The Capitol Albums Vol. 1

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The Capitol Albums Vol. 1
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Artist: The Beatles
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Stereo)
  2. I Saw Her Standing There (Stereo)
  3. This Boy (Stereo)
  4. It Won't Be Long (Stereo)
  5. All I've Got To Do (Stereo)
  6. All My Loving (Stereo)
  7. Don't Bother Me (Stereo)
  8. Little Child (Stereo)
  9. Till There Was You (Stereo)
  10. Hold Me Tight (Stereo)
  11. I Wanna Be Your Man (Stereo)
  12. Not A Second Time (Stereo)
  13. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Original Mono)
  14. I Saw Her Standing There (Original Mono)
  15. This Boy (Original Mono)
  16. It Won't Be Long (Original Mono)
  17. All I've Got To Do (Original Mono)
  18. All My Loving (Original Mono)
  19. Don't Bother Me (Original Mono)
  20. Little Child (Original Mono)
  21. Till There Was You (Original Mono)
  22. Hold Me Tight (Original Mono)
  23. I Wanna Be Your Man (Original Mono)
  24. Not A Second Time (Original Mono)
Music CD 2
  1. Roll Over Beethoven (Stereo)
  2. Thank You Girl (Stereo)
  3. You Really Got a Hold On Me (Stereo)
  4. Devil In Her Heart (Stereo)
  5. Money (alt version to UK release)(Stereo)
  6. You Can't Do That (Stereo)
  7. Long Tall Sally (Stereo)
  8. I Call Your Name (Stereo)
  9. Please Mr. Postman (Stereo)
  10. I'll Get You (Stereo)
  11. She Loves You (Stereo)
  12. Roll Over Beethoven (Original Mono)
  13. Thank You Girl (Original Mono)
  14. You Really Got a Hold On Me (Original Mono)
  15. Devil In Her Heart (Original Mono)
  16. Money (alt version to UK release) (Original Mono)
  17. You Can't Do That (Original Mono)
  18. Long Tall Sally (Original Mono)
  19. I Call Your Name (Original Mono)
  20. Please Mr. Postman (Original Mono)
  21. I'll Get You (Original Mono)
  22. She Loves You (Original Mono)
Music CD 3
  1. I'll Cry Instead (Stereo)
  2. Things We Said Today (Stereo)
  3. Any Time At All (Stereo)
  4. When I Get Home (Stereo)
  5. Slow Down (Stereo)
  6. Matchbox (Stereo)
  7. Tell Me Why (Stereo)
  8. And I Love Her (Stereo)
  9. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Stereo)
  10. If I Fell (Stereo)
  11. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand) (Stereo)
  12. I'll Cry Instead (Original Mono)
  13. Things We Said Today (Original Mono)
  14. Any Time At All (Original Mono)
  15. When I Get Home (Original Mono)
  16. Slow Down (Original Mono)
  17. Matchbox (Original Mono)
  18. Tell Me Why (Original Mono)
  19. And I Love Her (Original Mono)
  20. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Original Mono)
  21. If I Fell (Original Mono)
  22. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand) (Original Mono)
Music CD 4
  1. No Reply (Stereo)
  2. I'm A Loser (Stereo)
  3. Baby's in Black (Stereo)
  4. Rock and Roll Music (Stereo)
  5. I'll Follow The Sun (Stereo)
  6. Mr. Moonlight (Stereo)
  7. Honey Don't (Stereo)
  8. I'll Be Back (Stereo)
  9. She's A Woman (Stereo)
  10. I Feel Fine (Stereo)
  11. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Stereo)
  12. No Reply (Original Mono)
  13. I'm A Loser (Original Mono)
  14. Baby's in Black (Original Mono)
  15. Rock and Roll Music (Original Mono)
  16. I'll Follow The Sun (Original Mono)
  17. Mr. Moonlight (Original Mono)
  18. Honey Don't (Original Mono)
  19. I'll Be Back (Original Mono)
  20. She's A Woman (Original Mono)
  21. I Feel Fine (Original Mono)
  22. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Original Mono)

