I did the same thing with the inner and outer sleeves for the stereo set. They did such a good job with the mono set, wonder why they didn't do the same with the stereo set.
@BurgundySkies23 минут бұрын
I guess they kept them cheaper, although they are clearly setup for scuffs. However, I noticed that even the poli inners can be problematic if they are too tight and also depend on temperature and the material they're produced from
@yutopia73 күн бұрын
My ranking: Stereo: 1) German A-2/B-3 2) Dutch 2-Y/1-Y 3) UK -4/-4 4) UK -1/-1 5) MFSL 6) 2009 CD 7) 1987 CD Mono: 1) 2014 Vinyl 2) 2009 CD 3) UK -1/-1 I can’t really mix in the mono with stereo. They’re different animals so I have to compare them separately.
@BurgundySkiesКүн бұрын
Indeed, too bad since 2014 Apple did not get the memo that people really would have bought Mono pressings if they re issued them.
@jaroslavmaly33334 күн бұрын
This album released in communist Czechoslovakia in 1987 .A Hard Days Night in 1986-The Beatles Expedice Rock n Roll in 1983.The Beatles 1962-65 in 1981 Abbey Road mono version in 1972-Abbey Road stereo version in 1979.Oldies But Goldies in 1969 .single Yesterday_- I Should Have known Better in 1976 and single Yesterday ,She Loves You in 1972 ..ALL IS ON SUPRAPHON LABEL
@BurgundySkiesКүн бұрын
Indeed Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were (fortunately) places where people could actually procure Beatles albums during the Communism. Romania unfortunately was not. :( How do those Czechoslovakian pressings sound?
@camillabahiense94086 күн бұрын
I have a brazilian verson
@BurgundySkies4 күн бұрын
Hello. And how is that sound-wise. When looking for affordable pressings I often run into Mexican or Brazilian pressings, and I am always unsure of how they sound, as well as being a bit deterred by the distance.
@matthewhumcke318214 күн бұрын
Some facts if you care: There are 2 stereo mixes of Help! and Rubber because in 1987, George Martin heard the original 1965 mixes and didn't like them. This was the year that The Beatles were getting their premiere release on CD. Yes, EMI waited a long time since the 1982 debut of the Compact Disc. Martin called the original Stereo mixes 'wooly' and remixed them in '87 for their CD debut. The 2009 remixes stem from the '87 mixes, so the original '65 mixes have never been updated. They were just transferred to the Mono CDs. And for those who are interested, ALL CD's are stereo. So the Mono CDs is just the mono mix on each channel. 100% identical. Sgt. Pepper was when the Beatles actually started climbing the stairs to the control room and having more of a creative input on the mixes. For a month, The mono mix was worked on with ALL Beatles present whenever they were there. The Stereo mix was done in....a week? a few days? much shorter and only Ringo has confirmed to be present. The Stereo mix has very interesting choices (like removing the phase shifting effect on John's Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds vocal or the pitch being lowered in She's Leaving Home) but nonetheless weren't as much a Beatles creative input as the mono mix. Also, for the 2017 Giles Martin/Sam Okell remixed the album for it's 50th anniversary using the mono mix. That and the fact the Beatles were creatively involved with the mono mix tells me how definitive the mono mix is. Revolver objectively has different elements in each mix. John's "A LIFE OF EASE" line in Yellow Submarine is present in the mono mix, along with two acoustic guitar chords at the beginning, whereas the stereo mix has silence when Ringo sings "In the..." then music comes in at "town". There are different backwards guitar solos I think in I'm only sleeping and a different fadeout in Tomorrow Never Knows (one fadeout is longer so you hear more music) Paul's Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) error is fixed in the mono mix, but that mistake is present the first time he says Eleanor Rigby. All 4 of these albums were recorded on 4 track tape. Most of these songs feature Ringo's drums only on the left channel and different instruments specifically on one side of your speaker/ear. The stereo mixes are better. George Martin went independent from EMI in 1965, and I believe Rubber Soul was his first outing from that. Why he went back to the Rubber Soul stereo mix by HARD panning the instruments on the far left side and the vocals on the far right with SILENCE inbetween is beyond me. His 1987 mix rectified this a little, but you CAN'T listen to Rubber Soul in stereo. It's mono all the way (like Please Please Me and With The Beatles).
@BurgundySkies14 күн бұрын
Yeah, I mention the alternate mixes for Rubber Soul and Help in later videos when I had both to compare. Well Rubber Soul is still pending. To be honest in headphones some of these mixes are jarring. In speakers at a certain distance they sound quite nice, but I have to say I slightly prefer the 2009 CDs to the original 87 ones, at least for some albums. Also tend to prefer some of the recent new mixes by Giles.
@matthewhumcke318214 күн бұрын
@@BurgundySkies I'm not surprised. with a fresh new set of ears, George Martin put more dimension and fullness into those '87 mixes. Add the 2009 touch for the modern speaker set and bam! The best way for me to listen to The Night Before is the 2009 version!
@BurgundySkies13 күн бұрын
This!!! You mention The Night Before, but it goes for almost any song, meaning if you put all versions of a song side by side, I doubt anyone would ever choose one year/version of the album/pressing/cd. You have songs that sound excellent on the 2009 remasters, some which sound pretty nice on the 87 cds, some which sound better in Mono, some in Stereo, some original mixes still stand, but Giles did an excellent job on some tracks and made more recent versions of albums the go-to for me (vinyl and CD). One one hand it's nice, multiple versions can sometimes mean different but still pleasant experiences. One the other hand... having to own "n" versions of an album just to get the best variations is a big frustrating.
@matthewhumcke318214 күн бұрын
Great content, man. I've gone down a rabbit hole of this subject and would like to share some context. In the stereo booklets, the end section talks about how the album was recorded. Something to take from that are 3 numbers: 2, 4 and 8 When these were recorded to analogue tape in the 60's, these numbers represent the amount of tracks on the tape itself. Please Please Me and With The Beatles were recorded on 2 track tape: instruments wired to one track and the vocals to the next track. This left small room for overdubs (like handclaps, harmonicas and harmoniums added after the song was recorded) without risking sound degradation by recopying the tape to a new blank tape to free up space. Those first two albums were recorded like this to edit the vocals and instruments easier. It's intent was to make the mono mix the best it could be. The stereo release of Please Please Me was released MONTHS after the release date of said album (obviously mono), and George Martin had no clue they even released it! Stereo was an afterthought. As you basically said, kids had cheap record players with one speaker. Some of their dad's who were audiophiles had the stereo setup and were listening to classical music or jazz. Rock n' Roll was pretty much mono in the UK until the late 60's. The next two albums mark the most common tape used: 4 track. Much more room for overdubs. They put the voice in the center! an organ here on the left; a guitar solo here on the right. But the ONE reason I can't listen to the Beatles in stereo is because they didn't put the drums in the center like the vocals! Ringo is off to the left channel like a feature instrument rather the backbone of the song! This sounds strange in Paperback Writer, I Feel Fine (which ruins the vibe of that 60's af song) and countless others (Sgt. Pepper!) This may not bother all. I researched the recording history of the first 9 albums. George Martin and engineers (Norman Smith and later Geoff Emerick) would start to put in effort with stereo (in my opinion around Beatles For Sale). Some of the mixes felt rushed; others were solid. In my research, mono was usually FIRST to be mixed and was the thing that got finished or remixed first. The only time stereo took precedent was for obligations outside of the album (like United Artists needing mixes for the movie and American soundtrack). Producers will even tell you today you want to focus on mono before you dip into stereo; to get it down perfectly balanced. And I feel that's part of George Martin's goal (along with the familiarity with UK rock n' roll being a mono dominated genre). Stereo mixes of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale are good. A Hard Day's Night has warts (like John's misaligned double track intro on 'If I Fell' and Paul's squeaky voice at the last '...was in vain,') but for the fan that doesn't care, or the fan who can get over RINGO not being panned into the center (drums on only the left track, that's insanity), then you can get away with the stereo. But if anyone is still reading, thank you first of all. But also, The Beatles, their producer and engineers were mono focused for a very long time. Their self titled album ("The White Album") is where it gets complicated. But if you can pick up the mono CDs, even just to burn them, do it. They were meant to be in mono. The artists wanted their finished product to be what mono sounded like. Stereo was in its mainstream infancy in the UK and sometimes was an after thought. I like to think it was split in pieces and spread around the stereo soundscape. It doesn't blend, and it's music chunks in corners and some elements in the middle. It's rough. The Beatles mono mixes sound like a band together in the same room, balanced and engineered to give you the impression it's one coherent song. The mono mix just sounds normal and full.....altogether; the stereo sound pulled apart with not enough panning or reverb to make it sound like one collective song. edit: spelling and addition of 'full....." at the end.
