Beatles Remastered 2009 CD Boxed Sets (PHOTOS)
The entire recorded catalog of Beatles tunes has been remastered and will be available for purchase 09/09/09. The 14 albums, 12 studio plus Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters compilation have been enhanced and repackaged in a much hyped CD rerelease. An earlier CD version released in 1987.
The first four albums are available for the first time in stereo, a coup for die hard enthusiasts and a vast improvement over the original mono version. If you are strictly looking for improved mono sound, you will have to fork over $189.99 for an entire set as they are not available individually. Stereo versions can be had separately for $18.99 or in boxed sets from $189 to $259, with Amazon on the low end.
What can buyers expect for their money? Improved sound, extra pictures and included with each set is a 49 minute mini-documentary DVD. According to Billboard Magazine, the sets were held to a limited manufacturing run; 33,000 stereo sets and only 10,000 mono. It is expected that brisk sales could generate a second manufacturing run.
Younger listeners will likely be disappointed that the remix tunes will not be downloadable from i-Tunes….but there is something they will like. The 09/09/09 launch was timed to coincide with the unveiling of The Beatles: Rock Band video game.
View the Fab Four below.
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Late one night, not very long ago, I had a dream that the Beatles were still among us, making us laugh and sing in the same way they did when they were the undisputed Princes of the Planet Earth all those years ago. That’s what was so wonderful about the Fab Four: they not only sang like the scruffy angels they were, but they were so damned funny! All one has to do is view the films “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” and you’re once again reminded that they were a great comedy team – one of the greatest. When I awoke from that dream – thinking it had been real – the blunt realization that the Beatles are gone forever was too depressing to even contemplate.
In 1995, the night the video “Free As a Bird” premiered on national television (the first “new” Beatles song in over a quarter of a century), I watched it with a young woman who was born in 1970, the year they broke up. Hearing them sing together again – Paul and George sounding strong and clear; John, by that time long dead, his voice transferred from an old and faded cassette tape, sounding as if he were singing from far, far away – was a very moving experience. When she noticed my reaction, she laughed and said, “Oh, Tom! What’s the big deal”? I told her that no one who didn’t live through that turbulent era, could possibly understand what that band meant to their troubled generation.
Is Sgt. Pepper dated? Yes it is – horribly so – But that’s not the Beatles’ fault. It’s ours.
With our love
We could save the world
If they only knew….
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY.