The Beatles 'Red & Blue' 2023 Remix - Review
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The 2023 remixes of The Beatles Red and Blue albums represent an exciting and game-changing development of how we listen to the Beatles' music.
0:00 - Background
1:21 - Compilations & Remixing
3:53 - NordVPN
4:55 - Red vs Blue
6:11 - Bad Stereo
7:02 - The problem with Mono
8:39 - General Improvements
9:58 - Review of the Remixes
23:31 - Outro
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I’m not a Beatles fan as such- I’m a very casual (and very occasional) listener, but I’ve had these on non-stop for a week. They sound thrilling. I can’t tell whether that’s just because the music is so great or if it’s the new polish. Or both.
But listening has been an absolute joy.
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" had always been on the Blue Album, you show the song sheet next to when you say George only had three songs.
Yeah nah.
Some of the remixing is not as good as the original remastered.
"Now and then" doesn't even rank with "Twist and shout".
@@Warmo767demo of Now and then is better....
Pretty sure Andy white is also on please please me and ps I love you, not ringo.
new remix of if i needed someone is goat-tier
Big fat agree
FINALLY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!!!!
It’s fantastic! We really need a full Rubber Soul remix
cant wait for the rubber soul 23 mix
Have not been able to stop listening to
I was listening to the blue album in my car on the way to work this morning, and Magical Mystery Tour came on. I actually exclaimed out loud to myself "THERE'S A GUITAR IN THIS???"
45 years of listening to that song, and I never really noticed the guitar.
The Beatles are the gift that keeps on giving.
Yeah. It's too obvious, though. It should have stayed buried imo.
Yeah, same
@@ThisBirdHasFlownwym?
@@ThisBirdHasFlown Since when is "too obvious" a form of criticism for music?
@jonashormann5700 subtlety goes a long way, it's like when a record could be overproduced for example. How is it not a valid critism? For me personally I don't really care
Don't think that your clothing choice went unnoticed, Elliot. Red shirt and blue t-shirt. Subtle yet deliberate.
My dad passed away in 2019 and had the original release from the 70s of these. He would always listen to them still when I was a kid, and they're what made me become a Beatles fan myself. Sadly, they got damaged when we moved back when I was in high school. So when I heard that, they were getting rereleased. I just jumped on pre-ordering these new copies and maybe play them for my kids one day. If I ever have any.
I sorry for you lost
From just another random commenter - it's really cool to read of that lovely connection you guys had, and in a sense, have now enriched. 🙂
The difference between a young, perceptive person such as yourself reviewing these albums and the 50 plus Nay-sayers is truly thought provoking. This is by far the most informative and motivating review I have seen so far ❤
Thank you!
52 year old here and AMEN mate. I love these albums remixed. The older songs sound really fresh.
The mixes on the updated Red & Blue releases are amazing, and makes me want an official Rubber Soul Remix even more.
I'm sure it's coming soon.
Soon might not be soon enough for some of us.@@moviemaestro800
The remix of Hard Day’s Night is so spectacular I didn’t even realize Ringo going ham on the bongos in the original 😭
I think an underrated song on these albums is the new mix of "You Can't Do That". The backing vocals just pop so much more, and the "everybody's green" bit just goes even harder.
I always thought that lyric was “Everybody’s Grieving “ 😅
the drum fills on the new mix really kicks!!
My mom always pictured the Peanuts Gang dancing to that one.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the new mix of You Can't Do That, holy cow does that mix bring such an unbelievable punch. Best mix of them all in my opinion
Oh my god, completely agree. What a tune.
The harmonies on the early songs sound excellent. Appreciating each of their voices singing together is my favorite part of Beatles music
This makes it all the more tragic that if I fell was not included in the new release 😢
Ringo's drums sound AMAZING on the new mixes. I'm convinced he's been secretly funding AI development for the past 50 years to finally repudiate everyone saying he was only a so so drummer.
Well he’s no Tony Meehan is he.
