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The Beatles Mono Box Set | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: EMI
Category: Music
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 96
Format: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 13
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5.9 x 2.8
EAN: 5099969945120
ASIN: B002BSHXJA
Release Date: September 9, 2009
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Saw Her Standing There [Mono Version] | | • | Misery [Mono Version] | | • | Anna (Go to Him) [Mono Version] | | • | Chains [Mono Version] | | • | Boys [Mono Version] | | • | Ask Me Why [Mono Version] | | • | Please Please Me [Mono Version] | | • | Love Me Do [Mono Version] | | • | P.S. I Love You [Mono Version] | | • | Baby It's You [Mono Version] | | • | Do You Want to Know a Secret [Mono Version] | | • | Taste of Honey | | • | There's a Place [Mono Version] | | • | Twist and Shout [Mono Version] |
Disc 2
| • | It Won't Be Long [Mono Version] | | • | All I've Got to Do [Mono Version] | | • | All My Loving [Mono Version] | | • | Don't Bother Me [Mono Version] | | • | Little Child [Mono Version] | | • | Till There Was You [Mono Version] | | • | Please Mister Postman | | • | Roll Over Beethoven [Mono Version] | | • | Hold Me Tight [Mono Version] | | • | You Really Got a Hold on Me [Mono Version] | | • | I Wanna Be Your Man [Mono Version] | | • | Devil in Her Heart [Mono Version] | | • | Not a Second Time [Mono Version] | | • | Money (That's What I Want) [Mono Version] |
Disc 3
| • | Hard Day's Night [Mono Version] | | • | I Should Have Known Better [Mono Version] | | • | If I Fell [Mono Version] | | • | I'm Happy Just to Dance with You [Mono Version] | | • | And I Love Her [Mono Version] | | • | Tell Me Why [Mono Version] | | • | Can't Buy Me Love [Mono Version] | | • | Any Time at All | | • | I'll Cry Instead [Mono Version] | | • | Things We Said Today [Mono Version] | | • | When I Get Home [Mono Version] | | • | You Can't Do That [Mono Version] | | • | I'll Be Back [Mono Version] |
Disc 4
| • | No Reply [Mono Version] | | • | I'm a Loser [Mono Version] | | • | Baby's in Black [Mono Version] | | • | Rock and Roll Music [Mono Version] | | • | I'll Follow the Sun [Mono Version] | | • | Mr. Moonlight [Mono Version] | | • | Kansas City: Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! | | • | Eight Days a Week [Mono Version] | | • | Words of Love [Mono Version] | | • | Honey Don't [Mono Version] | | • | Every Little Thing [Mono Version] | | • | I Don't Want to Spoil the Party [Mono Version] | | • | What You're Doing [Mono Version] | | • | Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby [Mono Version] |
Disc 5
| • | Help! [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | Night Before [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Versio | | • | I Need You [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | Another Girl [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | You're Going to Lose That Girl [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | Ticket to Ride [from the Film "Help! "] [Mono Version] | | • | Act Naturally [Mono Version] | | • | It's Only Love [Mono Version] | | • | You Like Me Too Much [Mono Version] | | • | Tell Me What You See [Mono Version] | | • | I've Just Seen a Face [Mono Version] | | • | Yesterday [Mono Version] | | • | Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Mono Version] | | • | Help! [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Night Before [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | I Need You [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Another Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | You're Going to Lose That Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Ticket to Ride [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Act Naturally [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | It's Only Love [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | You Like Me Too Much [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Tell Me What You See [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | I've Just Seen a Face [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Yesterday [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Dizzy Miss Lizzy [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] |
Disc 6
| • | Drive My Car [Mono Version] | | • | Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [Mono Version] | | • | You Won't See Me [Mono Version] | | • | Nowhere Man [Mono Version] | | • | Think for Yourself [Mono Version] | | • | Word [Mono Version] | | • | Michelle [Mono Version] | | • | What Goes On [Mono Version] | | • | Girl [Mono Version] | | • | I'm Looking Through You [Mono Version] | | • | In My Life [Mono Version] | | • | Wait [Mono Version] | | • | If I Needed Someone [Mono Version] | | • | Run for Your Life [Mono Version] | | • | Drive My Car [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | You Won't See Me [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Nowhere Man [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Think for Yourself [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Word [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Michelle [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | What Goes On [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Girl [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | I'm Looking Through You [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | In My Life [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Wait [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | If I Needed Someone [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] | | • | Run for Your Life [Original 1965 Stereo Mix] |
Disc 7
| • | Taxman [Mono Version] | | • | Eleanor Rigby [Mono Version] | | • | I'm Only Sleeping [Mono Version] | | • | Love You To [Mono Version] | | • | Here, There and Everywhere [Mono Version] | | • | Yellow Submarine [Mono Version] | | • | She Said She Said [Mono Version] | | • | Good Day Sunshine [Mono Version] | | • | And Your Bird Can Sing [Mono Version] | | • | For No One [Mono Version] | | • | Doctor Robert [Mono Version] | | • | I Want to Tell You [Mono Version] | | • | Got to Get You into My Life [Mono Version] | | • | Tomorrow Never Knows [Mono Version] |
