A Taste Of Honey (USSR, 1986)
Features “Direct Metal Mastered” notation. All tracks are from before the release of Help!, but the photos on the cover are from the portrait inserts included on The Beatles. A Taste Of Honey was one of only two official Parlophone releases in the USSR. Read LEAVE THE WEST BEHIND: The Beatles History In Russian Piracy for the full background of the Beatles history in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Track list
Side A
- P.S. Я Люблю Тебя (P.S. I Love You)
- Хочешь Узнать Тайно? (Do You Want To Know A Secret)
- Вкус Мёда (A Taste Of Honey)
- Я Увидел Её (I Saw Her Standing There)
- Она В Трауре (Baby’s In Black)
- Ответа Нет (No Reply)
- Я Пойду За Солнцем (I’ll Follow The Sun)
- Восемь Дней В Неделю (Eight Days A Week)
Side B
- Не Хочу Испортить Вечер (I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party)
- Рок-н-ролл (Rock And Roll Music)
- Мистер Почтальон (Please Mister Postman)
- Это Не Надолго (It Won’t Be Long)
- Пока Была Ты (Till There Was You)
- Детка (Little Child)
- Злое Сердце (Devil In Her Heart)
- Хочу Быть Твоим (I Wanna Be Your Man)
Release history
- Мелодия C60 23581 008, released April 24, 1986
Back cover
A well-intended but HILARIOUSLY incongruous compilation covering tidbits fron their 1st four albums (minus HardDaysNight, due to licensing complications between Parlophone & UnitedArtists, containing some hits but also many peculiar oddballs (LittleChild/WannaBeYourMan/Ti)ThhereWasYou/MrPostman etc) – likely due to USSR communists knowing very little aboutt the band compared to the “free world” of 1986.
Excellent sound quality due to direct metal mastering – crisp, clear, sharp – and a generous sampling of their 1962-64 materieal.
What is most HILARIOUS, though, is the album cover featuring the FabFour ftom their 1968 white album, by which time they had moved about a MILLION miles from their MopTop of only 4 years earlier.
Worth owning for collectors; I snagged a used edition in Portland for only $8 in Portland then finally mailed it to a young friend of mine in SF (25 in May) who is just now getting into theBeatles (he already digs early RollingStones, especially DecembersChildren for some reason) so surely will get a kick out of it.
(I did switch sides1&2 with a Sharpie, simply because opening with DontWantToSpoilTheParty and closing with EightDaysaWeek makes MUCH more sense than PS I LoveYou opening + I WannaBeYourMan closing out the set.)