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List Price: $298.98 | | Label: EMI
Salesrank: 90
Released: September 9, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Beatles Mono Box Set Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. I Saw Her Standing There [Mono Version]
2. Misery [Mono Version]
3. Anna (Go to Him) [Mono Version]
4. Chains [Mono Version]
5. Boys [Mono Version]
6. Ask Me Why [Mono Version]
7. Please Please Me [Mono Version]
8. Love Me Do [Mono Version]
9. P.S. I Love You [Mono Version]
10. Baby It's You [Mono Version]
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret [Mono Version]
12. Taste of Honey
13. There's a Place [Mono Version]
14. Twist and Shout [Mono Version]
Disc 2:
1. It Won't Be Long [Mono Version]
2. All I've Got to Do [Mono Version]
3. All My Loving [Mono Version]
4. Don't Bother Me [Mono Version]
5. Little Child [Mono Version]
6. Till There Was You [Mono Version]
7. Please Mister Postman
8. Roll Over Beethoven [Mono Version]
9. Hold Me Tight [Mono Version]
10. You Really Got a Hold on Me [Mono Version]
11. I Wanna Be Your Man [Mono Version]
12. Devil in Her Heart [Mono Version]
13. Not a Second Time [Mono Version]
14. Money (That's What I Want) [Mono Version]
Disc 3:
1. Hard Day's Night [Mono Version]
2. I Should Have Known Better [Mono Version]
3. If I Fell [Mono Version]
4. I'm Happy Just to Dance with You [Mono Version]
5. And I Love Her [Mono Version]
6. Tell Me Why [Mono Version]
7. Can't Buy Me Love [Mono Version]
8. Any Time at All
9. I'll Cry Instead [Mono Version]
10. Things We Said Today [Mono Version]
11. When I Get Home [Mono Version]
12. You Can't Do That [Mono Version]
13. I'll Be Back [Mono Version]
Disc 4:
1. No Reply [Mono Version]
2. I'm a Loser [Mono Version]
3. Baby's in Black [Mono Version]
4. Rock and Roll Music [Mono Version]
5. I'll Follow the Sun [Mono Version]
6. Mr. Moonlight [Mono Version]
7. Kansas City: Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!
8. Eight Days a Week [Mono Version]
9. Words of Love [Mono Version]
10. Honey Don't [Mono Version]
11. Every Little Thing [Mono Version]
12. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party [Mono Version]
13. What You're Doing [Mono Version]
14. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby [Mono Version]
Disc 5:
1. Help! [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
2. Night Before [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
3. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Versio
4. I Need You [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
5. Another Girl [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
6. You're Going to Lose That Girl [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
7. Ticket to Ride [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version]
8. Act Naturally [Mono Version]
9. It's Only Love [Mono Version]
10. You Like Me Too Much [Mono Version]
11. Tell Me What You See [Mono Version]
12. I've Just Seen a Face [Mono Version]
13. Yesterday [Mono Version]
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Mono Version]
15. Help! [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
16. Night Before [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
17. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
18. I Need You [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
19. Another Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
20. You're Going to Lose That Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
21. Ticket to Ride [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
22. Act Naturally [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
23. It's Only Love [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
24. You Like Me Too Much [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
25. Tell Me What You See [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
26. I've Just Seen a Face [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
27. Yesterday [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
28. Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
Disc 6:
1. Drive My Car [Mono Version]
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [Mono Version]
3. You Won't See Me [Mono Version]
4. Nowhere Man [Mono Version]
5. Think for Yourself [Mono Version]
6. Word [Mono Version]
7. Michelle [Mono Version]
8. What Goes On [Mono Version]
9. Girl [Mono Version]
10. I'm Looking Through You [Mono Version]
11. In My Life [Mono Version]
12. Wait [Mono Version]
13. If I Needed Someone [Mono Version]
14. Run for Your Life [Mono Version]
15. Drive My Car [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
16. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
17. You Won't See Me [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
18. Nowhere Man [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
19. Think for Yourself [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
20. Word [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
21. Michelle [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
22. What Goes On [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
23. Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
24. I'm Looking Through You [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
25. In My Life [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
26. Wait [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
27. If I Needed Someone [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
28. Run for Your Life [Original 1965 Stereo Mix]
Disc 7:
1. Taxman [Mono Version]
2. Eleanor Rigby [Mono Version]
3. I'm Only Sleeping [Mono Version]
4. Love You To [Mono Version]
5. Here, There and Everywhere [Mono Version]
6. Yellow Submarine [Mono Version]
7. She Said She Said [Mono Version]
8. Good Day Sunshine [Mono Version]
9. And Your Bird Can Sing [Mono Version]
10. For No One [Mono Version]
11. Doctor Robert [Mono Version]
12. I Want to Tell You [Mono Version]
13. Got to Get You into My Life [Mono Version]
14. Tomorrow Never Knows [Mono Version]
Disc 8:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Mono Version]
2. With a Little Help from My Friends [Mono Version]
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds [Mono Version]
4. Getting Better [Mono Version]
5. Fixing a Hole [Mono Version]
