Beatles Appreciation Day

Hello folks,

I can't stop talking or thinking about the Beatles these days. This has been quite an active year for them, especially considering the Beatles broke up OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO! They have always found a way to keep their content fresh, and stay in the public consciousness, not only because of the longevity of their music, but because Apple and EMI have teamed up to continue to produce fresh Beatle product. They have worked with Paul MacCartney, Ringo Starr, and the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison to continue to release new records and versions of things that fans are still eager to snap up.

This year saw a truly revolutionary move for the Beatles in the release of the Beatles Rock Band video game, and on top of that, they FINALLY put out remastered versions of all the classic albums. There is a box set that will give you all of these albums in a single package, or you can also get the MONO set, which will give you a taste of what the records really sounded like when the Beatles made them. Most people don't know this, but the fact is that most of the Beatle records were made in mono... meaning when the Beatles themselves were finished with them, they only had a mono product, and the stereo was done later. And the early albums were all released in mono to begin with, so that's what everybody heard at the time.

The coolest product, however, in my opinion, is the Beatles USB Apple, which comes out on Dec 8th in the U.S. and which I am eagerly awaiting to get. I'm not going to buy the remastered CDs, I'm going to wait for this USB thingy, because it contains ALL of the remastered material in the box set, plus the extras, and it has it in 2 audio formats... one is 24bit FLAC audio, which is BETTER than CD quality (CDs are only 16bit and do not have a "lossless" coding", whereas FLAC does), and it also contains the first ever official mp3 releases of any Beatles music. You still can't buy Beatles on iTunes, but you can buy the Beatles USB Apple and get a higher quality mp3 than you usually see on those download sites.

The apple has a USB port which you can use to upload or play the music to your PC or Mac. For those who don't use CDs anymore, this is the way to go, as it's all the data you'll ever need, and more, in the best-available audio format that the Beatles have ever released.

To read a great review with photos and such on this Beatles USB Apple, click here: http://www.squidoo.com/buy-beatles-usb

Or, to goto Amazon and pre-order it, Click here