Beatles box set coming Nov. 16

Anyone else find it odd that it's the U.S. LP releases? I thought the UK releases were the definitive ones, with no tracks missing, and that's why they were released internationally on CD that way. I look forward to the music being remastered, but won't we be missing some key tracks off these new albums or am I mistaken? I'm relatively young and only grew up with the UK CDs!

JEFF!

 

You guys all have your panties in a bunch and there hasn't even been an official press release or even a picture of the box.

 

One thing that is somewhat certain, Ted Jensen did the mastering. Select his current projects.

http://www.sterling-sound.com/home/engineers/eng_info?&tp[1]=curTitle&contact_id=102

 

At this point I'm just fearing the worst.

 

Check this link out Beatles Capitol Box Set , it says there, among other info:

"Each CD will be remastered using 24 bit.

Each cd will have the MONO and STEREO versions.

70 page Booklet.

50.00 list."

Might actually be worth it, but then again it's all in the mastering.

 

That's encouraging. Format is listed as stereo.
It lists Early, Meet, and Something new.....what is the fourth?

 

Here's the track list - same as the original vinyl - courtesy of
CD Wow!

CD 1: [Meet The Beatles]
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
It Won't Be Long
All I've Got To Do
All My Loving
Don't Bother me
Little Child
Till There Was You
Hold Me Tight
I Wanna Be Your Man
Not A Second Time

CD 2: [The Beatles Second Album]
Roll Over Beethoven
Thank You Girl
You Really Got A Hold On Me
Devil In Her Heart
Money
You Can't Do That
Long Tall Sally
I Call Your Name
Please Mr. Postman
I'll Get You
She Loves You

CD 3: [Something New]
I'll Cry Instead
Things We Said Today
Any Time At All
When I Get Home
Slow Down
Matchbox
Tell Me Why
And I Love Her
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
If I Fell
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Wanna Hold Your Hand)

CD 4: [Beatles '65]
No Reply
I'm A Loser
Baby's In Black
Rock 'N' Roll Music
I'll Follow The Sun
Mr. Moonlight
Hondy Don't
I'll Be Back
She's A Woman
I Feel Fine
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

GM

 

Just realized some of these could be in the reported "Vol. 2"...

 

$50 list? Apparently not.

 

...actually, I believe these are geared towards the first generation fan, after all, we were forced to hear only the AMERICAN LP's as children, imports were not available as parallel releases in 1964...so, our beloved memories, warts and all will drive the sales through the roof, I'm predicting Top 10, possibly NUMBER ONE!...

 

The simple truth is that I expect the worst with most new issues. Look at all the mismastering out there!

 

..and Introducing The Beatles! and the love affair for me is still going strong.

 

I emailed Bruce Spizer about the releases and he emailed back saying I will be very pleased.

 

You know what guys.....this also might be sort of a "test marketing thing" for EMI / Apple. Since each disc will have the mono AND the stereo versions, perhaps Apple wants to see how that affects sales, and maybe in the coming year or two we will get the UK lps remastered on CD with both the mono and stereo mixes. Apparantly they have worked out the royalty issue.

 

I think that was probably ₤50.00 not $50.00

 

Just did an ASIN search on Amazon.ca....nothing yet for us Canucks.

 

Not a royalty issue. An Apple Can-We-All-Agree-Unanimously-On-Anything issue.

 

Have Bruce tell us more.

Now I'm really in suspense.

 

Because, Joe, that would make sense, and this makes practically no sense at all that I can make out. At best a gimmick, at worst.....a fleecing. Although if both mono and stereo mixes are included, might tempt even me....maybe.

Same here...same for many of us. But, as previously noted, the bootleggers have covered this...many times, and, IMO, at times with sonics I don't expect to be bested by this collection, should it come to pass. But of course the packaging one would expect to be far superior, and liner notes.....

BTW, nice job getting the discount! Regardless of anyone's feelings about this project, pretty neat of ya to pull off!

Well, this is all hearsay, so far. When I see an official pronouncement with Apple Corps attached, then we can believe it. Until then, well.....

 

When Amazon first offered Let It Be Naked for preorders, the list price was given as $22.98. The actual list price turned out to be $18.98.

Similarly, when Amazon first offered the George Harrison Dark Horse Years box set, the list price was given as $184.98. The actual list price turned out to be $132.98.

With this in mind, you may want to hold off on complaining about the price of the upcoming release.

 

If nothing else, this tells us that Apple is willing to use other mastering facilities besides Abbey Road, which is a good thing. I've always suspected that when they finally redo the whole back catalog, it wouldn't be done at Abbey Road.

 

No, No, your wrong ...It's positively coming if anything, the release date will be bounced around...

 

These discs have been mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound...remember, this was mentioned in the last "monster" thread on this subject? Check it out:

http://www.sterling-sound.com/home/engineers/eng_info?&tpl[1]=curTitle&contact_id=102

The actual dates Beatles titles were mastered is listed.

Bob

 

Someone asked why the US albums and not the UK albums. Answer is greed. There were more US albums than there were UK albums. However, it IS a good move to put mono and stereo on the same disc, that is a great decision.

Wanna take bets on which mix cues up first, mono or stereo?

Question: Were the mono US mixes Dexterized separately from the stereo US mixes? Or were they fold-downs? Wouldn't it be nice if the mono tracks on this release were clean and un-Dextered?

It will have to get fairly crappy reviews for me to pass on it. The only reissue I didn't buy was the White Album anniversary set.

 

I'm almost surprised it's Ted Jensen instead of Greg Calbi doing these, since they're using Sterling. I realize Ted is the head guy over there and this is THE BEATLES, but Greg seems to have more of a history with The Beatles, at least with their solo recordings, not to mention at least one (if not both) of the "unreleased" Pepper remasters.

Even if Steve did the job, these are "Dexterized", so no matter what it's not going to be Hi-Fi nirvana. Besides stereo and mono, we may even be getting fake stereo (Duophonic) and fake mono (Capitol Type-B - ie. folddown from stereo).

While I drool over the idea of The Beatles being reissued properly (sound, packaging/artwork, etc. if that will ever happen), I have to agree with some of the others that if they're going to be reissuing the US format albums, they should be "Dexterized", no matter how much I may detest that sound. It's the only way to do these correctly. The generally wonky sound is as much a part of these US albums as the sequencing and the artwork/packaging. It all adds up in the "experience" you get from the US albums. If those tapes weren't used, why bother doing these at all?