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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: EMI
Salesrank: 24
Released: September 9, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Abbey Road (Remastered) Track Listing:
1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End
17. Her Majesty
18. Abbey Road Documentary
Editorial Review:
The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the Beatles catalogue has seen since its original release.
Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. The newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.
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Description of Abbey Road (Remastered):
The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright
Abbey Road (Remastered) Reviews:
Come Together...!!!! 
2009-12-25 - At first when I heard I thought this was rubbish. The album seemed to be full of underproduced songs. The only song I liked was "Here Comes the Sun" which was in my top10 Beatles songs. As usual, I like to listen to albums through many times although may sound odd. Something happened when the song "Something" started to sound great. Even "Come Together" sounded great altough it still sounds quite an odd song, it seemed like someone would be tring to sing below the ground. "Oh Darling" started to sound a touching song too - and also "Because". The 8-minute long "I Want You (She's So Heavy) is still too long I think but it has a good melody. "Octopus's Garden" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" are funny-sounding songs. The songs from "You Never Give Me Your Money" to "The End" are very short but actually it sounds like a one large song to me. I would say that it is some kind of medley - although the songs were here on "Abbey Road" for the first time. My favorites from that are "Polythene Pam" and "Carry That Weight" but still some of the songs are uncatchable for me. "Her Majesty" is some kind of joke. It is less than 30 seconds long.
Stars: Here Comes the Sun, Something, Come Together
way WAY too much compression 
2009-12-18 - I believe this "remaster" will be considered one of the great sonic blunders of the CD age. There is too much compression on this thing-- it doesn't breathe, it doesn't feel in any way like a true performance. They were tempted by the sirens of compression, and they could not resist.
It's The Beatles!!---You Already Know It's Fabulous!! 
2009-12-18 - This marks the 4th and final incarnation of this classic album
that I will buy in my lifetime!
From vinyl (early 80's) to first generation CD (early 90's)
to 2nd generation (first digitized) CD (mid 90's) to 09/09/09...
I bought each of these new limited edition (stereo) remasters,
from "Rubber Soul" to "Let It Be", which is my favorite era of The Beatles'
stellar paradigm-changing mid to late 60's musical output!
As soon as I unwrapped them, I listened to each CD intently 1x, then smoked a
phat joint along with a strong daquiri, then listened down
to them all 3x more!! (-: Brilliantly remastered!
Flawless material to start with, but this go round I felt as if "the lads"
had actually set up camp in my music room and were giving me, just me, their best work in 3-D!!
Every breathe, syllable, finger cymbal, crash & high-hat, snare, toms, guitar lick,
bass riff, string arrangement and every other part is vivid, warm, pure and timeless!
There is no need for me to buy anymore Beatles material after this!
It can't be captured any better! (-:
I like the new fold out packaging, the booklets, rare vintage photos, the original-style
Parlophone logo on the discs, and I enjoyed the little mini-docs about each
album viewable via computer, Playstation 3 or XBOX too.
I was an 18 yr old kid in 1982 when I bought my first Beatles albums on vinyl,
age 26 in 1990 when I bought their first CD versions, age 30 when I bought the first
digital remasters in 1994 at the time of the The Beatles Anthology with
"Free As A Bird", which I now own on DVD.
Now at age 45 in 2009, this is the final frontier and I'm satisfied.
SUMMATION: Great music, great band, timeless, seamless & forever without peer! (-:
Wickied good
2009-12-14 - I can't beleive I'm going through another Beatles phase. Abbey Road is great - even the cheesy songs. The latest disc comes with a mini-documentary that launches when you put it in the PC. Neat-o!
I don't really consider myself an audiophile
2009-12-07 - But this is a masterpiece of production. Well, ABBEY ROAD always was a masterpiece of production, but the work done to it has only enhanced the Beatles' most polished (and possibly best? It's 1/1A with this and REVOLVER to me) record. Worth getting for the rework of "Come Together" alone.
