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Post by kc on Jun 27, 2015 19:01:54 GMT -5
I thought I would do some adding up. How many albums of new material have the Beatles delivered to us, including solo releases? I came up with 109. The numbers are only approximate. I have probably left something out. Some of the categorization was arbitrary.
Studio albums: 67 Live albums: 23 Electronic/Ambient/Sound Effects: 8 Covers: 5 Classical: 6
Impressive, don’t you think? And with more to come. Then there are the singles…
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Post by joeyself on Jul 13, 2015 15:02:15 GMT -5
Without knowing just how you were counting it, I came up with these as studio albums:
17 for the Beatles. The core 13 UK albums, including MMT, plus the three ANTHOLOGY volumes and LET IT BE...NAKED (I can see not counting the last one). Me, I would include PAST MASTERS 1 and 2, but your last line makes me think you didn't.
22 for McCartney 18 for Starr (I put SANTA CLAUS into this one, as half of it is not cover versions; you may have it with the covers) 10 for Harrison, if you don't include EARLY TAKES 07 for Lennon if you don't include ANTHOLOGY and ACOUSTIC. SOME TIME IN NYC is half live and half studio (and a big part of the studio is Yoko, but I put it in this list, along with DF and M&H).
I get 74, and with the others I mentioned, I am at 79 albums of studio work that doesn't fit into the experimental/covers/classical mode.
I know the two volumes of the BBC stuff is called LIVE, but by and large, this material was recorded in the studio, and they could play it until they were happy with what they had. Still, there weren't a bunch of overdubs, so it's nothing to get hung about.
As for the impressive nature of it, I guess it could be, but we are talking about 52 years since PPM. After that, there were 10 years in which all four could have been producing new work, then an additional two decades in which three of them could have been. When you consider the total number of work/years, it's not quite as daunting.
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Post by kc on Jul 14, 2015 0:11:16 GMT -5
Thanks for your response, joeyself. I should have presented a more detailed breakdown of the numbers. Unfortunately, I have misplaced the notes I used when originally writing this thread, but I have tried to recall my thinking. Here is a new, somewhat revised list. I didn’t include singles collections, or greatest hits sets etc., since my intent was to list new material originally presented as albums. Therefore, Past Masters, for example, is not included. You got me thinking about the outtakes type collections. I previously did not include them, but have in this second attempt.
The studio albums (67: 13 Beatles, 7 Lennon, 21 McCartney, 9 Harrison and 17 Starr): Please Please Me With The Beatles A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour (An album in US at least, now universal.) The Beatles Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Imagine Some Time In New York City (I’ve discounted the live component.) Mind Games Walls And Bridges Double Fantasy Milk And Honey McCartney Ram Wings Wild Life Red Rose Speedway Band On The Run Venus And Mars Wings At The Speed Of Sound London Town Back To The Egg McCartney II Tug Of War Pipes Of Peace Give My Regards To Broadstreet Press To Play Flowers In The Dirt Off The Ground Flaming Pie Driving Rain Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard Memory Almost Full New All Things Must Pass Living In The Material World Dark Horse Extra Texture 331/3 George Harrison Gone Troppo Cloud Nine Brainwashed Beaucoups Of Blues Ringo Goodnight Vienna Rotogravure Ringo The 4th Bad Boy Stop And Smell The Roses Old Wave Time Takes Time Vertical Man I Wanna Be Santa Claus Ringo Rama Choose Love Liverpool 8 Y Not Ringo 2012 Postcards From Paradise
The live albums (24: 5 Beatles, 2 Lennon, 6 McCartney, 2 Harrison and 9 Starr): tony Sheridan incarnations Star Club incarnations Live At The Hollywood Bowl Live At The BBC (Yes, the BBC sets are live to me.) Live At The BBC Volume 2 Live Peace In Toronto Live In New York City Wings Over America Tripping The Live Fantastic Unplugged Back In The US/World Good Evening New York City Live In Los Angeles Concerts For Bangla Desh (Admittedly a various artists set.) Live In Japan Ringo And His All Starr Band (various artists) Ringo And His All Starr Band Volume 2 Live From Montreux (various artists) Ringo And His Third All Starr Band (various artists) VH1 Storytellers King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Ringo And his New All Starr Band/Ringo Starr And Friends Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band Tour 2003 (various artists) Ringo And His All Starr Band Live 2006 (various artists) Live At Soundstage Ringo And His All Starr Band Live At The Greek Theatre
