Customer Reviews
the beatles stereo boxset is awesome - By: Beatle4LifeJosh, 19 Jul 2010 
Ok just to start off i freakin love the beatles they are just the best & i saved up for like 4 months just to get the stereo reamastered box set & it was worth every little penny just everything about it is awesome the packaging & obviously whats better than owning every beatles albumin awesome packaging past masters & the mini documentaries i mean who wouldnt want to own that really.
The mono boxset i just thought i would talk a bit about it i should be getting it soon & i have looked at the thing inside out & yes its very very awesome packaging i would say more classy than the stereo boxset because there all mini lps (vinyl) i would recomend to get the stereo first because its cheaper & because you get every album but i would also recomend the mono even though i dont have it ive listened to all the mono on youtube.
So to answer all the questions Mono or Stereo my answer is BOTH!! thats if your a hardcore beatles fan like my self hope this has helped & i will be reviewing some more stuff Beatle4LifeJosh out
almost brilliant - By: S. Stewart, 11 Jun 2010 Whether you are a long time Beatles fan or not, you really should own this set. The remastering job is excellent & leaves no comparison to the 1987 mixes. This would at least be partly due to advancesin technology but perhaps also different ears at work also. The packaging too is superb with excellent new detailed notes & some fantastic photos. The thing is when something is great you want more & you want better! So why weren't the mistakes tidied up? Why no bonus tracks? Maybe the purists wouldn't stand for it but I would love to have expanded versions of all the albums with the best outtakes from the Anthology sets added & if the purists weren't happy they still have their dusty old vinyl-or am I pushing it?!Still,I repeat buy this even if you have all of it from the '80's or even the '60's.You won't regret it.
Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set - By: M. Belmont, 28 May 2010 From 'I Saw Her Standing There' on the 1st album to 'Get Back' on the last this is how I remember hearing these songs the first time aroundin the 60's on vinyl. There are moments when I hear an instrument on a particular track that I havnt heard for 30 years or since I switched from vinyl to the original cd'sin the 80's.
Fully remastered this is also packaged superbly & there is a DVD with featurette's on the making of each album.
13 studio albums & a double CD of non album singles, b sides & ep tracks.
One of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century. Am I getting carried away? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Beatles have Vanished - By: Michael Leonard Wruk, 25 May 2010 
The Beatles Have Vanished - All Gloss & no substance
Somewherein the retelling of the story, over & over, knocking off the edges along the way the Beatles have disappeared. The gloss has finally taken over.
As a life long Beatles fan (and onetime member of the `John & Yoko Peace Club') I always look forward to any new fragments unearthed but finally it seems there is nothing left except to go back & clean up what you already have. Sadly the picture of the Beatles seem gone all sentimental.
My first realisation came with `Lennon Legend' DVD, I expected to see the radical, avant garde, rude, irreverent yet honest indulgences that John & Yoko producedin their early promos films. Unfortunately the exciting groundbreaking material was replaced by a superhero who saved the world. What place does the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 havein a Lennon video, he was long gone by then & despite making people aware of various peace issue he didn't save the world. John was no angel & that was his charm. The "Lennon Legend" DVD manages to destroy all traces of reality they might as well have painted on tights & a cape. Indeedin the making of Beatles Rockband Yoko wasn't impressed with the initial depiction of Lennon. Yoko said the original John animation lacked confidence. "This guy was a hero & should look like one". So they had to changed the way he stand. She missed the fact that the way the Beatles stood was historically important, as teenagers they were among the first to miss compulsory National Service & did indeed slouch. Ringo, the oldest beatle missed his national service by 10 months & the basic training that gave young men the upright stance that Yoko insisted on for the Rockband John.
It's no wonder John throughout the 70's bemoaned the fact that no one thought of Beatles as a real "rock n roll band" he could obviously see the rose tinted view people had of the band even back then.
