Not really my cup-o-tea. So the short answer is, no, I won't be buying anyting relating to the Beatles tomorrow, or at any time in the foreseeable future.

Nope! I still have the LP's (That's a very large 12 inch diameter cd).

NEIN!

I couldn't care less about the Beatles...I know they were a great band like 50 years ago, but I really dont care.

Knowing kids these days, they'd prefer the MP3 versions of the songs (whenever available) over the original vinyl...

I'm buying the PS3 game, non-bundle as I have plenty of RB and GH controllers. I think I only know 4 of the 45 songs on the disc so it will be my first time hearing many of them. My GF is a Beatles fan and without her enthusiasm I'd probably play through Dirt2 first.

Noper

No, I won't be buying. Instead I'll be buying Megadeth's ("Endgame") and Porcupine Tree's ("The Incident") new albums next week.

(spoken with sarcasm) Oh yay, another Beatles re-master.... That makes FIVE times that they've re-mastered the Beatles catalogue since 1983. Hopefully they didn't over-compress the signal like so many sound engineers seem keen on doing...

Meh!

I dont like their music.

I have actually held off on finishing my Beatles CD collection for tomorrow, so yes I will be buying Beatles. I wasn't aware of the mono and stereo offerings though!

Nope no more CDs. I was hoping this news piece was about the Beatles going digital

Still think we'll hear an announcement in that regard soon (maybe at Apple's next press conference??)

Dave_69

This is the first proper remaster since 1987 of the UK releases, the other remasters were off of American releases and weren't at this quality.

These are being done at Abbey Road using some of the newest technology available as well as vintage equipment.

This will be some of the highest fidelity Beatles music since the vinyl.

jasperjones,

you are right we are going to hear something soon about them going digital. Paul has always said that he didn't feel the remasters were up to snuff and didn't want inferior music being put into the digital format.

With these new remasters it is going to be a pretty sure bet that we will finally get digital Beatles albums.

rudeboyransom, thanks for the tip. Again, I hope they don't over-compress the signal. I bought the latest Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" re-master, and I think there's a couple spots in "Us and Them" that reach the envelope of dynamic range, and produce a bit of static. I only mention this because it too is an old recording, though not as old as the Beatles stuff (DSOTM was 1973), and they over-dubbed it, and I would expect more from PF than to allow that to happen. Same with Rush's "Vapor Trails," although that wasn't a re-master, it came off the press sounding clipped and over-compressed. I would have expected better from them as well.

Incidentally I'm listening on a $200 pair of ATH-700 headphones...

Also, a lot of people get remixing and remastering confused. A lot of the stuff that has come out that is really just remixes. The Love CD and the Beatles #1 and the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack were just remixes not remasters. Capitol Vol 1 and II were remasters of the US releases if I am not mistaken.

Well, to you and me, we know the difference. Sadly most listeners probably don't, or wouldn't notice a difference anyway. And realistically speaking, "the kids" these days get digital stuff anyway, and lossy format never does the original any justice (frankly, I can't stand that "whooshy" sound going on in the background of a lossy file - but then again, my headphones are high fidelity so maybe with a cheap-ass pair of iPod headphones the difference is nominal to non-existant...).

This Beatles Rock band will be a failure. The Beatles are just too old to have a Video game, Most people who are old enough to enjoy the Beatles aren't playing games anymore. I'm 34, play games and the Beatles are way before my time even...

Come to think of it.. I have never known anyone who listens to the Beatles. Considering Sgt. Pepper's was released in 1967 (7 years before my birth) I am thinking most people who listen to the Beatles would likely be in their late 40's or older. I don't see there being a Rock Band market for this age group.

You are kidding right?

The Beatles are still extremely relevant and many many new major pop bands list the Beatles as key influences. People in their 20's are just now waking up to the Beatles with movies like Across the Universe and the Love show in Vegas.

I am 29 and just started listening to the Beatles a few years ago and it opened my eyes.

Music never gets old, through music we can live forever!

The game will be a success and after playing the demo at best buy and watching young kids loving it, I will probably buy my first ever rockband game.

Also, a lot of 40 year olds I know love to play Rock Band!

Humm my ears are 40++ Years old I already have all the Beatles Songs I like on CD's so now they reach into the vault pull out some moldy dusty Masters run them through CakeWalk Pro remove some Pop and hiss and want to reach into my wallet Again for about 20 bucks a CD (He11 NO!)
I can barely tell the Differance between Cd's at home and in my car I don't think "remastering" them will improve them to my ears so I will pass, I have more important things to spend my money on like the Trachyphyllia the LFS has for sale, just need approval from the Boss Er um Wife.

The Beatles CDs I already have sound fine to me, so I don't see any reason to replace them with "newly remastered" ones. Besides, it seems to me the "real deal" should be distributed on analog, reel-to-reel tape, not on CD. If the idea is to give the listener the "smack-dab-in-the-control-room" experience....

No.

nope

Yeah, the Beatles game will be fun for people to play who like the Beatles, but I can't see the game being very fun for someone like me, who has only tacit acquaintance with their music. There isn't enough technicality in their music for me to want to pick up a Rock Band game to play their stuff. I was let down with GH: Aerosmith that way too. Joe Perry writes neat riffs, but he doesn't wail, and to me, wailing is what makes a fun GH/RB game. The game was kind of flat. Now, on the flipside, the Van Halen Rock Band would be fun because Eddie's stuff is technical and challenging, IMO.

And when are we going to get a DREAM THEATER GH/RB????!!!!

I already have Beetles stuff.

And they're not made in China teehee

Beatles music never gets old, they are amongst a select number of artists that will be listened to pretty much forever. There are kids in college now who listen to Hendrix, have Che posters on the wall and wear Beatles T-shirts and their parents weren't even born when all those things were around the first time.

Personally, I hope the Beatles never release their music via iTunes as a deliberate snub for Apples deliberate disregard for intellectual property and when they settled out of court, their flagrant breach of further agreement not to go into the music business. Apple are not trustworthy people and if you were to ask the 6 billion people around the world who they like more, Steve Jobs or Paul McCartney. Well, lets just say that less than 5% of the ones that own computers would say Steve Jobs and pretty much all the rest of the world would side with Paul McCartney.

Beatles music never gets old, they are amongst a select number of artists that will be listened to pretty much forever. There are kids in college now who listen to Hendrix, have Che posters on the wall and wear Beatles T-shirts and their parents weren't even born when all those things were around the first time.

Personally, I hope the Beatles never release their music via iTunes as a deliberate snub for Apples deliberate disregard for intellectual property and when they settled out of court, their flagrant breach of further agreement not to go into the music business. Apple are not trustworthy people and if you were to ask the 6 billion people around the world who they like more, Steve Jobs or Paul McCartney. Well, lets just say that less than 5% of the ones that own computers would say Steve Jobs and pretty much all the rest of the world would side with Paul McCartney.

Honestly, since my money would no longer be going to Michael Jackson's greedy little backstabbing pocket, I might consider buying a good size beetles collection. And yes, I am a college kid.

no...

While I won't be buying it tomorrow, I will be buying the Beatles Rock Band for my wife's birthday at the end of the month. She doesn't have any interest in the remastered CDs though, preferring to keep the cash in our wallets and enjoy our current collection on CD or the select pieces of vintage vinyl she's come across.

no. i wont.

Yes