The Capitol Albums Vol. 1 | 
| Artist: The Beatles
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  251 reviews
Sales Rank: 13678
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 5.1 x 0.7
UPC: 724386687821
EAN: 0724386687821
ASIN: B00065XJ48
Release Date: November 16, 2004
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | I Want To Hold Your Hand (Stereo) | | » | I Saw Her Standing There (Stereo) | | » | This Boy (Stereo) | | » | It Won't Be Long (Stereo) | | » | All I've Got To Do (Stereo) | | » | All My Loving (Stereo) | | » | Don't Bother Me (Stereo) | | » | Little Child (Stereo) | | » | Till There Was You (Stereo) | | » | Hold Me Tight (Stereo) | | » | I Wanna Be Your Man (Stereo) | | » | Not A Second Time (Stereo) | | » | I Want To Hold Your Hand (Original Mono) | | » | I Saw Her Standing There (Original Mono) | | » | This Boy (Original Mono) | | » | It Won't Be Long (Original Mono) | | » | All I've Got To Do (Original Mono) | | » | All My Loving (Original Mono) | | » | Don't Bother Me (Original Mono) | | » | Little Child (Original Mono) | | » | Till There Was You (Original Mono) | | » | Hold Me Tight (Original Mono) | | » | I Wanna Be Your Man (Original Mono) | | » | Not A Second Time (Original Mono) |
Disc 2
| » | Roll Over Beethoven (Stereo) | | » | Thank You Girl (Stereo) | | » | You Really Got a Hold On Me (Stereo) | | » | Devil In Her Heart (Stereo) | | » | Money (alt version to UK release)(Stereo) | | » | You Can't Do That (Stereo) | | » | Long Tall Sally (Stereo) | | » | I Call Your Name (Stereo) | | » | Please Mr. Postman (Stereo) | | » | I'll Get You (Stereo) | | » | She Loves You (Stereo) | | » | Roll Over Beethoven (Original Mono) | | » | Thank You Girl (Original Mono) | | » | You Really Got a Hold On Me (Original Mono) | | » | Devil In Her Heart (Original Mono) | | » | Money (alt version to UK release) (Original Mono) | | » | You Can't Do That (Original Mono) | | » | Long Tall Sally (Original Mono) | | » | I Call Your Name (Original Mono) | | » | Please Mr. Postman (Original Mono) | | » | I'll Get You (Original Mono) | | » | She Loves You (Original Mono) |
Disc 3
| » | I'll Cry Instead (Stereo) | | » | Things We Said Today (Stereo) | | » | Any Time At All (Stereo) | | » | When I Get Home (Stereo) | | » | Slow Down (Stereo) | | » | Matchbox (Stereo) | | » | Tell Me Why (Stereo) | | » | And I Love Her (Stereo) | | » | I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Stereo) | | » | If I Fell (Stereo) | | » | Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand) (Stereo) | | » | I'll Cry Instead (Original Mono) | | » | Things We Said Today (Original Mono) | | » | Any Time At All (Original Mono) | | » | When I Get Home (Original Mono) | | » | Slow Down (Original Mono) | | » | Matchbox (Original Mono) | | » | Tell Me Why (Original Mono) | | » | And I Love Her (Original Mono) | | » | I'm Happy Just To Dance With You (Original Mono) | | » | If I Fell (Original Mono) | | » | Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand) (Original Mono) |
Disc 4
| » | No Reply (Stereo) | | » | I'm A Loser (Stereo) | | » | Baby's in Black (Stereo) | | » | Rock and Roll Music (Stereo) | | » | I'll Follow The Sun (Stereo) | | » | Mr. Moonlight (Stereo) | | » | Honey Don't (Stereo) | | » | I'll Be Back (Stereo) | | » | She's A Woman (Stereo) | | » | I Feel Fine (Stereo) | | » | Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Stereo) | | » | No Reply (Original Mono) | | » | I'm A Loser (Original Mono) | | » | Baby's in Black (Original Mono) | | » | Rock and Roll Music (Original Mono) | | » | I'll Follow The Sun (Original Mono) | | » | Mr. Moonlight (Original Mono) | | » | Honey Don't (Original Mono) | | » | I'll Be Back (Original Mono) | | » | She's A Woman (Original Mono) | | » | I Feel Fine (Original Mono) | | » | Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (Original Mono) |
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When the Beatles catalog was first issued on CD in the '80s, an attempt was made to standardize the releases (which often varied wildly in content internationally) by using their original British format. But this confounded many Fabs fans in the U.S. who now found CDs with track listings that often differed dramatically from their original American LPs. More maddening, the initial four releases were only available in not-so-glorious mono mixes. This four-CD collection of the band's 1964 American album releases finally addresses those concerns, and then some. Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65 have been digitally prepared from Capitol's vintage album masters and presented in both the original stereo and mono mixes released back in '64. This set gives younger fans a chance to finally hear the band's epochal early music in stereo--and should please an older generation by returning massive hit singles like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "She's a Woman," and "I Feel Fine" to their original American album contexts. The booklet contains a wealth of rare photos and concise notes by noted Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
*First Time Ever on CD...Meet The Beatles, The Beatles' Second Album, Something New and Beatles `65....presented in both Stereo and Mono *Compiled from the original U.S. master tapes *Special packaging including original album cover artwork and 48 page collectors booklet
Album Details
Japanese Pressing of the First-ever CD Reissue of Four Albums Originally Released from Us Capitol Records in 1964 ("Meet the Beatles", "The Beatles' Second Album", "Something New", and "Beatles '65"), which Feature Us-original Tracklisting. Each Disc Contains Both Mono and Stereo Versions of Each Album.