It must be rememberedin the mid 60's that Lennon was known as the " Lazy Beatle" sometime even the "fat Beatle" who spent a lot of time stonedin bed he was very rarely seen out. McCartney was a single guy out on the town, who through his relationship with Jane Asher & her brother Peter was thein the hub of the experimental music scenein fact he was involved with the Indica gallery which Peter Asher set up with John Dunbar. In fact Yoko went to see McCartney about contributing to a present for composer John Cage before she held her Indica exhibition where she met John.
Yoko seems afraid that John won't be shownin a good light. Now It seems the light has gone out completely leaving a museum light, making out a blurry imagein which every side is a "goodside". Not that McCartney isn't painting the same "The Beatles Could do no wrong" image. There was a whole world going on around the band & they were influenced by it as much as they influenced others. Indeed Ravi Shankar was playingin the UK as long ago as 1956 heavily influencing early 60's Folk scene long before George Harrison picked up a sitar.
With the release of `Let It Be - naked' may be there was a chance to reveal a little truth once more yet here was a "lovely piece" the promised re-release of the movie with extra outtakes never happened the material was seen as too controversial. It may be sad but not really controversial the group of really tight friends were falling apart, the outtakes I have seen include some jams that at worst reflect on the news stories of the time much as Lennon & McCartney did with "Luck of the Irish" & "Give Ireland back to the Irish" a few years later. However the subject then was Enoch Powell's "infamous rivers of blood speech" which was after all a comment on immigration & the recent race relations act rather being racism. Commonwealth, Enoch Powell, White Power (get off), No Pakistanis (version of Get Back) none of these were finished song more like adlibbed passing comments on what wasin the days paper. There is even the avant-garde jam featuring Yoko's trademark wailing vocalizations the afternoon after George Harrison quit the band & sittingin his chair. Not pretty music but an essential piece of Beatles history.
There are a other pieces missing from officially released material numerous demos of songs written for other artist & McCartney's own experimental "Carnival of Light". It would be great to hear the Beatles Diversions raw, rough, & often bad but at least honest.
Music can't be beaten but be aware - By: A. Deadman, 19 May 2010 This is product for the die-hard Beatles fan - or for the newly initiated it is a great way of getting all the albumsin one hit. It certainly brings back some of the excitement of buying them first time round. I would give ten-out-of-ten for the music but I would however like to have seen much better packaging for my money.
The stereo remixes are very good & clearer sounding. You can hear the odd thing you've not heard before. I don't think, hand on heart, that the albums sound significantly different from previous releases. It seems overpriced as you are paying almost £10 per disk. It is packagedin an oblong box covered by a flimsy cardboard sleeve, which won't last long unless you take extra care. (The packaging is somewhat reminiscent of the original "Let It Be" album with slip-case picture book. The slip case & picture book didn't last long before falling apart!) The oblong box holding the albums is robust though & has magnetic tabs to hold it closed. Inside the sleeves for each album are of reasonably robust cardboard & the albums are stackedin two sets with pull tabs to remove them. The booklet for each album is a nice touch & each album also has a mini documentary. A bonus DVD caries all the mini documentaries on one single DVD.
Overall the packaging could have been better for the money. The first set sent by Amazon was damaged on 2 of the corners (both flimsy sleeve & the more robust oblong box were dented quite badly). It is hard to know if this was down to poor packaging when posted to me or if the damage is related to some earlier part of the process.
A word of warning: I would recommend ensuring you buy this form a reputable supplier. Prior to purchasing from Amazon I bought one on EBay (from a 100% feedback seller) & got a Chinese copy - which was much poorer quality than the real thing: the spaces for the albums was much tighter (you could hardly pull them out); there was glue over some disks - so they wouldn't play properly; the Beatles' names were spelt wrongly (i.e. Ringo Start, George Harrisun); there was a booklet missing; & the mini-documentaries DVD commenced with a Chinese logo, & struggled to play properly.
