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 All this great music from the Liverpool Lads.
The first group is a selection of my favourite Beatles' albums. Still, any one of these albums will satisfy Beatles' fans everywhere. Please use our currency converter to help you determine the costs of your selections. The converter will open in a small window which you may leave open throughout your stay in The Beatles Shoppe. Click here to access the converter.
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Must Have Albums!
 The Beatles Capitol Albums Vol 2 THE BEATLES "THE CAPITOL ALBUMS VOL. 2" includes the four albums released by Capitol Records in 1965: The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) & the American version of Rubber Soul. All tracks have been digitally remastered and are presented in both Stereo and Mono. Many tracks appear in stereo for the very first time on CD. Special packaging includes original album cover artwork and a 60-page collector’s booklet with rare photos. | ||||||
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 The Beatles Capitol Albums Vol 1 When the Beatles catalog was first issued on CD in the '80s, an attempt was made to standardize the releases (which often varied wildly in content internationally) by using their original British format. But this confounded many Fabs fans in the U.S. who now found CDs with track listings that often differed dramatically from their original American LPs. More maddening, the initial four releases were only available in not-so-glorious mono mixes. This four-CD collection of the band's 1964 American album releases finally addresses those concerns, and then some. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65 have been digitally prepared from Capitol's vintage album masters and presented in both the original stereo and mono mixes released back in '64. This set gives younger fans a chance to finally hear the band's epochal early music in stereo--and should please an older generation by returning massive hit singles like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "She's a Woman," and "I Feel Fine" to their original American album contexts. The booklet contains a wealth of rare photos and concise notes by noted Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. | ||||||
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 Let It Be Naked Re-recorded, remixed, overdubbed and repackaged--all before its 1970 American release, mind you--Let It Be has long been the most second-guessed album in the Beatles otherwise sterling catalog. This curious, three-decade-late, stripped-down rethink offers up yet another spin on what started as a back-to-the-roots album/documentary project called Get Back in January, 1969, but ended up as the band's de facto swan song 18 months later. Paul McCartney in particular has long been irked by producer Phil Spector's grandiose orchestra and choir overdubs to the title track and "The Long and Winding Road," and indeed the "bare" versions here have a distinct, plaintive charm lacking in Spector's typical pomp. All the various snippets of studio and live chatter that seasoned the original have been removed, leaving the recordings to be judged on their essentially live-in-the-studio merits. If the intent was to "de-Spectorize" the album, the inclusion of John Lennon's 1968 benefit track "Across the Universe" and George Harrison's "I Me Mine" (which marked the last-ever Beatles session in January, 1970) in their original versions seems equally odd, the legendary producer having appended them to the album's original track listing in the first place. The rambling "bonus disc" of conversation and song snippets culled from hundreds of hours of session and film tapes may fascinate diehard fans, but it also underscores the murky, often unfocused state of affairs the Fabs found themselves in during the last year of their remarkable career. | ||||||
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 The Beatles 1 In selecting the tracks for 1, EMI Records together with Capitol Records in the USA chose the songs that were either No.1 in the Record Retailer chart in the UK (the only independently-audited UK chart throughout the sixties) or in the Billboard chart in the USA.