The electronic/ambient/sound effects albums (9: 0 Beatles, 3 Lennon, 5 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr): Two Virgins Life With The Lions The Wedding Album Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest Rushes Liverpool Sound Collage Twin Freaks Electric Arguments (a hybrid) Electronic Sounds
The covers albums (5: 0 Beatles, 1 Lennon, 3 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 1 Starr): Rock N Roll Choba B CCCP Run Devil Run Kisses On The Bottom Sentimental Journey
The classical albums (5: 0 Beatles, 0 Lennon, 5 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 0 Starr) included: Liverpool Oratorio Standing Stone Working Classical Ecce Cor Meum Oceans Kingdom
The instrumental albums (3: 0 Beatles, 0 Lennon, 2 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr): The Family Way Thrillington Wonderwall Music
The outtakes/alternate takes/demos albums (7: 3 Beatles, 3 Lennon, 0 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr): Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 Menlove Avenue Anthology (John Lennon) Acoustic Early Takes
The remixed/ mashed up albums (4: 3 Beatles, 1 Lennon, 0 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 0 Star): Yellow Submarine Songtrack Let It Be...Naked Love Double Fantasy Stripped Down
So, my revised total is 124:
studio: 67 live: 24 electronic/ambient/sound effects: 9 covers: 5 classical: 5 instrumental: 3 outtakes/alternate takes/demos: 7 remixed/mashed up: 4
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Beatles: 24 Lennon: 17 McCartney: 42 Harrison: 14 Starr: 27
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 14, 2015 7:31:52 GMT -5
Great job, kc! I have been curious to know the final count of how much music exists out there by all four Beatles, either as a group or solo! Only thing is, I feel PAST MASTERS needs to be included, because there are songs on there that are in the Beatles' canon that are not accounted for (and biggies). Arguably, even the Tony Sheridan stuff includes The Beatles.
I have always been fascinated to think that ever since 1961 (with "Ain't She Sweet" and "Cry For A Shadow") , The Beatles either as a group or solo have released at least one new song every year for the past 54 years (1961 - 2015) .
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Post by joeyself on Jul 14, 2015 10:05:24 GMT -5
Nice list, kc. Various thoughts:
I don't see LET IT BE...NAKED on your list, or see that it is otherwise accounted for.
I had included SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY in the regular list of Ringo albums, but you're right, it's a cover like KISSES ON THE BOTTOM is (another that I lumped with the regular McCartney records). I also had ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS with the regular, as I did WONDERWALL for George. I think THE FAMILY WAY is more of light instrumental pop, but it's been a LONG time since I heard it.
Counting the BBC discs as live is appropriate, if for no other reason than the name on them!
You didn't include any of the Star Club incarnations; while not released by the Beatles--and in fact, opposed by them--it is a live record of the Beatles that was officially released.
MENLOVE AVENUE and ACOUSTIC from Lennon were omitted from the outtakes.
JcS
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Post by vectisfabber on Jul 14, 2015 13:04:08 GMT -5
Love - remixes/mashups?
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Post by kc on Jul 14, 2015 18:03:34 GMT -5
All good points, guys. I will revamp the list. I had just thought of the omission of Menlove Avenue and Acoustic, as well as Double Fantasy Stripped. The Sheridan work, Star Club and Love all totally escaped me though.
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Post by coachbk on Jul 14, 2015 18:40:20 GMT -5
I will agree with the original premise that this is quite an outstanding volume of work that has been released by the Beatles as a group and as individual performers!
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Post by kc on Jul 14, 2015 19:19:30 GMT -5
Revision done. I still find the singles collections problematic. There have been so many album reissues of essentially the same material. I could also incorporate a soundtracks category. However, that would entail rearranging of the other categories.
