The Beatles Collection box set product review 

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My dad bought this box set off some guy in 1986. I was six years old then, and it was my introduction to the Beatles. I remember Dad putting on the record and Mum and I sitting and singing the songs. The Beatles are the first band I remember listening to, and they're still my favourite band.

I miss Magical Mistery Tour in the box

This set is a great way to get the stereo Beatles albums in a pure analog form. But besides the downside of "Magical Mystery Tour" not being included, most of the singles aren't in the set (although there are some on the Rarities album. So, if you want the complete Beatles catalog including this set, you would want to get the group's Singles Collection, which comes in a similar looking box as this album collection and then either get their EP collection (again in a similar looking box) or just get a copy of the "Magical Mystery Tour" album or EP.

I had this set plus the EPs and the singles, all of which I sold last year. I'm hardly an audiophile, so I don't really miss them. But they were neat!

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I have a unsealed Capitol Records Box Set issued in 1978. It has the original 12 studio albums and the rarities album. Bought from a guy who worked for a record store.

The UK pressings are the BEST in sound, bar none. I only keep my Capitol pressings for nostalgic purposes. Thanks, Steve Hoffman for turning me on to those. As a sound mastering engineer, you should know. :) As for MMT, the German Electrola pressing or the Horzu are vastly superior in sound and detail.

Fast foward 7 years later and they’re through the roof. I’ve been piecing my own BC13 over the past year. I’m just lacking 2 more.

Before seeing this video, I had no idea this boxset existed. I managed to find a copy of the UK import on eBay for a decent price, and now it’s one of the crown jewels of my record collection. My copy is from around 1986 from what I can tell.

by my way of knowing let it be comes first then abbey road, road feeling and sounding more like the grand climax for the beatles

I had this set once. Sounded amazing. Killer yard sale score man!!

Magical Mystery Tour was only released in 67 as an EP. So it wasn't a full album to be added to the set in the UK. When I bought mine someone had added a copy of MMT. A US copy. LOL It really would have been a cool extra had it been the UK EP.

Great review! I got this box this past December off Craigslist for $120.Mine is really nice condition.Cool that you found one at a yard sale,I never see stuff like that.

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The real reason they never included "Magical Mystery Tour" in the original blue box cos it was never issued as a long playing album in the U.K 🇬🇧 & some other countries including Australia 🇦🇺 cos it was actually issued as a double 45rpm E.P!, but the blue box has now become a sort-after collectors item & is valued around the same price as the newer remastered black stereo box.

I have an Australian or New Zealand set. It includes the US "Rarities". Separately I have the blue -cover "Rarities".

Hi! Bought this set in 1978 in The Netherlands. Price then was 175 HFl, which would now be 79 Euros. Printed on inner sleeve: N41/1/4. Never played them, still in mint condition! All photos and posters present, good quality records.

I bought that Capital records Rarities LP at a Sam Goody store back in 1980, so it was sold separately from the set, at least for a short time anyway because it was there and gone that summer of 80 and they didn't replace it with new copies.

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Interesting set and review!

The British set had a different rarities record, one that had a cover that looked like the blue box, and it also contained a different batch of songs.

Some classic albums there .Great review

I have mine in mint condition and love it. True analog stereo.

Magicaly Mystery Tour isn't included because originally it was sold as a double EP not as an LP but there is actually the Beatles EP Collection as well produced by Parlophone which contains the Magical Mystery Tour

I bought this last month for 350 bucks in mint condition 1982 German pressing. Expensive, but I owned 0 Beatles until now and I figured this is probably the best way to get into it. I love it! I had a chance to compare to the 2012 stereo repressing and holy cow... the blue box is so much better it's ridiculous. I don't know what happened with that black stereo remaster box, but damn... The only thing from Beatles I will EVER buy again is a repressing of the Beatles in Mono (if it ever happens as a box set, individual prices and second hand are making me sick).

I sold mine a long time ago. They had great sound, even the early ones with the two channel stereo, which I liked at the time because I wasn't as familiar with the mono pressings because they never played the mono on the FM album channels, at least not after the 60s. As I said before, it was a mix of Holland, German, and, maybe two British pressings. At the time I got this, the Sam Goody store at the mall had a Mystery Tour import from Germany, different cover but no booklet in the middle, but it had damn great sound, far better than the American version, that is until I heard the original mono copy many years later.

I got this for Christmas back in 1980, but mine was the British Boxed set in an almost identical blue box, with imports of all 13 studio albums. I don't think it included Mystery Tour because that was never a British LP. Mine was mostly Holland and German imports. That's where I got that Holland import of Abbey Road I mention on another video, the one without Her Majesty.

