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

Every time I see this thread bumped, I think of this record:

http://991.com/newgallery/Queen-Latifah-Latifahs-Had-It-U-471810.jpg

Long New York Times piece on the whole Rock Band hoo ha. Looks like a good read. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html

u might want to look a few posts up dude

ah yes my bad. onset of alzheimer's.

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Rubber Soul will join Abbey Road as the first three Beatles albums available to download for The Beatles: Rock Band."

I'm not likely to buy many of these albums, but those three are among those I almost certainly won't. (I'll pass on Let It Be and Magical Mystery Tour for sure as well.) Beatles for Sale, now we're talking.

white album or nothing

For me it's the first four, White Album, prob. Revolver and maybe Help. And depending on how they sort out the Past Masters songs and how many of them end up on the RB disk, that one too. E.g. I'd want "Rain", "Paperback Writer", "I Feel Fine", "Revolution", but I think several of these are on the basic game disk.

That article is kinda funny. "The Beatles aren't really rock stars"?

.... I guess if you consider a band like Poison to be the model of rock stars then perhaps that's true.

Then again if you're basing it on drug intake and groupie sex I have always held a sneaking suspicion that the Beatles were far more hedonistic than anyone can imagine.

i took it to mean that there aren't, like, joe satriani-style shred solos in their songs... wasn't t dragonsofrce who sprang to fame through their appearance on guitar hero?

The beeb are celebrating all this in their own special way: http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/08_august/17/beatles.shtml

the highlight sounds like being this:

The Beatles On Record, directed by Bob Smeaton, charts The Beatles' extraordinary journey from Please Please Me to Abbey Road and reflects on how they developed as musicians, matured as songwriters and created a body of work that sounds as fresh in 2009 as the time it was recorded.

Narrated entirely by John, Paul, George, Ringo and their producer Sir George Martin, the documentary features more than 60 classic songs, rare footage and photos from The Beatles' archives and never-heard-before out-takes of studio chat from the Abbey Road recording sessions.

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Then again if you're basing it on drug intake and groupie sex I have always held a sneaking suspicion that the Beatles were far more hedonistic than anyone can imagine.

Drugs, yes indeed. Not so sure about groupie sex though. And Rolling Stones were far more hedonistic at the time anyway.

Yeah, Groupie sex, loads of it. Soz Geir.

Not so sure about groupie sex though.
Are you serious? Their hotel rooms were revolving doors for groupies.
You don't really buy the suit-and-tie-and-tea-with-the-Queen sham that Brian Epstein put over on the world over four decades ago, do you? The Rolling Stones only seemed more sinister because they were specifically marketed by Andrew Loog Oldham to appear decadent, providing fans with an alternative to the "nice" Beatles. In fact, the opposite was closer to the truth.

From www.believermag.com:
Many in the media were quick to notice the two groups’ contrasting styles. When the Rolling Stones arrived in the United States, the first Associated Press (AP) report described them as “dirtier, streakier, and more disheveled than the Beatles.” Tom Wolfe put things more sharply: “The Beatles want to hold your hand,” he quipped, “but the Stones want to burn down your town.” Since these comparisons proved useful to everyone, both the bands and the journalists collaborated on the charade. In the early 1960s, Keith Richards remarked, “nobody took the music seriously. It was the image that counted, how to manipulate the press and dream up a few headlines.” Peter Jones, who wrote about both bands for the Record Mirror, recalled being in a “difficult position” because he was expected to “gloss over” the Beatles’ tawdry indiscretions. “It was decreed that the Beatles should be portrayed as incredibly lovable, amiable fellows, and if one of them, without mentioning any names, wanted to have a short orgy with three girls in the bathroom, then I didn’t see it.”

yeah i just read a lennon plastic-ono-band-era interview in this rolling stone compilation book and he basically said it was fucking insane on the road in when they still toured, in terms of groupies

yeah, he said it was like "Satyricon", right?

yeah something like that, it's in that rolling stone interviews book that came out a couple years a go.

Jazzbo OTM

The Rolling Stones aren't wearing matching suits but they're playing the same fucking game.

Will they remaster these orgies in mono or stereo?

surround sound, hopefully. and will the orgies be one of the hidden features on the Rock Band game?

one of the most common words used by lennon in the (1970?) playboy/ rolling stone interviews if you listen to the audio recording of them is 'whores'. he says it repeatedly when talking about life on the road. 'whoo-ers' is how he pronounces it. he never makes it sound like much fun either.

The GTO's "Permanent Damage" has a spoken word bit by the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer and he talks about how just by being in the same picture with George Harrison in a pop magazine resulted in a line of girls outside his door for a week. Says it was just like a queue; "NEXT"! Then Rodney compares his bedding skills with Ringo's, saying "I'm a much better lay cos I haven't had as much".

I like how this thread is now "Does A Beatle Have Sexytime?"

It's all Geir's fault.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!

the whole mini-documentary thing with these is irritating.

If you have the Anthology DVDs, not to worry. From what I've seen/heard, the mini-docs are edits of the corresponding Anthology segments, with no new/original content.

Or was that what you meant by irritating (the redundancy aspect)?

yeah, basically, that and the quicktime format -- just seems like a kind of pointless add-on.

nvr frgt

http://www.rhymerecords.com/images/EnhancedCD.gif

those saved the music industry, didn't they?

there's definitely new content on the mini docs, it isnt (as i too feared it might be) regurgiatated ANTHOLOGY bits. or not JUST that.
mind you they're 4 minutes long each doc so hey.

When was the last time somebody included a quicktime file with a CD? I know Spandau Ballet did with their 2003 remaster of "True", and it seemed old-fashioned already then. :)

When the CD+ first appeared, I had the idea to do a "demo tape+" that would include some old TRS-80 program noise at the end... Never actually released it though.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!
Can I steal this for a lyric? It'll never get released - but if it did there'd be a CD and a credit for you in it, M@tt.

pretty surprised these haven't leaked yet.

It's The Beatles, man.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!
Can I steal this for a lyric? It'll never get released - but if it did there'd be a CD and a credit for you in it, M@tt.

― staggerlee, Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:39 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol it's all yours

and also no disrespect geir, glad to see you back on ILM on the real, i love your steez no lie.

When the CD+ first appeared, I had the idea to do a "demo tape+" that would include some old TRS-80 program noise at the end... Never actually released it though.

Pete Shelley did an LP+ in 1982, had a ZX Spectrum program with the lyrics

and also no disrespect geir, glad to see you back on ILM on the real
How do we know for sure who the real Geir is?

toss a JB beat at him and see how he reacts. ;)

How do we know for sure who the real Geir is?

Some ILM'ers have the real Geir as a contact on Facebook, and may have discovered he is this strange guy who writes a lot of incomprehensible status messages in Norwegian ;)

Pete Shelley did an LP+ in 1982, had a ZX Spectrum program with the lyrics

... and the cassette version of The Stranglers' Aural Sculpture album included an adventure game, again for the Spectrum.

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i found a mono copy of SPLHCB a while back, and i can say if you haven't heard this you havent properly heard that record. that said, this is kind of pathetic what they're doing to the catalog, imo - the Capitol boxes sounded great and are prolly dirt cheap now

Just heard the mono Mystery Tour for the first time. "I Am The Walrus" is a pretty different experience!

THE BRASS, OH MY GOD THE BRASS

I might have a little cry.

The guitar in Fixing A Hole!

Do you have the actual thing, or has it leaked?

The rain gets in.