The Beatles - Please Please Me (redux)

Project 1 Early Period

Sept 4 1962 - April 28 1963

PLEASE PLEASE ME (redux)

1. Love Me Do
2. P.S. I Love You
3. Please Please Me
4. Ask Me Why
5. I Saw Her Standing There
6. Misery
7. Anna (Go To Him)
8. Chains
9. Boys
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret
12. A Taste of Honey
13. There's A Place
14. Twist and Shout
15. From Me To You 
16. Thank You Girl 
17. One After 909

The original UK version of "Please Please Me" was released on March 22, 1963 and contained 14 songs lasting 32:45 in total. Since The Beatles often released singles separate from their albums, there are a lot of songs through out that can be added to make them longer. The single "From Me To You" backed with "Thank You Girl" was recorded after the album was complete (March 5, 1963) but before it was released so we'll use them here. Also, the song "One After 909" was recorded that same day so I included the Anthology version. I chose to keep "Hold Me Tight" on "With The Beatles" since the version they recorded during the PPM sessions was lost and sound-wise it didn't seem to fit. 

Basically, my version of these Beatle redux albums includes singles and sometimes unreleased songs that were from the same time period and the order of the tracks is based on when the song was recorded. This version ends up being right around 40 minutes long.

All songs remixed into "Soft-Stereo" to sound not as hard-panned left and right, but fuller than mono. Also, I remixed the song "Please Please Me" to correct the fluffed line in the third verse, but wasn't able to fix the odd flange at the very end. For "Love Me Do" I remixed the Past Masters version featuring Ringo on drums.

For the album cover I used an alternate photo found on the web of the photo-shoot and edited it a little.

The Beatles PPM download