The Beatles 2009 Remasters: Happy 10th Birthday!
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- The Beatles entire UK stereo and mono album catalogue (plus Past Masters/Mono Masters) were released in remastered form on 9th September 2009 (Number 9, Number 9, Number 9).
I'm paying tribute as we reach the 10th birthday of these fantastic sets!
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I’ll never forget that week. My birthday was that Saturday (I was turning the wise old age of 22)and I had started saving for these and rockband the moment they were announced so I could afford all 3 on release day. One of the most fun days in Beatledom I got to experience!
9-9-09 was an amazing time. That is when Best Buy still sold music and movies. Very expensive but fun fun time! Good memories
I still love the mono CD box set....have most of the 2009 stereos too
I agree with the mono box set - it is the jewel of my collection. High quality, fantastic music! It changed the way I listened to the earlier Beatles albums.
How time flies.
I've held on to my CD mono box set. It's a great package, I really like that they thought to include the mono version of The White Album and dug up the mixes intended for the Yellow Submarine soundtrack EP.
I'm glad we got those Yellow Sub mixes, but I wish they had put them somewhere different, I've always felt they spoil the flow of the Mono Masters a little.
@@AndrewDixonMusic Come to think of it, why not at the end of the Yellow Submarine album?
@@ClarenceFisher That would have been much better! On the CD version anyway, not sure how they would have handled that on the vinyl set.
A little over a year later, but here's my experience with the 2009 remasters:
I wasn't really into the Beatles at the time (at least, not as much as I am now) and was perfectly content with their 1 compilation since 2000. But, I do remember the hype around these remasters.
A couple of years later (2010 or 2011) I started wanting to collect Beatles albums. No longer content with just the songs included on 1 (which was missing Here Comes The Sun, Good Day Sunshine, Strawberry Fields Forever, and Drive My Car, just to name a few popular Beatles songs I was also familiar) I started buying the stereo CDs individually. Kinda glad I did - I don't have the ink bleed thing that your cd's seem to have. Plus, it allowed me to discover the Beatles different eras one at a time - almost in real time.
I remember specifically being blown away by Rubber Soul. Aside from Drive My Car, I hadn't heard any of the other songs ever. And Nowhere Man especially totally blew me away. Had never heard a song as beautifully crafted as that before.
By the time I made it to Let it Be in 2014, I heard about the differences in the Mono mixes (different takes, more instruments, other differences etc.) and decided to hunker down and get the Mono box set. Was worried that I got a fake when it came in Japanese packaging, but I've since discovered that it's a genuine Japanese copy. None of the albums are fake, and as a bonus, the Japanese version comes in a slightly tubbier box - which is a tad bit stronger, and inside it includes a lyric booklet with every song's lyrics, album by album, in Japanese and English. (Good thing, 'cause I only know English)
I've heard elsewhere that supposedly Japanese CDs are generally of higher quality pressings too - so that's an added bonus!
Regardless, I've been listening to both the Stereo and Mono 2009 remasters for 6 years now, and I love every single one! The albums (both mono and stereo) are well-produced & accurate cover recreations, and the mixes are just fantastic. As a musician, the 2009 versions are like ice cream and birthday cake - I can clearly make out the drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, and even vocal harmonies independently (something you can't do with the old 1987 versions, or even some vinyl) AND everything is just so well balanced and punchy, whilst still staying true to the original mixing decisions back in the 1960s.
Honestly, the Beatles are one of the only bands where I like every single album, and just about every single song. Sure, there are other artists I love (some even more than the Beatles) but with nobody else can I pop in a random song and know I'll enjoy it! I recommend the 2009 remasters to any and all music lovers. And especially to Beatles fans!
Recently, I've been getting the Giles Martin remasters (Sgt. Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road) but, I have to say, I think I prefer the 2009 remasters - especially the mono of Sgt. Pepper. The new mixes try and pan things around differently (sometimes good, sometimes bad) and change the volume & presence of the different instruments - which is something I don't like. A handfull of Giles' mixes IMO are equal or even better than the originals, but the majority are inferior and even unlistenable! Good thing I can always fall back on the 2009 versions! They were excellent back then, and they're still excellent now!
