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Thank you. Now to be honest, not all the choices in my list are among my absolute favourites, but I did want to reflect wider preferences. Amy was exceptional though.

Well Stefan... cannot say no to any of that. I also could have used LZ IV just as easily and same with Abbey Road. And as you saw I definitely started with Queen in mind, but then I thought that for the 1st one I would try to mirror some of the most generally well regarded ones. Physical Graffiti though was my choice.

Yey, the first hate comment, cool!!!

I would like to see your list,pal

Thank you! 😁

Thank you, and thanks for the suggestions btw. Zeppelin IV is for sure making the next list and you've reminded me I need some Sinatra fix tonight.

To be honest after checking a lot... and I mean A LOT of these lists I tend to agree with you that I also disagree with a majority of them. But I guess that's the beauty of it. Taste is rarely debatable. I for one would have had 4 Beatles albums at least in my list. But that is just me.

@BurgundySkies the Beatles are OK. Maybe 2 but it's all each opinion

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@@BurgundySkies that's why it's fine to just list 10, 20 of ones favorites. When someone starts saying the 'greatest ever..the best in all history..blah...blah... people tend to not like that since they have their own opinions

Ah well, you can't please everyone. But this (as well as most social media) being a public forum of sorts, that is literally what it's for: opinions and debates. When it comes to album rankings... I mean... even Rolling Stone switches it up every few years.

Uuuhhh very interesting selections. Nice! I will steal some of those.

Also, nice username there! 😁😁😁

It is not just you, but it depends on the system and headphones a little bit as well. But I can say this: First time I listened to the Mono CD box, on a small but new and decent system with Marshall Headphones most of them sounded nice enough, but of course stereo has a bit more clarity cause of the separation. When I moved to Audio Technica headphones, there was a very slight improvement. But when I moved to an older system, the sound on headphones became slightly more uhmmm... distant... if that makes sense.

With pleasure!!! Thank you for being here.

Absolutely on point with this. After a year since getting these I came to understand what the best version of each would have been, and all those that came in Mono (like this one or Sgt Pepper etc) having both original Mono mix beside the new Stereo and the bluray would have been perfect (both for CD and Vinyl versions).

I am sure they have. At least for Beatles 64 I saw some on FB groups, no reason why Let it Be wasn't touched as well.

@@BurgundySkies 🤔Hmm, I would have thought so to, but alas I can’t seem to find any 😞

Well your wish was answered bootleg wise. Check ebay! 😁😁😁

@@BurgundySkies Nice One 👍🏻…Many Thanks 🙏

They did, yes.

I agree. I only got it because I found it in Germany at a few Euro below the standard price for the others.

It is their best idea for sure (Capitol I mean).

Totally agree. I do think it's a good idea to address the US catalogue now and again, cause it was such a critical part of their success, but on the other hand... just make it less cash grabby.

@@BurgundySkies After Target for "Meet", I stumbled upon an independent record shop in my area - run by someone who was a teenager in the 70s, and he had all the invididual albums in stock. I piked up the "Second Album" over there. The last one I need of those albums is "Something New". I never cared for "The Early Beatles" because we'd already had "Introducing the Beatles, and Misery and There's a Place were included. "Early" is even worse than some complained "Introducing" was. I have a stereo and mono reissue of Please Please Me in the super-old Parlophone label design, so I'm golden. I agree about making it less cash grabby. I expected the prices to be high for each one, just not THAT high.

So... did you get them? How do you feel about them?

Indeed that would still be the way to go on CD if you can only get one. Although I guess lately one can consider buying the stereo albums separately if they want to get the newer mixes for the 5 albums that have them.

For Mono despite some not so good old mixes, I would stick with their original ones, they were made as they ans GM wanted them. For Stereo... the post 2017 mixes are preferable in most cases for me.

Wow. That is a good price!!! Congrats. I would say it is a good alternative to the Spector mix, at least for some songs. I agree about the edited takes, the chatter is what makes it extra special and is more appropriate for the atmosphere in which it was recorded.

Is it? Don't think I saw anywhere that it's called silver white. It was clear that they were marking the 60th anniversary, but the choice of color does not seem to have a specific point to me.

The Beatlemania With The Beatles is said to be the best sounding version of it, kinda expensive though to find in NM state.

@@BurgundySkies the Canadian Capitol albums were thick and had glossy rainbow labels, not flat like in the United States

@@BurgundySkies our Canadian only Capitol records also had the Yardbirds the hollies the Dave Clark 5 the first animals album and singles Gerry and the pacemakers Billy j. Kramer and the Dakota's Freddie and the dreamers Sid's pink Floyd the swinging blue jeans Georgie Fame and the blue flames,the sunrays and many more. Some of those groups were on epic records and tower records in the United States. The Canadian Capitol only albums are called the 6000 series which are the catalogue numbers 6000 and up. The 45s are the 70,000 series

I guess some of those would be harder to find nowadays in excellent condition.

