― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
anthology 2 is the best, what with the stoned cracking-up version of and your bird can sing and the gorgeous demos of strawberry fields. 3 is good for the white album stuff, and 1 is probably the only time any americans (me included) will ever hear any morecambe and wise.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, they are getting slightly more plentiful. In fact, I got most of my collection used. But, then again, I've been lucky. The worst thing about used Beatle cds is that stores priced higher than average (i.e. in the US 10-12 dollars vs. 7-9). Shopping around helps, and the prices have leveled off (and no doubt will continue)
I will concur regarding the Anthologies and the BBC, but--to cite my earlier post--alot of the people who bought them probably realized that they didn't listen to them as much as the regular LPs.
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Neil Aspinall is probably the one to blame.
Anyway, seems like some good news is finally coming up.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 April 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
While I agree that they need remastering, I don't neccessarily agree with your version of what they sounded like. The first four, sure, but the rest, particularly from "Sgt. Pepper" onwards, used state of the art remastering technology at the time, and sounded really impressive back then.
Only this is 20 years ago and a lot has happened since then.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 13 April 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the Anthologies are a pretty good distillation of the best stuff that makes up the two major bootleg series (ultra rare trax and, uh, whatever the other one is called; they have most of the same stuff on them). I could do w/out the talking on the first cd.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 April 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 14 April 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan_w, Friday, 14 April 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― dave k, Friday, 14 April 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
i mean it does take the piss doesn't it?
― pisces, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 12:18 (sixteen years ago) link
lo-lo-lo-looooots of piss, sir! :(
― t**t, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought Help for £1 in a charity shop the other week. It was cheap because the cover was ripped (and taped up again) and the vinyl's a bit crackly, but it's not scratched at all. Even with the crackles it sounds great - a lot better than the CD versions, The Night Before especially gaining an awful lot of character and energy. I too am amazed there's no proper CD remaster, I guess because people are still buying the current shonky versions.
― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This footage http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=compleat+beatles of 'The Compleat Beatles' (snappy 1984 cheaply-made proto-ANTHOLOGY movie, shot on film and narrated by Malcolm Mcdowell) is making me anticipate this happening all the more.
― pisces, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
It will happen before or since, but apparently at still takes time.
I expected they'd at least do "Sgt. Pepper" in June this year to coincide with its 40th anniversary, but they did't.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:06 (sixteen years ago) link
But at least, with the current trend for remasters, the ultimate edition will be better. I hope they will do like The Bee Gees and Monkees remasters, and put out 2CDs with the stereo version + bonus tracks in stereo on one and the mono version + bonus tracks in mono on the other one.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
they never do anything right with the beatles catalogue, they're sure to disappoint someone. i say live with the ebbett's bootlegs for now.
― akm, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 13:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Maybe something with the Apple/iPod stuff later today.
― caek, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
that's been the rumour, but it was the rumour a few months ago also. anyway, it's been confirmed that the albums have been remastered (by bruce spizer, in some interview last month), but not packaged or manufactured yet, and no confirmation on whether they'll have a mono/stereo split or what, or when they're ever going to come out.
― akm, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
macca and ringo 'secret gig' rumoured volume one of lewisohn triple-volume biog coming at xmas
its hotting up again on the fabs front. a bit.
― pisces, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
macca and ringo 'secret gig' rumoured
At long last their tribute show to the White Stripes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:18 (sixteen years ago) link
At long last their tribute show to the White Stripes godheadSilo.
― David R., Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Beatles Remasters
― smash your phonograph in half, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I posted that link before realizing that it is kind of a goldmine.
― smash your phonograph in half, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Damn, wish I had a bigger hard drive...
― Z S, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
(no penis jokes plz)
if pressed for time, go for white album disc 5 - kinfauns demos
then rubber soul through magical mystery tour, mono versions
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Are the demos the same as the ones that show up on the Anthology, or are these different? And how do they compare in quality?
― Z S, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
makes me wish i had decent external speakers for my laptop. my beatles records are not very "nice" copies. all US pressings, mostly stereo. they do sound great in mono though.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
mono mixes = the mixes, up until the white album
xpost same ones, but complete & good quality. it's them camped at home with a 4 track, learning the songs as they track them but having fun, sounding much more like a band than the album
http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=vigo_183§ion=1
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i really wish that circus mashup album didn't suck so bad.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone ever noticed that the ebbetts bootlegs sound like crap on headphones?. especially yellow submarine and magical mystery tour.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 05:29 (sixteen years ago) link
the stereo of those albums (some of them) is very wide so that's why; ebbetts did cd versions of almost everything though, including weird shit like canadian stereo versions, etc, which differ slightly. I think the regular cd stereo versionns of MMT and Pepper are alright (and really don't have any serious problems with white album or abbey road either; I think abbey road is a pretty glorious sounding cd). the early records are a mixed bag; these days I prefer the capitol box versions (anyway I grew up with the US versions of the albums, so it's kind of nice to return to the admittedly fucked up tracklistings...though I do think 'the second album' is pretty awesome). anyway yeah the purple chick stuff is pretty exciting, it seems to have just popped up in the past few months? or at least that's where I heard about it. and being distributed completely free so no evil bootleggers making money. it makes official remasters kind of irrelevant. today i listened to all the 'sessions' mixes of tracks off the anthology,critically and without the 'oh wow new beatles songs' luster...these really do sound like shit, emerick should be embarrassed.
― akm, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
but also yeah, i'm pretty much ready to sell all my parlophone beatles cds once I can get ahold of all the purple chick stuff; i usually only listen to digital files anyway, and I have a blue box vinyl set, so there's no need to keep the crappy pressings with bad artwork.
