Beatles worst to best when??? We need this Anthony

Would definitely love to see Rubber Soul get the remix treatment next. It has some of their greatest songs but also falls victim to the hard-panning issues that Revolver suffered from on the 2009 remaster. In My Life deserves a proper stereo mix.

This is peak Melon. I love when you go deep nerd about production. Still eagerly awaiting to see which Beatles albums are 10s when you do the 60s.

The Beatles never fail to remind me how much I love music. The bass lines on Taxman and Paperback writer slap so goddamn hard it's not even legal.

Just to nerd out a bit more I absolutely love the fact that when Revolver was being recorded it was pushing the limits of what could be done in the studio and now almost 60 years later it was remixed using such brand new technology it’s again at the forefront (For those that don’t know the album was recorded with all the instruments and vocals on 4 tracks and because of Peter Jackson’s AI tech they were able to separate everything out and rebuild the songs this way) And my god the bonus material is what I’ve wanted for so long

I think I just appreciate it finally having a stereo mix that isn't awful

Agreed. Depending on the day Revolver is their best album.

Paul is out of the universe on this album. Rigby, here, there and everywhere, For no one. Insane

Never appreciated the Beatles until I took a class on them in college. I learned so much about their history and why they were a monumental, and one of what I believe to be, best band of all time. Love their music now.

Anthony didn’t mention it, but the new stereo remixes of Rain and Paperback Writer included in this are also fucking incredible. if you really wanna talk about hard hitting bass and drums, they’re probably the punchiest songs for it

tomorrow never knows is such an insane feat of audio engineering

Jack Antonoff nailed the production on this one.

Determining which Beatles’ song/album is the best is just labeling what mood/genre you’re into at the present

One of the extra tracks, the "Actual Speed" version of Rain is f*cking insane.

Always was one of the best Beatles records

The original stereo mixes were so hard panned on some tracks like Taxman. These new mixes sound so much more balanced. Hope they finish the rest of the albums!

1:22 This note is wrong. The Beatles' albums were originally released in both stereo and mono. However mono was the most popular option and the norm until 1967 or so. Also two albums were remixed in the 80s, Help and Rubber Soul. The 2009 stereo remasters are what most people nowadays know, and they use the original stereo mixes, except for Help and Rubber Soul, which use the 80s remixes.

Kinda sad that Giles Martin replaced most of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ with an Island Boys freestyle but you know he’s half of a fifth of the Beatles or something…

The thing that really shocked me about this release is that despite the emphasis on loudness which is endemic in modern remixes of older albums, they managed to keep the soundstage so expansive and lush and added so much detail to every element. For the first time in my life - having listened to this album thousands of times - I heard a new instrumental layer on She Said She Said. Even more than that, the vocal harmonies are so crisply defined that I can actually delineate each individual beatle's part. Same for the instrumentals. Even more than the harmonies, this remix really did Ringo's drumming justice. They really mixed to the goldilocks zone for his crash and ride. I also love the fact that they included the mono cut in Disc 5. Overall, a surprisingly lovely re-release. And the new music videos are also absolutely beautiful.

here, there and everywhere is one of the best songs of all time

Revolver has always been my favorite Beatles album. So excited to listen to this new mix!!!

Crossing my fingers for Magical Mystery Tour but I doubt it, it’s my favorite Beatles project

The Beatles Revolver da 🐐 no 🧢

I'm only sleeping is so underrated, by far my favourite track on this album

I think, regardless of what us nerds think of minute details, having these remixes is a godsend for new Beatles fans. I agree with Mic The Snare's point from his Beatles Discog Dive, the 2009 stereo mixes are so bad, and so alien to any passive music listener, that they might turn off people (kids) who are just getting into the albums. It's fantastic to have modern-style mixes as a starting point.

An absolute godsend of a deluxe. An actual good stereo mix for revolver + the paperback / rain single PLUS those studio sessions & acoustic versions 🥵oh my gah 😍 😳

The greatest album ever made, I'll stand by it til the day I die. This new mix made me cry twice lol

The two discs of outtakes are AWESOME! It's amazing how unassumingly fearless they were with their songwriting process.

