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

But...isn't this the Beatles thread?

it's about time this gets done.

still have yet to buy a download but i still buy CD's...

I'd be interested who would forgo the 24bit FLACs within the plastic apple, but once it's on itunes would pay the £150 for the aacs in the boxset.

This is just for people making best ofs.... I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.

I'd be surpised if there were many album sales.

lol they'll be in Billboard next week as the first band to make the chart on 100% digital sales

Nah, people will go out and buy CDs as well. Even if only one person does...

it's gonna be a drag when the Beatles knock Dolphins Into the Future out of the #1 spot

Man aerosmith I could use you in the other thread. People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.

But, yes, the true tragedy is Dolphins of the Future.

lol they'll be in Billboard next week as the first band to make the chart on 100% digital sales

otm

Amazon selling the single-disc CDs (2009 remasters) today for $7.99. Wonder for how long.

People keep insisting this will be a massive failure and they won't sell at all.

People talk out their asses about this kinda stuff, no point in trying to stop them, when they're wrong next week they'll shift the ground to "I had no idea there were so many old people in the world!" or something

meanwhile my 12-year-old niece & all her friends will be going totally apeshit today pestering their parents to buy these for them

yeah, its the kids/pre-teens who are gonna drive these sales

who knows, but honestly like that whole beatles number 1s CD thing blew my mind, like who needs that at this point? but i guess like 8 zillion ppl did...

w/ that Number 1 disc wasn't there some hype around the digital remastering?

No, apart from that there wasn't any.

yeah, its the kids/pre-teens who are gonna drive these sales

"Woah, those guys from Beatles Rock Band! I really liked those songs!"

Also: no Carnival of Light/22-minute Helter Skelter = FAIL

Didn't Wu-Tang just cover or sample the Beatles like in the past few months?

dunno if this is true or not, but wiki says: " Another reason for the high sales of 1 was the clarity of new remastered versions of the songs, which offered a brighter and clearer sound in comparison of the poor quality of the original 1987 CD masters of The Beatles recordings."

Well, what I believe PMac said at the time was they went for the original masters as those were the ones that had been the "hits" back in the day, and that this would be the last time they'd be newly available.

Yes, the first CDs were such poor quality that they only CHANGED MY LIFE. I only listened to them 3000 times before throwing them away for sounding so bad.

Didn't Wu-Tang just cover or sample the Beatles like in the past few months?

the My Guitar Gently Weeps "cover" was like 3 years ago

and on the leak it was called "Beatles," which ruled

it must be different from what ended up on 8 Diagrams then cuz ugh does that song suck

haha, I'm always on top of things.

yeah there was a version with an actual sample i think but they couldn't get it cleared so the album version was re-played cover style

hey bulldog get

Australia's getting ripped for these. One album costs $21.00 which is exactly US$20.52/GBP£12.91 atm. Apple and Mafartney can go to hell.

paaarp! the boys are back
http://stereogum.com/577602/the-15-beatles-songs-that-charted-on-itunes-today/top-stories/lead-story/

yeah there was a version with an actual sample i think but they couldn't get it cleared so the album version was re-played cover style

and the original original version was Ghost Weeps, which was six or seven years ago

are they ever gonna put out the vinyl remasters?

Bob Six posted this photo of a viewing of the Let It Be rough cut
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/cinema1.jpg

on the Apple thread.

they never seemed to enjoy watching their own movies. here they are sat watching Yellow Submarine:
http://www.janetcharltonshollywood.com/images/2010/01/yellow-submarine.jpg

10 points to anyone who can identify anyone sat behind them that's not Keef or Andrew Oldham.

.. actually is that *Liberace* behind George?

'I wish my oh wait'

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbzkxjjhiH1qz4rlzo1_r2_500.jpg

Kind of impressed that she's still got the legs to pull that off.

Neil Aspinall, front row far left.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-beatles-itunes-20101117,0,2841156.story

The new downloads are offered in the iTunes Plus format that is DRM-free using 256 kilobits per second AAC encoding and a 44.1 kilohertz sampling rate. That means the audio quality is far better than standard MP3 audio files and equivalent to the remastered CDs released last year. The iTunes Plus downloads are still short of the higher-resolution digital versions issued on an apple-shaped USB edition of the complete catalog released last year in digital files equal to the higher-quality capability of Blu-ray discs.

dwight schrute is there.

the audio quality is far better than standard MP3 audio files and equivalent to the remastered CDs released last year. =

not if it's 256 surely?

Can't wait for the SACD release in 2013.

Can't wait for the Mono SACD release in 2014.

are they ever gonna put out the vinyl remasters?

Well, so far they have put out one vinyl remaster: The Paperback Writer/Rain single, in stereo. OK, so the audio may be remastered, but the cutting of the vinyl has it without 'groove spacing' so it's all within 50% of the available space, which is ironic as the original (mono) single was the first to ensure the bass frequencies were maxxed.

(and I'm no audiobuff at all)

No Rock N Roll Fun's jaded, cynical but interesting take on it all: http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2010/11/beatles-very-slight-tremor-few-injured.html

i just compared early u.s. stereo capitol pressing of MMT and early u.s. apple pressing - um, cuz that's the kind of thing i like to do at 8:30 in the morning - and the capitol blows the apple away. apple probably only came out a couple years later, but its like night and day really. apple folks probably pretty stoned at the time...

i don't know if i've ever actually heard a beatles album on cd! i am curious about the new shiny ones. if i see any for a buck at the thrift store i'll pick them up.

listening to a clean mfsl white album pressing now. the sound is so clean too. lots of great detail. very crisp. maybe not as loud as early apple pressings. i'd have to check. great copy to own for ringo fans. drums sound amazing.

what's mfsl?

mobile fidelity sound laboratory, as I remember. They did amazing quality 12" vinyl pressings of a bunch of albums in the pre-CD days.

the bass on piggies is so fat! very cool. i'm gonna bring this copy to the local record show in december. someone will be happy. it won't go to japan this time.