@BurgundySkies13 күн бұрын
Thank you for this. Additional context and info will always be welcomed, if not always for me, at least for other people visiting. I became familiar in the past couple of years with all the elements that shaped the original mixes, and this demix tech that has been out for the past two years should allow for stronger stereo mixes. Of course, given that any mix is a personal thing for the engineer/producer, and the fact that anyone can make mistakes, there will always be results that do not please everyone (see the new mix of Magical Mystery Tour from the 2023 Blue album). But, at least for Stereo, some of these were sorely needed.
@matthewhumcke318213 күн бұрын
@@BurgundySkies Good point: some Beatles could use a stereo refresh for a full sounding, wide stereo image. That Magically Mystery Tour remix is likely a cut and paste job from the MMT box set that came out in I think 2012. Unless they tinkered with it recently, most 2023 Blue album tracks are a cut and paste of the Giles Martin/Sam Okell anniversary editions. I've never heard the MMT box set (it contains a replica double EP as one of its goodies) so im curious.
@ONgamersTrashcan16 күн бұрын
Beatles is better. Queen should have waited and put more great tracks on a dubble album or left off a few tracks so it don't sound so muddy and compressed.
@BurgundySkies15 күн бұрын
In terms of how these compilations were built and how at least some of their variations sound, I totally agree. Music of course is subjective, quality of sound can be to a certain extent, but here to me it's quite clear.
@thebeatlesonvinyl543317 күн бұрын
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@farrellmcnulty90920 күн бұрын
8:50 - I agree with you on E-bay. I have a mono CD box set but I wanted to get another one, just for the hell of it. I ended up with a fake one, none of the discs would play and the covers were falling apart, BACK it wemt!!! I did get a refund. Seller says he didn't know it was fake and apologized.
@BurgundySkies18 күн бұрын
Yeah, ironically although Discogs has less protection for buyers, you find less fakes on there than sites like Ebay where anyone can sell almost anything.
@moth745723 күн бұрын
I like Thank You Girl in mono but not stereo because I don't like the extra harmonica. I get satisfaction from hearing the mono version in the places where the harmonica is not there.
@BurgundySkies22 күн бұрын
hmmm, I'm gonna have to give that another try
@moth745721 күн бұрын
@@BurgundySkies Yes the mono version is much better. I had the Do You Want To Know A Secret, and Thank You Girl is the B side, and was released by Vee-Jay in 1964. I still have the single.
@andy5716726 күн бұрын
are you saying this is the only way to get the cd's in mono ? because im sure the first 4 cd's realeased in the late 80's were mono and can be found cheap
@BurgundySkies25 күн бұрын
Probably should have been clearer: the only way to find ALL the mono albums in mono on CD.
@alfching249928 күн бұрын
i have a so called fake version of the Mono Set and it sounds bloody fine to me and £375 cheaper
@BurgundySkies28 күн бұрын
You mean the vinyl one? Cause the CD one is nowhere near that price tag, even genuine and sealed.
@ChrisStoneinator29 күн бұрын
“Obviously vinyl has become the preferred way for audiophiles to collect and listen to music” err… no it hasn’t? Vinyl collecting and being an audiophile are two entirely separate and usually mutually exclusive hobbies unless you are very wealthy. No analogue system below £2000 sounds vaguely acceptable to an audiophile and the vast majority of records in existence are either in poor condition, or poor quality pressings, or cut from poor sources. You’d probably be hitting an average of £60 per album if you were seeking out good sounding records. If you want a decent sized collection of, say, 500 albums you really like, that’s £30000. And you’d better be taking out insurance on that. So no, most audiophiles are not vinyl collectors, or if they are, they’re probably under the influence of some serious doublethink. CDs still outsell vinyl by volume in most parts of the world and I’d wager a higher percentage of CD buyers are discerning about sound quality than vinyl buyers, who are very clearly happy with overpriced noisy junk off of Amazon.
@BurgundySkies29 күн бұрын
I mean I will not dispute that, but what I can say is that at least in the audiophile centric forums I visited, most people were talking about turntables, styli and the best pressings. I guess it also depends on the music itself. There are those who might own master tapes or copies of master tapes of certain albums, and depending on their setup that might be the best way to listen to those albums. On the other hand it seemed to me like it's an accepted thing among a lot of music collectors that they prefer (at least music from the 50s, 60s, 70s) on vinyl rather than CD. Not the case for me. Even if since I recorded this, I did build up a small vinyl collection as well, I still feel like many of my CDs sound better than their vinyl counterparts.
@abc456fАй бұрын
Last week I ordered the Anthology dvd box set from Amazon and it was a fake. Got a refund and ordered it from another company. Should get it next week, fingers crossed it's genuine.
@BurgundySkies29 күн бұрын
Kepping mine crossed for you as well. Just be aware that these are not being produced anymore for quite a while, so don't expect new sets at very small prices.
@andy57167Ай бұрын
nice set , tho i would be tempted tp flip it for a near mint set ,,,i have owned many sets and most were near mint to unplayed they are not hard to find,,for some reason most people who owned these sets hardly played them . also I will say without doubt the Swedish /German import set ( seek out Germany 1981 import) walks all over the Dutch set it is even better than the uk ,,, all the cuts in the swedish set are from original to second pressings of the uk albums..the 78 uk set is severall pressings beyond the swedish set..the swedish team curated what they felt were the best pressings available to them and every album sounds incredable ,,,,parogram is wrong about the white album ,,its from a highly regarded mid 70's german pressing ,,the couple non uk albums are from great german pressings ... this is the one set that didnt use off the shelf or pressings of the time of release ,,,these are fantastic sounding first and second pressings ,or in a couple cases a rare elusive pressing...it is a truely stand out from all the blue box sets ,,they really put extra effort into securing some of the best pressing of every album available...get one before the mainstream figues it out,,you will not be dissapointed,,,plus you get the cool german covers!
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
Thank you. Yeah, after doing more and more research, I agree with you completely. However it was also a price issue for me as I am sure is for many. Plus you know... when you buy online remotely... you're kinda locked on trusting the seller. And in this case, supposedly this was supposed to be vg++++++++. Well... PS: I did get some of the German ones in the meantime btw: Please Please Me and MMT of course, but also Help and The White Album. Mostly esquisite.
@TheSmart-CasualGamerАй бұрын
I love that ,when this video was uploaded, this channel hadn't uploaded a video for sixteen years.
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
That's just because of laziness. 😁
@spaceengineer1452Ай бұрын
The book is so heavy and big it’s very hard to read.
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
Yeah and this is the case for some of the other books, best way is in bed with support from your legs. :)
@spaceengineer1452Ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies 👍✌️😎
@elliotttuffin3653Ай бұрын
Please you got with the Beatles! Wait to you hear it it beats any other pressing. I have all the original pressings and this beats them all, more bass. Even though it’s digital it’s sounds the best to my ears. Enjoy the music my friend greetings from the uk Elliott ✌️
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
I will! Thank you!
@cosetteland3816Ай бұрын
BurgundySkies. I like your "handle." Thank you for responding. I figured it out. I also have the five dvd disc's also. Blessings! 😊...Thank you again.
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
Thank you very much. And glad you got your set figured out. Enjoy it! Meanwhile I just got the Anthology on vinyl. And I am not sure which versions people that complained about them had... but let me tell ya... these pressings from a fee years ago, I guess from DeAgostini sets, sound frickin' amazing. Too bad they did not use more recent mixed for Real Love and Free as a Bird.
