My dad bought this box set off some guy in 1986. I was six years old then, and it was my introduction to the Beatles. I remember Dad putting on the record and Mum and I sitting and singing the songs. The Beatles are the first band I remember listening to, and they're still my favourite band.
This set is a great way to get the stereo Beatles albums in a pure analog form. But besides the downside of "Magical Mystery Tour" not being included, most of the singles aren't in the set (although there are some on the Rarities album. So, if you want the complete Beatles catalog including this set, you would want to get the group's Singles Collection, which comes in a similar looking box as this album collection and then either get their EP collection (again in a similar looking box) or just get a copy of the "Magical Mystery Tour" album or EP.
motherbrain86 To me I prefer to put Let it be last. Unlike alot of people, I really love the album, and other than the cover songs on it and that stupid thing they call "dig it" I think the album is great (I have a strange loving for "dig a pony"...). I also like how right at the end of the album, John sais "I'd like to thank you, on behalf of the group ourselves, I hope we passed the audition." That just gives me a sense of the end of the beatles, as if their career was one massive audition starting with "one, two, three, four" on the first song of their first album and ending with what John said on the last song of their last album.
The UK pressings are the BEST in sound, bar none. I only keep my Capitol pressings for nostalgic purposes. Thanks, Steve Hoffman for turning me on to those. As a sound mastering engineer, you should know. :) As for MMT, the German Electrola pressing or the Horzu are vastly superior in sound and detail.
1978 was when the Magical Mystery Tour album was finally released in the UK, I believe. The Magical Mystery Tour album was actually made by Capitol records. I'm very surprised since Capitol had put out very cheaply looking albums. Where's MMT actually looks like a legitimate album that The Beatles put out. Even the layout on the US Album is better than the layout on the UK EP
+franjalen although, Magical Mystery Tour isn't one of my favorites(it just gives off too much of a Baroque Pop vibe, and not the great kind like The Zombies Oddesy And Oracle) I still see it as a true Beatles album. It doesn't have just a random photo for the album cover and a boring title(heaven forbid titles like Second Album, Something New, and VI). Capitol even made that great Psychedelic boarder around the album cover! I'm surprised they managed to print most of the EP booklet, in LP form! Capitol is usually cheap. It was 1967, maybe they were on acid like the rest of them. lol
Great review! I got this box this past December off Craigslist for $120.Mine is really nice condition.Cool that you found one at a yard sale,I never see stuff like that.
Before seeing this video, I had no idea this boxset existed. I managed to find a copy of the UK import on eBay for a decent price, and now it’s one of the crown jewels of my record collection. My copy is from around 1986 from what I can tell.
I bought that Capital records Rarities LP at a Sam Goody store back in 1980, so it was sold separately from the set, at least for a short time anyway because it was there and gone that summer of 80 and they didn't replace it with new copies.
Magical Mystery Tour was only released in 67 as an EP. So it wasn't a full album to be added to the set in the UK. When I bought mine someone had added a copy of MMT. A US copy. LOL It really would have been a cool extra had it been the UK EP.
Magicaly Mystery Tour isn't included because originally it was sold as a double EP not as an LP but there is actually the Beatles EP Collection as well produced by Parlophone which contains the Magical Mystery Tour
Personally I'd get the 2012 Stereo box set because it comes with the book which I really want, I'd get the 2014 Mono but I figure since I bought the ones I like separately in mono already I should go for the Stereo. That said I was told the Mono box and the Stereo box have different books so it's something to consider. I would be interested in how many people used the white album poster as an actual poster. I thought about keeping it in the box but eventually I thought, who cares I'll stick it on the wall that's where it's meant to be.
+Craig Bickerstaff I would like to pick up the Mono box set for sure. It wouldn't surprise me if the books were different. I've read an article that compared this box set to the 2012 box and the reviewer said it really depends on the album. Both are great to have though. Gotta start saving.
I got this for Christmas back in 1980, but mine was the British Boxed set in an almost identical blue box, with imports of all 13 studio albums. I don't think it included Mystery Tour because that was never a British LP. Mine was mostly Holland and German imports. That's where I got that Holland import of Abbey Road I mention on another video, the one without Her Majesty.
I just bought this set and also the E.P. set both Made in Britain with a gold serial number sticker on the spine of the blue box, but the E.P. set instead of Britain, the sticker/tag says Made in UK. and yes, that paper is the original track list that came with it in US box set, The UK set came with a blue track list and the UK version has some track titles written in german on rarities track list on the blue paper track listings.
jan3019 Thats what happened. I believe after the rarities release and later death of john lennon they took whatever pressing of albums they could get a hand on in order to rush out more boxes quicker. The result is that most box owners today find a mixed bag of Uk, German, French and pressings from Holland all in the same box. Mine for example is really hard to descern where its from because of the identification code on the box being shared with 5 different releases and containing pressings from Germany, France and Holland.
