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 REMASTER SOUNDS AMAZING Nov 15, 2009
Like a lot of people, I think this double album should have been pared down to a single record. I could easily live without "Martha My Dear", "Don't Pass Me By", "Bungalow Bill", "Ob-La-Di Ob-La Da", "Revolution 9" and several others. But what I do like here is some of the Beatles best work. "Dear Prudence" is as good a song as they ever did, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is my favorite George Harrison song, and contains one of Eric Clapton's most heartfelt guitar solos. "Blackbird" and "Julia" are achingly beautiful. Great stuff on here.
The new remastered disc (I have the stereo) sounds incredible. I've heard five of the new versions, Beatles for Sale, Past Masters, Revolver, The Beatles, and Abbey Road, and this one and Abbey Road sound the best, although they are all much improved from the previous 1987 vintage CD's. I only hesitate to award it five stars because I have to skip fully half the songs on this disc. But to me, it's still well worth buying.
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Retrospect:Do we really need to go back there? Nov 13, 2009
To be brief; Were all recordings made of the questionable quality enhanced here? Like Lennon's "Primal" the inadequacies of the time were obscured by the emotional nature of the offerings. Springstein at Hammersmith is an excellent example of artists whose recordings literally encapselled the moment. You could almost smell the leaves outdoors in the park on that particular "frozen?" moment in time. Enhancement of the 'beatles "white album" leaves us with the question; What was the flavor of the time that compelled us to swallow whole large tracts of post-psychedelic euphoria?
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Awesome album, but still sounds the same as previous CD Nov 12, 2009
Abbey Road and The White Album are my two all-time favorite Beatles albums. So you can imagine my excitement when I put this disc into my CD player for the first time, hoping that the newly remastered version would totally blow me away.
It didn't, but the music was still great regardless.
Having heard many of these remasters now, to my ear I really don't hear much difference from the 87 versions. I like the packaging, but I think I could have easily kept the old disc and been happy.
The music, naturally, is 5 stars. I subtract one star for Apple being too greedy to put both the mono and stereo version on the same disc (for any disc shorter than 40 mins, of course)
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 the Beatles Nov 09, 2009
It is so hard to decide what is the best Lp of the Beatles, but this is one of them. I recieved it fast and in great shape.
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Best album of all time Nov 08, 2009
The best album I have ever owned. It went 19x platinum! While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of my personal favorites. Some of the second disc's songs get to be a little uneven, however. Revolution 1, for instance, you don't at all need if you have Revolution. Revolution 9 is not a song. Yer Blues is also pretty bad. But with all the great songs, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Back in the U.S.S.R., Helter Skelter, and most of the rest, it is completely made up for.
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