In a way a superduper deluxe version of the 1979 UK/European variation of the "Rarities" album (see earlier post). Here a 3LP set containing 34 original mono mixes primarily unissued on LP in UK. As first part of the 2009 remastered CD box set/MP3 "The Beatles In Mono" it'd be fair to expect the same digitized stuff to show up on these vinyls, but luckily no. Apart from "Love Me Do" (see futher info on that below) it's all 100% analog prepared especially for this issue and the audio is perfect in every part - offering direct connection with the ability to take you back, but also to discover new things in many of the tracks. I've been trying to find all original Beatles mono mixes on LP:s for a long time now and have most of these already. New to me are "Across The Universe" and the ones that were already prepared, yet for some reason never used, on the "Yellow Submarine" mono - "Only A Northern Song", "All Together Now", "Hey Bulldog" and "It's All Too Much" (see earlier post). Those cuts were the reason I bought it in the first place, but there are also other things here that make me smile. It's on the dark Apple label, the vinyls are thick unflexible 180 g:s and the stickered triple fold/out sleeve is fully laminated with black polylined inners. Further the sleeve has a couple of rare images (the b/w:s enhanced here) and lots of info on sessions and recordings. I'm tempted to call it the final Beatles compilation. Not that I believe it's the last by any means, but the combination of all the above will make it very hard to surpass. Excellent work! (BÄ*) (PÖP*) (ÄPLÄ*) (LGÅ*)
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