So, I was at Best Buy helping a neighbor buy a computer (a PC, mores the pity) and I saw the new Beatles remastered CDs. At first I was a bit shocked at the price, $30.00 per, but then realized that was for the records with the toy inside. If you just go for the CD, it’s $13.99, outrageous, but that’s life in the 21st century.
Anyway, I bought three, With the Beatles, Sgt. Pepper (that’s practically obligatory) and Abbey Road. I’m now listening to With the Beatles, and I must say the remastered stereo sounds suspiciously like the silly stereo from the old days. If memory serves, Rubber Soul was the first Beatles record in stereo. The voices were on one side, and the instruments were mostly on the other. With the Beatles sounds pretty much like that. It’s better than the old mono, but it doesn’t really sound realistic.
Caveat: My perspective might be slightly skewed by the fact that I just returned from a wine tasting party (for charity, of course). I doubt it though. There’s Paul, John and George over there to the right, and all the instruments on the left. Still, the music is great. Right now, I’m listening to them sing Smokey Robinson’s You Really Got a Hold on Me. Great stuff.
We really did have the best music ever.
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