I have the EP box set that came out in the mid-later 80's. At the time I bought it, it was rather expensive, $78.00, but now I see that this set rarely goes for less than $200.00.
I have a unsealed Capitol Records Box Set issued in 1978. It has the original 12 studio albums and the rarities album. Bought from a guy who worked for a record store.
Hi! Bought this set in 1978 in The Netherlands. Price then was 175 HFl, which would now be 79 Euros. Printed on inner sleeve: N41/1/4. Never played them, still in mint condition! All photos and posters present, good quality records.
I don't have this but I have the Beatles box which was an 8 lp mail order box set from the U.K. You should check it out because not many people talk about it. I was able to get a used one in nice shape for about $90.
Nice set! My box is from New Zealand. I bought mine around 1979-80. Anyway, my White Album had, instead of four individual photos, the photos were just one big poster. I wonder if this is the norm for this particular set? In my years of collecting Beatles, I haven’t seen this anywhere else. Plus my box comes apart separately.
My dad found one on a japanese surplus store for about $75. The former owner never used it because everything is pristine, even the plastic covering. Japan preses though because there are markings on the back that are japanese if that means anything. Still trying to buy it from him for $200... to no avail.
Holy crap man, I immediately looked this up on discogs just out of curiosity and if you say you snagged this at a garage sale, maaaan you have yourself a veritable treasure on your hands. That thing averages for about $250-$300 for a full Parlophone set and upwards of ~$1,000 for Capitol copies. Congrats dude!! Enjoy!
I sold mine a long time ago. They had great sound, even the early ones with the two channel stereo, which I liked at the time because I wasn't as familiar with the mono pressings because they never played the mono on the FM album channels, at least not after the 60s. As I said before, it was a mix of Holland, German, and, maybe two British pressings. At the time I got this, the Sam Goody store at the mall had a Mystery Tour import from Germany, different cover but no booklet in the middle, but it had damn great sound, far better than the American version, that is until I heard the original mono copy many years later.
The real reason they never included "Magical Mystery Tour" in the original blue box cos it was never issued as a long playing album in the U.K 🇬🇧 & some other countries including Australia 🇦🇺 cos it was actually issued as a double 45rpm E.P!, but the blue box has now become a sort-after collectors item & is valued around the same price as the newer remastered black stereo box.
Quite simple really. I found one of the first Magical Mystery Tour 12" records and added it my boxed set, albeit with 13 (shock horror) albums. I reconciled myself to this by the fact that there were actually 14 records.
I bought this in 1986 at what is now Costco for either $79 or $89. I never knew about all the different versions. Mine is dated 3/86. Thanks for the explanation.
The interesting thing about the Rarities album is in the box set I want to hold your hand and she loves you are in stereo. But when Rarities came out as a single album they put the stereo Trim in versions.
like what you did with Sgt Pepper. And explain the deleted songs on Uk versions of Help Rubber Soul Revolver. Also explain the differences between the Butcher cover and the release cover
I bought this last month for 350 bucks in mint condition 1982 German pressing. Expensive, but I owned 0 Beatles until now and I figured this is probably the best way to get into it. I love it! I had a chance to compare to the 2012 stereo repressing and holy cow... the blue box is so much better it's ridiculous. I don't know what happened with that black stereo remaster box, but damn... The only thing from Beatles I will EVER buy again is a repressing of the Beatles in Mono (if it ever happens as a box set, individual prices and second hand are making me sick).
Dude that is too cool. I've got quite a bit of beatles stuff in my collection. Most of it is original pressing that I got used. But the only new Beatles record i've gotten is The White Album. but I would love to have that box set that is so cool.
I've got the remastered Vinyl set with book. Rarities is placed into Past Masters one and two, in the box a double album, with a nice book into it. 50000 copys worldwide. Also the black "stereo" cd box (2009) remasters. The Beatles #1 UK/US cd singles box, the regular vinyls stereo and mono, many many singles, Love on Audio DVD, Sgt. Pepper box (4cd/1dvd/blu-ray), 27#1 hits on dvd and blu-ray with 23 extra tracks, 15-12-2017 the christmas singles collection in coloured vinyl and Sgt. Pepper on picture disc, the date of release in The Netherlands (worldwide?). Anthologys, films on VHS, VIDEO-CD, DVD, BLURAY, Eight Day's a Week docu on DVD/BLURAY, Beatles Let It Be Naked CD/Vinyl, Musicassettes, books, books and books. Live At The BBC 1 (normal cd/remaster), Live At The BBC 2 remaster. Best 5 albums? (How Rolling Stone placed them in their Album top 500), 1 Sgt. Pepper (1), 2 Revolver (3), 3 Rubber Soul (5), 4 White Album (10), 5 Abbey Road (14). (#) is place in Rolling Stone 500. # 5 Abbey Road is for me the second after Sgt. Pepper, but it's good so. Like everything what the 4 fab four made. Inspiration of many artists and their music still lives on. "1" best selling album of the 21th century...says enough (regular/2009 remaster, 2015 reremaster/vinyl remaster), 30/47 years after the break! BEATLES FOREVER!
