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Anthology II

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Anthology II
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Artist: The Beatles
Released: 1996, 18 March
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Tracks

Average song rating 1  Real Love (3:54)  
  2  Yes It is (1:50)  
  3  I'm Down (2:54)  
Average song rating 4  You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (2:45)  
Average song rating 5  If You've Got Trouble (2:48)  
Average song rating 6  That Means a Lot (2:26)  
  7  Yesterday (2:34)  
  8  It's Only Love (1:59)  
  9  I Feel Fine (2:15)  
  10  Ticket to Ride (2:45)  
Average song rating 11  Yesterday (2:43)  
  12  Help! (2:54)  
  13  Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (2:46)  
  14  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (1:59)  
  15  I'm Looking Through You (2:54)  
Average song rating 16  12-Bar Original (2:55)  
  17  Tomorrow Never Knows (3:14)  
Average song rating 18  Got to Get You Into My Life (2:54)  
  19  And Your Bird Can Sing (2:14)  
  20  Taxman (2:32)  
  21  Eleanor Rigby (Strings only) (2:06)  
  22  I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (0:41)  
  23  I'm Only Sleeping (Take 1) (2:59)  
  24  Rock and Roll Music (1:39)  
  25  She's a Woman (2:55)  
  26  Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo sequence) (1:42)  
  27  Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) (2:34)  
  28  Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7 & edit piece) (4:14)  
  29  Penny Lane (3:13)  
  30  A Day in the Life (5:04)  
  31  Good Morning Good Morning (2:40)  
  32  Only a Northern Song (2:44)  
  33  Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Takes 1 and 2) (1:06)  
  34  Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Take 7) (2:33)  
  35  Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (3:06)  
  36  Within You Without You (Instrumental) (5:27)  
  37  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (1:27)  
  38  You Know My Name (Look up the Number) (5:44)  
  39  I Am the Walrus (4:02)  
  40  The Fool on the Hill (Demo) (2:48)  
  41  Your Mother Should Know (3:02)  
  42  The Fool on the Hill (Take 4) (3:45)  
  43  Hello, Goodbye (3:18)  
  44  Lady Madonna (2:22)  
  45  Across the Universe (3:28)  

Credits

Label: Capitol CDP-8-34448-2
Producer: George Martin
Remix Engineer: Geoff Emerick
Cover by: Klaus Voorman and Alfons Kiefer

Reviews

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5/10 Bruce Beatlefan (July 19, 2005)
The weakest of the three Anthology albums. Best bits: "Real Love" is great by virtue of being new and Beatles. "If You've Got Trouble" was lambasted by the Beatles in their Anthology Book (and also by
Mark Lewisohn), but think with a new set of lyrics this may have been
a decent song. I love Ringo's obviously resigned "... Aw rock on,
anybody...". "That Means a Lot" was pretty decent. Funny that these
songs were discarded while "Wait" was resurrected for "Rubber Soul".
"12-bar original" was utterly UNoriginal. "I'm Looking Through You" seems to have lost all of its funk between this album and the master version on "Rubber Soul". The karaoke "Eleanor Rigby" and "Within You Without You" mean that I can (in the privacy of my house) be Paul and George anytime I wish--except I need to look at the words to "Within You...".

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