The Beatles achieved 17 No.1 hits on the Record Retailer singles chart between May 1963 and July 1969. In the USA, The Beatles had a total of 20 No.1 singles between February 1964 and June 1970. | ||||||
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 Abbey Road The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty", which follows. | ||||||
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 Revolver There are only three stories worth knowing from the last 2,000 years of history: the life of Mohammed, the life of Jesus and the career of The Beatles. They invented all music ever. John was the best one; but Paul is--despite the knighthood and everything--still the most under-rated songwriter of the 20th century. This is the album with "Eleanor Rigby", "Here, There and Everywhere", "For No One", "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows" on it--but then, you knew that anyway. We presume you have this album already and you're just getting a second copy in case you lose the first. | ||||||
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 The Beatles (White Album)The White Album was meant to be the record that brought the Beatles back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their songwriting powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of music's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on "Helter Skelter" was that he had vocal cords at the end. From Beach Boys knock-offs to reggae and to the unknown ("Revolution #9"), this has it all. Some records have "legend" written all over them; this is one. | ||||||
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 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Before Sgt. Pepper's, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 3-plus decades, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64", to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You", and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life", Sgt. Pepper's was a milestone for both 1960s music and popular culture in general. | ||||||
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 Rubber SoulRank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. So many classics: "Drive My Car" and "Nowhere Man" merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; "The Word" can be read as a pre-psych warning shot; the sitar-laden "Norwegian Wood" and the evocative "Girl" (the latter written on the last night of the sessions) stand as turning points in John Lennon's oeuvre. George finally emerges too, with the McGuinn-ish "If I Needed Someone." | ||||||
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 Let It BeProduced by Phil Spector as George Martin refused to produce it on the grounds that the recordings were not of good enough quality, and John Lennon and George Harrison publicly distancing themselves from the project, it didn't seem like it would be a success.
However, on some tracks Spector has done a good job, and it's hard for the genius of the band's songwriters not to shine through this half-finished material. Tracks like 'Across the Universe', 'Let it Be', 'Get Back' and 'For you Blue' are obviously classic Beatles. | ||||||
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Other Great Albums!
 Please Please MeTheir first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and
McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits
when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them
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 With The BeatlesThey still had plenty of covers to fill out the running time, but the Lennon-McCartney
writing team was gathering steam and beginning to knock out pop classics as if
they were pulling them out of thin air. | ||||||
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 A Hard Day's NightThat dramatic guitar chord that kicks of A Hard Day's Night
(album, song, movie) still jumps right out at you, slaps you in the face, and
jump-starts your heart. And you know what? Both the music and the film are still as
crisp and lively as they were in 1964. | ||||||
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 Beatles For SaleBanged out in a hurry for the 1964 Christmas market, Beatles for Sale sometimes
sounds it, loaded with ill-conceived covers and some of John Lennon's most
self-loathing lyrics. | ||||||
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 Help!How John Lennon's confessional song became the title for a silly James Bond
spoof I really don't know. The funny thing is, it works both ways--as a young man's
personal statement about learning to open up to others, and as the frantic theme
for an exotic espionage chase comedy starring those lovable lads. | ||||||
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 Magical Mystery TourThe album feels even more like a collection of singles (instead of an actual movie
soundtrack) than Help! or A Hard Day's Night, but maybe that's because every
song sounds like it could have been a hit single--with the natural exception of the
goofy/weird instrumental "Flying." | ||||||
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 Yellow Submarine (Remastered)A wonderful new collection of songs for the sound track to the movie. This new version completely excises Beatles-producer Sir George Martin's charming, if sometimes maudlin, orchestral score, offering instead a new "songtrack" containing all the Beatles songs (standout cuts from Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in addition to the four originals unique to the project) featured in the film. The pre-announced "unreleased song" on the set turns out to be the original album's rollicking "Hey Bulldog", one of the last true Lennon-McCartney collaborations. | ||||||
