It's Rock'n'Roll Music any old way you choose it...

[caddyman]

I want, but can neither afford nor justify the remastered Beatles collection, which has been released today (or was it yesterday?). Moreover, I am convinced by the write up in today’s Times that despite being £30 more expensive and three albums shorter, the mono mix is the set to get (I have no idea why the pricing policy is so odd, but there you are).

The mono mix does not include the soundtrack to Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road or Let it Be the only Beatles albums to be issued originally for stereo, though the White Album was mixed for stereo in 1968, it was released in both formats, hence its inclusion here. The Beatles in Mono box is, as the Times would have it, “…the set aimed at the modern audiophile seeking the visceral oomph of early vinyl without forsaking digital technology’s ability to make the constituent parts of each song seem more distinct.”

The mono mixes will only be available in the box set, but stereo mixes will be available either in a box set or as individual albums. That set is thirty quid cheaper, too.

Maybe I should just not buy either, but I wants, my precious, I wants…

Comments

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I rarely play the Beatles CDs I have, and the mono versions of the early ones that I lack would be nice, as stereo in those days was a bit... eccentric. For instance, all the instruments on one side and all the vocs on the other is daft. I wonder if the mono CDs will end up being on sale individually later on? I'm sure that there will be naughty places on the web pretty soon where you can download the songs one by one.