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 A Must Have for Any Beatles Fan April 29, 2010
Ken Douglas (Landlocked in Reno)
As I'm trying to review the best records of 1964 and you can't get the Beatles' "Second Album" any other way, but in this package (and that's just plain sad), I'm only going to talk about the "Second Album" here, which I think is one of the best Rock and Roll records to ever come out. From a rockin' "Roll Over Beethoven" all the way thru to "She Loves You" the Beatles sing up tempo rock numbers.
Like most everyone on Earth, well in the free world anyway, I was waiting with baited breath for this record and the Beatles did not disappoint. They were a rock band and this record proves it. That it's substantially different than the British version is a testament to the fact that the real rockin' fans were in America and it's in America that the Beatles rocked. Even though you have to buy the other three records in this set to get the "Second Album", it's okay. All the records are worth having and they're all must haves for any Beatle fan. Still, the suits at EMI should have made the records available individually. That's what I think.
A Great Showcase For The MONO Tracks! April 21, 2010
UncleJesse
Although the stereo mixes of many of The Beatles' tracks were done well, many more were not. I especially detest the tracks that completely divided the vocals from the instrumentation, putting the vocals out in right field and the instrumentation on the left. This sounds very unnatural and often muffles the drums and/or lead guitar, or drops the volume on some of the vocals.
The mono versions of their songs, as presented here, are exactly what I remember from my original and long lost LPs. That great Beatles sound comes together in one single sound blast and hits you square in the face.
The albums in this collection sound great and are worth the purchase, especially if you miss the old mono tracks, as I do.
Other reviewers, however, were correct....and packaging is very poor. The breakaway box containing the 4 CDs (and a rather redundant and worthless booklet) allows the CDs to fall out of the box if it is not carefully opened. The box itself is made of very cheap cardboard. A set containing all of these Capitol gems, and The Beatles themselves, deserve better. It is still worth buying for a true Beatles fan.
This is What I Grew Up With December 11, 2009
Benedict J. Likens (Whiting, IN USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For my eighth birthday, my mother bought me Meet the Beatles, at my official request. I had recently heard the band on WLS AM in Chicago doing "Ticket to Ride." I'd been gifted with that single (which was backed with the beautiful, sad "Yes It Is") along with "We Can Work it Out" b/w "Day Tripper" by the brother of one of my mom's friends. I listened to those singles incessantly, knowing nothing of the cultural impact for which The Beatles had been responsible. I just loved those songs. As "Ticket" played on, I thought to myself, "Gee, these guys are on the radio, so they must be pretty good! From now on, they're my favorite band."
Anyway, back to that eighth birthday present, when "I Want to Hold Your Hand" came blaring out of my little phonograph, it felt like the skies were opening up. Little did I know that it was a duophonic, or "fake stereo" version to which I was listening. Of course, then, I couldn't have cared less about any kind of technical nonsense. I was much too into the actual songs. Well, the skies have remained open to this day, thirty-six years later, and one of the things I absolutely love to do these days is compare the mono and stereo versions of these wonderful songs, because sonically, they're VERY different from each other, and that "technical nonsense" to which I just referred is treated by me now in a slightly more open-minded fashion than before.
When Capitol released these US LP's on CD (in stereo AND mono, no less), I couldn't have been more happy or excited. I could listen to, in pristine form, what I remember these incredible songs sounding like, and compare the mono versions to the stereo versions, which I hadn't been able to do back in those heady days of the early '70's.
