Have you already played it?
― Darin, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy cra-cra-crap that animation thing is cool. I really like that shot of them 'sitting in an English garden'.
Makes me kinda wish they just went ahead and made a Beatles anime.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
What, like Yellow Submarine...?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't anticipate them being very interesting though.
Surely, in the case of The Beatles, so much is said, so much is written, that there is likely to be anything much about the proccess behind the albums that isn't already covered. If not before, at least the "Anthology" series should take care of most of the facts that the world would need to know. So I agree there.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I just saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium at a big screen theater last week. It was followed by the live footage from one of their last shows in Japan.
Seeing John just freak out and start speaking in tongues to 50,000 people who can't hear or understand him is still pretty affecting. And so are the performances. I'm guessing they did a lot of studio patchwork on these after the fact? The vocals sound awfully good considering the circumstances...
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, thank you Wikipedia.
"The film is not a completely candid concert film, however, as overdubs were recorded by the Beatles in London in January 1966 to cover audio problems throughout the concert recording."
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
So the Box set pics are here!
Looking good. Doesn't give to much away mind but enough for now.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0FaQ7TxM2U0/SjL3N31gKRI/AAAAAAAABEw/hE1dAweO8_E/s1600-h/beatlesstereoofficial.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 June 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm
Well they're here anyways
http://wogew.blogspot.com/2009/06/postcard-from-berlin.html
― piscesx, Saturday, 20 June 2009 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Aiee, $350 is not what I was hoping for. Why would the mono one be more expensive? Actually, why would I buy mono at all?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 20 June 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
£200 for the mono set (from Amazon "List Price £237"!) and £170 for the stereo (List Price £202!).
I was expecting around the £200 mark TBH, but it wouldn't have surprised me in the slightest had they gone even higher.
― Officer Pupp, Saturday, 20 June 2009 11:37 (fifteen years ago) link
sometimes the US price isn't just the price in pounds though...
― attack! attack! "stick stickly" youtube video 2:48 nvr frgt (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 20 June 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Can anyone recommend me an art criticism-angled book on the Beatles, specifically their days hanging out with German art students and how it affected their subsequent work? I would say mainly about 'the Hamburg days' but Klaus Voorman did alot of work with them even through Lennon's solo career.
I'd love to read something well-written taking their career in that context.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
listened to that 10-minute "Revolution, Take 21" outtake yesterday --- eeeyowch it is good. Screw the remasters, release more stuff like that! (Kidding ... remasters & outtakes, plz)
― tylerw, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Adam, this book is great:
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20071001/9780307353375.jpg
This book took 20 years to write and it shows - extremely well researched and short on gossip. Fantastic musical critiques and social analysis. Oh, and there's quite a bit on the 1960-61 Hamburg/Liverpool era.
― Darin, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^Love that book!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
xxxpost
Amazon UK are listing the box sets for pre-order at £134 for Stereo and £158 for Mono, whic seems pretty reasonable to me.
― Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Again, why is the Mono more expensive? It seems to have less discs in it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:53 (fifteen years ago) link
They've come down a lot since I posted those prices a few days ago. Plus they've dropped the "list price". Interesting. In a good way.
― Officer Pupp, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
http://larryfire.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/beatlesstereoofficial.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
These are the mono ones, right? I mean, they don't exist to me at all. Mono doesn't exist to me whenever stereo is available..
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
oopshttp://www.puppiesandflowers.com/blogimages/bear-covering-eyes.jpg
geir, even now, it must be said...you are a weird bird homie
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
and no, i think that is the stereo box set .... you may look at it, Geir. IT EXISTS.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Not in the shops before 090909, no :)
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone photoshop some 2001 monkeys caressing that Beatles box.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to downloading the mono one.
― The Sorrows of Young Jeezy (jim), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
that picture is actually some kind of Second Life computer-generated proto-copy of the box set. weird. geir is actually correct that it doesn't exist!