― akm, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
also, while I agree that the mono pepper is interesting, i really disagree that it's the better of the mixes. I think the novelty of it is kind of cool but there are bits and pieces that just sound sloppy. I know it's allegedly the mix they approved and they apparently didn't have much to do with the stereo version, but maybe that just shows the beatles were the best people to mix their material
― akm, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
the purple chick version of the white album is really really amazing. i'm working on just downloading the albums (no bonus tracks) and converting them to mp3, for my ipod. the only problem is that some of the tracks are switched around. like...penny lane is on the purple chick version of sgt pepper's. it's kinda confusing when dealing with torrents.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago) link
The Purple Chick stuff is impressive though really it's just collating already available stuff in one place. It does that very very well though and as well as the main albums they've also done releases of Hollywood Bowl, The Songs The Beatles Gave Away, the fan club records, the Star Club tapes, the BBC sessions and the 92CD complete Get Back rehearsals (also check out their 10CD complete Buddy Holly and S&G's alternate Bookends)
The mono and stereo versions of the albums on the Purple Chick sets are just the UK Ebbetts versions. There is a version of the white album released by Darthdisc (? - i think) which is from a 'direct metal master' that may even be better.
The mono Pepper is sloppy in places but certainly Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds sounds better (more phasing).
Has anyone else heard the multitracks of A Day In The Life, With A Little Help From My Friends, Sgt Pepper and She's Leaving Home that were released as an addendum to the PC Sgt Pepper? Incredible to hear.
― cheasyweasel, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 13:07 (sixteen years ago) link
itll sound shit remastered. cant you just enjoy the originals?
― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
you mean the 1st pressing UK vinyl? sure, we can all enjoy those.
― ian, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
well, I can, anyroad.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
no way are these the same as the ebbet's version. especially not mmt.
― Creeztophair, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
McCartney can actually take the train now - I doubt that would have been possible 20 years ago.― birdistheword
― birdistheword
kids start looking at mccartneymccartney starts to internally go "oh shit"kids: "hey look it's an old lesbian"mccartney breathes a sigh of relief, this is always what kids say when they look at him these days but every time he still worries
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:39 (nine months ago) link
I thought this mean he was involved somehow in that Sheena Easton song.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:55 (nine months ago) link
ironically their very earliest stuff probably sounds the most relevant now to me, probably because the blues will never die
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 August 2023 15:44 (nine months ago) link
The early stuff can definitely blindside you with its energy in a way the later stuff doesn't.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 11 August 2023 15:58 (nine months ago) link
twist and shout goes
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:02 (nine months ago) link
(dickhead comment warning)
the mono mixes of the early records were a real revelation for me, so much more energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link
"We really have to do this every few years don’t we?"
we don't have to do it much anymore really because they have been remastered and now are being remixed and remastered.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:08 (nine months ago) link
I did think this thread was being revived because the red and blue packages had been officially announced along with Now and Then; rumor was that was supposed to happen this week
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:09 (nine months ago) link
My Macca takes the morning train
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:46 (nine months ago) link
He works from 9 to 5 and Lennon
― Mark G, Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:50 (nine months ago) link
ok this new AI remix…what the hell is that repeating explosion sound during the bridge of “hey bulldog”? Sounds like someone rattling a reverb plate or something??
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:27 (six months ago) link
the “you can talk to me” part
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:28 (six months ago) link
It’s an additional snare drum. It was always there (and arguably more audible on the previous stereo mix).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 23 November 2023 04:52 (six months ago) link
I wondered that too and yeah it's in the original mix but quieter.
It sounds like a snare reverb, but with a delay in front of it. Nowadays you call it pre-delay on a reverb unit, not sure how they managed that in 1968, perhaps with an Echoplex or a Binson and a bit of patching.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 23 November 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link
Funny I find it less audible in the remix. Maybe because I’m so used to hearing it clearly in the previous stereo mix.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link
Cool idea/detail anyway !
weird, yeah, went back and AB-d it with the 2009 mix and couldn’t really hear it. But I know I’m probably listening more closely to this new stuff so maybe most of the new stuff I’m hearing isn’t really new. That said, the set does sound quite dynamic, yeah? Like when Ringo’s drums come in at the middle 8 of “this boy”, it’s like BOOM
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
Wasn't the remix exclusive to the Yellow Submarine Songtrack comp from the '00s?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:04 (six months ago) link
The baseline on Hey Bulldog is such a joy (not just on the new mix)
― Alba, Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:12 (six months ago) link
https://www.thebeatles.com/sites/default/files/2024-04/LetItBe_KA_4x5_032624.jpg
Today, Disney+ announced that “Let It Be,” director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about The Beatles, will launch exclusively on Disney+ May 8, 2024. This is the first time the film is available in over 50 years.
https://www.thebeatles.com/let-it-be-last
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:52 (one month ago) link
This is the first time the film is available in over 50 years.
Wasn't it out on VHS/Video Disc in the '80s?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:58 (one month ago) link
...and on CED!
(That's a deep cut for you obsolete media fans)
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:10 (one month ago) link
CED (vinyl video disks) were obsolete from the day they first went on sale
― Lee626, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
Yup. Probably the source of the bootleg DVD-R's out there.
http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg5/letitbe.htm
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:25 (one month ago) link
I remember that CED! I was in a media studies class about 20 years ago and the professor asked us to do a show & tell on arcane formats. Somebody brought in CEDs of Let It Be and The Compleat Beatles doc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link