@@BurgundySkies yeah yeah yeah, your right . In 1991 my monster music collection was estimated at about 80 thousand, and Sadly, it was stolen by a family member who sold it to a record store for 600 dollars in order to buy drugs. I've picked up a few Beatles since then and my daughter has given me every Beatles box set CD and vinyl except let it be and revolver , because they now included the book with the vinyl. I didn't want the Red and blue box and I told her not to get this year's mono set because it doesn't make sense to pay over 100 dollars extra for a cardboard box and the Beatles story ( l lost the copy that I bought in the early seventies, when my collection was stolen) But I know for a fact that I'm getting Wings one hand clapping and Meet the Beatles on Blue vinyl. I've also thrown out some feelers to her for a vinyl Elliot Smith album that I'm missing and any Nick Drake vinyl. Both would be reissues because originals can empty a wallet and the Nick Drake could take a good portion of a bank account

That's cool. I'll see (in time) if I can compare. Wonder if the CD version would be a fair comparisson.

@@BurgundySkies is this box available in CD form? If not, that would be a first. I haven't seen any 64 mono CD box set unboxing video's

Not this one specifically but the albums themselves both in Mono and Stereo were released twice (once as part of the Beatles Capitol Albums volumes 1 and 2 in 2024-2006, and then - although using the 2009 remasters as source) in 2014 as part of the Beatles US Albums boxset.

Indeed. That one I do have in the 2014 version.

@@josiahmitchell4055 just last night I played the stereo 50th anniversary Sgt Pepper reprise on side 2 and was pleased to hear Paul's previously hidden vocals from the mono only version

THIS! I thought I was the only one who was hearing him be muffled during A Day in the Life, and with the 2017 new mix finally his vocal has been liberated.

Thank you, I am. And yeah, I was gonna mention the absence on the inner groove sound loop in the Sgt Peper episode that will follow sometime soon. I think it is the only version of Sgt Pepper I have had so dar that did not have it.

300 bucks

@@BurgundySkies $38.00 per record? I'll take my chances on finding originals at Jerry's for about $5.00 a piece.

Well technically speaking each main record is 30 dollars (standard price). If you multiply 30 by 6 (which is the no. of the albums) you get 180 dollars. Then you are basically paying 120 bucks for The Beatles Story and the box.

@@BurgundySkies The ad says 8 records.

Yes, it's cause of the Beatles Story which is 2 discs. Not really an album though (at least not to me).

Thank you... x3. Regarding the Japanese Red Mono collections a corrected way to put it (according to Discogs) would be that they were pressed using the UK mono masters.

@BurgundySkies Discogs unfortunately isn't always correct. They let users amend the information without having any factual information to back it up. The Japanese were given second generation mix downs. EMI almost never sends their masters out to any other territory, and especially not the Beatles. Germany has has new mix down masters made on occasion, which is why the Magical Mystery Tour LP from there was the only true stereo LP up until the mid 90s. Japanese LPS were originally pressed from the US masters, which in some cases were even third generation tapes. In the late 70s and early 80s Japan upgraded their masters with second generation tapes, which are duplicates from the original EMI UK mix down masters, and that's when their sound quality really went up. Japan also used virgin vinyl and the red wax editions used the Everclean vinyl, a high end vinyl which I believe was exclusive to Japan, so the sound quality really improved with Japanese pressings at a time every other territory was starting to use lower quality vinyl. Keep up the good work!

Thank you very much. Indeed it did seem a bit out of character of Apple or EMI to ship original master tapes all the way over to Japan, but I must admit I did not think much of it, those being the 80s I just assumed maybe they hadn't yet realised how extra careful they had to be with these. Was also thinking about how they had lost/damaged some of the earlier tapes as well, so... Anyway... I hope to have a chance to compare the sound of these Japanese beauties with some of the 2014 ones. The one comparisson I managed to already make, but will not have a chance to repeat is between a 1969 UK Mono export pressing of Sgt Pepper's and the Japanese one I got. It's true the Japanese one was cleaner (as expected I guess), but overall I did not feel like the 69 UK one was significantly better. Obviously this is very subjective but... there it is. Thanks again for being here and for the clarifications. As a very green collector... this world is a thick and tricky jungle.

Yeah most films were either poorly cast or with low production value, or were suffering from quick cash grab syndrome. Birth of the Beatles was the Pete Best leaning one, no? PS: "wider berth" - nice, I'm gonna use that.

It’s not the U.S. configurations I dislike, it’s the sound quality. Some big wig at Capitol decided he could do a better job than George Martin at mixing their records. I’m so glad the U.S. Albums box set fixed those problems by not including the Re channeled versions of the singles. By including both mono and stereo mixes, they gave us the choice of which tracks we can put in the playlist. Deirdre also remixed Please Please Me, With the Beatles and the non album singles and B-Sides in super three dimensional stereo. And if that isn’t enough, another company remixed Rubber Soul, so we’re good to go. I also might add that the latest Deirdre remixes include the film edit version of I’ll Cry Instead in stereo (this is the one where the first verse is repeated after the third verse); the U.S. Rarities version of I Am the Walrus with the deleted extra bar of music just before the yellow matter custard verse and a new stereo mix of I’m Only Sleeping with all guitar solo placements in tact. Life is good.

