- Audio CD (Nov 29 2004)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Import
- Label: EMI Europe Generic
- ASIN: B00068N5OE
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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When the Beatles catalog was first issued on CD in the '80s, an attempt was made to standardize the releases (which often varied wildly in content internationally) by using their original British format. But this confounded many Fabs fans in the U.S. who now found CDs with track listings that often differed dramatically from their original American LPs. More maddening, the initial four releases were only available in not-so-glorious mono mixes. This four-CD collection of the band's 1964 American album releases finally addresses those concerns, and then some. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65 have been digitally prepared from Capitol's vintage album masters and presented in both the original stereo and mono mixes released back in '64. This set gives younger fans a chance to finally hear the band's epochal early music in stereo--and should please an older generation by returning massive hit singles like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "She's a Woman," and "I Feel Fine" to their original American album contexts. The booklet contains a wealth of rare photos and concise notes by noted Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. --Jerry McCulley
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The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 box set includes the first four US released Beatles records: Meet The Beatles, The Beatles' Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65, PLUS a Special 60-page booklet written by famed Beatles historian Mark Lewison. Each CD contains both stereo and mono versions of the original Capitol albums. Remastered using custom valve playback electronics and 24 bit digital conversion.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
When will they learn?,
By Chris Iliou (Windsor, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 (Audio CD)
Nice to finally have these songs with decent sound quality. I've skimmed through the albums and I definitely prefer the mono versions. The stereo versions all have tons of reverb and the instruments and vocals are hard panned to the sides. It's like listening from the top seat of an empty basketball arena, with the band on opposite ends of the building. This is not what really bothers me though. The packaging is what really bothers me.They put the discs in cardboard replicas of the the vinyl covers. THESE THINGS SCRATCH CDS!!!!!! My Pearl Jam - Vitalogy, No Code, Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse, Rurouni Kenshin box sets, all scratched like crazy because of the stupid cardboard cases. Now I buy slim cases and leave them in those instead. A couple of these discs even got scuffed when I took them out to put them in the slim cases. Please, I'm begging you, no more cardboard cases!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nostalgia overload,
By JP MCWADE (RED LAKE, ONTARIO Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 (Audio CD)
The greatest attraction of this set, that which creates the biggest emotional response, is the packaging.Each CD comes in it's own little album jacket. Exact. It's like handling miniatures of what you got in 1964 at K-Mart or Kresge's or wherever you bought your Beatles records. The stereo sound is pristine. And the mono mixes are wonderful AM radio renditions.
4.0 out of 5 stars
but not in Canada,
By Truth is not a Fiction (The Canadian Wasteland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 (Audio CD)
This is set is trading on nostalgia--for Americans. The Beatles had their first release in N. America with the Canadian Beatlemania. For the first few albums the order in which they were released, the contents of the albums, even the titles, varied considerably. So, it is only marginally connected to the past of a Canadian who was a teenager in 1963.By volume 2 things are in synch.
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