Customer Reviews
fantastic but songs still missing like elvis 1 collection!! - By: Mr. S. L. Smith, 20 Jul 2008 
the beatles are legends but still theres lots of songs missing strawberry fields forver here comes the sun while my guitar gently weeps revolution & many more like the elvis 1 collection still songs missing but still a good hits collection from the fab four they will always be remembered like alot of other legends dusty springfield,elvis presley,freddie mercury/queen,jimi hendrix,minnie riperton,karen carpenter/the carpenters etc buy this but also get the red & blue box sets there cool!!
Terrible! The Beatles sellout to Elvis - By: Mr. P. D. Simpson, 25 Jun 2008 
Terrible! The Beatles the greatest Pop group of all time who released the innovative 'Sgt. Pepper's' copy Elvis with the same concept of a hits album containing all their Number One's? which may of worked if all their UK singles reached the top spot... But where is 'Strawberry Fields' & 'Please Please Me' instead we get 'The Long And Winding Rd' & 'Eight Days A week', if you had a choice The Long Winding Rd or Strawberry Fields what would you choose? I thought so Strawberry Fields, enough reason why this Cd does not work they should have done two seperate Hits Cd's one for the USA & one for the UK.. (like the vinyl of 1982) Penny Lane without Strawberry Fields is like Bread without Butter... Also it is the worse sounding Beatles Cd as well!
A CLASSIC BAND - By: stuart, 21 Jan 2008 Apparently, there was a gapin the Beatles' catalog, after all -- all the big hits weren't on one tidy, single-disc compilation. It's not the kind of gap you'd necessarily notice -- it's kind of like realizing you don't have a pair of navy blue dress socks -- but it was a gap all the same, so the group released The Beatles 1 latein 2000, coinciding with the publication of their official autobiography, the puzzlingly titled Anthology. The idea behind this compilation is to have all the number one singles the Beatles had, eitherin the U.K. or U.S., on one disc, & that's pretty much what this generous 27-track collection is. It's easy, nay, necessary, to quibble with a couple of the judgment calls -- look, "Please Please Me" should be here instead of "From Me to You," & it's unforgivable to bypass "Strawberry Fields Forever" (kick out "Yellow Submarine" or "Eleanor Rigby") -- but there's still no question that this is all great music, & there is a bit of a rush hearing all these dazzling songs follow one after another. If there's any complaint, it's that even if it's nice to have something like this, it's not really essential. There's really no reason for anyone who owns all the records to get this too -- if you've lived happily without the red or blue albums, you'll live without this. But, if you give this to any six or seven year old, they'll be a pop fan, even fanatic, for life. And that's reason enough for it to exist.
The ultimate Beatles compilation still does not exist - By: Hombre_de_ningun_lugar, 14 Dec 2007 
Ask any serious Beatles fan about "1" & he/she will tell you that this album is not a good, balanced summary of the amazing Fab Four discography. Of course, the songs are still great, but "1" only shows one side of the band. I mean, "1" is very good about showing the Beatles as "hit-makers", but it fails when it's about showing their revolutionary side. Maybe that's why Paul got much more songs than John here, while George is represented by only one track. So, as a compilation, I consider that "1" loses at least one star.
The early-Beatles (from late-1962 to mid-1965) are quite well represented since at the begining they put more energy on the production of distilled singles than on the albums, even though "1" omits an essential track like "Please Please Me". But from Rubber Soul (late-1965) to Abbey Road (late-1969) the Beatles included much of their best material just on LPs. Perhaps some great songs like "Tomorrow Never Knows", "A Day In The Life" or "Helter Skelter" belong too much to their corresponding albums & would not fit to what a coherent compilation should be. But then we have classic folk rock pieces like "Norwegian Wood", "Nowhere Man", "Michelle" & "In My Life"; psychedelic landscapesin "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" & "I Am The Walrus"; marvelous loud rockers such as "Revolution"; George's classic gems "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" & "Here Comes The Sun". Note that all these tracks are not merely personal favorites, they're all instant standards & I understand that they should be part of any serious Beatles collection.
I guess the original idea was releasing a collection of hit singlesin one full CD, but then I think that for historical reasons (beyond chart reasons) it would have been wiser to include "Please Please Me" & "Strawberry Fields Forever" instead of "Eight Days A Week" & "The Long And Winding Road", since the last two songs weren't released as singlesin UK and,in my opinion, are far from the Beatles best. Anyway, I think that the Red & Blue Albums together make the most complete Beatles collection of songs released until these days (and they were originally publishedin 1973!), but they involve four disks & exceed what a concise compilation should be. Compiling is about both selecting & excluding: "1" fails about selection while the Red & Blue Albums fail about exclusion. I think that the ideal Beatles collection should be at a mid-way: 40 songs spread on two CDs. Thus, I believe that the ultimate Beatles compilation still does not exist; & maybe will never do.
If you only buy one Beatles album, it must be this one. - By: Gavin Wilson, 28 Aug 2007 Much better sleeve notes, & better sound clarity. No duff tracks. The Beatles were essentially a singles band. Enough said.