I for one started with UK variations back in the 90s, so I guess it would be even harder for me to gravitate to the US albums. And the sound differences are a turn off for me as well, but I do have to admit that a couple of those US compilation albums are well built in terms of tracklistings. Meet the Beatles is one of them.

It is very probable. It's just... nowadays they could do so much better!

...is enough

Not so readily available anymore as of last year. I mean they are not rare. But will be less and less available new as they get replaced by the 2023 editions.

I agree, god bless the musicians who made it.

@@Cozonac3000 they shoul release a while vinyl 45 of Help, with the intro for the sixtieth anniversary of movie along with a white vinyl LP

Thank you for being here and for the corrections, they are welcomed.

Moreover, I just realized a couple more mistakes I've made. One was an editing error I seem to have missed, where I made an edit that cut a few seconds off a sentence. Another one is saying that Across the Universe was mainly released in Stereo as part of Abbey Road. Obviously it was mainly stereo but on Let it Be, as well as the Noone'a gonna change our world charity compilation

Thank you. It does seem like at the origins there was an intent to make justice to the character, but there is also an apparent difference between intent and result.

@BurgundySkies I agree. The film really speeds up the pace (to it's detriment) in the second half and makes use of much more exposition, presumably because of budgetary constraints.

You are absolutely right. I fell in the trap of the americanization of the name I think. The whole movie did as well.

I agree with all your points. I think the Lennon actor (despite being good and clearly trying to give a good performance) was just not equipped to relay the dimension of John's personality. My view is that it's similar to the situation of Ramy Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody. Awesome actor, totally involved and strong performance, but not able to relay the force and larger than life dimension of the character.

lol, he seems like a good actor though, just a bit out of place given the very engrained image of the band

A pair of lifts would've helped.

Thank you.

Yes, most of the additions were absolutely the right choices. Enjoy your CDs!

Right on, I was looking over articles and rankings done by Rolling Stone and other publications over time and it's interesting to see how this shifted.

Yes, I think I mentioned the differences in track listings, but indeed not the dif. mixes. Thanks!

It's super interesting how diametrically opposed opinions on these albums can be, but this only means one thing: the music is timeless!

Meh, don't know about that. The clarity and dynamics are superb with the Giles mix IMHO.

I can't help but agree. Proof that tech can be used to great effect even on 60 years old recordings.

@@BurgundySkies Enjoy your presentations. I can't wait until your Sgt. Pepper analysis.

Thank you very very much. I really appreciate it. The Sgt Pepper episode will come in the following weeks.

Uffff, it is not here anymore as it will become apparent soon. I have to say though, as much as I listened to it, it was pretty nice. I will dig the matrixes, I know I had written them down at the time. As I (vaguely) recall... I think I had a mix, where 3 sides were from a version and 1 side from another. But not 100% sure, will double check.

So these apparently were the matrixes I had for The White Album: Matrix / Runout (LP09 Side A (etched)): YEX 709 //36405-1-Y 08-21652-1A-1 ⦸ A E Matrix / Runout (LP09 Side B (stamped)): YEX 710 138-04 173-B--36408-4Y Matrix / Runout (LP09 Side C): 04 174 A-1 (stamped) U (etched) Matrix / Runout (LP09 Side D (stamped)): YEX-712//43028-1Y B 08_21653_1B_1

I mean it's all a matter of personal preference. To be honest thought, my view on this album has shifted a bit since last year. So...

@@BurgundySkies I understand it is a matter of taste. Hopefully as your view shifts you will see the marvelous eclectic and hap hazard track listing as a work of art - whether It was intended that way or The Beatles just got lucky. In '68 it was not reviewed well but over the years more have come to appreciate it and I think among big fans like myself it ranks up there with Abbey Road for the most fans. Who'd a thunk it way back when. lol

At a certain point I will attempt to do a personal ranking. I tried to put one on paper a year ago, and then again a couple of months ago. They look kinda different. I do appreciate the unique build of this album, albeit one of the reasons for it being quite so eclectic is also their need to push put as many tracks as possible to get them out of their previous engagements. But beside that... when I will do my ranking there will be a couple of things that will influence my choices: 1. How many songs of each album I like (percentage wise)? 2. Does the track sound pleasant to me? Beyond this there dozens of other reasons, many of which very specific or personal, but those above are my main.

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Congrats on that!!! That is damn good price, and totally worth it. Enjoy it to the max! To be honest, the realistic prices for both this and the vinyl version should be much lower than they are, but obviously are inflated due to them not being produced anymore. But always good to see someome getting one at a decent price.

As you should, because despite mamy arguments between audiophiles, collectors or just regular fans with regard to sound quality or the proper way to listen to an album, much of what came in the past 15 years was qualitative.

That is correct. And it's normal given the state of stereo at the time.

Hey John, thanks for being here. Which version do you own?

@@BurgundySkies The original.

No, what I meant was: do you have the mono or the stereo? When you say the original you mean the UK first press, or subsequent ones?

@@BurgundySkies U.K. stereo