Thanks for your response.Ziggy C wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:49 pmI see where the compilations kind of rattle around together at the bottom. That's about where I'd put most of them. Blue and Red would be higher, if I'd ranked them, with Red just above Blue.beatlesfanfromsop wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 11:40 pm I grew up listening to the The Beatles U.S. releases,and this is my ranking of each U.S. release.
I like every U.S. release,and it was not that easy for me to rank some of them.
I'm noticing that AHDN and/or Help are close to the top on many lists. Also noticing that Sgt. Pepper isn't as close to the top as many of the so-called renowned critics and musicologists would place it. I think we know better than they.
You make good points.
I always liked the original 1973 US version of the Red & Blue Albums the best,
and I always thought those two greatest hits LPS for the most part
contain all The Beatles Hits and most famous Beatles songs.
I always liked SPLHCB the best out of the last seven releases up to 1970.
I always thought The Early Beatles was the weakest of the Capitol releases.
I always thought if The Early Beatles also included Misery & There's A Place
on both the Stereo & Mono LPS,it would have made it a better album.
The Capitol Stereo mixes for those two songs can be found on U.S. Rarities
and the Mono mixes can be found on Twist And Shout / There's A Place Capitol Starline mono single
& Roll Over Beethoven / Misery Capitol Starline mono single.
I have never head those two Capitol mono singles,and i have been trying to find
vinyl rips for them for years.
I guess since I Saw her standing there was included on Meet The Beatles,
Capitol Records left it off The Early Beatles,and now that I think of it,it would have made
the Early Beatles a better LP.
I read some place The Early Beatles has centered vocals,
and I have no idea if that is true.
If it is true,then I think I would rank the Early Beatles a little higher.
Mike