@LauraBaceanuАй бұрын
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@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
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@cosetteland3816Ай бұрын
Hello. I have viewed volume 1&2 dvd. However the dvd disc does not contain episode 2. Why is that? I just received the dvd set a few days ago. The first volume is the only one I have viewed so far. Help, anyone?
@BurgundySkiesАй бұрын
hello. are you talking about the first disc? or the 2nd one? I am asking because my set has 5 discs (dvds). 1st disc contains episodes 1 and 2, 2nd disc contains episodes 3 and 4 and so on.
@aminahmed22202 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! Good wishes to you as well.
@pelaronson40862 ай бұрын
Sory, this is soundtrack ,not album..😅
@francoalvear20102 ай бұрын
It's an album. The US Capitol made it a "soundtrack". In the UK was and still is considered an album.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
The US one yes. The UK one - definitely not. Or at most partially as half of the songs were in the movie. Arguably the most iconic song on it is Yesterday and that had nothing to do with the movie.
@MarcOrtizdeCandia-qi8yb2 ай бұрын
In your commentary, you referred to the “Help” Album as a studio album whereas here in the USA we consider both the UK and the USA releases as movie or film soundtracks; especially with the George Martin orchestral music arrangements on side two. This is also true of “Hard Day’s Night” and Yellow Submarine” for the same reason. “Magical Mystery Tour” is either considered a soundtrack as released here in the USA or a compilation. “Let It Be” is either a studio album or a soundtrack since it’s essentially derived from a film documentary. This is in reference to the original releases not necessarily to later CD versions, remixes, remasters, etcetera.
@francoalvear20102 ай бұрын
The Beatles released this as an album. They didn't considered it as a soundtrack, so, you cannot find that word in the artwork. It's an album. In the USA, Capitol butchered the original UK releases and made those "soundtracks". Cash grab.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
I guess it depends on how people came in contact with this for the first time. It is somewhat natural for certain countries to have this perspective when the record was released with only music present in the film, was advertised as such and was linked closely to the film release. I think it's more visible with AHDN. Certain songs on Help! were written for the movie at least to a certain extent. But the recording and inclusion of Yesterday and a couple of other tracks make the UK album stand on its own, and in my opinion quite independent from the movie. It is a reality that the construction of the batch of US albums up until Sgt Pepper was partially resulted from Capitol's insistent need to re-arrange the releases as they thought woulf get them more sales, from the technical angle of limiting the no. of tracks on an album to limit the royalties, the involvement of United Artists who owned distribution of just the music included in the films and had nothing to do with the band's idea of an album. This was made very clear once they had enough leverage to force Capitol to release what they wanted the way they wanted.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Accurate. But not simply a cash grab, it was also forced by the movie release rights for the US. Although anyway, it would be a couple more years until The Beatles had enough pull to force proper album releases in the US. The UK Help was largely seen as their 5th studio album, with some of the songs being in the movie as well.
@josephblue41352 ай бұрын
The 2009 cd is louder than the 1987 & both have heavy reverb on some songs. Thanks for your review.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Hmm. I will try those two again, it's a bit more difficult to notice loudness between two CDs for me as it takes a few seconds to switch. The reverb is somewhat clear though. Thank you as well for being here!
@thinkbeatles2 ай бұрын
Did you know that the song It’s Only Love was recorded during the Help album
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Indeed. Included in the UK Help! album but then included in the US Rubber Soul.
@murch132 ай бұрын
In Canada we briefly got the original 1960's stereo mixes of help and rubber soul on cd. These were made by "disque amerique". As far as a I know the only way to get them on cd unless you buy the entire mono box set.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Yeah, that was one of those Beatels related mishaps I think, but maybe a happy one. I would be so curious to know how does the 65 mix of Help sound on the early limited CDs from disque versus the one on the Mono set from 09. That is also because I think the latter sounds kinda amazing.
@patriot11512 ай бұрын
I always seem to prefer the Beatles in stereo.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Don't tell anybody but... I am starting to... too. :) There are some exceptions though.
@patriot11512 ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies same here.
@patriot11512 ай бұрын
Just discovered your channel keep up the excellent work.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much, I will.
@patriot11512 ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies☺️
@Stco232 ай бұрын
BTW, some of those CD's from The Capitol Albums that you have are copy controlled and contain Rootkits if you try to play them on your computer. There are releases of The Capitol Albums that don't have those copy controlled discs and I recommend people getting those instead. I watched a video by VWestlife about these copy controlled discs. I will have the title of the video just below! "Copy protected" audio CDs & installing the Sony rootkit - VWestlife
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Haven't "computerized" them yet, but good note, thank you.
@phillipanderson73982 ай бұрын
" the sh*ttiest load of badly recorded sh*t with a lousy feeling to it ever " - John Lennon's thoughts on the Let It Be/ Get Back sessions, 1970.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
All of them were left with bad thoughts on that period. Fortunately for them Paul and Ringo had enough time to reconsider. Unfortunately John and George did not.
@paulasalar-to4tp2 ай бұрын
You are doing a great job for the new generations, Radu! Proud of you! Big hugs))))))))
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Thank you very very much!!!
@sammcbride21492 ай бұрын
I watched "Let It Be" yesterday for the first time since the early 1980's. I enjoyed it the first time and as much as I enjoyed it this second time I kept thinking that it must have been confusing for the original audience who saw it in theaters. It leaves you wondering what the heck is going on unless you already happen to know the back story. I didn't watch "Get Back" when it first came out, but I'm watching it now.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Have fun with Get Back, I think you will find that after it... everything makes sense.
@aminahmed22202 ай бұрын
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also today is my oldest sister birthday ❤
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Thank you and Happy Birthday to her.
@chrissnyder71812 ай бұрын
Im a huge fan too. Thanks for the video but you talk alittle fast in this video. I agree Get Back supersedes the Let it Be movie. Take care friend
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Thank you, It is possible I was trying to get as much info out in a short amount of time. :)
@mikebauer74092 ай бұрын
Why is the sky babbling on I want to see the video where John's playing the piano in his house in England and the guy comes to the door and the bouncer wants to throw him out but he turns around and says hey man help him out where is that video at
@Zholobov12 ай бұрын
"Gimme Some Truth" 1999 (or 2000?) documentary, remastered in 2018.
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
right on
@sharonevans68642 ай бұрын
I saw Let It Be in the theaters in 1970 as a thirteen year old. At that age I absolutely loved it, did not care about how it was edited and that there was not much of a story just loved seeing the Beatles in the studio. Fast forward to now and I love that the picture quality and sound are greatly improved and that is now available to watch. Like you I think the Get Back series will be the go to for that period in the Beatles lives. I love how everything was explained and went day by day. So glad we are still getting Beatle product after all these years. Take care!
@Beatleslover32 ай бұрын
You’re so lucky you got to see the original in theaters!
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Lucky indeed. But it does not seem that was a general sentiment. I would assume more success of it back then would have meant more demand for reruns and home video. :(
@BurgundySkies2 ай бұрын
Lovely story and thank you for sharing. It was an interesting period, and in any case without Hogg and the work and inspiration back then, Get Back itself would not have been possible.
@sharonevans68642 ай бұрын
That is very true
@EmmaEmbla3 ай бұрын
I also really like Beatles For Sale, I do understand people being disappointed in how many of the tracks are covers, but the originals are really good I think.
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
It is true, and the slight change in mood really predicts some of their later work. But even the covers, to me they sound kinda neat. And the most important thing is these are songs they enjoyed performing, and you can feel the passion.
@capitolemiproducer3 ай бұрын
19:45 You did not mention that MMT mono and stereo has the "Capitol" Rainbow label from the USA and not Parophone
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Indeed.
@user-ff1dd8lq7x3 ай бұрын
Does it mean there is a standardized condition classification?
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Are you refering to the record condition standards?
@Russell__Smith3 ай бұрын
The US CD sleeve is a faithfull replica of a period US album sleeve. They were pasted slicks over card.
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
I knew they were not flipbacks like the UK mono ones but thought they would be still full cartboard but with the flips glued inside, but still printed on both sides. I guess it was the most cost efficient way. Thanks for confirming.
@jmmgamer13 ай бұрын
Great work on these videos dude
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for watching and for the appreciation. It does mean a lot.
