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Past Masters was first released as the separate CDs Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two on 7 March 1988, which were included in. A double set Past Masters, Volumes One & Two was subsequently released in the United States on 24 October 1988 and in the United Kingdom on 10 November 1988. A two CD set, Past Masters, which contained both volumes, was released on 9 September 2009, as part of the remastering of the original Beatles' catalogue, and was included in. This release includes stereo mixes of both 'From Me to You' and 'Thank You Girl'. In box set, the album took the place of Past Masters, containing a similar track list of dedicated mono mixes. The remastered for vinyl version of the Past Masters double LP set was released on 12 November 2012. I had (and have) the double purple label Capitol LP of this, which AFAIK came out later that year.

I had a little record player, on which my parents let me play all their old Beatles records. They bought me the PM vinyl so that I would have my own Beatles album to listen to on my little player. Fast forward 20+ years, and I find out it was a fairly rare vinyl release that was among the last (if not THE last) Beatles LP releases before regular vinyl production was phased out. Regardless, I always enjoyed the collection and packaging, and it provides a great alternate timeline to the proper albums or Red/Blue collections. I decided to hold on to my LP for safekeeping, and tracked down a Parlophone Rarities, which I now play as it makes up just about exactly half of Past Masters. In fact, it looks like the criteria for that version of Rarities was, non-album tracks and singles that did not end up on the Red/Blue albums. Whereas Past Masters has some overlap with Red/Blue.

Anyway, that's my obsessive trainspotter contribution for the day. pedantry This week actually marks the anniversary of the release of the individual 'Past Masters Volume 1' and 'Past Masters Volume 2' CDs. 'Past Masters' the double CD wasn't released until 09/09/09.

/pedantry I remember buying the CD of 'Volume 2' on, I think, the first Saturday after release date. To somebody who first discovered much of the Beatles catalogue through the 1987 CDs, hearing all those b-sides and alternate versions was a revelation. (I got Neil Diamond's 'Velvet Gloves And Spit' on vinyl the same day; result!). I was in a Beatles lull when it came out while I was in college, my attention diverted by the likes of Talking Heads, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, New Order, Joy Division, Bauhaus, etc.-all bands I still enjoy but not at the level of the Beatles. I had most of the Beatles catalog on vinyl, but I never heard PM until I bought the stereo and mono box sets in 2009/2010, so it was fresh listening for me. That said, I prefer to listen to the original albums, but I mix this in on occasion-about as often as I put on the red album or blue album, but not as often as I play Revolver, Rubber Soul, or pretty much any of their albums other than Yellow Submarine.

It's certainly great music though! These never, ever felt like real releases to me for whatever the reasons. Just like the posts above, the lifeless cover design sucks. I'm also not a fan for the cover of the 1's album but it at least has got a bit of stylish attitude going for it.

I do love my Hey Jude album also and feel they should have continued releasing a few more albums like that with this material. Even if they simply did a release of early A sides and then a later one and then repeat the same for the B sides that it might have proven more interesting. I'm grateful that these releases made this material available but there's something cheap about the way they're scooped up and packed tightly together. I think the real problem is that there are too many songs on each CD and that it loses any kind of identity for the grouping of the songs.

Contents. Album listing The sixteen disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every album in the Beatles catalogue. The first four albums ( Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale) made their CD debut in stereo, though most songs from those albums have previously appeared on CD in stereo on various compilations. And Rubber Soul use the remixes prepared by for the original 1987 CD releases (the original 1965 stereo mixes were released on ).

Magical Mystery Tour is presented in the sequence and artwork of its original North American album release, as opposed to the UK six-song EP. All CDs replicate their original album labels as first released, from the various Parlophone Records variations, to the Capitol Records label (for Magical Mystery Tour) and the UK Apple Records side A label from Yellow Submarine through Let It Be, and with the side A & side B Apple labels for discs one & two respectively for The Beatles. For, disc one uses a mid-1960s Parlophone label design and disc two uses the (side A) Apple label design. Each of the albums except Past Masters includes a mini-documentary, mainly drawing from (with a few animated 3D scenarios made up of original photos thrown in), about the album in format. The Beatles and Past Masters are two-disc sets. (1963).

