Anthology 2


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John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr



Album Notes

Anthology Volume 2 is pretty much a mirror image of Volume 1 in that it has the other brand new Beatles song Real Love. Real Love was a demo John Lennon had done in the late '70's, and in 1995 the tape was given to Paul, George, and Ringo by Yoko Ono to be made into a finished song. Real Love, like it's predecessor Free As A Bird, suffers from poor sound quality of the demo tape. This was a big job for Jeff Lynne and the other Beatles to work through, but they seemed to have pulled it off as good as can be expected.

Anthology Volume 2 boasts more of the same unreleased music and alternate takes than Volume 1, with Volume 2 dealing with the years 1965-1968. Songs like If You've Got Trouble, which was meant for the Help! album as Ringo's only song; 12 Bar Original, an instrumental recorded during the sessions for Rubber Soul, and That Means A Lot which was also slated for the Help! album but wasn't used. Also on Anthology Volume 2 are different takes of various songs from that period such as Strawberry Fields Forever and I'm Only Sleeping.



Disc 1:

Real Love
Yes It Is
I'm Down
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
If You've Got Trouble
That Means A Lot
Yesterday
It's Only Love
I Feel Fine (Live)
Ticket To Ride (Live)
Yesterday (Live)
Help! (Live)
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Norweigan Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
I'm Looking Through You
12-Bar Original
Tomorrow Never Knows
Got To Get You Into My Life
And Your Bird Can Sing
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby (strings only)
I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal)
I'm Only Sleeping (Take 1)
Rock And Roll Music
She's A Woman

Disc 2:

Strawberry Fields Forever (demo sequence)
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1)
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7)
Penny Lane
A Day In The Life
Good Morning, Good Morning
Only A Northern Song (Harrison)
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (Takes 1 and 2)
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite (Take 7)
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Within You, Without You (Harrison)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
I Am The Walrus
The Fool On The Hill (demo)
Your Mother Should Know
The Fool On The Hill (Take 4)
Hello, Goodbye
Lady Madonna
Across The Universe



Real Love (John Lennon)

All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dreams
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Just like little girls and boys
Playing with their little toys
Seems like all they really were doing
Was waiting for love

Don't need to be alone
No need to be alone
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real

From this moment on I know
Exactly where my life will go
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for love

Don't need to be afraid
No need to be afraid
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real

Thought I'd been in love before
But in my heart, I wanted more
Seems like all I really was doing
Was waiting for you

Don't need to be alone
Don't need to be alone

It's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real
Yes it's real love, it's real
It's real love, it's real

To the songs

If You've Got Trouble (Lennon, McCartney)

If you've got trouble
Then you got less trouble than me
You say you're worried
You can't be as worried as me (Oh oh)

You're quite contend to be bad
With all the vantage you had over me
Just cause you're trouble
And don't bring your troubles to me

I don't think it's funny
When you ask for money and things
Especially when you're standing there
Wearing diamond and rings (Oh oh)

You think I'm soft in the head
Well try someone softer instead anything
It's not so funny
When you know what money can bring

You better leave me alone
I don't need a thing from you
You better take yourself home
Go and count a ring or two

If you've got trouble
Then you got less trouble than me
You say you're worried
You can't be as worried as me

You're quite contend to be bad
With all the vantage you had over me
Just cause you're trouble
And don't bring your troubles to me

[Ah rock on, anybody.]

You better leave me alone,
I don't need a thing from you
You better take yourself home
Go and count a ring or two

If you've got trouble
Then you got less trouble than me
You say you're worried
You can't be as worried as me (Oh oh)

You're quite contend to be bad
With all the vantage you had over me
Just cause you're trouble
And don't bring your troubles to me
Just cause you're trouble
And don't bring your troubles to me

To the songs

That Means a Lot (Lennon, McCartney)

A friend says that your love
Won't mean a lot
And you know that your love
Is all you've got
At times things are so fine
And at times they're not
But when she says she loves you
That means a lot

A friend says that a love
Is never true
And you know that this
Don't apply on you
A touch can mean so much
When it's all you've got
When she says she loves you
That means a lot

Love can be deep inside
Love can be suicide
Can't you see you can't hide
What you feel when it's real

A friend says that your love
Won't mean a lot
And you know that your love
Is all you've got
A touch can mean so much
When it's all you've got
But when she says she loves you
That means a lot

Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah
Can't you see, yeah...

To the songs

12-Bar Original (The Beatles)

[1,2,3,4]
instrumental

To the songs




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