A dozen albums, $12 each equals over $140 and then tens of millions of people likely buying the full set.  Sorry, I just see it as a money making exercise.  Don't get me wrong, I love the music but I have everything on vinyl and I think that those albums played on a decent B&O turntable are as remastered as I need.

The fans have bought the singles, the LPs, then the tapes for the car, then the CDs and now it's yet another harvest of money.  I think it was summed up when McCartney and Yoko were arguing and went to court about rebranding some titles McCartney-Lennon rather than Lennon-McCartney because Paul was after slightly more money via the royalties.  This is a guy worth $500m+ and he's spending his retirement chasing a court case for a slightly larger income.  Sorry, it's just really petty and I refuse to shell out money for albums I already own.

(I would like to know though if the remastered version of Hey Jude has the hidden swearing in it still though)

At first, I was interested in buying the whole set, so I could for once have the complete Beatles discography. I have a few albums and the 2 best-ofs (red and blue). But when I discovered the price, I was quite angry, because IMO it is ridiculous to ask that much money for albums that where recorded 50 years ago, even if they were remastered! 😜

Tend to agree Calvin, but there was an interest programme on BBC Radio 2 a week or so back about their studio work and George Martin and the engineers who have been involved in the remastering project described their work and the technical methods used to 'improve' the tracks,  Many, apparently suffered from tape drop-out in places and, using technology not available in previous attempts at album remastering, these had now been removed. 'Before and after' bits were played to demonstrate this and I have to confess I couldn't near the difference! But perhaps on the radio this isn't surprising.

Listening to what had apparently been done to the old recordings (not just tape drop-out) certainly whetted my appetite, so I'd be interested from anyone who has bought one (or all!) of them.

Finally, love Abbey Road, particularly the medley on ('side 2'?) which leads into 'The End' of the album.

Really looking forward to hear comments from people who have heard the remastered versions (on high end B&O..) and to hear them myself to make the decision on purchase!

Those of you having the original vinyls have a real treasure, no need to go for this honestly.

We have a set of the mono and the stereo CD's here - and we are also having an open day, with the Bealtes Rockstar game set up in store, playing via Bvis 9 - with the drums, guitars etc....

We have had the remasters playing via Beolab 9's - anyone nearby, feel free to pop in and have a listen. 

They sound very good here, but I will take them home and compare to to vinyl via my Beogram with an MMC2 - I've got original issue White Album & revolver and decent pressings of Sgt Pepper and Abbey Rd, so will be interesting to compare.

DJ

kids these days don't even know who the beatles are , do they ?

Flappo The Grate wrote:

kids these days don't even know who the beatles are , do they ?

My son in law had never heard of the Battle of Britain. So your point therefore is?

We can argue until the cows come how if the Beatles were the greatest "rock and roll" group of all time (by whatever criteria is used).  But their influence on culture, music, and defining a genre are undeniable (regardless of whether you or I like their music in particular).  The fact that many of this younger generation has never heard of them clearly is a poor reflection of this instant satisfaction, notification, data swamp we live in - information goes in one ear and out the other with little higher cortical processing.  It is a very sad state of affairs and a very poor reflection of the direction of society and appreciation of history.

Right now listening to Rubber Soul - one of my favorites.  Was listening to Pepper's the other day in my car (Bose system) and the music touched me in a way that was mystical, if not haunting - the warmth and depth, the purity, the energy - made me remember was it is like to feel music that makes one's spine tingle. 

All of this is lost on a generation that lives for distortion and crap

-michael

I agree mfirst, we can argue about the music, it's all down to personal taste in the end. You can never succeed in persuading someone that a song or artist is 'great' if they themselves don't get it. Just like trying to convince someone that a joke is funny if they don't see the humour.

I am of a certain age that I was young teenager when The Beatles burst upon the scene and if you weren't there to experience this then I will  never be able to describe the impact they made on my generation. Nothing like them or their music had ever been heard before and this hit the whole world, both politically, musically of course and culturally, like no act had done before or since.

Listening to their music now and seeing them as they were, is all looking back with the knowledge of everything that happened both then and afterwards in 'pop music' terms and they just become part of this history. You've probably heard "She loves You" or later, 'Sgt Pepper' perhaps hundreds of times over the years, but just try to imagine for a moment if you'd never heard pop music like this ever before or seen a group like this before and suddenly you turned on the radio or TV and there they were! 

But, just like my 'joke' analogy earlier, if you don't get it then that's all there is to be said.