The Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set
The Beatles aren’t a “best of” kind of band. You cannot order just the greatest hits CD and be done with the most influential band ever. In actuality, strongly believe the majority of their greatest tunes were not their biggest hits but actually were their more experimental songs such as “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
To really understand The Beatles music you have to listen to their LPs from start to finish rather than simply hearing their biggest hit songs. I think that they made quite a few of the best rock albums of all time and even their not so great albums (such as With The Beatles) have some really great tunes.
That’s why I believe it’s such a marvelous idea to Buy The Remastered Beatles in Stereo Box Set. The stereo box set includes every single album (and every single with the Past Masters double CD set) that they recorded and released in the 60s.
It contains pretty much everything except for Live at the BBC CDs and the three Anthology sets. This seems right to me because those 90s releases aren’t really a part of “the official catalog” of The Beatles. These extras are sort of like the “extra features” on a DVD rather than the feature film.
There are actually a few more of their officially released recordings that aren’t included in the box set, one of them being the 1999 release of a CD called Yellow Submarine Songtrack that’s completely different from the original Yellow Submarine release. It is actually far better in my opinion and worth checking out because of it’s alternate mixes (it’s not just remastered, it’s remixed.) Let It Be… Naked and Love are also not included.
As well as The Beatles Stereo Box, I also recommend that you Order The Beatles In Mono Box Set which includes the the mono versions of their albums up through The White Album. It may be difficult to understand in the context of today, but when they were mixing their songs they thought the mono mixes to be of far more importance than the stereo versions up until around the time of The White Album.
