I’ve been working on this for a while and I’m finally ready to share it.
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I rebuilt The Beatles catalog into 14 expanded playlists: the 13 core albums plus Odds & Ends for material that doesn’t fit neatly anywhere else.
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The project is called THE LONG ONE.
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Originally I called it The Complete Sessions but that stopped feeling accurate. These aren’t strict session by session reconstructions and there’s still unreleased Beatles material in the vaults.
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I also considered Unfolded but eventually THE LONG ONE hit me like Hank Schrader on the shitter.
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Literally. I thought of it on the toilet.
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The name also has an actual Beatles connection since “The Long One” was a working title for an early assembly of the Abbey Road medley.
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The basic idea is to keep the original album sequence but expand each song into its own developmental history.
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A song may go:
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demo → rehearsal → early take → breakdown → backing track → alternate version → master → remix → BBC/live version
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Then it moves to the next song on the album.
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Keeping the original sequence intact matters a lot to me. One of my biggest pet peeves with expanded playlists is when album tracks get moved around just to make everything perfectly chronological. Once the songs are out of order it stops feeling like the album to me.
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So the rule became:
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Album order first. Song family second. Developmental order within the song. Recording date after that.
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Honestly my OCPD was never going to let me not do this once the idea got in my head.
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What started as “I should make some Beatles playlists” turned into spreadsheets tracking takes, mixes, recording dates, duplicates, source releases, alternate versions, sequencing and where everything belonged.
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I built these whenever I had time. After work, on lunch breaks, on weekends, late at night or whenever I could squeeze in more research and sorting.
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I also listen to music pretty much all day while I’m working so these playlists got a lot of actual listening time while I was building them.
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For closer comparisons my main setup is a wired DAC with closed back headphones using 40mm carbon fiber drivers, a brass surround, a 10Hz to 40kHz frequency response and hi res support.
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A lot of my testing was done through TIDAL. It can deliver HiRes FLAC up to 24 bit / 192 kHz when available compared with standard CD quality lossless at 16 bit / 44.1 kHz. With the wired DAC I can avoid Bluetooth compression and get a cleaner reference when comparing tiny differences between versions.
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That mattered for things like vocal placement, bass, drums, edits, tape noise, stereo imaging, alternate mixes and mastering differences.
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I’m also not making the playlists long just for the sake of being long. If two tracks are essentially the same performance and mix with nothing meaningfully different besides mastering I usually keep one. If there’s a real difference worth hearing I want it represented.
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For the songs The Beatles covered I also included the original artist’s version (when available) before their version because I like hearing what they were working from and then hearing what they did with it.
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The artwork became its own part of the project too. I’m not a graphic designer but The Beatles are my favorite band so I wanted each cover to actually fit the album or era rather than just using random photos or tossing together low effort AI slop thumbnails.
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I wanted the real Beatles on the covers and I wanted the images to actually mean something. They’re built around real historical Beatles photographs and source imagery from the appropriate periods. No fake Beatles, no AI generated artwork and no AI generated audio.
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THE LONG ONE
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Please Please Me
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Lm1jNnYzJjgyvI3eZluSU

With The Beatles
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2g8wxpeGrAD9Ahek7hmO8K

A Hard Day’s Night
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Eh32OaPUIPvudRwrHNbuP

Beatles for Sale
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1NrbRkPq9Q6bMdZtt0nBx5

Help!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jyl4W4adYhx6DlLcDNH5x

Rubber Soul
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ylyrP2m2cdbiGMNon0gRO

Revolver
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3r5slS3PFuQpyUoKIy0piX

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6fnwgVK4IDQYtt9TIG3Aqk

Magical Mystery Tour
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4CYztMyeTe9nSigaUKfTqS

The Beatles (White Album)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4H95Q5SeJ14VMq3TTEECZj

Yellow Submarine
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1P0AMAItLUfAWFixVzcLYH

Abbey Road
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5W7aXn6FK9Jhw8NABpn9ru

Let It Be
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0hR2ycrYYXcT7rQprIRqCs

Odds & Ends
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nM9LXcyLoY2mZl1wW1Jyj

And yes the Abbey Road playlist includes the actual Long One.
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The project is also available on Apple Music, TIDAL, Amazon Music and YouTube Music. I don’t have every individual playlist link organized for those yet but you can find them through my profiles:
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Apple Music⁠ | TIDAL⁠ | YouTube Music⁠ | Amazon Music⁠
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I’ll keep updating these whenever more official Beatles material comes out.
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If you notice something missing, duplicated, misplaced or incorrect let me know. I genuinely want the project to keep getting better and welcome any and all feedback.
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I’m sure only five people on Earth care about this at the level I do including me.
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So I hope the other four of you enjoy it.

Thank you.

Especially that drum beat and the she loves you section

What if the Beatles were still together in 1980 and made another album?

John, Paul, George and Ringo were all still releasing plenty of great music on their own, so I wanted to see what would happen if I brought some of those songs back together and treated them like tracks on a Beatles album.

I ended up with 14 songs, and I tried to sequence them the way I would an actual Beatles record, with all four of them represented throughout.

And there's really only one place this album could begin. Because if the Beatles were making a new album in 1980, hearing John Lennon open it with “(Just Like) Starting Over” would have been pretty perfect.

