Welcome to the Big Beatles Sort Out, a show in which I, author and musician Garry Abbott, attempt to finally decide my favourite Beatles recordings by scoring each and every one for lyrical content, musicality and production. I am assisted in this venture by my brother and resident Beatles expert, Paul Abbott, with a deep knowledge of the Beatles and the wider context in which they operated. Each episode we explore and score 5 songs from the Beatles full recording catalogue. - but not this week! No! Because this week is episode 20 A Bonus 2 Black Album Special!

Yes, Paul has tried his hand at selecting and sequencing the mythical 'Black Album' or 13th Beatles LP from tracks recorded by Beatles solo or in other groups in the 5 years following their split. 

As there are 14 songs to go at, I've not included the snippets in the episode itself due to length, but you can hear Paul's playlist in it's entirety here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Xe7HRUNwEUSsIKD8RAynt

I did say in the episode I would list them out here too, but I think that might spoil it for fans of surprises, so even if you don't like Spotify, you can use the above link to get the list and then go listen somewhere else! 

Also, there is the usual 'On this Beatle day' and I round off the episode with a look at the album chart and a few other interesting charts from the main episode scores so far. 

Please let anyone know about this podcast who might be interested!  You can contact me on Twitter @big_sort or @Garry_Abbott, or via my website www.garryabbott.co.uk. Please listen out for Paul's other Podcasts, 'The Head Ballet' - all about novelty music, and 'Hark! 87th Precinct Podcast'  - all about Ed McBain's seminal police procedural novel series.

If you want to make charts of your own, you can view all the scores so far as of the previous weeks episode here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qc7mHMeBBM9LSPUV0L6zrYrF2Rib9eX-Xssua-Wox3g/edit?usp=sharing