ThePowerslave6697 It might be since box collections are usually contain the most well kep records, both for being stored in a box and because they were more expensive and taken more care of. But you wont find any original first pressings, they would most certainly be reissues from when the box was made.
+Howlinblind Muddyslim I wouldn't beat yourself up too much, it would be roughly $328 in today's money, you can still get them in great condition for less than that
I would love to have one of those, but I have never been able to find one at an "affordable" price. The UK pressings sound so much better than the U.S. ones from the mid eighties. I do have all of the MoFi pressings, and those are fantastic. Great video and a really nice find. Take care...
Dude, you may have been looking at prices for decent condition box sets because this box set is expensive whenever I look at it online. It could go as high as the $1000 and more. I saw used sets for the $200 range. The cheapest I saw online was like $150 or so but it had water damage. Your really found a true gem here. I definitely want to get this! Some countries had different versions for some albums, they used their own version.
+donaldrocks101103 I think the US numbered edition goes for $1,000. Somewhere I also found a picture of the same box but in gold. There's wasn't any info on it but I think that might have been for Capitol employees. Also, MoFi had a version of this and that one goes for big bucks. If you keep your eye out, you'll find a copy
New Zealand has he silver box. I just saw on Discogs that Germany, Australia, and Italy use their own album covers for most of the early albums. Also, some box sets open differently.
The set originated with Parlophone in the UK; Capitol merely copied their actions (more or less). The original Parlophone set's "Rarities" (which THEY sold separately shortly afterward, thankfully) was a completely different animal from the different-cover Capitol version issued in 1980. What Capitol included in THEIR "box set" before this was close to the UK version, but whereas the UK version had Sie Liebt Dich and Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Capitol substituted those songs' English counterparts. Capitol's 1980 version, meanwhile, was a laudable effort to issue what was genuinely "rare" in the U.S. market, starting with the then-unavailable Sie Liebt Dich, Misery, and There's a Place. It also heralded the re-emergence of Love Me Do with Ringo on drums - the original single version. Anyway, the UK "Rarities" provided me a revelation when I played its cut of She's a Woman (in mono, as much of the album was): prior to hearing this I'd only heard the muddy U.S. mix of the song, made even worse in that I'd been hearing it on the stereo "Beatles '65" album, where the muddy mono mix was further degraded by being presented in FAKE stereo - BLOODY awful! Just the opening notes of She's a Woman on the UK "Rarities" were a shocking epiphany - THIS glorious thing was what the Beatles had MEANT the song to sound like all along! (BTW the clean British stereo mix is also vastly superior to the U.S. version, and fine in general, but the OPENING NOTES of the UK mono are breathtaking!)
Those who search for "stereo" "Beatles" don't know what they're talking about. The first 4 LPs, as example, were not recorded in "stereo"; they were two-track PRE-MIXED MONO. George Martin explains all that in his "All You Need is Ears".
Never put a Record player on top of an Amp. Amp's Produce Heat and It will Warp Your Records and would not do Your player much good either. Nice Review.
would anyone here be knowledgeable about how to find your version of the box? Mine shares the identification code on the box with 4 other releases. and because the albums inside are a mixed bag of different pressings I dont know where it originates.
As far as I know, the listed boxes was the American version, the black box was the Australian version and the un-listed blue box was the British version... But I'm not sure, that's what I read on some post
+Alvin Pizano You're right, I didn't mean to give the impression that the mixes are superior, it really depends on the album I hear. For some people, the fact that these are closer to the original pressings means more than a remaster. I think it's safe to say the stereo on those early albums wasn't great.
The British version is the better pressing. British vinyl pressings of Sgt. Pepper and "white album" even in the 80's and 90's still came with the inserts.
Side A: 1. Across The Universe 2. Yes It Is 3. This Boy 4. The Inner Light 5. I'll Get You 6. Thank You Girl 7. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand 8. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 9. Sie Liebt Dich Side B: 1. Rain 2. She's A Woman 3. Matchbox 4. I Call Your Name 5. Bad Boy 6. Slow Down 7. I'm Down 8. Long Tall Sally
+Zidders Roofurry That's seems stupidly high IMO. Maybe if it came with some more exclusives but for that money, I could buy some decent UK first pressings
For a box set that seemingly represents an opportunity for customers to complete their Beatles collection in one tidy purchase, it's interesting to note that MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is conspicuously absent. If this set is fashioned after the band's UK releases, then Britain's MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR E.P. should have been included as well. It's exclusion unfortunately means that an otherwise complete assemblage of the group's discography is missing key tracks such as "Strawberry Field's Forever," "Penny Lane," and "I Am the Walrus," among others. Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, along with "I Feel Fine" and "I'm Down." How or why these oversights went undetected is one of the great mysteries of recorded sound...
