Beatles/The Beatles (The White Album) 180 Gram Mono Vinyl 2LP (NM)

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180g Double 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   10/500!
 
  "This mono mix though, makes obvious that mono continued to be the   Beatles’ preference. It’s a more masterful and well-blended mix and if you’re   only familiar with the stereo mix you’ll hear many startling differences... In   fact everything about the “Helter Skelter” mono mix stomps all over the stereo   mix—especially the false ending and following start-up (the mono ends about a   minute earlier and before Ringo screams "I Got blisters on my fingers, which is   only on the stereo mix). But those are the gross, easily heard differences. The   more satisfying ones are far more subtle and some only reveal themselves after a   few plays." -Michael Fremer, www.analogplanet.com, Music 10/10, Sound 9/10! 

  The middle of 1968 saw the band busy recording the double album The Beatles,   better known as The White Album because of its plain white cover. Dissension   began to creep in the group during this time period due to Ringo's temporarily   leaving the band and Yoko Ono's (Lennon's new girlfriend at the time) constant   presence during the recording sessions. This was also the time in which   McCartney was becoming more dominant within the group. The double disc album   features "Back In the U.S.S.R.", "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "While My Guitar Gently   Weeps", "Sexy Sadie", and "Blackbird".
 
  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
  • Double LP
  • 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:
  LP 1 - Side 1:
  1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
  2. Dear Prudence
  3. Glass Onion
  4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
  5. Wild Honey Pie
  6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
  7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
  LP 1 - Side 2:
  1. Martha My Dear
  2. I'm So Tired
  3. Blackbird
  4. Piggies
  5. Rocky Raccoon
  6. Don't Pass Me By
  7. Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
  8. I Will
  9. Julia
 
  LP 2 - Side 3:
  1. Birthday
  2. Yer Blues
  3. Mother Nature's Son
  4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
  5. Sexy Sadie
  6. Helter Skelter
  7. Long, Long, Long
  LP 2 - Side 4:
  1. Revolution 1
  2. Honey Pie
  3. Savoy Truffle
  4. Cry Baby Cry
  5. Revolution 9
  6. Good Night