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2010 14 Mar

The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set

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The Beatles are definitely not a “greatest hits” type of band. You can not order just the “best of” album and be done with the lads from Liverpool. I think most of their greatest tracks were not their number one hits but were their more experimental tunes such as “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

To truly get a feel for The Beatles music you have to listen to their CDs completely instead of only listening to their biggest hit songs. I’m not alone in believing that the Fab Four made quite a few of the most timeless albums of all time and even their not so fantastic albums (like With The Beatles) have some fantastic recordings.

This is why I think it’s such a great idea to Buy The Remastered Beatles Stereo Box Set. This box set contains every LP (and every single on the Past Masters CDs) that they recorded and released in the 60s.


In other words it contains pretty much all of their releases except for The Anthologies and the Live at the BBC set. This seems right to me since those releases are not really a part of “the official catalog” of The Beatles. They are kind of like the “extra features” on a DVD while the original releases are the main movie.

Actually, there are a few more of their CDs that are not included in the box set, for example there’s 1999 release of a CD called Yellow Submarine Songtrack that’s completely different from the original Yellow Submarine LP. It is actually much better in my opinion and worth hearing for it’s different mixes (it’s actually remixed, not just remastered.) Let It Be… Naked and Love are also not included.

With The Beatles in Stereo, I also highly recommend that you Buy The Beatles Mono Box Set which includes the the mono versions of their songs up through 1968. It may be hard to really understand in the 21st century, but when George Martin and the boys were mixing their albums they thought the mono version to be of much more importance when compared to the stereo versions up until about 1969.

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2009 24 Nov

The Beatles Stereo Box Set

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The Beatles Stereo Box Set was released in September of 2009 it instantly became the standard for The Beatles classic albums. These new stereo mixes sound far better than the old CDs from the late 1980s. When a listener compares these new remasters to the older CDs it’s like the older discs are under a pile of blanks while the new remastered CDs sound warm and clear so that all of the vocals, guitar parts, bass guitar parts, and drums punch through the mixes instead of being swallowed up by whats around them.

The Beatles in Stereo isn’t the only Beatles box set released in ‘09 but it has been the biggest seller because it appeals to the biggest set of Beatles fans. The Remastered Beatles in Mono Box Set is excellent too but it appeals mostly to Beatles purists who want to hear the original mono mixes (because the mono mixes are what the band themselves worked on) than to an fan. Although there are definitely songs that sound better in mono than in stereo (especially quite a few of the pre Magical Mystery Tour recordings) all things considered I believe the stereo CD set does sound better.


The great thing about The Beatles Stereo CD Box Set is that it lets you to buy The Beatles entire 1962-1970 catalog with just one order and when one considers the extremely high quality of almost all of their albums, it makes the most sense to buy them all at once instead of picking up some.

And beyond the great music included in this set there are some groovy visual elements, most obviously the DVD with 13 mini documentaries on it (one for each studio album.) Along with the mini documentary DVD there are also extended liner notes for each CD (there’s some good stuff in there, especially for new fans) and some great unpublished pictures.

I’m such a huge Beatles fan that I’ve ordered (or I plan on getting) The Beatles Stereo Set, The Beatles in Mono Box, The Beatles Apple USB, and The Beatles Rock Band. But if I had to pick just one of these things, it would be the stereo box because it is the best hear their legendary music and after all, it’s the classic songs that is the most important.

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