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

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

^^^^

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

Cool, I live in northern MA so that's whithin easy driving distance for me.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc0njm8pfS1qzo2mlo1_500.jpg

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 would say they are fine compilations, especially the red one. But the red one is also a tad bit too little in the CD age, with a playtime that might have fit into one CD. The fact that they were overprized when finally released on CD sometime in the 90s may also have given them a bad reputation but I would say they are pretty fine as an introduction. They were my introduction back in the early 90s, after all.

another Beatles-related mind-blower from Geir there!, and abanana's picture is fantastic

The Blue album was the first lp that I ever owned. My parents got it for me as Xmas present when I was eight years old. It was probably a new release at the time. I used to listen to both discs one after another for hours on end.

I'd say the main problem with the red & blue albums is the under representation of Revolver (which may be partially responsible for that albums mystique over the years). It probably should have been included on the blue album instead of the red for a better 50/50 breakdown of their career.

Past Masters 1 and 2 (now just known as Past Masters) lest we forget wasn't a compilation per se but rather a mopping up of every track not on the albums proper, to be purchased originally alongside the CDs when they were first issued in 87. there wasn't any choice in what went on it and what didn't, it was just so that the CD buyer could have *everything* official once they added that 2 part-er to the rest of the collection. it was the 1978 'Rarities' set esentially, just updated with all the non-album singles added.

the lack of White Album on the Blue album is *mental*. 3 tracks!

That is more than many other albums. Only two tracks from "Revolver" on the red one is a way worse offence. "Revolver" is one of their key albums after all, whereas The White Album is horribly overrated. Most of those who have catapulted it to classic status are people who aren't really into The Beatles, and who enjoy the white one because they largely sound like everything else but The Beatles there.

Probably, yes. Also, because it was more expensive, it's the one people get into last.

don't start me geir

X-Post: I still reckon people who get sick of good music are people who listen to music in the wrong way. I rarely listen to even my favourite albums more than 1-2 times a year.

i am seriously going to burst

There is no wrong way.

There's a wrong time, but.

I hear rumour that Assange has a dossier on Geir which says he's a robot.

lol

Forget it Almanac, it's Geirtown...

disc4 of unsurpassed promos is now avail on the green demon !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvCPkp0H0U

Watching UP4. This new footage during "Don't Let Me Down" is blowing my mind.

Also this DVD sounds sooooo good.

is it made using the remastered 09 stuff soundwise? also what is the new Don't Let Me Down footage?

I don't suppose anyone can share an invitation code to green demon?

Sure, whats your email address?

Yeah it sounds like remastered 09 stuff soundwise. Pretty amazing! The new DLMD footage, well it's new to me at least, looks like clips from a completely different edit of the rooftop concert.

The quality of this series is good, but there are some promos with watermarks (some of the Let It Be footage has a Japanese Space Shower TV logo oddly enough...) and some of the quality is still sort of lacking compared with some stuff I've seen. For instance, some of the videos have been shown in part on the Anthology series in stunning remastered video quality, and it seems sort of odd they wouldn't just rip those shots and insert them in w the others.

But this is me nitpicking. Pretty wonderful and essential to have all these songs, and frankly it's stupid that Apple can't do this and we have to rely on the black market. God only knows why Apple bypassed putting out a DVD after a huge remaster project & big iTunes marketing effort.

Thanks!

.. and now the book!: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0316729604?ie=UTF8&tag=thebeabib-21

ADVANCE INFORMATION The Beatles – The Complete Story

Key Editorial Points: UK Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Edition: Hardback

First part of the definitive three-volume biography of the Beatles

ISBN-13: 978 0 316 72960 4

UK Pub Price: £25.00

Classification: Biography

The Book: Format && Size: R (234 x 153 mm)

Illustrations: 16pp of b/w photos Extent: 800 pp

The Beatles are the cultural phenomeon of our time, arguably – unarguably? – of all time.

In addition to their outstanding and clearly timeless music, their influence still pulses around the world in unaccountable aspects of everyday life. FAB has one aim: to be the all-tile standard word on the Beatles. Comprehensive, objective, unexpurgated and the product of definitively deep-level research, it will set down the whole story, easily, in three volumes.

