Anybody got them yet? Or going to get them? If so, stereo or mono versions?
The more I read about the new mono remasters, the more I want them, but I'm not paying £200 for the box set! Hopefully there'll be separate album releases at some point.
I've got the stereo box on order with Amazon but it's back ordered. The price was only $179.99, and still is - a good deal if you're willing to wait a few weeks.
Target also has a good deal this week on the individual albums. All but the double sets are $11.98 each (I think those are $16.98), but you get a $5 gift card for every 2 you buy. You pay about $180 plus tax altogether, but you get $35 dollars worth of gift cards.
I dunno about Apple every releasing the mono album separately. They always like to milk things as much as they can.
I would absolutely have the box set on order if I hadn't purchased a number of them on sale about 2 years ago. I'm a total sucker for CD cases done as LP replicas.
Now that I see they were properly remastered (without the incessant need for more dbs!), perhaps the mono box set could be justified after all...
Only thing to report thus far is the lo-fi office field test - Sony Discman plugged into Panasonic boombox w detachable speakers, 4 slider EQ - have the Help CD, and I have to say it sounds pretty good; seems very nicely balanced, the vocals sound very nice. I've always had a peeve about how crappy I thought the Beatles CDs sounded compared to the LP versions burned into my cranial hard drive, so pending the full stereo treatment on the weekend my initial impression is at least good. I've ordered Sgt. Pepper's, and that will be the real test for me.
Local station is doing a give away for the box set. Entry is voting for your Top Ten Beatles songs. That was ridiculously hard. Mine were, in alphabetical order (today at least): Come Together, Eleanor Rigby, Get Back, Helter Skelter, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Apologies to Norwegian Wood, Yesterday, Paperback Writer, Can't Buy Me Love, and Eight Days A Week.
I'd be curious to see what others' lists are.
And if you want to enter the contest, it is on this page.
Dear Prudence, Get Back, I am the Walrus, Rocky Racoon, Your Mother Should Know, Cry Baby Cry, the Medley from Abbey Road (is that cheating? I don't care, I can't dissect it), Old Brown Shoe, A Day In the Life, In My Life.
Let It Be, Across The Universe, Don't Let Me Down, Strawberry Fields Forever, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Cry Baby Cry, I'm Only Sleeping, A Day In The Life, I'm So Tired, Day Tripper.....And Your Bird Can Sing. Ten is so arbitrary.
Actually, the Pitchfork reviews were so well-written I became a little interested. Not enough to buy the remastered discs, mind you, but a little interested nonetheless.
I think Daniel has commented before about a General disinterest in the Beatles.
I don't see replacing all my Beatles either, but the mastering on the White Album has always bugged me - my extremely cheap crap quality copy on vinyl sounds miles better than the cd's, and that just doesn't seem right, so maybe just the White Album, and maybe Abbey Road.
I'm also thinking that I should have an easy time scooping up the albums I don't have (everything before Help!) used now.
I will say though after listening to the NPR All Songs Considered podcast, I wouldn't mind picking up the mono of Sgt. Pepper. Are any (or all) of these mono remasters available separately?
Not interested. I have the complete works in CD when they were remastered in the late 80s; I was in college at the time and I slowly got all of them. The original vinyl quality has already been surpassed, so why bother??
Lloyd, that's what I thought too, but by all accounts the original CD issues were a bit under par compared to the original vinyl and these new versions (particularly for the mono albums) are supposed to be stunning.
BUT as far as I can tell they aren't releasing the mono versions separately.
I have little interest in buying the remastered CDs because I have heard The Beatles music so many times throughout my life that I can play it in my head whenever I want. I know the music so well it seems like a waste of money to pay for it when it is hardwired into my music memory.
My daughter, on the other hand, doesn't have The Beatles chip implanted in her brain. She plans to buy Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, and the White Album. And I will be darn sure to give them a listen & report back to y'all.
It slays you the third time. I have them on order from Amazon, have to wait for the cheap price. I was obsessive into the beatles for a long time, with dozens of bootlegs of outtakes, variations, etc.
Oh yeah, if you are a fan enough to have outtakes & variations, you'd have to have these!
So which are you getting? individual CDs, or one of the box sets, or....both box sets?
One cool thing I've seen about the release of these remastered albums is that my 20 year old daughter and several of her friends are crawling all over these recordings. They are excited about hearing them, they talk about them, they love them. Like Pokemon cards but 10 years later.
My daughter & I made a deal that if I buy the remastered Rubber Soul she will buy the remastered Revolver.
I ordered the stereo box right away, will probably hit the mono's individually for the later albums since I have the capitol sets, with are both stereo and mono for the early songs. I prefer "druggie" beatles, anyway.
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Target also has a good deal this week on the individual albums. All but the double sets are $11.98 each (I think those are $16.98), but you get a $5 gift card for every 2 you buy. You pay about $180 plus tax altogether, but you get $35 dollars worth of gift cards.
I dunno about Apple every releasing the mono album separately. They always like to milk things as much as they can.
Now that I see they were properly remastered (without the incessant need for more dbs!), perhaps the mono box set could be justified after all...
I'd be curious to see what others' lists are.
And if you want to enter the contest, it is on this page.
Craig
why? (just curious)
I don't see replacing all my Beatles either, but the mastering on the White Album has always bugged me - my extremely cheap crap quality copy on vinyl sounds miles better than the cd's, and that just doesn't seem right, so maybe just the White Album, and maybe Abbey Road.
I'm also thinking that I should have an easy time scooping up the albums I don't have (everything before Help!) used now.
Plong42, c'mon. You quoted that?
"Yoko Ono, a woman so beloved by the band that they requested her physical presence in the studio during the making of Let It Be."
Chuck Klosterman. The Onion. Context is everything,
Context is everything, at least I started with a 1960s band, and asked for more info.
"a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes"
OK, now I THINK I get it. winky
BUT as far as I can tell they aren't releasing the mono versions separately.
Bastards.
My daughter, on the other hand, doesn't have The Beatles chip implanted in her brain. She plans to buy Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, and the White Album. And I will be darn sure to give them a listen & report back to y'all.
Wow. I see my library has all the remastered CDs on order.
It slays you the third time. I have them on order from Amazon, have to wait for the cheap price. I was obsessive into the beatles for a long time, with dozens of bootlegs of outtakes, variations, etc.
So which are you getting? individual CDs, or one of the box sets, or....both box sets?
My daughter & I made a deal that if I buy the remastered Rubber Soul she will buy the remastered Revolver.