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

Fifth fetal Beatle

Fetle

Featle, I mean

I Wanna Hold Your Placenta

Euuugh!

so great, loving john's bass here. highly recommend clicking the link to a similar breakdown of 'gimme shelter'. would love to see scorsese use just 'gimme shelter' tracks to score a movie someday - it is his destiny.

The Beatles "Hey Jude" UNSURPASSED PROMO'S EDIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBmjgMNchmM&feature=player_embedded

that clip sure does make me want to get the rest of this ere Unsurpassed Promos collection. is there a track list online?

does this clip show the first ever stage invasion? another 'Beatles first'?

This is the track listing available at

All tracks are mimed performances, except (*), the Let It Be stuff and some of the later 'concept' films. Sound is remastered mono except (=) which are stereo. Tracks marked (+) have two audio options. More information will be included in the released material

TOUR YEARS Disc 1
Love Me Do
Please Please Me *
Twist And Shout
From Me To You
She Loves You
I'll Get You
Money
This Boy
I Want To Hold Your Hand
All My Loving
I Wanna Be Your Man
'Till There Was You
Please Mr Postman
It Won't Be Long
You Can't Do That
Can't Buy Me Love
Roll Over Beethoven +
Long Tall Sally +
A Hard Day's Night *
And I Love Her +
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
If I Fell
I Should have Known Better
Tell Me Why
I Feel Fine
She's A Woman
Baby's In Black
Kansas City
She's A Woman
I'm A Loser
Rock And Roll Music
Bonus Track

TOUR YEARS Disc 2
Help! +
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I Need You
The Night Before
Another Girl
Ticket To Ride +
I Feel Fine version 1 and 2 +
Help! +
We Can Work It Out versions 1 and 2 +
Day Tripper version 1 +
We Can Work It Out version 3 +
Day Tripper version 3 +
Paperback Writer/Rain (colour, with intro) +
Paperbacks writer (monochrome) versions 1-3 +
Rain (monochrome) versions 1 and 2 +
Bonus Tracks x 3 +
5.1 Slideshow

STUDIO YEARS Disc 3
Paperback Writer film
Rain film
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In The Life
All You Need Is Love (with intro)
Hello Goodbye (version 1: pepper suits)
Hello Goodbye (version 2: hippie clothes)
The Fool On The Hill
I Am The Walrus
Blue Jay Way
Your Mother Should Know
Hello Goodbye (version 3 - crazy outtakes)
Hey Bulldog
Lady Madonna (alternate)
Lady Madonna (original)
Revolution versions 1 and 2
Bonus Track

STUDIO YEARS Disc 4
Hey Jude versions 1-3 (with intro)
Two Of Us =
Let It Be =
The Long And Winding Road =
Get Back =
Don't Let Me Down =
I've Got A Feeling =
One After 909 =
Dig A Pony =
Get Back =
The Ballad Of John & Yoko =
Something =
Bonus Track =
5.1 Slideshow

Tracklisting taken from the unfortunately named Wog Blog

er, yeah. what's the story with the name, if you know? sidebar doesn't elucidate

thanks for the tracklist i couldn't see it. there were *two* Hello Goodbye promos?!

Three. One with Sgt. Pepper clothes. One with "hippie clothes". One made with outtakes/mix of the two.

Gotta say these are really good for the most part, tho tbh I've seen better versions of some of these. In particular I thought they would steal from the Anthology as much as possible to get the fully remastered versions. Also, it's kinda weird to have some of the MMT/Help! movie songs on here, even though they are available in retail form...

All that is just griping tho. It's a pretty marvelous collection!

is there anywhere you can get these in a straight up MPG form or whatever? rather than from d£m0n0!d or same. $0ulseek comes up with nothing :/

yeah it's odd that they are in .vob format and not .mp4

still happier to have them and not line Apples pockets.

mono box & final 3 stereo albums & Beatles rock band = they owe me a few freebies.

This was the reason they split, according to Lennon. Macca was all "those wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine" which is why they might not have been as close in the latter days, but Lennon not wanting to do the McCartney songs he didn't personally like (without saying they had no merit) seems the truest reflection.

By the time they went in the studio to do "Abbey Road", they had already more or less agreed they'd split afterwards anyway. I don't think not doing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" would have prevented the split.

They'd already done "Maxwell" a mill times during the "Let it be" sessions.

Had they not done "Maxwell" and "Obladi", they might have carried on a bit longer. But there would have been other songs that the other band members didn't much want to do. George had a large backlog of songs the others didn't like enough.

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is actually IMO a better song than "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" although this may partly have to do with the use of synth.

Well, that is up to you.

OK, put it this way. Lennon comes into your session with "Cold Turkey", and you've just penned "Maxwell".

What happens next?

The best thing would be not to do any of them, or anything that sounds like any of them.
That, is, cancel "I Want You" as well....

Basically, the best thing they could do is "OK, frankly, most of the stuff we've done the past years was crap. Let's instead go back to the style we used to play in 66-67, we were much better then and we should have stayed there and not tried to change".

Dear citizens of the Beatles thread,

When I was a child my Dad had two non-classical LPs: a US pressing of "Rubber Soul" and an ELO album. Now he has no record player and a few Christmases ago he asked for "Love" (the segued remix CD) and enjoyed it a lot, so I'm thinking of buying him one of the new remasters.