Disc 8
| • | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Mono Version] | | • | With a Little Help from My Friends [Mono Version] | | • | Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds [Mono Version] | | • | Getting Better [Mono Version] | | • | Fixing a Hole [Mono Version] | | • | She's Leaving Home [Mono Version] | | • | Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! [Mono Version] | | • | Within You Without You [Mono Version] | | • | When I'm Sixty-Fout [Mono Version] | | • | Lovely Rita [Mono Version] | | • | Good Morning Good Morning [Mono Version] | | • | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Mono Version] | | • | Day in the Life [Mono Version] |
Disc 9
| • | Magical Mystery Tour [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Versi | | • | Fool on the Hill [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version] | | • | Flying [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version] | | • | Blue Jay Way [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version] | | • | Your Mother Should Know [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Ve | | • | I Am the Walrus [from the Film "Magical Mystery Tour"] [Mono Version] | | • | Hello, Goodbye [Mono Version] | | • | Strawberry Fields Forever [Mono Version] | | • | Penny Lane [Mono Version] | | • | Baby, You're a Rich Man [Mono Version] | | • | All You Need Is Love [Mono Version] |
Disc 10
| • | Back in the U.S.S.R. [Mono Version] | | • | Dear Prudence [Mono Version] | | • | Glass Onion [Mono Version] | | • | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da [Mono Version] | | • | Wild Honey Pie [Mono Version] | | • | Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill [Mono Version] | | • | While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Mono Version] | | • | Happiness Is a Warm Gun [Mono Version] | | • | Martha My Dear [Mono Version] | | • | I'm So Tired [Mono Version] | | • | Blackbird [Mono Version] | | • | Piggies [Mono Version] | | • | Rocky Raccoon [Mono Version] | | • | Don't Pass Me By [Mono Version] | | • | Why Don't We Do It in the Road? [Mono Version] | | • | I Will [Mono Version] | | • | Julia [Mono Version] |
Disc 11
| • | Birthday [Mono Version] | | • | Yer Blues [Mono Version] | | • | Mother Nature's Son [Mono Version] | | • | Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey [Mono Version | | • | Sexy Sadie [Mono Version] | | • | Helter Skelter [Mono Version] | | • | Long, Long, Long [Mono Version] | | • | Revolution I [Mono Version] | | • | Honey Pie [Mono Version] | | • | Savoy Truffle [Mono Version] | | • | Cry Baby Cry [Mono Version] | | • | Revolution 9 [Mono Version] | | • | Good Night [Mono Version] |
Disc 12
| • | Love Me Do [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | From Me to You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Thank You Girl [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | She Loves You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | I'll Get You [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | I Want to Hold Your Hand [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | This Boy [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Sie Liebt Dich [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Long Tall Sally [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | I Call Your Name [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Slow Down [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Matchbox [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | I Feel Fine [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | She's a Woman [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Bad Boy [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Yes It Is [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | I'm Down [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] |
Disc 13
| • | Day Tripper [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | We Can Work It Out [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Paperback Writer [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Rain [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Lady Madonna [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Inner Light [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Hey Jude [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Revolution [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Only a Northern Song [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | All Together Now [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Hey Bulldog [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | It's All Too Much [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Get Back [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Don't Let Me Down [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | Across the Universe [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] | | • | You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) [2009 Digital Remaster][Version] |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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The Beatles Mono Box Set was compiled as a special interest package for the hard-core fan. It presents the first ten albums in re-mastered mono (the final 3 albums made their debuts in stereo only), and a double album of singles and EPs, called "Mono Masters". At the time of writing, the mono albums are not available individually. Why would anyone want a newly minted mono collection? The final mono songs were sometimes different. Stereo mixes were usually done days, if not weeks after the original mono mix, and could include different takes when the engineers made the overdubs. Stereo mixes, particularly for the first five albums, did not include as much critical listening from George Martin, and almost none from the Fab' Four. Also, stereo in early 60's England was not broadcast over the air, and the format was largely the preserve of the hi-fi snob. For more than half The Beatles recorded repertoire, the most affordable "weapon of choice" for the twisting, shouting teenage market was the mono mix. Ironically - this box set is the best The Beatles have ever sounded. Like the stereo sibling these are re-mastered, not re-mixed, but unlike the stereo, they have not been clipped or limited to push levels closer to current music ingested through our MP3 players. These albums are cleaner than ever before and compared to the 1980s CD editions you're taken aback by how much dynamic range is on those original tapes. Nothing in this box sounds like a 45 year old recording. Each disc is presented as if it were a miniature "33", replete with plastic anti-scratch sleeve, inner paper sleeve, original album cover, inserts and all original text rendered frustratingly small for anyone old enough to have bought the LPs the first time around. -- Hugo Munday
