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Help! and Rubber Soul CD - Canadian Pressing Featuring Original UK Mixes?

The following is from a very interesting thread at:
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=77582&page=1&pp=20

Fellow Canucks should check your CDs!
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"The other night I was at a friend's house listening to some CD's. He put Rubber Soul on, but it didn't quite sound "right". Now, this is one of my favorite all time albums, and I know it inside out, but this sounded "different". So I borrowed the CD to do some research.

I compared it to my West German pressing, and sure enough, it WAS different.... I searched the SH forums - nothing. But I did find a link to this very useful site:

http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/var-1965.html

Based on the above site, I can confirm that my friend's CD contains the original 1965 UK mixes. Every single variation listed is on this pressing.

My first thought was that this must be a bootleg, however, this disc was bought in a legitimate music store (in Vancouver, Canada, in 1992 whilst my friend was on vacation).

Anyway the details are:

Catalog #: C2 46440
Matrix Code: made by / fabrique par DISQUE AMERIC CANADA EA41 <011> C246440"

I have the same CD in mint condition. Bought it used a few years ago for $5.00 Cdn
I knew it sounded very different from my original 65 LP version.

Hey Jon, what's an LP?

'Long Past'.

hahahaha

Or Licorice Pizza, as one retail chain was called.

Wow,
Licorice Pizza. I haven't heard that in a long time. I miss that place.
I got my first LP (The Church - The Church) at the one in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, as seen in Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

My daughter, 3 1/2, insists we go to the Galleria every weekend.