Oh I see what's happened...Oasis have split up and so now this second rate Oasis rip-off band have jumped into their vacant, still-warm seats



Mercenaries, mercenaries, I tell ya....

Man this eating me up alive.
No way I can afford box set (stereo) right now.
I can afford a few individuals.
I'm thinking Magical Mystery Tour for sure. The old version's audio is quite bad.
And Sgt Pepper because it's ...Sgt. Pepper.
But I really want Past Masters also.
The recession be damned!

I just love The Beatles. I do.


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I tell you, they're making a big mistake by not offering the individual mono discs. The mono Sgt. Pepper is definitive.

Art in 'Beatles Box of Vision' is 'married to the music'
By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY

Jon Polk was thinking inside the box when he envisioned The Beatles Box of Vision nearly 10 years ago. His elaborate companion to the newly remastered Beatles CDs holds a 200-page linen-covered book of album artwork, a comprehensive discography and storage for 32 discs, providing a single, lavish receptacle for storing and displaying the band's entire body of work.

"It's the first box set that doesn't come with music," he quips. "It can be confusing."

Not for Beatles fans, who pre-ordered 20,000 of the $90 13-pound sets, available at boxofvision.com and thebeatles.com. Officially licensed by The Beatles' Apple Corps, the collection also will be sold in a deluxe limited-run edition of 4,000 at Restoration Hardware.

Polk, who served as Capitol's chief operating officer from 2001 to 2007, first proposed a comprehensive book of Beatles album art in the '90s but was shot down because Apple, notoriously resistant to licensing deals, didn't want competition for its Beatles Anthology tome. He got the green light in 2000.

"It began as a simple license, but Apple has embraced it to the point that it's an official Beatles product," Polk says. "They could have pulled the rug out at any time. I under-promised and over-delivered."

Delivering all Beatles album artwork totally restored proved thorny. Polk was surprised no other heritage acts had published books of complete album art until he began digging for source material. "I thought it would be simple. It turned into quite a task. By 21st-century standards, the quality just wasn't there."

Negatives of original album art were gone, so Polk gathered up to 15 pristine copies of each album through Apple and EMI archives, eBay, collectors and Rockaway Records in Los Angeles. Since albums were manufactured at multiple plants, color correction was vexing.

"You can buy 10 copies of Beatles '65 and get 10 different background colors," Polk says. "The U.K. Help! cover was complicated, too. We noticed so many details in the faces and hands were missing."

The resulting "artwork remastered" is reproduced in an LP-sized book of all U.S. and U.K. releases, including front and back covers, gatefolds, inserts and booklets. An added "catalography" book extensively chronicles both catalogs, with an essay by Beatles author Bruce Spizer.

"If you grew up with The Beatles, the artwork was married to the music," Polk says. "For young fans, this will only make their appreciation deeper."

Polk and an industrial designer spent years crafting Box of Vision's patented storage system, with pockets for previously released CDs and booklets or new digipaks.

He's negotiating to produce luxuriant modules for other iconic artists with deep catalogs. The CD may be dying, but he sees little downside in the download era.

"People have large collections of CDs, and I don't see them throwing them out," he says.



http://www.usatoday.com/l...sion_N.htm

So now that we've all gotten our hands on at least some remasters, who's going to get this?

AlexdeParis said:

Is it really? Now you got me curious.

I tell you, they're making a big mistake by not offering the individual mono discs. The mono Sgt. Pepper is definitive.

AlexdeParis said:

I think so too (a mistake, that is. I haven't heard either version yet). I guess they only want one definitive album on the shelves and decided it would be the stereo ones

NDRU said:

I'm thinking it's more because most people (and I'm not talking just the hardcore Beatles fans) will buy the stereo.

I was going to keep my red and blue compilations, but I really don't see myself wanting to listen to those versions of the songs anymore after hearing the remasters.

Off to ebay they go.

grammar
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sextonseven said:

i'd keep them just for the isolated version of A Day In The Life. even though it sounds outdated now. but that's just me. i'm anal about these things.

oh yeah, this should have been a sticky

Sdldawn said:

Not nearly as important as, say, Bea Arthur's death!

SoulAlive said:

They arent sold individually?!?!?

The sound in the Stereo version is unbelievable. I can honestly say that it almost like hearing them for the first time. I have been a fan since I was twelve(1984) and have heard the music in all the formats the've been available, and this is the best sound I've heard.

Maxwell has a sticky and the Beatles don't? This is bullshit.

Maxwell has a sticky and the Beatles don't? This is bullshit.