The Beatles-The Beatles (1968)

 


Artist: The Beatles

Title: The Beatles

Label: Parlophone/Apple/Capitol

Format: 2XCD

Catalog Number: CDP 7 46443 2

Year of Release: 1968

Country and Year of Edition: US mid 90's issue with double jewel case

Sell Price:$6.51

Sell Date: 7/12/26

Condition: VG+/VG+  

Discogs Last Sold: 7/5/26 NM/VG+ $4.50

Low: $1.99

Median: $4.99

Average: $5.51

High: $15.84

Current low price: $4.50 VG+/VG+

Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 58

Have/Want: 3087/619

Where Sold: Vancouver, WA

Time It Took To Sell:  3 years

Where and When Bought: Facebook CD $2 lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No 

The Beatles never go out of fashion in terms of selling things and that includes whatever edition or configuration you put on Discogs.  In this case, the 80's White album CD that came in two single cases packaged in a longbox was revised by mid 90's into a double CD case with a white border.  This became the standard bearer until 2009 when the box set housed everything in a Digipak and reissued everything freshly remastered.

As for me, I pieced together my first copy finding disc 2 at a yard sale for 50 cents on the Apple lable without a cover in the early 80's, then a year or two later finding the first album in a cover with a sticker containing all the song titles on the cover.  This beat up hybrid went for 15-20 bucks some years ago, but I still have a bunch of 8-tracks laying around of tape one and two without the housing box.  The first CD issue of this was bought straight away in 1987 when the remasters came out in batches to avoid the fate of the Stones dumping everything on the market all at once.  These were initially issued as EVENTS, befitting of the fundamentally greatest catalog known to recorded music.

The record of course is top tier Beatles, easily in my top 5 from the days my buddy John cranked HIS 8-track of the first half out the window with one speaker.  I woke up wide awake at 4AM today, so decided to listen to this start to finish in headphones to see if there were any surprises in this mastering.  The bass that you don't really hear on record is the thing that tends to stand out a little more listening this way.  That may have more to do with capacity mastering than remixing, but of course George Martin overhauled this bit by digital bit in 1987 with every hair examined.

Every track on this has purpose from Lennon's hated "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da" to the "Revolution No. 9" and "Good Night" ending.  Even "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"  For whatever reason, that seemingly slight toss off track was the one that stood out for me today.  On an album of so many tracks I focused on in my early years of familiarizing myself with the music all the way through complete immersed knowledge, I never really sat back and pondered those lyrics.  

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