Yesterday the original Beatles catalogue was re-released. The albums (12 in total) are re-mastered and have all the original album art. I've heard various reports about the re-mastered CDs so far; some people are delighted, but what seems to be the general consensus is that they're not great (aside from the first four albums). I've yet to get my own copies. I was debating getting the box set which has all the re-mastered albums along with some limited edition stuff. That was until I checked out the prices.Some HMV advert on Sky advertised each remastered CD at the price of £11.99 in the UK. By the time I got into HMV in town it was closed, but on the window advert each CD was proced at €15.99. So HMV's Irish customers get slapped with a mark-up of €2.30. Doesn't sound like much but that's a mark-up of just over 16%.
Another great reason why music lovers should avoid shopping in HMV and stick with the homegrown music stores like Tower Records.
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I realize that the times we live in are just too damned weird to focus any degree of attention on a rock 'n' roll band that released its final recording forty-years-ago last month - two of whose members are gone from our midst. Think about it. In 1969, at the height of all that was going on then, any columnist who would have devoted a entire page to the greatness of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra would have been laughed out of the business. But this isn't just any band we're talking about here. With the exception of the President's address to a joint session of Congress last night, I didn't spend much time yesterday focusing on affairs of state. September 9, 2009 belonged to the Beatles.
Yesterday marked the long-awaited release of a box set containing all fourteen albums recorded by the Fab Four between the years 1962 and 1970. What makes this package different from what has previously been available is the fact that the engineers at EMI (the studio in London where they did most of their work) have digitally remastered the recordings from the original multi-track tapes. It was like listening to them for the first time all over again. The Beatles have never sounded better - I didn't even think that was possible!
Let me attempt the impossible and sum up the Beatles' message in one sentence: We are the makers of our own dreams. That works for me.
Dream. Dream away.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Well said Tom, well said. As a Beatles fan you sound delighted with the re-issues. I'll grab a copy of Sgt. Pepper's ASAP and check it out for myself.
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