I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

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What's the hold up? Does anybody have any information?

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

up to where?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

I still listen to old LPs. Are the currently in print CD versions that horrible (and, if so, why not just buy them on vinyl)?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's paul's fault. bless him.

but yeah you're right it takes the fckng p-ss doesn't it?

latest word is that magical mystery tour is coming out on dvd with all sorts of extra stuff. as if the actual movie isn't like 1 big 'extra' already.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

"it's paul's fault"

What isn't, really?

OK, why is it Paul's fault?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

well i mean it must be paul/ EMI's dithering and arsing around that's to blame, the other fabs are either
a) dead or b) couldnt *really* care less.

maybe it's a question of who's up to the job, george martin sure as heck isn't. god don't let them get ELO=guy in again.

meanwhile, this ere beatles 10-dvd anthology unofficial bootleg edition can be yours for $150 :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-BEATLES-Anthology-Directors-Cut-Real-10-DVDs_W0QQitemZ6430061859QQcategoryZ617QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

must say i'm tempted

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

Well, there was that first-five-American-Beatles-albums-before-the-band-demanded-UK-US-consistency-in-the-tracklistings box set which was some sort of start...although the purist in me rather just have proper remasters/issues of the original British albums/track listings w/ the surrounding singles as bonus tracks.

That said, Macca, Ono, the Harrison family, and Da Ringosta can take their time settling this. I plan to finally digitize and sell off the CDs while I can get 'em for at least $4+ each back.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 23:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

Looks like it's coming:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,70658-0.html?tw=rss.index

― Brakhage (brakhage), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Vague but sort of promising, I guess. The catalog does need CD remastering, badly, as the in-print CDs (except Let It Be Naked, and maybe that Yellow Submarine "songtrack" from a few years ago?) are all from that late-80s batch of early-generation CDs that gave CDs such a bad name. Mind you, I do think it's a wasted opportunity if they don't take the chance to delete Past Masters and Anthology, and just put all the singles and bonus stuff on second discs packed with the remasters...

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

"I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters," he said in a written statement submitted to the High Court in London earlier this month.

But it's not wrong to continue to sell them on cd?

Agree re Past Masters/Anthology but they're such cash cows that they're not going to do it.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

god remember the whole "anthology" phenomenon? those were awful.

― amateurist0, Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

I like the Past Masters CDs. Don't like the idea of Beatle albums being treated as mere collections of electronic data stuffed onto a compact disc. The problem, of course, is that CDs are too expensive. (Solution: buy old LPs.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

I kind of like the anthologies sets, too, especially the first one.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, the anthologies are great. Second one for me, though.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

A good thing about the "anthologies" is they are a good depository for the alternate mixes/takes etc., which--let's be realistic here--most people really don't want to hear (or have piggy-backed onto pricey new editions).

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

George isn't around to veto the inclusion of 'Carnival of Light' this time round.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

there is no reason to put the singles and alternate takes on the albums. if they just follow the capitol box model and do mono and stereo mixes of the albums (with better packaging of course) that will suffice.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

I vote for Badmotorscooter.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

How in the hell...Am I wasted?

Ah yes, the Beatles. I say buy the albums.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

The Past Masters comps on their own are fine - I think I'd rather listen to the first one than anything up to Revolver at least. If they are to re-issue the lot, The White Album is going to need a box set all to itself.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Thursday, 13 April 2006 20:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'm sure Paul will get it out all again eventually so he can ramp the price up to another ridiculous extreme. And turn himself up in the remastering process.

It would be nice if they released the red and blue anthologies so that they were in modern slimline 2CD cases rather than the FUCKING MASSIVE and HORRIBLE ones that they are in now.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 13 April 2006 21:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

And in the case of the Red album, compiled on to a single, less overpriced, CD - the total running time of the 2CD set is just over 60mins. The asking price of £20-£30 is a piss take.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

which--let's be realistic here--most people really don't want to hear (or have piggy-backed onto pricey new editions)

Are the people not interested in paying for pricey new editions of things really the target market for remastered versions of CDs that are available in droves in used CD stores the world over?