It really sounds great. It's a very good remaster/remix, and gives it a modern sound while also sounding absolutely true to the original sound. Not even a diehard fan of this thing.

I like how much fun you or your editor had with this video. It matches your energy for how much fun you had listening to this.

Tomorrow Never Knows is a timeless song. Amazing album.

This albums slaps. Top 10 all time to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

I hadn't noticed the weird panning thing on Paul's voice in Eleanor Rigby before. Also the cellist is crushing it on there

She Said She Said caught me off guard HARD. I've kind of gotten used to it by now but I don't know why it was mixed like that, not even the Mono mix has those levels

9:38 To be fair, Mono is the version the original production was made for.

never got around to listening to revolver before this new release, but wow what an incredible project. Eleanor Rigby and Here, There And Everywhere are two of the most beautiful songs i’ve ever heard.

I loved how dynamic the new mix made the entire album sound, but Tomorrow Never Knows was INCREDIBLE. I've never liked this song as much as I did listening to the new mix.

That’s crazy

I love that they included a new mix for their hit song "It's Okay to Leave a Dog in a Hot Car" can't stop listening to it! 🎶 ❤️

Beatles are obvs my fave band. This new super deluxe felt more dynamically levelled in my opinion. Not always a fan of the idea of mixes in Beatles albums but it worked here

If you never heard it the Grey Album is one of my favorite remix albums. It definitely sounds dated, but the beats and production are super interesting in every track.

Hi, Anthony. Regarding the rhythm section you mentioned on For No One - it’s a double beat of the kick drum throughout. In the prior mixes this was nearly buried by Paul’s bass on the upbeat. Since 1966, I’ve never known about that. It really changes the dynamics as I hear it.

I was really impressed by it and I feel a lot of love for this album. It was the first Beatles album I heard on cassette in the early 2000s as child. My dad got the cd from the library and then put it on cassette tape. Then from 2009 they remastered all the albums and I was blown away. Always been a Beatlemaniac!

1:21 All Beatles albums that have a mono mix were simultaneously released in Mono and Stereo (maybe give or take a month), just until the last couple the Stereo mixing was done without The Beatles involvement.

Let It Be is my personal favourite record from them, with Revolver at a close second. And both of these new mixes have let me fall in love with them all over again.

THE BEATLES ARE GETTING BETTER WITH TIME :)

Giles and team did a stunning job.

The Candyman cometh.

I haven't heard Fantano's videos on the other Beatles remixes, but as an audio professional in the field, it's clear this is out of his wheelhouse. Of course it's his platform, he can do with it whatever he wants, but it does kind of bother me that he's speaking to a captivated audience as if he's knowledgable on something he's not. One of the biggest changes with Revolver was the STEREO MIXES. Revolver was recorded on 4-track tape...for those unfamiliar, in the Pro Tools era today, every individual instrument/vocal or "input" has it's own track. You can tweak it as you like, change the level as you like. They did not have that luxury back then. Multiple instruments got recorded to a single tape, multiple tapes got bounced down... This album never got a true stereo remix because all we have today of the recording sessions is the four-track master tapes, where many instruments live on one tape. However, Giles Martin got permission and help to use the outstanding AI software used for the Get Back documentary, which learns what each individual instrument sounds like. It goes, "oh, this is what John Lennon sounds like," and removes that from the master track so you can edit it individually. It's impossible. It's like pulling pen ink out of a paper; it should be permanent. Or that's the way it's been for years, but it seems like that's all going to change. What I hear on the new Revolver mixes is instrument separation like never before. I GASPED the first time I heard the new Eleanor Rigby mix. The strings were a whole piece before, one thing sitting in the track. But when that song came on, they all hit me--INDIVIDUALLY, in different spots than my brain remembered. It's insane. What did Anthony have to say about the track? "The strings maybe have a little compression?" The ENTIRE fucking sound of the original mix was compression. This was the album that made compression the sound of rock. It's been established as such for years. It's an industry reference point. The new mix didn't "add compression," it breathed life into things. He may have had some good insights later--I didn't make it past song #2. I just couldn't believe what he wasn't hearing.

