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"The Beatles in Stereo" box set, above, and "The Beatles in Mono,"
below, being issued on 9/9/09. (Copyright Apple Corps Ltd.)
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Do your original Beatles CDs become completely obsolete on 9/9/09?
The easy answer could be yes if you get both stereo and mono Beatles box sets.
Notice we said "easy answer." Because as Beatles fans, there often is no easy answer.
For completists, there is almost no argument. They will keep them. And the long boxes, which the original 1987 issues of the CDs came in, if you still have any. And, of course, all the variations.
If you're not a completist, there are reasons to keep at least some. If you don't get the mono box,
you might want to keep the first four,
which were originally issued in mono, a decision that has been discussed by Beatles fans ever since.
So what are you going to do with your original Beatles CDs after 9/9/09? .
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Give them to my mum who won't care about the remastering.
I'm so happy to finally get stereo mixes of everything again - even the bad early mixes. I learnt to play guitar, bass and drums by listening to one side only and it never bothered me in the slightest that they are terrible panning wise.
On headphones they're grim but on speakers, well, the room kinda blends it all together to make sense. I love She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand but for me there's no comparison in quality - the latter in stereo kicks the heck out of the former in mono. Still, just glad to have better quality, full range recordings. They sound like they're going to be great.
I took mine (as I aways do ) already before the release of the the remastered version to the "Foundation for the Junior Blind' and donated them. I have no need or space for'em. If anybody out there feels the need to spread the enjoyment of the Beatles to others do a Google search and find the location in there own town.
Love is all you need !!!
RS
what about the capitol albums set, is that obsolete now too?
curious: The Capital Box Sets were obsolete on the day of there release, who in there right mind could stand to listen to the sound of finger nails running down a chalkboard. Probably the most unnatural sound ever put on a CD.
I am letting my 10 year old son have them. Now I do not have to worry if he scratches them or not now that I will have the new ones. He has been listening to the Beatles since the day he was born, of course. He loves the Beatles!!
Since I'm getting the mono box set, Abbey Road, and Let It Be -- but not the stereo set or the stereo Past Masters -- I guess I'm going to have to keep my old Past Masters Volume Two unless I want to live without "The Ballad of John and Yoko" and "Old Brown Shoe".
I'll probably give most of the others away -- most of them, I suspect, to my parents-in-law.
Hey Des— giving Abbey Road to my mum for Christmas is not a bad idea at all… that way everybody wins…
I'm not sure I want to part with them though. Given as I was too young to have the albums the 'first time around', I feel some sort of intrinsic oneness with the CDs that I currently own. Except for Yellow Sub, because the Songtrack version of It's All Too Much sounds 1million% better with George's rhythm guitar actually AUDIBLE!!
Hell who am I kidding. I don't care what happens to the old ones. I just want the pretty new ones! Counting down the days…
Right now, I'm going through the '87 CDs and giving them a full in-context listen in preparation for A/B comparisons with the new discs and I'd forgotten how bad a job was done on at least three of the first four CDs. Once the A/Bs are done, I may well take Rock Singer's lead and donate them.
As for curious's question about the Capitol sets, those are unique because they were mastered from the Capitol masters to preserve the sound of the '64/'65 Capitol LPs. And even those are better than that first batch of '87 CDs. So I'm keeping the Capitol boxes just for those unique mixes.
Put them in my second Box of Vision copy, of course!
I think I might turn the early monos into wall art. I saw some frames with a matte with a place for a CD booklet and a spindle for the CD itself.
I sold my 1987/1988 cd:s first thing when I heard that the new remasters were coming. So for four months I've been living without the original Beatles albums with only the Capitol albums, Anthologies, Red and Blue and 1 compilations, Love, Let it be...naked, Live at the BBC and Yellow Submarine to comfort me. How did I ever survive?
Not sure yet. Probably keep them until I do the next "live like a Shaker" cleaning and then donate them to Goodwill or the hospital charity shop.