Seriously, I don't see what's so much better (and less cash-cow-ish) about retaining Past Masters and Anthology. OK, so it's kind of cool to have all the singles in one place, but it also robs them of context AND presents a somewhat confusing picture for buyers, who can't figure out which album it is that has "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on it. The PM sets are also really oddly-balanced, anyway - not quite a greatest hits, not quite an odds-and-sods. The Anthologies are just plain obnoxious, especially the first one with all the talky-talky bits.

I guess I'm just coming from a perspective where, if they just remaster the CDs I'll take a pass because I have the LPs already. But if they sweeten the deal I just might think it over, at least for a couple, assuming they went ahead and added more outtake/live stuff. Granted, they would still be kind of weirdly-sequenced albums with one or two singles at the front followed by a bunch of obscurities.... okay, maybe keep Past Masters after all. But I REALLY think it makes more sense to get the unreleased and live material wedded on to the appropriate albums - if nothing else, it means getting MORE of it, right?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

"turn himself up in the remastering process"

What is an example where he has ever done this?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

Firstly, as any fule kno, Beatles CDs are not very common 2nd hand, except for the Anthologies and the BBC thing.

Secondly, Paul has little need to turn himself up anyway. He took a lot of care, recording his bass lines on a single track and spent ages getting the sound right. Why not? It's his friggin songs for fuxake!

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

wow I had no idea the Anthologies were so hated. I only have the 2nd and 3rd ones and think they're fantastic - where else would I hear this stuff? Surely its the highest quality source for "What's the New Mary Jane" or "You Know My Name Look Up the Number" and a host of other rarities.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

I don't understand it either. Maybe it's just too much Beatles for some people? I've only got a couple of tiny quibbles with them and it's usually just those times when it gets a bit self-indulgent, like those different version of the Fool On The Hill. Paul is obviously so proud of them but I just can't take it.

― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:31 (4 years ago) Permalink

ppl just like to complain about the beatles, i guess.

anthology 2 is the best, what with the stoned cracking-up version of and your bird can sing and the gorgeous demos of strawberry fields. 3 is good for the white album stuff, and 1 is probably the only time any americans (me included) will ever hear any morecambe and wise.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

"as any fule kno, Beatles CDs are not very common 2nd hand, except for the Anthologies and the BBC thing."

Well, they are getting slightly more plentiful. In fact, I got most of my collection used. But, then again, I've been lucky. The worst thing about used Beatle cds is that stores priced higher than average (i.e. in the US 10-12 dollars vs. 7-9). Shopping around helps, and the prices have leveled off (and no doubt will continue)

I will concur regarding the Anthologies and the BBC, but--to cite my earlier post--alot of the people who bought them probably realized that they didn't listen to them as much as the regular LPs.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

The live stuff at the end of disc 1 and the beginning of disc 2 of Anthology 1 is really cool.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's paul's fault. bless him.

Neil Aspinall is probably the one to blame.

Anyway, seems like some good news is finally coming up.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

Man, I'm not hating on any of the contents of the Anthologies (aside from, again, the talky stuff on Anth1) - I LOVE the music on those discs, the glimpses into the recording studio, etc. And when I was 16 me and my Beatle buddy developed a substantial secret language out of the miscellaneous bits of studio chatter. "Sugar plum fairy, sugar plum fairy..."

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

Vague but sort of promising, I guess. The catalog does need CD remastering, badly, as the in-print CDs (except Let It Be Naked, and maybe that Yellow Submarine "songtrack" from a few years ago?) are all from that late-80s batch of early-generation CDs that gave CDs such a bad name.

