I have seen Beatles fans shoot this idea down and I realise it is unlikely to come to fruition, I'm just putting it out there because I like the idea.
Why do I like the idea of a new Bealtes CD?
I recently got the CD box set of the US Capitol albums, I had never listened to them before, here in New Zealand we always got the UK versions and they were as the Beatles originally intended, why would I bother with the Capitol albums? Well because I like listening to songs via albums. The Beatles put out past masters vol 1 & 2 while they are full of great songs, they just don't feel like albums. The Capitol albums incorporate a lot of that material into coherent albums. Suddenly those great songs that I love have the right setting to listen to. It was stupid not to add Rain to Revolver though.
Now we have 3 songs that go together Free as A Bird, Real Love & Now and Then. The first two of those need a little more than a remix, they were as good as could be done at the time of release, but now the software to separate out voice from instruments and hiss and background noise is here and they badly need John's voice separated. But also John's original instrumentation was just done for a demo, with Now and Then, Paul made the right decision to replace John's piano with his own that worked with the entire arrangement, so they really should do something like that for those first two songs.
So you have 3 Beatles songs that fit together and having them as the opening tracks to anthology CDs separates them, it doesn't allow you to appreciate them for what they are. So put them on the same album.
What else could you put on the album, seeing as there are only 2 Beatles alive and you want it to be a Beatles album?
One obvious thing the need is "All Things Must Pass", this is likely the greatest Beatles song they never released or only kind of on Anthology. They did a lot of takes on this song, they had Beatles backing vocals. Giles Martin and Paul could definitely get together a track from those versions and Paul and Ringo are up to doing new Bass, Guitar, drums, piano bit an arrangement if needed. I am sure they could make a killer version of the song. The vibe and sentiment really fits with the sense of love and loss of Now and Then.
On the Esher demo they have quite a few songs that never made it onto a Beatles album Sour Milk Sea, Junk, Child of Nature, Circles, What's the New Mary Jane. I don't know they need to do all of those as separate songs. They also have Come and Get it.
So that's at least 6 or 7 songs. Now I think to tie it together it needs to have more of montage like feel, so do at least a couple of Abbey Road suites. using bits of the above songs they don't do complete versions of and into that suite they could add bits and pieces of unreleased songs from George and John I think they have them and of course Paul and Ringo. Focussing on earlier part of their solo careers. Giles obviously has a gift for reusing Beatles recordings, but Paul's musicality ois undimished, so new instrumentation and orchestration can be used even the odd vocal bits.
I would buy that and likely I would love it, would Beatles fans be upset because it wasn't pure? Maybe. But I bet they'd buy it and listen to it.
They also have a number of earlier songs that only appear on Anthology. They should be left off or they could also do an album of earlier material Like Dreamers Do, In Spit of all the danger, Hello Little Girl, If You've Got Troubles, That Means a Lot and maybe some of the covers they didn't otherwise release on the BBC recordings.
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