@rumorhasit3 ай бұрын
Nice intro and music, Radu! Keep it up🔥🔥🔥
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! The music of course is not mine, and credited in the description to the proper creators. But I do agree it sounds nice
@debessar953 ай бұрын
Are you from Russia or former USSR?
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Hello. Nope. But as close as can be. Romania.
@debessar953 ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies Hello, Romania!
@BurgundySkies3 ай бұрын
Hello!!! Where are you from?
@elliotttuffin36534 ай бұрын
Hi my friend try get the 2012 with the Beatles vinyl it’s the best pressing of the stereo version. The harry moss is good but lacks bass. Enjoying your videos ✌️
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Thank you for being here. I am going to try at least a few of them, and this one was also on my list but a bit down on it.
@sharonevans68644 ай бұрын
Glad you are doing this series on the individual albums. I have been trying to make sure I have a good copy of their albums , it seems like once they are remastered it becomes harder to obtain a good sounding original copy. You really do a good job in showing the different versions. Take care!
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for watching. The series will continue, I am only worried about a couple of them where I am still waiting for some versions to come in. But otherwise I will see this through.
@SpaceCattttt4 ай бұрын
I will never understand this album's relative lack of popularity. To me, the Beatles' early days were when they were still performing together as a group, and no matter how much they grew and progressed as songwriters and recording artists, those early days was when they were on FIRE! Simply by playing live together, they created the kind of magic that just isn't possible when you record each instrument separately over many months. Is With the Beatles their best album? No, clearly not. That honour goes to Abbey Road. But it's perhaps the one album I return to the most, and it also includes what is perhaps my favourite Beatles song of them all, "It Won't Be Long". In this day and age, people seem to be obsessed with being offended by a song like "Little Child" and the fact that there are so many covers on the album. But "Little Child" wasn't offensive at the time it was written. Nor should it be today. And the covers, well, they're for the most part equal to, if not greater than the original versions, so I don't have a problem with them. Overall, this is a great album from a time when the Beatles were still excited about what they were doing and where they were going. And you can hear it!
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
I think songs like Little Child, I saw her standing there and Run for your life get a bad rep partially because they apparently refer to teenage girls. I think the "little girl/child" appelative is akin to the appelative "baby" when referring to lovers, which was also popularised by rock n roll. I saw her standing there is more explicit with regard to age indeed and Run for your life can be interpreted to be kinda sexist if you think about it, and especially knowing John's sometimes abusive relationship with women. I do think the lyrics are not to be taken ad literam, and aside from being put in the historical context, they're also purposefuly exaggerated. Anyway, I have to admit that at this moment, although I do love some songs on it, although I have 0 problems with covers from this and other early albums (in fact 3-4 of my top 20-30 songs of theirs might be covers), and although I do get how major and iconic this album was, it's probably my 2nd least prefered album, in terms of number of songs on it that I really love. I so love half of them, but on most other albums it's usually more than 7 I would add to any compilation. Except for this one and Yellow Submarine. When it comes to recording and playing together yes, this and the first 4-6 albums were the pinnacle of enjoyment for them, and in the 1st 3-4 of them the joy of playing their own originals and all those covers they loved, exudes from almost every track.
@SpaceCattttt4 ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies Then we are in agreement, apart from how we rank this album next to the rest of the band's discography. As for "Little Child", considering that the boys were playing to mostly screaming teenage girls, and probably felt a lot older than them, being in their 20s and all (!), not to mention Lennon's disdain for anyone who came to their show with the intention of screaming rather than listening, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the song was at least partly written as a response to the early stages of Beatlemania... "Run for Your Life" is more difficult to defend. Lennon himself disliked it, of course, so there's that. But the fact remains that he borrowed much of the lyric from a different song, which I don't recall the name of. I believe Elvis sang it. And he did like Elvis! When I listen to it, I don't hear sexism so much as male insecurity. It's basically Incel-behaviour. Very toxic and very possessive. But it's also just a song, and there's every possibility that Lennon was singing as the protagonist of the lyric, and not as himself. Sometimes it's important to separate the artist from the art, you know?
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Even if he was singing as himself, different times, different background and he was at an age where people often do and say stupit sh*t. Thankfully he seemed to have outgrown that incel-ism 😁 short time after. I still like the song though. Not because of the lyrics but rather in spite of them. When I was a kid I never took them too serious tbh, I mean... "hide your head in the sand"? Clearly not meant to be taken literally.
@SpaceCattttt4 ай бұрын
@@BurgundySkies Sorry for the late reply. Had to run off yesterday. Anyway, yes, I think it's important to remember how young the Beatles were, even at the end of their career. I still have my diaries from when I was 25, and reading through them is like reading the words of a complete stranger! Of course, I didn't publish those diaries, so I don't have to be judged for them, but still, there are a lot of MUCH worse songs out there. I mean, I find it hilarious that people should be offended by "Run for Your Life" when your average Cannibal Corpse song is a billion times more shocking. But then again, I suppose the Beatles had a cleaner image to uphold! 😂 Thanks for chatting, by the way. I appreciate you taking the time. Oh, and I enjoyed the video. I was half-expecting a surprise twist with you suddenly declaring the Russian bootleg the superior version! That would've been a shock!
@beatlefancraig674 ай бұрын
Hi 👋,I'm from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 ,the original Australian released issue of "With The Beatles" was for many years released on an alternative picture cover than the U.K issue cos EMI in Australia couldn't really reproduce the U.K picture properly due to the poor quality of the original black & white exposure of the 4 half exposed faces of the band members on the U.K cover picture although the story goes that EMI Australia had a weird union rule not to do it? (it was a similar scenario with the original Australian issue of "Beatles For Sale" by also switching to an alternative cover!), by 1982 EMI Australia was finally able to reproduce & reissue "With The Beatles" on the U.K cover picture.
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Hi Craig! Thank you for being here. That was the one with their heads floating on a dark background right?
@beatlefancraig674 ай бұрын
Yes!
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
That was a trippy one. Still unique though.
@arminzink19254 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot for this great video. I really enjoy it. I read in the comments, that someone complained about that your channel is just another Beatles channel. I am grateful for this! you do very well researched videos with an extremely high knowledge of the stuff you are talking. I really appreciate your thorough deep dives.So, please carry on with that! Now to Please Please Me: I fully agree that the 70th German pressing with -2/-2 matrix sounds best. But I also love the 2012 stereo remasters on vinyl. Its bad reputation is unjustified in my opinion. Inspired by your video, I compared my 2009 mono CD with the 1988 digitally sources LP version (never got the CD). Very similar to your experience, there is hardly any difference to hear. I think, the bad reputation, the early 1987 Beatles CDs and LPs have, is quite unfair. At my system (not an audiophile system, but a good HiFi) they do sound great... I guess, fans had been very disappointed when these albums had been released in mono only,.at least here in HiFi-loving Germany. Currently I am spinning my 1986 UK pressing (-4/-4 matrix). Not bad either, but the german HörZu respectively the Apple versions has a little bit more of the magic. BR from Munich and I am looking forward for the next episode.
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for being here and for the kind words. As a person following several YT channels myself (beyond music or The Beatles), I know nowadays we have our pick of content so I am always happy when someone chooses to check out any of these videos. Regarding The Beatles I do not plan on stopping, I am too linked to their music to do that, but I do want (and always intended) to cover other stuff as well. Back to the music, all in all it seems to me more and more that digital remasters can sometimes be on par with the original analogue ones, at least when it comes to what my ears can perceive. I do agree that when someone takes an original master tape to make a digital remaster, and they start playing around with eq and other settings, and pumping up volume artificially, you can get some bad results. Same goes for new mixes (see a couple of the mistakes they made on a few songs in the new Red and Blue). In the end that can happen to vinyl pressings as well, it's not the medium we should blame. But beyond that... I find that I am enjoying my CDs at least as much as vinyl. Related to what you said about the 87-88 CDs and Vinyl being unappreciated at the time, you might be right. In the end there were three things that surely influenced that: how people's ears were used to listen to music (vinyl, tapes etc), what they expected and had built up as expectation on how CDs will sound and last but not least the level of tech and expertise people had at that time transferring music to digital (vs today). Danke!
