Capitol Beatles Box Set Vol 2 - Apr 11 Release Date? *

I just hope they release Vol 2 in a "shortbox" version to match my Vol 1. The longbox packaging was just plain stupid!

 

Unfortunately, we may end up with the Dexterized version...

 

I meant of the standard studio releases.

 

It was re-released by Capitol much later though, but not in the 60s. The stereo mix is an absolute joke though. All it is is the mono mixes panpotted to different places in the stereo field. However, it would be nice to get George Martin's instrumentals, which are in lush stereophonic sound.

There is no digital version of the mono Revolver which is often quite different (and generally superior, IMO) than the stereo. Many Beatles fans consider it the best mix. There are a few mixing mistakes on the stereo mix. Plus, "Help!" has a James Bond intro on the Capitol version and a wonderful Duo-Phonic version of "Ticket To Ride".

There is no digital mono version of "Sgt. Pepper", which many people, myself included, consider to be the superior mix of the album.

If I'm not mistaken, "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a different, later mix on the current MMT CD.

I say bring 'em all on please! I'll buy 'em, Michael will buy 'em, and many many many more of us will buy 'em!

 

Hope so!...that's the one I remember most.

...what a fiasco years ago here on the forum when I told of this albums existence...I had many doubters!...they all came to see the light eventually. I can't find the original thread on this, but it's in the archives somewhere...

 

Indeed! Can't hear Help! without the James Bond intro...just seems right to me...I've been dealing with my HELP! Beat CD...at least it's from tape, and sounds decent...I'm thrilled to finally get the real deal!

 

Even more so than the first four Capitol LP reissues, The later albums just have a "feel" to them that you wouldn't understand unless you grew up with them. To make matters weirder, Rubber Soul was the last Beatles album that I heard to say that "I've heard them all", and the first time for me was actually on a Capitol 8-track! Now THAT running order did indeed suck! LOL!

As a DJ, if I ever spun "HELP!", I always went for the "Bond Intro" version. Remember, here in the USA, that version was even included on "1962-1966", so it was NOT a "rarity". Coming out of a jingle or and ID, the song just blows out of the speakers.

Geez, I even like "Beatles VI"! I love "Every Little Thing" as a closing track!

I have to wonder if Brian Wilson's opinion would have been different if he had heard the British "Rubber Soul" instead of the USA track listing?

Wha Wha WHAT?!?!?!?!? After all of these years, this is the FIRST time I have ever heard this. Can someone concur on this?

 

In reference to "A Hard Day's Night", were the Martin Instrumentals on the OST the same as those that appeared on his instrumental LP's?

 

Yes: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=25150

I have a Canadian reissue with the reverb.

 

Kewl! I'm pretty safe to assume that I have the Verb-pressing, sicne all I HAVE are east coast pressings (Rainbow Stereo, Apple, and Purple). I guess I just took it for granted that EVERYONE in the USA heard it this way.

 

Here's another thread from the archives about it: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=45586

 

I hope they even release ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC...then there's Hollywood Bowl too.
Heck, throw in Love Songs w/ R+R music for 1 4-CD box. They ought to release this stuff in the exact order they did first time around...which is what they're doing so far.

 

Veech for me and this would be going by the Capitol 45 Jacket cover, I would have thought Nowhere Man was released on the UK Beatles For Sale LP. This of course was before I even knew what the UK LP track orders were like and boy did the songs on BFS get spread across a few of our American LP's from Beatles 65 and Beatles VI.

To me "Beatles For Sale" was like the Holy Grail of Beatles albums to have if I could've only gotton my hands on one way back then.

 

Maybe they'll put the dry single version of "Please Please Me" on "Early Beatles." (Nah, too much to hope for.)

 

The mono version of the US Rubber Soul didn't have an East Coast version, nor does the mono version have the false starts on "I'm Looking Through You".

But come to think of it, I can honestly say being from the EAST that I've only ever heard the extra echoed Stereo version of Rubber Soul. Hence I'd like to hear it the way other US pressing sounded like instead. But I'll still be happy with the Extra Texture Dextered version!!

 

I think we can choose:

Capitol Album 2

Capitol Album 2 / Long

 

And the alternate American stereo mix of "The Word."

 

I think the short box was a Target Exclusive last time around. Maybe this time it will be more widely available. I Hate the long box. The short box fits on the shelf with my other CDs.

 

I bought my first set at Target. They had the best price around.

Besides, they open early! 8:00a.m.!

 

The industry wonders why new music isn't selling as much these days. We're too busy spending our entertainment dollar on re-buying an old album again for the 4th, 5th or 6th time. (Think I have 9 different copies of Pet Sounds on LP and CD.)

 

Don't recall seeing a short box at a&b sound, Future Shop, Best Buy, HMV, Music Word, Costco, Walmart, etc. for Vol. 1. We only had the long box to choose from in Calgary.

 

Not all East Coast pressings have the extra reverb.

According to Bruce Spizer
These pressings cut from a master from New York can be identified by W8#2 in run off groove on side 1 and W14#1 on side 2.

Chris

 

Brian, you're missing the point....the released CDs will be made from the exact same US Capitol masters that were used in 1965/1966. So the mix of Please Please Me on The Early Beatles is what will be on the new CD. Jensen doesn't have access to the UK masters, and he certainly doesn't have access to the flat master used on the first-run Parlophone 45. Also, it goes against the entire concept of this series. That is, to faithfully issue on CD what Americans grew up with in the 60's....there's no attempt to issue new and improved recordings from the vaults of EMI. Ron

 

Circuit City had it too - don't know of anywhere else you could get it apart from those two though.