Thanks for your video! I really enjoy hearing others talk about these. I really do think they're the only way to listen to the Beatles on CD. So clean, faithful to the originals, and immensely powerful!
Wow, great comment! Sounds like you've had a real adventure with these albums over the last 10 years, and great that you got to know them chronologically, that's always the way to go where possible i think!
do you listen to the 2009 remaster on streaming or with headphones?
@@sethtruscello6227 I ended up getting the 1987 cds too. (they’re dirt cheap, and some albums/songs are better than the 2009 counterparts)
If you read my post, you’ll see that I bought the 2009s piecemeal starting before they were even on streaming. So the CDs. I may be a fish upstream, but I dislike streaming (both movies/tv and music), so I stick to buying physical - aside from Pandora, which I rarely listen to anyway.
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What a great way to celebrate the anniversaries of these box sets! I have the mono set which I love and I am considering getting the stereo. Take care!
Very informative! It was like taking a class on Beatles recording techniques thank you
I generally don't like remasters, but these are the icing on the cake!
I just ordered inner sleeves for the stereo cd's similar to the ones in the mono set, and also resealable plastic covers for the stereo packs just like the ones on the mono packs. I hope they will still fit in the box.
I do remember buying the stereo box at Best Buy on September 9, 2009! It was on sale for $99.99 and they did had the Beatles in mono box set there but that wasn’t on sale at the time it was really expensive and I didn’t have the money for that so I bought the box set in 2010 and I do love both of them!!
P.S. I noticed that you don’t have the box set of the U.S. albums box set that came out in 2014... that box set by the way is totally superb!!!
I got my mono boxset back in late 2016, bought off Amazon, was worried it would be a fake though. I noticed on Sgt. Pepper that the text on the spine read the wrong way to the other albums and there was a misprint - 'Sgt. Peppers', so I had a big panic but have been informed that's how the original LP was.
You over view and preview is excellent. Straight forward.
Very enjoyable 👍Keep on doing what you are doing👍🙏😁
Excellent as usual Andrew. Your videos are always a welcome treat..
Thanks Mike, appreciate that!
Wow. Ten years ago. How time flies!
I bought them in Galway and spent a week touring the west coast of Ireland. Amazing scenery and amazing soundtrack.
Don't know if you knew it. But those photos in the Please Please Me album with the burnt out car on wasteland, were taken on Saltney Street. Within yards of where one of John Lennon's ancestors lived.
I did not know that, thanks!
Hi andrew.
A good celebration of these two box sets.
A late reaction from my side, because I was in Liverpool this weekend. Later this week I post a few videos on my tiny RUclips channel.
These box sets deserve this 10 years celebration.
When they were released it was like discovering The Beatles once again. There were sounds you"ve never heard on the original 1987 cd's.
The most exiting box set for me at the realease day was the mono set. I've never heard these albums in real mono before.
And the stereo one was a very good upgrade.
They both sounds amazing.
I still prefer some songs of the stereo version of The White Album 2009 version over the 2018 Giles Martin remix. Helter Skelter especially.
But, at the end of the day, these are two must have sets.
Hi Pe, yes they were definitely exciting times getting those boxes. Looking forward to seeing your Liverpool video!
@@AndrewDixonMusic Hi, I upped some videos from The Cavern.
Not only do I remember the hype, but I also remember the entire catalogue living up to the hype, perhaps surpassing it. I bought the individual stereos in chronological order, and was blown away by the sound and the mix. That was just in the car stereo - when I got them on my home stereo was an even better experience. the same went for the MONO CDs which took forever to save up for because you couldn't get those individually, but you COULD get the LPs individually 5 years later. I've never bothered with the stereo remaster LPs, thinking it would be just a 12" plastic CD, but I did get those mono LPs. Brilliant sound.
They did sound a lot cleaner///like Bob Dylans SACD, which was an even bigger improvement...
Love your Personality and Passion for The Beatles Music
Thank you Brett, that's very kind :-)
..... And to think that in spring 1970, when the official announcement declared the Beatles were not a group anymore, and all the red tape... We all thought we'd hear about them a few years and that would be the end of them, what you have on display and all the concerts Paul's did in the last couple of years, with Ringo joining in now and again, proved the opposite I can only use words of class in their favour:
E PLURIBUS UNUM
Loved your video. Good review, interesting comments!
