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Deluxe box set of all 8 re-released, digitally remastered John Lennon albums, plus two bonus discs containing rare and previously unreleased recordings. The project to remaster and reissue Lennon's work has been overseen by Yoko Ono, to mark what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday.
This set includes the 2010 digital remasters of:
This set includes the 2010 digital remasters of:
- Plastic Ono Band
- Imagine
- Some Time In New York City (two disc version)
- Mind Games
- Walls and Bridges
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Double Fantasy (one disc version)
- Milk & Honey
- An EP of Lennon's non-album singles (including "Give Peace a Chance", "Power to the People" and "Happy Xmas (War is Over)").
- A collection of rare/previously unreleased material including studio outtakes and home recordings.
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great remasters but Signature box is poor value for money!,
By Marc B (Edinburgh Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Signature Box (Audio CD)
Well I did buy it and to be quite honest I'm glad I used a gift voucher because if I had spent my hard earned on this I would have been feeling slightly ripped off. The Signature box I'm afraid does not represent good value for money.The box itself is too big for 8 albums and 2 bonus discs, about double the size of the Beatles mono box. The CD's themselves are packaged in digi-packs similar to the Beatles stereo remasters but the paper stock seems thinner and flimsier and the CD's are impossible to remove without touching the playing surface. The pictures on the CD's themselves are a facsimile of the album cover which looks cheap IMO. Would have been better to have recreated the labels from the original vinyl just like the Beatles remasters. The accompanying 60 page hardback book contains an essay by Rolling Stone music critic Anthony DeCurtis with plenty of photo's and drawings, many of which I have not seen before. The box also contains a drawer at the bottom of the box which houses what looks like another hardback book but is actually just a hardback portfolio for an Art print. On the bright side the original vintage mixes are back in print again and especially in the case of Plastic Ono Band, that is great news. I was never a fan of the Yoko remixes from about a decade ago, too loud, too much noise reduction and poor choices of bonus tracks, especially on Plastic Ono Band. The 2010 CD's with the exception of Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey are in my opinion the best sounding Lennon CD's I've ever heard. The EQ is very tasteful and I can't detect any digital compression, limiting or noise reduction that has been the scourge of many a classic album reissue over the last decade. What's happened to the 2 80's albums is a mystery. They sound inferior to the 70's albums and were mastered in the US at Sterling sound as opposed to Abbey Road where the 70's albums and last years Beatles remasters were done. They sound heavily compressed and limited to me. To pick up all 8 albums individually (including the Double Fantasy stripped disc) plus the Power to the People hits collection it will cost you just under £80! So for an extra £50 you get a disc of rarities (an excellent disc), a hardback book and an art print!!! Hardly represents good value in this day and age, especially when there are tracks on the Gimme Some Truth Set that are not on here. Ironically the Gimme Some Truth set represents quite good value for money at 72 tracks for under £30. Now if the set had included Live Peace in Toronto, Menlove Avenue plus b sides like 'Listen The Snow is Falling' it would have represented far better value and would have made sense to have his complete discography in one place. In summary, go for the individual CD's and leave this huge white Elephant on the shelves where it belongs..........
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
How do they sleep??!!,
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This review is from: Signature Box (Audio CD)
First of all let me tell you that I am a huge Lennon/Beatles fan and will even admit to being an admirer of Yoko Ono's work. I'm not going to bother reviewing the music contained in this box set as I'm sure that anybody buying will be familiar with the contents already.However, whoever came up with the concept for this box needs shooting. The box itself is just awkward. The drawer at the bottom with the art print is nothing but an expensive joke and what on earth is the wrap around card all about - it doesn't fit around the box properly and is too big to store inside the box. The individual CD sleeves are nice and glossy with lovely restored colours but they are too small to get the booklets in or out of with ease, and it is difficult to get the discs in or out without leaving finger marks all over the discs. I have already ripped the sleeve of Sometime In New York City trying to get the booklet back in place! Then there's the so-called remastering...for anybody expecting some vast improvement like we got with last year's remastering of The Beatles' catalog think again. I find these new CDs rather top heavy and lacking in any depth...not a patch on the re-mixed versions of the same albums that came out a few years ago. The only plus is that they are the original mixes. As other reviewers have pointed out, the ommission of the Stripped version of Double Fantasy is puzzling. It's nice to have the none-album singles on a separate disc but it wouldn't have been too much trouble for EMI to have included ALL the singles, or even include the B-sides to give us a really good 'bonus'. The Home recording discs are interesting but most die-hard Lennon fans will already have 70% of these in their bootleg collections. If you are new to collecting Lennon I recommend the re-mixed versions of the studio albums and if you want the videos, go for the Lennon Legend DVD which has excellent surround sound mixes.
30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Beware,
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This review is from: Signature Box (Audio CD)
As an avid Beatles/ Lennon Fan, I waited in anticipation for this box., But what a let down. The packaging is fine, extravagent to say the least, but it is the music that most of us are interested in.I was hoping that these remasters would take these recordings to a new level as was the case with the Beatles Box, but to these humble ears, there is not a lot of difference to the remasters issued a few years back. Nor do you get any of the bonus tracks that came with the older remasters. Furthermore, you do NOT get the stripped version of Double Fantasy as you would expect, and the Amazon description states. As for the single CD of unreleased tracks, there is nothing essential there. Indeed some sound remarkably similar to the stuff on the Lennon Anthology. So beware if you are expecting a complete package of Lennon releases or any dramatic new material. A lot of money and a bit of a let down.
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