[aderack]

You've got to admit, excepting the movie soundtracks the actual albums are tedious as fuck until Rubber Soul: full of covers and tossed-off filler, with maybe one or two decent songs. Beatles for Sale is kind of ridiculous.

Until they holed up and focused, most of their important stuff was single-based. Which I probably should have noted above, yeah. So that would be Past Masters Volume One. Catch that, Hard Day's Night, and Help!, and you've got the early period about as covered as you need to.

[CubaLibre]

Yeah yeah, all right.

I'm just sayin. Even when they're not great, they're good. There are desperately few bands that can claim that kind of quality.
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[aderack]

Mind, if EMI felt like issuing non-shitty versions of the albums, they could include all the associated singles and thereby raise the quality of the early stuff by zooks and zounds.

And Sgt. Pepper would be kind of solid, finally. Hell, no one REALLY wanted to take the two best songs off it.

From my own experiments, this usually works best if you jam the main single and its B-side (in one order or the other) into the split between sides A and B.