The Beatles - The Capitol Albums Vol. 2 (Longbox)
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Free Music Review: Must for Beatles collectors
Hit: 5 Stars
4 cd's from the 4 albums the Beatles released in 1965. Rubber Soul, The Early Beatles, Help and Beatles VI. Each CD has all the songs in stereo and then all the same songs in mono like they were on you're car radio back in 65. The CD's are also the Capital rainbow record type like the original albums were.
It may be considered a little expensive but you do not see Beatles items in a bargain section. These are the original albums now on cd.
Don M Avon MA
Free Music Review: You've got a ticket to ride
Hit: 5 Stars
When I saw that they were finally releasing the Capitol albums, volume two was the one I most wanted to get. "Ticket to Ride" is one song in particular that has two very different mixes-or remixes. The opening guitar riff is much more up front and there is more echo on the Captitol version. It sounds much more powerful than the version on the English version of Help. "I'm looking through you" is another. This mix is roughly the same, but someone decided to chop off the beginning of the song for the English album and I've been stuck with that for quite a while. I grew up with the longer version and that is the version I like. Try as I might, to this day, when I hear the English version, I think about that. Now I have the version I know and love. Free Music Review: The Capitol Albums Vol. 2 (Longbox)
Hit: 5 Stars
Wonderful hearing the songs the way they were on the old albums. Can't wait for Volume 3Free Music Review: A must have!
Hit: 5 Stars
For anyone that loves Beatles music ( and who doesn't?) this is a must have. This set gives you the chance to recapture that same sound and that special moment in time when you heard them on your transistor radio for the first time.
Not only can you enjoy listening to the Fab Four grow as artists through the years; but you'll relate it to your own life's soundtrack too.
Free Music Review: Yeah... Yeah... Yeah...
Hit: 3 Stars
Volume 1 of "The Capitol Albums" was probably the best repackaged CD reissue of 2004. Sadly, one cannot say the same about Volume 2.
Although the Beatles were under contract with Polydor, UK, and Capitol Records had a distribution contract with Polydor, Capitol did not always purchase all of the Beatles recorded output for U.S. distribution until after the Beatles had "made it" in America. This resulted in different packages of songs on the U. S. album versions than on their British counterparts. If, like me, you grew up with the American versions and were used to the flow of those albums, the Volume 1 collection was indispensible. Volume 2, however, reveals all the weaknesses of this "comprehensive" approach to repackaging this material.
Simply stated, the even-numbered CD's in this collection are essential. The odd-numbered CD's are somewhat less than that.
The legal hassles over distribution rights of Beatles singles in America is what's responsible for CD 1's release of material recorded in 1963 on a U. S. album in 1965. As such, it's a letdown. Except for "Please Please Me," the Lennon / McCartney songs are not up to their usual standards, simply because they had yet to establish those standards. George Harrison's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" is charming but sappy. "Twist and Shout," the Beatles legendary cover of the Eisley Brothers hit is fantastic, but the rest of the "cover" songs are tepid, at best.
CD 2, the reissue of the U. S. version of "The Beatles VI" is mid-period Beatles at their best.
CD 3, the reissue of the soundtrack album to the movie "Help" is where issues really start to come up. The "instrumental" takes by a studio big band were never anything more than album filler, and a lot of LP's were scratched beyond repair in the 60's skipping them to get to the Beatles songs.
CD 4, the reissue of the U. S. version of "Rubber Soul" contains the infamous false start mentioned by another reviewer. Otherwise, it's one of the best Beatles albums ever... and that's saying something.
We now move on to the issue of including the fake stereo versions of this material in this collection. There was a snobbery in the music industry towards rock and roll in the mid-60's. Recording executives simply did not see the music as "worthy" of their best engineers and technology. Hence, all this stuff was originally recorded in monoural. "Fake stereo" was subsequently packaged for those people who had to have "stereo" by compressing the signal from the masters and adding an echo to it. For true audiophiles, the result is tinny and cheap sounding. The value of including "stereo" versions of these songs is questionable at best. It's just MORE filler. If you remove the fake stereo versions and the instrumental filler from CD 3, you would still have room enough to fit all of the songs on all four discs onto two... at an incredible savings to the consumer! I wonder why they didn't do that!