The Beatles - The Beatles 1
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Free Music Review: Got A Good Reason
Hit: 5 Stars
"And when I touch you, I feel happy inside," was the simple lyric that rocked my world during grade school days. The Beatles were an incredible band, unmatched in their ability to play off each other and creatively spark their listeners and hold their imaginations. From the tight harmonies and rocking tunes from their early days from "Love Me Do" to "I Feel Fine," they blazed across the Atlantic and touched the world. John Lennon's urgent voice singing, "I've been working like a dog ... I should be sleeping like a log, but when I get home to you, I find the things you do will make me feel all right" on "A Hard Day's Night" burst with incredible energy. "Day Tripper" has one of the most distinctive bass lines ever recorded with McCartney's genius in full bloom and Harrison's slamming lead guitar, "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out." The Beatles' middle period where they moved from a singles band to phenomenon where legions waited for each new album is reflected in the inventively different "Eleanor Rigby" with the stunning string arrangement, so incredibly different from the rest of radio. The Beatles were great businessmen, but they also were incredible artists. Looking back, I'm so pleased that George Harrison's "Something" reached the top of the charts. His emotionally charged guitar was always a tremendously important, if slightly understated, element of their success. "Somewhere in her smile she knows that I don't need no other lover, something in her style that shows me" is such an incredibly intimate lyric married to such a beautiful melody and Harrison's guitar sounding like part ecstasy, part teardrop. This collection is such an excellent single disc that it really is a pearl of great price. Enjoy! Free Music Review: superb CD - but the Beatles join in the loudness wars
Hit: 5 Stars
"1" is a true treat for your ears and well worth owning - even if you have all their albums on CD. My first impression was that these remastered tracks were vastly superior to the same tracks on the CD albums - but the difference is in fact only marginal. The tracks on "1" have been carefully processed to enhance their apparent loudness.
Using my multitrack sound editor I compared the 1987 CD album version of "Come Together" to that from "1" and found that you need to reduce the "1" version volume by 55% to match the perceived volume of the 1987 version - but it's certainly not all bad news.
You can see that the dynamic range has been reduced in the remastering, but the spectrum analyser shows that the freqency range has been increased to 22kHz (the 1987 version cuts off at 20kHz). The tape hiss in the 1987 version has been totally eliminated. The most siginificant difference is that new version has noticeably more bass - but the mids and highs seem equally well defined in both versions.
"1" wets your appetite for hearing the entire Beatles catalogue in higher resolution 24-bit 96kHz DVD-Audio - and the "Love" album proves that The Beatles justify every possibility of that format.
Free Music Review: "Here there and everywhere"
Hit: 4 Stars
The four stars are for the #1 compilation itself, not a rating of The Beatles' music on the disc, nearly all of which is obviously genuine "5 Star" material! So, with over a thousand reviews here at the time of writing, why yet another? Because it needs to be pointed out that this is not a complete "Best Of" compilation nor a fair cross section of what the Beatles were musically capable, and that popularity (ie.sales) should not be a validation of worth. One thing that can be said with certainty is: A top numerical position on the charts does not necessarily mean that a compilation of these number ones is the definitive best of the Beatles. We DO get rollicking rockers such as "Can't Buy Me Love", "I Feel Fine", "Lady Madonna", and "Get Back" as well as the beloved ballads "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Something", both categories proving the band mastered those styles, but what about the superb in-between music played regularly by progressive radio stations everywhere and represented by the 'Rock Beatles': "Revolution", "Rain", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and psychedelic-era Beatles tracks - "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds", "I Am the Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever"? The answer is: Of course they're not here because they weren't #1 charting songs. (Though the non-#1 "Penny Lane" mysteriously IS, while "Please Please Me", a true Number One in many countries, is NOT.) If you want to enjoy the full glory of the Beatles' music and understand them more, you need these latter tracks...Still, #1 is a more sensible collection than the earlier ill-conceived LOVE SONGS and ROCK & ROLL compilations, but not as honest as the vinyl-only GREATEST HITS or import-only vinyl LIVERPOOL BOX. The BEATLES 1 set has other strengths, such as the beautiful and generous color booklet and fine remastered sound. Four-and-half stars: Slightly skewed selection but otherwise good value. Free Music Review: Wow, wow, wow....
Hit: 5 Stars
Inredible. I know I"m a "poser" for this being my first Beatles CD, but I love this album so much it's almost making me cry writing about it. Buy it, You must, must, must own this. I mean all the best, smash-hits on ONE cd, who wouldn't want it?
Buy and fall in love with music all over again. Thank you for everything Beatles.
Paul
Free Music Review: A great collection of number one hits
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a good way to start with the Beatles, Imagine, you have 27 number one hits on a single cd ! Who could ask for more ?
Of course, The Beatles have many great songs that were not number ones, but if you want only the number one, your search is over, buy this one !