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    Beatles Blue and Red albums remastered - a question

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      admin last edited by

      Are the remastered songs on these compilation albums essentially the same as those from the recent remastered original albums, or is anything else done to them? The quality sounds better to me.

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        admin last edited by

        Should be the same. Only difference being the clean intro to A Day In The Life.

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        • beatlesfanrandy
          beatlesfanrandy last edited by

          Your ears are fooling you. They are exactly the same as the 2009 remasters.

          Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

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            admin last edited by

            The red and blue albums are essentially the same as the 2009 remasters. But: A Day In the Life has a clean intro because it is not cross-faded with Pepper (reprise), Back in the USSR has a clean outro because it is not cross-faded with Dear Prudence, and the first 4 songs of the red album, which are mono) are mastered somewhat louder than on the MONO cd's, to match with the level of the other (stereo) songs.

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              DrBeatle last edited by

              It still irks me that these could easily fit on a single CD, but they continue to issue it as a 2CD set and charge as such. That's why these are the only remasters I haven't bought yet.

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              • beatlesfanrandy
                beatlesfanrandy last edited by

                The Red Album yes. At only 63 minutes could fit on a single CD. The Blue Album no. When released the Blue Album was one of the longest records ever pressed, running more than 99 minutes.

                Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

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                • dcshark
                  dcshark last edited by

                  The 73 masters for the Red and Blue would have been their own tapes. When they were originally issued on CD they would have used those master tapes, and the remastered CDs would have gone to the masters of 73.

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                    seventieslord last edited by

                    Is there any reason to own these releases anyway, other than completeness? I always thought these were for casual beatles fans who wanted a little more than what was on "1" but weren't ready to start getting all the albums.

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                    • Nancy R
                      Nancy R last edited by

                      seventieslord:

                      Is there any reason to own these releases anyway, other than completeness? I always thought these were for casual beatles fans who wanted a little more than what was on "1" but weren't ready to start getting all the albums.

                      Are you kidding? They are my "go to" CDs when I'm in the car on a trip that's longer than 1/2 hour! You get the best of the Beatles. My 26 year old son downloaded them on his iPod several years ago, too.

                      Omni, Atlanta, GA May 18, 1976, Feb. 17, 1990

                      GA Dome, Atlanta, GA May 1, 1993

                      Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA May 12, 2002

                      FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN May 26, 2013

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                      Infinite Energy Center, Duluth, GA July 13, 2017

                      Bon Secours Arena, Greenville, SC May 30, 2019

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                        seventieslord last edited by

                        Nancy R:

                        seventieslord:

                        Is there any reason to own these releases anyway, other than completeness? I always thought these were for casual beatles fans who wanted a little more than what was on "1" but weren't ready to start getting all the albums.

                        Are you kidding? They are my "go to" CDs when I'm in the car on a trip that's longer than 1/2 hour! You get the best of the Beatles. My 26 year old son downloaded them on his iPod several years ago, too.

                        I don't see how they're preferable to the actual albums the songs are from. Life may be short, but it's long enough to at least take the time to enjoy the Beatles' full output. And if you want to make a "best of" you can do one yourself, as someone who presumably owns all the music. Ergo, there's no good reason to own these.

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                        • Nancy R
                          Nancy R last edited by

                          To each his own.

                          Omni, Atlanta, GA May 18, 1976, Feb. 17, 1990

                          GA Dome, Atlanta, GA May 1, 1993

                          Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA May 12, 2002

                          FedEx Forum, Memphis, TN May 26, 2013

                          Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA Oct. 15, 2014

                          Infinite Energy Center, Duluth, GA July 13, 2017

                          Bon Secours Arena, Greenville, SC May 30, 2019

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                          • jimmix
                            jimmix last edited by

                            beatlesfanrandy:

                            Your ears are fooling you. They are exactly the same as the 2009 remasters.

                            beatlesfanrandy is right. They are the 2009 Remasters. Foxx54 is right. "A Day in the Life" contains the original opening.

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                              beatlesfanrandy last edited by

                              dcshark:

                              The 73 masters for the Red and Blue would have been their own tapes. When they were originally issued on CD they would have used those master tapes, and the remastered CDs would have gone to the masters of 73.

                              There were no '73 masters. The two albums were made from the original Beatles production masters.

                              Wings Over America - Cow Palace SF - June 1976. New World Tour - Anaheim Stadium - 4/17/93. Driving USA - Oakland Arena - 4/1/2002. US Tour - HP Pavilion - San Jose - 11/08/05. An Evening with Paul McCartney - The Joint at Hard Rock - Las Vegas - 4/19/09. Up & Coming Tour - Hollywood Bowl - 3/31/10. Walk of Fame Star Presentation - Hollywood - Feb. 2012. CBS-TV taping - The Night That Changed America (with Ringo!)  - L.A. Convention Center - Jan. 2014. Out There Tour -Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles - Aug. '14 and Petco Park - San Diego - Sept. '14. Petco Park - San Diego - June 2019.  Got Back Tour - SoFi Stadium - Los Angeles - May 2022

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                              • jimmix
                                jimmix last edited by

                                beatlesfanrandy:

                                dcshark:

                                The 73 masters for the Red and Blue would have been their own tapes. When they were originally issued on CD they would have used those master tapes, and the remastered CDs would have gone to the masters of 73.

                                There were no '73 masters. The two albums were made from the original Beatles production masters.

                                "the original Beatles production masters." Right, but the only difference was "A Day in the Life" contained the Sgt Pepper fade in/crossfade intro when the Blue Album (1967-70) was originally release in April 1973 (in the U.S., only).

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                                • favoritething
                                  favoritething last edited by

                                  So the most sane reason to get these is for the clean intro on "A Day In The Life" (edit: and clean outro on "Back In The USSR")? I don't know, I'm getting less tolerant of those kinds of things, although I can certainly geek out to the four different cowbell intros on "I Call Your Name" (US stereo, US mono, UK stereo, UK mono), and I even have those colored vinyl 45s from the '90s where, lazily, they chose to do a fade-out on "Blackbird" and a fade-in on "While My Guitar..." rather than clean edits, to avoid the adjacent White Album songs!

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                                    admin last edited by

                                    Those were the first 8-track tapes I ever bought. They weren't cheap then, either. It was a tough choice: the Fabs, or the Temptations' "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." The Temps had to wait until early 1974.

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