GARAGE SALE!!! WTF??? I had TWO of these, bought in the late '70's. One from the UK, the other from Japan. A few years ago I sold them (kick my ass right now). BTW, In was working at Tower Records when I bought them... 75. each, with my discount.
I have the most ridiculous problem with the Beatles .... I love when their music is covered by other artists from other genres , more than I like the Beatle's own versions . I just can't get into their sound .
I have an album by Chet Atkins devoted to Beatles tunes and another by Count Basie and they're both quite nice . Peter Nero did a few covers on various albums , but never recorded an album given over exclusively to their music . Their music was so easily adaptable to other styles that it seemed like everyone from Arthur Fiedler to Jim Ed Brown was trying their hand at a song or two . ( Fiedler recorded an entire album but ' I Want to Hold Your Hand ' performed by a large symphony orchestra is kinda pushing it for me . ) All that said , ' And I Love Her ' played with a lightly Latin beat is my all-time favorite .
My dad bought this box set off some guy in 1986. I was six years old then, and it was my introduction to the Beatles.
I remember Dad putting on the record and Mum and I sitting and singing the songs. The Beatles are the first band I remember listening to, and they're still my favourite band.
Me too
PacificRimNZ best band of all time
This guy has cheekbones so sharp he could cut a steak
I miss Magical Mistery Tour in the box
You should review some of the Doors albums!!
+Ryan Smith added your vote to my request list
This set is a great way to get the stereo Beatles albums in a pure analog form. But besides the downside of "Magical Mystery Tour" not being included, most of the singles aren't in the set (although there are some on the Rarities album. So, if you want the complete Beatles catalog including this set, you would want to get the group's Singles Collection, which comes in a similar looking box as this album collection and then either get their EP collection (again in a similar looking box) or just get a copy of the "Magical Mystery Tour" album or EP.
I had this set plus the EPs and the singles, all of which I sold last year. I'm hardly an audiophile, so I don't really miss them. But they were neat!
by my way of knowing let it be comes first then abbey road, road feeling and sounding more like the grand climax for the beatles
motherbrain86 To me I prefer to put Let it be last. Unlike alot of people, I really love the album, and other than the cover songs on it and that stupid thing they call "dig it" I think the album is great (I have a strange loving for "dig a pony"...). I also like how right at the end of the album, John sais "I'd like to thank you, on behalf of the group ourselves, I hope we passed the audition." That just gives me a sense of the end of the beatles, as if their career was one massive audition starting with "one, two, three, four" on the first song of their first album and ending with what John said on the last song of their last album.
The UK pressings are the BEST in sound, bar none. I only keep my Capitol pressings for nostalgic purposes. Thanks, Steve Hoffman for turning me on to those. As a sound mastering engineer, you should know. :)
As for MMT, the German Electrola pressing or the Horzu are vastly superior in sound and detail.
Watching your channel has opened my ears to listening to other music besides R&B and rap
Thanks God. And Retroguy.
Awesome! Any idea why Magical Mystery Tour wasn't added to the set?
Because the album wasn't released in the UK as an LP, they released an EP.
+scarface12347 Good question and right answer.
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1978 was when the Magical Mystery Tour album was finally released in the UK, I believe. The Magical Mystery Tour album was actually made by Capitol records. I'm very surprised since Capitol had put out very cheaply looking albums. Where's MMT actually looks like a legitimate album that The Beatles put out. Even the layout on the US Album is better than the layout on the UK EP
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+franjalen although, Magical Mystery Tour isn't one of my favorites(it just gives off too much of a Baroque Pop vibe, and not the great kind like The Zombies Oddesy And Oracle) I still see it as a true Beatles album. It doesn't have just a random photo for the album cover and a boring title(heaven forbid titles like Second Album, Something New, and VI). Capitol even made that great Psychedelic boarder around the album cover! I'm surprised they managed to print most of the EP booklet, in LP form! Capitol is usually cheap. It was 1967, maybe they were on acid like the rest of them. lol
Fast foward 7 years later and they’re through the roof. I’ve been piecing my own BC13 over the past year. I’m just lacking 2 more.
I had this set once. Sounded amazing. Killer yard sale score man!!
+Aaron Whited thank you
Great review!
I got this box this past December off Craigslist for $120.Mine is really nice condition.Cool that you found one at a yard sale,I never see stuff like that.
