The Wait Is Finally Over: September 9, 2009 Is The Release Day For The Remastered Stereo & Mono Beatles CDs
If you’re like me (a huge Beatles fanatic) then 9/9/9 is basically Christmas Day! This is the day that new remastered Beatles CDs are finally coming out, 22 years since the original Beatles CDs were released.
The Beatles first released their albums on CD in 1987 and at that time CD technology was still pretty new. The mastering done for those CD is considered to be of inferior quality, which is why Beatles fans have been impatiently waiting for these new remastered CDs.
But the excitement from 9/9/9 doesn’t just come from the fact that the albums are being remastered for the first time since their original release on CD, it also comes from the mono box set that is being released on that day.
This is the first time that the original mono mixes of The Beatles albums are going to be available on CD.
Why should we care about mono mixes in 2009? Isn’t this an outdated way of listening to music? Well certainly nobody is mixing in mono these days, but it is worth hearing these original mixes because that’s how the albums were originally intended to be heard.
The mono mixes are what The Beatles (along with the bands producers and engineers) were mainly focused on. The stereo mixes were done as an after thought with little (if any) input from the band, while the mono mixes were worked on until they were considered to be perfect.
Because of this many feel that the original mono mix of an album such as Sgt. Pepper is the “real” version of the album.
The new Beatles Rock Band game also comes out on 9/9/9. I’m not a huge video game guy but I do love the Rock Band games, they are fun. And the Beatles game should really take it to the next level.
The “instruments” for the game even look like the real Beatles instruments (check out Ringo’s drums!) This will the first Rock Band game which allows for harmony singing (with three microphones you can actually do three part harmonies!)
