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Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Listmeister — Tue, 6 Aug 2013 22:27:24 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 08/07/2013 02:27

Jabapac wrote:

Fine, but in that case With The Beatles probebly have less points than what it really deserves.

Since the late 1980's, 'With' has been the only version available. 'Meet' will surely become a fading memory. The only way to listen to it is to look up the track listing, then listen to the tracks from 'With', 'Past Masters One' and 'Please Please Me' in the 'Meet' order. Being used to the 'With' order (it was the early 90's) I did that once, There was no startling revelation, like man, this is an awesome order of Beatles songs. So I stopped my journey through the American catalog, as too much work.

So, if either should lose points, it should be 'Meet'. I'd like to hear from someone who is familiar with both versions.

Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Facetious — Wed, 7 Mar 2012 05:01:50 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/07/2012 10:01

Romanelli wrote:

The mistakes that were made in the original Beatles releases were corrected when the albums came out on CD. They eliminated (and rightfully so) the American versions of the existing albums and got rid of the American only albums altogether. I think what they did with the catalog makes perfect sense. All of the songs are available on albums, and the songs that weren't intended for albums are there on the Past Masters series.

MMT wasn't an original British release (which is one of the reasons why I consider its actual place in the Beatles studio albums core catalog as just about as suspicious as Yellow Submarine's), so not ALL American-only albums got eliminated really. But you have one point: most of the American releases have become of relatively minor importance in the catalog. But I don't think this is the case with Meet The Beatles!

Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Romanelli — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 08:55:54 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 03/06/2012 13:55

The mistakes that were made in the original Beatles releases were corrected when the albums came out on CD. They eliminated (and rightfully so) the American versions of the existing albums and got rid of the American only albums altogether. I think what they did with the catalog makes perfect sense. All of the songs are available on albums, and the songs that weren't intended for albums are there on the Past Masters series.

Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Jabapac — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:25:35 GMT

Author: Jabapac

Posted: 03/06/2012 12:25

Fine, but in that case With The Beatles probebly have less points than what it really deserves.

Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Facetious — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 06:26:41 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 03/06/2012 11:26

Plus, what would we do with the Rolling Stone chart if Meet The Beatles was deleted from the site? Add in With The Beatles in its place? Oh, and on an earlier version of the list, With... and Meet... were both included as separate albums. So I think albummaster is right. They ARE separate albums.

Re: With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

albummaster — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 05:43:57 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 03/06/2012 10:43

I think these are treated as distinct rather than the same release because they have a different track listing, different title and were released separately (With The Beatles is the earlier release). AllMusic list these albums separately as do other websites. I'm not saying they are right, just pointing it out. It's one of those where you could argue either way, but I think having both albums here is the right thing to do.

With The Beatles, Meet The Beatles

Jabapac — Tue, 6 Mar 2012 05:15:17 GMT

Author: Jabapac

Posted: 03/06/2012 10:15

Hi

I guess that both albums' points should collected as one. and so on for similar stuff.