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Post by kc on Jul 14, 2015 19:28:08 GMT -5
I will agree with the original premise that this is quite an outstanding volume of work that has been released by the Beatles as a group and as individual performers! I am left wondering which other popular music artists can beat it? Elvis? Sinatra? One or more of the jazz artists? I am probably cheating by combining the group and solo work, but in my mind they will always be associated with each other.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 14, 2015 20:34:10 GMT -5
Revision done. I still find the singles collections problematic. There have been so many album reissues of essentially the same material. I could also incorporate a soundtracks category. However, that would entail rearranging of the other categories. So without PAST MASTERS, we basically have a "complete" list of "the volume of work" of all four Beatles, spanning some whopping 54 years --- but yet songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Hey Jude" (amongst many others!) are not part of that body of work? I'm mixed up.
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Post by kc on Jul 14, 2015 20:48:08 GMT -5
Revision done. I still find the singles collections problematic. There have been so many album reissues of essentially the same material. I could also incorporate a soundtracks category. However, that would entail rearranging of the other categories. So without PAST MASTERS, we basically have a "complete" list of "the volume of work" of all four Beatles, spanning some whopping 54 years --- but yet songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Hey Jude" (amongst many others!) are not part of that body of work? I'm mixed up. Yeah, I'm not sure how to address it though. The Past Masters set(s) make things easy for the Beatles, but there aren't equivalents for the solo careers. I could just add a compilations category and lump everything else in there. Or, I could create a separate list of singles. Got any ideas?
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jul 15, 2015 7:58:26 GMT -5
So without PAST MASTERS, we basically have a "complete" list of "the volume of work" of all four Beatles, spanning some whopping 54 years --- but yet songs like "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Hey Jude" (amongst many others!) are not part of that body of work? I'm mixed up. Yeah, I'm not sure how to address it though. The Past Masters set(s) make things easy for the Beatles, but there aren't equivalents for the solo careers. I could just add a compilations category and lump everything else in there. Or, I could create a separate list of singles. Got any ideas? Well, it depends on what exactly it is that you are trying to accomplish? (Maybe I don't understand exactly). I'm thinking of PAST MASTERS being worth inclusion only in the sense that it's the only way of including all the Beatles' songs that were singles or EP's.* But I wouldn't think that compilations like the Red and Blue Albums, Rock And Roll Music, Love Songs, "1", (etc, etc) should also be included. How so other members here view this? *(NOTE: by including the Past Masters set to account for stray singles and EPs, would that also mean that certain non-album solo singles or EPs would have to be included too? Maybe not, since this is not actually a list of "every song", right..? -- I'm still confused! ).
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Post by joeyself on Jul 15, 2015 11:57:13 GMT -5
The Past Masters set(s) make things easy for the Beatles, but there aren't equivalents for the solo careers. I could just add a compilations category and lump everything else in there. Or, I could create a separate list of singles. Got any ideas? I understand what you're saying about the solo careers; there will still be some stray tracks which were released as a single (or like "Simple As That" for Paul, an album that contained various artists, or George's cover of "I Don't Want To Do It" on PORKY'S REVENGE). Lennon had a half-dozen or so songs that weren't on LP ("Give Peace A Chance," "Power To The People," "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma," "God Save Oz/Do The Oz" and "Move Over Ms. L" all leap to mind). McCartney also had a bunch of singles/B-sides/bonus tracks that haven't appeared on LP at all, not even a compilation. And there are even a few variations not on PAST MASTERS, but I'd not fret about the RARITIES tracks. I'd probably go for a list of singles that had at least one track that didn't appear on an album--like the single "Mull Of Kintyre/Girls School, or "I'll Give You A Ring" even though "Take It Away" is on the LP TUG OF WAR. But it's easy for me to suggest you do all the heavy lifting while I watch, grunting occasionally... EDIT: I'm not following why the Tony Sheridan material is listed under "live." Also, McCartney's AMOEBA'S SECRET is missing, although that is probably considered an EP, and I'm not sure what you want to do with those. JcS
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 15, 2015 17:46:50 GMT -5
The Amoeba tracks were included on the Live In Los Angeles album.
