Remastered Beatles!

isofa

Not really sure you are getting to get the quality buying the MP3 versions!

The critics are raving about the quality from the CDs...

kwikbreaks

I find this incredibly sad.

When I was but a callow youth and this music was first produced I may well have appreciated the better quality.

Now I am older with cloth ears and will probably not be able to notice the difference.

harryharp

I would love some feedback on the new stereo release (out today!) if anyone has bought it.

buglawton

Exactly which remastered albums have been released today?

a) I like to listen to 1 full Beatles album once every 6 months (probably due overexposure on the radio over the years).

b) Also I'd very much like to purchase individual tracks to make up a unique album.

for (a) Beatles CDs are far too expensive
for (b) I assume that iTumes or Amazon dwnloads don't exist yet?

harryharp

Here's a link about the Remasters (being released today 09/09/09): http://www.beatles.com/#/news/The_Beatles_Remastered2/

You can get box sets and also buy the individual albums.

Marty_J

harryharp wrote: »

I would love some feedback on the new stereo release (out today!) if anyone has bought it.

They sound fabulous. I'm hearing little things I've never heard before, and I must have heard every Beatles song at least 1,000 times.

Paul McCartney even played the bass guitar on some of them!

Who knew?

harryharp

Marty_J wrote: »

They sound fabulous. I'm hearing little things I've never heard before, and I must have heard every Beatles song at least 1,000 times.

Paul McCartney even played the bass guitar on some of them!

Who knew?

Thanks for the feedback! And is that definitely the stereo one you got, not the mono?

I didn't know Paul played the bass guitar until I saw the recent documentaries on BBC2 where he seemed to be playing it all the time in the early days. Who played it later on then?

Marty_J

harryharp wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback! And is that definitely the stereo one you got, not the mono?

Yes, it's the stereo. I really want to get the mono though; IMHO their earlier albums sound much better in mono. From Sgt Pepper's onwards though, it's a toss-up as to which version is better.

I didn't know Paul played the bass guitar until I saw the recent documentaries on BBC2 where he seemed to be playing it all the time in the early days. Who played it later on then?

Paul played the bass guitar all the time (though he also played guitar on some tracks, and piano of course). I was just joking that one can actually hear it now! :cool:

harryharp

Haha...OK Marty I'm not very good with irony:)

I ordered Please Please me, Help, Hard Day's Night, Revolver and Rubber Soul on stereo...hope I made the right decision. I like the Beatles but I'm not quite aficionado enough to buy the mono version as well!!

Marty_J

harryharp wrote: »

I ordered Please Please me, Help, Hard Day's Night, Revolver and Rubber Soul on stereo...hope I made the right decision. I like the Beatles but I'm not quite aficionado enough to buy the mono version as well!!

They all sound wonderful, so I don't think you'll be disappointed.