The Beatles Master the Remastered

Well tomorrow 9-9-09 The Beatles will be releasing their Rock Band Game & also all albums remaster in mono & stereo. Now there are 10,000 Box Sets of the Stereo & Mono limited editions released and they are not easy to come by. I never thought I would be able to obtain; one and that over the next month I would buy each album on its own. Well thanks to my great friends at Indy’s Best Record shop I was able to not only buy the Stereo Box set, but also a few days early. So while driving back and forth to Chicago this weekend I was able to hear almost the entire collection. Let me just say that if you are a fan at all of The Beatles then these re-mastered recordings will blow you away. The box set comes with a few more perks, but each album comes as the original Vinyl album was released (in the UK), so the backs have those classic photos, it flips open like a vinyl record and has the original liner notes and more. So not only is the music as stunning as ever, but the whole packaging of all the albums is well done. It is so fresh and so clear…the vocals are as pure as they could be. George’s (and Paul’s) solos hit you in a place. I almost had to pull the car over during “Yer Blues” it was so powerful. John’s vocals on “Don’t Let Me Down” are as personal as he has ever sounded. He is singing from the soul even though he was on a roof top in London. I could go through each song on each album and pin point what I hear as significant differences and advantages of the remastered albums, but I won’t. My time with The Beatles this weekend reminded me that besides everything else these four chaps from Liverpool did for the world and the changing time, their music is truly their genius. The music and relationship they had as musicians was like nothing ever seen before, or may ever be again. Their art is eternal and like nothing else. When an artist reaches a level of perfection they never see it and keep reaching for that next step. Which is the human drive…but most artists fall flat on their face and never realize they have made their masterpiece or , where as The Beatles kept putting out better, deeper, remarkable albums. Hell, if Magical Mystery Tour & Yellow Submarine are your worse pieces of art then you are fucking talented!

** The Remastered Albums are best if heard on quality Sound System and turned it the fuck up!