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(1970). (1988) Missing stereo session tapes No stereo mixes exist for the 1963 single ' and its flipside ' or the 1962 single ' and its flipside '. It was the practice at Abbey Road Studios prior to early 1963 to and re-use master tapes once they had been mixed down to mono for single release. For this reason there will never be true stereo mixes of 'Love Me Do' or 'P.S.

Although the practice had stopped by the time of the release of the 'She Loves You' single, and although it is possible that the master tapes were in EMI's possession in January 1964, when the German language version was recorded, it is commonly believed that those tapes were either stolen or destroyed. Competent-sounding stereo versions of 'She Loves You' have been created unofficially using the backing track from 'Sie Liebt Dich', but the engineers who prepared the remasters elected not to do this.

Every release of these four songs has been in mono (or simulated stereo) and they appear in mono on the stereo version of Past Masters and Please Please Me. This is also the case for the single version of ' with Ringo on drums but at some point (fairly early on) even the mixed down mono tape of this version of the song was lost. Some authors have expressed the opinion that the original version of 'Love Me Do' was intentionally destroyed in order to alleviate possible confusion between it and the more common version of the song. Since 1980, new transfers sourced from reasonably clean 45rpm mono singles from private collectors have been used as the master for this version of the song. Two other songs in The Beatles' catalogue which also appear in mono on the stereo CDs are ' and '.

Neither of these songs received stereo mixes at the time they were recorded, although other songs that were similarly not mixed into stereo during The Beatles' recording lifetime were not excluded from the set: the stereo mixes of 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' 'Penny Lane,' and ' all made in 1971, the stereo mix of 'Yes It Is' that was given a very limited UK release in 1986 on a mail order cassette promotion that Apple and The Beatles did not authorize and was commercially released in 1988 on Past Masters; and the 2000 edit of 'Day Tripper' from. 'Only a Northern Song' was first mixed into stereo and for the album in 1999 and a differently-edited stereo mix of 'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' appeared on in 1996.

'You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)' is the only track left in The Beatles' catalogue of which the original edit has never received a stereo mix despite the being available. Bonus features Included in the set is a called The Mini Documentaries compiling all the short documentaries released on the individual albums in QuickTime format. The DVD features narration from all four Beatles as well as as the opening on each of the individual albums. Each documentary contains rare footage and previously unheard dialogue.

There are sound excerpts from various songs, accompanied by still photos, clips of television appearances, footage from inside recording sessions, film footage from their final photo session, and material from the five Beatles films, and. The DVD has a red Apple label (similar to that on the original US Let It Be LP). This DVD is exclusive to the Stereo set, and is not included in the Mono version. Limited edition USB flash drive. The Beatles - Apple-shaped USB flash drive On 7 December 2009, The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) was also released as a limited edition of 30,000 apple-shaped.

This event marks the first appearance for the Beatles catalogue in a high-resolution digital format being encoded in / format. Is 44.1 kHz/16-bit. The 16 flash drive also includes 320 copies of the albums, a specially designed interface, and all the visual elements from the boxed set — the mini-documentary films, original UK album art, rare photos and expanded liner notes. Although it was received positive reviews from critics and users, many complaints were received that the 'stem' on the USB flash drive is very fragile that it can break off when attempting to remove the USB drive out of the apple-shaped holder, making the USB drive difficult to remove.

The custom-designed flash drive was created by Aderra Media Works, a subsidiary of Vinyl On 12 November 2012, the set was released on 180-gram vinyl, specially prepared for vinyl, with a 252-page book included. Also included are the inserts which were included in the original LPs such as the cardboard cutout sheet included in Sgt. Pepper plus the photos and poster included in The Beatles.

Chart performance Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating A 10/10 On the United States Top 200 albums chart the set debuted at #15. On the Japanese weekly album charts, the set debuted at #6, selling over 35,000 copies in its first week. The set was certified triple platinum by the R.I.A.A. In April 2010. The set was also in Canada in March 2010.

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In Germany, the set reached No. Year-end charts Chart (2010) Rank 94 Subsequent releases The 1973 greatest hits albums and were re-released and remastered by the same team behind those who remastered The Beatles Stereo and Mono boxed sets. And have also received rereleases akin to the presentation of the 2009 remasters. The same remastering team have also re-mastered all of 's studio albums plus 's solo albums reissued by, as well as a handful of other albums released on. See also Other complete or near-complete collections of Beatles music:. (1978). (1980).

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