You can see 'em...but you can't hear 'em, yet

[dudley07726]

I still think it's a crime that they have not remixed the music. (I'm sure they will do that in a few years to make some more money) They will sound better than the original 87 cd's but I have a very strong feeling that they won't sound as good as the "Yellow Sub Songtrack", "Let It Be Naked" or the "Love" cds.
No way will they have the clarity and separation of instruments of those with just a remastering. To have vocals on 1 side on a late song like "Here Comes The Sun" is astill travesty. It sounds so good on the "Love" cd with vocals on both sides.

[servant]

No way will they have the clarity and separation of instruments of those with just a remastering. To have vocals on 1 side on a late song like "Here Comes The Sun" is astill travesty. It sounds so good on the "Love" cd with vocals on both sides.

Then get the mono CDs. The vocals will be on both sides!

(But then again, Abbey Road was not released in mono except for a "fold-down" release in, what was it, Brazil?)

[dudley07726]

No way will they have the clarity and separation of instruments of those with just a remastering. To have vocals on 1 side on a late song like "Here Comes The Sun" is astill travesty. It sounds so good on the "Love" cd with vocals on both sides.

Then get the mono CDs. The vocals will be on both sides!

(But then again, Abbey Road was not released in mono except for a "fold-down" release in, what was it, Brazil?)

Don't get me wrong. I am not a mono lover by any means. It annoys me when I listen to a great song like "Nowhere Man" and the music is in one channel and the vocals are in the other. They finally got that right on the "yellow Sub Songtrack." I just think the original mix of HCTS sucks, especially for that time period. I hate hearing the drums only in one channel. It just makes the song seem a bit dated. But nothing, I repeat nothing, can prevent it from being a great song.
I was at an outdoor bar last summer and they played "Whole Lotta Love" and did that sound great. The drums were in your face. I said to myself, why can't the Beatles records sound like that? It was recorded around the same time. Center the drums and spread the toms and cymbals!

[FretlessOnly]

A note on mono; the Beatles long considered the mono versions to be the definitive recordings, and were rarely, if ever, around when the stereo mixing was performed.

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

We've become used to thinking of mono as lifeless and unthinkable. But for those who don't like the silly panning on the stereo Beatles albums, the mono will sound great. They all lost a little something in those stereo mixes...they'd spend virtually no time at all dashing off those stereo mixes, but they took careful time with the mono mixes. Most would agree they sound better than the stereo...the Beatles certainly thought so.