I totally agree, although I like to hear recordings as they were mastered originally I do think as years and years go by the more I wish Revolver wasn't so high endy so I'm glad we have another version to listen to in the car that packs more of a punch

If you want another great remix of a classic album, I heavily recommend the new remix of Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables by Dead Kennedys that Chris Lord-Algae did.

Finally, my left ear can now appreciate the verses on Eleanor Rigby

Fantano looking like Billy Shears himself with the mustache

Hey Anthony I know this will get buried but I’ve never watched your videos, but I like what you said about this album. From one music nerd to another I am glad you are making these videos. Only one thing, On Tomorrow Never Knows the sitar noise is actually a reverse guitar solo. Harrison wrote the music he wanted, played it in reverse and then they played the tape backwards so that they could get that sitar noise but cleaner

3:49 this coupled with the new Paint music video rly tripped me out earlier and I just now realized it’s because of the new mix lol

I wish you would talk more about old music

Finally, after 60 years, I can have an opinion on the mix of this record.

Great review mate. The droning instrument on Tomorrow Never Knows is actually called a tanpura.

Just a note about your note at 1:23 : At the time the Beatles albums were released both in mono and stereo, but the recordings were made with mono in mind, that’s why the first stereo mix is that weird (and because there were only 4 individual tracks). So the 2009 version on Spotify isn’t a remix but a remaster of the original 1966 stereo mix

Tax Man is one of my fav songs of all time

For No One is one of the greatest songs ever made

I will, however, gladly give you well deserved kudos and great big smiles for your pretty clever and funny video effects (FX, to be quasi hip), particularly the "being IN the piano" part. That was really cute and clever and funny. Nicely done.

So great to check all these great albums I overlooked so long. Revolver is a masterpiece.

Giles Martin did a fantastic job with this and I'm interested to see if the technology he used can be used for other bands and artists

Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds like the future. One of the greatest albums ever.

Great review! Just got my copy yesterday and no complaints here.

I just recently got some decent headphones for the first time in my life, and listening to Eleanor Rigby and actually hearing the strings coming from all different directions is so incredible.

Revolver was Paul McCartney's finest hour

I'm surprised you didn't mention the fact their singles Rain and Paperback Writer were included and remixed! I hadn't heard the songs before cuz I had never explored any of their singles, I was interested in what you had to say about their new mixes

Here there and everywhere is probably the most nostalgic song in my entire life. We have this home movie where it’s that song over a bunch of clips of me and my sister as like 3-4 year olds and I used to watch it as a kid when I’d feel sad or anxious

The editor's note at 1:17 is wrong. Every Beatles album up to and including the White Album came out in mono AND stereo. The original 60s stereo mixes have been the "standard" versions of most of the albums pretty much since the end of the 60s, even though the mono versions were the standard ones IN the 60s. The new remixes aim to improve on those 60s stereo mixes, which had some quirks and limitations based on the technology of the time.

Revolver is the best Beatles album, ever

Good to see the love of Beatles being honored, as long as there are ears to hear there will be fans of this band. Long live rock

wish you had remarked on the new mixes for paperback writer & rain too. some of their best singles from this era, & this redux really did them justice. overall though i think this release was a great balance of respecting the original intentions of the engineers who did the first mixes while also providing some great balance with the stereo imaging. more pared back than the in-your-face modern re-imagining we saw in the last few super deluxe packages. much respect to peter jackson & the team who designed the crazy AI tech that made this possible. i’ve been listening to this album since i was 5, & without any context, i always loved how dramatic the panning was. & after studying audio & doing mixing of my own, i still love the super dramatic originals. you can almost see the engineers turning the knobs. so i was kind of nervous going into this one, but this was a fun experiment and i love it. a lot of these legacy artists seem to feel the need to keep pumping out anniversary editions & such to stay relevant, but i really hope the beatles just leave it at this. i don’t know what else they could do that would make it worth it.