6. She's Leaving Home [Mono Version]
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! [Mono Version]
8. Within You Without You [Mono Version]
9. When I'm Sixty-Fout [Mono Version]
10. Lovely Rita [Mono Version]
11. Good Morning Good Morning [Mono Version]
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Mono Version]
13. Day in the Life [Mono Version]
Disc 9:
1. Magical Mystery Tour [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Versi
2. Fool on the Hill [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version]
3. Flying [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version]
4. Blue Jay Way [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version]
5. Your Mother Should Know [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Ve
6. I Am the Walrus [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version]
7. Hello, Goodbye [Mono Version]
8. Strawberry Fields Forever [Mono Version]
9. Penny Lane [Mono Version]
10. Baby, You're a Rich Man [Mono Version]
11. All You Need Is Love [Mono Version]
Disc 10:
1. Back in the U.S.S.R. [Mono Version]
2. Dear Prudence [Mono Version]
3. Glass Onion [Mono Version]
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da [Mono Version]
5. Wild Honey Pie [Mono Version]
6. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill [Mono Version]
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Mono Version]
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun [Mono Version]
9. Martha My Dear [Mono Version]
10. I'm So Tired [Mono Version]
11. Blackbird [Mono Version]
12. Piggies [Mono Version]
13. Rocky Raccoon [Mono Version]
14. Don't Pass Me By [Mono Version]
15. Why Don't We Do It in the Road? [Mono Version]
16. I Will [Mono Version]
17. Julia [Mono Version]
Disc 11:
1. Birthday [Mono Version]
2. Yer Blues [Mono Version]
3. Mother Nature's Son [Mono Version]
4. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey [Mono Version
5. Sexy Sadie [Mono Version]
6. Helter Skelter [Mono Version]
7. Long, Long, Long [Mono Version]
8. Revolution I [Mono Version]
9. Honey Pie [Mono Version]
10. Savoy Truffle [Mono Version]
11. Cry Baby Cry [Mono Version]
12. Revolution 9 [Mono Version]
13. Good Night [Mono Version]
Disc 12:
1. Love Me Do [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
2. From Me to You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
3. Thank You Girl [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
4. She Loves You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
5. I'll Get You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
6. I Want to Hold Your Hand [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
7. This Boy [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
8. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
9. Sie Liebt Dich [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
10. Long Tall Sally [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
11. I Call Your Name [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
12. Slow Down [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
13. Matchbox [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
14. I Feel Fine [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
15. She's a Woman [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
16. Bad Boy [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
17. Yes It Is [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
18. I'm Down [2009 Digital Remaster][Version]
Editorial Review:
FEATURES:
-Dimensions: 5.75" x 5.38" x 2.63"
-Description:
·Hard white glossy slip box
·Limited edition
·CDs packaged as mini LP replicas (replica artwork, sleeves and gatefolds)
·Remastered by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee with Guy Massey and Steve Rooke
-Contains:
Original Mono version - 11 albums (12 discs)
+= mono mix CD debut
·Please Please Me
·With The Beatles
·A Hard Day's Night
·Beatles For Sale
·Help! (CD also includes original 1965 stereo mix)+
·Rubber Soul (CD also include original 1965 stereo mix)+
·Revolver+
·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band+
·Magical Mystery Tour+
·The Beatles+
·Mono Masters (features all of the mono tracks that appeared on singles, EPs. or that never made it onto the 13 albums)
-Essay written by Kevin Howlett
*note: Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included, as they were originally recorded in stereo.
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Description of The Beatles Mono Box Set:
The Beatles Mono Box Set was compiled as a special interest package for the hard-core fan. It presents the first ten albums in re-mastered mono (the final 3 albums made their debuts in stereo only), and a double album of singles and EPs, called "Mono Masters". At the time of writing, the mono albums are not available individually. Why would anyone want a newly minted mono collection? The final mono songs were sometimes different. Stereo mixes were usually done days, if not weeks after the original mono mix, and could include different takes when the engineers made the overdubs. Stereo mixes, particularly for the first five albums, did not include as much critical listening from George Martin, and almost none from the Fab' Four. Also, stereo in early 60's England was not broadcast over the air, and the format was largely the preserve of the hi-fi snob. For more than half The Beatles recorded repertoire, the most affordable "weapon of choice" for the twisting, shouting teenage market was the mono mix. Ironically - this box set is the best The Beatles have ever sounded. Like the stereo sibling these are re-mastered, not re-mixed, but unlike the stereo, they have not been clipped or limited to push levels closer to current music ingested through our MP3 players. These albums are cleaner than ever before and compared to the 1980s CD editions you're taken aback by how much dynamic range is on those original tapes. Nothing in this box sounds like a 45 year old recording. Each disc is presented as if it were a miniature "33", replete with plastic anti-scratch sleeve, inner paper sleeve, original album cover, inserts and all original text rendered frustratingly small for anyone old enough to have bought the LPs the first time around. -- Hugo Munday
The Beatles Mono Box Set Reviews:
The Beatles in Mono - What a joy! 
