The rhythm tracks of "Taxman", "Here, There, and Everywhere", "She Said, She Said", "Good Day Sunshine", "I Want to Tell You", and "Got to Get You Into My Life" no longer huddle ineffectually in the left channel. Balance was always the problem with the hastily mixed original stereo version, and Martin and Okell predictably deal with that by centering key elements like bass and drums more often. Giles Martin and Sam Okell's new stereo remix of Revolver leads this 4 LP/1 seven-inch/1 hardcover book set. The Powers That Be could have gone all the way back to the beginning for a Please Please Me set, but I doubt most Beatlemaniacs would be as excited for that as they are for a set devoted to the album that many folks now consider to be The Beatles' finest. So it's a gas that UMe/Apple decided to pick up here with its Special Edition Beatles Box campaign after hitting a natural chronological terminal with last year's Let It Be set. And for a lot of fans, myself included, The Beatles were never better than they were on their '66 disc. Pepper's celebrated experimentation and "The White Album"'s wild eclecticism reach out of Revolver. They'd make plenty more, but the roots of Sgt. Perhaps that's because The Beatles sounded like they were having the time of their lives making all this divine music.
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