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

The sinister vibe comes mostly from John, who sounds haunted throughout the album, but it bleeds into the other songs the way gruesome moments in a David Lynch movie make the banal stuff seem tainted and horrifying.

why are we engaging with turrican's trolling on this exact topic again? he's made it very clear he has no interest in how anybody else hears or relates to this album. he just summarized the takes of several posters in this thread who as a "long running myth." what's the point of conversing with someone who approaches conversation like that?

"Savoy Truffle" sounds rad. Anyone feeling sour on a perceived generic-ness to "Birthday" should be able to kick out the jams to that one.

'Savoy Truffle' and 'Birthday' are two of my favourite things on the record, I particularly love how the band attack the "yes we're going to a party, party" section - it's full of energy and life, totally upbeat and not at all creepy.

I particularly love how the band attack the "yes we're going to a party, party" section

Me too

Guitars sound so good there

Re: my posts upthread about how Ringo probably didn’t play a double-bass-drum kit on “Good Morning, Good Morning” — and being corrected on said assertion — there’s photos in the book/box of Ringo playing a double-bass setup (and one of Paul doing the same). Only, I can’t hear any instances of it on the white album.

Piano sound on Birthday is fantastic

The fifties rock and roll coda on "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is so excellent.

i've started dipping into this remix and it's.... idk it's pretty weird. for whatever reason the really bright, clear "da da da da da da da da" backing vocals on Helter Skelter are what stands out most to me. it sounds like a Wings song. which is not a minus in my book but it definitely doesn't feel as much of its period or of what this album sounds like to me. "cry baby cry" also feels strange all cleaned up and each track clearly enunciated. the bass part on that frankly sounds kinda bad, like maybe the old mix was hiding places where what paul's doing is a little dissonant or cluttered over top of lennon's keyboard parts. the super clean punchiness works okay for "monkey," i'll admit.

Yeah, I wasn't saying it wasn't weird tbc but it is interesting and some of it does work. I do appreciate more clarity with the picking in "Blackbird".

Bass playing is great on "Cry Baby Cry!" I assume you're talking about the glissandi at the beginning?

Holy hell, “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” sounds like Hüsker Dü.

Okay, just started poking around in this and found the the melody of “Jealous Guy” in something called “Child of Nature,” which I am sure somebody posted about way upthread but sorry, tl;dr.

Okay, did find mention of the song on this thread and mention of the similarity of the melody on various other threads now that I looked but it has um, passed me by, until now.

yeah it's an early version

jealous guy is an improvement

The "I'm one of nature's children" line is so awkward

Yeah. Still having to choose between « Mother nature’s child » and « Child of nature » to keep on an album is a tough choice !

Okay, started listening at the beginning and, while for the most part I don’t mind or actively like the new mixes so far, “I Will” was really bugging me with its overcooked jug band high jinks.

Are the backing vocals on “Helter Skelter” boosted? Almost sounds like the Edwin Hawkins Singers on “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).”

Holy hell, “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” sounds like Hüsker Dü.

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I thought the same thing, but didn't want to play to type here.

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yeah and there's one specific "da da da da" that is very loud : I wonder why (maybe it's also louder in the original mix ?) but it's kinda fun in the ott aspect of the song.

I'm liking most of this but the extreme foregrounding of the bass on some of these songs is terrible. Why it seemed like a good idea to do that at the expense of the sharp edges and sheer weirdness of Happiness is a Warm Gun e.g. is ???. It sounds like a YouTube bass tutorial.

For all his self consciousness it's like Paul still doesn't get that burnishing his legacy = dialing it down in general. Large swaths of this mix only put me in mind of the guy pleading with his band to dress up like candy shop soldiers on the record before it.

I don't really hear a massive bass boost; in some instances (like "Glass Onion"), the bass is quieter than on the original mix. And where it is loud, it doesn't overwhelm (unlike the "Dear Prudence" drums, which are needlessly loud).

The one serious disappointment to me is that Ringo's scream in "Helter Skelter," and the subsequent guitar clang, is much lower than on the original mix. Of all the elements on that album to tone down, why that?

I think on HIAWG and some other tracks it's just loud enough to have a newly distinct profile that isn't necessarily in service to the song. Felt this way abt a lot of the new Pepper tracks, too...sometimes there is something good in the smearing of sounds!

I felt Happiness Is A Warm Gun missed the smeariness too. It felt like a band performing a weird song rather than a crazy collage.

