All I really can say is I wish I had access to their British releases on vinyl. In the order they wanted, in mono like they intended...hmm. Gotta hit the 2nd-hand record stores, take a chance. If not, well, gotta go to England!
Anyway, some Beatle links...
The Beatles Information Page, maintained by Jonas Karlsson at Rochester, is a nice source, and has an excellent page on FAAB...
Ed Chen's Official rec.music.beatles Home Page at Baylor College of Medicine is a solid compendium of stuff from the newsgroup (including a vast archive of official unofficial moderator 'Saki's writings on various Beatle songs and issues. Nice stuff).
A holdover from my old home page, once added just because my old roommate Rohit Modak said I needed some "music stuff," is Dave Haber's Internet Beatles Album, with interesting items about the recordings.
The rmb Archive, maintained by Bob
Clements at BBN. This is a link to his main page; as he mentions that it
will be updated soon, I didn't want to link you to something that might
not be there later. Go into the FTP Archives, and Beatles is the RMB
directory.
If you have some time to kill, check out the directory labeled
GOLQ--these are the Golden Oldies Lyric Quizzes posted to
alt.rock-n-roll.oldies every month or so. They are one hell of a lot of
fun, even if the recent ones are ridiculouly frustrating for me (why
can't we get an oldies station that plays, like, one day's playlist from
1963? Then I might KNOW some of these! :-) )
Now if you _really_ wanna have some fun tonight (Little Richard/Paul), try Alan Pollack's NOTESON series. It's a quite technical discussion of the Beatles' songs from a musical aspect; as a non-scholar of the science of music beyond the "that sounds pretty cool" level, a lot of the stuff flies right over my head, yet the stuff I understand is tremendously intriguing. Try 'er out--this link sends you to the index of songs, which I've downloaded for my own benefit (all the songs are listed on the system as an acronym, eg. AHDN is A Hard Day's Night, if you want to skip straight to Bobcat). Then there's a link on the bottom back to Bobcat, from which you have to find NOTESON in the Beatles directory. As I say there, not hard. Click here for NOTESON index