Free Music Notes for The Capitol Albums Vol. 1

Free Music Review: So Were They Really That Good?
Hit: 5 Stars

These (and one of the handful of incarnations of their "first" album on the VeeJay label - I bought it as "Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles")were the very first albums I bought, at age 12-13, in 1964, and I played them into powder. For those who weren't there, or who weren't at the perfect age to soak up their music, it's probably not possible to realize the shock of first hearing the Beatles then, the contrast between this material and what came before it (my pre-Beatles favorites were probably the Four Seasons and the Beach Boys, both groups finding their peak only after the Beatles arrived on the scene, as was true of the great Roy Orbison). So now, 40 years later, how do these albums hold up - were the Beatles all that good? Well, yes and no. But first some praise to EMI/Capitol for this important release: (1) it is great to hear the stereo versions, after the Luddite decision by George Martin to release only the mono versions of the UK albums; (2) sonically, the CDs blow away the original vinyl releases, all of which I have in mint and near-mint copies; and (3) the familiar song-order which American kids grew up with carries a rightness (though I realize it's a wrongness) that the UK albums just didn't have for us. As to the music itself, the passage of time truly separates the wheat from the . . ., well, the less than wheat (hard to call any of this chaff, except perhaps "Honey Don't" and a few other less memorable tracks). At their best, nearly always when John sings lead (and in these early years, it was John's group, not yet Paul's), the songs have an energy, truth, and above all, high intelligence that puts to shame anything that's emerged since, and that made the Beatles the untouchable masters of rock and pop. At their worst, and there is much more of their worst than I remembered reflected in these four albums, they're just okay or okay-plus. I purposely listened to them in reverse chronological order tonight, mostly because I hadn't listened to Beatles 65 or Something New for some time. (In 1964, the general impression was that, though all of the albums sold fantastically well, Meet the Beatles was probably the best, with a falling-off of inspiration in the cover-filled Second Album and the just not very great Something New, with a resurgence, nearly as good as Meet the Beatles, in Beatles 65, and that's how it sounded again tonight. (Their greatest works were in the future - Sgt. Pepper and the White Album, and, for me, Magical Mystery Tour, still underrated.) Some of these songs are truly great, and would be so in any era; others at this point hold mostly nostalgic value, and are probably less popular with younger listeners. Here is the best (and the rest) - and there were definitely some surprises for me, gems which I didn't recall being so gemlike. In reverse order:
BEATLES 65 - "No Reply"; "I'm a Loser"; "Rock and Roll Music" (holy cow); "Mr. Moonlight" (hey, I hated it, too, in 1964 - but listen to it now - quite amazing, powerful three-part harmony work and deeply felt solos by John, rising way above the pretty mundane, "mambo king" material - but, not for the last time, John is singing to God: "And from above/You sent us Love"). As for "I Feel Fine," surprisingly, it's okay, sort of on the level of "From Me To You" originally on VeeJay - but it sounds almost "phoned in" by John compared to other performances from this era. "She's a Woman" would have been a contender, except for the sound, so-so reprocessed mono, and the one-dimensionality of Paul's performance. The rest is only okay (but at the Beatles' high level, this means nearly great).
SOMETHING NEW - clearly the weakest of these four albums (and I used to love it). About the only powerhouse standout is "Tell Me Why," with John, Paul and George wailing in the choruses. "If I Fell" is probably second-best (but why didn't they re-take Paul's second high falsetto, which he chokes on quietly in this version?) The rest, well, they're pretty old. The very weakest is (as it always was) the German version of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," with the lads obviously so worried about German pronunciation that they don't get into the song in the least. (In fact, this is pretty much what most American pop music sounded like before 1964 - routine and boring, dutiful - with the magnificent exceptions of Jackie Wilson and Gary US Bonds).
