The Best of the Beatles - Anthology 1

Anthology 1, the Best of is a Beatles compilation album adapted by C.Syde65. This compilation album is based on an old cassette tape that was taped for me in the 1990's.

The first side of the tape included tracks 10-12, 15-19, 21-24, 26-27, and 30-34 taped from the first compact disc of The Beatles' album Anthology 1, along with track 17 taped from The Beatles' album Abbey Road.

The second side of the tape included tracks 1-5, and 8-23 taped from the second compact disc of Anthology 1. While the compilation itself has not been burnt, the 2-disc adaption was compiled on various occasions between 2013 and 2019, making it difficult to know the exact time I decided to make a compact disc adaption.

Because all the songs featured on the cassette tape were taped from compact discs, the tracks presented on the CD adaption below probably wouldn't differ much from their counterparts on the cassette tape. In fact the only difference that I'm aware of is that for the compact disc adaption, I would rip Her Majesty from the 2009 stereo remaster of Abbey Road. While on the cassette tape, Her Majesty was most likely taped from the 1987 stereo remaster of Abbey Road.

The "no pause between tracks" box would be ticked when burning this compilation, to prevent the Nero Express Essentials software from adding 2 second pauses between tracks, to free up more space on the CD - not that there wouldn't be enough space to fit 20 and 21 songs on the first and second discs respectively anyway. The "normalise all audio files" box would also be ticked, to set the volume of all the tracks to a standard volume.

An interesting fact is that some of the handwritten information on some of the cassette tapes that were taped for me was inaccurate. For example, Her Majesty was not listed as being on the end of the first side of the cassette tape, so thus it was a hidden track. Her Majesty was most likely not listed because it wasn't taped from Anthology 1. It was only taped on the end of the first side of the cassette tape to fill up space. When I wrote down the songs and their basic information for the compact disc adaption, I included Her Majesty on the track listing.

Mr. Moonlight [Takes 1 & 4], Leave My Kitten Alone [Take 5] , and No Reply [Take 2] weren't listed as being on the end of the second side of the cassette tape, so they were also hidden tracks. They were probably left off the track listing because No Reply [Demo] was misremembered as being the last song on the end of the second side of the cassette tape, when it was actually No Reply [Take 2]. When I wrote down the songs and their basic information for the compact disc adaption, I included Mr. Moonlight [Takes 1 & 4], Leave My Kitten Alone [Take 5] , and No Reply [Take 2] on the track listing.

The numbers that were written before the tracks listed on the cassette tape were also quite inaccurate, though they were done so intentionally. They were written to reflect what number they appeared in on the compact discs they were taped from, instead of reflecting the number they appeared on the cassette tape.

So for the track listing for the first side of the tape My Bonnie had (10) in front of it, Ain't She Sweet had (11) in front of it, Cry for a Shadow [Instrumental] (12), Searchin' (15), Three Cool Cats (16), The Sheik of Araby (17), Hello Little Girl (18), Like Dreamers Do (19), Bésame Mucho (21), Love Me Do (22), How Do You Do It? (23), Please, Please Me (24), One After 909 [Takes 4 & 5] (26), Lend Me Your Comb (27), I Saw Her Standing There (30), From Me to You (31), Money (That's What I Want) (32), You've Really Got a Hold on Me (33), and Roll over Beethoven (34).

For the track listing for the second side of the tape Can't Buy Me Love [Takes 1 & 2] had (08) in front of it, All My Loving had (09) in front of it, You Can't Do That [Take 6] (10), And I Love Her [Take 2] (11), A Hard Day's Night [Take 1] (12), I Wanna Be Your Man (13), Long Tall Sally (14), Boys (15), Shout (16), I'll Be Back [Take 2] (17), I'll Be Back [Take 3] (18), You Know What to Do [Demo] (19), and No Reply [Demo] (20).

Any of the tracks listed below that have not yet been mentioned in this article by name had a number that reflected both what number they appeared in on the compact discs they were taped from, and the number they appeared on the cassette tape. When I wrote down the songs and their basic information for the compact disc adaption, I wrote down the numbers reflecting the number they appeared in on the compilation, rather than the number they appeared in on the compact discs they were ripped from.

Hello Little Girl was listed on the handwritten track listing of the cassette tape as the 7th track with the number (18) even though it was supposed to be listed as the 8th track with the number (19), while Like Dreamers Do was listed as being the 8th track with the number (19) even though it should have been listed as the 7th track with the number (18). This error was fixed when I wrote down the songs and their basic information, as shown below.