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Posted by Herb
on 9/20/2009, 8:13 pm
Has anyone else listened to the recordings?
I'm afraid I don't hear any revelatory differences between these and the earlier versions. I guess it could be due to the limitations of my playback equipment or of my ears, but to me the recordings sound pretty much like what I'm used to. Anybody else have a different take on this?
Aside from that I think that Apple has put together a typically lackluster and unimaginative package around these releases. The disks come with booklets that have a little bit of information about each album, including notes about how they were recorded, and there are little documentaries about each disk that don't add very much beyond what's been seen elsewhere.
I guess I'm like a lot of other folks wishing that Apple would really dig into their archive to put out more stuff that hasn't been heard before, like maybe alternate takes from the songs on the various disks. In any event it seems as if there could have been any number of ways the release of these remasters could have been made a lot more interesting.
I know that there are mixed opinions about the Beatles in general floating out there...but to me everything they did was so original that somehow I always expect that what they put out now is going to live up to the same degree of creativity. Maybe that's not fair, but I would expect some kind of stab at a more interesting approach to these new releases.
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