@davepounds89244 ай бұрын
Wondering if your channel is just another Beatles channel??KZread is filled with thousands of Beatles channels all showing and talking about the same thing It makes it harder to branch out and get more views doesn’t it???
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Yeah, tbh it was not intended to be a 100% focused Beatles channel. It still is not. It's more about things I was/am passionate about. It just started with the Beatles, and I had so many things lined up while I was progressing with collecting items, that I'm kinda sticking with it for a while. Regarding Beatles channels, I would not say there are thousands, or at least not that I am aware of, there definitely some which are like 90% Beatles focused, but I saw more that are just like a mix related mostly to music. Anyway, I did not necessarily want to mirror any other channel, as my perspective is not one of a semi-rich person collecting this stuff for decades, it's rather of a new collector or specialist, just a layman, hopefully also encouraging other people who cannot afford or don't have the time to buy and own and listen to every single possible pressing or version. In the idea that there are more people like me out there ofc. About branching out: you are 100% correct. I am only learning this whole "youtube" thing, and being quite late at this party as well, I can say that the current state of facts pushes new people into choosing very specific niches and sticking with them. Not sure where the future will take me, but what I am sure of is that I don't want to just be chasing trends. I would love to do videos about films and series, about games as well, but time is also very tight, and so (for now) I need to make choices. But one thing I can say is that after starting something like this, with an apparent focus point for the first few months, branching out does not mean views, often it means the opposite.
@elliotttuffin36534 ай бұрын
Totally agree with you 2012 sounds fantastic 👍
@BurgundySkies4 ай бұрын
Still wondering why people were putting these down.
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I did the same thing with the inner and outer sleeves for the stereo set. They did such a good job with the mono set, wonder why they didn't do the same with the stereo set.
I guess they kept them cheaper, although they are clearly setup for scuffs. However, I noticed that even the poli inners can be problematic if they are too tight and also depend on temperature and the material they're produced from
My ranking: Stereo: 1) German A-2/B-3 2) Dutch 2-Y/1-Y 3) UK -4/-4 4) UK -1/-1 5) MFSL 6) 2009 CD 7) 1987 CD Mono: 1) 2014 Vinyl 2) 2009 CD 3) UK -1/-1 I can’t really mix in the mono with stereo. They’re different animals so I have to compare them separately.
Indeed, too bad since 2014 Apple did not get the memo that people really would have bought Mono pressings if they re issued them.
This album released in communist Czechoslovakia in 1987 .A Hard Days Night in 1986-The Beatles Expedice Rock n Roll in 1983.The Beatles 1962-65 in 1981 Abbey Road mono version in 1972-Abbey Road stereo version in 1979.Oldies But Goldies in 1969 .single Yesterday_- I Should Have known Better in 1976 and single Yesterday ,She Loves You in 1972 ..ALL IS ON SUPRAPHON LABEL
Indeed Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were (fortunately) places where people could actually procure Beatles albums during the Communism. Romania unfortunately was not. :( How do those Czechoslovakian pressings sound?
I have a brazilian verson
Hello. And how is that sound-wise. When looking for affordable pressings I often run into Mexican or Brazilian pressings, and I am always unsure of how they sound, as well as being a bit deterred by the distance.
Some facts if you care: There are 2 stereo mixes of Help! and Rubber because in 1987, George Martin heard the original 1965 mixes and didn't like them. This was the year that The Beatles were getting their premiere release on CD. Yes, EMI waited a long time since the 1982 debut of the Compact Disc. Martin called the original Stereo mixes 'wooly' and remixed them in '87 for their CD debut. The 2009 remixes stem from the '87 mixes, so the original '65 mixes have never been updated. They were just transferred to the Mono CDs. And for those who are interested, ALL CD's are stereo. So the Mono CDs is just the mono mix on each channel. 100% identical. Sgt. Pepper was when the Beatles actually started climbing the stairs to the control room and having more of a creative input on the mixes. For a month, The mono mix was worked on with ALL Beatles present whenever they were there. The Stereo mix was done in....a week? a few days? much shorter and only Ringo has confirmed to be present. The Stereo mix has very interesting choices (like removing the phase shifting effect on John's Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds vocal or the pitch being lowered in She's Leaving Home) but nonetheless weren't as much a Beatles creative input as the mono mix. Also, for the 2017 Giles Martin/Sam Okell remixed the album for it's 50th anniversary using the mono mix. That and the fact the Beatles were creatively involved with the mono mix tells me how definitive the mono mix is. Revolver objectively has different elements in each mix. John's "A LIFE OF EASE" line in Yellow Submarine is present in the mono mix, along with two acoustic guitar chords at the beginning, whereas the stereo mix has silence when Ringo sings "In the..." then music comes in at "town". There are different backwards guitar solos I think in I'm only sleeping and a different fadeout in Tomorrow Never Knows (one fadeout is longer so you hear more music) Paul's Automatic Double Tracking (ADT) error is fixed in the mono mix, but that mistake is present the first time he says Eleanor Rigby. All 4 of these albums were recorded on 4 track tape. Most of these songs feature Ringo's drums only on the left channel and different instruments specifically on one side of your speaker/ear. The stereo mixes are better. George Martin went independent from EMI in 1965, and I believe Rubber Soul was his first outing from that. Why he went back to the Rubber Soul stereo mix by HARD panning the instruments on the far left side and the vocals on the far right with SILENCE inbetween is beyond me. His 1987 mix rectified this a little, but you CAN'T listen to Rubber Soul in stereo. It's mono all the way (like Please Please Me and With The Beatles).
Yeah, I mention the alternate mixes for Rubber Soul and Help in later videos when I had both to compare. Well Rubber Soul is still pending. To be honest in headphones some of these mixes are jarring. In speakers at a certain distance they sound quite nice, but I have to say I slightly prefer the 2009 CDs to the original 87 ones, at least for some albums. Also tend to prefer some of the recent new mixes by Giles.
@@BurgundySkies I'm not surprised. with a fresh new set of ears, George Martin put more dimension and fullness into those '87 mixes. Add the 2009 touch for the modern speaker set and bam! The best way for me to listen to The Night Before is the 2009 version!
This!!! You mention The Night Before, but it goes for almost any song, meaning if you put all versions of a song side by side, I doubt anyone would ever choose one year/version of the album/pressing/cd. You have songs that sound excellent on the 2009 remasters, some which sound pretty nice on the 87 cds, some which sound better in Mono, some in Stereo, some original mixes still stand, but Giles did an excellent job on some tracks and made more recent versions of albums the go-to for me (vinyl and CD). One one hand it's nice, multiple versions can sometimes mean different but still pleasant experiences. One the other hand... having to own "n" versions of an album just to get the best variations is a big frustrating.