Meet the Beatles was the first US LP and, of course, the first CD I put into my player, the which is connected to a sound system that betters my childhood phonograph just a bit (OK, maybe a LITTLE more than that). It didn't disappoint at all. The clarity of the sound is a testament to the care that the Capitol people put into this set overall. It was a little jarring to hear "I Saw Her Standing There" come in in full, unadulterated stereo, but a distinct pleasure, nonetheless. We're back to duophonic for "This Boy," then real stereo again for "It Won't Be Long." Interesting listening, to say the least. On the following CD, entitled simply The Beatles' Second Album, "Roll Over Beethoven" leads off with that layer of reverb to the fore, which the US engineers back in '64 slathered on, and which has been endlessly criticized by professional and amateur listener alike. Personally, I love it. I think it's just the personal memory factor. It just sounds so BIG, like it did back "in the day!" I remember hearing the UK versions of The Beatles' output for the first time years ago (with which the '87 release of the band's material was standardized throughout the world and remains so for the current remasters) when my best friend shelled out the extra money for the imported stereo UK versions, and being slightly put off by the "reigning in," at least as I heard it, of the overall sound of the songs.
Anyway, back in the US, this "Second Album" also has more "fake stereo" cuts on it than its brother recordings in this particular set. Both "I'll Get You" and "She Loves You" are treated with duophonic, and again, it sounds funny to today's more sophisticated ears, but I still get a great kick out of them. The low frequencies in one channel and the highs in the other -- now that's technology! Notice the significant variations between the stereo versions of "Long Tall Sally" and "I Call Your Name" and their mono renderings, particularly in the latter's lead guitar work.
Ready for Something New, the third US release? Notice how "I'll Cry Instead" in stereo is shorter than its mono counterpart (the latter containing a repeated first verse). Notice again the differences between "Slow Down" and "Matchbox" from stereo to mono, again, particularly in terms of the guitar solos, this time in both songs. Overall, bits are added and taken out, and consequently make for fascinating listening.
Beatles '65, the final installment in Vol. 1, is relatively consistent until one gets to "She's a Woman" and "I Feel Fine." I remember being bewildered at the "mushy" quality of these two songs, even back when I first heard the album. I can't help but wonder today who saw these versions as radio-worthy. The mono versions are an ever-so-slight improvements over the terrible stereo versions, but I must say that it's a relief to hear the "normal" sounding "Everybody's Trying to be My Baby" after suffering through the mistreatment of two fine, fine songs. Even today, when I hear the "reigned in" UK versions of these two classics, it's always surprising and refreshing.
I don't really prefer the mono versions to the stereo or vice-versa. I love them both for different reasons. I still listen to this set often, even though the UK versions are sonically superior, especially the recently released remasters -- they're truly amazing! However, the work done on these US versions is also quite impressive, and represent the deserved care that the folks at Capitol are putting into these immortals. I'd like to thank them for issuing this box set. It was overdue, but better late than never, which I thought was going to be the case at one point. My hat's off to you, you Capitol people!
Fantastic on headphones December 10, 2009
E. J. Ryan (South Africa)
Until fairly recently I had no idea the US had different versions of the Beatles recordings, and until very recently the implication of that entirely bypassed me. As a South African, I have only ever known the British versions and had never even seen The Capitol Albums on sale in this country. I came across this in a second hand bin recently and had to buy it.
I was firstly stunned as to how different they are from the UK versions - almost unrecognisable. Secondly, I was stunned at how good they sound. I divide music into two categories: music that can hold my full attention listening to it on headphones, and music I put on as background music while doing something else. Although the Beatles are far and away my top band, because of the quality of the issue (and frankly the fact that I've heard it so many times) excluded it from the headphone treatment.
I've been listening to this (and some other remastered Beatles) and it truely is like listening to it for the first time. There is real excitement. I do occasionally get jarred by some echo that I know should not be there, but it makes for more fun. After all, I could appreciate 'Love' so I can appreciate a few subtle differences here.
I have all the British versions but think I'll mostly be listening to these more. Considering the quality of the Beatles and that there's a finite amount of it, it's one band that's worth buying multiple versions of their limited output.
A fresh listen ! As good as the 09 09 09 remasters ! October 21, 2009
gil (france)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was raised with the British versions of the beatles albums. They are tremendous of course. I recently bought the capitol boxes (Vol.1 and 2) and I was surprised how great the US albums were. Meet the beatles is easily as good as its Brit counterpart With the beatles, and it's nice to have the track This boy on an album. The Beatles US second album has a great and unique rock'n roll feel. The US Help soundtrack is funny and enjoyable, much more a soundtrack for the better and the worse. The US version of Rubber Soul is more folky and that's good for me. The sequencing of the Early beatles US album is better than the Please please me one, with Love me do and Twist and shout as track one and two.
My advice would be to buy the capitol Vol. 1 and 2, even if you already own the new remastered box of the UK albums. It's a fresh listen !
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