Saturday, July 10, 2010

"Past Masters, Volume 1" by The Beatles – ****

First released: 1988

What a bright idea. Instead of releasing the leftover single tracks as bonus tracks on the brand spanking new Beatles CDs of 1987 and 1988, compile them together in separate entities as a two-volume set, thus continuing to alienate the tracks from their contemporary albums and voila, 15 Beatles albums instead of 13. It actually made more sense to release these on vinyl amazingly since a good comprehensive non-album compilation never appeared to date on LP, and they were. When The Beatles albums were remastered and reissued in 2009, the two "Past Masters" volumes were combined into one release.

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