I saw mono boxes in a store last week, guess they didn't sell out. $150 CDN.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr Veg said they did a second run or something? That's how he got mine for me for Christmas. Because at first I was like, "DUDE. How did you GET this??" but it turned out you could still get them. Which didn't lessen it as a gift or anything (cough)... :)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Those mono boxes are still new on shelves at a few stores here...
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I risked £75 for one on Amazon. It looks like new, beautifully packaged etc (other than ugly big black sticker all over the back of the box, but even that looks official). Have been working my way through it slowly, reached Revolver and there's a noticeable flutter on the disc. I've never had a cd that sounds like this - silence plays as silence, but sound is accompanied by something like a flag fluttering softly in the wind - and I don't really know who to complain to.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
The one I have, the 'sticker' is just a piece of paper, so you get rid of it and the whole box is a pristine white.
I'd compare your CD with some of the HQ mono rips on youtube... see if the flutter is there.
Or skip ahead and see if its on more than one disc....
Good to hear you are working through them chronologically, I was STRAIGHT into that white album.
then the next day a more measured approach..
oh an if anyones got 5 mins to kill.... http://bit.ly/dwXguc
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
49 out of 75 answered correctly in 8m:01s
Beatles IQ of 329.314
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Latest:
auction cancelled by ebay. Moneys seized (in my favour)
and so on, and none
― Mark G, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
:( Bummer, dude. But glad you didn't get hosed.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I bought the real thing last weekend. This is quite the fetish object!
Beware cheap impostors on Amazon. One way to tell bootlegs (at least the one I got) from the real Mono Box:__They aren't actually in mono.__They don't have sealed plastic covers over each album.__The discs inside are in square plastic sleeves, rather than next to paper sleeves and also plastic sleeves rounded at one end.__Some of the album covers might be manufactured inside-out.__The covers are smaller and the text on them unreadable.__They don't include things like the poster for the White Album.
If you have a sticker directly on the box, it's probably a bootleg.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 4 August 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Attention young ladies! Attention young ladies!
Yesterday I saw two copies of the Beatles mono box going for £100 in the HMV "clearout" sale.
(This was in Reading Oracle, Mark G. I don't know if they'll still be there.)
― PJ Miller, Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll 'ave a butchers.
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't have the link at hand right now, but adding to the 4th quarter "Apple Sloppy Seconds" reissue campaign is the remastered re-release of the Red & Blue comps.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Red_and_Blue_Albums_Remastered/
― Captain Ostensible (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
what kind of stupid clearance sale tries to offload the mono box???
I'm sure HMV has space for 2 boxes, they can just get rid of the thousand of obsolete-at-time-of-printing Ibiza 2010 compilations.
at under £100, I'd almost entertain the notion of buying a 'spare'.
That would be crazy, wouldnt it?.......wouldn't it?
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Ooh, a fresh, hermetically sealed 'spare' untouched by human hands.
Good lord don't get me started.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Hm. My copy passes all of Pete's tests except for the big black sticker and, uh, the fact that I don't actually know if it's mono (I've only used the player with the speakers side by side!). I've heard that the booklet is likely to be either shoddy or missing too, and mine isn't. If it wasn't for Revolver still having that damn flutter...
My conclusion is basically that if this is a bootleg, it's so good it doesn't really matter. If the bootleg factory really is turning out copies with such crisp printing, beautiful colours, the Sgt Pepper cut-out moustache, etc. etc. they kind of deserve their ill-gotten gains.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Interesting spiel on that Red and Blue reissues page says the reissues 'broke chart records'. Anyone know how the mono and stereo boxes and reissued albums actually sold? It felt that they kinda quietly underperformed in the end. Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide, or was that never gonna happen? I wonder which particular chart record they broke.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Skip to the end of "Helter Skelter." The mono version doesn't have Ringo's "I got blisters on my fingers." The stereo version does.
I don't know about buying a spare Mono box, but I'm already considering getting the stereo box, to which my wife responded, "Isn't that a little excessive?" She's right. I'll get it in ten years when I literally have $200 to burn for the pretty light it gives off, and have already donated to several charities that year.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 20 August 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
> Did any one album hit the million mark worldwide,
wikipedia page about the red album has some stats for germany - 2M sold.
― koogs, Friday, 20 August 2010 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Another good mono test is headphones.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 20 August 2010 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
The space before the count in and Lennon's 'Bye' on the Sgt Pepper reprise is noticably longer on the mono version, if that helps.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Friday, 20 August 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_States
1973 The Beatles 1967–1970 Capitol 16× platinum 1973 The Beatles 1962–1966 Capitol 15× platinum
Both sold less than Led Zep IV (23* platinum) which came out before them so I don't know what records they broke - maybe for compilations?
― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait I read that as the Red and Blue albums breaking records, sorry.
― a harshbuzz to my manpain (onimo), Friday, 20 August 2010 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
mm yeah i was talking about da remasterz / boxes from last year. it'd be interesting to find out what say the top 3 reissues were saleswise for the individual albums. we've become used to the beatles breaking all sorts of records by now so i'm wondering what 'broke chart records' means in the context of that press spiel linked above.
― piscesx, Friday, 20 August 2010 11:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Mine is mono - no blisters. It looks like it's a genuine set with one annoying flaw then - no bootleg's ever been put together as well as this.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 August 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
“Okay - this is fine - any Beatles release is better than none. BUT: Magical Mystery Tour DVD? Let It Be DVD? Hollywood Bowl CD? Final Capitol Albums Box Set? I know that you need a release every christmas bit the 'Let It Be' movie hasn't been available since before I was born!”
Cosign.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 August 2010 12:32 (fourteen years ago) link
And "The Beatles Christmas Album" (on Apple records, back in the day) as the final coda.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 August 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Found some reissues sales stats here: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/ever-so-quick-beatles-question
― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
UK:
Mono Box Week one...........3,305 Weeks one - four...4,896 Total for 09.......7,534 Total to date......7,781Stereo Box Week one...........7,671 Weeks one - four...11,804 Total for 09.......27,524 Total to date......28,611Please Please Me Week one...........5,107 Weeks one - four...11,989 Total for 09.......27,395 Total to date......29,922With the Beatles Week one...........3,909 Weeks one - four...8,863 Total for 09.......22,360 Total to date......24,329A Hard Day's Night Week one...........5,529 Weeks one - four...13,502 Total for 09.......29,518 Total to date......31,758Beatles for Sale Week one...........3,390 Weeks one - four...8,323 Total for 09.......20,384 Total to date......22,378Help! Week one...........6,152 Weeks one - four...15,492 Total for 09.......31,180 Total to date......33,491Rubber Soul Week one...........13,202 Weeks one - four...30,884 Total for 09.......60,035 Total to date......63,676Revolver Week one...........14,567 Weeks one - four...32,700 Total for 09.......62,601 Total to date......67,171Pepper Week one...........17,830 Weeks one - four...40,027 Total for 09.......80,768 Total to date......86,530The Beatles Week one...........8,553 Weeks one - four...19,899 Total for 09.......50,431 Total to date......54,175Magical Mystery Tour Week one...........5,567 Weeks one - four...13,407 Total for 09.......29,269 Total to date......31,914Yellow Submarine Week one...........2,044 Weeks one - four...5,240 Total for 09.......12,437 Total to date......13,571Abbey Road Week one...........16,507 Weeks one - four...37,372 Total for 09.......72,791 Total to date......79,849Let it Be Week one...........3,992 Weeks one - four...9,452 Total for 09.......24,653 Total to date......27,065Past Masters Week one...........5,748 Weeks one - four...13,407 Total for 09.......21,832 Total to date......27,065
Stereo Box Week one...........7,671 Weeks one - four...11,804 Total for 09.......27,524 Total to date......28,611
Please Please Me Week one...........5,107 Weeks one - four...11,989 Total for 09.......27,395 Total to date......29,922
With the Beatles Week one...........3,909 Weeks one - four...8,863 Total for 09.......22,360 Total to date......24,329
A Hard Day's Night Week one...........5,529 Weeks one - four...13,502 Total for 09.......29,518 Total to date......31,758
Beatles for Sale Week one...........3,390 Weeks one - four...8,323 Total for 09.......20,384 Total to date......22,378
Help! Week one...........6,152 Weeks one - four...15,492 Total for 09.......31,180 Total to date......33,491
Rubber Soul Week one...........13,202 Weeks one - four...30,884 Total for 09.......60,035 Total to date......63,676
Revolver Week one...........14,567 Weeks one - four...32,700 Total for 09.......62,601 Total to date......67,171
Pepper Week one...........17,830 Weeks one - four...40,027 Total for 09.......80,768 Total to date......86,530
The Beatles Week one...........8,553 Weeks one - four...19,899 Total for 09.......50,431 Total to date......54,175
Magical Mystery Tour Week one...........5,567 Weeks one - four...13,407 Total for 09.......29,269 Total to date......31,914
Yellow Submarine Week one...........2,044 Weeks one - four...5,240 Total for 09.......12,437 Total to date......13,571
Abbey Road Week one...........16,507 Weeks one - four...37,372 Total for 09.......72,791 Total to date......79,849
Let it Be Week one...........3,992 Weeks one - four...9,452 Total for 09.......24,653 Total to date......27,065
Past Masters Week one...........5,748 Weeks one - four...13,407 Total for 09.......21,832 Total to date......27,065
US:
1. Abbey Road, 272,220 2 Sgt Peppers: 211,856 3 The Beatles (White Album): 203,452 4 Rubber Soul: 160,642 5 Revolver: 138,380 6 Past Masters: 111,184 7 Help!: 106,568 8 Let It Be: 98,599 9 Magical Mystery Tour: 96,081 10 A Hard Day's Night: 93,245 11 Please Please Me: 73,489 12 With The Beatles: 67,405 13 Beatles For Sale: 64,373 14 Yellow Submarine: 46,460'The Beatles' stereo box set (16 CDs + DVD) 112,564 'The Beatles in Mono' mono box set (13 CDs) 38,219
― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Abbey road considerably outselling Pepper in the US, but not in the UK.
