Here are new pictures of the Beatles remastered boxed sets. Ten of the individual CDs are pictured in the slideshow below. Included are pictures of "Past Masters," "Yellow Submarine," "Magical Mystery Tour," and "Help!," which, if memory serves, have not been seen before. (Thanks to Jose.)
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So they got "Magical Mystery Tour" artwork right - with the original Capitol rainbow label (it was a Capitol, NOT a Parlophone, release, originally). Hope they DID NOT go back to the Duophonic mixes on the original album. Also, hope they corrected the indexing errors on the White Album (the intros to "Bungalow Bill," ""Don't Pass Me By," and "Revolution 9" are at the end of "Wild Honey Pie," "Rocky Raccoon," and "Cry Baby Cry" when these tracks are played separately). Also hope they put a 15-second band of silence on "Abbey Road" between "I Want You (She's So Heavy) and "Here Comes the Sun", to recreate the sudden cut-off of the former at the end of Side One. Finally, as I mentioned in the earlier post, may the new "Past Masters" have the stereo mixes of the German tracks (the monos are on "Mono Masters." Based on Allan Rouse's comments, "Only A Northern Song" on "Yellow Submarine" is probably fake stereo, and "You Know My Name" on PM is probably mono.
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Love these old vinyl labels. And yes, the Capitol label is the right one for Magical Mystery tour. I wonder, if they use the 1980's Parlophone label on Past Masters.
Just a thought for Steve Ryan...why would they have "You Know My name..." on both the Stereo and Mono sets if they were just replicating the same mix? For example; I'm assuming where "She Loves You" is replicated on both Past Masters that the stereo Past Masters will feature the faux stereo of the mono as a point of difference. Perhaps a stereo mix of the standard edit of "You Know my Name..." was done at the time of Anthology? We do after all accept as part of the legitimate catalogue stereo mixes of other Beatle favourites done post Beatle break up (i.e Rain, Lady Madonna...) Just a thought...!
The same applies for Only a Northern Song and I am the Walrus. The former was available only mono until the Yellow submarine songtrack. The second half of the I am the Walrus was a fake stereo until the Anthology videos and Love, where one could hear the song entirely in Stereo.
I'd love to hear these two in stereo on the remasters, but I'm afraid they won't make the exceptio with these tracks, as they have pointed out that no remixing has been to the original master tapes.
Where's Let it Be in the slideshow?
What is the advantage of getting the box set as opposed to buying the individual CD's? The CD store I intend to buy this from is listing the single CD's for $11.88, and the White Album and Past Masters for $17.88. The box is going for $199.00. Simple math shows buying the individual CD's being much less expensive (esp. if I don't buy YELLOW SUBMARINE).
Is the box coming with extra stuff?
More photos please!!!!!!! Fantastic and unreleased....
Thanks a lot,
JB
(Thanks to Jose.)
Who is Jose, from EMI?
Very nice indeed, but I won't be buying.
I have recently been listening to my Beatles CD's (ripped to mp3 and on my iPod). And I have determined that they sound very good indeed and will not be forking over more money for music that I already have. I heard some clips of the Remasters and IMHO they do not sound that much better.
While people may flame me for that opinion, but that is just how I feel.
jfalkens says:
Very nice indeed, but I won't be buying.
You will be losing then... There is no comparison between the old and the contemporary releases. Plus, you have now the more than decent album packages which cannot be the original LPs but it's the kind of thing the collectors have been waiting for ages.
Claudio Dirani says:
You have now the more than decent album packages which cannot be the original LPs but it's the kind of thing the collectors have been waiting for ages.
Perhaps, but the original LPs on Parlophone/Apple/Capitol (Couple of exceptions, though IE. Sgt.Peppers, White Album, Magical Mystery tour) all had crappy packaging... Front, Back, inner sleeve with some advertisements. And the pictures that are included are nothing new, just more. I'm sure you won't be pulling them out 6+months from now to look at pictures that you've already seen.
With the exception of the The Beatles' Capitol Albums 1 & 2 CDs (IMO are fantastic), the new ones are my LEAST listened to. Let It Be Naked ... rarely listened to and the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, again, rarely listened to.