+Beatlemania1799 Thank you. Yeah, the guy didn't even have it out but I think because I wasn't a reseller, he offered it to me
There was a Gold box set in Australia around 1986. Might have been one in 1982 as well.
Before seeing this video, I had no idea this boxset existed. I managed to find a copy of the UK import on eBay for a decent price, and now it’s one of the crown jewels of my record collection. My copy is from around 1986 from what I can tell.
please do more beatles albums and more artists in the 60's :D youre my favorite youtube channel about vinyls :D
I bought that Capital records Rarities LP at a Sam Goody store back in 1980, so it was sold separately from the set, at least for a short time anyway because it was there and gone that summer of 80 and they didn't replace it with new copies.
The British set had a different rarities record, one that had a cover that looked like the blue box, and it also contained a different batch of songs.
Magical Mystery Tour was only released in 67 as an EP. So it wasn't a full album to be added to the set in the UK. When I bought mine someone had added a copy of MMT. A US copy. LOL It really would have been a cool extra had it been the UK EP.
I have an Australian or New Zealand set. It includes the US "Rarities". Separately I have the blue -cover "Rarities".
Magicaly Mystery Tour isn't included because originally it was sold as a double EP not as an LP but there is actually the Beatles EP Collection as well produced by Parlophone which contains the Magical Mystery Tour
Personally I'd get the 2012 Stereo box set because it comes with the book which I really want, I'd get the 2014 Mono but I figure since I bought the ones I like separately in mono already I should go for the Stereo. That said I was told the Mono box and the Stereo box have different books so it's something to consider. I would be interested in how many people used the white album poster as an actual poster. I thought about keeping it in the box but eventually I thought, who cares I'll stick it on the wall that's where it's meant to be.
+Craig Bickerstaff I would like to pick up the Mono box set for sure. It wouldn't surprise me if the books were different. I've read an article that compared this box set to the 2012 box and the reviewer said it really depends on the album. Both are great to have though. Gotta start saving.
I got this for Christmas back in 1980, but mine was the British Boxed set in an almost identical blue box, with imports of all 13 studio albums. I don't think it included Mystery Tour because that was never a British LP. Mine was mostly Holland and German imports. That's where I got that Holland import of Abbey Road I mention on another video, the one without Her Majesty.
Nice score! Magical. Mystery Tour the full album, was a U.S. Only release, that's probably why it's not included. In the U.K. it was a 7" ep.
+Artamus Sumatra thank you! yup, you are correct, it wasn't considered canon yet
+Vinyl Rewind the ep reissue box set that came out a few years ago looks pretty groovy, I need to check if it's still available.
I didn't know about that, thanks
I just bought this set and also the E.P. set both Made in Britain with a gold serial number sticker on the spine of the blue box, but the E.P. set instead of Britain, the sticker/tag says Made in UK. and yes, that paper is the original track list that came with it in US box set, The UK set came with a blue track list and the UK version has some track titles written in german on rarities track list on the blue paper track listings.
Nice, I've been looking for that singles box set
jan3019 Thats what happened. I believe after the rarities release and later death of john lennon they took whatever pressing of albums they could get a hand on in order to rush out more boxes quicker. The result is that most box owners today find a mixed bag of Uk, German, French and pressings from Holland all in the same box. Mine for example is really hard to descern where its from because of the identification code on the box being shared with 5 different releases and containing pressings from Germany, France and Holland.
Oh, wow. You came across a true gem! Congrats!
+Mina thank you
I have the EP box set that came out in the mid-later 80's. At the time I bought it, it was rather expensive, $78.00, but now I see that this set rarely goes for less than $200.00.
Yeah, I didn't know about it until you mentioned it and it does carry a hefty price tag considering the size of it
I have a unsealed Capitol Records Box Set issued in 1978. It has the original 12 studio albums and the rarities album. Bought from a guy who worked for a record store.
Hi! Bought this set in 1978 in The Netherlands. Price then was 175 HFl, which would now be 79 Euros. Printed on inner sleeve: N41/1/4. Never played them, still in mint condition! All photos and posters present, good quality records.
I don't have this but I have the Beatles box which was an 8 lp mail order box set from the U.K. You should check it out because not many people talk about it. I was able to get a used one in nice shape for about $90.
Nice set! My box is from New Zealand. I bought mine around 1979-80. Anyway, my White Album had, instead of four individual photos, the photos were just one big poster. I wonder if this is the norm for this particular set? In my years of collecting Beatles, I haven’t seen this anywhere else. Plus my box comes apart separately.
I have mine in mint condition and love it. True analog stereo.
My dad found one on a japanese surplus store for about $75. The former owner never used it because everything is pristine, even the plastic covering. Japan preses though because there are markings on the back that are japanese if that means anything. Still trying to buy it from him for $200... to no avail.
