Beatles Blue and Red albums remastered - a question
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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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Should be the same. Only difference being the clean intro to A Day In The Life.
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Your ears are fooling you. They are exactly the same as the 2009 remasters.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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To each his own.
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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. -
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.
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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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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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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.
