how are you gonna buy the BEATLES remasters?

no "i wouldn't buy this shit?'

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i'm going to ride my segway over to ye olde record shoppe ... and shoplift them.

so do the individual CDs come with both mono and stereo versions? cuz if they don't that is some cheezy-ass greedy-ass shit right there.

I'm still trying to figure out what's the best deal, provided that I want to buy all the albums. I guess the mono box isn't going to be the complete set of albums?

Maybe my answer will be: in Rock Band?

yeah mono box is missing the three or so albums that were never in stereo. i say just include the stereo albums in the box, fuk!

never in mono, i mean

i think the regular CDs are just stereo versions

yeah if they included both the stereo and mono albums together in one package, I might just save up for that one. As it is, shit, maybe just a few individual albums here and there. Is the stereo box limited edition too? Because I won't be buying this for at least a year.

I may be wrong, but I think the mono box for some reason contains the original stereo mixes of the Help! and Rubber Soul records, while the stereo box contains the 1985 George Martin remixes for those two albums. To me, it seems crazy that those original stereo mixes are not in the stereo box, but I guess it must have made sense to somebody over there.

That mono box is significantly more expensive than the stereo, too. $230 vs. $180 on Amazon. Frankly, the Beatles should be giving this away for free as a show of goodwill.

I'd still like to know how limited the Mono box is.

Only 100 million to be printed. Buy it now!!!! Buy two!!!!!

10,000 in the U.S.

hand numbered by Lennon's ghost

Will buy the stereo box if I get hold of it quickly enough. Otherwise, individual CDs.

I dunno, I've got the mono LPs anyway.

I got the USA Capitol box sets, so that's the Stereo/Mono early ones.

I guess I can find the fillums someplace.

Can someone help a non-audiophile out with a (non-sarcastic) answer to this question: does remastering mean they are going to sound as great as the new mixes done for that "Love" soundtrack thing? Will remastering achieve that level of difference? Thanks in advance...

I'm not buying this fucking crap

Can someone help a non-audiophile out with a (non-sarcastic) answer to this question: does remastering mean they are going to sound as great as the new mixes done for that "Love" soundtrack thing? Will remastering achieve that level of difference? Thanks in advance...

― iago g., Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:00 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in short, yes.

and i guess i'm prolly the only one that's actually heard a lot of tracks due to playing the rock band game

Have bought all Beatles albums on CDs, have bought all albums as LPs (many as 2 copies), and my parents have bought multiple copies as well.

I'm stealing this shit.

^^^my feelings exactly

Mono box if I can scrape up the money.

i only buy beatles on 78

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/kirkland/266/btls/in/indp78-2.jpg

fuck you fortunecity

http://www.millersantiquesguide.com/uploads/expert_blog_images/114.JPG

i really would like a mono set, but i don't want to spend any money

stereo box looks nicer tho

Don't Apple have some big iTunes announcement the day before the release, or something?

Have bought all Beatles albums on CDs, have bought all albums as LPs (many as 2 copies), and my parents have bought multiple copies as well.

I'm stealing this shit.

^^this with a side order of "the mono box set is stupidly compiled and a rip-off"

one of many problems my former employer solved

I agree the mono box set is a ripoff. Now, luckily I don't need mono versions of songs that exist in stereo, so I don't have to get annoyed by that. I just ignore it, like I would anyways (and like I would have skipped the mono versions everytime if they had included them with the stereo versions).

Sucker that I am, I will probably eventually buy both, but I'm waiting until Barnes & Noble emails me one of those sweet sweet 20%-off-one-time coupons, which will combine nicely with the 10% off I already get for having a B&N membership card.

i will probably buy both as well, buying the mono one on the first day and the stereo one a bit later.

man i didn't even think of that as an option because that's fuckin crazy!

i would really like to sit down and do a taste test of mono remaster beatles/stereo remaster beatle before i make my decision

the mono one is limited so i feel i need to get that ASAP. plus i sold all my Beatles CD's just this year so i have cash that is burning a hole in my pocket.

