Beatles mono VINYL box set (Part #14)

Was that the stuff in the packages labelled "DO NOT EAT!" included with the box?

I guess I'd better fetch them out of the trash and down the lot. Maybe the book will reorient itself.

 

The tracks on the original US stereo MMTs are separated, do you say the US mono version had the tracks "flowing" into each other? Sound strange.

 

Just noticed the pause before 'Can you take me back' seems shorter on the mono LP.
BTW, has anyone ever identified anywhere the weird operatic recording during Yoko's talk at the end of R9?

 

Did the Beatles record other mono singles that were excluded from the 3LP set? Such as other foreign language tracks? I'm wondering what the fuss is over the inclusion of two songs with German vocal tracks.

 

My Sgt Pepper arrived yesterday from Amazon.com in the US. Came to £16 delivered. Ordered last Tuesday. Perfect condition.

Definitely puts the current Amazon.co.uk price of £36.99 to shame. How does that make any sense????

 

That UK price is ridiculous. AU$42 here, $38 for non gatefold albums. That's around twenty of your notes

 

Madness. My heart goes out to our UK brothers and sisters.

 

MMT the album is the global standard since 1987 and I guess that's that. Though if this was how APPLE sees it... I think they should have at least duplicated the tracks on Past Masters and Mono Masters. That major gap between Rain and Lady Madonna is truly unforgivable even though the Masters albums are not supposed to be a greatest hits collection like 62-70 but to not have songs like Please Please Me .. the mono Help and Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane and All You Need is Love in the running order is a mistake in my opinion. I'm glad they did something different with the Yellow Submarine tracks though.

 

According to the Wall Street Journal, 2,300 copies of the box set have sold. That sounds way low to me.

 

That's just on Wall street.

 

It's a $300+ set of vinyl records in a format that most people think is antiquated. It's the very definition of a niche item.

 

No other foreign language works. The only mono singles not on the 3LP set are songs that are on other albums, such as A Hard Day's Night and Please Please Me.

 

None as adding VAT to regular North American prices still doesn't add up to anything like that and I am refusing to pay it so my orders with with Dodox, Marvellio and All Your Music.

 

I see MMT in the context of this set as the missing Third disc from Mono Masters having the EP exclusive tracks (as was) and the 45's.

 

So we're up to part 14?

I'm a relatively new member, how does this rate in the 'threads with most parts/posts' chart?

This thread has dominated my daily life - saying that, it has been worth it, and even if the cost of the LPs/box comes down, I still think £275 was money well spent!

 

Buying these albums boxed or separate is something that will give a lifetime of enjoyment.

 

The American MMT album was so commonly imported into the UK that in 1976, it got an official Parlophone release, PCTC 255, in stereo, using Capitol's version, right down to the crappy duophonic mixes of some songs. At some point, perhaps at that time, there was a yellow vinyl version on Parlophone as well.
https://www.google.com/search?q=PCT...PUiwLXtIG4Bg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1280&bih=896

 

There were more 2009 threads and the individual album ones!

 

No, no the small packages are drugs to help you believe the originals are better sounding. Its ok to throw them away.

 

It was the first US album I got NEARLY THREE QUID! in early 1968. Never got the 1976 Parlophone and just as well, as it was indeed a dub of a dub of 'electronically reprocessed for stereo' and must have sounded terrible.

 

I ate them just before I played Sgt pepper. Cellophane taxis appeared on the shore.

 

Anyone who grew up with the 'Hey Jude' compilation is used to that 'gap'. I actually like the flow of Rain > LM.

 

Not cellophane flowers or newspaper taxis? Must have been good then