Damn right he is a so-so drummer! As a matter of fact, he is not even the best drummer in the band: Paul is!
His drumming is pretty much the engine of the songs, always keeping it moving. Always on the beat, Always knows what kind of drumming fits a song.
@@The_One-Eyed_Undertakerringo is objectively superior in every single way
My parents had the red album. As a young boy growing up in the 1980s I made sure we played it all the time. Then in the 1990s on a high school trip I bought a cassette tape of the blue album, probably only my third or fourth ever album purchase. Listening to my walkman on the bus, hearing Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane for the first time, I was hooked forever.
22:18 *Minor mistake, While My Guitar Gently Weeps was actually on the original version of "1967-70"; And because of that, There where actually 4 songs on the Blue album when originally released
So refreshing to hear someone who’s a fan of and praising these reissues, rather than being a bitter old gatekeeper angrily clutching on to their original mono copies (which most of us can’t even acquire since none of them are in print and clean originals are prohibitively expensive). These new mixes sound phenomenal and certainly miles better than the original stereo mixes IMO. I fully enjoyed every single second of spinning each disc. 😊
I've watched dozens of Red & Blue 2023 reviews. But they were just place holders. This is the one I was waiting for. Excellent stuff as usual Elliot. Congrats on 100k subs. Well deserved.
He’s the only CZcamsr I will listen to/watch when it comes to Beatles material
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" has always been on the blue album...
Great video. I completely agree that these new mixes are not only a massive thrill for old Beatle- heads like me, but absolutely crucial for younger listeners.
The old stereo mixes sound abysmal through headphones.
Paperback Writer and Taxman are particularly bad.
Thanks for your hard work
✌️
Beat me to it
Thanks to Giles Martin for this creation in the front yard.
Also, Within You Without You is a George track.
An aunt from my mother's side had the blue and red albums, and when I was about 7 that was my first real listen to the Beatles, quietly with my head buried in the speaker while the grown-ups were talking. Then I discovered that an uncle from my dad's side had them, too, making me think well, if so many people have these albums, and I like the music, there must be something in this. That was over 45 years ago and now not a week goes by without me listen to something Beatlely.
Thank you, Elliot, for your great videos and insights. I enjoy them tremendously.
Of all the Beatle CZcamsrs, your channel is by far the standout. Informative, genuine, and accurate. Well done.
Listening to the older songs remixed honestly felt like I was hearing them for the first time again. Giles Martin did a wonderful job and man I cannot wait for Rubber Soul and Help! remixes!
I DID grow up with the Red and Blue albums in the 90's, and looking at the track sequencing - how each song leads into the next, and which songs start each side - it brings back memories that this was actually my first introduction to their catalog.
Also, every single one of these Giles Martin album remixes has been life-changing for me as a huge fan of Ringo's drumming. That bit in the new mix of Please Please Me that you highlight at 11:08 gave me full-body chills the first time I heard it (and continues to!), and I still remember crying at how beautiful the drums sounded on Long, Long, Long when I listened to the remixed White Album after it first came out in 2018. It's so exciting seeing those drum parts shine in new ways with each new mix that's released.
I was struck for some reason by your comment that you got into the Beatles through the '1' and 'Love' albums. As a member of an older generation who experienced the Beatles 'as they happened' through the 1960s, it's always a slight shock to imagine people hearing the Beatles for the first time through those compilations, decades after their time. Of course anyone under 60 years old has to experience them in that way, but your comment just struck a chord with me. 🙂
I realized I can't really know how their music sounds when approached that way. I think of the Beatles very sequentially, how they sounded in 1963 and how they changed every year through the rest of the 1960s. It's wonderful that people still appreciate their music, but it's also hard to know exactly how they are hearing it. Does it sound the same to all of us? Are we hearing the same things? How do we hear the different eras?