Great content, man. I've gone down a rabbit hole of this subject and would like to share some context. In the stereo booklets, the end section talks about how the album was recorded. Something to take from that are 3 numbers: 2, 4 and 8 When these were recorded to analogue tape in the 60's, these numbers represent the amount of tracks on the tape itself. Please Please Me and With The Beatles were recorded on 2 track tape: instruments wired to one track and the vocals to the next track. This left small room for overdubs (like handclaps, harmonicas and harmoniums added after the song was recorded) without risking sound degradation by recopying the tape to a new blank tape to free up space. Those first two albums were recorded like this to edit the vocals and instruments easier. It's intent was to make the mono mix the best it could be. The stereo release of Please Please Me was released MONTHS after the release date of said album (obviously mono), and George Martin had no clue they even released it! Stereo was an afterthought. As you basically said, kids had cheap record players with one speaker. Some of their dad's who were audiophiles had the stereo setup and were listening to classical music or jazz. Rock n' Roll was pretty much mono in the UK until the late 60's. The next two albums mark the most common tape used: 4 track. Much more room for overdubs. They put the voice in the center! an organ here on the left; a guitar solo here on the right. But the ONE reason I can't listen to the Beatles in stereo is because they didn't put the drums in the center like the vocals! Ringo is off to the left channel like a feature instrument rather the backbone of the song! This sounds strange in Paperback Writer, I Feel Fine (which ruins the vibe of that 60's af song) and countless others (Sgt. Pepper!) This may not bother all. I researched the recording history of the first 9 albums. George Martin and engineers (Norman Smith and later Geoff Emerick) would start to put in effort with stereo (in my opinion around Beatles For Sale). Some of the mixes felt rushed; others were solid. In my research, mono was usually FIRST to be mixed and was the thing that got finished or remixed first. The only time stereo took precedent was for obligations outside of the album (like United Artists needing mixes for the movie and American soundtrack). Producers will even tell you today you want to focus on mono before you dip into stereo; to get it down perfectly balanced. And I feel that's part of George Martin's goal (along with the familiarity with UK rock n' roll being a mono dominated genre). Stereo mixes of A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale are good. A Hard Day's Night has warts (like John's misaligned double track intro on 'If I Fell' and Paul's squeaky voice at the last '...was in vain,') but for the fan that doesn't care, or the fan who can get over RINGO not being panned into the center (drums on only the left track, that's insanity), then you can get away with the stereo. But if anyone is still reading, thank you first of all. But also, The Beatles, their producer and engineers were mono focused for a very long time. Their self titled album ("The White Album") is where it gets complicated. But if you can pick up the mono CDs, even just to burn them, do it. They were meant to be in mono. The artists wanted their finished product to be what mono sounded like. Stereo was in its mainstream infancy in the UK and sometimes was an after thought. I like to think it was split in pieces and spread around the stereo soundscape. It doesn't blend, and it's music chunks in corners and some elements in the middle. It's rough. The Beatles mono mixes sound like a band together in the same room, balanced and engineered to give you the impression it's one coherent song. The mono mix just sounds normal and full.....altogether; the stereo sound pulled apart with not enough panning or reverb to make it sound like one collective song. edit: spelling and addition of 'full....." at the end.
Thank you for this. Additional context and info will always be welcomed, if not always for me, at least for other people visiting. I became familiar in the past couple of years with all the elements that shaped the original mixes, and this demix tech that has been out for the past two years should allow for stronger stereo mixes. Of course, given that any mix is a personal thing for the engineer/producer, and the fact that anyone can make mistakes, there will always be results that do not please everyone (see the new mix of Magical Mystery Tour from the 2023 Blue album). But, at least for Stereo, some of these were sorely needed.
@@BurgundySkies Good point: some Beatles could use a stereo refresh for a full sounding, wide stereo image. That Magically Mystery Tour remix is likely a cut and paste job from the MMT box set that came out in I think 2012. Unless they tinkered with it recently, most 2023 Blue album tracks are a cut and paste of the Giles Martin/Sam Okell anniversary editions. I've never heard the MMT box set (it contains a replica double EP as one of its goodies) so im curious.
Beatles is better. Queen should have waited and put more great tracks on a dubble album or left off a few tracks so it don't sound so muddy and compressed.
In terms of how these compilations were built and how at least some of their variations sound, I totally agree. Music of course is subjective, quality of sound can be to a certain extent, but here to me it's quite clear.
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8:50 - I agree with you on E-bay. I have a mono CD box set but I wanted to get another one, just for the hell of it. I ended up with a fake one, none of the discs would play and the covers were falling apart, BACK it wemt!!! I did get a refund. Seller says he didn't know it was fake and apologized.
Yeah, ironically although Discogs has less protection for buyers, you find less fakes on there than sites like Ebay where anyone can sell almost anything.
I like Thank You Girl in mono but not stereo because I don't like the extra harmonica. I get satisfaction from hearing the mono version in the places where the harmonica is not there.
hmmm, I'm gonna have to give that another try
@@BurgundySkies Yes the mono version is much better. I had the Do You Want To Know A Secret, and Thank You Girl is the B side, and was released by Vee-Jay in 1964. I still have the single.
are you saying this is the only way to get the cd's in mono ? because im sure the first 4 cd's realeased in the late 80's were mono and can be found cheap
Probably should have been clearer: the only way to find ALL the mono albums in mono on CD.
i have a so called fake version of the Mono Set and it sounds bloody fine to me and £375 cheaper
You mean the vinyl one? Cause the CD one is nowhere near that price tag, even genuine and sealed.
“Obviously vinyl has become the preferred way for audiophiles to collect and listen to music” err… no it hasn’t? Vinyl collecting and being an audiophile are two entirely separate and usually mutually exclusive hobbies unless you are very wealthy. No analogue system below £2000 sounds vaguely acceptable to an audiophile and the vast majority of records in existence are either in poor condition, or poor quality pressings, or cut from poor sources. You’d probably be hitting an average of £60 per album if you were seeking out good sounding records. If you want a decent sized collection of, say, 500 albums you really like, that’s £30000. And you’d better be taking out insurance on that. So no, most audiophiles are not vinyl collectors, or if they are, they’re probably under the influence of some serious doublethink. CDs still outsell vinyl by volume in most parts of the world and I’d wager a higher percentage of CD buyers are discerning about sound quality than vinyl buyers, who are very clearly happy with overpriced noisy junk off of Amazon.
I mean I will not dispute that, but what I can say is that at least in the audiophile centric forums I visited, most people were talking about turntables, styli and the best pressings. I guess it also depends on the music itself. There are those who might own master tapes or copies of master tapes of certain albums, and depending on their setup that might be the best way to listen to those albums. On the other hand it seemed to me like it's an accepted thing among a lot of music collectors that they prefer (at least music from the 50s, 60s, 70s) on vinyl rather than CD. Not the case for me. Even if since I recorded this, I did build up a small vinyl collection as well, I still feel like many of my CDs sound better than their vinyl counterparts.
Last week I ordered the Anthology dvd box set from Amazon and it was a fake. Got a refund and ordered it from another company. Should get it next week, fingers crossed it's genuine.
Kepping mine crossed for you as well. Just be aware that these are not being produced anymore for quite a while, so don't expect new sets at very small prices.
nice set , tho i would be tempted tp flip it for a near mint set ,,,i have owned many sets and most were near mint to unplayed they are not hard to find,,for some reason most people who owned these sets hardly played them . also I will say without doubt the Swedish /German import set ( seek out Germany 1981 import) walks all over the Dutch set it is even better than the uk ,,, all the cuts in the swedish set are from original to second pressings of the uk albums..the 78 uk set is severall pressings beyond the swedish set..the swedish team curated what they felt were the best pressings available to them and every album sounds incredable ,,,,parogram is wrong about the white album ,,its from a highly regarded mid 70's german pressing ,,the couple non uk albums are from great german pressings ... this is the one set that didnt use off the shelf or pressings of the time of release ,,,these are fantastic sounding first and second pressings ,or in a couple cases a rare elusive pressing...it is a truely stand out from all the blue box sets ,,they really put extra effort into securing some of the best pressing of every album available...get one before the mainstream figues it out,,you will not be dissapointed,,,plus you get the cool german covers!
Thank you. Yeah, after doing more and more research, I agree with you completely. However it was also a price issue for me as I am sure is for many. Plus you know... when you buy online remotely... you're kinda locked on trusting the seller. And in this case, supposedly this was supposed to be vg++++++++. Well... PS: I did get some of the German ones in the meantime btw: Please Please Me and MMT of course, but also Help and The White Album. Mostly esquisite.
I love that ,when this video was uploaded, this channel hadn't uploaded a video for sixteen years.
That's just because of laziness. 😁
The book is so heavy and big it’s very hard to read.
Yeah and this is the case for some of the other books, best way is in bed with support from your legs. :)
@@BurgundySkies 👍✌️😎
Please you got with the Beatles! Wait to you hear it it beats any other pressing. I have all the original pressings and this beats them all, more bass. Even though it’s digital it’s sounds the best to my ears. Enjoy the music my friend greetings from the uk Elliott ✌️
I will! Thank you!
BurgundySkies. I like your "handle." Thank you for responding. I figured it out. I also have the five dvd disc's also. Blessings! 😊...Thank you again.
Thank you very much. And glad you got your set figured out. Enjoy it! Meanwhile I just got the Anthology on vinyl. And I am not sure which versions people that complained about them had... but let me tell ya... these pressings from a fee years ago, I guess from DeAgostini sets, sound frickin' amazing. Too bad they did not use more recent mixed for Real Love and Free as a Bird.
