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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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REVOLVER REMASTERED
I can't fathom what reviewer "Ready Steady Freddie" is talking about below. I loaded my 1987 vintage "Revolver" CD and the new remastered one in my Bang and Olafsen CD changer, and toggled back and forth. The difference in sound quality is like night and day! Not only is the overall recording significantly louder, it's brighter and and more nuanced, and the bass is much more audible. As I read in another review somewhere, it's like scraping a layer of grime off the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It's a vast improvement. The remastered "Abbey Road" and "The White Album" sound fantastic too. If you love the Beatles' music, you'll hear it like you never heard it before. Don't let Freddie deter you!
I love Revolver
Revolver is a treat to listen to. I have this album on tape and in record form, so it is very neat to have it in on a remastered CD form. It sounds clear and crisp not like my scratchy old record and crummy old tape. Revolver contains many hits songs. Every band member shines at least one song with their lead vocals. My favorite is "Yellow Submarine". Ringo's lead vocals on this song are great. This song is a three minute party. It brings people together. This is such a fun song. I also like George's vocals on the song "Taxman". This is a very groovy song. Paul shines on "Eleanor Rigby". I love the violins playing on this song very much. John provides lead vocals on the track "Tomorrow Never Knows". I love the beat of this song very much. I love the horns playing on "Got To Get You In My Life". It is such a happy upbeat song. This is a classic album.
The Fab Four's zenith
A lifelong Beatles fan (I was 2 when "Love Me Do" was issued, and just shy of 10 when the band broke up), I count "Revolver" as the Fab Four's best record. Not their most ambitious (that would be either "Sgt. Pepper" or the White Album, each for different reasons) but their zenith as a song-making phenomenon and as a cohesive band. Put another way, "Revolver" took them as far as they could go along the path they were on and meant that for their follow-up, the Beatles would have to re-invent themselves, as they did. But the basis for that reinvention is all here in 35 minutes of concentrated creativity.
Growing up, I was a strictly American-oriented Beatles fan, which means that three tracks on the British release of "Revolver" were known to me only from "Yesterday and Today," one of assorted "compilations" that Capitol Records used to carve out about 11 U.S. LPs from the seven that the band released overseas between 1963 and 1966. Therefore I never caught up to "Revolver" in its entirety until the wretched-sounding 1987 CD reissue. This 2009 remaster brings out not only a ton of detail and definition but also a forward impetus and underlying energy that the flat-sounding '87 disc is largely missing. (I suspect the varying opinions of the sound quality on these 2009 remasters have more to do with the performance of individual listeners' audio gear, and the way those listeners listen, than anything else. That said, the sound of "Eleanor Rigby" is "bigger" if also more generalized on the "1" compilation from 2000.) One quibble: Since the 2009 disc plays for only 35 minutes, there was room not only for the mono version of the LP but also the single "Paperback Writer" and its flip-side, "Rain," both of which complement the overall style and feel of "Revolver."
Apple Corps. Revolver Rip Off Remaster 2009
The hype is, they spent four years working on the Beatles catalog to remaster it, yeah,right, what were they doing, smoking dope and taking LSD to while away the time? Because, while Revolver is a great Beatle album, this new CD remaster does not make a big difference over the one issued in 1987 on CD. The liner notes to the new remaster must have been written in ten minutes or cut and pasted from information on the internet. And the bonus in this overhyped remastered Beatle CD is a video that you can only play on your computer. Save your money and wait till this disc ends up in the used CD bin....Oh, one minor difference is that on this CD , McCartney must have told the re-mastering bozos to boost the bass sound. And finally why couldn't they put the mono mix on this cd too? Answer cause Apple is a greedy orgazniation .....
Another remastered masterpiece
This is the 4th of the remastered cd's just released, I have purchased. Just like the others, the sound quality is amazing, it makes you forget this was recorded over 40 years ago. The clarity, detail, nuances in both the instruments and voices is nothing short of spectacular. I enjoy listening at night, quiet room with my headphones on and it's like I'm hearing these songs for the first time and they were just recorded in a state of the art studio. Warning: buying these cd's is habit forming, you'll want to keep buying more, so take my advise and buy the whole freaking set, it'll save you $.