I basically still experience them as 'revolutionary'...the excitement of the new that so many songs conveyed, whether it was 'Twist and Shout' and 'She Loves You' in late 1963, or 'Strawberry Fields' barely 3 years later, and I still often hear (and relive) that newness and excitement when I listen to many of their tracks. That obviously can't be the same for someone listening to them several decades later - it must be the simple quality of the music that attracts them, but I'm not sure that I hear them that way. Interesting (?). 🙂
I do like most of the new mixes. They bring the songs into the modern era and inject new life into them, while still being completely recognizable as the original recordings.
Just a random ramble on my part...I enjoy your insights.
I´m 23 and i also deep on the Beatles on the 1 album, its pretty good for knowing the most recognizable songs, then you can just delve into your favourites, mine is the Antology 2-3
I grew up on the red and blue albums. They were my introduction to the beatles and were constantly in the CD player of my moms car. Hearing these new remixes takes me right back there in the best way and I'm so excited for it!
You Can't Do That and Magical Mystery Tour really blew me away. So glad to see If I Needed Someone.
Magical Mystery Tour is one of my favourite Beatles tracks, so I'm so happy it's sounding better than it ever has before. Twist and Shout is another one of my favourites, but it's now competing with Please Please Me purely thanks to this remaster!
I always enjoyed those mixes with two instruments and lead vocals in one channel and two instruments plus backing vocals in the other channel. As a youngster it helped me appreciate the different instruments being played when I could separate them.
Getting to hear these tracks remixed has been a DREAM. I'm in full agreement on being as excited as I was for the Red Album more so than the Blue Album, and hearing how the new stereo mixes for their earliest stuff is so cathartic. I actually hadn't heard about the mixing troubles with "I Am the Walrus", and it does make a lot of sense as to why it feels strangely muddled compared to the other tracks. This is especially baffling because in my opinion, I thought they NAILED the mix they did for the "Love" album, which not only preserves the sound quality, but maintains all the elements so nothing feels overshadowed... versus the new mix, where the orchestra completely got lost in the cacophony of radio sounds, which I was disappointed by.
But other than that, I love these new mixes! I'm curious as to why they didn't include "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" when "Now and Then" got the special inclusion treatment, but I'm just happy with the treasure trove they already gave us. :D
I think the reason why we are alive and free as a bird was not included as I think you’re going to be remix for the anthology which does need remixing and expanding and we do need an audio version of real love and free as a Bird cleaned up since it’s available on the oneplus from 2015 those two songs.
I’m so glad I’m not the only who thought the same thing about the I am the walrus mix. I think because THE George Martin worked on the Love mixes they sound the way a Beatles song would sound if it was made with modern production
@@McMastersofficial I love that I am the walrus remix I think that’s the best remix ever it’s fantastic just as great as the love mix and I love the radio coming through it’s fantastic
Real love and free as a bird sucked IMO. The new one is actually good.
"Love" was Remixed by Paul Hicks.
22:36 I know quite a few other comments have pointed it out already, but “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” *was* already included on the original Blue album. You can easily tell which songs were added by looking at the 2023 Vinyl track listings. - all of the new tracks for each album were added to the last LP disc (sides 5 and 6) in each set.
I was listening it all in my car radio and it is OUTSTANDING. My gf and i were so mindblown with the quality of the tracks that we didn't said a word during the whole trip. We just sat there and listened to it quietly as i drove. Of course when I got home I started to listen to it in my headphones
Really excited that the stereo remix series can continue! Even if I don’t love every single song, it’s been a fascinating project
I'm a pretty new Beatles fan (started listening to them in May this year) and even though I have already listened to all their studio album I always had an intrest in listening to the Red and Blue albums and I was especially excited when they announced the new mixes! I can't wait till I can get my hands on them!!
I love most of the remixes on the red album tbh. I do love the Magical Mystery Tour remixes as well
I'm sitting here listening to the remixed Red Album for the first time and I am hearing things I didn't even know existed in the prior versions of these songs. As a Beatles fan who actually saw them play on the Ed Sullivan Show back in the day this is really quite exciting. The remix shows just what good musicians they were on their respective instruments!
