does not really sound much different from any other Beatles song, but the lyrics tell of a thrill seeker who is not after any long-term commitment. There's not really enough singing and too much guitar twanging really, so it doesn't score massively. 7/10

13) We can work it out : This song is quite a bit different in pacing and sound than the other Beatles songs before it, the structure being most similar to "Ticket to ride". However, the "Life is very short" bit speeds up and then radically has to slow down for the "So I will ask you once again". It's meant to sound good, I think, but really just sounds a bit messy, like Paul and John could not think of anything to put in between as a "speed bump". Not too bad though. 7/10

14) Paperback writer: Paperback writer has some pretty clever lyrics and wordplay, mocking cheap pot-boilers that are written by desparate people and go on and on, like the intended nature of the song "It's a thousand pages, give or take a few" shows how writers just thought up any story and then rambled on and on. The song is deliberately sung in a dull, reading out of a book fast way. Pretty effective. 8/10

15) Yellow Submarine: Ringo's first song, a whimsical sea-shanty sounded like it was intended for children, despite being the name of a "pep pill" at the time. It's certainly jolly, with some funny voices courtesy of John, and a brass wind band sounding off being hilarious. Certainly recognisable. 8/10

16) Eleanor Rigby: This is a pretty sad song, with a fast "tragic" sounding violin sawing away in the background. It's a very sad song about an old poor women who has no friends, no one to visit. Easily on par with "Yesterday" in terms of effectiveness and sadness. A masterpiece. 9/10

17) Penny Lane: This song is the only Bealtes song to talk
about a place they all knew well as children. The whole thing was obviously written in a druggy haze, with contradicting lyrics,
meaning to sound very real with the bouncy brass band playing in the background the sort of jaunty "Jolly town" music while the realness is spoiled by the nurse selling poppies from a tray feeling as if she is in a play (the song informs us "she is anyway") Possibly the poppies were having an effect on her?
Still, they used this to make the world's first music video in order to avoid having to make a live appearence. They showed it on telly Christmas 2004. (MTV owes them BIG.)
Great (but flawed) song. 8/10

18) All you need is love: This is a really epic hippy anthem by John. The beginning of the French national anthem at the start is very innovative. Rather tuneless the first time you listen to it, but it is catchy. It will grow on you, although the trippy 3 minute "Love is all you need" chant is boring yet hypnotic, but John shouting "she loves you yeah yeah yeah" at the end is rather ironic. Clever stuff somewhat spoiled by being to long, an the fade-out ending does not have the impact of "A day in the life's" final chord. 8/10

19) Hello, Goodbye: This song seems very shallow, bland, and repetitive at first, but like "All you need is love" it really grows on you. The lyrics have a clear meaning "I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello" as Paul McCartney having the conflicting personality to his Girlfriend. She keeps trying to dump him, but he doesn't understand. Another meaningless chant at the end spoils it though. Hey la, hey la hello-a. What were they thinking?
7/10

20) Lady Madonna: Pretty underrated in my opinon. Like "The ballad of John and Yoko" this has a bouncy tune about a mum who's husband never comes home, finds it difficult to make ends meet what with having 7 children.
Good guitar riffs and singing by Paul.
8/10

21) Hey Jude: Superb song, that builds up and progresses in persuasiveness until the biggest chant yet. (4 minutes!)
As another reviewer pionted out, it would of been better if the song was just 3 minutes, not 7. Still, it is an interesting song, persuading a friend not to be shy and "go out and get her"
At the time John found it very encouraging to his relationship with Yoko Ono. 8/10

22) Get back: Awful. "Get back" appears to be about American Wild West Transvestites. "Jojo was a man who thought he was a women, But she was another man"
and so on
As has already been said on this site, over-indulgent, rambling,
over-long, pointless, and boring. Paul's singing wavers around a lot as well, and the only good bits are the guitar riffs and Ringo's drumming. 3/10

23) The ballad of John and Yoko. John's account of a chaotic honeymoon. It covers the bed-in, bagism, and their acorn craze.
John seemed to have gone mad but not realised quite how bonkers he was. "the newspaper's said, she gone to his head"
The blaphemous chorus "Christ, you know it ain't easy" is not quite as bad as you might think, for both Christ and John struggled to get the message across. (Although Christ had a far less gimmicky message). Bouncy and fun. 8/10

24) Something: "Something" is a true timeless classic by George, expressing how he feels about this girl, who has some hidden charisma. Will his relationship last? a touch of doubt, beautiful
first line, and dreamy singing, easily put this up here with "Yesterday". Were it released today it would probably hit No. 1 just like it did back then. 9/10

25) Come together: Actually written by Timothy Leary but taken by John. Meaningless song really. What is it about? Sex? Rousing rally-round to unite the Beatles?
There's not enough of the rockin' "middle eight" either. A few clever lyrics though, like "whaaaan an whaaan an whaaaaaan is three" and "feet, down, below his knees" keep it from true mediocrity. 6/10

26) Let it be: This song is sickly and saccharin, with no deep meaning whatsoever. They ran out of things to say half way through, and just resorted to saying "let it be, let it be, oh let it be, let it be" and then an out of place guitar solo. 4/10

27) Although this was actually no way near the last song they ever recorded, could of been. It sounds like the sort of music they play when the credits roll at the end of an epic. (Rather like the Beatles. Does it seem like McCartney's vocals are drowned somewhat by the choir and everything?. Blame it on Phil Spector, who gave the "Let it be" album all the added instrumentals. Paul hated what he had done to this song, but no-one by then could seriously be bothered to change them. You can get the "Let it be..naked" album if you care too much about, which was the album as they intended it to be - raw, with no overdubbing. It would all be done spontaneously - this song originally just had Paul on keyboard. Superb and inspirational, even with Phil Spector. 9/10

So there we have it. 27 songs spanning their entire career. Despite the controversial absence of "Strawberry fields" (it only ever reached No. 2, pipped by some rubbish by Englebert Humperdinck") and the lack of "Sergeant Pepper" this CD is VERY good value for money, yes, there are a few bum tracks, but they had to have every No. 1 included , not just the best ones.

The album cover, with closer inspection, looks like it was cobbled up on Microsoft Paint. It's quite effective though. Inside the booklet is a little intro by the one and only George Martin and a page donated for each of their single covers from different countries. Quite interesting.

Overall, No. 1 is solid, and great value for money. If you already own all the albums, don't bother. But if you are just getting into the Beatles and don't know which peirod you will like best, or are just wanting to start a Beatles collection, this (along with Sergeant Pepper) would be the ones to own.

Hope you enjoyed reading this! Please rate me as I like to know what you think of my first album review! : )