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Hello. I have viewed volume 1&2 dvd. However the dvd disc does not contain episode 2. Why is that? I just received the dvd set a few days ago. The first volume is the only one I have viewed so far. Help, anyone?
hello. are you talking about the first disc? or the 2nd one? I am asking because my set has 5 discs (dvds). 1st disc contains episodes 1 and 2, 2nd disc contains episodes 3 and 4 and so on.
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day ❤😊
Thank you very much! Good wishes to you as well.
Sory, this is soundtrack ,not album..😅
It's an album. The US Capitol made it a "soundtrack". In the UK was and still is considered an album.
The US one yes. The UK one - definitely not. Or at most partially as half of the songs were in the movie. Arguably the most iconic song on it is Yesterday and that had nothing to do with the movie.
In your commentary, you referred to the “Help” Album as a studio album whereas here in the USA we consider both the UK and the USA releases as movie or film soundtracks; especially with the George Martin orchestral music arrangements on side two. This is also true of “Hard Day’s Night” and Yellow Submarine” for the same reason. “Magical Mystery Tour” is either considered a soundtrack as released here in the USA or a compilation. “Let It Be” is either a studio album or a soundtrack since it’s essentially derived from a film documentary. This is in reference to the original releases not necessarily to later CD versions, remixes, remasters, etcetera.
The Beatles released this as an album. They didn't considered it as a soundtrack, so, you cannot find that word in the artwork. It's an album. In the USA, Capitol butchered the original UK releases and made those "soundtracks". Cash grab.
I guess it depends on how people came in contact with this for the first time. It is somewhat natural for certain countries to have this perspective when the record was released with only music present in the film, was advertised as such and was linked closely to the film release. I think it's more visible with AHDN. Certain songs on Help! were written for the movie at least to a certain extent. But the recording and inclusion of Yesterday and a couple of other tracks make the UK album stand on its own, and in my opinion quite independent from the movie. It is a reality that the construction of the batch of US albums up until Sgt Pepper was partially resulted from Capitol's insistent need to re-arrange the releases as they thought woulf get them more sales, from the technical angle of limiting the no. of tracks on an album to limit the royalties, the involvement of United Artists who owned distribution of just the music included in the films and had nothing to do with the band's idea of an album. This was made very clear once they had enough leverage to force Capitol to release what they wanted the way they wanted.
Accurate. But not simply a cash grab, it was also forced by the movie release rights for the US. Although anyway, it would be a couple more years until The Beatles had enough pull to force proper album releases in the US. The UK Help was largely seen as their 5th studio album, with some of the songs being in the movie as well.
The 2009 cd is louder than the 1987 & both have heavy reverb on some songs. Thanks for your review.
Hmm. I will try those two again, it's a bit more difficult to notice loudness between two CDs for me as it takes a few seconds to switch. The reverb is somewhat clear though. Thank you as well for being here!
Did you know that the song It’s Only Love was recorded during the Help album
Indeed. Included in the UK Help! album but then included in the US Rubber Soul.
In Canada we briefly got the original 1960's stereo mixes of help and rubber soul on cd. These were made by "disque amerique". As far as a I know the only way to get them on cd unless you buy the entire mono box set.
Yeah, that was one of those Beatels related mishaps I think, but maybe a happy one. I would be so curious to know how does the 65 mix of Help sound on the early limited CDs from disque versus the one on the Mono set from 09. That is also because I think the latter sounds kinda amazing.
I always seem to prefer the Beatles in stereo.
Don't tell anybody but... I am starting to... too. :) There are some exceptions though.
@@BurgundySkies same here.
Just discovered your channel keep up the excellent work.
Thank you very much, I will.
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BTW, some of those CD's from The Capitol Albums that you have are copy controlled and contain Rootkits if you try to play them on your computer. There are releases of The Capitol Albums that don't have those copy controlled discs and I recommend people getting those instead. I watched a video by VWestlife about these copy controlled discs. I will have the title of the video just below! "Copy protected" audio CDs & installing the Sony rootkit - VWestlife
Haven't "computerized" them yet, but good note, thank you.
" the sh*ttiest load of badly recorded sh*t with a lousy feeling to it ever " - John Lennon's thoughts on the Let It Be/ Get Back sessions, 1970.
All of them were left with bad thoughts on that period. Fortunately for them Paul and Ringo had enough time to reconsider. Unfortunately John and George did not.
You are doing a great job for the new generations, Radu! Proud of you! Big hugs))))))))
Thank you very very much!!!
I watched "Let It Be" yesterday for the first time since the early 1980's. I enjoyed it the first time and as much as I enjoyed it this second time I kept thinking that it must have been confusing for the original audience who saw it in theaters. It leaves you wondering what the heck is going on unless you already happen to know the back story. I didn't watch "Get Back" when it first came out, but I'm watching it now.
Have fun with Get Back, I think you will find that after it... everything makes sense.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also today is my oldest sister birthday ❤
Thank you and Happy Birthday to her.
Im a huge fan too. Thanks for the video but you talk alittle fast in this video. I agree Get Back supersedes the Let it Be movie. Take care friend
Thank you, It is possible I was trying to get as much info out in a short amount of time. :)
Why is the sky babbling on I want to see the video where John's playing the piano in his house in England and the guy comes to the door and the bouncer wants to throw him out but he turns around and says hey man help him out where is that video at
"Gimme Some Truth" 1999 (or 2000?) documentary, remastered in 2018.
right on
I saw Let It Be in the theaters in 1970 as a thirteen year old. At that age I absolutely loved it, did not care about how it was edited and that there was not much of a story just loved seeing the Beatles in the studio. Fast forward to now and I love that the picture quality and sound are greatly improved and that is now available to watch. Like you I think the Get Back series will be the go to for that period in the Beatles lives. I love how everything was explained and went day by day. So glad we are still getting Beatle product after all these years. Take care!
You’re so lucky you got to see the original in theaters!
Lucky indeed. But it does not seem that was a general sentiment. I would assume more success of it back then would have meant more demand for reruns and home video. :(
Lovely story and thank you for sharing. It was an interesting period, and in any case without Hogg and the work and inspiration back then, Get Back itself would not have been possible.
That is very true
I also really like Beatles For Sale, I do understand people being disappointed in how many of the tracks are covers, but the originals are really good I think.
It is true, and the slight change in mood really predicts some of their later work. But even the covers, to me they sound kinda neat. And the most important thing is these are songs they enjoyed performing, and you can feel the passion.
19:45 You did not mention that MMT mono and stereo has the "Capitol" Rainbow label from the USA and not Parophone
Indeed.
Does it mean there is a standardized condition classification?
Are you refering to the record condition standards?
The US CD sleeve is a faithfull replica of a period US album sleeve. They were pasted slicks over card.
I knew they were not flipbacks like the UK mono ones but thought they would be still full cartboard but with the flips glued inside, but still printed on both sides. I guess it was the most cost efficient way. Thanks for confirming.
Great work on these videos dude
Thank you very much for watching and for the appreciation. It does mean a lot.
Nice intro and music, Radu! Keep it up🔥🔥🔥
Thank you so much! The music of course is not mine, and credited in the description to the proper creators. But I do agree it sounds nice
Are you from Russia or former USSR?
Hello. Nope. But as close as can be. Romania.
@@BurgundySkies Hello, Romania!
Hello!!! Where are you from?
Hi my friend try get the 2012 with the Beatles vinyl it’s the best pressing of the stereo version. The harry moss is good but lacks bass. Enjoying your videos ✌️
Thank you for being here. I am going to try at least a few of them, and this one was also on my list but a bit down on it.
Glad you are doing this series on the individual albums. I have been trying to make sure I have a good copy of their albums , it seems like once they are remastered it becomes harder to obtain a good sounding original copy. You really do a good job in showing the different versions. Take care!
Thank you very much for watching. The series will continue, I am only worried about a couple of them where I am still waiting for some versions to come in. But otherwise I will see this through.
