The Beatles 1

There are certainly better qualified Beatles fans to get a review from, however, I must say I am enjoying this CD. The time I've spent listening to it is no longer markable in hours. We are looking at days here now. I am not entirely sure that all the #1 hits are on here but enough are for me to enjoy the whole thing.

It is also filling some gaps I have in my newly forming Beatles collection. Some of their songs it seems aren't on the albums and this CD got them in my hands and ears. That shows the value of the CD right there.

Very enjoyable and highly recommended.

I know that the Beatles' music is held near and dear to many diehard fans so I don't want to even try to suppose I know how well this complilation was organized but I do know that I loved the music!

This compilation has some of the greatest songs ever performed by the best group in history.

I get this cd for my wife birhday, the item is brand new, excelent condition, and on better price then regular store.

This CD takes the listener on a journey through the essential three periods of The Beatles' music. Since those tunes are radically different on each end, any newcomer to The Beatles (living on Venus? *.* ) might experience a little confusion as to how this may have happened. The answer to that is probably to listen to the "Anthology" on 6 discs.

In any case, these are the biggies that we heard on the radio, AM when The Beatles first got rolling. I savoured most of these early tunes on crystal clear powerhouse WOWO Radio AM, Fort Wayne, Indiana, which was hundreds of miles west of my home in southeastern Ohio, on warm summer nights. During the daytime, when WOWO powered down, we listened on WKEE AM ("KEE Radio," Huntington, West Virginia), which was one of the first rock stations to ultimately make the jump to FM in our region.

Nostalgia aside, I bought this CD practically on the day that it was released. If a person owned only one [The] Beatles album, I guess that this should be it. If one only cared for the middle, "psychedelic period," then they should probably go for either "Sargeant Pepper's" or "The White Album" (see my full reviews of those fine works).

Keep in mind that this is "Top 40" stuff so the listener definitely misses out on the brilliant nuances of The Beatles' more obscure works which is, in my opinion, what launched them as a mega-music-machine, given the additional boost by both Brian Epstein and George Martin. In the old "33 RPM" days, (and in the 8-Track ones... YIKES!!!), we listened to The Beatles albums in their entirety, not really honing in on a single hit song so much, (although the 45 RPMs were certainly available and popular with some).

Still, this is a super compilation and, albeit it comes off as a bit of a mix-match of tunes, I'm glad it's available as long as people know what to expect when they buy it.