The Beatles Mini LP SHM-CDs from Japan (Expanded View!) 

Dimitrios Ballas I agree. Missed opportunity, as the replica LPs are brilliant.

The original UK box, you mean?

Would have been nice!

@@MagicalMysteryMike yeah this one!

shekespearecub I appreciate your time viewing and your comments.

Bob F. 🤣! I’d see those guys!

M1Garandstudios all of those releases, from The BEATLES on, are great! The only exception is Yellow Submarine, which has the issue with the misaligned flaps. I feel the same way you do about the In Mono box set Mini LP presentation, and that attracted me to this set. It would be the gold standard, if not for all those quality control issues.

Magical Mystery Mike Yeah it is a shame that it has that issue, I still think the mini LP is nice, just not as nice as it could have been sadly

M1Garandstudios exactly!

A small update, I ordered Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road as well as Let It Be and they arrived recently, all of them are presented fantastically! Even the sleeve of Yellow Submarine looks correct with the fold over flaps being pasted very well. I ordered Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles (White Album) and Past Masters Volumes 1 & 2 SHM-CD's and I am excited to get them. I prefer Magical Mystery Tour in mono myself, but I think the stereo has some nice things to offer like the backwards effects on Blue Jay Way and the way the lyrics of Your Mother Should Know go back and fourth between the left and right channels, so I decided to pick up the stereo Mini-LP copy. Thanks for making this video, because without it I would never have known about these releases! Edit: The SHM-CD's I purchased were from the most recent December 2017 run, so that could explain the more precise Yellow Submarine details on the folding flaps.

M1Garandstudios thank you for letting me know. I tried to find out direct from CDJapan, but got nowhere. I really appreciate the update. While I do not plan on buying them over, I’m glad to know those of you getting them now are getting better quality.

Thanks Stripey!

Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed this vid.

I recently ordered a few of the 2017 reissues of these releases and the flaps were much better than these 2014 issue sleeves seem to be.

M1Garandstudios very happy to hear this. They are overall beautifully done. Too bad the stereo box wasn’t done as the In Mono Box was. This set makes up for that, and I’m glad it’s been issued several times for fans who value this kind of set.

Thank you very much for the kind words. I wish I could say I'm done with The Beatles, but then they release something new and I'm sucked back in.

LOL Yeah me too Mike. This year we got the Yellow Submarine anniversary and then.....The White Album!!! I can't wait to see all the goody's they'll roll out for that one. Should be great! Give peas a chance...

Starship Trooper bring it on!

JAKESTAR105 hey, was looking back over your comment and noticed you have no subscribers or content on your channel. Let me be the first to subscribe in hopes it’ll inspire you to start something, if you’ve considered doing so. Thanks again for your extremely kind comment. It’s probably the nicest I’ve received.

It is a thing of beauty! I really enjoy the Japanese mini LP compact disk format.

royalninja I’m glad you’ve enjoyed it. All the best...

Not for good. I shall return soon.

Indeed! HAHAHA!

Thanks for watching that deep into the video. 🙏 Those three are very well done!

Ken’s Vinyl & Hi-Fi Channel yeah, but overall a very nice collection!

Magical Mystery Mike Definitely agree with you and well worth having in my collection 👍

@@NoMoreHeroesPunkPostPunk Excellent!

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

Hope so.

The best; miss that guy! The Beatles and The Who battle it out for the top spot as my favorite band. This year The Beatles take that spot, and as for The Who ... Got a feelin' '21 is gonna be a good year...

Yes, I saw that they re-released them. I contacted CDJapan to ask if they had corrected the issues with the flip-back flaps. They claimed to not know what i was referring to.

Unbelievable now Japan is giving us Chinesse quality workmanship at Japanesse prices...this was the problems with the bootleg Beatles Mono and Stereo sets....

geno pal I actually contacted CDJapan when these were most recently reissued again. They refused to acknowledge these issues existed. I have no idea if those have the same manufacturing issues, but I wasn’t about to buy them again to find out.

I dont blame you...i have bought bootlegs myself,thinking they were not....sucks.

geno pal these are not bootlegs. They’re real and were purchased through a reputable source. Besides the flaps being misaligned, they’re stunning, which is why it’s so disappointing that this detail was so poorly done.

bombardier each booklet just sits in the plastic outer sleeve, under the obi. It will not fit in the replica mini LP.

That`s great, thanks a lot for your quick clear answer and great videos!

Victor Rossi SHM stands for Super High Material. Supposed to allow for better playback. More expensive than a standard CD, but not crazy. Unfortunately, they are often limited in quantity. I missed the original, so all but one of my set are from an encore pressing. They run these out every once and a while.

Not quite. The cover of the cardboard sleeve edition from the Complete Studio Recordings Stereo Box seems to have been lightened, whereas The Mini LP edition looks a bit more natural.

