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Digitally remastered versions of the Beatles' original albums are to be re-released on the same day.
The back catalogue, featuring all 12 Beatles albums plus Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters Vol I and II - which has been combined into a single album - will hit record shops on September 9, coinciding with the release of a Beatles video game.
Engineers at Abbey Road studios in London have spent four years painstakingly remastering 525 minutes of music from the original analogue tapes using state of the art technology alongside vintage studio equipment.
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iihkg8i-l13HjyG4c-ZnUrGevuOQ
So here's what it is, exactly:
- Remastered stereo for all albums, released individually, plus the US Magical Mystery Tour, plus Past Masters 1 & 2. Help! and Rubber Soul will be the late-80s remixes here.
- Boxed set of the above.
- Boxed set of all the mono mixes (will not include Abbey Road or Let it Be, which didn't have mono mixes. It'll be interesting to see if they release Yellow Submarine with the unreleased mono mix or the "official" mono mix that's just a fold-down of the stereo.) - the mono versions of Help! and Rubber Soul will also include (on the same disc) the original 60s stereo mixes. This boxed set will also include a Past Masters-style collection of all the non-album tracks that were mixed in mono.
My only complaint is that it seems that in order to have the complete collection the way I want it, I'd need to get the mono box set, plus buy Abbey Road, Let it Be and Past Masters 1 & 2 separately (assuming the stereo-only tracks of PM aren't included in the mono set).
I'm interested to see if these sound any better than the Dr. Ebbetts bootlegs I have, which sound absolutely perfect. Modern remasters tend to be, for lack of a better word, terrible (with the notable exception of much of the Rolling Stones' remasters, but not all of them), so we'll have to see how this set turns out.
I'm also curious if Let it Be... Naked will be included in place of the original version. I sure as hell hope not.
And to anyone who's never heard the mono mixes of Help! through The Beatles (White album), you need to. They're far, far, far superior to the stereo mixes, especially Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and the White album. (Please Please Me through Beatles for Sale were released in mono on CD in the 80s, so the stereo versions of those will be the new ones.)
And yeah, the new game is a Beatles Rock Band game.
So more Royalties for Michael then huh?
The back catalogue, featuring all 12 Beatles albums plus Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters Vol I and II - which has been combined into a single album - will hit record shops on September 9, coinciding with the release of a Beatles video game.
Engineers at Abbey Road studios in London have spent four years painstakingly remastering 525 minutes of music from the original analogue tapes using state of the art technology alongside vintage studio equipment.
Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iihkg8i-l13HjyG4c-ZnUrGevuOQ
So here's what it is, exactly:
- Remastered stereo for all albums, released individually, plus the US Magical Mystery Tour, plus Past Masters 1 & 2. Help! and Rubber Soul will be the late-80s remixes here.
- Boxed set of the above.
- Boxed set of all the mono mixes (will not include Abbey Road or Let it Be, which didn't have mono mixes. It'll be interesting to see if they release Yellow Submarine with the unreleased mono mix or the "official" mono mix that's just a fold-down of the stereo.) - the mono versions of Help! and Rubber Soul will also include (on the same disc) the original 60s stereo mixes. This boxed set will also include a Past Masters-style collection of all the non-album tracks that were mixed in mono.
My only complaint is that it seems that in order to have the complete collection the way I want it, I'd need to get the mono box set, plus buy Abbey Road, Let it Be and Past Masters 1 & 2 separately (assuming the stereo-only tracks of PM aren't included in the mono set).
I'm interested to see if these sound any better than the Dr. Ebbetts bootlegs I have, which sound absolutely perfect. Modern remasters tend to be, for lack of a better word, terrible (with the notable exception of much of the Rolling Stones' remasters, but not all of them), so we'll have to see how this set turns out.
I'm also curious if Let it Be... Naked will be included in place of the original version. I sure as hell hope not.
And to anyone who's never heard the mono mixes of Help! through The Beatles (White album), you need to. They're far, far, far superior to the stereo mixes, especially Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and the White album. (Please Please Me through Beatles for Sale were released in mono on CD in the 80s, so the stereo versions of those will be the new ones.)
And yeah, the new game is a Beatles Rock Band game.
So more Royalties for Michael then huh?
