The Beatles

John, Paul, George, Ringo and Yakky.

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American releases have v different mixes

Don't think so. Different mastering, yes.

I like Gerry and the Pacemakers. Used to own Canadian Capitol copies of the albums and wish I still had 'em. (They were the same covers and track listings, I think, as the British albums.) "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" are both top notch George Martin-produced ballads. Also really like "It's Gonna Be Alright" as far as rockers go. Marsden wrote that one. Just really good rock and roll imo.

Wouldn't mind hearing this again, either. All the Liverpool artists that ended up recording for Decca:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Mersey-Sounds/release/3126128

Can someone point me to a comprehensive list of the best Beatles mastering/remastering jobs? I feel like I'd be a lot more into them if I could weed out all the awful mixes of their music.

Download the Purple Chick deluxe versions. Sourced from pristine OG vinyl + bonus tracks.

mono white album

I am not a Beatles fan.

http://thesoundla.com/2015/10/the-beatles-release-restored-video-for-revolution/

always liked that clip, never entirely figured out if they're just miming the instruments while singing along to the backing track (which is what it mostly sounds like?)

Yeah, definitely live singing, but mimed playing. Always liked Paul & George's backing vocals in this clip. Pretty sure this is from the same David Frost show as the famous "Hey Jude" clip.

beatles videos are almost all great, even the early ones which are just miming, mainly because they've been so rarely seen over the years that they still seem fresh. this release was really needed.

I dunno, man, I struggle to get anything fresh out of anything Beatle-related these days - even if it's something I've never seen before, I struggle to get excited... it's like "oh, here's more Beatles footage" ...

I've got to hand it to the late Neil Aspinall, though, because my god did he ensure that the archives were preserved, maintained and built up with such care, basically ensuring that this band were documented extensively in a way that no other band really has since.

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Just listening to abbey road

Good band

this thread is alright, but it would be better if it was confrontational for no reason

Which side?

too bad it's about the beatles, a band that tends to make people pretty happy for the most part. so i doubt it'll happen here

Seriously folks try ignoring the negging around this cult but underrated band there is some dece stuff in their catalogue

my 8 year old saw Help! over at a friend's house last weekend and now she loves the Beatles! "They are so funny."

i had an epiphany when i first watched Help! on pot: "these beatles are all stoned!!"

you had watch Help! to figure that out?

i just didn't realize they were stoned on camera until then, i hadn't known what stoned people are like

The Beatles

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Abbey Road is a great record, and quite possibly one of my favourite albums of all time. I remember the first time I heard it. When I was first checking out The Beatles, I didn't go directly to the later stuff like many seem to.

With the Beatles was first, followed by A Hard Days Night, Help! and Rubber Soul. Revolver was next, followed by Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, then The Beatles, then Abbey Road... and even after hearing all of those albums before it, the album still blew me away. The medley, the two great Harrison songs, the harmonies on 'Because', the great production, Ringo's best song etc.

I heard Let it Be after that, and then went back and heard Please Please Me, Beatles for Sale etc. but Abbey Road remained the "one" ...

You may enjoy So, should I let Amber and Alice see the Beatles' "Help" film? or you may not, putting it here anyway.

'The Night Before' rules.

someone on my facebok posted random lyric snippet from hey jude a second ago and i was like did paul mccartney fuckin die finally lol

i love these mop tops why because they look interesting

'The Night Before' rules.

True fact, too seldom asserted

my kid's favorite seems to be "You're Going to Lose That Girl" which was a little surprising to me at first, but then i was like yeah you're right, this rules.

I go through the process with myself in the place of the kid at times

The title track, 'The Night Before', 'You're Going to Lose that Girl', 'Another Girl', 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away', 'Ticket to Ride' and 'Yesterday' = all top drawer Beatles, IMO. It's a shame about the other half of Help! ...

"I NEED YOU" imo

Never liked it, myself. I thought Harrison began well with 'Don't Bother Me', but didn't really get good until Rubber Soul.

I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE

my kid's favorite seems to be "You're Going to Lose That Girl" which was a little surprising to me at first, but then i was like yeah you're right, this rules.

the back-to-back "you're going to lose that girl" and "ticket to ride" at the end of side 1 are quite possibly my favorite 5 or 6 minutes in the beatles catalog.

and i've always loved the insistence on proper grammar in the title.

The Night Before' rules.

True fact, too seldom asserted

It's the Beatles song that could use the most asserting

do these guys have a new album coming out or something?

Good tunes imo

One off gig playing the "Yellow Submarine" album.

Re "Another Girl" -- the crazy chord progression on "Through thick and thin she will always be my friend" just kills me

The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.

Their ability to do straw-boater almost barbershop harmonies in that vein is a definite thing

w/r/t the beatles, i've had this sort of ongoing project to find cover versions i like, and like at least as well as the beatles' version, of all the beatles' originals. it's pretty difficult even for how popular it is to play their songs. everybody wants to do "she's leaving home", nobody wants to do "lovely rita". and of all the thousands of versions of "yesterday" out there, i've never heard one as good as the beatles' version - that song is on a knife-edge.
i've got a decent chunk together, though. for "the night before", i like the version by the retreads.

YMO's "daytripper" is cool

My dad bought the Complete Beatles book with piano versions of every song, they got stuck in the mail, he got another one, so now I have a copy as well :)