2009-12-22 - Here's the irony: Stereo was conceived to simulate a live performance, but it is The Beatles in Mono mix of the respective albums that deliver the closest approximation to a live performance. I own the re mastered stereo mixes and the re mastered mono mixes as well as the 1987 CDs. Listening to The Beatles in Mono is startling. The mono mixes ultimately and substantially deliver a dynamic Beatles performance. Beyond the technical aspects already discussed, it is the listening experience, with a decently good compact disc system, that makes it easily discernable that the mono mixes are superior to the stereo mixes of the ten original mono albums. The Beatles in Mono - What a joy!
Don't be "penny wise and pound foolish". Spend your money wisely. At Amazon's price of $199.95, buy "The Beatles in Mono" and supplement it with "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be - Naked" in stereo. You will hear The Beatles as you have never heard them, but as they meant for you to hear them.
Sounds wonderful
2009-12-22 - First...Pepper, Pepper, Pepper!!! I hadn't heard it in mono since my old LPs went to heaven. It is so much better in mono. It sounds as I remember it. Much more powerful than the stereo version.
Couple of little things that I haven't seen anybody mention..in 'A Day in the Life' after Paul's 'woke up, got out of bed' bit and before John reads the news again, oh boy, there's a orchestral section with John singing on top. I remember listening to this as a kid and it was quite majestic sounding on LP. Then the 80s stereo CD was issued, and John's ethereal 'aah' over the orchestra was now spun around the speakers, and was buried just enough to lose the glorious effect. Also in 'Lucy in the Sky' there's some whatsit (phased guitar perhaps) that tracks the melody along with John's singing. In mono it blends into one instrument. In stereo instead of the blend you get to hear the ingredients, which is not nearly so interesting.
One other little thing that I haven't seen elsewhere.....on 'Slow Down' there's a piano that plays a very simple double of the bass line. In mono it's there if you listen for it, but it's not very prominent and is intended to simply bolster the bass riff, not stand out. In the old stereo CD issues, this dopey piano part stood out like a sore thumb. Drove me crazy every time I heard it.
Anyone looking for advice as to whether to buy, I'd recommend James Perlman's review. For me the greatest improvement is having everything from Beatles For Sale - Sgt Pepper in mono. They just sound better.
And again. Pepper, Pepper Pepper!!!
Beatles Lovers
2009-12-21 - If you are a true Beatles lover, then this set is for you. I tried to determine whether to get the Stereo or Mono version of the remastered albums, and in the end, got both. I was going to get just the Stereo version, and I am so happy I got the Mono as well.
I know the music very well, and the sound is incredibly true. I am hearing things on the Mono CD's that I have never heard before.
Although I like the stereo version, it is sometimes jarring to hear a lot of separation in the music.
I find that I am returning more to the Mono CD's than the Stereo version.
Hope this helps!
Why not remixed? 
2009-12-20 - Having read many of the reviews on this site, I can't help being amused by the almost religious reverence in which the Beatles catalog is regarded. What with the passionate discussions concerning the minutiae between the mono and stereo releases, people may as well be discussing different versions of the Bible.
I freely admit to being a Beatles fan, but I feel that most of the fervor over these new releases is being generated by nostalgia, not artistic appreciation. Yes, the Beatles were the greatest rock and roll group of the past century (probably of all time), but let's face it... not everything they put out was wonderful. For instance, Please, Please Me is an enjoyable collection of early Beatles originals and covers... but it's hardly indispensible. The same came be said for the following album. So for myself, debating the relative merits of the mono versions of these two albums over their respective stereo versions is a pointless exercise.
Of far greater importance are the iconic albums starting with A Hard Days Night, and excepting Beatles For Sale and Magical Mystery Tour (artistic low points both), includes everything in this set up to the White album. As for the mono/stereo debate, my opinion is that Rubber Soul and Revolver both sound better in mono due to the poor left/right stereo mixes of those albums. A Hard Days Night and the White album sound far better in stereo. Other albums like Sgt Peppers have their interesting moments (She's Leaving Home), but overall sound better in stereo.
My feeling is that this whole mono versus stereo debate would be rendered moot with new, improved stereo mixes of all the albums (but particularly Help, Rubber Soul, and Revolver). I think EMI missed a golden opportunity to give us definitive versions of these albums. What a shame...
Get the mono box plus individual stereo
2009-12-19 - I've got the mono box. Listening over speakers (not headphones), it's truly great! Clean, wholesome, rich sound - - like never before. I'd say "Yesterday" for me is the standout, but all of them are great in mono. Ringo's "Don't Pass Me By" speeded up is the only slip up. Just play it on the speakers...
But listening to the stereo versions is also good (even on headphones), and it's a fun and learning experience comparing the two. So to me it's obvious - - get the Mono box and add your personal favorites of the individual stereo versions (I don't recommend getting the stereo box). At least get the stereo Abbey Road and Let it Be to complete your collection (I did).
