Beatles EP Box Set - All Killer, No Filler

[chrischross]

After years of reading about the Beatles EP Collection box, and it being my birthday, I finally scored one for a good price.

I wanted to distill the 15 discs down to two essential CD-R's of a little more than 80 minutes worth of music, where the tunes were picked mostly to avoid songs played to death by radio, shopping malls and elevators; and for overall subjective "great sounding music" criteria.

Right away, I ended up burning one disc with MMT Mono, The Beatles, and Nowhere Man EP's. Getting through EP's 1-11 came up with:

1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. When I Get Home
3. No Reply
4. Money
5. Baby's In Black
6. Anna (Go To Him) - the one "borderline" cut
7. Do You Want To Know A Secret
8. I'm A Loser
9. Eight Days A Week
10. Any Time At All
11. I Feel Fine
12. And I Love Her
13. Things We Said Today
14. Slow Down
15. Matchbox - every Beatles comp needs a Ringo contribution
16. I Call Your Name
17. It's Only Love

Tunes like "Love Me Do" were left off for obvious reasons. It's probably one of the reasons why I'm more into the Kinks lately, as the burnout factor hasn't been reached.

What would you have done? Am I missing anything key?

[Xenu]

Well, my approach was more to whittle the set to two CDRs, leaving off the 2 tracks that didn't fit..^_^

-D

[chrischross]

Well, my approach was more to whittle the set to two CDRs, leaving off the 2 tracks that didn't fit..^_^

-D

Which two tracks did you whittle off? Let me guess, Baby Your A Rich Man and The Inner Light?? Or were they the "god I've heard this a million times, so don't put it on the comp" tracks?

[Xenu]

I actually think you're right.

Chris, keep in mind that I *never* listen to oldies radio, so I'm usually not *that* worn out on anything except for the obvious usual suspects (usually the late-period McCartney epics).

Besides, I don't own the set, so it was in my best interest to grab as much as possible.