There was the iTunes Live (Kisses) From Capitol Studios album.
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Post by kc on Jul 15, 2015 18:24:39 GMT -5
The Past Masters set(s) make things easy for the Beatles, but there aren't equivalents for the solo careers. I could just add a compilations category and lump everything else in there. Or, I could create a separate list of singles. Got any ideas? I understand what you're saying about the solo careers; there will still be some stray tracks which were released as a single (or like "Simple As That" for Paul, an album that contained various artists, or George's cover of "I Don't Want To Do It" on PORKY'S REVENGE). Lennon had a half-dozen or so songs that weren't on LP ("Give Peace A Chance," "Power To The People," "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma," "God Save Oz/Do The Oz" and "Move Over Ms. L" all leap to mind). McCartney also had a bunch of singles/B-sides/bonus tracks that haven't appeared on LP at all, not even a compilation. And there are even a few variations not on PAST MASTERS, but I'd not fret about the RARITIES tracks. I'd probably go for a list of singles that had at least one track that didn't appear on an album--like the single "Mull Of Kintyre/Girls School, or "I'll Give You A Ring" even though "Take It Away" is on the LP TUG OF WAR.
But it's easy for me to suggest you do all the heavy lifting while I watch, grunting occasionally... EDIT: I'm not following why the Tony Sheridan material is listed under "live." Also, McCartney's AMOEBA'S SECRET is missing, although that is probably considered an EP, and I'm not sure what you want to do with those. JcS This is more or less what I was favouring. I can start assembling such a singles list, but it will take some time. This exercise could turn out to be a lot more extensive and time consuming than I originally thought. I expect there will have to be a lot of additions and corrections.
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Post by kc on Jul 15, 2015 19:15:28 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not sure how to address it though. The Past Masters set(s) make things easy for the Beatles, but there aren't equivalents for the solo careers. I could just add a compilations category and lump everything else in there. Or, I could create a separate list of singles. Got any ideas? Well, it depends on what exactly it is that you are trying to accomplish? (Maybe I don't understand exactly). I'm thinking of PAST MASTERS being worth inclusion only in the sense that it's the only way of including all the Beatles' songs that were singles or EP's.* But I wouldn't think that compilations like the Red and Blue Albums, Rock And Roll Music, Love Songs, "1", (etc, etc) should also be included. How so other members here view this? *(NOTE: by including the Past Masters set to account for stray singles and EPs, would that also mean that certain non-album solo singles or EPs would have to be included too? Maybe not, since this is not actually a list of "every song", right..? -- I'm still confused! ). Joe, when I started this I just thought of counting albums of new material. I wasn't thinking of also listing every originally non-album derived single, or song, as well. Nor was I trying to compile a conventional and complete discography. It wasn't intended to be a big project. However, I can see your point of the desirability of somehow including originally presented non-album singles and non-album EP songs in a list which purports to illustrate the Beatles and solo body of work. The work did and does not only consist of albums. I'm willing to make a start on this.
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Post by Zander on Jul 15, 2015 19:48:22 GMT -5
Is it just me or is the Official Bootleg 1963 missing too?
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Post by kc on Jul 15, 2015 21:28:50 GMT -5
Is it just me or is the Official Bootleg 1963 missing too? Good pick up. How to classify it, outtakes or live? Traveling Wilburys missing too.
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Post by kc on Jul 15, 2015 22:10:12 GMT -5
There was the iTunes Live (Kisses) From Capitol Studios album. Yes, there was. I'll attend to that.
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Post by kc on Jul 15, 2015 23:05:28 GMT -5
Revised list.