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 1962-66 Red AlbumThe closest the Beatles came to a greatest hits package, this document of the
early part of their career features hit singles (in chronological order) and selected
album tracks, running from "Love Me Do" through the groundbreaking Rubber
Soul and Revolver albums. | ||||||
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 1967-70 Blue AlbumEven as the Beatles began heading toward an inevitable breakup, their prolific
ways continued; this two-disc look back only skims the surface of their later
achievements. Excerpts from Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, the white
album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be compete for space with classic songs as well. | ||||||
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 Past Masters Volume 1Although they were probably the band that most transformed rock from a singles
medium to an album-oriented form, the Beatles also released many singles and
EP tracks that never made it onto albums. | ||||||
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 Past Masters Volume 2What can you say, really? When you get right down to it, it's the greatest band in
the history of pop music, the most influential, the best writers, and whatever other
superlatives you can think of. | ||||||
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 The Beatles Anthology 1This is the first release in a three-part series that essentially amounted to the three
surviving Beatles officially sanctioning the release of tracks that had been
bootlegged for years. Thus, you get some of their earliest recordings as teens; the
tracks they cut in Hamburg, Germany. | ||||||
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 The Beatles Anthology 2The most anticipated of the Anthology series, this disc covers what was arguably
the Fab Four's most intensely creative period ('65-'67) when they single-handedly
changed the course of popular music. Anthology 2 doesn't disappoint. | ||||||
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 The Beatles Anthology 3From the White Album to the end, the last days of the Beatles weren't smooth,
which made the fact that they still produced some astonishing music all the more
remarkable. In abbreviated form, "What's the New Mary Jane" is finally issued
here, and proves underwhelming. | ||||||
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 Free as a Bird [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT]The only single taken from the Fab Four's 1995 collection 'Anthology' (Volume 1). It's backed with three non-album tracks, 'I Saw Her Standing There' (Studio Take Nine), 'This Boy' (Alternate Take) and 'Christmas Time Is Here Again'. NOTE - this was the first 'reunion' trac k to feature the three remaining members voices electronically overdubbed to John Lennon's original vocals. Slimline jewel case. 1995 release. | ||||
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 Real Love / Baby's in Black / Yellow Sub (G) [CD-SINGLE] [LIVE] [IMPORT] Deleted in the U.S.! The only single taken from the Fab Four's 1996 collection 'Anthology Volume 2'. It's backed with three exclusive non-album tracks, a live version of 'Baby's In Black' from 1965 at the Hollywood Bowl, plus 'Yellow Submarine' (Unreleased Version) and 'Here, There & Everywhere' (Unreleased Version). NOTE - this was the second 'reunion' track to feature the three remaining members voices electronically overdubbed to John Lennon's original vocals. Slimline jewel case. 1996 release. | ||||||
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 The Beatles Live at the BBCThe surviving members of the Fab Four spent much of the 1990s belatedly reuniting to document, promote, and occasionally awkwardly burnish their unparalleled pop music legacy. This double-disc anthology of live-in-the-studio performances originally recorded specifically for the BBC during the most frantic years of early Beatlemania was the first chapter in that effort and the first issuance of previously unreleased Beatles recordings since the late '70s. In many ways, it remains the most artistically revealing. | ||||
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 Last Night in Hamburg
[IMPORT]Roccartoon release featuring 28 early live recordings, including
'I Saw Her Standing There', 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'The Hippy
Hippy Shake', 'A Taste Of Honey' and 'Ask Me Why'. It once also
contained a 10 inch x 14 inch full color, fold-out poster. | ||||||
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 Multiselection Box Set[BOX SET] There are 221 songs on 16 discs and ALL of them are GREAT. What else can you say?! When I first read the list, I could hear almost every song in my head. What a great idea to mix the songs up regardless of chronology. But pricey at about $320. | ||||||||
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 Compact Disc EP Collection[BOX SET] This box set is just as delightful as it was way back in the 60's when the Beatles hit the airwaves. Even the mono songs sound excellent! Packaging is not as important as what is inside the box. These songs brought back many fond memories and I would highly recommend it. | ||||||
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 CD Singles Collection[BOX SET] [IMPORT] 22 CD Box Set of of the Singles the Beatles Released in the UK Between 1962 and 1970 . They Are Packaged in Cardboard Replica Sleeves with Cover Art from the 7" Singles that were Re-released in the 80s. This is the Only Way to Get Some of the Original Mono 7" Mixes; That were Noticably Different from the Original LP Mixes; On CD. A Must for Any Beatles Collector. | ||||||
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