Just a few little side notes about the remixes -
1) Does anyone have any idea why the first 3 songs (Love Me Do, From Me To You, She Loves You) were newly-remixed - but in MONO?
? It seems a ludicrous idea to do that, given that we know that stereo versions of these songs exist (the best mixes of these songs I feel are on The Beatles 1962-1966 Red double-LP), so surely Giles Martin would've had access to the stems to do a nice new stereo remix like he did with the rest of the songs. He obviously did have access to these stems because they certainly have a vibrancy to them, especially 'Love Me Do' in the drum dept - but it seems crazy not to mix them in stereo to give uniformity to the whole album (I Want To Hold Your Hand for instance, has a nice stereo mix).
2) The clipping issues of the original '1' compilation have mysteriously resurfaced. The 2009 remasters were remarkably free of distortion, but these brand new 2015 mixes are full of it. Some of the examples where the mixes are almost intolerably unlistenable compared to the original mixes are:
-A Hard Day's Night
-Penny Lane
-Lady Madonna
-Hey Jude (percussion is wayy too trebly to the point of distortion)
And yet other mixes seem like they've been beautifully maxed for loudness but without inducing clipping, such as the mid-period tunes I mentioned in my previous post, and also the likes of Get Back, Something, Come Together, The Long and Winding Road etc. It's quite mystifying the inconsistency involved in the mastering. You would think they would instantly spot this on first listening, especially Giles who surely must know the anatomy of the original mixes inside out.
But those quibbles aside, it's good to have some new mixes of Beatles songs.
Note to Giles: I would actually like to hear ALL the Beatles albums remixed this way someday!