Beatles/A Hard Day's Night 180 Gram Vinyl Mono LP (NM)

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TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal

180g Vinyl Mono LP!
All-Analog Remastered from the 1/4" Master Tapes at Abbey Road and Pressed at Optimal in Germany!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated  307/500!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - "Can't Buy Me Love" - Rated  295/500!

"Overall, this is another successful mono reissue, the "analogy" nature of  which should be immediately obvious to you, especially in how the reverb  produces depth and naturally decays. It's slightly less fully fleshed out  tonally compared to the original but it reveals far more detail as "detail" not  as etchy brightness. The mono CD sounds good for a CD but lacks the vinyl's high  frequency clarity and airiness, plus overall it sounds drab compared to the LP.  But you knew that." -Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, Music 10/10,  Sound 10/10!

The 1965 release produced the hit singles "Can't Buy Me Love", "A Hard Day's  Night" and "And I Love Her".

The Beatles in mono: This is how most listeners first heard the group in the  1960s, when mono was the predominant audio format. Up until 1968, each Beatles  album was given a unique mono and stereo mix, but the group always regarded the  mono as primary. The Beatles’ nine U.K. albums, the American-compiled Magical  Mystery Tour, and the Mono Masters collection of non-album tracks are released  in mono on 180-gram vinyl LPs with faithfully replicated artwork and newly  mastered from the analogue master tapes.

In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles’ acclaimed mono albums have  been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road  Studios by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering  supervisor Steve Berkowitz. While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in  2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and  Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology. Instead, they  employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums  and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers.

Working in the same room at Abbey Road where most of The Beatles’ albums were  initially cut, the pair first dedicated weeks to concentrated listening,  fastidiously comparing the master tapes with first pressings of the mono records  made in the 1960s. Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the  precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a 1980s-era VMS80 lathe.

Manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany, The Beatles’ albums are  presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• Mono
• Remastered at Abbey Road Studios
• Newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes by GRAMMY®-winning  engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz
• Faithfully replicated artwork
• Newly mastered from the analogue master tapes
• Manufactured at Optimal Media in Germany

Selections:
Side One:
1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
Side Two:
1. Any Time At All
2. I'll Cry Instead
3. Things We Said Today
4. When I Get Home
5. You Can't Do That
6. I'll Be Back