While I agree that they need remastering, I don't neccessarily agree with your version of what they sounded like. The first four, sure, but the rest, particularly from "Sgt. Pepper" onwards, used state of the art remastering technology at the time, and sounded really impressive back then.

Only this is 20 years ago and a lot has happened since then.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

the Pepper cd sounds horrible against the vinyl version. The White Album stacks up ok but I got the 30th anniversary reissue not the original cd.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

abby road still sounds really good. I'm sure a remastering will make it sound better but I listened to it yesterday carefully with headphones and was pretty blown away by how good it sounded.

I think the Anthologies are a pretty good distillation of the best stuff that makes up the two major bootleg series (ultra rare trax and, uh, whatever the other one is called; they have most of the same stuff on them). I could do w/out the talking on the first cd.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

The Beatles are really smart to make people wait for every new issue. Keeps the interest up. When they are finally remastered it'll probably be on the cover of Time.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

I assumed it was just a question of having to sort out all manner of legalities before anything happened in the Beatle world.

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

What was interesting about the Anthology releases/phenomenon is that a lot of kids who were first getting into the band around that time all bought the Anthologies as if they were Greatest Hits Collections. I often see volumes of the Anthologies in people's collection as the only Beatles representation. "Just the b-sides, demos, and alternative takes for you eh?" They were hoodwinked!

― ryan_w, Friday, 14 April 2006 20:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

coincidentally (or perhaps not), michael jackson is also giving up his ownership of the publishing rights to sony this week, I think, to deal with some of his debt.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah i can imagine people getting suckered into the anthologies as some kind of definitive look at the beatles... that bluesy version of helter skelter is really wonderful. and the acoustic "across the universe".

xpost

― dave k, Friday, 14 April 2006 20:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'm pretty sure The White Album will always sound best on vinyl.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

Are there any Beatle albums that don't?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Okay, so in that case, why does there need to be such a rush to get them remastered?

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

I for one hear absolutely no difference.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i mean it does take the piss doesn't it?

― pisces, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 12:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

lo-lo-lo-looooots of piss, sir! :(

― t**t, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

I bought Help for £1 in a charity shop the other week. It was cheap because the cover was ripped (and taped up again) and the vinyl's a bit crackly, but it's not scratched at all. Even with the crackles it sounds great - a lot better than the CD versions, The Night Before especially gaining an awful lot of character and energy. I too am amazed there's no proper CD remaster, I guess because people are still buying the current shonky versions.

― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

This footage
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=compleat+beatles
of 'The Compleat Beatles' (snappy 1984 cheaply-made proto-ANTHOLOGY movie, shot on film and narrated by Malcolm Mcdowell) is
making me anticipate this happening all the more.

― pisces, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

It will happen before or since, but apparently at still takes time.

I expected they'd at least do "Sgt. Pepper" in June this year to coincide with its 40th anniversary, but they did't.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

But at least, with the current trend for remasters, the ultimate edition will be better. I hope they will do like The Bee Gees and Monkees remasters, and put out 2CDs with the stereo version + bonus tracks in stereo on one and the mono version + bonus tracks in mono on the other one.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:07 (2 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 1320 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I find it unlikely that Lennon's catalogue is possible to get to sound much better than the remasters a few years back did.

McCartney hasn't done the job since 1993, so probably a bit more to gain there, in terms of sound.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 20:45 (2 months ago) Permalink

in terms of brickwalling

― how much can a koala ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (sic), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 23:44 (2 months ago) Permalink

15 Apple Catalog lps to get remastered in October too

― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 16:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

Badfinger - Ass, and it's about fucking time!

― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 01:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

Haha, you said "Badfinger - Ass".

― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 02:00 (1 month ago) Permalink

That's all very nice, but Apple really should get to a Singles box set, with the rarities etcet.

That Frank Sinatra one, the Brute Force one, and so on...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 07:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

Bought the Mono box yesterday: It was an impostor box, all recordings in stereo, a couple jackets inside out/falling apart, CDs missing. Beware anything too cheap to be true--it probably is. I returned it okay, but am waiting on the real thing still.