Hey, is the 4LP reissue limited at all? am jonesing for it but not sure when I'll be able to afford it in the near-ish future

DANG, the remix of "A Day in the Life" is good.

yea they did a great job on the pepper one imo

What I am assuming is the most recent remastering of the mono mix of Sgt. Pepper - from the recent set - is not on Spotify, but is, in fact, on Youtube (though not identified as such):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwABrNLvFs&list=PL65eY6eS8rRz25y0p_Li96bhD8Fhaztgg

Abbey Road Deluxe out September 27.

ABBEY ROAD REVISITED WITH SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY RELEASES! New mixes in stereo, 5.1 surround, and Dolby Atmos + previously unreleased session recordings and demos. Available everywhere 27th September 2019. Pre-order: https://t.co/qWXolZuh0w #AbbeyRoad pic.twitter.com/A1xilvQzOy

— The Beatles (@thebeatles) August 8, 2019

Looking forward to it while bracing myself. It's near-perfect, recorded on an 8-track transistor board with mono never even an option. What're they going to do, make the anvil hits louder?

oh shit

« Something » is on Spotify

I've had it up to here with the Beatles catalogue being remastered

ha ha ha

HOW ABOUT A NEW MIX OF RUBBER SOUL, GODDAMMIT!

**** stereo mix, I mean

Increasingly, I'm down on the idea. Rubber Soul was remixed in 1987 and if another mix is not going to do something new with the tracks - as was the case with Yellow Submarine Songtrack now twenty years ago - I don't find the project to be exciting.

Although I did like the Sgt. Pepper one. I'll keep an open mind and will listen to the White Album one again sometime.

Damn, this remastering of Something sounds really good to me.

Really ? I don’t find it very different. That said I’m not a big fan of Abbey Road so not really excited by this.
Rubber Soul and Revolver, on the other hand...

I liked both the Pepper and white album projects a lot (white album more than pepper). Abby Road is an almost perfect sounding album already, so interested to see what this does. More interested in the outtakes as usual.

gave all three a listen, all three sound amazing.

Don't remember the cymbal action on the bridge being that upfront.

I don’t even care about how it sounds, I just want the damn outtakes!

^^^

why with all the PR is there no actual tracklisting

It's basically gonna be all the Maxwell's takes, right?

here's the tracklisting of all the various versions

SUPER DELUXE [3CD+1Blu-ray set; digital audio collection]

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

7. Here Comes The Sun

8. Because

9. You Never Give Me Your Money

10. Sun King

11. Mean Mr Mustard

12. Polythene Pam

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

14. Golden Slumbers

15. Carry That Weight

16. The End

17. Her Majesty

CD TWO: Sessions

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

6. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

7. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

8. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

9. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

10. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

11. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

12. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

CD THREE: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come And Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 – Instrumental)

9. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

(Medley: You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard, Her Majesty, Polythene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End)

10. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

11. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

BLU-RAY: Abbey Road

Audio Features:

- Dolby Atmos

- 96kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

- 96kHz/24 bit High Res Stereo (2019 Stereo Mix)

DELUXE 3LP VINYL BOX SET (limited edition)

LP ONE: Side 1 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Come Together

2. Something

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

4. Oh! Darling

5. Octopus’s Garden

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

LP ONE: Side 2 (2019 Stereo Mix)

1. Here Comes The Sun

2. Because

3. You Never Give Me Your Money

4. Sun King

5. Mean Mr Mustard

6. Polythene Pam

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

8. Golden Slumbers

9. Carry That Weight

10. The End

11. Her Majesty

LP TWO: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session and Reduction Mix)

2. Goodbye (Home Demo)

3. Something (Studio Demo)

4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)

5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

LP TWO: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

2. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

3. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

4. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

5. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3) / Medley)

6. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

7. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

LP THREE: Side 1 (Sessions)

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. The End (Take 3)

3. Come and Get It (Studio Demo)

4. Sun King (Take 20)

5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

LP THREE: Side 2 (Sessions)

1. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)

2. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)

3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)

DELUXE 2CD

CD ONE: 2019 Stereo Mix

CD TWO: Sessions

1. Come Together (Take 5)

2. Something (Studio Demo)

3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

4. Oh! Darling (Take 4)

5. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)

6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix)

7. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

9. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

10. Sun King (Take 20)

11. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)

12. Polythene Pam (Take 27)

13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)

14. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3 / Medley)

15. The End (Take 3)

16. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)

STANDARD [1CD; digital; 1LP vinyl; limited edition 1LP picture disc vinyl]

2019 Stereo Mix