That's really cool, I have a feeling that a Japanese pressing would command a high price
I bought the Netherlands pressing but it had some "ghost" echos on many tracks. Had to return it.
Holy crap man, I immediately looked this up on discogs just out of curiosity and if you say you snagged this at a garage sale, maaaan you have yourself a veritable treasure on your hands. That thing averages for about $250-$300 for a full Parlophone set and upwards of ~$1,000 for Capitol copies. Congrats dude!! Enjoy!
+Andy Moran The guy knew what it was but he still gave a great deal on it. I couldn't pass it up. Thanks for watching
I sold mine a long time ago. They had great sound, even the early ones with the two channel stereo, which I liked at the time because I wasn't as familiar with the mono pressings because they never played the mono on the FM album channels, at least not after the 60s. As I said before, it was a mix of Holland, German, and, maybe two British pressings. At the time I got this, the Sam Goody store at the mall had a Mystery Tour import from Germany, different cover but no booklet in the middle, but it had damn great sound, far better than the American version, that is until I heard the original mono copy many years later.
MMT U.K. was a six song 7 inch EP not the U.S. full length LP version
Some singles are lost on the box, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Hey Jude, and others!
I guess that's why they put out the EP box set www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-Compact-Disc-EP-Collection/master/333151
Those lost singles are on the Rarities bonus album.
The real reason they never included "Magical Mystery Tour" in the original blue box cos it was never issued as a long playing album in the U.K 🇬🇧 & some other countries including Australia 🇦🇺 cos it was actually issued as a double 45rpm E.P!, but the blue box has now become a sort-after collectors item & is valued around the same price as the newer remastered black stereo box.
Quite simple really. I found one of the first Magical Mystery Tour 12" records and added it my boxed set, albeit with 13 (shock horror) albums. I reconciled myself to this by the fact that there were actually 14 records.
I bought this in 1986 at what is now Costco for either $79 or $89. I never knew about all the different versions. Mine is dated 3/86. Thanks for the explanation.
+Zxomby Woof ah no way. That's really cool and a great deal. You're welcome
The interesting thing about the Rarities album is in the box set I want to hold your hand and she loves you are in stereo. But when Rarities came out as a single album they put the stereo Trim in versions.
a friend of mine has this box set and it also came with the song list sheet. looking forward to more Beatles reviews :-)
Ah sweet, thanks for letting me know that
+Vinyl Rewind how about Yesterday And Today
In what respect?
+Vinyl Rewind reviewing
like what you did with Sgt Pepper. And explain the deleted songs on Uk versions of Help Rubber Soul Revolver. Also explain the differences between the Butcher cover and the release cover
Some classic albums there .Great review
I bought this last month for 350 bucks in mint condition 1982 German pressing. Expensive, but I owned 0 Beatles until now and I figured this is probably the best way to get into it. I love it!
I had a chance to compare to the 2012 stereo repressing and holy cow... the blue box is so much better it's ridiculous. I don't know what happened with that black stereo remaster box, but damn... The only thing from Beatles I will EVER buy again is a repressing of the Beatles in Mono (if it ever happens as a box set, individual prices and second hand are making me sick).
Dude that is too cool.
I've got quite a bit of beatles stuff in my collection.
Most of it is original pressing that I got used. But the only new Beatles record i've gotten is The White Album. but I would love to have that box set that is so cool.
+Seth Golson They are out there, just keep on digging
I've got the remastered Vinyl set with book. Rarities is placed into Past Masters one and two, in the box a double album, with a nice book into it. 50000 copys worldwide. Also the black "stereo" cd box (2009) remasters. The Beatles #1 UK/US cd singles box, the regular vinyls stereo and mono, many many singles, Love on Audio DVD, Sgt. Pepper box (4cd/1dvd/blu-ray), 27#1 hits on dvd and blu-ray with 23 extra tracks, 15-12-2017 the christmas singles collection in coloured vinyl and Sgt. Pepper on picture disc, the date of release in The Netherlands (worldwide?). Anthologys, films on VHS, VIDEO-CD, DVD, BLURAY, Eight Day's a Week docu on DVD/BLURAY, Beatles Let It Be Naked CD/Vinyl, Musicassettes, books, books and books. Live At The BBC 1 (normal cd/remaster), Live At The BBC 2 remaster. Best 5 albums? (How Rolling Stone placed them in their Album top 500), 1 Sgt. Pepper (1), 2 Revolver (3), 3 Rubber Soul (5), 4 White Album (10), 5 Abbey Road (14). (#) is place in Rolling Stone 500. # 5 Abbey Road is for me the second after Sgt. Pepper, but it's good so. Like everything what the 4 fab four made. Inspiration of many artists and their music still lives on. "1" best selling album of the 21th century...says enough (regular/2009 remaster, 2015 reremaster/vinyl remaster), 30/47 years after the break! BEATLES FOREVER!