Album Description
FEATURES:
-Dimensions: 5.75" x 5.38" x 2.63"
-Description:
·Hard white glossy slip box
·Limited edition
·CDs packaged as mini LP replicas (replica artwork, sleeves and gatefolds)
·Remastered by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee with Guy Massey and Steve Rooke
-Contains:
Original Mono version - 11 albums (12 discs)
+= mono mix CD debut
·Please Please Me
·With The Beatles
·A Hard Day's Night
·Beatles For Sale
·Help! (CD also includes original 1965 stereo mix)+
·Rubber Soul (CD also include original 1965 stereo mix)+
·Revolver+
·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band+
·Magical Mystery Tour+
·The Beatles+
·Mono Masters (features all of the mono tracks that appeared on singles, EPs. or that never made it onto the 13 albums)
-Essay written by Kevin Howlett
*note: Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included, as they were originally recorded in stereo. Beatles Photos The Beatles Merchandise The Beatles Rock Band More from The Beatles 
The Beatles Stereo Box Set | 
The Beatles [USB] [LIMITED EDITION] | 
Abbey Road | 
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | 
The White Album | 
Rubber Soul |
Album Description
Limited digitally remastered thirteen CD box set that contains the 10 albums originally released by The Beatles in mono (1963's Please Please Me up through 1968's The White Album) plus two further discs of mono singles masters. As an added bonus, the mono Help! and Rubber Soul discs also include the original 1965 stereo mixes, which have not been previously released on CD. These albums will be packaged in mini-vinyl CD replicas of the original sleeves with all original inserts and label designs retained. At the beginning of the '60s, stereophonic recordings were just coming into their own but many households didn't own stereophonic record players. In most cases, an album would originally be mixed in mono for mass consumption and then separately mixed in stereo for those with modern equipment. As the '60s wore on, mono mixes became secondary over stereo and then were eventually abandoned altogether. The Beatles' first 10 albums were mixed twice: once in mono and then in stereo. The mono mixes were sometimes strikingly different to the stereo mixes, which has ensured their collectability over the years. This box contains all the officially released Beatles mono mixes in one limited edition box set. Capitol.
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 Mono....Yawn - Stereo is better November 26, 2009
Wesley A. Cooksey
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I consider myself one of the biggest Beatle fans out there.....I have purchased every Beatles recording in every format ever produced. In other words....I am wondering how many more times I will buy the White Album in my lifetime. I purchased the Stereo Box set a few months ago and thought it sounded great and then I read magazine reviews of the Mono set and decided that I had to have it as well. The packaging is great on the Mono set......but that is where it ended for me. The Stereo set really sounds better than the Mono set and anyone who says different is flawed because some "expert" told them the mono set is better. I wanted the mono set to be better as well and I based my decision to plop down another $240.00 on those reviews. The guys behind the Beatle machine are good at getting money from fans and they have perfected it over the past 40 years. I'm sure that if they hadn't produced both mono & stereo versions...Beatle fans would have cried for them (including me) until they were produced. I applaud the Beatle machine for keeping the magic alive after all of these years..... The mono set is not bad...it's sound is a little empty as compared to the stereo remasters. Since I have both sets....I will probably give the mono set to my brother for Chrismas since he cant afford to buy the Beatle catalog over and over again.
I am giving the Mono Set 1 star because the Stereo Set sounds 100 times better.
I'm sure that I will also buy the 5.1 surround or TXH versions if they ever come out with them as well...
Save your hard earned money if you have to choose between one set or the other and buy the Stereo Remaster set.
 The Beatles recorded their music to be heard in monaural sound November 24, 2009
D. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first fact to know about the mono set is that this is the way they were intended to be listened to: as monaural recordings. This means that the levels of vocals and instruments are at their most optimal levels for easy hearing, and are as the artists and engineers intended them to be heard. You can easily distinguish between instruments and the vocals. Ever wonder if its John singing double tracking or "Ken's flanger"? I think it is easy to distinguish on the mono's. Another thing to know about this mono set is that starting after the Double White Album the engineering becomes directed towards stereo - thus the Abbey Road and Let It Be are NOT included in this set. But you do get all the singles (songs not released on official Beatles Albums) Another personal disappointment is the song "And I love Her" I expected the mono version to be identical with the mono version released on the Capital USA version which has Paul singing the entire song with no reverb - a superior delight - sorry to George Martin but the reverb ruined Paul's voice. Instead you just get to hear his voice without reverb as on the stereo, only on the first line of the second verse.
