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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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2010 8 Feb

Here, There, And Everywhere By Beatles Recording Engineer Geoff Emerick

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Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is perhaps my most favorite Beatles connected book. Why is that? Because it provides such a fascinating and lifelike perspective on the recording of The Beatles classic albums such as 1966’s Revolver.

I enjoy that this book is concentrated on what was going on within the studio instead of what the guys were doing personally as far as who they were dating and all of that kind of stuff. In comparison other books on The Beatles are too targeted on the biography of The Beatles and not enough on the music that made them famous. It’s because of their songs that anyone is concerned about their biography.

The book isn’t entirely about The Beatles, it is more of a Geoff Emerick memoir (with a clear focus on his time working with The Beatles) however if you’re thinking that that may make it less interesting, I really do not think that is true. I actually believe it helps make his stories about The Beatles seem more “real.”

In fact the book’s “realness” is one of the best things about it. I have read a heap of books on the band however many of them appear quite clinical in comparison. They’re often like a bunch of facts thrown together. With Here, There, and Everywhere I really felt like I was there at Abbey Road Studio in the 1960s. Sort of like a fly on the wall, taking it all in.


This book offers a nice look into The Beatles as musicians there’s actually a series of books called The Beatles as Musicians which goes into that more indepth.) We get a glimpse of McCartney working for hours to get his bass guitar parts perfect and we see George Harrison greatly improve his guitar playing skills through the decade.

Emerick was a very important part of the band’s sound throughout their psychedelic period. Amazingly on his 1st full day as lead engineer he came up with concepts which helped make the last track on Revolver, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” sound so incredible.

If you are interested in buying this book you aren’t stuck with shopping for it on old fashioned paper, you’ll be able to also obtain it for your Kindle. If you do not have a Kindle yet then I suggest shopping for the Kindle DX Digital Reader because of it’s larger size, it makes it far more easy to read. If you live outside of the States, you’ll need to buy a Kindle with Global Wireless.

As much as I like reading about the recording of The Beatles music, I enjoy listening to their music even more than that. And I think it’s a great idea to have the new Beatles remasters around to hear to while you’re thumbing through this great book. I particularly suggest getting The Beatles Mono CD Box Set because Emerick mentions on several occasions in this book how he thinks the mono mixes are superior (specifically in relation to Pepper.)

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