THE BEATLES Anthology 3 1996 Apple 1ST PRESSING JOHN PAUL GEORGE RINGO

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120

Vinyl:  MINT!  TOP COPY!  Appears to have Never Been Played!!  This is the 1996 Apple 7243344511 Triple Album 1ST PRESSING!   With the end of The Beatles, we find them maturing into 4 separate parts, but really, who's complaining!!  Their Final masterpieces are covered here:  The White Album, Abby Road, Let It Be...Intriguing to hear what might've been if they had gone with one of these versions rather the ones that are woven into the Culture's fabric...Personal Faves:  Piggies, What's The New Mary Jane (Previously unreleased!), Dig A Pony, Something, All Things Must Pass...this is a Crucial record...allmusic gives it 4 stars!!

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In the Dead Wax:  matrices, etched.  Plus, on all 6 sides:  MASTERED BY CAPITOL...Complete dead wax information cheerfully given upon request. 

Cover: MINT!  TOP COPY!  (see photos)   Triple Gatefold.  Detailed descriptions of the tracks are inside the Gatefold.  Also, a nice blurb from their friend and Original Press Officer, Derek Taylor, who wrote like he spoke:  with class, elegance and a Cosmic Giggle...Front, gatefolds and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, essentially flawless.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, essentially flawless.  No writing.  No splits.  No stickers.  Spine print is crystal clear. 
Goldmine Standards. 

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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?  First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.  First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.   

Anthology 3 Review

by Richie Unterberger

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The final installment of the Anthology series has two discs of previously unreleased material from the White Album era through the group's demise in early 1970. In terms of sheer listenability, this may be the strongest volume of the three, if only because it focuses almost solely upon studio recordings rather than mixing live concerts/broadcasts and outtakes. Also, by this time the Beatles had perfected their approach to recording, meaning that even the early/alternate versions of many of their cuts were often of outstanding quality. There's some prime stuff here: "unplugged" White Album demos from mid-1968, radically different versions of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Helter Skelter," a stringless "The Long and Winding Road," three beautifully sung and played Harrison solo demos from early 1969, and several songs the Beatles never released, like "All Things Must Pass," "Not Guilty," "Teddy Boy," "Come and Get It," and "Junk." Not everything here is so great that the casual consumer will be fascinated, of course. As on previous Anthology sets, some of these alternates are only very slightly different from the official versions; the oldies covers from the Let It Be era are off-the-cuff jams that aren't up to the group's usual level of brilliance. It's still a fascinating collection, both for the insight it affords you into the group's creative process at the end of their career, and for the considerable excellence of the music itself.