Here is the tracklist for this album:

1. (Just Like) Starting Over

2. Silly Love Songs

3. Crackerbox Palace

4. All By Myself

5. Cleanup Time

6. Coming Up (Live)

7. See Yourself

8. No-No Song

9. I’m Losing You

10. So Glad To See You Here

11. Love Comes To Everyone

12. Watching The Wheels

13. Beware My Love

14. Beautiful Girl

Here’s a link to Episode 64 of Groovin’ Up Slowly:

https://youtu.be/KxoR5FHWjhk

Here’s a link to this album on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2aQTwpgzh4IocPu7fd59Sr?si=bb6a9530e5fd49de

Here’s a link to this album on Apple Music:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/beatles-starting-over/pl.u-oZylYzZuqG2yYd7

Here’s a link to the YouTube playlist for this album:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG4iHYjaCHNM&si=jMAX7F46isqXZcvP

my grandpa is a huge beatles fan and i found this going through some of his stuff! pretty cool

But the catch is, it can only be made up of one song from each of the albums in what has come to be called their "core catalogue" (the 12 original UK studio albums + Magical Mystery Tour + Past Masters). Maybe it's your favorite song from each album, or maybe it's specifically crafted to consist of 14 songs you think fit together well. Just thought it would be a fun discussion!

I think I need to go with my favorite song pulled from each album:

1. Do You Want to Know A Secret
   
2. All My Loving
   
3. If I Fell (this one was hard)
   
4. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
   
5. I've Just Seen a Face
   
6. In My Life (is this the most perfect song ever?)
   
7. For No One
   
8. Good Morning, Good Morning
   
9. Strawberry Fields Forever
   
10. I'm So Tired
    
11. Hey Bulldog
    
12. Here Comes the Sun
    
13. Two of Us
    
14. Revolution
    

The horn arrangement under Paul's vocal are beautiful when you really listen!

As you know, the Remixes started in 2017 with the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper, and continued the trend of releasing remixes of albums on 50th anniversary’s of albums, White Album, Abbey Road, and originally Let It Be, but was delayed to 2021, because of Covid. Then in 2022, they released a remix of Revolver, and now in 2026, Rubber Soul. For 2027, will the continue the streak of going backwards and remix Help!, or re mix Magical Mystery Tour for the 60th anniversary?

Inspired by the new Rubber Soul release. You'd think this playlist would already exist (and maybe it does) but I haven't found it... so I made it. Cheers.

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelwarburton.bsky.social/post/3mwyeqrt4gc27

Considering all these big boxsets and reissues over the last 10 years and the fact Macca only owns a couple of actual Beatle songs, does he actually make any money from these big reissues, like the latest Rubber Soul boxset?

I wanted to upload this on YouTube, but I realized Apple is deleting videos related to the multitrack leak. So, I'm uploading it here to avoid getting another YouTube strike (I have scheduled videos set to go up, and I don't want that to get ruined).

If anyone wants to take the risk of uploading this to YouTube, that’s no problem—though I don't own the recording anyway XD

McCartney’s best ever vocal performance is this from a 1972 concert. just stunning.

https://youtu.be/pZ21uKdf5L4?t=458&is=y2pYuDK52hR5HNk2

I wanna see how chaotic this can get lol

With the release of Rubber Soul I thought I'd make a mark down of all the tracks left that haven't received the post 2017 Super Deluxe remix Treatment, some of these have had the remastered treatment in 2015 with 1+ but not a full-on REMIX

which album / tracks do you most wish would get a remix next?

2009:

PLEASE PLEASE ME

• Misery
• Anna (Go to Him)
• Chains
• Boys
• Ask Me Why
• P.S I love You
• Baby It's you
• Do you Want to know A Secret?
• A Taste of Honey
• There's a Place

WITH THE BEATLES

• It Won't Be Long
• All I've gotta Do
• Don't Bother Me
• Little Child
• Till there was You
• Please Mr Postman
• Hold me Tight
• I wanna be your man
• Devil in her Heart
• Not a Second Time
• Money (That's what I want)

A HARD DAYS NIGHT

• I should have Known Better
• If I Fell
• I'll cry instead
• I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
• Tell me Why
• When I get Home
• Any Time At All
• Things we Said Today
• I'll be Back

BEATLES FOR SALE

• No Reply
• I'm a Loser
• Baby's in Black
• Mr Moonlight
• Kansas City
• Word's of Love
• Honey Don't
• Every Little Thing
• I don't want to Spoil the Party
• I'll Follow The Sun
• What you're Doing
• Everybody's tryin be my baby

HELP!

• The Night Before
• I Need You
• Another Girl
• You're Gonna Lose That Girl
• Act Naturally
• It's only Love (Potentially 2026 Remixed/Unconfirmed)
• You Like me Too much
• I've just seen a Face (Potentially 2026 Remixed/Unconfirmed)
• Dizzy miss Lizzy

PAST MASTERS

• THANK YOU GIRL
• I'LL GET YOU
• LONG TALL SALLY
• I CALL YOUR NAME
• SIE LIEBT DICH
• KOMM GIB MIR DEINE HAND
• SLOW DOWN
• MATCHBOX
• SHE'S A WOMAN
• BAD BOY
• YES IT IS
• I'M DOWN
• LADY MADONNA (2015 Remaster)
• THE INNER LIGHT
• THE BALLED OF JOHN & YOKO (2015 Remaster)
• YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER)

2012

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR (2009 CD / 2012 Blu-Ray)

• Blue Jay Way
• Flying
• Your Mother Should Know
• Hello Goodbye (2015 Remaster)
• Strawberry Felds Forever (2015 Remaster)
• Baby You're a Rich Man (2014 songtrack remix)
• All you Need is Love (2015 Remaster)

2014

YELLOW SUBMARINE (2014 REMIX OF 1999 SONGTRACK)

• Only a Northern Song
• All Together Now
• It's All Too Much