Damn this BBC thing is derailing my work day.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Really good shew.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm probably not the first to notice this but hearing "drive my car" for the first time in years it sounds like PIANO HOUSE!
i mean....! when the piano comes in on the chorus it sounds like it's being just pasted in, totally a sample. the rest of the song is pretty basic dry, reverbed beatleswelt, but that piano is warm and intimate, like it was recorded a half inch away from the strings. plus the chords are just dumm, up and down. like a house vamp. the beatles even invented piano house for god's sake, all is futile!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
OTM
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
bits of "Blue Jay Way" remind me of mid-90s trip hop
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
It's All Too Much is the other one that's way ahead of its time.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Two of those three are George tunes.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to It's All Too Much a few times last night. Hadn't really paid much attention to it before. It's quite freaky, it could fit onto Isn't Anything quite easily.
"with your long blonde hurr... "
― I saw your posse, but now it's me who's bossy (DavidM), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
That fucking mad ribbitting sound in the right channel before the horns come in, WTF?
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Beatles get high and all bang on random percussion while they dub their vocals.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I probably shouldn't bring this up, but I have a megaupload link with the mono box set. 676MB. If this is too improper, let me know. If anyone wants the link....
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno, are you a COP?
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.gonemovies.com/www/MyWebFilms/Drama/TaxiDriverNiroKeitel.jpg"I'm hip"
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
No, not in the least. I'm somewhat of a regular here. I found the link on a forum I frequent.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
er, i would like that link. not going to download anything, i'm just a link-collector. ;D
― tylerw, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Send me a email if you're interested. I don't want to post it here. I wouldn't want any trouble.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Leonardo it!
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
What does that mean?
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Jacob, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I don't feel too bad since I own all this stuff in multiple formats and will certainly spring for a vinyl box set if they put one out.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"bits of "Blue Jay Way" remind me of mid-90s trip hop"
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:37 PM (4 hours ago)
The end of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' invented shoegaze and sludge metal!!!
― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Piggies" invented Sufjan Stevens!
― staggerlee, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Btw. that podcast linked above is really great. Haven't been able to listen to all of it, but what I've heard is fantastic.
Now that they have managed to dig deeper into the recorded tracks than before, Eagle Vision should gather together George Martin, Geoff Emerick and the two surviving Beatles and create a "Classic Albums" episode about "Revolver" or "Sgt. Pepper".
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, it's weird how reticent george martin has been about his role in the beatles.
― history mayne, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Norman Smith and (especially in the later years) Geoff Emerick had more of a direct impact on recording techniques and studio trickery which people tend to solely credit George Martin for.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Geoff Emerick's book "Here There And Everywhere" may retell some of the same stories you've heard a million times over, but it gives a good depiction of the hierarchical setup of the Abbey Road studio staff.
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:33 (fifteen years ago) link
.. while bigging up some of the things he may or may not have actually done.
There was a George Martin "Classic Albums" special where he played with a multitrack...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a short documentary on the Anthology DVD boxset, which is pretty interesting.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
The bit in the interview about the violin players walking out on Hey Jude is great.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
It's interesting to me the way they describe the remastering process. They weren't remixing per se, but taking elements from the master tapes and selectively mastering individual instruments on combined tracks is definitely pseudo-remixing. It certainly explains how they were able to separate the vocals and bring out the drums and bass though.
I think with all the bouncing they did, it's criminal not to properly remix this stuff.
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago) link
That'll be the next thing they release in 20 years.
― Darin, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I love how Emerick starts "Here There And Everywhere" with recording "Tomorrow Never Knows". His first day on the job as engineer and only 19 years old! Lucky little bastard. Dude has some weird mancrush on McCartney though.
― Darin, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I doubt they will bother releasing anything in 20 years, considering the copyrights run out from 2012 until 2020.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope they open-source the original tracks someday. That would be too plethora.
― staggerlee, Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, apologies for writing those two pseudo-Newspeak sentences above. Something's wrong with my brain today.
― staggerlee, Thursday, 24 September 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
There's just no way those copyrights are going to run out without a fight...my money's on 2066 or somewhere around then.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 24 September 2009 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Seriously. This is going to be the new Disney as far as copyright goes- the day Mickey Mouse or Sgt. Pepper are public domain, our great-great-great-great-grandchildren will be too busy fighting cannibal mutants for gasoline to care.
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Thursday, 24 September 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
There's just no way those copyrights are going to run out without a fight...
That is an interesting thread on its own, I guess. But that could not possibly happen for The Beatles alone. Either the EU changes the copyright rule for recorded music to 95 years in Europe in general (which would also mean that Edith Piaf, Vera Lynn and Marlene Dietrich would be no more public domain for a few more decades) or The Beatles, Stones i.e. will have to put up with the same rules as other European acts.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 24 September 2009 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Reiterating comments upthread, that BBC George Martin interview is excellent. O_o at the version of 'Love Me Do' with Pete Best. Great stuff. Thanks for the link, Pancakes!!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 24 September 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
These remasters have made me reconsider the likes of Coldplay, who I think I'd been mellowing on. There really is no reason for them to exist at all.
― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I've forgotten all about them.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 September 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
they exist but to annoy us music snobs.
― livin' large under the shadow of a Suggest Ban (Ioannis), Friday, 25 September 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
All you need is hubris...
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 25 September 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
No joke: One of my cats just ran to the right speaker for a close inspection, when the cuckoo at the start of 'Good Morning Good Morning' came along! That has never happened before!
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 25 September 2009 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh shi... forgot about the cat and dogs at the end of the song :-D
Also: how fucking GREAT does Paperback Writer sound on this? Gaaaahhh... so IN YOUR FACE, unable to fight off, sucking you in, BREATHING THE SONG, DREAMING THE DREAM
― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 25 September 2009 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIA_NVFnXZ8
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 September 2009 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
is it weird that I want Anthology 2 to be remastered? or is the sound quality about in the same realm as these ones? i can't tell....
― Change Display Name: (Steve Shasta), Friday, 25 September 2009 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Well the Anthologies are proper remixes but I'd agree that they didn't go as over the top with the mastering and eq as they have on this latest round. I don't see them going back to remaster the Anthologies though so you'll have to enjoy them as they are (which is quite nice anyway).
― Nate Carson, Friday, 25 September 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I never did pick the Anthologies up...after all the discussion here I think I would like to seek them out.
Can we retitle this thread 'HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY ON BEATLE$'?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 25 September 2009 20:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Anthologies are pretty essential imo. And they do sound great -- don't really think they need a remastering ...
― tylerw, Friday, 25 September 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link