Every Serious Beatles Fan Needs To Buy The Beatles In Stereo Box Set
The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set
The Beatles aren’t a “just the hits” type of band. You can’t purchase just Beatles 1 and be done with it. In actuality, strongly believe many of their best tracks were not their number one hits but were their more experimental songs like “Tomorrow Never Knows.”
If you really want to understand The Beatles music you must hear their LPs from start to finish rather than just hearing a song here and a song there. I believe that The Beatles recorded many of the most important rock albums of all time and even their not so great albums (such as Beatles for Sale) have some really good tracks.
This is why I think it’s such a great idea to Purchase The Beatles in Stereo Box Set. The set contains every LP (and every non-album song with the inclusion of the Past Masters double CD set) that The Beatles recorded and released during the 60s.
It includes{ pretty much} all of their releases except for Live at the BBC CDs and the three Anthology sets. This seems right to me since those newer releases are not a part of the band’s “official catalog”. They are kind of like the “extra features” on a DVD while the original releases are the feature film.
There are some more Beatles CDs that aren’t included, for example there’s 1999 release of a CD called Yellow Submarine Songtrack that’s entirely different from the original Yellow Submarine album. It is actually far better and definitely worth a listen for it’s alternate mixes (it’s not just remastered, it’s Remixed.) Let It Be… Naked and Love are also not included.
Along with The Beatles Stereo Box, I also recommend that you Order The Beatles Remastered Mono Box Set which features the original mono mixes for all of The Beatles songs up through Yellow Submarine. It’s hard to underStand in the context of today, but when John, Paul, George, & Ringo were recording they considered the mono version to be of far more importance when compared to the stereo mixes up until up until around ‘68. Let It Be & Abbey Road were recorded and mixed just in stereo.