It is done. The portion of my bookshelf that holds my Beatles CDs — both mono and stereo versions — no longer has any gaps in it. I bought Help, the last missing piece of the reissued Beatles catalog, at my local Wal Mart shortly before 10 p.m. tonight. My collection is now complete (and pardon me while I sound like Darth Vader).Now all that remains is for me to enjoy it. And for the past two or three weeks, I've been busy doing just that. I recently embarked on a track-by-track comparison of both the mono and stereo versions of each song in The Beatles' catalog, starting with Please Please Me. I plan to take each release, in order, until I reach the end of Abbey Road. To be sure, it is a silly little exercise, and very subjective, to say the least. But it has been enormous fun, and I'm discovering wondrous things in both recordings. I'm also falling in love with The Beatles again with an intensity that I haven't had since I was a young lad with a bass guitar in my hand and a gleam in my eye.
It's good to have the boys back again. As always, they were worth every penny.
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