The Beatles – Artifacts 1958 – 1970 (1993)

CD 1 - The Early Years 1958-1963

1. That’ll Be the day
2. The One After 909
3. I'll Follow the Sun
4. Matchbox
5. Thinking of Linking
6. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise/Flaming Pie
7. Catswalk
8. One After 909
9. I Saw Her Standing There
10. Like Dreamers Do
11. Hello Little Girl
12. Some Other Guy
13. How Do You Do It?
14. A Taste Of Honey
15. I Saw Her Standing There
16. There’s A Place
17. Misery
18. From Me to You									play
19. Please Please Me
20. Long Tall Sally
21. Money
22. I’ll Be On My Way
23. I’m In Love
24. Bad to Me
25. Hold Me Tight
26. Don't Bother Me
27. Roll Over Beethoven/She Loves You
28. Twist And Shout
29. On Moonlight Bay

CD 2 - Beatlemania 1964-1965

1. If I Fell
2. One And One Is Two
3. Can’t Buy Me Love
4. All My Loving
5. I Want To Hold Your Hand
6. Please Please Me
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. From Us to You
9. You Can’t Do That
10. Shout											play
11. Leave My Kitten Alone
12. I'm a Loser
13. She’s A Woman
14. I Feel Fine
15. If You’ve Got Trouble
16. You’re Gonna Lose That Girl
17. That Means a Lot
18. Help!
19. Yesterday
20. I’m Down
21. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
22. Day Tripper
23. We Can Work It Outr
24. 12-Bar Original
25. Girl

CD 3 - The Psychedelic Years 1966-1967

1. He Said He Said/She Said She Said
2. Tomorrow Never Knows
3. Paperback Writer
4. Nowhere Man/Paperback Writer
5. Strawberry Fields Forever
6. Penny Lane
7. A Day in the Life
8. Good Morning, Good Morning
9. It's All Too Much
10. All You Need Is Love
11. Your Mother Should Know
12. I Am The Walrus									play
13. Fool on the Hill								
14. Aerial Tour Instrumental
15. Jessie's Dream
16. Hello, Hello
17. Blue Jay Way
18. Cry Baby Cry
19. Daddy's Little Sunshine Boy

CD 4 - Inner Revolution 1968

1. The Inner Light
2. Lady Madonna
3. She Can Talk to Me
4. Across The Universe
5. Instrumental/Blowin' in the Wind/Hare Krishna Mantra
6. Thank You Guru Dev/Happy Birthday Mike Love
7. The Happy Rishikesh Song
8. Dear Prudence
9. Back In The USSR
10. Piggies
11. Jubilee
12. Child Of Nature
13. Sour Milk Sea
14. Circles
15. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
16. Revolution
17. Brian Epstein Blues								play
18. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
19. Hey Jude/Las Vegas Tune/St. Louis Blues
20. Not Guilty
21. What’s The New Mary Jane?
22. Everyone Had a Hard Year
23. Heather
24. Don’t Let Me Down
25. Goodbye

CD 5 - Get Back To Abbey Road 1969-1970

1. Another Day/Chat
2. Comments/Suicide
3. Act Naturally/Two of Us
4. Piano Theme/Strawberry Fields Forever
5. Madman A Comin'
6. Watching Rainbows
7. Commonwealth
8. Get Back											play
9. Old Brown Shoe
10. For You Blue
11. I Lost My Little Girl
12. Maggie Mae/Fancy Me Chances
13. Dig It
14. Get Back
15. Dig A Pony
16. Let It Be
17. Something
18. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
19. Her Majesty
20. Oh! Darling
21. Come and Get It
22. Because
23. I Me Mine

One strongly suspects that the existence of this five-CD box, in tandem with a handful of other packages of this type, was largely responsible for getting Paul McCartney (and others) to take a serious look at what was in EMI's vaults, resulting in the release of the Beatles' Anthology series. In 1993, however, this was the only game in town: 124 choice outtakes, live concert tracks, demos, overdub sessions, and rehearsals covering the group's known recordings from 1958 through 1970 -- it's essentially a best-of the Beatles' unauthorized output, from what were then the best-known sources of every track represented. The motto of "Big Music," whoever they were, was "Ain't No Limits," and they proved it on most of this set, which generally showed excellent selections and superb tape research, a true rarity for bootleg releases, especially on this scale -- up to this time, the usual assumption by almost any producer had been that, with a box like this, people would accept quantity in lieu of quality, but on Artifacts were was no compromise of that type. From the earliest known recording of the pre-Beatles' Quarrymen, doing "That'll Be the Day" in 1958, to "I Me Mine" from their final sessions in January 1970, the best tapes are used. Even better, and just to rub EMI's face in it, all of the outtakes from the Please Please Me and With the Beatles albums are in stereo, which the authorized CDs aren't. Moreover, the makers included individually notable live and broadcast songs, such as the Royal Command Performance of "Twist and Shout" (with John Lennon's "rattle your jewelry" introduction) and "Shout" from the Around the Beatles British television presentation.

Even the Ed Sullivan live performances are from high-quality sources, and the concert numbers all pretty much come up to that standard -- the only real lapse among the first two discs is the ragged sounding demo of "If I Fell" from early 1964. The box comes with a fully illustrated and annotated booklet providing information (where known) about each song and each performance. Not all of this material will be of interest to casual fans, and a lot of this didn't make it onto the authorized Anthology series -- the brass overdub session for "Penny Lane" or the rehearsal for "Day Tripper" with mistakes intact are for completists, but even ordinary fans will find a lot of it fascinating to hear at least once, as a representation of the way the band's repertory evolved and developed in the studio. Each major era in the group's history is represented on the five discs (each of which has an appropriate and entertaining graphic embossed on its label side) -- "The Psychedelic Years," covering 1966-1967, has the shakiest sound quality and also may prove the most enlightening and the most frustrating, since that material always worked best in its finished form, and sounds notably unfinished here, albeit revealing interesting little details at the same time. (One track not included here, incidentally, is the version of "Penny Lane" with the unedited trumpet ending, as that had appeared legitimately on the Rarities LP). In all, this is six hours of good listening, and total immersion in the Beatles. ---Bruce Eder, allmusic.com

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