Topic: The Beatles entire original recorded catalogue remastered for 09/09/09 release

[WeSeeThings....]

The Beatles: bad band? or the WORST band?

First off, they couldn't even spell their own name right. Also, most of their "hits" were created while they were on acid & are more like "shits" than "hits." And wtf is up with their hair? They don't deserve their own rock band game at all.







 

[CaptainBeefheart]

Sew my sides back up

"hits.......more like shits"

Is your real name Lenny Bruce?

Or Bob Nudd?

[Ron]

1st time I listened to this "new" stuff.
It's wrong.
In some songs the emphasis of the instruments has changed.
I've not listened to much yet, but Back in the USSR, Walrus,  Fixing a Hole are not like they should be, that is to say, how they have been for decades.
I wonder when this mindless money grabbing hooliganism will stop.

OK, I know, it never stops.
Silly me ...

[Ron]

Just thinking though, if they had sounded completely like the versions we already had, it would have been even more silly.
So I guess it's a lose-lose situation ...

[Red_Skippy]

I have been listening to these again recently.  Have to say I love the remasters.  Hearing some songs on the headphones felt like I was listening to them for the first time all over again.

On the other hand I can see how some may feel that it has been a money grabbing exercise by EMI (which to some extent it is even in my eyes) but I love them.

[Ron]

I have been listening to these again recently.  Have to say I love the remasters.  Hearing some songs on the headphones felt like I was listening to them for the first time all over again.

On the other hand I can see how some may feel that it has been a money grabbing exercise by EMI (which to some extent it is even in my eyes) but I love them.

It does sound different doesn't it ?
If you can get the "new versions" for free, I guess real hard core Beatle fans would perhaps be happy with it.
Personally I would recommend new listeners to Beatles music to get the original versions, the balance is better.
Of course I'm influenced by the fact that I know those versions by heart and love them very much.

[Timbo's Goals]

It does sound different doesn't it ?
If you can get the "new versions" for free, I guess real hard core Beatle fans would perhaps be happy with it.
Personally I would recommend new listeners to Beatles music to get the original versions, the balance is better.
Of course I'm influenced by the fact that I know those versions by heart and love them very much.

I have to go along with you there Ron. Some good points that I can relate to. Not that i don't feel great joy reading through the rest of the thread and hearing the delight some of the other folks have got from their recent mono/stereo listening experiences. Some great posts. It's just that...

Having grown up with them since ground zero everything of theirs is so deeply embedded in my psyche I just don't see the point in investing what would be for me a 3rd/4th round of purchasing the same albums.

Sure i replaced and extended the original albums/singles. Then i got everything on CD. And okay with this complete collection I can envisage perhaps a crisper clearer tone, vocal, harmony, bass line or what have you. But overall the songs are just so much part of me I just can't see as how I'd really derive any more enjoyment from them than that which has imbued me from day one.

The resonance of Please Please Me or There's A Place or What You're Doing or Norwegian Wood or And Your Bird Can Sing or Carry That Weight or Two of Us is just so deep within me, I don't think hearing them on the most sophisticated sound system known to man could ever come within a million miles of the joy I still recall hearing them for the first time on my own or my cousin's little Mono dansette record player. Likewise Hey Jude will always be the Hey Jude I heard for the first time on the pub juke box. Nothing has ever come close to that.

[Timbo's Goals]

Just watched an interview with Brian fallon of gaslight anthem in utter rapture about early Bruce Spr. - doesn't quite gel with the views of that paul shirley on current being best. But really I guess you have to give full marks for trying to any idiot who puts forward a 2000 word argument that's akin to saying chocolate tastes shite or endless sex with Olga Kurylenko wouldn't be pleasurable.

 

[Ron]

I've just found a remastered version of Let it Bleed from the Rolling Stones.
It's so fucking awesome you can throw the original LP/CD away !
So it can be done, making good remasters.

If you want to check it out, it can be found at :
http://retrovinylcupboard.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-07-15T19%3A25%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=15
It's the 3rd album down.

[Ray K]

This is fantastic.

Someone has deconstructed 'Helter Skelter' into their separate parts for vocals, guitars, bass & drums. Paul's bass is particular amazing, and as for his vocal...

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/deconstructing_helter_skelter/

[Ray K]

Mr James Paul McCartney, 70 Years young today.

Happy Birthday Sir. I'll raise a glass in your honour this evening.

He wrote Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road on the same effing day.
Just think about that, next time somebody wants to have a pop at him for his hair colour or choice of wife.

[FinnishRed]

Paul Weller has recorded a birthday single:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITCumd75J2o&feature=relmfu

Happy Birthday Macca. One of the greatest song writers in the western pop music.

[jillc]

Paul Weller has recorded a birthday single:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITCumd75J2o&feature=relmfu

Happy Birthday Macca. One of the greatest song writers in the western pop music.

A very underrated one too, despite his Beatles past. Happy birthday Paul.