― matinee, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir, "Let it be" was never released in Mono, so that's the Stereo set.
Alright?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/beatles-mono-boxset300.jpg
There you go, the Mono set.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ah good, i like that box better since it will fit in my CD racks instead of that big booze bottle box shaped thing for the stereo
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone worked out why the mono (less CDs in it) is more expensive?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I think it's because the mono box is a limited edition
― matinee, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
not the most solid evidence, but cd japan does mark their listings differently by that token:http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/search3.html?q=beatles+box+set&step=20&r=any&order=score&media=
― matinee, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The mono set actually contains two copies of the product - one in each speaker - so Apple is overlooking the opportunity to charge double the money. The stereo set only has 50% of the product in each speaker.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Just checked a minute ago, and Amazon.co.uk have bumped the prices back up - £200 for mono and £160 for stereo.
― Officer Pupp, Saturday, 11 July 2009 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Beatles.com is now showing a clip of the Revolver mini-doc.
― Darin, Monday, 13 July 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Appears to be rather weak chopped up version of the Anthology stuff.
― Darin, Monday, 13 July 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
clips up over at amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/entity/The-Beatles/B000APTK6K though I'm not sure whether that's the best way to judge how good these sound ... will listen when i get home from work. wonder if the price for the box set will come down at some point? right now, it is out of my price range ...
― tylerw, Monday, 20 July 2009 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Does anyone know which stereo mixes will be used on the first 2 albums? Will they use the original 2 track mixes or new remixes that George Martin have been playing with the thought of making? (Most of those songs would probably sound better with one channel in the middle and the other one to the left/right rather than one extreme right and the other one extreme left, but that would also be kind of revisionist)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 July 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but does anybody actually like it like that?
― Mark G, Monday, 20 July 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Monday, July 20, 2009 5:46 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
stereo mixes in general for those albums is revisionist
― I'm a Matt...I'm a DC (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 20 July 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
You could say so, but those stereo mixes were originally done as early as 1965-66, which is quite some time ago by now. And at least until the CD releases in 1987, that is how people who bought them on vinyl since the late 60s got used to hearing them.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 20 July 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
this is now posted on the Amazon site in the U.S. the list price is $298.99 discounted to $239.99.
Product DescriptionFEATURES:
-Dimensions: 5.75" x 5.38" x 2.63"
-Description:
·Hard white glossy slip box ·Limited edition (10,000) ·CDs packaged as mini LP replicas (replica artwork, sleeves and gatefolds) ·Remastered by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee with Guy Massey and Steve Rooke
-Contains:
Original Mono version - 11 albums (12 discs)
+= mono mix CD debut
·Please Please Me ·With The Beatles ·A Hard Day's Night ·Beatles For Sale ·Help! (CD also includes original 1965 stereo mix)+ ·Rubber Soul (CD also include original 1965 stereo mix)+ ·Revolver+ ·Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band+ ·Magical Mystery Tour+ ·The Beatles+ ·Mono Masters (features all of the mono tracks that appeared on singles, EPs. or that never made it onto the 13 albums)
-Essay written by Kevin Howlett
*note: Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included, as they were originally recorded in stereo
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
as for the stereo mix, the list price is $259.98 discounted to $204.99:
Product Description
FEATURES:
-Dimensions: 12"x6"x3"
Hard black glossy lift top with magnet clasp
CD's packaged in three panel digi-pak with digital mini documentaries
Remastered by Guy Massey, Steve Rooke, Sam Okell with Paul Hicks and Sean Magee
All 13 Studio remasters plus Past Masters (digi packaging with digital mini documentaries)
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Past Masters
DVD of all 13 mini-documentaries (Running time: 40 minutes)
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
10,000 is 'not many' for a beatles edition!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
there is some dispute about that limited edition number, EMI already denied that this was the case. who knows.
― akm, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
It's only the mono that's ltd edition?
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
808 state vs the beatles is an interesting prospect.or is it a different guy massey ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link