Friday, December 7, 2012

The Beatle's Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2012 remastered vinyl



After the 2009 Beatles catalog was released on compact disc in a mono and stereo box sets,it was also announced vinyl would follow shortly,this resulted due to the successful sales of Abbey Road released in 2007 and took two years for the magic to happen. The one problem with the vinyl revival are that new records that don't have their stamps checked and cleaned can leave pieces of vinyl lodged between a new records groove wall,and encountered this problem with Magical Mystery Tour I was able to fix.

Sargent Pepper changed the direction of rock music,though heavily influenced by The Beach Boy's Pet Sounds released a year earlier it's style makes it one of the most innovative album ever recorded. All the Beatles's 2012 vinyl are taken from the original master tapes using 16 bit,fans are anxious for the mono versions and want to give my opinion on that as it is not my preferred format. Stereo was avoided by many recording artists because of the high cost of the recording equitment at that time,plus,there was a fear it would just be a fad,so many avoided it.Most 60's groups once they saw it caught on re recorded the album a second time to win over those fans,an expensive mistake. The mono version of Sargent Pepper is quite different from it's stereo predecessor,indeed interesting,but lacks the excitement and depth.

The sound?,absolutely incredible!,though parts of the album seem a bit subdued,an improvement over the 2006 cd. The album is printed from original source art,a painstaking process,includes the original cardboard cutout as contained in the 1967 release. This is a ''total'' Paul album John Lennon would jeer in his song ''How do you sleep''? [So Sargent Pepper took you by surprise]. I had the original 70's copy of the LP,and can tell you,this is a great improvement.

So my review?,a splendid time is guaranteed for all!,lol

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