― Pete Scholtes, Monday, 12 July 2010 06:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

How bizarre.

― Mark G, Monday, 12 July 2010 07:01 (1 month ago) Permalink

I still don't regret spending £150+ on that mono box.

unlike people who dropped £200+ on a plastic apple.

(I'd still be interested to hear those 24bit recordings though)

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 12 July 2010 11:58 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I tell you what!

That beatles mono box is going for around £50, consistently, on ebay.

Got one for meself (yesterday), obv it's not arrived yet.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 21:25 (1 month ago) Permalink

How about Stereo? I still want one of those...

― krakow, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:08 (1 month ago) Permalink

Amazon has some third-party mono boxes for $114.00 (USD). Doesn't seem too bad.

― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

I'd stress about getting something like that posted. But then I'm a sad fetish-object fawner.

― krakow, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:28 (1 month ago) Permalink

"Please, no don't mail it. I'll drive over. No, no, don't even touch it. I have gloves."

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:37 (1 month ago) Permalink

I still get a lot of joy out of the packaging of the mono box. Those little cds, packaged like little albums...it makes me smile every time I open it.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:38 (1 month ago) Permalink

xpost Haha, yeah, that's me.

― krakow, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 22:48 (1 month ago) Permalink

yeah, I'd wait to see it before celebrating...

people putting the mono box on Ebay with no starting price either have van loads to get rid of, or there are bootleg boxes going around.

I don't think we will see the +£200 scrambles of last year but seeing as they are all coming from the same seller, I'd be cautious.

let us know if it's kosher (which it should be coming from Muswell hill)

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:30 (1 month ago) Permalink

yeah i was all excited and a friend warned me he had gotten a cheap chinese bootleg of a season of the wire from ebay

― then an image appeared: a pizza pie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:44 (1 month ago) Permalink

I saw mono boxes in a store last week, guess they didn't sell out. $150 CDN.

― sofatruck, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

Mr Veg said they did a second run or something? That's how he got mine for me for Christmas. Because at first I was like, "DUDE. How did you GET this??" but it turned out you could still get them. Which didn't lessen it as a gift or anything (cough)... :)

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

Those mono boxes are still new on shelves at a few stores here...

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:10 (1 month ago) Permalink

I risked £75 for one on Amazon. It looks like new, beautifully packaged etc (other than ugly big black sticker all over the back of the box, but even that looks official). Have been working my way through it slowly, reached Revolver and there's a noticeable flutter on the disc. I've never had a cd that sounds like this - silence plays as silence, but sound is accompanied by something like a flag fluttering softly in the wind - and I don't really know who to complain to.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 06:48 (1 month ago) Permalink

The one I have, the 'sticker' is just a piece of paper, so you get rid of it and the whole box is a pristine white.

I'd compare your CD with some of the HQ mono rips on youtube... see if the flutter is there.

Or skip ahead and see if its on more than one disc....

Good to hear you are working through them chronologically, I was STRAIGHT into that white album.

then the next day a more measured approach..

oh an if anyones got 5 mins to kill.... http://bit.ly/dwXguc

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:49 (1 month ago) Permalink

49 out of 75 answered correctly in 8m:01s

Beatles IQ of 329.314

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

Latest:

auction cancelled by ebay. Moneys seized (in my favour)

and so on, and none

― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 17:48 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

:( Bummer, dude. But glad you didn't get hosed.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:43 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

I bought the real thing last weekend. This is quite the fetish object!

Beware cheap impostors on Amazon. One way to tell bootlegs (at least the one I got) from the real Mono Box:
__They aren't actually in mono.
__They don't have sealed plastic covers over each album.
__The discs inside are in square plastic sleeves, rather than next to paper sleeves and also plastic sleeves rounded at one end.
__Some of the album covers might be manufactured inside-out.
__The covers are smaller and the text on them unreadable.
__They don't include things like the poster for the White Album.

