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The Beatles - Lossless - Anthology 3 (1970)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. A Beginning 0:50
  2. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 2:14
  3. Helter Skelter 4:37
  4. Mean Mr. Mustard 1:57
  5. Polythene Pam 1:26
  6. Glass Onion 1:51
  7. Junk 2:24
  8. Piggies 2:01
  9. Honey Pie 1:19
  10. Don't Pass Me By 2:42
  11. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 2:56
  12. Good Night 2:37
  13. Cry Baby Cry 2:46
  14. Blackbird 2:18
  15. Sexy Sadie 4:06
  16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 3:27
  17. Hey Jude 4:21
  18. Not Guilty 3:22
  19. Mother Nature's Son 3:17
  20. Glass Onion (2) 2:08
  21. Rocky Raccoon 4:12
  22. What's the New Mary Jane? 6:12
  23. Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias 2:30
  24. I'm So Tired 2:14
  25. I Will 1:55
  26. Why Don't We Do It in the Road 2:15
  27. Julia 1:57
Volume 2
  1. I've Got A Feeling 2:49
  2. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 3:36
  3. Dig A Pony 4:18
  4. Two Of Us 3:27
  5. For You Blue 2:22
  6. Teddy Boy 3:18
  7. Medley: Rip It up/Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes 3:10
  8. The Long And Winding Road 3:40
  9. Oh! Darling 4:08
  10. All Things Must Pass 3:05
  11. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues 1:55
  12. Get Back 3:08
  13. Old Brown Shoe 3:02
  14. Octopus's Garden 2:49
  15. Maxwell's Silver Hammer 3:49
  16. Something 3:18
  17. Come Together 3:40
  18. Come And Get It 2:29
  19. Ain't She Sweet 2:08
  20. Because 2:23
  21. Let It Be 4:05
  22. I Me Mine 1:47
  23. The End 2:50

Notes

bar code 7 25383 44512 7 YEAR: 1996 ID3G: 17
The final installment of the Anthology series has two discs of previously unreleased material from the White Album era through the group's demise in early 1970. In terms of sheer listenability, this may be the strongest volume of the three, if only because it focuses almost solely upon studio recordings, rather than mixing live concerts/broadcasts and outtakes. Also, by this time the Beatles had perfected their approach to recording, meaning that even the early/alternate versions of many of their cuts were often of outstanding quality. There's some prime stuff here: "unplugged" White Album demos from mid-'68, radically different versions of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Helter Skelter," a stringless "The Long and Winding Road," three beautifully sung and played Harrison solo demos from early 1969, and several songs the Beatles never released, like "All Things Must Pass," "Not Guilty," "Teddy Boy," "Come and Get It," and "Junk." Not everything here is so great that the casual consumer will be fascinated, of course. As on previous Anthology sets, some of these alternates are only very slightly different from the official versions; the oldies covers from the Let It Be era are off-the-cuff jams that aren't up to the group's usual level of brilliance. It's still a fascinating collection, both for the insight it affords us into the group's creative process at the end of their career, and for the considerable excellence of the music itself.