Hi, everybody. I'm a big Frank Sinatra fan and I've been lately a little obsessed about this Frank Sinatra box-set: "The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings". During his lengthy career, Frankie recorded for a total of 4 record companies - RCA (1940-43), Columbia (1943-52), Capitol (1953-61 and then 1993-94) and his own label Reprise (1960-88 ). In 1995, when his career was ultimately at its end, Reprise released "The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings", a 20-CD box set including EVERY recording he made for the label, including many songs that were unreleased as its time. The set includes the material from nearly 35 studio albums (sure, 2 records per-CD, counting one called Trilogy that was a triple album!), with all the songs in chronological order.
Now, I think it would be great to have a Beatles set with the same concept. ALL the studio recordings that they made. Of course, we could never put ALL the recordings because we know that still are many officially unreleased, and others (like "Carnival of Light") never saw the light even on bootlegs.
I think it would be fantastic to have a set featuring: -the DEFINITIVE take of every Beatles song. With this I refering to all the songs that were officially released as they were released. (for example, "Ticket to Ride" would be the "Ticket to Ride" that we all know, no other take, it doesn't make any sense in other way...) A special case is for those songs that were released officially in more than one version: I mean, the 2 Love Me Do's, the 2 Get Back's, the 2 Let It Be's, and maybe all the outtakes from the 3 Anthologies. -also the Beatles CHRISTMAS records, they were studio recordings. Although I think it would be better including them in the last part of the set, because they don't fit with the rest of the Beatles material, I guess... -the BEST take of all the songs that remain unreleased. I can't give an opinion in this, because I know just a little about bootlegs. -maybe the BBC sessions. I don't know. Those were studio recordings. I guess the majority of them. But there was some recorded in front of a live audience, right?
Now, some obstacles: -To find all the officially released recordings in their non-mixed versions. "Back in the U.S.S.R." is available on its non-mixed version on the Blue Album. But what about "Dear Prudence", for example? All the songs on the White Album were very mixed with each other. -To find all the songs never officially released and only available on bootlegs on their "best" takes...
Well, that's a project that I guess it would be really nice. A 15-, maybe 20-CD box set including every Beatle studio recording in chronological order. Does anybody thought about a project similar to this one? I'll apreciate any info or webpage about a guide with EVERY studio recording of the Fab4 as a guide for this project.
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I think the Purple Chick series, together with the Lazy Tortoise Documentary series (also available on my blog) cover pretty much all the best available material.
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Of course, there's still stuff that hasn't even been booted yet; Carnival Of Light, the 27 minute Helter Skelter, and so far, no outtakes of Martha My Dear. And more.
The Xmas stuff was officially released at one time, but in any case is widely available on bootlegs. In fact I posted one here before Xmas.
You should also consider The Capitol Albums Volumes 1 & 2. These are mostly different mixes, and in some cases, different takes.
It's going to be a long road!! Happy listening.
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.