By Stephen Pate – The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary ships today and you can save more than $72 off the Deluxe Box Set. In this article you can learn how to save up to $72, and preview the Deluxe Box Set from an authentic fan who explains what’s in each version.
Along with a modern re-mix of The White Album, you can get the Esher Demos, the acoustic first versions of the songs on the album, and studio outtakes.
There are a dizzying number of versions from the basic re-mastered to the Deluxe everything set for the real Beatles fans.
Instant gratification with less expensive download versions from iTunes and Amazon
Along with the multiple versions, you can also save $70 by instantly downloading the Mastered for iTunes$69 6-CD set or Amazon’s MP3 for $66. Since Apple has the Mastered for iTunes versions, I’d go with Apple since they will sound better.
The downloads will of course not have the books, booklets and other swag in the various /cd versions and they don’t have the 7th Blu-Ray disk.
The Beatles (The White Album) [6 CD + Blu-ray]
The Amazon discounted price of The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary Box Set chops $9 off to $129.68. You see the savings at check out.
International links for the various versions are – Amazon Canada, the Amazon UK, and Amazon Germany.
Apple says this “is the first time The BEATLES (‘White Album’) has been remixed and presented with other demos and session recordings. To create the new stereo and 5.1 surround audio mixes for ‘The White Album,’ Martin and Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios in London. ”
Here’s the best run-down on the Deluxe Box Set. This guy is awesome.
The 7 Disc box set includes 6 CD’s including a 2018 re-mix of the album, the Esher acoustic demo tapes of The Beatles recording the songs at home, various outtakes and a Blu-Ray of the digital audio. There is also a 168-page hardcover book about The White Album and various pieces of original artwork.
The Beatles (White Album) Anniversary Edition (7 Disc) (Image Apple)
- CDs 1 & 2: 2018 stereo album mix
- CD3: Esher Demos
- CDs 4, 5 & 6: Sessions
– 50 additional recordings, most previously unreleased, from ‘White Album’ studio sessions; all newly mixed from the four-track and eight-track session tapes, sequenced in order of their recording start dates. - Blu-ray: 2018 mixes
– album mix in high-resolution PCM stereo
– DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 album mix
– Dolby True HD 5.1 album mix
– direct transfer of the album’s original mono mix
Other versions of the White Album Anniversary release
The Anniversary Edition also comes in the other formats and I’ve listed Amazon’s discounted prices.
The Beatles (White Album) (3CD) $23.55
The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary 3 CD
This 3CD ‘White Album’ release includes Martin’s new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original four-track and eight-track session tapes.
During the last week of May 1968, The Beatles gathered at George’s house in Esher, Surrey, where they recorded acoustic demos for 27 songs. Known as the Esher Demos, all 27 recordings are also included in the 3CD Deluxe package, sourced from the original four-track tapes.
The Deluxe 3CD set is presented in an embossed digipak with the fold-out poster and portrait photos, plus a 24-page booklet.
The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary 2 LPs
The Beatles The White Album 2-LP Vinyl $36.09
This is the new stereo mix. The link above is the new release on 2-LP vinyl.
The Beatles The White Album 4-LP Vinyl $83.81
The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary 4 LPs
The deluxe 4LP vinyl set presents the 2LP album in an embossed reproduction of its original gatefold sleeve with the fold-out poster and portrait photos, paired with the 2LP Esher Demos in an embossed gatefold sleeve.
The Beatles White Album
The White Album is the last great album by The Beatles. They worked together as a band on new material.
It has so many favourite Beatles songs many people forget they were originally on the 2-record set. Blackbird, Back In The USSR, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Rocky Raccoon, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road, I Will, Julia, Birthday, and Helter Skelter and more.
John Lennon provided more songs than McCartney on The White Album and we got to see both his edgy rock and sensitive sides. Paul McCartney both rocks out and amuses. For George Harrison it was the beginning of his song writing genius explodes.
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