I waited a full month for the remaster and was not disappointed

I agree with your overview. It would be dope to hear your thoughts on the Pink Floyd - Animals remix that came out not too long ago.

I love this new version of the album. This 2022 mixes are top notch. HOWEVER the original Mono version will always be King 👑

actually abbey road was the first beatles album mixed originally in stereo. source from “recording the beatles.” that’s why it sounded inconsequential compared to the others. the mono mixes have always been held in higher regard by the engineers that recorded them because that’s where they put all their energy in and these new remixes were taken from the mono tracks.

So when are we getting a Beatles tier-list/worst to best?

R.I.P Takeoff, feel surprised Fantano didn't make a video addressing it but respect to the dead man regardless

It's really getting better all the time 🙏

Not mentioned here but I think the best remix on the set is Rain (on the "EP"). Doesn't sound different at first, but when you A/B it again the previous stereo mix, it's a revelation. (Which I think is exactly what you want here -- not obviously different from what you know and love, until you actually check.) It sounds significantly clearer without losing the hazy trippy quality of it. I'm guessing that track originally may have suffered from whatever they did to the tape to slow it down and then combine it with the regular speed vocal take, or something, but it finally sounds as clear as you would want it to sound. One thing working against this set as a whole is that there are quite a few key songs that have already been remixed pretty well (Yellow Submarine, 1, etc.) That was also true of Sgt. Pepper but there was a lot more contention there with the differences between the stereo & mono versions. So it felt so great to finally have the full album in stereo and not botched. Whereas this one, it's definitely better, just not as exciting. I do disagree about Helter Skelter though. I always wanted something more from the original stereo mix, and I felt they finally nailed it with the new one. Finally hit as hard as I wanted it to.

I've had a beetle infestation at my home for years now and while I've never done anything to curtail it, I'm not going to encourage it with this band either. Thank you very much, Anthony.

Fantano + Beatles always ❤

I never thought being able to separate those old masters into stereo would ever be possible. We are truly living in the future.

Strawberry fields has amazing drum fills from Ringo

I love the new mix. For most songs I think they made it sound better. Can't wait for a new "Rubber soul" mix!

I think this is the biggest mustache melon has ever had, straight up walrus mode

I'm Only Sleeping sounds AMAZING!!!

You should do a quick review for the ones you missed (including Sgt. Pepper's) and include them all in one video. I think it would do well in terms of views, even if it's not recent

The "Rain - Take 5 / Actual Speed" track is insane. Ringo is going insane and Paul is absolutely rippping.

Really great album. I'm still obsessed with it

nice to see anthony getting an honestly nevermind shirt

Revolver my fave album in their catalog

One thing I wish you touched on is the remix of "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" both of which to me are the best remixes of the whole package and might become my goto mixes for them. One thing I'm glad you mentioned is the clarity which is true, but some of that clarity came at the price of separation, which hurt a couple tracks. Most glaring was "She Said She Said" which feels so clean it sounds cold sterile, kinda like it was layered instead of played together. At least that's how my ears heard it. There are some great l remixes, but if I'm going to listen to the album as a whole I'll take the original mix, but as for the non album single & B-side... Definitely the remix.

Revolver is absolutely amazing excited to watch this

Hopefully a Beatles tier list soon!

Bro I'm so high and just hearing melon talking about the Beatles almost like they just dropped a brand new hot mixtape is WILD to me

i agree helter skelter was gunked up with the remix of the white album, id love to hear your thoughts on my fav beatles album

I love how the 2022 remaster makes the decision to leave in the mistakes as well. At the end of Good Day Sunshine you can hear the drum track literally come to a screeching pause on the 4-track reel. Rather than erase this defect, the remaster makes it even more obvious. I think that’s a very cool thing.