By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
You say you want a revelation?
Listen to the intensified punch of Come Together, the majestic breadth of The Long and Winding Road, the modern sheen on Love Me Do and the renewed thrust in I Am the Walrus.
The Beatles catalog, digitally remastered for the first time, is arriving in stores Sept. 9 amid a joyful noise from fans.
Audiophiles have long lamented the thin, shrill results of the music's 1987 transfer to CD, flaws magnified by advances in digital technology that enriched the recordings of peers with repeated remastering rounds.
"Even people listening on lower-quality ear buds and MP3s will hear a drastic jump in quality," says Beatles historian Matt Hurwitz, who heard a sampling of the new tracks. "We're hearing something a lot closer to the stereo and mono mixes produced in the '60s. This is the way The Beatles heard it."
Though frustrating for fans, the wait has heightened drama and value, says Beatles scholar Martin Lewis.
"Fans chomping at the bit felt that Apple was painfully slow responding to demand," he says. "But at least The Beatles haven't been overly repackaged like Elvis and The Who."
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5 comments:
Yay! Now I can relive the joy of buying their albums all over again!
Perfectly timed to fit in with my current obsession! I can't believe that I randomly came back around to the Beatles this summer without even realizing this was coming.
I've never had a good, complete set of Beatles recordings, so this is good news. I've had LPs, casettes, inferior CDs, etc. I just missed the 8 Track period.
Somebody I knew back then had some 8-track Beatles. Those things would switch tracks in mid-song! Amazing what we put up with. I always hated cassettes (and don't miss them one bit), but cassettes were like Blu-Ray compared to 8 Track.
my parents had some of the classic albums but i don't remember ever actually purchasing any of their music. now might be the time.
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