And the mini documentaries, are from what I've seen are just rehashes of Anthology items and other interviews with some nice Photo-Shopped 3D renderings of photos which I've already seen.
one last comment,
The packaging of the CDs are NOT recreations of original LPs If they were, the Box Set version of Let It Be PSX1 should have been recreated too. But wait, that may have cost $5 more to manufacture and Paul, Ringo, Olivia, and Yoko would have been shorted each $1.25 per package. Nah, they would just pass the cost on to the people buying it.
Green apple for LET IT BE?
Green apple for LET IT BE?
Yes, not RED!!!!!!!
John Lucas Bush says:
Green apple for LET IT BE?
Yes, not RED!!!!!!!
that does it - I'm not buying it. everyone knows the red label sounds better.
Green apple for LET IT BE?
Yes, not RED!!!!!!!
Where did you get Green Apple for Let It Be from? It's not in the slide show!
The stereo packages have a white side that is annoying.
The mono mini sleeves doesn´t have that, and they look neat.
The stereo packages have a white/black thing over the cover left side, that is annoying.
The mono mini sleeves doesn´t have that, and they look neat.
You can see how observant I am. I thought the slideshow had all the albums except for Let it Be. That also may reflect the fact that Let it Be is one of my favorites. (How many hours of outtakes are there for that album.)
And I would prefer the red apple.
I was the first one to post a comment this morning and it has been deleted! The slideshow that shows "Let it Be" with the green apple is on the other slideshow, there are of course many slideshows as news updates change by the minute....anyway my tongue was firmly planted in cheek but I thought it was a sincere comment that for 100% accuracy sake the "Let It Be" CD should have a red apple as originally issued. Now if this post gets myseriously deleted, I would sincerely like to know why????
The British version of Let It Be ALWAYS had a green Apple. Even thought first printings of the cover had a red Apple logo on back, the label was dark green. (The ones in PSX-1 Boxed set of FIRST PRESSING Let It Be records was the red apple cover, like I said, it did have the GREEN Apple label.)
Thank you, if the british version of "Let It Be" did indeed have a green apple, then since these follow the british versions than I stand corrected.....thank you for the information....still would like to know what happened to my original post?
You can see how observant I am. I thought the slideshow had all the albums except for Let it Be. That also may reflect the fact that Let it Be is one of my favorites. (How many hours of outtakes are there for that album.)
And I would prefer the red apple.
Yes, the english may have had a green apple, same old, same old label on Let it be, but the RED apple on the american Let it be (and in truth the more common label world wide,(sales) is much more cooler appearing. IMO we are talking the record and not the CD. Of course georges rotten apple and ringos blue apple were cool too.
Something strange in the posting today, Paul. I posted a comment and then 36 minutes later the same comment posted again. I didn't know you could do that if you tried, short of retyping the comment (or copying it before you post it and pasting it in a new field).
We had a red apple on our copy in the 70's (US). It was a gatefold jacket but no book. I thought it was cool, the last Beatle album and all.
Something strange in the posting today, Paul. I posted a comment and then 36 minutes later the same comment posted again. I didn't know you could do that if you tried, short of retyping the comment (or copying it before you post it and pasting it in a new field).
We had a red apple on our copy in the 70's (US). It was a gatefold jacket but no book. I thought it was cool, the last Beatle album and all.
The reason that the US had the cheapo gatefold instead of the box set is because United Artists (who distributed Let It Be) refused to do it.
Remember, Let It Be was out of print for a few years in the US during the Mid-late 1970s because of the GREAT United Artists distribution. (A lot of Bootlegs were in stores, though).
In Canada, they got the box set with book, as did most of the rest of the world.
Paul: The site has had some internal problems today. Your comment wasn't deleted by me.
Something strange in the posting today, Paul. I posted a comment and then 36 minutes later the same comment posted again. I didn't know you could do that if you tried, short of retyping the comment (or copying it before you post it and pasting it in a new field).
We had a red apple on our copy in the 70's (US). It was a gatefold jacket but no book. I thought it was cool, the last Beatle album and all.
We had a red apple on our copy in the 70's (US). It was a gatefold jacket but no book. Wait, I've aready said this.
Like Paul might say, "It was the bloody Let it Be album, forget about it.' We got the red apple, I didn't feel cheated.
I saw a photo of the dvd mini documentary disc, and its got a red apple lable.
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