If you have a sticker directly on the box, it's probably a bootleg.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:20 (4 weeks ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Attention young ladies! Attention young ladies!

Yesterday I saw two copies of the Beatles mono box going for £100 in the HMV "clearout" sale.

(This was in Reading Oracle, Mark G. I don't know if they'll still be there.)

― PJ Miller, Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I'll 'ave a butchers.

― Mark G, Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

I don't have the link at hand right now, but adding to the 4th quarter "Apple Sloppy Seconds" reissue campaign is the remastered re-release of the Red & Blue comps.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Red_and_Blue_Albums_Remastered/

― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:38 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

what kind of stupid clearance sale tries to offload the mono box???

I'm sure HMV has space for 2 boxes, they can just get rid of the thousand of obsolete-at-time-of-printing Ibiza 2010 compilations.

at under £100, I'd almost entertain the notion of buying a 'spare'.

That would be crazy, wouldnt it?.......wouldn't it?

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Ooh, a fresh, hermetically sealed 'spare' untouched by human hands.

Good lord don't get me started.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Hm. My copy passes all of Pete's tests except for the big black sticker and, uh, the fact that I don't actually know if it's mono (I've only used the player with the speakers side by side!). I've heard that the booklet is likely to be either shoddy or missing too, and mine isn't. If it wasn't for Revolver still having that damn flutter...

My conclusion is basically that if this is a bootleg, it's so good it doesn't really matter. If the bootleg factory really is turning out copies with such crisp printing, beautiful colours, the Sgt Pepper cut-out moustache, etc. etc. they kind of deserve their ill-gotten gains.

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Interesting spiel on that Red and Blue reissues page says the reissues 'broke chart records'. Anyone know how the mono and stereo boxes and reissued albums actually sold? It felt that they kinda quietly underperformed in the end. Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide, or was that never gonna happen? I wonder which particular chart record they broke.

― piscesx, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Skip to the end of "Helter Skelter." The mono version doesn't have Ringo's "I got blisters on my fingers." The stereo version does.

I don't know about buying a spare Mono box, but I'm already considering getting the stereo box, to which my wife responded, "Isn't that a little excessive?" She's right. I'll get it in ten years when I literally have $200 to burn for the pretty light it gives off, and have already donated to several charities that year.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

> Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide,

wikipedia page about the red album has some stats for germany - 2M sold.

― koogs, Friday, 20 August 2010 08:29 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Another good mono test is headphones.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 August 2010 09:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

The space before the count in and Lennon's 'Bye' on the Sgt Pepper reprise is noticably longer on the mono version, if that helps.

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Friday, 20 August 2010 09:56 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Interesting spiel on that Red and Blue reissues page says the reissues 'broke chart records'. Anyone know how the mono and stereo boxes and reissued albums actually sold? It felt that they kinda quietly underperformed in the end. Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide, or was that never gonna happen? I wonder which particular chart record they broke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States


1973	The Beatles	1967–1970	Capitol		16× platinum 
1973	The Beatles	1962–1966	Capitol		15× platinum

Both sold less than Led Zep IV (23* platinum) which came out before them so I don't know what records they broke - maybe for compilations?

― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:40 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

oh wait I read that as the Red and Blue albums breaking records, sorry.

― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

mm yeah i was talking about da remasterz / boxes from last year. it'd be interesting to find out what say the top 3 reissues were saleswise for the individual albums. we've become used to the beatles breaking all sorts of records by now so i'm wondering what 'broke chart records' means in the context of that press spiel linked above.

― piscesx, Friday, 20 August 2010 11:33 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Mine is mono - no blisters. It looks like it's a genuine set with one annoying flaw then - no bootleg's ever been put together as well as this.

