One of my favorite quotes is:
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform - always do the most disagreeable first.
Josiah Quincy
I have this printed and hanging in my office. I try to do this in my work, getting the tasks I dread out of the way so that they stop looming over me and I can get on to other work. It seems to work well for me.
For my
BYOBO series, I've created a rather lengthy list of artists I want to feature and each week when I go to choose the artist for the week, there is one that I pass over knowing that it is an impossibility to narrow down a list to just 15 tracks. Their name mocks me when I view the list, each time I hear a song of theirs on the radio I cringe at the thought of trying to decide whether to include it. As much as I love The Beatles, they were wearing me down.
Enough is enough - it's time to bite the bullet and get at this.
So once again inspired by Nat at
Mini-Obs, the idea is (almost) the same as always:
Pick one of your favorite bands / artists and list 10-15 songs by that band / artist to compile your own best of compilation.

This week, I'm changing the rules a bit. I decided that to just pull 15 songs from their collected works was going to be impossible, so instead I'm going to take advantage of the fact that there were 15 original CD releases and choose one song from each release. Considering how much they evolved from the first notes of Please Please Me to the end of Abbey Road, this also seems like a good way to make sure the full evolution is represented.
So here goes -
The Best of The Beatles as compiled by me:
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