Volume One tells the early part of the story in two parts: 'Passion' from 1940-62 discusses the beginnings of the band, and 'Explosion' focuses on 1963, the year when everything changed.

Mark Lewisohn is the author six previous Beatles books and has been described by the Independent as the band's 'Emeritus Professor'.

Backlist:

The Beatles Live!, The Beatles: 25 Years in the Life, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, John Lennon: In My Life, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles' London

Reviews: 'Mark Lewisohn stands supreme. His dedication in getting all the true facts, coupled with a style of writing that is most readable, leaves him with no rival. Time and again he has proven that he knows far more about what we did than any of us' George Martin.

WANT

oooooooh. Nice.

Being a huge fan of their music, and generally a huge fan of music literature, I still tend to be a bit sceptical when it comes to Beatles articles/Beatles books. Is there really anything new about them that hasn't already been told anyway?

That's Lewisohn's pension taken care of, then.

Cause it's Lewisohn, I think this will be pretty good.

^^^

A monochrome version will also be available for £35.

Black & White was how the Beatles wanted their photos to be seen, claims Geoff Emerich.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/22/apple-reportedly-looking-to-offer-24-bit-music-files-in-itunes-store/

*cough* Beatles *cough* a bloody fortune *cough*

this thread title should be changed to "This is the thread where we let the Beatles take all our money"

That 24-bit format is what they used in that little green usb apple thingy, and it sounds amazing.

Can't wait to see how much Apple thinks we'll pay for that.

The apple usb stick was, like, $200 for the works. For comparison.

I'm waiting for the ProTools files, at which point I'll gladly mortgage my house.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau) points out on the Let It Be thread that THIS is the next boot off the block in Fabs world:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yPQHInLjTUo/TW455ysbg6I/AAAAAAAACqE/ADIGRKDA3l4/s400/letitbefrontbeebdvd.jpg

You can expect to see a new version of the Let It Be film on DVD, distributed on the internet in about 2 weeks time. Specs are:

- NTSC format
- 1.66:1 anamorphic picture
- Completely new hifi audio track assembled from the film crew's Nagra reels and stereo mixes
- Original mono audio option

This new transfer has been made from an original, undamaged VHS recording of the BBC2 repeat from Christmas 1979. Unusually, the Beeb screened the widescreen 35mm theatrical print with black bars at the top and bottom. When officially released on VHS and laserdisc some years later, this widescreen version was cropped severely at the sides to produce a full-frame image. Here it is presented unaltered.

Although the film was shot at 24 frames per second, BBC2 aired it in PAL format at 25 fps. For this disc it has been slowed down to 23.976 fps and presented in a compatible NTSC format, thus preserving the correct speed and pitch of the original. The actual picture area has been scaled up to 480 pixels and encoded in anamorphic format so as not to lose any resolution.

http://wogew.blogspot.com/2011/03/widescreen-let-it-be-dvd.html
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seriously i mean God bless these guys.

movie is depressing and kinda pointless tho, unfortunately

mm there's THAT like of course. according to WogBlog the original planned 3 disc 5.1 dvd from '05 which was shelved was meant to include this:

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A collection of rare footage of The Beatles recording in the studio (none of this is "Let It Be" era material). The footage listed includes And I Love Her, Paperback Writer, Rain, All You Need Is Love, Hey Bulldog, Lady Madonna, Helter Skelter, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Blackbird, Tutti Frutti, Hey Jude (this track alone went for 20 minutes), St Louis Blues.
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man what i'd give to see that...

Lots of that kind of thing on Youtube - better quality and longer on the dvd presumably, but this is still pretty cool. Loled at a stoned George bothering GM talking about how all music is the same, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2JhPTgE-Y

I dunno about stoned, but GHarrison would be fairly pissed off at this point, as he had been bounced off the session as his suggested guitar motif had been nixed by Paul.

"Hey Jude".. dwing dwing

Ahahaha. No, George"

like that.

Would anyone be willing and able to slip me an invite to this Green Demon thing so that I can see these Unsurpassable videos?

If so, pjmiller68 [at] gmail dot com.

Kthx in anticipation.

check ur email

Thank you very much!

(I have two now...)