pseudo limited edition blurring the figures for the Mono box.
Good to see they kept the plastic apple USB sales out of this
anyone know if the Mono really is limited or was that just the initial idea before Apple inc realised how much money could be made off it.
cause if it is limited, HMV have no right putting that in a clearance sale.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 20 August 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
White Album is also considerably less popular with Britishers than Americans it seems.
― sofatruck, Friday, 20 August 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
MMT needs more love, IMO
listen to "Flying", "Blue Jay Way"
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 21 August 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I missed this when it was on the BBC a year ago. The Maysles' 'Making Of...' film of their 'First US Visit' film. Some fascinating stuff in here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1V1K_NwF-M&feature=related
― piscesx, Monday, 6 September 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, it's the one that has sold well during the Britpop years, sowe all got one already (the limited edition LP facsimile version, forexample)
― Mark G, Monday, 6 September 2010 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Sweeping Catalogue Initiative Overseen by Yoko Ono and EMI Music Commemorates Lennon's 70th Birthday"
Lennon's solo stuff also getting remastered....probably mentioned elsewhere, but didn't come across it. Hope these sound as good as the Beatles stuff:
http://www.thebeatles.com/#/news/Tracklisting_and_artwork/
― Tim. E "LazRus" Lucas (Prose b4 Hoes...and Big Hoos), Monday, 6 September 2010 14:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The Beatles on iTunes at last?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/11/the-beatles-on-itunes-at-last.html
An agreement for legal downloading of the group’s cherished catalog of more than 200 songs recorded from 1962-1970 is about to be announced by Steve Jobs’ Apple Inc., the Beatles’ Apple Corps and EMI/Capitol Records, the Journal reports... A spokesman for Apple Inc. said Monday that the company had no comment on the report. The company is making what it claims will be an "exciting" announcement on Tuesday morning.
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
hey dude, we've been chatting about that a bit over here
New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward
― markers, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 05:38 (thirteen years ago) link
But...isn't this the Beatles thread?
― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
it's about time this gets done.
still have yet to buy a download but i still buy CD's...
― World Series champion San Francisco Giants (Bee OK), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be interested who would forgo the 24bit FLACs within the plastic apple, but once it's on itunes would pay the £150 for the aacs in the boxset.
This is just for people making best ofs.... I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.
lol they'll be in Billboard next week as the first band to make the chart on 100% digital sales
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, people will go out and buy CDs as well. Even if only one person does...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
it's gonna be a drag when the Beatles knock Dolphins Into the Future out of the #1 spot
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Man aerosmith I could use you in the other thread. People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
But, yes, the true tragedy is Dolphins of the Future.
― "I am a fairly respected poster." (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Amazon selling the single-disc CDs (2009 remasters) today for $7.99. Wonder for how long.
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.
People talk out their asses about this kinda stuff, no point in trying to stop them, when they're wrong next week they'll shift the ground to "I had no idea there were so many old people in the world!" or something
meanwhile my 12-year-old niece & all her friends will be going totally apeshit today pestering their parents to buy these for them
― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, its the kids/pre-teens who are gonna drive these sales
― the Whiney G. Weingarten Memorial 77 Clique (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
who knows, but honestly like that whole beatles number 1s CD thing blew my mind, like who needs that at this point? but i guess like 8 zillion ppl did...
― a strapping 40-year-old caorni rapper at a party (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link