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[Bigsby]

After 22 years on CD, The Beatles back catalogue has finally been remastered and is being released next month.

Details here:

Exciting new details of Beatles Remasters announced in Chicago - BeatlesNews.com

Please note, this thread is just for discussion of these new remasters, comments about how fucking shit The Beatles are should go in the "Best Band Ever" thread, thanks.

[-matthEw-]

Bout time as well. I've got the Dr.Ebbett's ones, and the difference is night and day between the original CDs.

[britheguy]

I like the Beatles. Not sure why they need remastered though. I have a few of the original 7" recordings in my collection (thanks Sis) and I've never thought there was a problem with the sound. It's just the sound of the sixties I suppose. So what's the advantage of having all these on new remastered CD's. Is not a bit like recording in super HiFi CD and adding background hiss and pops so it sounds like a record? I suppose it's the other way round.
I'm just asking, and it's not a dig or a put down of the Beatles.
Cheers
Bri

[Jammer]

I'm swithering whether to make a purchase but if I do it'll be the mono versions as they were the ones The Beatles concentrated their time on... and left the stereo ones to George Martin. The price though....how many times are we supposed to pay top dollar for the same basic product? There is very little in the way of extras (some short videos) and I think EMI missed a chance to give us value for money with something new.

The reason for the remastering is that the current CD versions are a tad lacking in depth especially bass. I've got the majority of the recent Purple Chick remasters, which were done to compensate for EMI dragging their heels and there is a huge difference. So it'll be cool to hear the official ones.

Remastering can be a dangerous process though. I remember hearing the remastered 70's ZZ Top albums done in the late 80s and the drum sound was appalling, indeed unlistenable.

[Bigsby]

I'll probably download them, sorry if people have a problem with it but I've already shelled out hundreds on everything The Beatles have ever done and have no inclination to do so again. I may pick them up down the line in a sale or whatever. But I guess I'll download the mono mixes of the earlier albums and stereo for the later ones.

Looking forward to hearing them though, the Yellow Submarine CD from about 10 years ago really showed what they could do to improve the 1987 CDs.

[french_disko]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

I'll probably download them, sorry if people have a problem with it but I've already shelled out hundreds on everything The Beatles have ever done and have no inclination to do so again. I may pick them up down the line in a sale or whatever. But I guess I'll download the mono mixes of the earlier albums and stereo for the later ones.

Looking forward to hearing them though, the Yellow Submarine CD from about 10 years ago really showed what they could do to improve the 1987 CDs.

i've no problem, I'll be doing the same. The cost of the two box sets are appalling - especially when you consider the mono & stereo versions of the albums would have managed onto one CD in most cases.

[berni907]

They only get remastered so all the "bigwigs" of the record companies can make more money off living legends

[Alan Cynic]

I'll wait 'til they're in the library, then 'borrow' them

[french_disko]

Originally Posted by berni907

They only get remastered so all the "bigwigs" of the record companies can make more money off living legends

Erm.... The record company overseeing these remasters is apple corp - which is of course owned by those 'living legends'.

By the way, calling Harrison and Lennon living legends is a little inappropriate, isn't it?

This remastering is long overdue. I can only presume anyone objecting hasn't heard the Beatles on CD and does't appreciate the significance of the original mono versions getting released like this.

Still bloody expensive though.

[Jan]

I am at two minds about this, like most Beatles fans. It would be great to hear the albums remastered properly on CD, thus fully utilising today's technology, but I'll be fucked if I am paying full price for albums I have already paid full price for that were originally released 39+ years ago.