The Beatles - "Please Please Me" (2009 Mono & Stereo Remasters) Comparison

This video is a side by side (one after another) comparison of The Beatles song "Please Please Me" from the newly remastered mono and stereo box sets. Originally released in 1963 Please Please Me was the Beatles first album.

If you listen to both you'll notice that on the stereo version Paul flubs a line near the last chorus and John responds by laughing during the beginning of the chorus. That part was never on the mono version, to my knowledge anyway.

This is my first video so please let me know what you think and how I can improve in the future, with my limited tech capabilities.

Music copyright of EMI Records Ltd.
Pictures copyright of Apple Corps. Ltd and Angus McBean

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Music

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• The Beatles
• Please Please Me
• Mono
• Stereo
• Box Set
• Comparison
• British Invasion
• Paul McCartney
• John Lennon
• George Harrison
• Ringo Starr

[plangentmusic]

Nice posting . Thanks

[spiritoradio]

No prob.

[kanzosupremo]

how come the back picture of the please please me lp has capitol records logo on it i thought that capitol didnt release this album

[spiritoradio]

The pic that I used is the one from the CD stereo remaster. I believe that Capital/EMI owns the distribution rights to the Beatles albums. Originally Capital just picked and threw together songs and released them as albums, like "The Beatles IV" in the US.

[tripleJ1955]

Stereo mix splits the sound stage, mono mix fills it up nice.

Mono's my choice, on this song anyway.

[SymphonyOfDestruct99]

why they released in both mono and stereo remastered? fans will go crazy to make decision.

[hpeche]

The Beatles and others back then considered stereo a fad - hi-fis, transistor radios, car radios were are mono. So they concentrated on the mono version and left the stereo to the engineers who need a product for America or the record company catalogue. So the versions are often quite different - different takes, mixes, and so on - all thru the albums depending on the whims of the engineers when they mixed the stereo versions. And the stereo is primitive - listen to If I Needed Someone.

[jdenicholls]

The mono version is a bit "harder" and sounds less produced in my opinion. All the instruments hit you with more punch and it sounds less smooth. Which is personally how I prefer it.

[govrom12]

Mono or stereo, it doesn't matter because this song and everything the Beatles put out is still so much better than the crap that passes for music today.

[DDRaHolic]

I think it's so fascinating that artists cared so little about stereo back then that they would release a flubbed line as the master, and by 1968 they didn't even make mono versions of certain songs, like Revolution 9!

[Matrix803]

I actually prefer the stereo version. I like the "spacey" quality it has. It actually sounds a little clearer, and I could pick out the instruments better. ^^

[akeel456]

The stereo version is frustrating, for me anyway. Wearing headphones, the vocal is restricted to the right headphone and I feel like I'm sitting in a big blank space.

Thankfully, I brought the mono box set. ;v

[kinkcobra71]

i prefer mono!!!!

[paulfuckinmccartney]

Both great. Sony earbuds do the stereo justice. And I'm a bass guy and the bass is more prominent in stereo so stereo gets my vote

[tomster927]

No question the mono is much better. And that's true of a lot of their early songs.