Jaysus Andrew, what a list you made, that had to take a lot of time (and effort), to do
so!
I tip my hat to you, a challenge and a task worthwhile, you succeeded so.make yiur way to the top of the class.
If you ever come to Dublin let me know!
Ken
Cheers Ken!
I got my stereo box on the release day and listened to the Albums chronological. I still love my box.
I was really excited of learning about the Beatles mono and stereo box that I didn’t buy them right away, because I didn’t have a lot of money at the time.
When I had enough money over $2000 worth I decided well I’m going to buy those boxes so I went to my favorite music store which is music millennium here in Portland Oregon, and I couldn’t wait to listen to those albums.
I love the Beatles music ever since I was 11 and I first got introduced to the Beatles when I bought my first album which was please please me the 1987 albums they were great at that time but over the years I felt the cities were really murky and they weren’t really improved upon us for sound quality is concerned..
When I heard all of the Beatles remastered in stereo and mono I thought to myself wow this is one of the best experiences I have ever had I have never even heard of the rest of the Beatles in mono catalog I’ve only heard the first four albums please please me with the Beatles a hard days night and Beatles for sale.
I love the Beatles Box Set still I’ll listen to them a lot I just love the stereo mix and the mono mix these are the best remasters ever.
Andrew,
Appreciate u doing video for this anniv. Fond memories of that ( weekend, believe it was)@ our great music store. For 1st day or two, there was a,special release sale&,all individual cd.s were sold for either 9,99$or even 10. $ per. I know owners,used to work there& have no doubt little profit was made there,especially first day or two. However,a bit of a celebratory & partying atmosphere had,been created for the release& it is was Great!
I couldn't afford the box then,sadly,as wud love have that DVD included; but was happy when I sat down& really listened to the many albums I got @ that special $. Got the
mono set 'bout a yr.later& love it ! Nice fotos u made,as well. M
Thanks Michael, it's been good seeing lots of people with their own special memories of this set and the time it came out!
Great idea to revisit the stereo and mono box sets. Happy days! My one disappointment was the exclusive Washington film you received if you downloaded them the set through iTunes wasn't included in the box set. Although it has never been officially released it thankfully became available on You Tube. Excellent video again Andrew, keep them coming... Cheers...
Cheers Eddie!
I got the mono boxset and i love it. Im eventually gonna get all the stereo remasters
Wednesday 09/09/09. I’ll NEVER forget it! 👏🏽❤️🎶
i bought my mono set 4 years ago for £70 off ebay. it came covered in dust and all the cd's were loose but i cleaned it up and it was as good as new. but the top and the side that slides out has started turning yellow but it is 10 years old so you have to expect it to age
Can't believe l bought this 10 years ago love it!
Mono, stereo or both? 🙂
@@AndrewDixonMusic hi Andrew stereo prefer clearer sounds
the 2019 remixes /remasters sound even better..
Yet not authentic at all.
The anthology tracks have been remastered on itunes album officially..
I’m not a fan of CDs generally Andrew but I love the Mono Box set replicas...they sound huge. In relation to the steady steam of product being pumped out...I often find them a let down. Let it be naked..the pointless LOVE album, huge chunks of the Anthology and the Eight Days A Week film....On reflection could live without all of them!
Eight Days a Week could have really been brilliant if if included Shea Stadium, the mother of all Beatle concerts.
Cd is the best format there is, don't fall for vinyl myths
It was NOT "panning". It was the way recording was done.
I preordered the stereo set to pick up my local Best Buy the day of release. It got back ordered somehow. I was in there a week or two later checking if it was in and still getting told no. Went and looked there sat a set on the shelf, I grabbed it, went back to the service counter with my email confirmation and asked what is this. Luckily they let me take that one home. It is easily one of my favorite things.
I too for some reason skipped on getting the Mono set initially, and also finally picked it up about five years ago now. I got burned on my first attempt with a fake version. Luckily PayPal was able to get my money back. My second attempt I bought a used set that clearly showed all the pictures of the disc so I knew I was getting the genuine set. My biggest tip to buying one now. Kicking myself because about a year after the initial release I had seen a set at our Best Buy and passed a second time getting it. Two of my absolute favorite box sets though.
