1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go To Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. Love Me Do
9. P.S. I Love You
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret
12. A Taste of Honey
13.There's A Place
14. Twist and Shout
2-(1963) With the Beatles
1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Me
6. Till There Was You
7. Please Mister Postman
8. Roll Over Beethoven
9. Hold Me Tight
10. You've Really Got A Hold On Me
11. I Wanna Be Your Man
12. Devil In Her Heart
13. Not A Second Time
14. Money (That's What I Want)
3-(1964) A Hard Day's Night
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
8. Any Time At All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
11. When I Get Home
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back
4-(1964) Beatles For Sale
1. No Reply
2. I'm A Loser
3. Baby's In Black
4. Rock and Roll Music
5. I'll Follow the SUn
6. Mr. Moonlight
7. Kansas City, Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey
8. Eight Days A Week
9. Words of Love
10. Honey Don't
11. Every Little Thing
12. I Don't Want to Spoil The Party
13. What You're Doing
14. Everybody Trying To Be My Baby
5-(1965) Help!
1. Help!
2. The Night Before
3. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going to Lose That Girl
7. Ticket to Ride
8. Act Naturally
9. It's Only Love
10. You Like Me To Much
11. Tell Me What You See
12. I've Seen That Face
13. Yesterday
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
6-(1965) Rubber Soul
1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood (The Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. The Word
7. Michelle
8. What Goes On
9. Girl
10. I'm Looking Through You
11. In My Life
12. Wait
13. If I Needed Someone
14. Run For Your Life
7-(1966) Revolver
1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want to Tell You
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
8-(1967) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life
9-(1967) Magical Mystery Tour
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. Flying
4. Blue Jay Way
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberrry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love[/hide]
10-[ hide=1,rvrc](1968) The White Album(2CD)
CD1
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
9. Martha My Dear
10. I'm So Tired
11. Blackbird
12. Piggies
13. Rocky Raccoon
14. Don't Pass Me By
15. Why Don;t We Do It In The Road
16. I Will
17. Julia
CD2
1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, Long
8. Revolution I
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
12. Revolution 9
13. Good Night
11-(1969) Yellow Submarine
1. Yellow Submarine
2. Only A Northern Song
3. All Together Now
4. Hey Bulldog
5. It's All To Much
6. All You Need Is Love
7. Pepperland
8. Sea of Time
9. Sea of Holes
10. Sea of Monsters
11. March of the Meanies
12. Pepperland Laid Waste
13. Yellow Submarine in Pepperland
12-(1969) Abbey Road
1. Come Together
2. Something
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End
17. Her Majesy
13-(1970) Let It Be
1. Two Of Us
2. Dig A Pony
3. Across the Universe
4. I Me Mine
5. Dig It
6. Let It Be
7. Maggie Mae
8. I've Got A Feeling
9. One After 909
10. The Long and Winding Road
11. For Your Blue
12. Get Back
14-(1988) Past Masters(2CD)
CD 1
1. Love Me Do (Original Single Version)
2. From Me To You
3. Thank You Girl
4. She Loves You
5. I'll Get You
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. This Boy
8. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
9. Sie Liebt Dich
10. Long Tall Sally
11. I Call Your Name
12. Slow Down
13. Matchbox
14. I Feel Fine
15. She's A Woman
16. Bad Boy
17. Yes It Is
18. I'm Down
CD 2
1. Day Tripper
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Paperback Writer
4. Rain
5. Lady Madonna
6. The Inner Light
7. Hey Jude
8. Revolution
9. Get Back (with Billy Preston)
10. Don't Let Me Down (with Billy Preston)
11. The Ballad of John and Yoko
12. Old Brown Shoe
13. Across the Universe
14. Let it Be
15. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
DISC 17: THE MINI DOCUMENTARIES:
1. Please Please Me
2. With the Beatles
3. Hard Day`s Night, A
4. Beatles For Sale
5. Help!
6. Rubber Soul
7. Revolver
8. Sgt. Pepper`s Lovely Hearts Club Band
9. Magical Myster Tour
10. Beatles, The (the White Album)
11. Yellow Submarine
12. Let It Be
13. Abbey Road
Details
Playing Time:
618 min.
Contributing Artists:
Billy Preston
Producer:
George Martin, Jonathan Clyde
Distributor:
n/a
Recording Type:
Studio
Recording Mode:
Stereo
SPAR Code:
n/a
Album Notes
Personnel: George Harrison (guitar); Paul McCartney (bass guitar); Ringo Starr (drums).
Audio Mixer: Peter Bown.
Audio Remasterers: Sam Okell; Sean Magee; Steve Rooke; Guy Massey; Paul Hicks.
Liner Note Authors: Tony Barrow; Dan Davis; Derek Taylor; Kevin Howlett; Mark Lewisohn.
Director: Bob Smeaton.
Editor: Julian Caidan.
Photographers: Robert Freeman; Iain Macmillan; Ethan Russell; Bruce a. Karsh; Michael Cooper.
The Beatles always stood apart from their peers, a self-evident statement that sadly extended to the treatment of their catalog in the digital age. Where all their contemporaries from the Byrds to the Who have had their catalogs remastered and reissued in deluxe editions, sometimes several times, the Beatles remained stuck in the early days of digital, their 14 albums plus PAST MASTERS singles collections remaining untouched since 1987. The 2009 reissue campaign corrects almost all the problems of the original 1987 CDs: the sound and artwork are improved, and all the original mono and stereo mixes finally see the light of day. Naturally, it`s possible to quibble about some details of the presentation, particularly the decision to split the reissue into two separate box sets, one covering the stereo mixes and one the mono mixes, with only the stereo mixes available as individual discs but both boxes still constitute the best Beatles by far. Crucially, it`s also inarguably the best-sounding Beatles music ever released, robust and rich even on the earliest rock & roll. None of the albums have been remixed--although HELP! and RUBBER SOUL retain George Martin`s 1987 mixes, the original stereo mixes being bonuses on the mono set--so this doesn`t shock the way the YELLOW SUBMARINE soundtrack did with its reimagined stereo mix. Nevertheless, these remasters surely do surprise with their clarity and depth, with each album feeling bigger and fuller than the previous CD incarnation, but not artificially so. It`s not that these are pumped up on digital steroids; it`s that the veil has been lifted, so everything seems full and fresh. Appropriately, there`s more to savor from HELP! onward, as the Beatles` productions grew ambitious, but PLEASE PLEASE ME, WITH THE BEATLES, and A HARD DAY`S NIGHT all have a strong punch, while BEATLES FOR SALE is warmer than the previous disc.
As a package, the stereo box is slightly unwieldy--it`s a large, vertical set with two stacks of discs in slick cardboard sleeves piled on top of each other. No extra book is included with the set, but each disc has its own booklet with dry, straightforward liner notes detailing the recording process instead of analyzing the music. Nevertheless, these do offer annotation, something sorely lacking from the first CDs, and they do replicate the original notes--in the case of MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, including the entire storybook; in the case of SGT. PEPPER`S, all the 20th anniversary annotation is added-- finally bringing the Beatles to the same standard for reissues that every other major (and most minor) bands have had for years now. And the story, at least for the stereo box, is not the packaging --it`s the glorious sound that makes this such a treat. There`s also no question that those who waited 22 years to hear a better version of the Beatles will not be disappointed (although they may still wonder why it took so long for the Fabs to be treated as they deserve).