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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: EMI
Salesrank: 8
Released: September 9, 2009 |
| Our 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.
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The White Album (Remastered) Reviews:
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 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! (-:
Warning! This album is addictive.
2009-12-17 - Today it is new to many people. However for me it is a slice of time from my history. As with all great art after one does the best that can be done with the standards, the next step is to go out to left field that threatens to lose followers and may or may not work. Just when you thought The Beatles time had come to take that step, they came out with "The White Album" and proved that no one knows where the classics end and experimental must begin.
I was fortunate enough to obtain one of the scarce copies in 1969. And it seemed funny to be playing "Back In The U.S.S.R." at West Point New York. As for the rest of the album many reviews look on this as an eclectic collection. On the surface it maybe. Then you can hear and feel the underlying pattern of the Beatles. They are just extending their range and keeping that which makes them unique.
I believe this album is addictive.
Most people look favorable on this album others look at it as a transitional time for the Beatles. Ether way they realize the Beatles as any artist have down the universal fundamentals that make good music and have adapted it to a unique style.
The few detractors are usually people that do not understand what goes into music and would benefit from an appreciation class.
True some tracks probably would not be purchased as a single. It is the peril of many albums that they must carry some of the weaker contributions.
Bottom line is that this item is worth the investment.
Buy Two If You Plan To Use 
2009-12-09 - I bought the Mono set first, then stereo versions of Abby Road / Let It Be to complete the set. I decided to purchase the stereo version of the While album as this is a transitional album between mono and stereo, and many people commented that you need both versions (mono and stereo) to pick the "best" versions of each song.
Well, I'm not going to go into the mono vs. stereo, sound quality, etc. as many have already gone over all that. Suffice it to say you won't be disappoint in the sound...OK?
My 3-star rating is the average of the CD itself (a 5) and the packaging (at 1). This has to be one of the worst packaging jobs for a top shelf CD that I;ve seen. Buy two if you plan to play alot (hey, $13 is cheap!) because you will NOT be able to avoid damaging either the package or CD otherwise.
Because there are two CD and two booklets, this is a four panel package. The two CD's are "stuck" in the two middle sleeves. Believe me, these are tight even when using the "squeeze" technique that others have suggested. The two outer pockets are a bit more "spacious" but the larger booklet does not fit into the tigher inner pockets if you're thinking of moving stuff around.
It's a fairly thick pack with two CD's , two booklets, and four folding panels. Unless placed and folded correctly, the pack will not easily slide into the outer cardboard "box" (or sleeve).
There are not liners for the CD so they are totally exposed when sliding into and out of the cardboard sleeves; finger prints are nearly unavoidable.
Not bad at all
2009-12-02 - Not quite so spectacular as the "Abbey Road" or the 2003 "Let it be...naked" remasters, probably because the technology used at the time of the "White Album" was evolving rapidly. But still a vast improvement on earlier CD versions. The Beatles sound again like a band at last, not just like single instruments put together. And Eric Clapton's solo on "While my guitar"... By the way, if you don't like the new packaging (I fully sympathise) use your old one. It's perfect, and after hearing the remasters, the two old CDs are useless anyway!
The sublime and subpar co-exist 
2009-11-30 - I fully expect to go back and forth on the relative merits of individual songs in this classic set. At the moment, Paul McCartney's tuneful craftsmanship appears to win the day over John Lennon's heroin-laced soul-baring, simply because some of Lennon's tracks come off as unfinished by comparison, but on another listen the reverse might be true. What isn't arguable is whether this holds together as a cohesive group effort; it does not. The individual Beatles were each moving in different directions by 1968, and the strain shows: on a number of tracks, for example, McCartney doesn't even enlist the aid of his ostensible bandmates, but instead overdubs himself into a one-man quartet. As producer George Martin put it in Bob Spitz's excellent Beatles bio, "I was recording not a group of four, but three fellows who had three accompanists each time." Funnily enough, even "Abbey Road," recorded just before the group splintered apart, conveys more the feeling of a band, even if a band on its best behavior.
Yet even as there are tracks that by the Fab Four's standards sound a little dull or uninspired, you also have "Blackbird," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Helter Skelter," "Julia" and "Revolution 1," all of which rank with their best. ("Revolution 9"--or should I say number-nine, number-nine--does not impress as much as it once did, although the remastered sound allows you to hear Lennon's collage with scary clarity.) And the cornucopia of musical styles puts this 2-CD set into a class by itself among the Beatles canon. About the 2009 remaster: having never heard the "White Album" LPs (whether the original or a Mobile Fidelity reissue) on a state-of-the-art turntable, I can't say whether these new CDs represent the ultimate. But they sure wipe the floor with the thin, two-dimensional sonics of the 1987 version.