Interesting set and review!
The rarities album in the box set contains differant material than the capital rarities album released on it`s own in 1980.
very true
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So I supose that this is the best way to get the original '65 stereo mix of Help and Rubber Soul.
ThePowerslave6697 It might be since box collections are usually contain the most well kep records, both for being stored in a box and because they were more expensive and taken more care of. But you wont find any original first pressings, they would most certainly be reissues from when the box was made.
im just starting to get into vinyl in your opinion whats your personal favorite beatles album ??
+mr sunshine I'm not sure yet, maybe the White Album
+Vinyl Rewind that shall be my first record haha thanks for the heads up
+Vinyl Rewind that's probably mine too. Mainly because it has my favourite Beatles song, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on it.
Revolver!!!
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Why did this not include magical mystery tour
They really included Yellow Submarine, but not Magical Mystery Tour.
mazda9624 cause it wasn’t an album in the uk
Why os magical mystery tour excluded?
You should do the new stereo vinyl box set!
+Jack W gotta save up for that one
Back in 1979 i had the chance to buy this for $100.00 with several un open albums why i didn't i have no idea
+Howlinblind Muddyslim I wouldn't beat yourself up too much, it would be roughly $328 in today's money, you can still get them in great condition for less than that
I've seen them on eBay, that is the box set I want
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I would love to have one of those, but I have never been able to find one at an "affordable" price. The UK pressings sound so much better than the U.S. ones from the mid eighties. I do have all of the MoFi pressings, and those are fantastic. Great video and a really nice find. Take care...
+Tim Allen Check out our Aussie eBay site. They released heaps over here and can be quite affordable, not counting shipping naturally...
+Tim Allen Those MoFi pressings are great, probably can't beat those
Dude, you may have been looking at prices for decent condition box sets because this box set is expensive whenever I look at it online. It could go as high as the $1000 and more. I saw used sets for the $200 range. The cheapest I saw online was like $150 or so but it had water damage. Your really found a true gem here. I definitely want to get this! Some countries had different versions for some albums, they used their own version.
+donaldrocks101103 I think the US numbered edition goes for $1,000. Somewhere I also found a picture of the same box but in gold. There's wasn't any info on it but I think that might have been for Capitol employees. Also, MoFi had a version of this and that one goes for big bucks. If you keep your eye out, you'll find a copy
New Zealand has he silver box. I just saw on Discogs that Germany, Australia, and Italy use their own album covers for most of the early albums. Also, some box sets open differently.
+donaldrocks101103 Dang, I didn't know that about the other box sets. Very cool
Is there a reason magical mystery tour didn’t come in the box while yellow submarine did
It wasn't released as LP in UK, was a double EP instead.
The set originated with Parlophone in the UK; Capitol merely copied their actions (more or less). The original Parlophone set's "Rarities" (which THEY sold separately shortly afterward, thankfully) was a completely different animal from the different-cover Capitol version issued in 1980. What Capitol included in THEIR "box set" before this was close to the UK version, but whereas the UK version had Sie Liebt Dich and Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Capitol substituted those songs' English counterparts. Capitol's 1980 version, meanwhile, was a laudable effort to issue what was genuinely "rare" in the U.S. market, starting with the then-unavailable Sie Liebt Dich, Misery, and There's a Place. It also heralded the re-emergence of Love Me Do with Ringo on drums - the original single version. Anyway, the UK "Rarities" provided me a revelation when I played its cut of She's a Woman (in mono, as much of the album was): prior to hearing this I'd only heard the muddy U.S. mix of the song, made even worse in that I'd been hearing it on the stereo "Beatles '65" album, where the muddy mono mix was further degraded by being presented in FAKE stereo - BLOODY awful! Just the opening notes of She's a Woman on the UK "Rarities" were a shocking epiphany - THIS glorious thing was what the Beatles had MEANT the song to sound like all along! (BTW the clean British stereo mix is also vastly superior to the U.S. version, and fine in general, but the OPENING NOTES of the UK mono are breathtaking!)
Those who search for "stereo" "Beatles" don't know what they're talking about. The first 4 LPs, as example, were not recorded in "stereo"; they were two-track PRE-MIXED MONO. George Martin explains all that in his "All You Need is Ears".
If you have any metal records can you do a video on them?
Great job. very informative.
thank you
Great video! Btw, do you know de actual price of the box? I have one and I thinking about selling it
depending on condition around $200 is average
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Never put a Record player on top of an Amp. Amp's Produce Heat and It will Warp Your Records and would not do Your player much good either. Nice Review.
you should really really check out Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum, i 99% guarantee you will love it.
just getting into it now, not bad
im glad u like it!
Vinyl Rewind the boy who cried wolf is almost as good as theyre first album.
