I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

Real Love was always my preferred one of the two; it really does pierce my heart on "seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you". Regina Spektor did a good version that just goes on a bit too long. I don't think anyone notable has ever covered Free As A Bird, have they? They should!

Mine too.

I didn’t think I would, but I think of them as part of the Beatles catalog now. It’s kind of a miracle they threw so much into the Anthology really, I mean George was so done with it all.

Oh geez that was longer ago now than the project was after their breakup.

George didn't have much of a choice about participating in the Anthology, as his film company was about to go bankrupt, and his business manager was stealing from him. I'd argue that George enjoyed it by making the new stuff work for him: he chose the producer, he put his slide guitar all over the songs, and stood up to Paul.

"Real Love" isn't bad - like if I pretend it was a Lennon guest spot on, say, the first Traveling Wilburys album, it would be a stand out - but Jesus, they processed the shit out of Lennon's vocal and it sounds awful compared to the recording used in his own Anthology (and also on Wonsaponatime). I think someone said that the cassette they used was a poor quality dub, i.e. far from the best master now known to exist, and to be fair maybe Lynne was trying to hide that in some way. If anything they should remix that track using the better source tape and use A.I. to help clean it up.

lol George already looks fed up with Paul at 2:30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQi3UkJbIGM

George would've been happy without the cameras there. And Paul would've been unhappy without the cameras there.

George and Paul said often that so long as they talked about their wives, kids, gardening, anything but The Beatles, really, they were best mates.

Makes sense.

but Jesus, they processed the shit out of Lennon's vocal and it sounds awful compared to the recording used in his own Anthology

this is where the ai-enhanced demixing technology can really work wonders, so I wonder if we'll get remixes of both of these songs.

i'm listening to ram this morning and if you don't think this rules you're trying too hard

oh i see this isn't even where the ram discussion was happening

too many people here preaching practices imo

Now I want to know where the Ram discussion is happening

I’ll talk about Ram all day. Where’s the kettle on the boil there?

Press to Play, y'all.

Rumour has it that Giles Martin is using Peter Jackson's AI stuff to remix the Red and Blue albums to coincide the release of the "new" Beatles track.

Yes apparently he said the remixes “sound like Imagine Dragons, but it’s The Beatles”.

Also Paul's voice has reportedly been de-aged for Now and Then.

I choose to believe none of this is true.

I’m here for the Anthology singles with the Lynne dialed down. Probably too awkward if Giles were to do it while Lynne is still around, tho.

Imagine there are dragons
It's easy if you try

Funny how this thread was borne out of the frustration that nothing was being done with the Beatles' records, and now it's gone really far in the wrong direction.

haha

"I have had it up to here with the endless remasters of the Beatles catalogue"

It's only in the last few years that I've actually started to dive into the Beatles' catalogue. I knew most of these songs already of course. When I was a kid a lot of these songs sounded old but they were still relevant. It still felt like a lot of popular groups had taken cues from them. I mean even The Offspring had a big hit with a song that completely copped a Beatles tune. And all the TV and movies was being written by 60s kids who shoved Beatles references into everything. Well now we're a full generation away from that, with an entire crop of pop stars who might not really know shit about the Beatles, and I'm telling you, right now their music sounds like it was made 500 years ago

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Baroquebeatlesbook.jpg

That’s for sure. It’s crazy how much the Beatles seeped into ‘80s and ‘90s culture (television shows, films), but ever since Guitar Hero, I feel like they’ve definitely become much more of a long bygone era type of thing, like Sinatra probably was towards the end of his career. McCartney can actually take the train now - I doubt that would have been possible 20 years ago.

When this thread was started in 2005, there might have been an expectation that the Beatles albums would get audiophile re-releases on SACD like so many of their peers. Two decades later, it rather surprises me that the Beatles never appeared on that format.

We really have to do this every few years don’t we?

McCartney can actually take the train now - I doubt that would have been possible 20 years ago.

― birdistheword

kids start looking at mccartney
mccartney 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

I thought this mean he was involved somehow in that Sheena Easton song.

ironically their very earliest stuff probably sounds the most relevant now to me, probably because the blues will never die

The early stuff can definitely blindside you with its energy in a way the later stuff doesn't.

twist and shout goes

(dickhead comment warning)

the mono mixes of the early records were a real revelation for me, so much more energy

"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 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

My Macca takes the morning train

He works from 9 to 5 and Lennon

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??

the “you can talk to me” part

It’s an additional snare drum. It was always there (and arguably more audible on the previous stereo mix).

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.

Funny I find it less audible in the remix. Maybe because I’m so used to hearing it clearly in the previous stereo mix.

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

Wasn't the remix exclusive to the Yellow Submarine Songtrack comp from the '00s?

The baseline on Hey Bulldog is such a joy (not just on the new mix)

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

This is the first time the film is available in over 50 years.

Wasn't it out on VHS/Video Disc in the '80s?