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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: EMI
Salesrank: 22
Released: September 9, 2009 |
| Our Price: $11.00 |
| Used Price: $11.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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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.
The White Album (Remastered) Reviews:
the Beatles 
2009-11-09 - It is so hard to decide what is the best Lp of the Beatles, but this is one of them. I recieved it fast and in great shape.
Best album of all time
2009-11-08 - The best album I have ever owned. It went 19x platinum! While My Guitar Gently Weeps is one of my personal favorites. Some of the second disc's songs get to be a little uneven, however. Revolution 1, for instance, you don't at all need if you have Revolution. Revolution 9 is not a song. Yer Blues is also pretty bad. But with all the great songs, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Back in the U.S.S.R., Helter Skelter, and most of the rest, it is completely made up for.
Where are the songs on CD2 
2009-11-07 - Well, I received my shipment of the Beatles Remastered White Album CD, and thoroughly enjoyed CD1. The songs had a lot of new life to them, and sound really great. HOWEVER, either my CD2 is defective, or I am simply missing something. After inserting the CD in my computer, the Documentary video starts up and runs fine. The Credits video runs fine. BUT I can never find any songs on the CD, even though they are listed on the label. I did a Windows Explorer check on CD2, and there are no audio files of any type showing up, even though the audio files for CD1 show up when I check that CD. What is going on? Anyone have any ideas, or do I just send the shipment back? By the way, this is the second shipment, since I sent the first one back for the same reason.
The White album sounds great, shipped terribly 
2009-10-29 - This review is not about the White album. The remastering sounds great.
It's about Amazon's horrible shipping. When I received the album in a cardboard envelope, I took off the cellophane, and excitedly put the disks on the CD player.
While I was listening to the jet blasting through the speakers, I looked at the casing. It was crushed. The spine had been stomped on, squeezed or mashed in the shipping process so that it was crumpled. I looked at the cardboard sleeve, and it too had been creased from crushing.
I emailed Amazon, received a very quick apology and told they'd send me a new jewel case. I emailed back, and explained it was not in a jewel case, so they sent me a new copy.
Same packaging, same crumpled look.
Their solution? Here's what they say:
I'm sorry to hear the replacement Audio CD had the same problem as your first order. This usually doesn't happen. Since it's likely another replacement would arrive damaged, I won't trouble you with another order.
Please return the Audio CD for a full refund.
I responded as follows:
Really? That's your solution. Send it back, we'll refund you because we are incapable of sending the CD without it being damaged?
So every single person who orders the Beatles White Album from Amazon.com will receive damaged goods.
Really. Instead of changing your packaging of the product so that it arrives at customers' homes undamaged, you prefer simply to have those who complain receive a refund, and happily continue sending out products that are damaged every single time.
Hmmm. I own stock in this company. I've bought quite a few products through this company. But I'm beginning to see attitudes and behaviors that I saw at Montgomery Wards years before it went belly up.
Guess it's time to check out some other online retailers.
Beatles music lovers, check the case of your CD. Hopefully, it's not bent along its spine. But it sounds to me like, they have no intention of sending it in proper packaging.
The White Album 
2009-10-21 - Product was delivered new as specified. Arrived a few days after placing order. Very satisfied.
