Yeah they could add Mystery Tour and Hey Jude (or Beatles Again or whatever it was called).
Then you would have early period, middle period and late period collections which would be fairly satisfactory.
And possibly 2 others - Beatles Story and Rarities.
I loved the US Rarities LP when it came out - 1000 times better that the crappy UK release! Here's a write-up I made on it earlier!
My OLD favourite non UK album was Magical Mystery Tour (once Capitol EMI's biggest selling US import LP!) - but of course that has been released in the UK now. So it has to be the US version of the Rarities album.
To put it mildly, the UK Rarities LP was total pants (crap)! Once a bonus album in the Beatles LP collection boxset, the UK Rarities LP was released in October 1979 in its own right. It's only redeeming features were the German stereo versions of She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand and the original Across The Universe from the World Wildlife Fund LP - apart from that it was mainly just B-sides, EP tracks an accompanying sleeve note littered with errors!!
Then in March 1980, Capitol brought out an entirely different version of the Rarities LP - and THIS was exactly what the fans (me) wanted!! The album was housed in a gate-fold sleeve which when opened out revealed the original Butcher Sleeve photo used on Yesterday and Today!
But for me, the real revelations were the alternative versions that Capitol used. I was only 14 at the time and only had the regular albums and singles which I had played to death and this album contained something new! So just hearing the original Love Me Do with Ringo on drums for the first time was absolutely awesome - and that was only the first track on the LP! I wont go on and on, just to say I still hold this album very dear! Here are the details...
Front and rear of the sleeveInside of gatefold sleeve Side OneLove Me Do - (Version 1) with Ringo on drums. At the time, the master of this take could not be located in EMI's vaults so Randall Davis had to settle for an excellent quality dub of the original single, supplied by Ron Furmanek.
Misery - the common recording, but this was the first time the song appeared in stereo on a Capitol album. It was previously available just as a single (Capitol Starline 6065).
There's A Place - same circumstances as Misery. Issued by Capitol as a single in October 1965 (Capitol Starline 6061).
Sie Liebt Dich - had only been issued in the United States in 1964 as a single on Swan Records (Swan 4182). This marked the first Capitol Records release, and the first stereo release in America.
And I Love Her - contains Paul's double-tracked vocals and six bars of acoustic guitar in the fade-out. This may be a Capitol creation - the Rarities version sounds like it's the usual version with an extended ending.
Help - The mono single mix has different lead and backing vocals and lacks the tambourine present in the stereo mix.
I'm Only Sleeping - this is the true stereo version, which in America could only be found on the Capitol Record Club edition of "Yesterday . . . And Today", and on all stereo tape formats of Y & T.
I Am The Walrus - this was a new, composite version created by Capitol engineers John Palladino and George Irwin. They took the British stereo version with the six-beat introduction and spliced in the four extra beats of music heard after the third verse in the mono recording.
Side TwoPenny Lane - another composite track by Palladino and Irwin. This time, they took the true stereo version, which had never been released in the United States before (the version on the American stereo Magical Mystery Tour was "reprocessed"), and added the seven piccolo trumpet notes heard at the end of this song on the U.S. and Canadian promotional singles.
Helter Skelter - the UK mono mix.
Don't Pass Me By - the UK mono mix.
The Inner Light - the first time this song had ever been issued on an American album. This is the original mono mix.
Across The Universe - (Version 1); the first time this George Martin-produced version had ever been released in the United States. Taken from the "No One's Gonna Change Our World" LP for the World Wild Life Fund
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) - the first time this mono track had ever been included on an album in America.
Sgt. Pepper Inner Groove - the first time these four seconds of Beatles sounds had ever been issued in the United States.