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Beatles
"A Hard Day's Night" Among the Best of the Box, But Why?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 07, 2012  |  22 comments
It's June of 1964. Beatlemania is sweeping America. You've just graduated high school and are getting ready for college. You're trying to grow up, you're listening to jazz, but you've been pulled into this teen craze by the music. Not since Elvis, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison has your world been so rocked.
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Sweepstakes
Marantz TT-15 Turntable with Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood MM Cartridge plus MoFi Accessories from Music Direct Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 07, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  603 comments
Register to win a Marantz TT-15 Turntable with the amazing Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood moving magnet cartridge from Music Direct (MSRP $2020.00) we are giving away.

This turntable package will also come with a handful of new Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab LPs, a Mobile Fidelity Record Brush and Mobile Fidelity Record Care Fluids. Music Direct will even throw in a custom made dustcover. This special package has an estimated value of over $2,000. Howís that for a holiday give-away?

[This sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Can I Have My Money Back?
Are These Your "101 Essential Rock Records"?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 06, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  11 comments
Noted record and memorabilia collector Jeff Gold's sumptuously produced new coffee table book "101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl From The Beatles to The Sex Pistols" hits all of the genre's correct notes. It is impressively produced eye candy that first can be consumed visually and later enjoyed for it multi-layered content.
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News
Reader Takes Record Cleaning to the Extremes In YouTube Video
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  20 comments
Reader Tony Crocker emailed me with the URL for his YouTube record cleaning video. Crocker bases it in part on the one written for The Tracking Angle by Michael Wayne some years ago that you can access on this site.
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Beatles
"Past Masters" Still Masterful
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 29, 2012  |  35 comments
The Beatles' early output was as confusingly presented as it was prolific. That was true on both sides of "the pond." In America, Capitol Records at first decided to pass on The Beatles. In the U.K. singles didn't make it onto albums.
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Beatles
"Let It Be" Is a Mixed Bag Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 28, 2012  |  24 comments
This album stiffed when first released in the Spring of 1970. While it was hyped as the "last Beatles album" everyone knew it was recorded before Abbey Road, even if they didn't know the messy history behind it. And by the time the album was released the Beatles had broken up.
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Sweepstakes
All This Guy Has is Love: Beatles Box Set Winner Announced!
Ariel Bitran  |  Nov 27, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  23 comments
Congratulations to Nick Wright of Charlotte, North Carolina on winning his brand new Beatles LP box set from our friends at Music Direct. This box set includes all sixteen Beatles albums remastered to vinyl, many of which have already been picked apart by Mikey on this website.
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Sweepstakes
Donald Fagen Sunken Condos Vinyl LP Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Nov 27, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  82 comments
Register to win one of two Donald Fagen Sunken Condos Vinyl LPs (MSRP $39.99/each) we are giving away between now and Thursday night.

Our friends at Warner Brothers/Reprise Records offered us two copies to give away of this double 180g pressed on clear RTI vinyl gatefold set mastered for vinyl (we trust from high resolution files) by Scott Hull at Masterdisk.

[This sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Beatles
"The Beatles": Why Don't We Throw It in the Road? (When Everyone is Watching)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 26, 2012  |  47 comments
I've fed you another piece of misinformation fed to me by someone involved in this project but I can't remember whom: at first I was told RTI pressed these records. But that had to be walked back. Then I was told, no Rainbo pressed but RTI plated. Now I've been told by RTI's Don MacInnis that, no RTI didn't plate them either. Sorry about that.
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Beatles
"Magical Mystery Tour": It's Getting Hard to be Someone (But It All Works Out)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 25, 2012  |  16 comments
Authenticity required this album to have a "Capitol" label since it was not originally issued in the U.K. There, the five tunes on side one comprised a double 7" EP issue containing the songs from the "Color Television Film called 'Magical Mystery Tour'".
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