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2 stars at best! I got rather mixed feelings about the album. On one hand I'm a Beatle fan and appreciate every rarities' or re-mastered albums versions of well known and lost-and-found tapes. So anything new and authentic is great (like Dali's or Picasso's originals). And from thnat standpoint the disk has some value for hard-core fans. On the other hand, the way re-mixing is done makes me puke at times. So IMHO one has to be very careful before spending his own money. Unless you prefer watching at somebody's mosaic made of a painter's works, not the originals... One big mistake I see in the very approach of producers is this. The Beatles heritage is known too well (to a note) to apply the common looping/remixing standards thoughtlessly. If the Martins would have released 2 separate disks - 1 with rather kiddish re-mixes (which do have some good spots) and the other one with remastered and converted to 5.1 version of more or less intact masterpieces (and this is precisely what the tracks ARE!). Cutting down songs and mixing up at times alien things may be a descent approach for the sake of having fun, but not for fans like me. I mean, Beatles would have never released crap of that kind themselves, they were too productive to re-do old stuff (xept for a few allusions on their own numbers, which is known well). One track I did like was Strawberry Fields forever, which if I'm right was made of at least 3 pieces (demo, some studio takes and regular version of the song). It does have some charm. But things like A Day in the Life or Mr Kite or Blackbird/Yesterday look tasteless to me. And it's a surprise for I couldn't believe that George Martin would ever go as low as be associated with such crappy remixing. So to make it short... Better borrow the disk or preview it somehow before you follow many other's path. If it's no big deal for ya, do your own re-mastering and separate the tracks you like and make a separate release. But from the heritage and historical aspects I see no value in this effort. Or just wait for a good 5.1 or stereo remasters.