I will never understand this album's relative lack of popularity. To me, the Beatles' early days were when they were still performing together as a group, and no matter how much they grew and progressed as songwriters and recording artists, those early days was when they were on FIRE! Simply by playing live together, they created the kind of magic that just isn't possible when you record each instrument separately over many months. Is With the Beatles their best album? No, clearly not. That honour goes to Abbey Road. But it's perhaps the one album I return to the most, and it also includes what is perhaps my favourite Beatles song of them all, "It Won't Be Long". In this day and age, people seem to be obsessed with being offended by a song like "Little Child" and the fact that there are so many covers on the album. But "Little Child" wasn't offensive at the time it was written. Nor should it be today. And the covers, well, they're for the most part equal to, if not greater than the original versions, so I don't have a problem with them. Overall, this is a great album from a time when the Beatles were still excited about what they were doing and where they were going. And you can hear it!
I think songs like Little Child, I saw her standing there and Run for your life get a bad rep partially because they apparently refer to teenage girls. I think the "little girl/child" appelative is akin to the appelative "baby" when referring to lovers, which was also popularised by rock n roll. I saw her standing there is more explicit with regard to age indeed and Run for your life can be interpreted to be kinda sexist if you think about it, and especially knowing John's sometimes abusive relationship with women. I do think the lyrics are not to be taken ad literam, and aside from being put in the historical context, they're also purposefuly exaggerated. Anyway, I have to admit that at this moment, although I do love some songs on it, although I have 0 problems with covers from this and other early albums (in fact 3-4 of my top 20-30 songs of theirs might be covers), and although I do get how major and iconic this album was, it's probably my 2nd least prefered album, in terms of number of songs on it that I really love. I so love half of them, but on most other albums it's usually more than 7 I would add to any compilation. Except for this one and Yellow Submarine. When it comes to recording and playing together yes, this and the first 4-6 albums were the pinnacle of enjoyment for them, and in the 1st 3-4 of them the joy of playing their own originals and all those covers they loved, exudes from almost every track.
@@BurgundySkies Then we are in agreement, apart from how we rank this album next to the rest of the band's discography. As for "Little Child", considering that the boys were playing to mostly screaming teenage girls, and probably felt a lot older than them, being in their 20s and all (!), not to mention Lennon's disdain for anyone who came to their show with the intention of screaming rather than listening, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the song was at least partly written as a response to the early stages of Beatlemania... "Run for Your Life" is more difficult to defend. Lennon himself disliked it, of course, so there's that. But the fact remains that he borrowed much of the lyric from a different song, which I don't recall the name of. I believe Elvis sang it. And he did like Elvis! When I listen to it, I don't hear sexism so much as male insecurity. It's basically Incel-behaviour. Very toxic and very possessive. But it's also just a song, and there's every possibility that Lennon was singing as the protagonist of the lyric, and not as himself. Sometimes it's important to separate the artist from the art, you know?
Even if he was singing as himself, different times, different background and he was at an age where people often do and say stupit sh*t. Thankfully he seemed to have outgrown that incel-ism 😁 short time after. I still like the song though. Not because of the lyrics but rather in spite of them. When I was a kid I never took them too serious tbh, I mean... "hide your head in the sand"? Clearly not meant to be taken literally.
@@BurgundySkies Sorry for the late reply. Had to run off yesterday. Anyway, yes, I think it's important to remember how young the Beatles were, even at the end of their career. I still have my diaries from when I was 25, and reading through them is like reading the words of a complete stranger! Of course, I didn't publish those diaries, so I don't have to be judged for them, but still, there are a lot of MUCH worse songs out there. I mean, I find it hilarious that people should be offended by "Run for Your Life" when your average Cannibal Corpse song is a billion times more shocking. But then again, I suppose the Beatles had a cleaner image to uphold! 😂 Thanks for chatting, by the way. I appreciate you taking the time. Oh, and I enjoyed the video. I was half-expecting a surprise twist with you suddenly declaring the Russian bootleg the superior version! That would've been a shock!
Hi 👋,I'm from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 ,the original Australian released issue of "With The Beatles" was for many years released on an alternative picture cover than the U.K issue cos EMI in Australia couldn't really reproduce the U.K picture properly due to the poor quality of the original black & white exposure of the 4 half exposed faces of the band members on the U.K cover picture although the story goes that EMI Australia had a weird union rule not to do it? (it was a similar scenario with the original Australian issue of "Beatles For Sale" by also switching to an alternative cover!), by 1982 EMI Australia was finally able to reproduce & reissue "With The Beatles" on the U.K cover picture.
Hi Craig! Thank you for being here. That was the one with their heads floating on a dark background right?
Yes!
That was a trippy one. Still unique though.
Thanks a lot for this great video. I really enjoy it. I read in the comments, that someone complained about that your channel is just another Beatles channel. I am grateful for this! you do very well researched videos with an extremely high knowledge of the stuff you are talking. I really appreciate your thorough deep dives.So, please carry on with that! Now to Please Please Me: I fully agree that the 70th German pressing with -2/-2 matrix sounds best. But I also love the 2012 stereo remasters on vinyl. Its bad reputation is unjustified in my opinion. Inspired by your video, I compared my 2009 mono CD with the 1988 digitally sources LP version (never got the CD). Very similar to your experience, there is hardly any difference to hear. I think, the bad reputation, the early 1987 Beatles CDs and LPs have, is quite unfair. At my system (not an audiophile system, but a good HiFi) they do sound great... I guess, fans had been very disappointed when these albums had been released in mono only,.at least here in HiFi-loving Germany. Currently I am spinning my 1986 UK pressing (-4/-4 matrix). Not bad either, but the german HörZu respectively the Apple versions has a little bit more of the magic. BR from Munich and I am looking forward for the next episode.
Thank you very much for being here and for the kind words. As a person following several YT channels myself (beyond music or The Beatles), I know nowadays we have our pick of content so I am always happy when someone chooses to check out any of these videos. Regarding The Beatles I do not plan on stopping, I am too linked to their music to do that, but I do want (and always intended) to cover other stuff as well. Back to the music, all in all it seems to me more and more that digital remasters can sometimes be on par with the original analogue ones, at least when it comes to what my ears can perceive. I do agree that when someone takes an original master tape to make a digital remaster, and they start playing around with eq and other settings, and pumping up volume artificially, you can get some bad results. Same goes for new mixes (see a couple of the mistakes they made on a few songs in the new Red and Blue). In the end that can happen to vinyl pressings as well, it's not the medium we should blame. But beyond that... I find that I am enjoying my CDs at least as much as vinyl. Related to what you said about the 87-88 CDs and Vinyl being unappreciated at the time, you might be right. In the end there were three things that surely influenced that: how people's ears were used to listen to music (vinyl, tapes etc), what they expected and had built up as expectation on how CDs will sound and last but not least the level of tech and expertise people had at that time transferring music to digital (vs today). Danke!
Wondering if your channel is just another Beatles channel??KZread is filled with thousands of Beatles channels all showing and talking about the same thing It makes it harder to branch out and get more views doesn’t it???
Yeah, tbh it was not intended to be a 100% focused Beatles channel. It still is not. It's more about things I was/am passionate about. It just started with the Beatles, and I had so many things lined up while I was progressing with collecting items, that I'm kinda sticking with it for a while. Regarding Beatles channels, I would not say there are thousands, or at least not that I am aware of, there definitely some which are like 90% Beatles focused, but I saw more that are just like a mix related mostly to music. Anyway, I did not necessarily want to mirror any other channel, as my perspective is not one of a semi-rich person collecting this stuff for decades, it's rather of a new collector or specialist, just a layman, hopefully also encouraging other people who cannot afford or don't have the time to buy and own and listen to every single possible pressing or version. In the idea that there are more people like me out there ofc. About branching out: you are 100% correct. I am only learning this whole "youtube" thing, and being quite late at this party as well, I can say that the current state of facts pushes new people into choosing very specific niches and sticking with them. Not sure where the future will take me, but what I am sure of is that I don't want to just be chasing trends. I would love to do videos about films and series, about games as well, but time is also very tight, and so (for now) I need to make choices. But one thing I can say is that after starting something like this, with an apparent focus point for the first few months, branching out does not mean views, often it means the opposite.
Totally agree with you 2012 sounds fantastic 👍
Still wondering why people were putting these down.