That's an annoying journey you've had! I really wish I'd bought the Mono CD and vinyl sets when they first came out instead of waiting, would have saved a fortune!
I managed to get the very last Mono vinyl box that has been on Amazon Prime in the UK before prices went crazy, I got lucky!
God bless the beatles
Thanks for celebrating 10 years of both sets. I have the stereo CD box set. I have the mono set on vinyl. Do you have the vinyl version too?
Yes Michael, I have the mono vinyl box (i.e. The Holy Grail) but I don't have the stereo box. I was very lucky to get one of the very last copies on Amazon UK at a reasonable price a couple of years ago before the prices went through the roof, lucky!
Wasn't there a similar problem with the US album boxset? (not the Capitol boxsets, the blue box) ink was coming off the album covers, I think they stopped producing it and sold them off at a discount. I don't know if anyone has it or has any more info on that?
Yeah and I think that the sound on those us albums sound a lot better than the 2009 remasters mono or stereo
I have the 1965 Stereo Help! & Rubber Soul on Canadian CD made in Quebec!!!..I also have the 1987 CD's as well... :)
I also love the American versions of the Beatles albums even though they’re a different Tracklistings I think they were great too.
One of my favorite things in the stereo box it would have to be the DVD which features the mini documentaries of the albums and I love hearing the outtakes and the Beatles Talking that is great.
I think they’re just as great as the remixes.
I even love the Beatles stereo box that on vinyl which is great.
I noticed a couple of differences in the mono and stereo.One of the songs which is baby you’re a rich man there’s an echo effect in the manual next but you don’t have any stereo that would’ve been great but it’s still a good song.
I love the warbler fact on Lucy in the sky with diamonds of John Lennon focus on the mono mix it gives it that dreamy like quality what you don’t get on the stereo mix
And I also love a longer fade out of all you need is love love you too and got to get you into my life all of the monuments
The remaster sounds very incredible on both versions.
I've enjoyed the past 10 years, it seemed like there was a new Beatles album coming out every 10 minutes. I'm going to miss it all after Let It Be is reissued.
I suspect they may go back and start on the older albums after next year!
@@AndrewDixonMusic I hope so. They can't do a hell of a lot with the first 4, but there are possibilities with Help, Rubber Soul. and Revolver
Good video Andrew. If you're interested, on my Beatle James channel a while back (think it was one of the first vids I did on that channel) I did a vid about how I received a 'hooky' version of the stereo box set for my birthday, featuring all manner of weird spelling mistakes etc. It's slightly unfortunate that it's what I always think of first when the topic of the 2009 remasters comes up!
Hi James, I'll have a look for that video, sounds like a laugh!
@@AndrewDixonMusic Do you have any tips for how to establish if the Mono box is genuine or not when shopping on-line? I occasionally see one on ebay going for substantially less than all the others, but I'm pretty dubious now obviously, having had my fingers burned in the past.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic This is the video I found best at the time for helping me! ruclips.net/video/HdvHGXB16uw/видео.html
@@AndrewDixonMusic Thanks!
I wish they would re-issue the mono boxset. It's mega expensive now.
I got rid of my Mono box set...sounds awful.
It's weird how the box set for the US albums model version sounds a lot better than the white mono box set from Japan
I do have an interesting Beatles CD that you might be interested in... it’s called, “ I hope we passed the audition” It came out in 2013 and it has the Decca audition tapes from New Year’s Day 1962+ the 1961 sessions with Tony Sheridan on it and it does sound very professional!!
I really hope one day we get an official release of all that along with a nice book!
Decca is a must; along with early tapes, with massive leap in sound...
NO: the early "Beatles" "stereo" were NOT PANNED. In fact, the standard was to record all the music on one of two tracks, and all the vocals on the other track -- which is why the "hole in the middle" -- and then mix them to MONO. Those were PRE-MIXED MONO, because MONO was the market, and the goal was radio airplay, which was MONO.
Martin explains that in his "All You Need is Ears". He trashed the FAKE "stereo" -- unmixed PRE-MIXED MONO -- that were released by EMI once "The Beatles" hit.
