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The remasters I think are essential in the sense it sounds the way they were meant to be played. After hearing the new reissues compared to the old ones, I hear a huge difference. Granted, I'm buying them slowly when they go down in price, since right now there's way too many other things on my list of records that need my listening.
How people can shit on The Beatles is a mystery to me. They are one of the best pop bands ever; They've written more catchy melodies than most bands have written songs. Sure, say what you will about other bands from the timeline, but the Beatles allowed people to really care about music and go about tracking it down inside of just hoping for that song they like to be on the radio. It's similar to Nirvana; Yeah, they get a lot of credit when there were better bands then and before, but at the same time they made a good majority of their fans think, "Hmmm, these Nirvana guys sure do talk about so and so a lot... I wonder if I would like them too?", and it allowed so and so bands to make more records and gain more fans, not to mention get more exposure (Which admittedly did hurt some bands).
To each their own but I think most Beatles haters are just trying to be cool.
~Jeremy~
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