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 August 2010 12:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

“Okay - this is fine - any Beatles release is better than none. BUT: Magical Mystery Tour DVD? Let It Be DVD? Hollywood Bowl CD? Final Capitol Albums Box Set? I know that you need a release every christmas bit the 'Let It Be' movie hasn't been available since before I was born!”

Cosign.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 August 2010 12:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

And "The Beatles Christmas Album" (on Apple records, back in the day) as the final coda.

― Mark G, Friday, 20 August 2010 12:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Found some reissues sales stats here: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/ever-so-quick-beatles-question

― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

UK:

Mono Box 
Week one...........3,305 
Weeks one - four...4,896 
Total for 09.......7,534 
Total to date......7,781
Stereo Box 
Week one...........7,671
 Weeks one - four...11,804
 Total for 09.......27,524 
Total to date......28,611
Please Please Me 
Week one...........5,107 
Weeks one - four...11,989 
Total for 09.......27,395 
Total to date......29,922
With the Beatles
 Week one...........3,909
 Weeks one - four...8,863
 Total for 09.......22,360 
Total to date......24,329
A Hard Day's Night 
Week one...........5,529 
Weeks one - four...13,502
 Total for 09.......29,518 
Total to date......31,758
Beatles for Sale 
Week one...........3,390 
Weeks one - four...8,323 
Total for 09.......20,384
 Total to date......22,378
Help! 
Week one...........6,152
 Weeks one - four...15,492 
Total for 09.......31,180 
Total to date......33,491
Rubber Soul 
Week one...........13,202 
Weeks one - four...30,884 
Total for 09.......60,035 
Total to date......63,676
Revolver Week one...........14,567 
Weeks one - four...32,700
 Total for 09.......62,601
 Total to date......67,171
Pepper 
Week one...........17,830 
Weeks one - four...40,027
 Total for 09.......80,768 
Total to date......86,530
The Beatles 
Week one...........8,553
 Weeks one - four...19,899
 Total for 09.......50,431
 Total to date......54,175
Magical Mystery Tour
 Week one...........5,567 
Weeks one - four...13,407 
Total for 09.......29,269
 Total to date......31,914
Yellow Submarine 
Week one...........2,044 
Weeks one - four...5,240 
Total for 09.......12,437
 Total to date......13,571
Abbey Road
 Week one...........16,507
 Weeks one - four...37,372 
Total for 09.......72,791 
Total to date......79,849
Let it Be 
Week one...........3,992 
Weeks one - four...9,452 
Total for 09.......24,653
 Total to date......27,065
Past Masters
 Week one...........5,748 
Weeks one - four...13,407 
Total for 09.......21,832 
Total to date......27,065

US:

1. Abbey Road, 272,220 
2 Sgt Peppers: 211,856 
3 The Beatles (White Album): 203,452 
4 Rubber Soul: 160,642
 5 Revolver: 138,380 
6 Past Masters: 111,184
 7 Help!: 106,568 
8 Let It Be: 98,599
 9 Magical Mystery Tour: 96,081
 10 A Hard Day's Night: 93,245 
11 Please Please Me: 73,489
 12 With The Beatles: 67,405 
13 Beatles For Sale: 64,373
 14 Yellow Submarine: 46,460
'The Beatles' stereo box set (16 CDs + DVD) 112,564
 'The Beatles in Mono' mono box set (13 CDs) 38,219

― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

Abbey road considerably outselling Pepper in the US, but not in the UK.

pseudo limited edition blurring the figures for the Mono box.

Good to see they kept the plastic apple USB sales out of this

anyone know if the Mono really is limited or was that just the initial idea before Apple inc realised how much money could be made off it.

cause if it is limited, HMV have no right putting that in a clearance sale.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

White Album is also considerably less popular with Britishers than Americans it seems.

― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

MMT needs more love, IMO

listen to "Flying", "Blue Jay Way"

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 August 2010 01:55 (1 week ago) Permalink

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