I stopped listening to them so long ago I don't even know where they are any more aside from the couple beat-up stragglers in the car. 9/9 can't come fast enough.
Does anyone know when online orders will be delivered? I think my 090909 will be 091609 :)
I will hold on to them for a while, the probably sell them. Will be selling my vinyl Singles Collection and EP Collection, and may end up selling those sets that I have on CD too. And I may finally get rid of most of my Beatles vinyl.
You people must make good money if you can think about giving them away! Regularly selling off CDs helps pay the bills.
Wish I'd saved the long boxes. I actually did for a while, not sure what happened to 'em.
I really like the "Box of Vision" idea. I have been looking for a really good reason to order one and spend the money, now I've got one.
I've never gotten rid of any Beatles recordings. They'll sit there next to all my US and UK vinyl LPs and 45s.
Put them in my second Box of Vision copy, of course!
Unfortunately, my '87 CD's didn't make it through 15 years of constant usage. I lost my copies of Sgt. Pepper, Revolver, Abbey Road, and disc 1 of the White Album. My poor Rubber Soul looks like someone spilled coffee on it (don't let friends borrow them).
Which is why I am very excited for the Remasters because now I can get the whole catalog in better packaging with better sound. And now I'm going to take care of them. I won't even touch my Box of Vision without putting surgical gloves on :)
As a completist who has to have everything, I will hold onto the '87 CDs so my collection will reflect the CDs and cover art from that time. I had even bought the CDs again when they were manufactured with the Apples on the inserts and labels.
Actually, if you take the old mixes from those '87 CD's and "biff" 'em up with a little bit of EQ and increase the volume, they don't sound too terribly bad, not perfect, but better than the original CD. That was one of my interim solutions, the other was transferring the original vinyl to digital. Maybe the whole subject will be mute when the remasters come out next week, but maybe not.
I only have Sgt. Pepper's, Please Please Me, Abbey Road, and Rubber Soul in the old CD issues, and I'll most likely keep them.
I eBayed and Goodwill'ed them already. I also Goodwilled some of my old worn out records.
I will give the old ones to my kids. If they not interested, they go to the dustbin.
It all depends on whether the first remasters I buy live up to the hype. But I'm definitely keeping Past Masters Volume 2, with the original "unfixed" version of "Day Tripper". I like that dropout.
Well im hanging on to my '87 collection in the rolltop box....also have all the long boxes, some with shrink on them. I also have the singles and Ep's boxes. I wonder if these will all be collectable one day ?
I traded mine in to an independent record store even before the there was an official announcement on the remasters (I knew it was coming soon, and wanted to get top trade-in value). However, I've hung on to everything not part of the remasters set (Anthology, Yellow Sub Songtrack, etc.).
I have all the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab vinyl editions of the Beatles catelog, so I've long been disenchanted with the sound of the '87 CD releases. Can't wait to restock my CD collection with both the stereo and mono box sets!
I also still have all my original Beatles LP's and 45's, though I hang on to those more for sentimental purposes since they're pretty well-worn.
Believe it or not, I never bought the orig. CDs in '87. Once George made the comment in an interview that he didn't like the sound of the CDs that was good enough for me not to buy them. The ONLY CD I have is the 30th Anniversary CD edition of The White Album. I continued to play my orig lps, until my turntable broke, but two years ago I bought a new turntable, so I am back in business. I didn't want to be buying the same lps over and over as different CD configurations came about. So I use my lps and if I am on my computer I will open up one of the Beatles online radio/jukebox to listen to, and I have youtube if I want to see videos with the songs. Coupled with limited funds, I do not see me buying the new CD box in the next year.
Believe it or not I still have all of my "long sleeve" cd boxes. I will keep the old ones for my collection, being a completist. I plan on listening to them one at a time, since I have a 45 minute comute back and forth to work each way. Yeah,I will listen to them in order, then I will compare the '87 releases to these, and see how they match up! That should keep me busy...