@@MagicalMysteryMike Can you make a video to compare both stereo and mono versions? I was in a firm belief they just took mono covers 1963-1965 from `The Beatles In Mono` and put `stereo` on them.

You may be thinking of counterfeit copies of Stereo box form 2009. Official Stereo and Mono can be quite different across The Beatles catalogue.

@@MagicalMysteryMike I've noticed that some stereo mini LP covers 2014 are exactly the same as mono ones, when in fact they should be different. Have a look at `Please Please Me`, `With The Beatles`, `Beatles For Sale` and `Rubber Soul` - apart from the mono and stereo labels on the front side there are no more differences (I mean front sides only).

bombardier oh wow, that’s disappointing.

No. No it doesn’t. These are the original UK releases only.

not sure though

😂

No. I wouldn’t say significantly less. Probably about the same.

@@MagicalMysteryMike thanks, this is helpful!

@@MagicalMysteryMike Well, I've finally built the custom CD box that matches the Mono one. I don't think I can post a link to the video here but I've uploaded an overview on my RU-vid page/channel.

Positive. The quality is great besides the misalignment of those flaps. They're 100% legit too. Really disappointing that that one feature was so poorly done.

It’s not technically a box set. The discs were sold separately. The box is generic. Each disc has a catalog number.

I purchased most of the titles from CDjapan.

@@MagicalMysteryMike Thanks for the explanation :)

@@jsjxyz you’re welcome. :)

Interessante!

6 thumbs up, indeed!

bombardier completely agree on all counts.

@@MagicalMysteryMike Glad to hear that, Mike!

Hmmm, I'm not sure about this.

CDs are still big in Japan. They do make fantastic products ... except for those darn fold over flaps. ;)

@@MagicalMysteryMike I think this is only to reproduce the original packagind of the vinyl when it was released. In the Queen mini LP japan releases for example, they do not made this way.

Pequeno Guia do Colecionador Multimídia it’s not the flaps themselves, but the way they were aligned.

I'm honored you watched. Thank you. Keep those Beatles vids, and your positivity, coming!

Wow thank you !!!! :}. And you keep on rockin as well !!!!

No, just SHM-CD.

These discs use the 2009 Stereo Remasters. There are no fake stereo/duophonic mixes contained. In the few rare cases where no true stereo mix is available, the mono recording is used.

@@MagicalMysteryMike Strange. I own a few 2009 stereo remasters, and stream them on sites like Qobuz and Tidal, and numerous songs are in fake stereo. Unless the Japanese SHM-CDs are different?

When you say "fake stereo" are you referring to the original stereo mixes with the funky hard panning?

@@MagicalMysteryMike I guess so? Vocals and guitars to the right, and drums and bass to the left

@David Ness this is just how the original stereo mixes sound. That's how they were released. A remix is required to correct that, where possible. Some individual songs have been remixed as part of 1+, but as albums, other than Yellow Submarine Songtrack, Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, and Abbey Road, the other albums are just remastered. George Martin did also tweek Help! and Rubber Soul for the 1987 release. His "remixes" were also used on the 2009. It all gets a bit confusing.

LP Yes. Each album comes with the corresponding booklet that accompanied the standard stereo CDs released on 09.09.09; however, the CDs are housed in mini LP sleeves. They are out of print, as far as I know, but www.cdjapan.co.jp sometimes offers encore pressings.

I believe they are out of print. cdjapan.co.jp has had several reissues over the years.

I generally do not mention price in my videos. Not necessary. Case in point, you're watching a video posted years ago of items I purchased in 2015. And NO, I do not complain about feminine pads that have wings, my friend. ;)

steve averion www.cdjapan.co.jp/ releases them for short runs at a time.

i am cheese 🤚 Indeed, you may have been the first to watch. Thanks! I hope all is well and you’re staying creative.

Magical Mystery Mike thank you to!!

Always enjoy a good pun!

I'm sorry you feel that way. How do you like the remixes that have come out over the past several years?

@@MagicalMysteryMike the Abbey Road remix and white album remix are both great. The Sgt pepper remix is a brickwalled disaster (the vinyl is great, but it sucks there is no way to get the uncompressed versions digitally) the 2015 "1+" remixes are too loud & compressed on both on the cd/blu ray and on vinyl.

@@Gigidag77 it’s definitely a mixed bag when it comes to The Beatles reissues, that’s for sure. I’m just glad the music gets the attention it deserves and there are a lot of options for fans. I regret not picking up the In Mono vinyl set a few years ago.

@@MagicalMysteryMike yeah same here. I'm really pissed I didn't pick up the full mono boxset when it was still reasonably priced. I only got Pepper.

I love this set. The mini LP format is great! It's a shame this wasn't the universal release.