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List Price: $67.98 | | Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Salesrank: 498325
Released: December 15, 2007 |
| Our Price: $54.00 |
| Used Price: $119.00 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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1 Track Listing:
1. Love Me Do
2. From Me to You
3. She Loves You
4. I Want to Hold Your Hand
5. Can't Buy Me Love
6. Hard Day's Night
7. I Feel Fine
8. Eight Days a Week
9. Ticket to Ride
10. Help!
11. Yesterday
12. Day Tripper
13. We Can Work It Out
14. Paperback Writer
15. Yellow Submarine
16. Eleanor Rigby
17. Penny Lane
18. All You Need Is Love
19. Hello Goodbye
20. Lady Madonna
21. Hey Jude
22. Get Back
23. Ballad of John and Yoko
24. Something
25. Come Together
26. Let It Be
27. Long and Winding Road
Editorial Review:
Japanese exclusive reissue of 2000 compilation. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. Gatefold sleeve. 2003.
Description of 1:
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
1 Reviews:
One Fab Four 
2009-12-03 - When it has came down to Pop Music, there have been artists that have been honestly never forgotten, as the cornerstones of the pop music landscape. While we've lost some of those acts, like the tragic death of Michael Jackson back in June, what we should and truthfully remember is how great and influential their songs have been over the years. That also has been strongly reminded back in Sptember with The Beatles. With all of their classic records being remastered for the first time ever, and with their music being the focus behind their own Rock Band video game, there honestly has been no denying the constant they've still maintained since they cam on the Ed Sullivan Show 45 years ago. But while there are so many who own all of their classic records, there hasn't been many a definitive reflection of what has made The Beatles such a constant, and here it is.
1 By The Beatles, their 2000 Greatest Hits album, is truthfully the strongest and most detailed greatest hits package that definitely reflects on almost all of The Beatles classic pop catalog from all the years they've made the best in pop music, in one comprehensive hits package. The songs have all been strongly remastered, and include a lot of their biggest and most influential songs including Love Me Do, Hey Jude, the somber Let It Be, Get Back and the soulful The Long & Winding Road. There also are some lesser-known songs here that are surprising like The Ballad of John & Yoko, Day Tripper and Eight Days A Week, that actually sound better than all the years they've been out on their original albums for so long. Yet with all the songs on the album, I honestly though wish there could've been a few of their more widely showcased songs like Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band, and I Am The Walrus on the collection as well.
Overall, despite a few overshadowed songs, The Beatles 1 is definitely the strongest reflection of what made John, Paul, George & Ringo so strong with melodicmemories after all these years. If you have not even yet owned a Beatles album in your music library, than I would honestly recommend that you start right here with 1, as the simplest way of hearing why The Fab Four have never gone away, even though they ended years ago. It is honestly one of the few must have greatest hits records that I really have recommended that sounds so surprisingly strong today.
Album Cover: A
Songs: B+
Price: A-
Remastering: A-
Overall: B+
Danger! 
2009-11-14 - Watch out! This compilation might whet your appetite for more and more Beatles music. Each of the tracks is a winner (with the arguable exception of Phil Spector's crazily over-the-top production on the last track, "The Long and Winding Road"), and they're presented chronologically so you hear how the group's sound evolved. Unfortunately for your wallet, chances are you'll find yourself thinking of other Beatles tunes that didn't hit No. 1 in the U.S. or U.K. and feel compelled to seek them out on CD as well.
Superb Introduction to the Greatest Band of All Time
2009-10-24 - I've been a Beatles fan since before I was in grade school. I grew up listening to my dad's Capitol LP's and my first cassette tape was The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits which was released in the early 80's. This CD is an excellent compilation of all their number one hits from the US and UK. It shows the change in style of the Beatles music from 1962 to 1970 from being a "simple" rock band to creating some of the most innovative, not to mention memorable, music to come out of the 60's. The CD starts out with "Love Me Do", "From Me To You" and "She Loves You". These three tracks are presented in their original mono mix while the rest of the album is in stereo. I especially like that "From Me To You" is in mono because the stereo version had the hard pan of vocals on one side with bass, rhythm and drums on the other. In mono everything is centered. From the beginning and up to "Help" the tracks on here are mostly on the lighter side. Paul's "Yesterday" starts to show a more serious side to the band and from there you can really see their music change from songs like the happy and fun "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to music about prostitutes, "Day Tripper", and loneliness, "Eleanor Rigby". While some may complain that their favorites are not on here (there isn't a single track from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) that's not the point of this collection. This CD is a compilation of their number one singles and should be viewed as such.
Now, I bought this album for less than ten bucks and before the new remastered CD's were released. I had most of these songs on older CD's so my purchase was to get a taste of what the remastered one's would sound like. Well, I wasn't dissapointed because the quality of these versions is clearly superior to the ones from 1987 and are on par with the new remasters as well. Now that the remasters are out I would recommend this collection for the casual Beatle fan or somebody that's never heard (Oh, how I envy you) this wonderful music from, IMO, the greatest band of all time.
Fab 4 forever
2009-10-19 - What a great deal. This is one of a few albums I can honestly say that I love every song! I was in the 3rd grade when these guys hit our shores with these songs, but good music stands the test of time. I don't have audiophile tastes or the keen sense of hearing to compare the original to the remastered, but I know what I like, and this music is still great fun to listen to after all these years.
Love it!
2009-10-15 - This album has all the songs I know and love from the Beatles. This was such a great deal!