I gave all of mine away to a friend who lost all his CDs and much of everything else he owned in a fire. He does not have the financial wherewithal to get the remasters soon, so I figure he needed the CDs more than I did.
Sold mine about 2 yrs ago, i was living in hope of the remasters then.
Believe it or not, I never bought the orig. CDs in '87. Once George made the comment in an interview that he didn't like the sound of the CDs that was good enough for me not to buy them. The ONLY CD I have is the 30th Anniversary CD edition of The White Album. I continued to play my orig lps, until my turntable broke, but two years ago I bought a new turntable, so I am back in business. I didn't want to be buying the same lps over and over as different CD configurations came about. So I use my lps and if I am on my computer I will open up one of the Beatles online radio/jukebox to listen to, and I have youtube if I want to see videos with the songs. Coupled with limited funds, I do not see me buying the new CD box in the next year.
My post appeared again when I refreshed the page when I took my computer off sleep mode just now. Sorry.
I'm definitely keeping the first four. Don't know what I'm doing with the rest. Maybe I'll give 'em away to some young Beatles fan. I kept the Pepper long box because it had the cutouts. If the cutouts aren't represented in the stereo box set version of Pepper, then I'll probably still keep that longbox.
The bulk of them go to my step daughters now, who we've succesfully brainwashed, er, introduced the Beatles music to.
I'll probally toss them or give them away if anybody wants them.I just have LET IT BE & SGT.PEPPER.
I will keep all of my Beatles CD's just like I have kept all of my Beatle vinyl.
My 1987 CDs will go into my Box of Vision :)
I already sold mine to Zia records to help me pay for the new ones! They're not cheap you know.
They will make for good coasters.
Actually, if you don't get the mono box set, you should keep the first 6 cds, since the original "Help" and "Rubber Soul" cds were remixed by George Martin in the late '80s. The remastered stereo cds will be the original 1965 mixes. The remixes will only be available in the mono box set.
I bought "The Beatles Box of Vision" and stored all of my original CDs in there, along with all of the other CDs from the Red and Blue Albums up to LOVE (except for the Capitol Albums and the EP and CD Singles box sets, the CD maxi singles and the non-EMI releases (Tony Sheridan, etc). I still have all of my UK, US, and international vinyl (mostly LPs, as I generally purchased only non-LP singles or versions of singles).
Also, the George Martin remixes of "Help!" and "Rubber Soul" are on the stereo remasters. The original stereo mixes are added as bonuses to the new mono CDs.
Sold them 2 months ago for 100 CDN $
The new stereo set will cost me 233 $ CDN taxes included (I have been very lucky with my pre-oder deal...)
The net cost will 133 $
I'm keeping all my CD's, and I'll be replacing my family and friends' old CD's with the new ones. I'll just buy back their old ones and horde them. I also have all the long boxes too.
I sold them all on Half.com the week after the remasters were announced and got over 100.00. I paid 179 for my remasters at Amazon.
I may keep them. I don't know. I kept all the vinyl. Original copies and the reissues. I have great nostalgia for the vinyl and I love to look at the covers and feel the heavy cardboard in my hands. I never play them. They sound like elephants eating peanuts.
I'm almost sure I'll keep them.
They are part of the whole story of listening to the Beatles. Good or bad, they are Fab Four stuff and you cannot deny that. I'm sure that if were to get rid of them I'd regret because they belong to an innocent era when the whole CD thing was blooming. I don't think it'd be right to throw it all away.
I was just wondering how you all feel about the way the new Stereo remastered CDs slide into the digipacs?
I will probably transfer my CDs to jewel boxes as I don't want them scratched.
Having listened to an updated album, I actually prefer the original disc. Therefore, I will keep the originals.
probably I will keep them, people in Mexico doesn´t listen to the Beatles and it will be difficult to sell them, I got the mono box set so I will keep at least yellow submarine, abbey toad and let it be
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