I just checked my stereo box set and I don't see any bleed-over from the other covers. Pristine as ever.
Ah, I remember it like it was 'yesterday!'
That day in April when somebody made the first post on the upcoming remasters on the SH Forum, wow, the place was on fire! Those threads are now legendary, lol - THE BEATLES REMASTERS ARE FINALLY COMING!! I actually asked for 090909 as a day-off from work and went and cued outside my local record shop that morning to get my box set bright and early. Couldn't wait to get back home and then proceeded to listen to the entire discography from start to end, with a break in the afternoon just to have something to eat. I had been waiting for those remasters for several years at that point and never bought the original CDs ( apart from Rubber Soul and 'Pepper' ) because I really wanted to hear the music more fleshed out. Oh, it was amazing to finally hear something like The White Album for the very first time, having only heard a few songs from it until that moment...! I also changed it up so that Abbey Road was the last record I listened to. So emotional! And to think of all the stuff that has come out since then, it's quite mind boggling. But those original remasters will always be remembered as THE event - well, perhaps in a few weeks time the Get Back documentary series will finally upend it 😀
09092009 was definitely an exciting day! I got my stereo box set that day but didn't get the mono box until many years later.
The Beatles Anthology albums need remastereing in a few years, they could sound way better like the BBC reissues..
I was shocked to find out the mono LP's are out of print now. I used to get them from ebay for $20 to $25 a piece, but now they're $150 if you can find one.
I got very lucky and got my mono vinyl box just weeks before prices started going crazy.
I’m curious why the ‘87 Rubber Soul CD had gold colored title as opposed to the red title it originally had
Not sure! Wouldn't surprise me if "lack of attention to detail" was a factor, the US version was more gold than red wasn't it? Maybe they used that? As you can tell, I don't know the answer! 😄
Andrew Dixon That’s quite alright. I welcome speculation
Hi Andrew, I bought the Stereo Set as soon as it came out but could only get it from the States I think through Amazon at the time. Is there really much difference between these cds & the re mastered (again) Sgt Peppers & White Album box sets? Your thoughts.Meant to say I actually won the original 1987 Box Set in a competition. I know before the 87' releases there was in Japan an Abbey Rd Cd released which would probably be collectable now!
The new Sgt Pepper and White Album sets (remixes rather than remasters) are very different to what you will have heard before, I like them very much, many people don't!
With the White Album for example, I could argue that almost every song on last year's version is the best it's ever sounded, but overall it doesn't quite feel like The White Album, it doesn't feel as dark and moody.
How does the White Album remaster, compare to the remaster, a few years earlier?
Is it really ten years? I was so happy when these came out after 22 years of the first cd issues. Still really enjoy them and the mono box.
Looking forward to Let It Be this year!
P.S. May I ask where you got your shelves?
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HI Al, my CD shelves were from Argos in the UK 🙂👍
Great stories indeed Andrew, thanks for your input and analysis!
Nowadays you find copies of this Stereo set on ebay, do you think it's likely they are counterfeit ones or does the box set still sells?
There are originals for sale but undoubtedly there are fakes for sale, so try and buy from the most reputable place you can! There's videos on RUclips on how to spot a likely fake, might be worthy watching some of those for some tips on what to look for.
I do think the 87 CDs are better sgt peppers onwards as they are flat transfers of the master tapee
Was there a fake stereo version too ?
Good question! Not sure, I'd assume there must be in various parts of the world.
@@AndrewDixonMusic I've heard there were fake stereos. I'm glad I decided to get my sets at bricks and mortar shops.
Hi Andrew do you own the blue vinyl singles box set that came out a few years back?
Hi, no I didn't buy that, I didn't think it was something I was likely to play much.
Hope they don't improve sound every 10 years..? The new box set versions, means people buying them all again after 2009 remasteres?
It's called ink offset.
I found very strange the company take some songs and make it in fake stereo.Second information he no have the demo tape for transform these songs in true stereo why?So don`t achieve make it this change.This box collection in 2009,leave the wish,I found,because right songs stayed very lean or the engineer clean in excess,so the sound seen low and don`t achieve hear in high definition.I waiting as Giles Martin achieve make these songs in true stereo,when coming the time,for accomplish.Uchino of Japan.Thank you.