With the amazing success (both commercially and critically) of The Remastered Beatles Box Sets last year, there are high expectations for the new Lennon Remastered CD Box Set which contains all of his post Beatles albums digitally remastered from the original mixes for the 1st time. It also contains a CD with all of Lennon's non-album releases and another disc with previously unreleased material.
While I certainly do not think John Lennon's solo recordings matched up to the incredible stuff he recorded while a part of The Fab Four, that isn't meant as a slight to his solo career because he did record a lot of great songs after leaving The Beatles. It's just that The Beatles legendary discography is an impossible accomplishment to match.
I am hoping that the Lennon Signature Box's sound quality is as good as the sound quality on the discs in The Beatles in Stereo box set last year. I was (and still am) very impressed by the work they did with those in keeping much of the analog warmth and much of the original dynamics that help make those songs such timeless classics.
These are the 8 Lennon solo studio albums included in the box set:
1970 - Plastic Ono Band
1971 - Imagine
1972 - Somewhere in NYC
1973 - Mind Games
1974 - Walls and Bridges
1975 - Rock 'n' Roll
1980 - Double Fantasy (with Yoko)
1984 - Milk and Honey (posthumous album)
As mentioned above this box set will also include a disc with his non-album singles such as "Power To The People," "Move Over Ms. L," and "Give Peace A Chance."
Probably most exciting to hardcore fans fans who already own all of Lennon's solo albums (although not in their newly remastered form) is the disc which features previously unheard recordings of songs like "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier," "One Of The Boys," "Serve Yourself," and "Beautiful Boy."
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While I certainly do not think John Lennon's solo recordings matched up to the incredible stuff he recorded while a part of The Fab Four, that isn't meant as a slight to his solo career because he did record a lot of great songs after leaving The Beatles. It's just that The Beatles legendary discography is an impossible accomplishment to match.
I am hoping that the Lennon Signature Box's sound quality is as good as the sound quality on the discs in The Beatles in Stereo box set last year. I was (and still am) very impressed by the work they did with those in keeping much of the analog warmth and much of the original dynamics that help make those songs such timeless classics.
These are the 8 Lennon solo studio albums included in the box set:
1970 - Plastic Ono Band
1971 - Imagine
1972 - Somewhere in NYC
1973 - Mind Games
1974 - Walls and Bridges
1975 - Rock 'n' Roll
1980 - Double Fantasy (with Yoko)
1984 - Milk and Honey (posthumous album)
As mentioned above this box set will also include a disc with his non-album singles such as "Power To The People," "Move Over Ms. L," and "Give Peace A Chance."
Probably most exciting to hardcore fans fans who already own all of Lennon's solo albums (although not in their newly remastered form) is the disc which features previously unheard recordings of songs like "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier," "One Of The Boys," "Serve Yourself," and "Beautiful Boy."
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Both The Beatles Mono Box Set and The Beatles Stereo Box Set are "must buys" for serious Beatles fans.
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