Here is a fun way to listen to all the Beatles’ great music in a slightly different way! By taking all the tracks from the 2 “Past Masters” collections and the 4 songs that were new on the “Yellow Submarine” soundtrack and dispersing them among the corresponding albums which for the most part included those tracks during their recording sessions or at least during the same time frame- you can create ‘new’ versions of all 12 of their classic albums and make a somewhat new and fresh listening experience. Was really fun for me to do and if you dig the Beatles you may like these line-ups too, or wish to create your own track listings. I took great care and time in deciding where these tracks should go in the albums song-orders and tried to maximize enjoyability, though I realize opinions on these things will vary! Here are the albums in the way I re-sequenced them, with asterisks (*) next to the newly added tracks.
Please Please Me
- I Saw Her Standing There
- Misery
- Thank You Girl*
- Anna
- Chains
- Boys
- Ask Me Why
- Please Please Me
- From Me to You*
- Love Me Do
- P.S. I Love You
- Baby It’s You
- Do You Want to Know a Secret
- A Taste of Honey
- There’s a Place
- Twist and Shout
With the Beatles
- I Want to Hold Your Hand*
- It Won’t Be Long
- All I’ve Got to Do
- All My Loving
- Don’t Bother Me
- Little Child
- Till There Was You
- She Loves You*
- Please Mister Postman
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Hold Me Tight
- You Really Got a Hold On Me
- I Wanna Be Your Man
- I’ll Get You*
- Devil In Her Heart
- Not a Second Time
- Money (That’s What I Want)
A Hard Day’s Night
- A Hard Day’s Night
- I Should Have Known Better
- If I Fell
- I Call Your Name*
- And I Love Her
- Tell Me Why
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- This Boy*
- Any Time at All
- I’ll Cry Instead
- Slow Down*
- Things We Said Today
- When I Get Home
- Matchbox*
- You Can’t Do That
- I’m Happy Just to Dance With You
- I’ll Be Back
- Long Tall Sally*
Beatles For Sale
- No Reply
- I’m a Loser
- Baby’s In Black
- Rock and Roll Music
- I’ll Follow the Sun
- Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
- Mr. Moonlight
- Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey
- Eight Days a Week
- Words of Love
- Honey Don’t
- What You’re Doing
- I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
- She’s a Woman*
- Every Little Thing
- I Feel Fine*
Help!
- Help!
- The Night Before
- You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
- I Need You
- Another Girl
- You’re Going to Lose That Girl
- Ticket to Ride
- Yes It Is*
- Act Naturally
- Bad Boy*
- It’s Only Love
- Tell Me What You See
- You Like Me Too Much
- I’ve Just Seen a Face
- Dizzy Miss Lizzy
- Yesterday
- I’m Down*
Rubber Soul
- Drive My Car
- Norwegian Wood
- Nowhere Man
- You Won’t See Me
- Think For Yourself
- The Word
- Michelle
- What Goes On
- I’m Looking Through You
- Girl
- In My Life
- We Can Work It Out*
- Wait
- If I Needed Someone
- Day Tripper*
- Run For Your Life
Revolver
- Taxman
- Eleanor Rigby
- I’m Only Sleeping
- Rain*
- Love You To
- Here, There and Everywhere
- Yellow Submarine
- She Said She Said
- Good Day Sunshine
- And Your Bird Can Sing
- For No One
- Doctor Robert
- I Want to Tell You
- Paperback Writer*
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- Tomorrow Never Knows
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Sgt. Pepper’s…
- With a Little Help From My Friends
- Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
- Getting Better
- Fixing a Hole
- She’s Leaving Home
- Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
- Penny Lane*
- Within You, Without You
- When I’m Sixty-Four
- Strawberry Fields Forever*
- Lovely Rita
- Good Morning, Good Morning
- Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise
- A Day in the Life
Magical Mystery Tour
- Magical Mystery Tour
- The Fool on the Hill
- Flying
- All Together Now*
- Blue Jay Way
- Your Mother Should Know
- I am the Walrus
- Hello Goodbye
- Only a Northern Song*
- Baby You’re a Rich Man
- All You Need is Love
- It’s All Too Much*
The Beatles (The White Album)
- Back In the USSR
- Dear Prudence
- Glass Onion
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- Hey Bulldog*
- The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Happiness is a Warm Gun
- Martha My Dear
- I’m So Tired
- Blackbird
- Piggies
- Rocky Raccoon
- Don’t Pass Me By
- Why Don’t We Do it in the Road
- Revolution (Single version)*
- I Will
- Julia
- Birthday
- Yer Blues
- Mother Nature’s Son
- Everybody’s Got Something to Hide..
- Sexy Sadie
- The Inner Light*
- Helter Skelter
- Long, Long, Long
- Honey Pie
- Savoy Truffle
- Cry Baby Cry
- Lady Madonna*
- Good Night
- Hey Jude*
Let It Be
(For this album, I used the “Let It Be… Naked” versions of the songs and interspersed between them talking bits from the sessions, so it is kind of like a hybrid between the original album version and the “Naked” version..)
- Get Back
- Dig a Pony
- For You Blue
- The Long and Winding Road
- The Ballad of John and Yoko*
- Two of Us
- I’ve Got a Feeling
- Old Brown Shoe*
- One After 909
- Don’t Let Me Down*
- I Me Mine
- Across the Universe
- You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)*
- Let It Be
Abbey Road
(For this album all of the original 17 tracks remained, and in the same order. I only added “Real Love” and “Free As a Bird” as kind of bonus tracks at the end, since all other tracks had been used!)
I hope you enjoy these playlists or make your own and have fun with it! As you can see I cut a few tracks from the White Album, (Wild Honey Pie, Revolution 1 and Revolution 9) and understand if some don’t like this, but again you can of course make these playlists any way you would like! To me it is just really cool to take such a strong album as say “Revolver” and make it even that much STRONGER by having “Paperback Writer” on it, or by having “Strawberry Fields” back on “Sgt. Pepper” where it arguably belongs, or to have “Hey Jude” on the White Album, etc, etc.. Hope you enjoy and happy listening!