The Beatles: Please Please Me
(EMI)
In 2009, EMI finally released the
remastered Beatles albums on CD, both in mono and in stereo. The differences in
sound quality to the original 1987 discs were monumental, and sales went
through the roof. So it’s no surprise that EMI looks to squeeze even more blood
from a stone by pressing brand new vinyl records—remember those?—of those
remasters of the original British albums, along with the two-disc Past Masters compilation of non-album
singles and B-sides.
Of those re-releases, I’ve heard
the Fab Four’s phenomenal debut, Please
Please Me, originally released in 1963, and if the songs are not as
immortal as those on everything from Rubber
Soul to Abbey Road, the sheer
delight and excitement of their first forays in the recording studio—which
yielded such gems as the title song and “I Saw Her Standing There” alongside
scintillating covers of “Chains” and “Twist and Shout”—leaps off the turntable
and points them in a direction that would change music forever.
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