oh i see this isn't even where the ram discussion was happening
― ivy (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 13:46 (eleven months ago) link
too many people here preaching practices imo
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 13:48 (eleven months ago) link
Now I want to know where the Ram discussion is happening
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 14:12 (eleven months ago) link
I’ll talk about Ram all day. Where’s the kettle on the boil there?
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 21:06 (eleven months ago) link
Press to Play, y'all.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 June 2023 22:08 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 17 July 2023 18:38 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― Alba, Monday, 17 July 2023 18:51 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 17 July 2023 19:25 (eleven months ago) link
Imagine there are dragonsIt's easy if you try
― Exit, pursued by a beer (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 July 2023 19:36 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Monday, 17 July 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
haha
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 17 July 2023 20:21 (eleven months ago) link
"I have had it up to here with the endless remasters of the Beatles catalogue"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Monday, 17 July 2023 20:22 (eleven months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2023 02:47 (ten months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/Baroquebeatlesbook.jpg
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 11 August 2023 04:46 (ten months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Friday, 11 August 2023 04:59 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Melomane, Friday, 11 August 2023 12:32 (ten months ago) link
We really have to do this every few years don’t we?
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
McCartney can actually take the train now - I doubt that would have been possible 20 years ago.― birdistheword
― birdistheword
kids start looking at mccartneymccartney 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
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
I thought this mean he was involved somehow in that Sheena Easton song.
― The Original Human Breadbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 August 2023 14:55 (ten months ago) link
ironically their very earliest stuff probably sounds the most relevant now to me, probably because the blues will never die
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 August 2023 15:44 (ten months ago) link
The early stuff can definitely blindside you with its energy in a way the later stuff doesn't.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 11 August 2023 15:58 (ten months ago) link
twist and shout goes
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:02 (ten months ago) link
(dickhead comment warning)
the mono mixes of the early records were a real revelation for me, so much more energy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:03 (ten months ago) link
"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? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:08 (ten months ago) link
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
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 11 August 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link
My Macca takes the morning train
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 11 August 2023 17:46 (ten months ago) link
He works from 9 to 5 and Lennon
― Mark G, Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:50 (ten months ago) link
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??
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:27 (six months ago) link
the “you can talk to me” part
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:28 (six months ago) link
It’s an additional snare drum. It was always there (and arguably more audible on the previous stereo mix).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 23 November 2023 04:52 (six months ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 23 November 2023 14:41 (six months ago) link
Funny I find it less audible in the remix. Maybe because I’m so used to hearing it clearly in the previous stereo mix.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:14 (six months ago) link
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
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
Wasn't the remix exclusive to the Yellow Submarine Songtrack comp from the '00s?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:04 (six months ago) link
The baseline on Hey Bulldog is such a joy (not just on the new mix)
― Alba, Thursday, 23 November 2023 19:12 (six months ago) link
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
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:52 (two months ago) link
This is the first time the film is available in over 50 years.
Wasn't it out on VHS/Video Disc in the '80s?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 13:58 (two months ago) link
...and on CED!
(That's a deep cut for you obsolete media fans)
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:10 (two months ago) link
CED (vinyl video disks) were obsolete from the day they first went on sale
― Lee626, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:22 (two months ago) link
Yup. Probably the source of the bootleg DVD-R's out there.
http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg5/letitbe.htm
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
I remember that CED! I was in a media studies class about 20 years ago and the professor asked us to do a show & tell on arcane formats. Somebody brought in CEDs of Let It Be and The Compleat Beatles doc.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 20:29 (two months ago) link