I bought the Netherlands pressing but it had some "ghost" echos on many tracks. Had to return it.

MMT U.K. was a six song 7 inch EP not the U.S. full length LP version

Oh, wow. You came across a true gem! Congrats!

I don't have this but I have the Beatles box which was an 8 lp mail order box set from the U.K. You should check it out because not many people talk about it. I was able to get a used one in nice shape for about $90.

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Nice set! My box is from New Zealand. I bought mine around 1979-80. Anyway, my White Album had, instead of four individual photos, the photos were just one big poster. I wonder if this is the norm for this particular set? In my years of collecting Beatles, I haven’t seen this anywhere else. Plus my box comes apart separately.

Nice score! Magical. Mystery Tour the full album, was a U.S. Only release, that's probably why it's not included. In the U.K. it was a 7" ep.

Quite simple really. I found one of the first Magical Mystery Tour 12" records and added it my boxed set, albeit with 13 (shock horror) albums. I reconciled myself to this by the fact that there were actually 14 records.

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Holy crap man, I immediately looked this up on discogs just out of curiosity and if you say you snagged this at a garage sale, maaaan you have yourself a veritable treasure on your hands. That thing averages for about $250-$300 for a full Parlophone set and upwards of ~$1,000 for Capitol copies. Congrats dude!! Enjoy!

Awesome! Any idea why Magical Mystery Tour wasn't added to the set?

I've got the remastered Vinyl set with book. Rarities is placed into Past Masters one and two, in the box a double album, with a nice book into it. 50000 copys worldwide. Also the black "stereo" cd box (2009) remasters. The Beatles #1 UK/US cd singles box, the regular vinyls stereo and mono, many many singles, Love on Audio DVD, Sgt. Pepper box (4cd/1dvd/blu-ray), 27#1 hits on dvd and blu-ray with 23 extra tracks, 15-12-2017 the christmas singles collection in coloured vinyl and Sgt. Pepper on picture disc, the date of release in The Netherlands (worldwide?). Anthologys, films on VHS, VIDEO-CD, DVD, BLURAY, Eight Day's a Week docu on DVD/BLURAY, Beatles Let It Be Naked CD/Vinyl, Musicassettes, books, books and books. Live At The BBC 1 (normal cd/remaster), Live At The BBC 2 remaster. Best 5 albums? (How Rolling Stone placed them in their Album top 500), 1 Sgt. Pepper (1), 2 Revolver (3), 3 Rubber Soul (5), 4 White Album (10), 5 Abbey Road (14). (#) is place in Rolling Stone 500. # 5 Abbey Road is for me the second after Sgt. Pepper, but it's good so. Like everything what the 4 fab four made. Inspiration of many artists and their music still lives on. "1" best selling album of the 21th century...says enough (regular/2009 remaster, 2015 reremaster/vinyl remaster), 30/47 years after the break! BEATLES FOREVER!

Great job. very informative.

I just bought this set and also the E.P. set both Made in Britain with a gold serial number sticker on the spine of the blue box, but the E.P. set instead of Britain, the sticker/tag says Made in UK. and yes, that paper is the original track list that came with it in US box set, The UK set came with a blue track list and the UK version has some track titles written in german on rarities track list on the blue paper track listings.

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The interesting thing about the Rarities album is in the box set I want to hold your hand and she loves you are in stereo. But when Rarities came out as a single album they put the stereo Trim in versions.

I have the EP box set that came out in the mid-later 80's. At the time I bought it, it was rather expensive, $78.00, but now I see that this set rarely goes for less than $200.00.

Dude that is too cool. I've got quite a bit of beatles stuff in my collection. Most of it is original pressing that I got used. But the only new Beatles record i've gotten is The White Album. but I would love to have that box set that is so cool.

Those who search for "stereo" "Beatles" don't know what they're talking about. The first 4 LPs, as example, were not recorded in "stereo"; they were two-track PRE-MIXED MONO. George Martin explains all that in his "All You Need is Ears".

Personally I'd get the 2012 Stereo box set because it comes with the book which I really want, I'd get the 2014 Mono but I figure since I bought the ones I like separately in mono already I should go for the Stereo. That said I was told the Mono box and the Stereo box have different books so it's something to consider. I would be interested in how many people used the white album poster as an actual poster. I thought about keeping it in the box but eventually I thought, who cares I'll stick it on the wall that's where it's meant to be.

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I bought this in 1986 at what is now Costco for either $79 or $89. I never knew about all the different versions. Mine is dated 3/86. Thanks for the explanation.

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My dad found one on a japanese surplus store for about $75. The former owner never used it because everything is pristine, even the plastic covering. Japan preses though because there are markings on the back that are japanese if that means anything. Still trying to buy it from him for $200... to no avail.