Sgt. Pepper is super superior IN MONO! I believe that the stereo reproduction utterly ruins that entire album... and was the cause of my personal distaste for Sgt. Pepper, but now, hearing it in its original intended mono style I must admit, it is a wonderful creation of genius.
All the Beatles stereo mock-ups are inferior to the mono's in my opinion, except for their very first album "Please Please Me" where I prefer the stereo because it is great to be able to isolate and separate the vocal tracks completely from the instrumental tracks.
These are digital REMASTERS of the recordings so you get super clear first generation quality.
Worth the Wait November 24, 2009
R. Lamar Mcclure (Dalton, Georgia United States)
As a fan for more than 45 years, the "mythical mono" masters were always some how out of my reach. This box is a true treasure and is magnificent in everyway. Great packaging, liner notes....etc. As I grew up on the mono/stereo singles and the stereo American albums, which still sounded like mono coming from my ancient record player, these are closer to my original memories. I did not experience true stereo until the "White Album" in 1968, even though 8-track tapes did provide some channel separation. So by and far these are the songs as the Beatles themselves wanted them heard and I am thankful to finally have and hear them as they were intended to be. I own the new stereo box as well and greatly enjoy listening to the differences. To the casual listener the stereo remasters are all you need. And if your a fan like me, I'm sure you already have them both.
 Beatles on mono-(what you need to know) November 22, 2009
David J. Clarke (Southern California)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
-What a few reviewers here are ignorant of is the reason why EMI, Apple and Capitol Records/USA decided remastering the mono versions of the Beatles work in the first place.
You need to know something about the recording process to begin with.
Contrary to popular belief, most mono mixes are NOT simple fold downs of the stereo mixes.
The mono mixes and stereo mixes of a given recording are usually totally separate mixes!
In the 1960s days ([prior to 1969) the preferred mixes produced were always the mono mixes. There was a tremendous amount of work in producing the mono, since the rationale was that relatively few young and/or "teen people" actually owned or had open access to good home stereo Hi-Fi equipment in those days. Also a large consideration was taken into account that these Beatles songs would mostly be heard through a car's small radio speaker on AM radio and had to sound good on it. -In the States, the first stereo version of a Beatles' L.P. that sold in significant volume was in late 1965 with "Rubber Soul." (even so, stereo L.P. sales were comparatively quite anemic in "backward Britain" vs. USA or Germany with the exception of classical music).
-In the Beatles case this point is quite significant. Once the mono mixes were complete, only then would the separate stereo be made with the EQ being at different settings. The stereo was usually done quite rapidly verses the much longer time spent mixing and lavishing the mono.
For example, the entire time spent doing the original stereo mixes on "Beatles For Sale" was sometimes less then 30 minutes per track, verses sometimes hours per track on the mono.
The stereo was considered "frivolous" and done almost as if a second thought. The Beatles themselves never even heard the stereo mixes of their own work until the original L.P.s were commercially released!
There are things noticeably different on the various mono mixes. Sometimes the edit pieces for the solos are from different takes. Sometimes George Martin's piano is at a much lower volume levels on the mono and the guitars stand out more.
The Abbey Road engineers will tell you that the only "true version" of Sgt. Pepper is the mono one. there are more effects, etc. on the mono one plus the EQ for it is different then the stereo version. But, then again the catchy novelty of "panning vocals" was introduced on the SPLHCB stereo version. George Harrison himself told it on the Beatles Anthology project that he never liked the stereo versions of their work and thought the whole "directional sound" thing was a gimmick and wrecked their sound!
Word of this has gotten around globally over the years and hence the pent up demand for a Beatles mono CD product in a stereo world.
An Outstanding Box Set on its Own Merit November 22, 2009
Scott E. Browning (Newport Beach, CA. U.S.A.)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just finished typing a very long critique about this set, when I was I pressed the "Preview your review" button, everything was eraced! Therefore, I'll try to be brief. I think both the stereo and mono box sets have their own distinct features: The Stereo Box Set contains all the official studio albums and has been remastered to be accessible to just about anything that plays music; from a small portable CD player to an MP3 player. Whereas the Mono Box Set was made to be listened to a portable CD player or 'normal' stereo, and to have the viewer capture a piece of history was mono was the mainstream. (It became the mainstream right up until the 1970's. Then stereo became the mainstream, and it's been that way ever since.) There have been debates about which box set is better. My answer is this: In terms of the collection of all official studio albums, THE BEATLES STEREO BOX SET is the definitive one. (Note that it features YELLOW SUBMARINE, LET IT BE, and ABBEY ROAD. All three of these albums were originally mixed in stereo, which is why they're not included in the mono box set.) Now in terms of how versions sound, my answer is neither. Both have their own distinct features. So I will say that the mono box set is great in its own way. Well, that's my opinion. Who cares? Oh, one more thing. When all else fails, JUDGE FOR YOURSELF!
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