The magical mystery tour movie is one of my favourite movies.. ever
I ADORE 'Old Brown Shoe' ! IT'S SO CLEVER and Paul's bass work is for the ages. Yet, while it's crisper, there's mixing errors with volume and seperation at 34 seconds in. Giles splits up what apparently fixes to George's riff into right and left channel tracks at tragically different volumes, whereas the intention is to put all George's guitar on one track to cover up the fixes. To me and millions of others, this is an important song in George's canon. Compare 2023 with Past Masters Remastered versions. I think you'll be surprised and somewhat disappointed at the error, like so many of us.
I really hope they mix all the albums like this, pleaseeeee
Your red/blue attire isn’t missed … great overview! Your choice of sound samples is just what I needed to send me shopping for a new addition to my Beatles collection. Thank you!
I heard the Love me Do remix the day before the video for Now and Then came out. I almost cried, it was as if I was listening to it for the first time, I jumped back nearly 30 years to when I heard it on my Walkman non stop. I can't say exactly why, but it created that feeling of "first time experiencing something"
Exciting video!
I was blown away by the sound of those early Red songs. Oh my gosh - I’m in the room with the Beatles playing live!
I just love the clarity of these mixes. All instruments and voices are clean and sharp and the stereo spread is bloody brilliant. The bass and drums, the 'engine room', really knocked my socks off and I've been listening to the band for all but fifteen of my seventy-five years. Great job, Giles!
Recently go into the Beatles just before now and then, loving your videos as an introduction!
Has Peter Jackson entered “The 5th Beatle” conversation?
Yeah yeah yeah!
The first Beatles album I owned as a kid in the early 1980's was the Red Album, so this was like coming full circle. Everything was a revelation, across both sets.
But the greatest moment, for me, was listening to one of my all-time favorite tracks, "The Long and Winding Road", a song of love, abandonment, and yearning written by Paul... immediately followed up by "Now and Then", a song of love, abandonment, and yearning written by John. Those two together keep bringing me to tears having provoked a full-on catharsis regarding my father when I first heard them, so now I tread carefully. But damn... 'effing BEAUTIFUL.
just want to say on behalf on my fellow Beatles fans in the comments, watching your videos is a great time. Feels just like discussions with my friends talking about this amazing band . Thanks from the UK
Great review. I only just clocked that Paul's brother Mike is in the "All You Need Is Love" recording and video.
I've never really taken the chance to appreciate their older songs, so I love this how this video is making me appreciate these new mixes. Thanks Elliott!
Fantastic video (as always), Elliot! I've also been really loving the remixes, even showing my mom and friends how heavenly "Magical Mystery Tour" sounds! They loved it!
Truly LOVE the I Am The Walrus remix. I actually jumped a bit when Ringo’s drums came in as I didn’t expect them to be so powerful. And I also love the leaning in on the tape collage.
I didn’t like the Hey Bulldog remix though. It sounds off in a way I can’t explain.
For me, the problem with the new “Hey Bulldog” mix is that it’s too centre-right heavy. There’s very little action in the left field, only the piano really, which makes it sound out of balance. There aren’t too many layers to the song, so it’s a difficult one to balance perfectly, but I think the “Yellow Submarine Songtrack” mix got as close as possible with the piano and drums together on the left, killer lead bass alone on the right (sometimes joined by lead guitar) and vocals in the middle.
Love the new Blue (Magical Mystery Tour was previously a song which I’d previously thought pretty ordinary by Beatles standards, but the new version is…wow!!!) but it’s the Red which has blown me away…everything about it is great but it’s really the Paul and Ringo show…Ringo’s drums always sounded great but now they’re extra great, but the revelation to me is Paul’s bass…it just packs such a massive punch, you don’t just hear it, you actually feel it.
