Songtrack 1969-70

Songtrack 1969-70 is a Beatles compilation album compiled by C.Syde65. It was burnt in 2011. It is not an official Beatles album and thus can not be bought.

This 2-disc compilation album includes all 29 of The Beatles' songs recorded and released in 1969-70. This excludes "Across the Universe" which was recorded in 1968, "You Know My Name" which was started in 1967, and "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae", because as Paul McCartney had pointed out, they did not fit comfortably with the concept of the straight album. And I couldn't help but agree.

All the tracks from Abbey Road were included, as were the five tracks recorded and released in 1969-70 that were included on Past Masters. All the songs from Let It Be except "Across the Universe", "Dig It", and "Maggie Mae" were included. However the versions of "Get Back", and "Let It Be" from Past Masters were chosen over the versions from the Let It Be album. The other Let It Be tracks (including "Don't Let Me Down") were presented in their "stripped down" forms from Let It Be...Naked, since I never thought much of Phil Spector's production work from the original Let It Be album.

This compilation also features an "officially unreleased" version of the track Gnik Nus, a backwards portion of "Sun King" from Love. I took the original album version of "Sun King" from Abbey Road, and reversed it using Adobe Audition, revealing the full "Abbey Road" mix of "Gnik Nus". I am probably not the first to do this with "Sun King" and I certainly wasn't the last.

The "no pause between tracks" box was ticked, to prevent the Nero Express Essentials software from adding 2 second pauses between tracks, to free up more space on the CD - not that there wasn't enough space to fit 12 and 18 songs on the first and second discs respectively anyway.