I'm not bothered about the mono box at all, really - I've never heard these tunes in mono, and stereo's what I'm used to - but I'm also not really bothered about much pre-Rubber Soul, so I don't know about the stereo box either. I might just buy the five or so that I really care about straight off the bat, and then pick up other bits and bobs in time. The five I care about would be Revolver, The Beatles, Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour, and Past Masters, plus Sgt. Pepper if I'm feeling flush.

The ones I care about are the first four + Revolver and maybe Help, plus the Past Masters set. So I'd really like to hear the mono ones. Even the stereo ones should sound great: the Gold Beatles for Sale we talked about in the other Beatles remasters thread sounds amazing.

i've been following the steve hoffman audiophile forums since these were announced. they're up to now on the *THIRTEENTH* thread, each of which has had 1,000 posts each.
13,000 comments worth of debate and guessing about the sound, which will box be better, and how they will sound over 2 months and so far no one has heard a note.
it's been brilliant!

The SteveHoffman forum people are completely fucking batshit.

Now, luckily I don't need mono versions of songs that exist in stereo

See, here's the thing: The songs don't just "exist" that way. Some individual -- in this case George Martin and various engineers -- had to create them, and up until 1967 stereo recording and mixing was an afterthought, so the songs do not sound in stereo the way the band or the producer intended them to sound. The mono mixes do.

I realize I'm beating against a wall here, but it's just such a pig-ignorant thing to say.

pigs are smart

shows what you know

Yeah, but what do they know about a good mono mix? Huh?

"I'm stealing this shit."

Downloading compressed mp3 of a remaster is sonically counter productive innit?

Anyway--I'd love to hear these but would definitely prefer vinyl myself.

Frankly, the Beatles should be giving this away for free as a show of goodwill.

BWAH- HAH HA AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAH-HAHAHAHA-HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[big breath]

AH- HOOO! HOO-HOOOH-HOOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOOOOOOOOOUOAAAAAUGH- uh-HUAH- uh, oh, man! ouch,

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

this may be the first and last time i'll say this but Shakey Mo OTMFM

i'm buying both box sets because I'm a sucker, and I've waited long enough for these; the 87 cds, prior to sgt. pepper, sound fucking terrible, and I don't think the purple chick comps really sound all that great either. the mono versions of the albums are pretty great as well so it's good to get those on cd since I only have mp3s of most of them. I love my blue box vinyl set but it's not very convenient. the end.

the steve hoffman threads are basically 30k posts of people reiterating the same thing over and over to people who didn't read the earlier 10k posts

nope, it's Anthology stuff.

hmmm or maybe not? the Abbey Road one was 100% boring

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/08/beatles.rockband.bobsmeaton.transcript/index.html

I figured at the level of interest we all have, what possibly could those mini-docs have that is so earthshattering

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Good interview with Bob Smeaton. He's right that there is something striking visually interesting about the Beatles as if they are clearly a group, and part of it is the changes they go through together.

*clearly functioning as a group, rather than just four individuals brought together

leaving out the documentaries is meant to tempt those of us who chose the mono to get the stereo box as well.
There is no such thing as YouTube. There is no such thing as YouTube. There is no such...

yeah, you tube is amazing--someone just put up the stones cocksucker blues which i haven't seen in age

Just bought Abbey Road at Borders while on work/vacation in Chicago. Hope my Bose noise canceling headphones can do it justice. There are sleeping kids where I'm staying.

Damn it sounds at least as good as I expected. The separation of instruments and full-featured tonality is fantastic. More than satisfied. Coveting mono.

I voted 0 but I ended up buying 6 of them already.

I want to read some bad reviews so I don't feel like I NEED TO BUY ALL THIS BEATLES NOW!!!!

I'll give you a bad review: Mono Box is sold out.

I've decided on buying them one/two at a time, chronologically - got Please Please Me and With The Beatles yesterday after work. When I got home I put my '87 copies of both albums up on Amazon - both sold within a couple of hours, which was a pleasant surprise.

How much did you get for them? Did you 'fess up that they were the old ones?