Hello. Thanks for all your reviews. I'm a huge Beatles fan from age 6, and I'm now 55! A lot of people are putting down these new mixes in reviews, but I think they are expecting the old mixes, just better. I am listening from Giles Martin's perspective of "modernizing" them. I hear complaints about too much bass, but honestly even the Beatles wanted more bass - and it's still well balanced with the other instruments and vocals. One reviewer said She Loves You sounds flat - that's just incorrect. It sounds amazing! I love the drums being more out front. People complain about hearing bongos in Hard Days Night - I've always heard them. Now they actually sound like bongos! Even I am the Walrus: I like that it's different, shorter, less repetitive-and hearing the radio parts as never heard before. I enjoy it all! My favorites: Day Tripper, Hey Bulldog, Magical Mystery Tour, If I Needed Someone, Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man!! Too many to mention. And I think Now and Then is such a great song - I judge a great song when it stays in your head for days & days. In 1984 I started a band called Now & Then - full circle...
my...GOD!! Magical Mystery Tour sounds so good. Punchy drums, the harmonies being so open, George's guitar now seperated from the acoustic and panned to the right. So cool!
i love the comparisons between the mixes! i was doing that back and forth when they came out, but it's nice to have them organized like this :D thanks for another great video, elliot!
You are only one to mention the difficulty for Giles Martin at the end of Walrus. Explains a lot. I don't mind the new ending but some are furious about it.
I personally love the new mix of "I Am the Walrus". It sounds so much fresh and powerful and immersive while retaining its ahead-of-its-time and out-of-this-world character, and the new prominence that the radio broadcast has in the ending left me speechless, as you can hear the excerpts of King Lear intertwined with news broadcasts from across Europe (for example, at 4:17 there's a French news broadcaster that says "...les affaires du Viêt Nam...", which can be translated to "the situation in Vietnam"), capturing the sheer chaos of the era. Absolutely brilliant!
Well said. I think it's great too. And we can always go back to earlier versions if we want to hear the old ending - but this new ending works & is very cool.
Not only do I think they should remix every Beatles album before Revolver, my hope is that lots of sixties and even fifties music gets this treatment, like Elvis, Del Shannon, Orbison, The Searchers and so on.
I’m honestly still miffed Revolution’s guitars were panned to one side. Also find it weird how it wasn’t remixed earlier for the white album
I know, right? It's even more baffling because the Love remix does contain a modern stereo mix, with drums/bass in the middle and the guitars panned.
I just got into your videos a couple of days ago and now I’m completely hooked to your channel. I can’t wait to be hereee xx
You are a breath of fresh air compared to the older reviewers imo
Was waiting for you review. Was nearly in tears on the early mixes. I love that you matched your shirt to the red album 🙂
Wow! I am one of those people who have been a Beatles fan since 1963 and all my life I only heard their music one way - recorded. When I finally got to see Paul live in his first solo tour in years, I was struck by how their early Beatles songs sounded live! A little different, and John and George not harmonizing, but how exciting and electric! Thanks for bringing these new versions to my, and everyone's, attention. They sound so great! A whole new Beatles experience for original fans and new fans. Thank you Giles and Peter Jackson for making it possible. Love your videos Elliot!
The exclusion of Helter Skelter remains a mistery
Elliot: "I could do a whole video about it"
we: "DO IT PLEASE"
Awesome! I felt like I was the only one excited about Red and Blue 2023, can't wait to dig into your analysis.
Insightful, inspiring analysis. I love your Beatles videos and am always really excited to listen and watch when the next one appears on your channel. Powerful and passionate, I am lost in admiration at the fresh angles and perceptions you give to their work, treating it with the respect their artistry deserves.
Should have added now and then to a purple album to do all the songs they released after 1970
Thank you for taking the care to really listen. You give me hope for the future.
Congrats on 100k! I knew you’d do it! Here’s to the next 100k 🎉🎉🎉
These remixes are completely mind blowing and I really hope they do more because for me I have a hard time pulling the different instruments apart so being able to truly hear all of the different instruments and harmonies clear as day was such an immersive amazing experience! I hope they remix all the earlier albums, I need them :) amazing video and you captured exactly what I was thinkin
I was a Peter Jackson-magic remix of Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. THAT will be the ultimate test of Jackson's software.
