Capitol Albums Vol.2 - Beatles (The)

Advantages: Very funny out takes. Great Songs
Disadvantages: A Few week songs, not many

...I have recently developed a huge interest in the Beatles, which is very odd considering I listen to Hip-Hop. But the Beatles songs from the Magical Mystery Tour era have especially jumped out at me and screamed greatness. I downloaded several songs including "penny lane" "I am the walrus" " Fool on the hill" and some others. Now all of these songs, I was happy to find, are on this album. All of the songs are takes, demos and edits which they didn't use but provide a laugh, for example on "Hide you love away" One of them sings a brief song of "Paul’s broken a glass, broken a glass, a glass, a glass Paul’s broken a glass, a glass today" There are a lot of unheard songs as well, most of which are very good. The songs range from early days through the Mystery tour days and to the more modern stuff without john. but never the less all... Read review

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Advantages: One of The Best Beatles Albums
Disadvantages: None

...This is one of my favorite albums by The Beatles. Actually, it was made by their producer, George Martin, who arranged some of their (The Beatles) highest selling songs in the 62-66 period. This is a timeless double album that I personally own. Some of these songs include Please Please Me, All My Loving, She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Eight Days A Week, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Yellow Submarine, In My Life and Many Others. You can experience the music that led an entire generation. That influence by this group alone is what eventually evolved into the style of Rock music (yes, The Beatles popularized rock music). But you can experience what the original Rock N' Roll sounded like through through this classic album. I recommend this album to Beatles and Non-Beatles Fans Alike. It is available in double CD's or Cassette... Read review

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Advantages: It's the Beatles, previously unavailable on CDs, no bad tracks
Disadvantages: none

...Collecting every song The Beatles ever commercially released is quite a daunting task, for during their seven years as recording artists, the group managed to release thirteen albums and an impressive collection of singles. The British versions of the albums usually did not contain the singles, as the group did not want to make fans buy an album full of singles they already owned. In the U.S., however, Capitol cut many tracks off of the albums and added whatever they wished, thus some Beatles singles were available on the U.S. versions of the albums. But unless you wanted to hunt down old vinyl versions of songs, you would never have all the Beatles songs. And even if you did find all the U.S. albums, you would still be missing some singles and B-sides of the singles. Fortunately, in 1988, this problem was fixed with the release... Read review

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