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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Emd Int'l
Salesrank: 164230
Released: December 5, 1995 |
| Our Price: $22.32 |
| Used Price: $58.68 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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Please Please Me Track Listing:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go to Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. Love Me Do
9. P.S. I Love You
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret
12. Taste of Honey
13. There's a Place
14. Twist and Shout
15. Please Please Me Mini-Documentary [Multimedia]
Editorial Review:
Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1963 album from The Beatles featuring 'I Saw Her Standing There', 'Love Me Do', 'Please Please Me', 'P.S. I Love You', 'Twist And Shout' and many more. The album has been remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London utilizing state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Within the CD's new packaging, the booklet includes detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. A newly produced mini-documentary on the making of the album is included as a QuickTime file on each album. The documentary contains archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere. Capitol.
Description of Please Please Me:
Their first-ever album, raw and rough and still very rock & roll. Lennon and McCartney begin to flex their writing muscles and had already scored two UK hits when this appeared, but they still relied heavily on the cover material to see them through. Their insecurity about their own abilities seems curious in hindsight since they'd pulled the title song and "I Saw Her Standing There" (with thanks to Little Richard) out of their hats. But they were an unknown quantity, still to launch a million bands and take pop music to places it had never dreamed off. A small step for four men, a giant leap for music. --Chris Nickson
Please Please Me Reviews:
Also great in stereo 
2009-11-26 - I was a bit worried about the stereo version, after all what has been written about the limitation of the two tracks recordings. Actually it's very good and makes for a new listening experience if you are used to the mono version.
The album itself is of course a classic. I saw her standing there and Twist and shout are Rock'n Roll at is best !
Worth it for sure !
All In A Days Work
2009-11-03 - Hands down a rock-n-roll milestone record. Four lads from Liverpool, England walk into Abbey Road Studios on Monday morning February 11, 1963 to start work in Studio 2 at 10:00 AM. By 10:45 PM that evening all the songs on Please Please Me are recorded!! Seems simple enough but couple that with the fact that John Lennon had symptoms of the flu that day and could only give one vocal performance for Twist And Shout before his voice would be completely gone. Thankfully it was the last song of the days work in Studio 2. You can literally hear John's voice shredding. There would be no second take for Twist And Shout. A stunning rock vocal performance ranking high in the tops of all time on record. From the opening track's energetic 1-2-3-4 (Paul's count into I Saw Her Standing There) you get the feeling there is truly something magical happening. There was so much raw energy packed into those 14 hours that day in Studio 2 with each track being cut live on the spot. It is as close to the live sound as we would get to The Beatles until their final album Let It Be nearly 7 years later (save for a few reasonable sounding bootleg recordings). Please, Please Me is remarkable in that sense you feel as if John, Paul, George, and Ringo are after something from their very own hearts. They desired to make this one count in every way. This would be the same group that would only 3 years later record Revolver!! Who would've known that that very day in Abbey Road Studio 2? From that day they never looked back and began a wonderful musical recording odyssey unmatched in sheer out-put. Please, Please Me is where the party started and it is remarkably timeless in that sense. Brilliant!!
Changing the Face of Pop Music
2009-11-02 - The Beatles' "Please Please Me" (1963) proved that the four lads from Liverpool would be around for the long haul. Opening with the breathless rocker "I Saw Her Standing There" and finishing with "Twist and Shout" (a remarkable first-take performance from John Lennon), the group's auspicious debut album still packs a sonic wallop. Along with "Love Me Do" and the title hit are Lennon-McCartney classics such as "Misery" and "There's a Place" - plus memorable covers of "Baby It's You," "A Taste of Honey" and "Boys" (Ringo's first lead vocal). The original mono version remains preferable to the weird stereo mix. Shortly before his death, Lennon acknowledged "Please Please Me" as one of his favorite Beatle albums.
Just the beginning
2009-10-18 - What makes the Fab Four's debut album special is that 10 of the 14 tracks took less than a day to record. The other four: "Love Me Do", "P.S. I Love You", "Ask Me Why" and the title track had already been recorded several months before. Here, like their next album and "Beatles For Sale", eight tracks are their own compositions while the other six are cover versions. One track, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" was written by John and sung by George. Since this was recorded with just two track technology, many of the songs feature the vocals on one channel with most of the instrumentals on the other. However, the stereo mixes of "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You" no longer exist so they are presented here in their mono versions. The stereo versions of those songs on the 1965 US album "The Early Beatles" were actually fake stereo. Finally, the original liner notes have been reprinted as well as recording and historical notes.
This is definitely an essential album. They weren't rock pioneers just yet but that would soon change. The music here is as simple as it gets but the best was yet to come.
TT 32:31
The mono mix blows this away 
2009-10-17 -
If you enjoy the stereo effect of "music on the left, vocals on the right"...then this is right up your alley...
This recording lacks the drive The Beatles were known for.
I did what many of you did back on Sept 9th....purchased the entire STEREO catalogue of remasters...and then proceeded to listen to them....only to be very disappointed with many of the stereo mixes
My solution was to go ahead and purchase the MONO REMASTER BOX....it contains the first 10 Beatle albums (up thru the WHITE ALBUM) in true MONAURAL sound...They sound the way The Beatles intended you to hear them...and they capture all the energy and definition of a real Beatle performance.
The benefit of having the STEREO REMASTERS....the enclosed booklet and outer jacket are easily worth the $12....
They should have included BOTH stereo and mono mixes in the remaster package..sort of how they did with the CAPITOL ALBUM BOX SETS