Now, my copy came with this shit!

a friend of mine has this box set and it also came with the song list sheet. looking forward to more Beatles reviews :-)

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I would love to have one of those, but I have never been able to find one at an "affordable" price. The UK pressings sound so much better than the U.S. ones from the mid eighties. I do have all of the MoFi pressings, and those are fantastic. Great video and a really nice find. Take care...

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The set originated with Parlophone in the UK; Capitol merely copied their actions (more or less). The original Parlophone set's "Rarities" (which THEY sold separately shortly afterward, thankfully) was a completely different animal from the different-cover Capitol version issued in 1980. What Capitol included in THEIR "box set" before this was close to the UK version, but whereas the UK version had Sie Liebt Dich and Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Capitol substituted those songs' English counterparts. Capitol's 1980 version, meanwhile, was a laudable effort to issue what was genuinely "rare" in the U.S. market, starting with the then-unavailable Sie Liebt Dich, Misery, and There's a Place. It also heralded the re-emergence of Love Me Do with Ringo on drums - the original single version. Anyway, the UK "Rarities" provided me a revelation when I played its cut of She's a Woman (in mono, as much of the album was): prior to hearing this I'd only heard the muddy U.S. mix of the song, made even worse in that I'd been hearing it on the stereo "Beatles '65" album, where the muddy mono mix was further degraded by being presented in FAKE stereo - BLOODY awful! Just the opening notes of She's a Woman on the UK "Rarities" were a shocking epiphany - THIS glorious thing was what the Beatles had MEANT the song to sound like all along! (BTW the clean British stereo mix is also vastly superior to the U.S. version, and fine in general, but the OPENING NOTES of the UK mono are breathtaking!)

I have this!!!

Dude, you may have been looking at prices for decent condition box sets because this box set is expensive whenever I look at it online. It could go as high as the $1000 and more. I saw used sets for the $200 range. The cheapest I saw online was like $150 or so but it had water damage. Your really found a true gem here. I definitely want to get this! Some countries had different versions for some albums, they used their own version.

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So this has a capital records pressing of please please me?

You should do the new stereo vinyl box set!

Never put a Record player on top of an Amp. Amp's Produce Heat and It will Warp Your Records and would not do Your player much good either. Nice Review.

Cool!

I have one blue box the beatles collection never used, original made in Britain.

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Some singles are lost on the box, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Hey Jude, and others!

Why did this not include magical mystery tour

I'm surprised Capitol issued the UK LPs back then. This box set can get a little pricey on ebay.

They really included Yellow Submarine, but not Magical Mystery Tour.

Why os magical mystery tour excluded?

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The rarities album in the box set contains differant material than the capital rarities album released on it`s own in 1980.

So I supose that this is the best way to get the original '65 stereo mix of Help and Rubber Soul.

My local library has this to rent

you should really really check out Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum, i 99% guarantee you will love it.

For a box set that seemingly represents an opportunity for customers to complete their Beatles collection in one tidy purchase, it's interesting to note that MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is conspicuously absent. If this set is fashioned after the band's UK releases, then Britain's MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR E.P. should have been included as well. It's exclusion unfortunately means that an otherwise complete assemblage of the group's discography is missing key tracks such as "Strawberry Field's Forever," "Penny Lane," and "I Am the Walrus," among others. Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, Also missing in action is the "Lady Madonna" single, along with "I Feel Fine" and "I'm Down." How or why these oversights went undetected is one of the great mysteries of recorded sound...

im just starting to get into vinyl in your opinion whats your personal favorite beatles album ??

Great video! Btw, do you know de actual price of the box? I have one and I thinking about selling it

The British version is the better pressing. British vinyl pressings of Sgt. Pepper and "white album" even in the 80's and 90's still came with the inserts.

So how about any vinyl's for the modern Beatles? I am of course talking about Radiohead. Their new album is fantastic too!

Back in 1979 i had the chance to buy this for $100.00 with several un open albums why i didn't i have no idea

why is there no magical mystery tour in it? its one of their best albums!

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Awesome video man!

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First The Beatles album review, now an Oasis album review to go out with their documentary later this year!!!

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Is there a reason magical mystery tour didn’t come in the box while yellow submarine did

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The Beatle were never in studio to mix the stereo so I wouldn't go as far as saying that these are superior to the 2009 stereo

would anyone here be knowledgeable about how to find your version of the box? Mine shares the identification code on the box with 4 other releases. and because the albums inside are a mixed bag of different pressings I dont know where it originates.

Looks like they are in great condition. I guess I'm gonna have to start stopping at garage sales.

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Was there ever a mono release? The pan on the early albums is too much for me.