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

the audio quality is far better than standard MP3 audio files and equivalent to the remastered CDs released last year. =

not if it's 256 surely?

Can't wait for the SACD release in 2013.

Can't wait for the Mono SACD release in 2014.

are they ever gonna put out the vinyl remasters?

Well, so far they have put out one vinyl remaster: The Paperback Writer/Rain single, in stereo. OK, so the audio may be remastered, but the cutting of the vinyl has it without 'groove spacing' so it's all within 50% of the available space, which is ironic as the original (mono) single was the first to ensure the bass frequencies were maxxed.

(and I'm no audiobuff at all)

No Rock N Roll Fun's jaded, cynical but interesting take on it all: http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2010/11/beatles-very-slight-tremor-few-injured.html

i just compared early u.s. stereo capitol pressing of MMT and early u.s. apple pressing - um, cuz that's the kind of thing i like to do at 8:30 in the morning - and the capitol blows the apple away. apple probably only came out a couple years later, but its like night and day really. apple folks probably pretty stoned at the time...

i don't know if i've ever actually heard a beatles album on cd! i am curious about the new shiny ones. if i see any for a buck at the thrift store i'll pick them up.

listening to a clean mfsl white album pressing now. the sound is so clean too. lots of great detail. very crisp. maybe not as loud as early apple pressings. i'd have to check. great copy to own for ringo fans. drums sound amazing.

what's mfsl?

mobile fidelity sound laboratory, as I remember. They did amazing quality 12" vinyl pressings of a bunch of albums in the pre-CD days.

the bass on piggies is so fat! very cool. i'm gonna bring this copy to the local record show in december. someone will be happy. it won't go to japan this time.

um, nothing against japan. much love for them and the tons of money they have given me for obscure boogie twelve inches. but i'm trying to be more of a locavore in deed and spirit.

Wasn't he the singer in Dr Hook?

today i am sending records to...let's see here...germany (rare brazil cozmik disco), japan (more rare disco), germany (rare private press glam metal), connecticut! (more rare disco), and actually sending something up the road near me! (prog record) heck, i should have just told them to come to the store and given them their postage back.

This is a good spot as any to recommend everyone pick up the "Wonderwall" soundtrack if they can find it. Unfortunately it hasnt been remastered, but it was recorded by George in India pre-White Album, and it is really a great instrumental record. Lots of genre hopping, with some nice psych baroque/eastern influence running through it all. Harpsichords and sitars kind of stuff. Eric Clapton shreds on one song that is pretty much a 2 second loop over and over again.

Yeah, it took me yonks to find one, an old US copy, bit worn...

i need a copy of that. i don't have one. mono copies sell for a bunch.

i'm gonna play george's dark horse album today. i've never heard it!

Is "Wonderwall" on iTunes? Because if not, I'm waiting.

okay, listening now. all i know is for such a krishnahead george sure was fond of christmas music.

my first thought listening to dark horse is i wanna tell george to lay off the cigs. r.i.p. (i really gotta quit too...)

George had emphysema during the recording of that album. not his best (altho there's like three songs on it that I think are great)

more like Dark Hoarse amirite

lolz

yeah its okay. some of the longer groove tracks sound good. don't think i need a copy though.

Wonderwall is a terrible movie btw

btw, song w vocal recorded for Wonderwall sdtk but initially 'lost' and not released until 1999

The movie's not so bad.

Yeah that amazing song is on the DVD release. Plus the movie has The Fool in it, that Dutch art collective that painted the side of the Apple building and Eric Clapton's guitar and did some album covers (including ISB) had a cool freak folk record of their own as well:

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/287/287713_1_f.jpg

Woah!

"The Fool's best known artworks are those they created for The Beatles in 1966–67. They include:
the original (rejected) cover and the inner sleeve for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;"

elsewhere...

"Originally a Dutch group called the Fool made a design for the center fold of the album.

Miles: "Simon and Marijke painted a dream landscape of stylised mountain peaks and wonderful birds, like an LSD-influenced Chinese willow-pattern design. The sky was rainbow-ed with two oval panels for text, one of which was filled with stars and comets. A further empty panel had a flower border with a peacock draping its tail over the side. Tiny figures of the Beatles peeped out from among the flora. The style was Euro-psychedelic, owing much to Mucha, Beardsley, art nouveau and nineteenth-century children’s book illustrations. Unfortunately they got the dimensions wrong, but even with a border added, the work looked somehow second-rate. The Beatles, however, loved it."

But Fraser saw it differently. He felt it would be judged by posterity as simply another piece of sixties acid art. Robert suggested a series of portrait shots instead. For this picture the Beatles all looked in the camera and tried to express a feeling of love to their fans. "And that’s what that is," declares Paul "if you look at it you’ll see the big effort from the eyes".

Here's an interview by Dutch Beatlesexpert Azing with Simon Posthuma (The Fool), made in March 2, 1996.

Azing: Can you describe the design? We have no idea what it looked like.
Simon: It was very colorful. It was a gatefold (three-part) cover with a square filled with dancing people and many rainbow colors. Very lovely - like everything in those days. Flower power, you know?
Azing: What happened to the original design?
Simon: John took it and hang in on the wall at his house. I think it's still on the wall at Yoko's."

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t263/frequentflyer909/FoolSgtPepper.jpg

huh never seen that before

it is kind of dopey tho. they made the right choice

didn't derek taylor have the Fool cover pulled? it says in Macca's book which i don't have to hand. they did the Apple painting which i always quite liked
http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/apple_boutique_01.jpg

love the "classic" sign next door too lol

(That 'Classic' is a cinema and there's still a cinema there these days - 'Screen on Baker Street)

For this picture the Beatles all looked in the camera and tried to express a feeling of love to their fans. "And that’s what that is," declares Paul "if you look at it you’ll see the big effort from the eyes".

According to John, two of the Beatles were 'flying' (presume he means tripping) on the Sgt Pepper cover, unknown to the others. One has to be John, but not sure who the other was was. According to John, George was 'very heavy on acid' - and Paul was known to be wary - so I'd guess it was George.

Macca had taken it already a few times by the time of the Pepper sleeve mind.

and he does look pretty out of it in that session:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbv0oe5BXn1qb2mtno1_500.jpg

haha yeah.

They all look pretty out in that particular photo though.

the voice of experience

i thought that when the announcement was that the washington coliseum concert was available "streaming from itunes" it meant it was actually available in itunes like a movie preview, but I guess it's just on a webpage? lame-o.

40 W Beatles Hey Jude

Least popular track is What Goes On apparently - 14 downloads. Revolution 9 downloaded 48 times!

Poor ol' rings. (where is this list?)

Those figures were tweeted by Music Week News earlier.

http://twitter.com/MusicWeekNews

ha:

EMI Publishing has secured deals with two of the hottest new bands, putting pen to paper with Mona and Brother.

Will hear nothing futher from these bands...

UK Top 40 singles has 'Hey Jude' at number 40. That's it.

Yep.

I have had it up to here hearing about The Beatle's catalogue being available on iTunes.