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

i think my fave scream on the Beatles output is Macca's on Why Don't We Do It In The Road but yeah they were the greatest screaming band ever between them no question.

Shakey mo, if it's on Parlophone, it *is* an oddity.

Yesterday and Today pwns this one, as they used to say in the '60s.

Y&T is so wonderfully drowsy and druggy.

The new collection is expected to reach iTunes on Tuesday.

The Bootleg Busting collections, just fyi.

Amazing, someone wake me up when they get to the Rubber Soul era!

finally starting the new Lewisohn/Tune In book today
:D

It's tremendous. You'll love it.

No sign of itunes d/l as of yet.

Supposedly they were on earlier then removed

Some fans have said the songs appeared on iTunes briefly earlier, but the BBC understands they will reappear later on Tuesday and remain indefinitely.

Supposed to be there, now.

.. and they are.

£35 or thereabouts. 59 tracks.

Aren't most of these on the BBC discs?

It's up in the US now, too ($39.99).

And no, everything is previously unreleased. I'm sure many of the songs are also on the BBC sets, but these are different performances the UK copyright situation apparently pertains to sound recordings rather than publishing.

I'd rather ask you all than even try to look this up, if you don't mind.

In the case of The Beatles, that means their 1963 debut album Please Please Me is protected until 2033, but the unreleased session tapes for that album are not.

If the Beatles chose not to release the recordings before the end of the year, it would mean other record labels could theoretically put them out and profit from them.

What counts as an unreleased session tape? Anything the Beatles ever recorded at a "session"? Does this mean "Circle of Light" or "What Goes On, Take 52" has to be released as well?

Well, if they know that certain takes of sogs that aren't out *there* are securely under lock and key, there is no need to 'protect' them in this way until the choose to issue them.

btw, you are thinking of "Carnival of Wind"..

So, as the general sense over this is "BUY IT NOW BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS" chances are it'll be just behind Beyonce in the chart.

yes i am, mark. cheers.

xxxp But if they have these under lock & key and don't release within 50 years, doesn't the copyright lapse anyway? So if they did issue in 2020 or whenever, you could just buy a copy, rip it, and put it out on your own label.

Plus there are multiple takes of everything out there already afaict, theyre not going to release full 100-disc Pepper sessions boxes in 2017 you wouldn't think. Though why not tbh? This is hard.

Clearly, they are 1) Not going to issue anything that isn't out there 2) certain that all these 'lapsed' takes will be buried in a v.secure vault

I have all of these Yellow Dog bootleg CDs with like 60 minutes of Strawberry Fields Forever takes. Can I release those legally in the UK here in a few years?

If Apple/EMI 'forget' to, yes.

Probably not if they're as bad as "Just One More Night" #boomboom #tumblingtumbleweed

I guess this means we will finally actually hear "Carnival of Light" (in four years, granted).

The choice there would be "Issue it in time" or "Lock it away for ever, or until the copyright law changes"

Madman Watching Rainbows

I guess this means we will finally actually hear "Carnival of Light" (in four years, granted).
will they release it if there's no chance of it being bootlegged? afaik that track doesn't even circulate privately among collectors, right?

WHERE'S MY LET IT BE BLU-RAY GODDAMNIT STOP FUCKING WITH ME BEATLES

Right, only fake versions of CoL have surfaced. But in theory, some unscrupulous insider could release whatever they want after the copyright has lapsed. And I don't think everything on this iTunes set has been in circulation (not positive on that, though).

xp

there's no way Carnival of Light won't be a complete waste of time

you're probably right but WHAT IF IT IS AMAZING

It's (almost literally) the bottom of the barrel

xpost Prob.

I have all of these Yellow Dog bootleg CDs with like 60 minutes of Strawberry Fields Forever takes. Can I release those legally in the UK here in a few years?

Even if you could, anyone else who owns it could, and the most likely result will be all these tracks being available online for free, rather than anyone actually being able to profit off of it, surely?

Which is what happened with all those early blues collections.

It comes down to the 'extras', really: The nice pics, the sleevenotes, and so on.

See Bob Dylan's first album, the many 'new' versions on new unknown record labels, available from the shop right now.

this is a cool collection. I don't have all my unsurpassed masters files here with me to compare but the 2nd take of one after 909 here is way better sounding than the one on Turn Me On Dead Man (which is likely the same one that is on unsurpassed masters actually)

Hmm...

The US iTunes has it as $39.99 (which is £24.57)

The UK iTunes has it as £34.99 (which is $56.96)

Whichever site/link I choose, it links to my iTunes package, and guess which price it offers?

resist buying it then. Youre just funding heather mills

funding. OK.

these contact lenses......

I was pretty excited to hear the "Money" studio outtake. Turns out it's the same take as on With The Beatles, but without the piano.

Dunno when this mono Revolver came out, but I just compared the first track, "Taxman," with the 2009 stereo remaster, posted to the right--the latter clarifies some good lines, but overall this stereo sounds too overdubbed, a bit clinical---the mono's a wicked pissah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSA3BQUPhRM

When I do a rip 'n' mix of Pepper's---strictly for personal use, of course---I'll skip "Within You Without You" and add "Taxman."

H'm-m-m, several Beatles albums on that same page, currently.

Wondering about those (all 2009 at latest, when I've checked that YouTube page), compared to these US albums, just out---some bitter-vs.-ecstatic Amazon comments here, duh----tempted to get VI, Yesterday And Today, at least (thee most concentrated, charged, compressed to cutting clarity, yet *raunchy*, often enough---in my memory) http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7/189-8344212-6980652?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=beatles%20us%20albums&sprefix=Beatles%2Cpopular%2C232

Got The Beatles' Second Album the other day, sounds amazing, but only listened to the stereo mixes. Dave Dexter, Jr. may have been a bitter Beatles-hater, but adding reverb for the US market was a good idea. Easily my favorite Beatles record. You want raunchy? "Money" here kicks the stuffing out of the mix on With The Beatles.

Always loved "Money," and several others there, but don't have a memory of the overall album, ditto some tracks/the whole of Something New. Thanks for the tip---really dig that this series provides stereo and mono for all tracks.

still blows my mind that the US Rubber Soul starts with I've Just Seen A Face.

http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mVumQMjallM-P21t3YiybkA.jpg

A friend got me this. Looks cool! Really rad 70s design, lots of rare photos, and it looks like it covers the Beatles plus solo careers (at least, up til '77).

i had that book when i was a kid, it's great

Ditto, I can't remember much specific about it but I think there's stuff to enjoy.

that was my first beatles book, remember it fondly.