SECOND ALBUM - I had no idea until listening tonight that George was quite this sensational before "Taxman" - easily the equal of John and George in "Roll Over Beethoven," one of the finest and sonically clearest tracks on the album. (A big problem for George in the early years was that he had the thickest, most dorky accent of any of the four, despite good songs and generally good performances - this song is an exception, though (as was often true of the Fab Four), George doesn't quite understand some of the idiomatic lines in the Chuck Berry original, and substitutes slurred gibberish where the American was incomprehensible to him -- Paul drops a few lines like this in "Long Tall Sally," for example.) Other standouts: "Money" (one of the very greatest Beatles performances of all time, though a cover of a Barrett Strong original on a Motown label), and maybe "I Call Your Name." My 1964 favorite, "Long Tall Sally," now sounds studied rather than passionate (it used to be that this track and "Money" defined the equal but quite different talents of John and Paul, yin and yang; now, John is obviously the greater of the two, at least in 1964 (he was eclipsed by Paul in the late 60s, for the most part). As to the others, "She Loves You," a huge hit at the time, is just not as strong as some of the other material, and is hampered by less-than-perfect sound (though this transfer is the clearest I've heard). Actually, one of the better numbers, which I pretty much detested in 1964, turns out to be "Please Mr. Postman," which out-does the Marvelettes original and is pretty strong, with tongue-in-cheek but still great harmony backup by Paul and George.
MEET THE BEATLES - as most of us thought in 1964, this first Capitol album turns out to be the best of the four (and the five, if the VeeJay album is included -- I wish the Capitol incarnation of that album, "Early Beatles," had been included in this set, as by rights it ought to have been. That album is probably in the middle of this pack, with Ringo's solo on "Boys" constituting probably his greatest performance with the Beatles.) About half or more of the songs on Meet the Beatles are no less than fantastic, still -- "I Want to Hold Your Hand," though quite good, is not among the best numbers on the album -- it used to seem to dwarf the others (probably because it was the main hit from the album). Better now are "It Won't Be Long" (another magnificent early performance by John, who had the single best voice in rock/pop of all time, so far); "I Saw Her Standing There" (for once in these early albums, a Paul performance that matches John); maybe "Not a Second Time" (with some small reservations); and for me, now, "Hold Me Tight," the most forward-looking, out of the box song and performance on any of these albums, but not popular at all at the time. None of the rest are really awful, with Paul's unfortunate "Till There Was You" at the bottom of the list (but pre-teen girls loved this at the time).
Being as objective as it is possible for a 12-year-old superfan (wasn't everybody) of the Beatles in 1964 to be now, there seems little question that, while some of these tracks probably deserve to be forgotten, the very finest will survive. And there is so much of the very finest -- all composed and recorded in the space of roughly one year! Don't miss this set.
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The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 Poster

*First Time Ever on CD...Meet The Beatles, The Beatles? Second Album, Something New and Beatles ?65....presented in both Stereo and Mono

*Compiled from the original U.S. master tapes

*Special packaging including original album cover artwork and 48 page collectors booklet

When the Beatles catalog was first issued on CD in the '80s, an attempt was made to standardize the releases (which often varied wildly in content internationally) by using their original British format. But this confounded many Fabs fans in the U.S. who now found CDs with track listings that often differed dramatically from their original American LPs. More maddening, the initial four releases were only available in not-so-glorious mono mixes. This four-CD collection of the band's 1964 American album releases finally addresses those concerns, and then some. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65 have been digitally prepared from Capitol's vintage album masters and presented in both the original stereo and mono mixes released back in '64. This set gives younger fans a chance to finally hear the band's epochal early music in stereo--and should please an older generation by returning massive hit singles like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "She's a Woman," and "I Feel Fine" to their original American album contexts. The booklet contains a wealth of rare photos and concise notes by noted Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. --Jerry McCulley

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