Words of Love (Buddy Holly) (LP 171 - 174)

The Beatles For Sale (various CDs/Vinyl - Apple Records, 1964) *****
The Beatles VI (Vinyl - Apple Records, 1965) ****
The Beatles '65 (Vinyl - Apple Records, 1965) ****
The Beatles No. 5 (Vinyl - Apple Records, 1965) ****

Genre: Beatles related pop  

Places I remember: For Sale CDs came from Kings Recording (Abu Dhabi) and The Warehouse; vinyl from DJ Records (Otahuhu) ; Beatles VI - Marbecks Records; Beatles '65 and #5 from Noel Forth.

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: No Reply




Gear costume: I Don't Want To Spoil The Party 

Active compensatory factors: Okay. Deep breath. The one true item amongst this bunch is The Beatles For Sale, with that iconic cover above. 

That's the one long term Beatles fans who don't have OCD know and love from their nostalgic past. 

But wait...there were other versions?!

The other three records in my list are the American versions - they made two out of one (The Beatle '65 and Beatles VI), and the Japanese version was The Beatles No. 5. 

All these records are repackages on Apple Records rather than on Capitol or Parlophone.

Why? Because I'm an OCD/completist Beatle AND Apple Records fanatic. Well, those two things usually go hand in hand for us OCD/completist Beatle AND Apple Records fanatics.

Four stars for these other versions of Beatles For Sale is because they each take tracks from For Sale and flesh them out with various singles or older cuts.

That doesn't make for a cohesive package and there's only so many times I can listen without prejudice to the German language versions of I want To Hold Your Hand and She Loves You. Great though they are.

My opinion. But what is never under dispute is the fact that 1964 was the year the Beatle dam burst.

Where do they all belong? Help is coming! 

P.S. Off to meet up with Macca in Auckland this coming Saturday night! My heart is all a flutter.