Well, the question is really simple... Which Beatles' greatest hits compilation makes his job better? The 4xLP/CD set that consists in the two albums Red & Blue, both from April 1973, or the 1xCD (2xLP) '1', released in 2000.
Please vote considering the selection of material and not the number of songs (because of course Red+Blue contains more material!!).

I vote for '1', to me is the best compilation ever made.
With the Red & Blue albums there are many tracks missed, maybe not in the second, but the Red only contains 26 songs (in a double LP compilation album 63 minutes is not much generous   ), and where is Twist And Shout, Do You Want To Know A Secret? (both #2 hits in the U.S.) ...or classic album tracks such as I Should Have Known Better, Here, There And Everywhere or Tomorrow Never Knows? They are all missed!

So my vote is for '1'. Now is your turn to vote!  

Red/Blue... I think the songs on the LP/CDs are the ones that deserve to be there, singles, #1 hits, and I think it shows the most popular songs from each year, and how they progressed from poppy "Twist And Shout" and "She Loves You" to the deep melodies of Abbey Road.  

I like the Blue album best

DaveRam

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It "does what it says on the tin", whilst the Red & Blue albums are subjective Best Of's.

For example I think the Revolver LP is very under represented & the Rubber Soul LP is over-represented when likes of "Girl", "Drive My Car", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Octopus' Garden" & "Old Brown Shoe" are lucky to have made the grade at the expense of the likes of "I Saw Her Standing There", "Rain", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Helter Skelter" & "Hey Bulldog".

Quoted from maninthequeue

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It "does what it says on the tin", whilst the Red & Blue albums are subjective Best Of's.

For example I think the Revolver LP is very under represented & the Rubber Soul LP is over-represented when likes of "Girl", "Drive My Car", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Octopus' Garden" & "Old Brown Shoe" are lucky to have made the grade at the expense of the likes of "I Saw Her Standing There", "Rain", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Helter Skelter" & "Hey Bulldog".

that is true, but i think it gives a better presentation of what the beatles did.
girl, in my life, michelle, nowhere man, norwegian wood, drive my car: there are too many rubber soul songs for a fact.

I voted the Red/Blue compilations as they were & still are the best compilations of
Beatles music i think. It was album the first comps i purchased when i discovered them
1 is a good collection as well but i never bought it as i already had the songs.

'1' bores the piss out of me. Give me the Red & Blue albums anyday.

Red & Blue...mY definitive advance in Beatles after getting into my parents vinyl copy of A hard Days Night,

I grew up with the red album as it was the first Beatles album one of my sisters bought. I couldn't stop listening to it.

The red & blue albums were the first ones I bought, and I just loved both of them.... I like #1s too and the songs included there would make a perfect playlist for my iPod.  

Quoted from maninthequeue

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It "does what it says on the tin", whilst the Red & Blue albums are subjective Best Of's.

For example I think the Revolver LP is very under represented & the Rubber Soul LP is over-represented when likes of "Girl", "Drive My Car", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Octopus' Garden" & "Old Brown Shoe" are lucky to have made the grade at the expense of the likes of "I Saw Her Standing There", "Rain", "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Helter Skelter" & "Hey Bulldog".

Great too see someone who thinks just like me.
And... is really necessary to buy 4 CDs to listen 54 songs when you have the most decisive 27 in only 1 CD? I don't think so...

Ooh, I'm very indecisive, but I went for Red and Blue. It's got a good collection of songs. I'm probably being slightly disloyal, because I actually have "1" (that was the first Beatles CD I bought, albeit as a present for Mum. Little did I know I'll be borrowing it a lot in the future...   ); and I don't actually have the Red and Blue CDs (although I do have the songs that are on them). I like the songs on 1, but I like the ones on Red and Blue more.

Quoted from Octie

I like the songs on 1, but I like the ones on Red and Blue more.

Great minds think alike.   And besides most of the songs on "1" are on the blue and red cd (I think).

Quoted from Kaleidoscope_Eyes

Great minds think alike.   And besides most of the songs on "1" are on the blue and red cd (I think).

That's why I said the songs in the #1s album would make an excelent play list for my iPod.

I voted 1, purely for the superior sound quality. And if you have all the albums and Past Masters, you don't need the Red and Blue albums.