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Beatles Box Sets
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| A Boy Named Seo Sep 09 2009 03:51 PM |
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So the Beatles catalog has been remastered and re-released as box sets in two different formats, mono and stereo. I used to have just about all the albums on tape, then again on CD, but have lost almost all the latter due entirely to breakups where I didn't exactly follow through collecting all my crap. I want to buy one of the boxes and have been going back and forth as to which to get. The stereo runs $180 and has all 13 studio remasters plus a DVD. The mono runs $230 and has 10 studio albums originally mastered as mono, a mono masters disc, which Amazon says "features all of the mono tracks that appeared on singles, EPs. or that never made it onto the 13 albums". The albums that aren't in this box are Yellow Sub, Abbey Road, and Let it Be. The CDs in the stereo set are 3-panel Digi-paks. The CDs in the mono box are packaged like mini LPs, which is awesome. A friend of mine is gonna buy the mono box and pick up the other 3 remastered to fill out the lineup. That's the best, craziest, most expensive plan, I think. I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do yet. Any interest from you guys? I found this article to be pretty helpful. [url]ht tp://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2009/09 ... elp_2.html Why won't this link work again?
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| TransMonk Sep 09 2009 03:58 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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None for me unless they come out on vinyl...and then still probably not. Paul and Yoko have enough of my money.
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| Kong76 Sep 09 2009 04:13 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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Everything I have by them on cd and on hard disk sounds fine to me. I mean, are they trying to pick up nose hair noise going in and out while guitar's gently weep?
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| A Boy Named Seo Sep 09 2009 04:19 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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I think they're trying to give color to some of the finer details that got smothered in the original mastering, and the stereo remastering of the mono stuff should have it jump out of the headphones a little more than the mono. And the nose hair thing, too. I'd probably not be tempted if I already had it all, or most of it, but I don't so I'm gonna jump.
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| metirish Sep 09 2009 04:25 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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Not a chance that I would buy it.
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| themetfairy Sep 09 2009 05:08 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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D-Dad surprised me with the stereo set. I wouldn't have pulled the trigger on that purchase on my own, but it's gorgeous.
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| A Boy Named Seo Sep 09 2009 05:23 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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Cool. Lucky you. I don't see anyway I can let myself get the mono one just cause they look like little records.
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| cooby Sep 09 2009 06:45 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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Most of the Beatles 45s I have here probably are mono. No wait I gave them away to my friend Lee years ago. The Beatles are a group that I wish (in my fantasies) that I could just pick maybe my favorite 40 or 50 songs of theirs and have that as a collection. That being said I would pick stereo
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| Swan Swan H Sep 09 2009 07:43 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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[quote="cooby":3me751m4]Most of the Beatles 45s I have here probably are mono. No wait I gave them away to my friend Lee years ago. The Beatles are a group that I wish (in my fantasies) that I could just pick maybe my favorite 40 or 50 songs of theirs and have that as a collection. That being said I would pick stereo[/quote:3me751m4] This release explains why they have yet to allow their music on iTunes, where you could make the collection you describe. One last huge money grab before allowing the world to buy the catalog a track at a time.
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| Valadius Sep 09 2009 07:58 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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I'm still waiting for the giant glaring hole in iTunes that is the Beatles to be filled.
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| sharpie Sep 10 2009 07:51 AM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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If somebody wants to buy me the mono set I would be grateful.
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| RealityChuck Sep 10 2009 01:43 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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There's no point in buying remastered versions. The songs sounded just fine as they were. BTW, I own a mono version of Sgt. Pepper and, really, anyone who thinks there's any real difference also thinks that the emperor has a wonderful set of new clothes.
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| A Boy Named Seo Sep 10 2009 03:23 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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For sure they sounded fine as they were, but from the samples I've heard, I disagree that there's no real difference. It might be subtle to some, but it's there for sure.
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| sharpie Sep 10 2009 03:44 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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You can tell teh difference on the only previously remastered Beatles, "Yellow Submarine" and "Love" (the non-mashup tracks).
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| Edgy DC Sep 10 2009 09:38 PM Re: Beatles Box Sets |
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Giles Martin says there's really nothing left that he thinks bears releasing. I always thought they should release an album of the fan club Christmas greetings. The only problem is, if the tracks run chronologically, the album would get progressively worse, as the band is band grows more experimental (read as "stupidly high") as they record each year's greeting.
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