I think the 'Yellow Submarine" songtrack songtrack sounds horrible! The 
sounds of the instruments were changed! The bass isn't as punchy and while the 
vocals sound nice in "nowhere man" (I don't have surround so I am just talking 
about the stereo mix) when the instruments come in it just sounds washed out and 
weak. The drums instead of sounding old fashion or something sound just like 
they were badly recorded. Again, the bass guitar sounds... UGHH!!

It's not so much the idea of hearing a sound in a different speaker that bugs 
me, it's the actual sounds changing, not getting clearer, or less hiss, but 
actual changes in the tone. The big sin of 'yellow sub songtrack' is that the 
instruments sound so different. Like they were trying to make the individual 
sounds more acceptable, when the Beatles always used sounds for the blend. I 
mean check out those guitar tones. I got a POD (a guitar amp simulator) a few 
years back and downloaded all the Beatles patches I could find. Now the POD is 
not an amp replacement, but it can be used for some home recording to kinda 
sound like you miced up an amp. In any event, the guitar sounds were for the most 
part really accurate. And you know what? Most of them sounded terrible when 
played alone, unless you were playing those particular Beatles songs. I would 
start playing and think, oh cool the guitar sound from "everybody's got 
something to hide..." and I'd realize that the tone on that song sucks, but somehow it 
is the best thing ever on that record. It almost sounded like the engineers 
on the Yellow sub songtrack were trying to make the guitars and bass sound less 
wacky when soloing out those tracks, and ended up hurting the mix of the song 
as a result. To my ears the songtrack is a total and complete disaster.

Now, the "let it be ... naked" CD I actually like. The instruments SOUND the 
same. The mixes are different sure, but the guitars and basses and drums have t
he same overall tone. No strange eq'ing, or aural exciters or what have you. 
There could have been more songs, and I actually miss the old order from the 
original one, with the spoken snippets. I would have preferred all that stayed, 
just with the cleaner audio and more songs. But that's just me.

Remasters of the Beatles CDs and repackaging are long overdue. I grew up on 
the US albums so I'll pick them up. Actually I hope they reissue "yesterday and 
today" the US "Rubber Soul", which is drastically different from the British, 
even though the British one obviously is the correct one, the US version has 
a great flow to it, it comes off like a folk album or something. And "hey 
jude". I know "hey jude" was a hodge podge compilation of sorts, but what a great 
Beatles mix!

The packaging was always a disaster, I mean, the K-Tel Bobby Sherman CD 
reissues are light years ahead of the Beatles when it comes to how the CDs were 
lovingly packaged. If Bobby Sherman can have really good reissues, why not the 
Beatles.