His hair is perfect! lol
nice ones there-i'm hoping to get a few of these records!!!!-i subbed you
+julia vinyl thank you for the support
why is there no magical mystery tour in it? its one of their best albums!
+PassCookie the UK version was a double 7" EP. They did eventually adopt the layout of the US Capitol issue as apart of the official catalogue.
My local library has this to rent
no way
So how about any vinyl's for the modern Beatles? I am of course talking about Radiohead. Their new album is fantastic too!
+GooGuGajoob Is it? Good to hear, I haven't checked it out yet
Was there ever a mono release? The pan on the early albums is too much for me.
+Richie F I totally understand. I don't believe there was however, you can pick up the more recent mono boxset
Richie F Yes there was a mono version box set in the UK too.
would anyone here be knowledgeable about how to find your version of the box? Mine shares the identification code on the box with 4 other releases. and because the albums inside are a mixed bag of different pressings I dont know where it originates.
As far as I know, the listed boxes was the American version, the black box was the Australian version and the un-listed blue box was the British version... But I'm not sure, that's what I read on some post
The Beatle were never in studio to mix the stereo so I wouldn't go as far as saying that these are superior to the 2009 stereo
+Alvin Pizano You're right, I didn't mean to give the impression that the mixes are superior, it really depends on the album I hear. For some people, the fact that these are closer to the original pressings means more than a remaster. I think it's safe to say the stereo on those early albums wasn't great.
nice showing mate
So this has a capital records pressing of please please me?
I have one blue box the beatles collection never used, original made in Britain.
Now, my copy came with this shit!
What Yamaha amp. and turntable model is that?
The British version is the better pressing. British vinyl pressings of Sgt. Pepper and "white album" even in the 80's and 90's still came with the inserts.
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Cool videos! Just subbed
thanks for the support
What was on the rarities
mostly b-side singles but it's different depending if it's a US or UK pressing
Side A:
1. Across The Universe
2. Yes It Is
3. This Boy
4. The Inner Light
5. I'll Get You
6. Thank You Girl
7. Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
8. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
9. Sie Liebt Dich
Side B:
1. Rain
2. She's A Woman
3. Matchbox
4. I Call Your Name
5. Bad Boy
6. Slow Down
7. I'm Down
8. Long Tall Sally
First The Beatles album review, now an Oasis album review to go out with their documentary later this year!!!
Looks like they are in great condition. I guess I'm gonna have to start stopping at garage sales.
+Richard Riley ha! You never know what you will find. I'm addicted to the hunt
Awesome video man!
You lucked out. The cheapest I've seen this on Ebay is $72 but they can go as high as $3500.
+Zidders Roofurry That's seems stupidly high IMO. Maybe if it came with some more exclusives but for that money, I could buy some decent UK first pressings
Vinyl Rewind yeah its ridiculous
For a box set that seemingly represents an opportunity for customers to complete their Beatles collection in one tidy purchase, it's interesting to note that MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is conspicuously absent. If this set is fashioned after the band's UK releases, then Britain's MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR E.P. should have been included as well. It's exclusion unfortunately means that an otherwise complete assemblage of the group's discography is missing key tracks such as "Strawberry Field's Forever," "Penny Lane," and "I Am the Walrus," among others. Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, along with "I Feel Fine" and "I'm Down." How or why these oversights went undetected is one of the great mysteries of recorded sound...
How much did you pay for it?
+Jeremiah Reese $80
I have this!!!
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GARAGE SALE!!! WTF??? I had TWO of these, bought in the late '70's. One from the UK, the other from Japan. A few years ago I sold them (kick my ass right now).
BTW, In was working at Tower Records when I bought them... 75. each, with my discount.
Dang dude! You had the Japanese version, I hope you got a fair price for them
not a single dislike, impressive
I have the most ridiculous problem with the Beatles .... I love when their music is covered by other artists from other genres , more than I like the Beatle's own versions . I just can't get into their sound .
interesting. What are some of your favorite covers? Depending on the song, I can be in either camp. Richie Haven's Rocky Raccoon comes to mind
I have an album by Chet Atkins devoted to Beatles tunes and another by Count Basie and they're both quite nice . Peter Nero did a few covers on various albums , but never recorded an album given over exclusively to their music . Their music was so easily adaptable to other styles that it seemed like everyone from Arthur Fiedler to Jim Ed Brown was trying their hand at a song or two . ( Fiedler recorded an entire album but ' I Want to Hold Your Hand ' performed by a large symphony orchestra is kinda pushing it for me . ) All that said , ' And I Love Her ' played with a lightly Latin beat is my all-time favorite .
I like the idea of instrumentals done in different styles
I completely forgot to mention the 3 or 4 tribute albums released by The Hollyridge Strings .
You gotta do Aftermath UK vs USA!
+McLennStarrIson got it
Review Rush!