The studio albums (70: 14 Beatles, 7 Lennon, 21 McCartney, 11 Harrison and 17 Starr):
The Beatles
Please Please Me With The Beatles Tony Sheridan incarnations A Hard Day’s Night Beatles For Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles Yellow Submarine Abbey Road Let It Be
John Lennon
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Imagine Some Time In New York City Mind Games Walls And Bridges Double Fantasy Milk And Honey
Paul McCartney
McCartney Ram Wings Wild Life Red Rose Speedway Band On The Run Venus And Mars Wings At The Speed Of Sound London Town Back To The Egg McCartney II Tug Of War Pipes Of Peace Give My Regards To Broadstreet Press To Play Flowers In The Dirt Off The Ground Flaming Pie Driving Rain Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard Memory Almost Full New
George Harrison
All Things Must Pass Living In The Material World Dark Horse Extra Texture 331/3 George Harrison Gone Troppo Cloud Nine Volume 1 (Traveling Wilburys) Volume 3 (Traveling Wilburys) Brainwashed
Ringo Starr
Beaucoups Of Blues Ringo Goodnight Vienna Rotogravure Ringo The 4th Bad Boy Stop And Smell The Roses Old Wave Time Takes Time Vertical Man I Wanna Be Santa Claus Ringo Rama Choose Love Liverpool 8 Y Not Ringo 2012 Postcards From Paradise
The live albums (24: 4 Beatles, 2 Lennon, 7 McCartney, 2 Harrison and 9 Starr):
The Beatles
Star Club incarnations Live At The Hollywood Bowl Live At The BBC (Yes, the BBC sets are live to me.) Live At The BBC Volume 2
John Lennon
Live Peace In Toronto Live In New York City
Paul McCartney
Wings Over America Tripping The Live Fantastic Unplugged Back In The US/World Good Evening New York City Live In Los Angeles iTunes Live From Capitol Studios
George Harrison
Concerts For Bangla Desh (various artists) Live In Japan
Ringo Starr
Ringo And His All Starr Band (various artists) Ringo And His All Starr Band Volume 2 Live From Montreux (various artists) Ringo And His Third All Starr Band (various artists) VH1 Storytellers King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Ringo And his New All Starr Band/Ringo Starr And Friends Ringo Starr And His All Starr Band Tour 2003 (various artists) Ringo And His All Starr Band Live 2006 (various artists) Live At Soundstage Ringo And His All Starr Band Live At The Greek Theatre
The electronic/ambient/sound effects albums (9: 0 Beatles, 3 Lennon, 5 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr):
John Lennon
Two Virgins Life With The Lions The Wedding Album
Paul McCartney
Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest Rushes Liverpool Sound Collage Twin Freaks Electric Arguments
George Harrison
Electronic Sounds
The covers albums (5: 0 Beatles, 1 Lennon, 3 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 1 Starr):
John Lennon
Rock N Roll
Paul McCartney
Choba B CCCP Run Devil Run Kisses On The Bottom
Ringo Starr
Sentimental Journey
The classical albums (5: 0 Beatles, 0 Lennon, 5 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 0 Starr):
Paul McCartney
Liverpool Oratorio Standing Stone Working Classical Ecce Cor Meum Oceans Kingdom
The instrumental albums (3: 0 Beatles, 0 Lennon, 2 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr):
Paul McCartney
The Family Way Thrillington
George Harrison
Wonderwall Music
The outtakes/alternate takes/demos albums (8: 4 Beatles, 3 Lennon, 0 McCartney, 1 Harrison and 0 Starr):
The Beatles
Anthology 1 Anthology 2 Anthology 3 The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963
John Lennon
Menlove Avenue Anthology (John Lennon) Acoustic
George Harrison
Early Takes Volume 1
The remixed/mashed up albums (4: 3 Beatles, 1 Lennon, 0 McCartney, 0 Harrison and 0 Starr):
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine Songtrack Let It Be…Naked Love
John Lennon
Double Fantasy Stripped Down
Overall total is 128:
studio: 70 live: 24 electronic/ambient/sound effects: 9 covers: 5 classical: 5 instrumental: 3 outtakes/alternate takes/demos: 8 remixed/mashed up: 4
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The Beatles: 25 John Lennon: 17 Paul McCartney: 43 George Harrison: 16 Ringo Starr: 27
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Post by joeyself on Jul 16, 2015 10:14:55 GMT -5
Wikipedia will have a lot of the work done for you on the singles; for instance, Paul McCartney's singles are listed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography#1970sAlso www.jpgr.co.uk/ has a very good UK discography. There may be some stray tracks out there--say on a Japanese release--but generally, I think the bulk of what has been released on single should be named at this site. JcS
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 16, 2015 18:10:53 GMT -5
Wikipedia will have a lot of the work done for you on the singles; for instance, Paul McCartney's singles are listed here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney_discography#1970sAlso www.jpgr.co.uk/ has a very good UK discography. There may be some stray tracks out there--say on a Japanese release--but generally, I think the bulk of what has been released on single should be named at this site. JcS I was looking through the entries on the McCartney singles wikipage. Apparently Paul played drums on Ringo's song "Can't Fight Lightning".
