This post is not about the album as a product of the time in which it was made, but how it stands today as part of the Beatles legacy. My first plan was to make it a sibling to the one on the corresponding "1967-70" issue and, as I did with that, recommend it as a good start for Bealtles beginners who wanted to get in close to the fact. But after giving it a careful hearing I can't. "1967-70" had good stereo all through, including the 45 edits of "Get Back" and "Let It Be" and also using the Georrge Martin 1971 re-mixes of "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever". This, on the other hand, contains cuts recorded when mono ruled the British isles and stereo was made second hand as a courtesy to to technique freaks and novelty lovers. So what we have from this period is a bunch of perfectly mixed mono tracks with superb audio, exactly showing what a great band they were. Why they decided to discard all that beauty and instead use a couple of shaky or even faked two channel mixes I don't understand. It's diminishing and borderline history perversion. I mean how hard could it have been making them split format issues - "1962-66" in mono and "1967-70" in stereo. Then we would have the best from both worlds and together a legacy rather than a bad trial. There isn't even a nerd factor involved as for exemple with the UK version of the "Rock'n'Roll Music" compilation where you get rare true stereo cuts for the first time on a British issue (see earlier post). This is just very common picks in inferior stereo. Feel I'm getting worked up here so I better stop before writing something really bad. Released all over the world on every possible format through the years. The one shown here is the UK red vinyl issue. Visually better, but same awkward listening. (BÄ*) (ÄPLÄ*) (LGÅ*)
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