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

9-9-2009 has a good ring to it.

"One After 909"

har, nytimes is calling for the release of the 27-minute "Helter Skelter".

b/w 33 minute version of Heroes & Villains

BRING IT ON

how much you wanna bet the promotion of these reissues is accompanied by Sir Paul dropping tantalizing hints about all the unreleased shit the COULD be releasing, but aren't.

god I hope Ringo outlives Paul

they could ... oops

That's one of the cool things about being in a band...you get to decide what you want to release.

Presumably, this time round a decent Stereo mix will happen.

There's a limit as to how much you can actually do with two tracks. But I guess instruments in the middle and vocals in left or right would be better than the radical two track sound. This only goes for the first two albums anyway, as they used four tracks from "A Hard Day's Night" onwards, and that record sounds great in stereo the way it is.

basically the recordings were mixed to be mono, and stereo versions were made artificially after the fact and sort of clumsily. i've heard that the mono mix of sgt pepper is the one that was really slaved over and the stereo mix which we are more familiar with were thrown together

Other sources claim that "Sgt. Pepper" was actually the first album where they guys put as much into the stereo mix as the mono mix. For instance, the panning lead vocals on "A Day In The Life" were definitely not something George Martin or Geoff Emerick came up with alone on a quiet and boring day in the studio.

gah quicktime files?? is this 1993 year of CD-ROMs or something?

and as for vinyl, the new vinyl copies out there sound pretty good if you ask me but i've been listening to the dreaded CDs all my life so it all could be relative..

For instance, the panning lead vocals on "A Day In The Life" were definitely not something George Martin or Geoff Emerick came up with alone on a quiet and boring day in the studio.

Sure they could have. It was their job!

I'm not shelling out for CDs. Vinyl, maybe. Way to totally blow it you fucking idiots.

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seriously, they're going to lose so much money on this

From a buddy to me:

"A promising post from [name redacted], a very old-skool beatleg critic who knows his audiophile stuff and is pretty curmudgeonly about everything - he's been sent some samples of Pepper stereo tracks so he can share his opinion of them:

>>I'm listening to the samples again. Right now. As I'm typing this.

Look: this is the best (stereo) copy of the Pepper album I've ever heard (a portion of). It's the UHQR on steroids. Another shining example: Paul's "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" at the beginning of Lovely Rita is just... ethereal. It breathes. It's ALIVE. It's not like you're standing in the studio with him, but only because if you were his voice would be coming from straight in front of you and not transitioning across your ears like he were floating by on a cloud.

There are voices and sounds that were buried in the mix and inaudible during A Day In The Life that I can now hear clear as day.

This is like having hundreds of years of grunge cleaned off the ceiling of the Sistene Chapel.

Fuck it, guys, I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. <<

Wow. I guess I should just put aside a mason jar with a slot in the top...someone more mathematically inclined do that math on how much per day is needed to stash in order to get the whole catalogue on 9/9....

Yeah, I'm wondering how much those boxes will be going for. You know, get the catalogue in one fell swoop as opposed to drawing it out over 9 years like last time.

they'll probably be bargain-priced ... :P

Bargain priced at $21.99....times fourteen...divided by food and clothing

whoa, each CD is $21.99? They're just one disc right?

That was guesswork...remember they'll be fleshed out w/ "mini-documentaries"

I think that was a figure pulled out of thin air. Personally, I'm hoping for the big box stores to slap a huge loss-leader price on these for first week of release.

If the Beatles lost money on this, that would be a first.

so wait, am i saving up for the mono version or the stereo version?

hopefully, some kind of deal with Target and Walmart can be worked out here.

i'm kidding, but almost wouldn't be surprised ...

I was thinking more of the way B3st Buy drops new releases to ridiculous prices (comparatively anyway) for the first week of sale.

If they can find some way to keep the boxes under $100, they'll sell like crazy, recession or no

Free Dr. Pepper, BEST BUY only.

Plus a free copy of Chinese Democracy (gotta move 'em somehow)!

under $100 i'd seriously consider shelling out for. but yeah, mono or stereo? HMMM

probably should be a poll when we have more details

After some digging, I've found that the old box listed for $ 329.98 US ($20.62 per disc). For the extra jing, you got a nice storage case and IIRC, Sgt. Pepper came in a slipcase.

It looks like it came with a book too.

http://www.thisnext.com/media/230x230/The-Beatles-Multiselection-Box_D503CFA2-classic-yellow.jpg

huh! never even heard of that. it came out when all the original CD editions came out? kind of a ripoff, though, right?

Pretty sure that's for sale in a record shop in Cardiff. I've seen it on the shelf behind the counter.

I'm buying mono copies through Magical Mystery Tour & stereo from White Album on

My school library had that box

i think the monos are only gonna be in a box set, Milton

yeah, that would make sense, but the beatle expert dude upthread raving about the Sgt. Pepper in stereo is giving me doubts. Help! xxpost

ooh srsly? dang.

about the monos only being in boxset form.

I don't want the whole catalogue, just Rubber Soul onwards, I think. And probably not Let It Be, either, at least not at the outset.

Let It Be is the only one I could do without

interested in the new stereo remasters for peppers & MMT, but I guess I'm buying the mono box then.

were there even mono mixes of Abbey Road & Let It Be?

Saying that though, I'm listening to it (Let It Be) right now and I'd forgotten how good a lot of it is. It's probably my least listened-to Beatles album.

yeah, after going through a nitpicky stage about the Beatles, i decided that all Beatles albums are pretty great. Even the less-great ones.

haha, just thought I'd bring everyone the breaking news that the Beatles are great.

Thank you!