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Post by joeyself on Jul 17, 2015 8:52:57 GMT -5
]I was looking through the entries on the McCartney singles wikipage. Apparently Paul played drums on Ringo's song "Can't Fight Lightning". And Ringo played guitar... JcS
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 17, 2015 17:40:53 GMT -5
]I was looking through the entries on the McCartney singles wikipage. Apparently Paul played drums on Ringo's song "Can't Fight Lightning". And Ringo played guitar... JcS A - D - E?
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Post by kc on Jul 18, 2015 18:27:11 GMT -5
I haven't forgotten about this "body of work" list. I've just been collecting some reference materials and thinking about how to organise things.
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Post by theman on Jul 18, 2015 19:16:40 GMT -5
Nice list, KC. My only observation/question is did the world really need 9 live albums from Ringo!!!
Number 9, number 9, number 9...............
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Post by Panther on Jul 18, 2015 22:07:18 GMT -5
I'm not sure that 'Milk & Honey' should be listed as a John studio album when John didn't compile the album or authorize its release. I would also probably list 'Let It Be...Naked' as an alternate version of the original 'Let It Be', since it's from the same tape sources, same arrangements, etc., and was actually approved by two or three Beatles (i.e., I would count those two releases as one album).
And I personally wouldn't separate "covers" albums from studio ones -- there's clearly lots of cross-over anyway, as three of the first four Beatles' albums, Wild Life, a couple of George albums, and others have cover songs.
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Post by kc on Jul 20, 2015 22:13:30 GMT -5
I'm not sure that 'Milk & Honey' should be listed as a John studio album when John didn't compile the album or authorize its release. I would also probably list 'Let It Be...Naked' as an alternate version of the original 'Let It Be', since it's from the same tape sources, same arrangements, etc., and was actually approved by two or three Beatles (i.e., I would count those two releases as one album). And I personally wouldn't separate "covers" albums from studio ones -- there's clearly lots of cross-over anyway, as three of the first four Beatles' albums, Wild Life, a couple of George albums, and others have cover songs. Panther, I’ve come to the conclusion that there might unfortunately be no definitive way of organising this. I don’t agree with your assessment of the categorisations of MAH and LIBN, but that is just my point of view. On the other hand, to me you make a more valid point about not separating covers albums from studio albums. I wondered about this myself. As you say, some of the studio albums contain covers, while the covers albums were studio recorded. Moreover, Run Devil Run and Kisses On The Bottom each contain original McCartney material. To go even further, while most of the classical albums were also studio recorded, at least one, Liverpool Oratorio, was recorded live. A Hard Days Night and Help! are half soundtrack albums. Electric Arguments, which I’ve categorised as ambient/electronic/sound effects, also contains conventional songs. I have placed The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 under outtakes/alternate takes/demos when it actually features more “live” BBC tracks than anything else. I have had to make a series of decisions about categorisation and some of them don’t quite fit perfectly. To arrive at a decision I have basically just thought of where the overall feel of a particular album sits with me personally. Anyway, I have rearranged things yet again. The “covers” category is gone. In its place there is a “traditional/standards” section, with the rock covers albums now listed under “studio rock albums.” The result is not perfect, but I can see this exercise being an ongoing thing with further evolution to come. I still haven’t progressed beyond albums. If and when I do I might address EPs next.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 20, 2015 22:18:48 GMT -5
Let it Be Naked should be a bootleg. John didn't authorize it either.
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