Past Masters - Volume One (compilation album) by The Beatles

Past Masters - Volume One by The Beatles
(Compilation album)
Year: 1988
Overall rank: 9,058th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 263 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1988 (129th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,335th)
Award Best albums of all time (9,058th)

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Past Masters - Volume One is ranked 28th best out of 68 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 62,849.

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81/100 (from 263 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.8/100, a mean average of 80.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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From 08/07/2016 15:47
Long Tall Sally showed us that Paul has a knack for a real rock n' roll voice. Elvis put Little Richard's rock n' roll edge to shame, but Paul rocked it well.

Mostly this is a fun check stuff out for the first time if you haven't heard it, but probably not a record I'll come back to for another 5 to 10 years (I remember hearing this in the late 90s and find the Anthology releases more interesting).

I think it'd be more interesting if it were condensed of things not on albums... take out alternate takes of well known singles also on albums.

Beatles claim to have first feedback recorded on I Feel Fine according to their Anthology book.
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From 03/09/2016 14:52
Imagine if The Beatles continued to record German versions of their popular songs. For example, "Ich bin das Walroß."
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From 03/07/2016 13:59
A good compilation of early material.
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From 07/21/2012 22:15
Good collection of non-album early singles.
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The first collection of singles contains those classic early singles as well as some, um, interesting German versions...
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The German tracks crack me up...
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