I didn't think I needed the new Red and Blue set but after your video....OH YES I DO! Thank you. I just recently found you when you posted your Now and Then video and I'm so glad I did!
The way you edited your voice going from the left to right channel was amazing.
At this point, Giles Martin definitely belongs on the "fifth Beatle" shortlist.
Thank you Elliot for your great detailed review explaining all of the differences in the original and new stereo mixes.
What's especially striking to me about these remixes is how much the kick drum really...well...KICKS in so many of these remixes, compared to before. Paperback Writer, and I Am the Walrus were pretty much always among the faves, but I didn't know how much I could enjoy them more with intensified kick drum.
Congrats for reaching 100K subscribers, Elliot! I'm so happy to be one of them!
Congrats on 100k subs Elliot!
I spent a day rebuilding mono versions of the albums as playlists on Apple Music, sourced from the US albums compilation.
You did a great job of reviewing the updated Red and Blue mixes. I appreciate all of your views on each track.
Loved how you panned it when you said left and right
Congrats on the 100k subs!
Great video as always always love when you show up on my notifications
Hey Elliot, greetings from Germany. I really love your channel. This brought tears to my eyes. I have been a Beatles fan since I turned 10 in 1973. The red album just came out and I saved for months to buy it for 25 DM back then. Lovely memories. Keep cherishing them 😍
22:20 While My Guitar Gently Weeps was on the original 1973 Blue album, expert.
Love the boosted drums and bass on most of the remixes; also the clarity in the harmony vocals. Giles Martin did a great job.
Love your videos Elliot. Cheers from Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾
fantastic -- this was the review i was waiting for. confirming the re-mix & hearing a bit of it. i will immediately get my copy from my favourite music store -- Rocking Horse in Brisbane...
Thanks for the heads up to listen with a headset. Your examples were great!
Bro, I don't even like that much of Beatles, but I really enjoy your videos. I think it is a mix of: your passion talking about it, the nice audio, crazy color palette, and the most important, your freaking perfect hair. That thing is hydrated af. Great shine. So, I am here because of the conditioner.
Hey congrats on the 100k man!!!!
I love your content! Especially your Beatles content. I'm a big fan of your channel!
I couldn't agree with you more. Literally, every single point you made, I was waiting for lmao. I listened to both the new red and blue albums while travelling to and from college last week, and genuinely, I was taking mental notes of the things I thought you'd say about them. And it turns out I was right, you were a huge fan of the Rubber Soul tracks and just how brilliant some of those early numbers now sound! Brilliant video as per the usual, man, glad to hear someone else going crazy about these new mixes, I thought I might have been the only one.
I’m glad you pointed out the stereo mixes on those original cds. I had them on my iPod back in high school and god forbid a headphone go out. I had this happen lol
The fact that you tamper with the headphone sounds from left to right is cool, nice video Elliot
You're definitely right about compilations I got into the beatles listening to the 1 (album) with my dad on a trip home
It's so wonderful to hear these remixes especially the early (Red Album) stuff, finally in legitimate stereo. And what a great job was done. The Dolby Atmos treatment is fantastic. The music lives and breathes. BTW The compilation "The U.S. Albums" on Apple Music has mono and stereo versions of every album up to and including Revolver, plus what is is my favourite Beatles compilation which was released as "Hey Jude" in the US. At any rate I really enjoy your enthusiasm toward the best body of music ever recorded. Keep up the good work.
Excellent analysis! Thanks!
Amazing video Elliot, congrats on 100k. Just recommended your channel to my uncle lol
I never comment on videos but your Beatles content is absolutely phenomenal and consistently the best on this platform. Liked and saved.
Thank you for not trashing the new "I Am The Walrus" mix, I think it's fantastic!
I’m from the 60’s and love the new mixes. Great video and fantastic analysis