About £5 each - yeah, they were listed as the old issues, not the remasters. I basically just matched whatever the lowest price was on there already. I might put some more up sooner rather than later - I'm assuming a lot of people will have had the same idea.

the mini documentaries include *some* but not all anthology material. they're all here in full as 1 long film if anyone wants to see the full thing too =
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ml584/The_Beatles_on_Record/
gives a pretty great introduction to the in-the-studio side of the story for kids who might not know all the ins and outs like us lot.

There were dozens of copies of the mono box at the first shop I stepped into. Seriously, though, they're going to reprint it

Currently BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only, but all BBC iPlayer Radio programmes are available to you.

Damn, not only do you Brits get to live in a normal country, you get the Beatles docs

How many of each box were made? Any ideas or educated guesses?

Mono was limited to 100,000 I think

i read somewhere it was 10,000 mono

Sorry, I think 10,000 is right actually.

Beatles Box Sets: Special Availability Message
While the mono box set will still remain a limited production item, it will no longer be limited to 10000 copies for the U.S. market, as originally reported ...
www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId... - Cached - Similar -

although amazon have now taken this down ha ha

I am pretty sure once the box set is deleted, the mono editions of the individual albums will eventually show up in the shops about a year later. Not that I care.

i think no way are they deleting it before christmas ~

mono box is 'sold out' but is being repressed in early october.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/07/AR2009090702147.html

pretty nice summation of the mono vs stereo argument for us non-audiophiles

sorry, mono OVER stereo

I have no problems stealing the box sets because they have refused to ship them in enough quantitites. I've checked 4 record stores in town to buy the Mono box and they're sold out. If the label want's to create this false market by under producing, then they can say goodbye to the $300 plus I was itching to drop on the Mono box. Fuck you Record Label, i'm never buying them now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/07/AR2009090702147.html

― iago g., Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:02 AM

thats exactly how i feel, people think "clarity!" because an instrument is now relegated to one eardrum. but i also understand the people that are used to the stereo mixes already or grew up with them and how going back to mono would sound weird to them

I was at Starbucks yesterday and I "helped myself" to a copy of Help.

been trying to find a flac mono torrent that works but not having much luck. i would buy them but i have them all on mono LP already and cant afford it.

titchy! the mono flacs = $0ul4££K as of this week.

Can't stress enough how easy it is to lift these from *bucks.

been trying to find a flac mono torrent that works but not having much luck. i would buy them but i have them all on mono LP already and cant afford it.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, September 14, 2009 11:26 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ditto,although I don't torrent or soseek.

*ahem* beatoasis on blogger *ahem*

*ahem* stereo and mono *ahem*

*ahem* blogspot not blogger *ahem*

oooh! (ta)

amazon in the uk is out of everything. not just the two boxes, every single one of the individual remasters is also out of stock.

ha, should've checked before posting that. last night they had nothing, this morning they have everything.

FYI, the minidocs are on youtube....they are almost completely useless

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/11/beatles-usb-drive-1.jpg

Following the September 9 (9-9-09) debut of The Beatles’ digitally re-mastered catalogue on CD, Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are pleased to announce the worldwide release of a limited edition of only 30,000 Beatles Stereo USB apples on December 7 (December 8 in North America).

The exquisitely crafted, apple-shaped USB drive is loaded with the critically acclaimed re-mastered audio for The Beatles’ 14 stereo titles, as well as all of the re-mastered CDs’ visual elements, including 13 mini-documentary films about the studio albums, replicated original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes.

A specially designed Flash interface has been installed, and the 16GB USB’s audio and visual contents will be provided in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats, fully compatible with PC and Mac.

£200.

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WANT (but maxed out due to both remasters box sets and Rockband.)

More interesting news:

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/11/beatles_vinyl_remasters_on_the.html

I managed to track down the latter half of the catalog starting with Help for about $10 each, and Past Masters 2CD at Best Buy for $12.99. I think I've spent enough, and will look for flac rips of the early ones in mono.

£9 for singles and £15 for doubles in HMV at the moment.

Woah those USB things are the coolest manifestation of the USB album thing I have ever seen!