This Special Edition of Revolver features a new mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus the original mono mix, a 4-track EP, 31 session takes and home demos, a 100-page book with a foreword by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson), detailed track notes, photos and ephemera including handwritten lyrics, tape boxes and extracts from Klaus Voormann’s graphic novel on the making of the cover art. On 5 CDs in a 12.56” x 12.36” slipcase.
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In all seriousness I don’t really want a classic like Revolver remixed by someone who wasn’t even born at the time of the original release. Before George Martin passed away, I would welcome a remix because he produced the original work and he knew what The Beatles wanted and having the advanced technology he would have a better chance to make enhancements and not try to do a complete remake. Listening to the 2022 remix by Giles Martin the whole album has been remade and it’s not the album that the Beatles made anymore. It’s bass heavier than the original and most of the key elements that you’re used to hearing are gone and have been replaced with other sounds that were buried in the original mixes. A reissue of the 2009 mono cd is a bit lame and insulting when you look at the package price. The EP is another waste. 4 songs on an entire cd had no merit. The best part is the outtakes and of course the book. Diehard fans with deep pockets will hate these comments but I won’t apologize because I hate to be ripped off by purchasing a product that doesn’t deliver. However, I do have a new appreciation for the original 1987 CD and for the 2009 Mono box set.
Ugh. I just kain't see running after everything Giles Martin is rehashing. The 50-60 year old mixes by his dad are good enough 4 me, and I can hear much of the outakes on the Sirius XM Beatles Channel or YouTube. And I wanna hear "Revolver" in Mono about as much as I wanna go back and watch "Star Trek" on a 19" B&W TV with rabbit-ear antenna. Now, we all have a right 2 do whatever we want with our hard-earned money, but I'm not gonna keep falling 4 buying this same stuff (with a little bonus tacked-on) over and over again every 5 years. I purchased the "Get Back" Blu-ray set a coupla months back, but I'll pass on this one. Yeah, I said it, and I know some of y'all will hate me 4 it, but sometimes u gotta walk away from that carrot on the stick...
The saturation levels don't bother me at all but what bothers me is that they have opted to give less and charge more. Streaming Dolby Atmos is going to be a killer for the physical medium. They've suddenly realised that they can squeeze more money out of people by not supplying the usual Blu-Ray and force them to subscribe to a streaming service. The people really have to vote with their wallets on this issue and not give in to them or we will end up with no product at all. I would much rather have the Blu-Ray disc and I can play it whenever I want without having to pay a monthly subscription for something that may or may not be available going into the future. I suspect that it's people like me they're trying to force into the subscription route and for me anyway it's not going to work. Just like everything else they make unavailable, in time, it will appear as a pirate or a bootleg and they're just shooting themselves in the foot. Pity really :-(
Yes, same for me Magic. I own the albums and the first editions of the cd. That will do for me.
And without a doubt this will be "No. 1 in the most viewed Top 50 yesterday" tomorrow..
(Don't hate me! ... I just think a case of over exposure or saturation has being building recently, what the band reissues and solo work releases, it feels like audio-napalm at the moment.)
I watched the Parlogram unboxing of the vinyl (review to follow!) but won't pay out for stuff I just don't fancy. I don't give a hoot for this fad of new remixes of already classic records. All I want is the sessions, surely that's the draw for fans? The Beatles mono LPs as separate releases would certainly be welcome by many, without having to buy box sets. It is the music BUSINESS after all, but the legacy of Beach Boys, Who, Kinks has been treated a lot better.
I'm with you on this one Quad5point1 there really isn't much here to get excited about for the price of entry. Added cat# but it needs to replace the TBA listing for this issue. Correction sent.
It's strange that they put so little into this box set but not so strange that they charged maximum money for it. With the decision not to include a Bluray with the Hi Res Stereo and Dolby Atmos mixes making the latter only available on a streaming service I would say this is going to be the worst seller of any of the Beatles Super Deluxe Editions thus far. I certainly won't be buying it and that's also the decision of most people over on the Quadraphonic Quad forum. In fact the fewer people that buy this release the better, it might send a message to them that they got this one totally wrong. One can only hope it hits them in their bank balance, and with the state the world is in at the moment people are going to very careful about what they spend their dwindling resources on.
I don't understand why they couldn't put the new stereo and the original mono on the same CD and probably still have room for the EP stuff and use the extra two CD's for more sessions stuff.