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Hi, Beatles fans:

I bought the 4CD box of Beatles' Capitol recordings a few months ago (1st 4 albums)
BUT, does anyone know when Capitol plans to release the next batch????

I've searched high and low on the internet and found NOTHING. If anyone knows, please tell us!

I've searched high and low on the internet and found NOTHING. If anyone knows, please tell us!

Sorry to say I don't know when, but I'm sure they'll pull the same **** where they put each song on there twice in groups of 'mono' and 'stereo' and charge accordingly. Does anyone except a few 'monophiles' REALLY want to hear the drums on one side of the mix? Does Capitol REALLY think it will strike some imaginary 'nostalgic' chord in the purchasers? Or are they just milking it so they can charge more? I think it was one of the stupidest decisions ever made. Just my opinion, of course.

Steve - I completely disagree with you.

Steve, I think Capitol did a nice job on the first set, despite cheesy packaging and a worthless booklet. My copy only cost around $40, and that seems a very fair price. Now we all have access to legitimate and digitally remastered copies of a bunch of great tracks. When 'Yesterday and Today', 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' come out, they'll be more interesting than the first set. As you probably know, many songs like 'Dr. Robert' and 'I'm Only Sleeping' were very different on the US albums than the UK versions. And now we'll have both the mono and stereo versions that have further differences. It's too bad that we don't have the same mono/stereo versions of the UK tracks. The only gripe I have about this series is that it's called 'The Capitol Albums'. If it had been called 'The Capitol Years', then perhaps it could have included 'A Hard Day's Night' and 'Help!'. Maybe I'm a bit obsessive about The Beatles, but that's my thing (along with Rickenbacker guitars and a few other things).

I was wondering how far Capitol will go with the U.S. box sets? Anyone have an idea what will be included on the second box set?

Stan, I have no info but I assumed it would go up through 'Revolver'. All the later albums except 'Magical Mystery Tour' were the same on Capitol as the UK releases, and 'Magical Mystery Tour' has already been released. Also 'Yellow Submarine' has been released already in two different formats, the original album and the 'Songtrack'.

Now if someone could just get all the Beatle films on DVD and make them easily available, that would really be something! I wouldn't be stuck watching a VHS dub of 'Let It Be' anymore. I think it's criminal that there are millions of lousy films released on DVD, but you can't have a complete Beatles collection...

I was curious if they would release them all, as Capitol had them packaged. The next four up in order of release are The Early Beatles, Beatles VI, Help (instrumentals included),Rubber Soul. After those they only have Yesterday and Today and Revolver left, really.

Good point Randy about packaging 'all' of the Beatles film material.

Stan, I would speculate that they wouldn't bother with 'The Early Beatles' (originally issued on Vee-Jay) and 'Help!' came out on United Artists like 'A Hard Day's Night', so it won't be included. That leaves 'Beatles IV', 'Yesterday And Today', 'Rubber Soul', and 'Revolver' for the second set. Like I said, I don't know what they plan to do, but this looks logical to me.

Randy: I suspect they will release the four "logical" albums that you have suggested.

In this day of packages, I am suprised that they didn't release albums 4 5 and 6, first and then 1 2 and 3. Then keep us guessing about what 7, 8 and 9 would look like.

Randy, Help (U.S. version) was released on Capitol, MAS-2386, not UA, but you may be right about the fact it wouldn't make logical sense to re-release it. But with Capitol (or any American label), 'milking' the cow for all it's worth takes priority over everything else.

From what I understood there isn't any official plans to release anything else, but to leave it as a possibility they nammed it accordingly.

I'm guessing that if they would decide on releasing it it would be around Christmas of that year, as they did with Vol. 1.

As for the Stereo/Mono on 1 disc, I found that was very nice for them to do that, through Dr. Ebbetts you would be paying atleast 150 since you'd have to buy both discs seperatly.

Related note...on Rubber Soul, the Capitol Album, was there or was there not a false start on 'I'm Looking Through You' recorded on the disc? I have no turntable any longer, so I can't play it to find out but at least on the copy of my album it does, either that song or it might have been 'Run for Your Life'. It's been better than 20 years since I played the disc on a turntable.

Yea, Its im looking through you.........They'll release Capitol album volume II with Yesterday and today and rubber soul and such