Oh c'mon... it's less than 98 hours.

While there's no real "best of" of the Let It Be sessions (I think there's a 17-CD set that has most of the music without too much chatter or duplication - but it's still 17 CDs) - I find that I listen to the bonus material at the end of the A/B Road set most. It's the complete "rooftop concert", plus the "Get Back" (the original title) and "Let It Be" albums composed entirely of versions from the rolls that make up the set.

Good stuff, that.

I totally dig all that was said....but I've never been a fan of "unofficial" releases of any kind. The Anthology set is as close as I'd come, especially with 83 hours to churn though. I'll admit A/B Road does interest me somewhat because of the whole Phil Spector mess, but redundancy just isn't my thing. I own all the other CD releases, so I'm pretty sated.

Cool to know though :snap:

I guess I must be a Beatles geek, because I was enthralled with the Anthology set and am more than a little interested in this. I'm not a pointless checklist sort, but I appreciate hearing history in the making. My favorite part of the Museum of Rock and Roll was the Beatles section, particularly John Lennon's.

This is close enough to what I wanted to type, so I'll just quote you.
And while we're at it... tell you how jealous I am that you saw that exhibit.
I'd love to see that Lennon collection.

Hey, is this a challenge to my Beatles geekiness? :p

Lol, CP!

Nah, just that I have a weird thing about wanting to learn about the construction of things like songs, books and the like- they are presented to us in a 'final' form, but often it's the process that strikes me as most interesting.

Here's a copy of the pdf that the last guy to post the A/B Road set put together. Pages 1-4 talk about the history of the recording and the tapes - pages 5-43 is the entire track listing.

Geek out, wendybeth!

Isn't the Beatles that group that Paul McCartney was in before he formed the Wings?

Just to revive the thread for a minute... the Deluxe Edition of Sgt Pepper just came out this week. 5 CDs of Peppery goodness.

Here's a link with the tracklists and art for the whole series (so far).