Would you recommend that I buy him: a) remastered red and blue albums; b) remastered "Rubber Soul"; c) some other Beatles remaster product? (or secret option d), no more Beatles product, but whether he'd actually listen to any of them is anyone's guess)

Right, so Lennon quits your band, and the Beatles end as George and Rings don't want to carry on as the three. (xpost will read yr next in separate)

Same difference.

Also, I don't know that they had actually agreed that "Abbey Road" was to be the final record, apart from in retrospect.

Well, remastered RubSoul is not the US track listing, so..

Lennon hardly wrote a good song after 1967. Well, at least not until a couple of the ballads on the "Imagine" album.

I'd reckon the red/blue album.

The red/blue album is probably the strongest set there is and is now also available (together) at a somewhat reasonable cost for the first time. They also contain more from "Rubber Soul" than from any other Beatles album.

So, there you go then.

Sounds like it! Thanks, Mark and Geir.

I still reckon they should make "2", following "1" though. The track listing might be something like:

Please Please Me
I Saw Her Standing There
Twist And Shout
All My Loving
I Should Have Known Better
And I Love Her
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Norwegian Wood
Michelle
Girl
In My Life
Taxman
Here, There and Everywhere
Tomorrow Never Knows
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
With a Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
A Day In The Life
Back In The U.S.S.R
While My Guitar Gently Wheeps
Helter Skelter
Here Comes The Sun
You Never Give Me Your Money
Across The Universe
I Me Mine

While My Guitar Gently Wheeps (Wheep Wheep!)

Also:

Helter Skelter

Magnanimous of you.

I hate it, but it's obviously a key track.

xxxpost to Spacecadet: remastered Rubber Soul would be my suggestion of the options you presented...or one of the Past Masters compilations maybe (those came out along with the remastered albums: singles & b-sides)
my other recommendation would be one of the other albums, aside from Rubber Soul? Sgt Pepper is fun to revisit on the remaster. (Figure if your Dad is down with Rubber Soul & Love soundtrack he leaves good gaps to fill, yeah?)

Good luck!

Ooh. OK, any other thoughts on Past Masters vs Red + Blue? I see some excited audiophile chatter about Past Masters on this thread, which may be a good sign, as I've heard a fair bit of excited audiophile chatter from my dad over the years too. "listen to how clear the cymbals are, it's like they're in the same room as you" etc etc

Red & Blue are nice, but theyre just straight best-ofs. Past Masters gives you singles not on the albums, plus b-sides from said singles etc.
If you want to go remastered route & not do an album or two, Past Masters isnt a bad option.

Remastered Rubber Soul, man!

is there anywhere you can get these in a straight up MPG form or whatever? rather than from d£m0n0!d or same. $0ulseek comes up with nothing :/

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If you search youtube and check 'HD' and then download the files with www.keepvid.com, you could probably put together a collection of these MP4s.

My local record store is selling the mon box for $99. Couldn't resist!

Nice.

however: check..

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Trust-Safety-Safe/Counterfeit-Beatles-Remastered/520175666

No worries. They over-ordered the second printing form EMI and they need to clear stock. They've had about 100 copies in store for what seems like forever.

form=from. I need my typos to be more ovbious.

I'd go Red/Blue. Just amazing song after amazing song after amazing song. Past Masters is awesome too but there's only just over half as much music there.

1. Maxwell > Cold Turkey > vomit > Ob-la-plop Ob-la-wank
2. They split up for a load of complex reasons, not just coz Macca walked in with Maxwell or Yoko split up the gang-guh or whatever

Past Masters gives you singles not on the albums, plus b-sides from said singles etc.

Those b-sides are my main problem with Past Masters. They are dragging down the consistency of the albums. Sure, nothing wrong with "Revolution" or "This Boy" or "Thank You Girl".But who needs "The Inner Light", "Don't Let Me Down", "Old Brown Shoe" or "You Know My Name"? Or even the a-side belonging to "Old Brown Shoe" for that matter!??

Btw. that is kind of the main problem about the red and blue ones too. The red is pretty much flawless except for being too short. But the blue one contains way too many obscure b-sides from the past couple of their career.

When I was in junior high, 20 Greatest Hits was the popular Beatles compilation. I made my own alternative set with all the B-sides (US) in chronological order, so instead of ending with "Come Together"-"Let It Be"-"The Long and Winding Road", you got the 1-2-3 punch of "Something"-"For You Blue-"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)".

My local record store is selling the mon box for $99. Couldn't resist!

Ooh! Please tell me that the name of your local record store is Newbury Comics! (Please! Please! Please!)That's better than the $129.99 price that Amazon is offering.

Not Newbury this time - Bullmoose. Nearest one to Boston is either Portsmouth or Salem, NH.

JBR tweeted that Barnes & Noble are selling the Mono for $119...so deals aplenty it seems.

Re: Red & Blue greatest hits: that was the only Beatles I owned for years. But I was ridiculed for not having albums by some Beatle fan coworkers, so I just assumed that they were generally frowned upon. :(

I enjoy the Past Masters comps because of the pairing of songs I know well with things I'd never heard, like the German "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and stuff like that.

Beatles snobs might sneer, but he's looking to get a BEST OF for his DAD for XMAS ffs, they're a great choice

^^^^