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

Yeah, George said he wished he’d gotten Willie Weeks to play on it.

The strings are more prominent on this new Something. That and all the string/instrumental outtakes make me wonder if Giles saw this project as a kind of tribute to his dad.

That's a bit of a reach at this stage.

New mixes of Oh! Darling up

listening off my macbook speakers, doesn't sound appreciably different but I can hear some of the background vox a bit clearer I suppose. at the very least it seems no worse than the original (and I still think abby road is the best mixed and engineered beatles album)

background vox a bit clearer I suppose

Yes and lead guitar less impactful sounding. Really failing to see the point.

If there's a vision for what they're doing with this stuff, I can't see it.

$$$$$$$$

no, wait
££££££££££

re£etting the copyright date too prob

uh the bass on "Something" is sick wtf

yeah, I don't even hear the difference on this remix... (a little more on "Something").
That one remix album seems particularly pointless.
Too bad, the pre-Pepper ones would have been more interesting (especially since they were so heavily panned on the stereo versions).

everything sounds a little cleaner and brighter afaict. those backing vocals are p sick

the drums sound great

Skipping Revolver in the remixing exercise is unforgivable imo. Some cleaner track separation on songs like She Said She Said and I'm Only Sleeping would be much more interesting than these ever so slightly remixed Abbey Road tracks.

I dread the Let it Be one. I't's going to be like 10 discs of awful covers.

.. and a film by Peter Jackson!

actually it's a trilogy

hour-long scene of the band filling Twickenham with farts

Skipping Revolver in the remixing exercise is unforgivable imo.

I don't think they skipped it so much as it just didn't occur to them at the time to do a big anniversary package. Pepper was the first such Beatles box, and approached as a one-off; they initially denied they would do boxes for subsequent albums. Hopefully after next-year's fart-filled Let It Be box they'll properly revisit Revolver.

Those 50-year anniversaries sneak up on you!

LEAVE REVOLVER ALONE

ADD MORE OVERDUBS TO RUBBER SOUL

revolver's stereo mix is fucked up, listen to Elenor Rigby and that awful thing that happens to the vocal at the very beginning. needs to be rebalanced.

And that edit noise that starts Yellow Submarine

don't care because I am a mono basic binch

I was gonna make a joke about a James Last remix, then I thought maybe it would be funnier if I said Jive Bunny instead, then it occurred to me that that Cirque du Soleil thing got there way before me.

Do they definitely have access to the tapes for Revolver to do a job on them like they did with Sgt Pepper?

Because Revolver + Rubber Soul would be more interesting mixed to a more contemporary stereo mix than Abbey Road which is already mixed brilliantly.

Mark Lewisohn interview in the guardian today is v good

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/11/the-beatles-break-up-mark-lewisohn-abbey-road-hornsey-road

Why wouldn't they have access to the tapes of Revolver (or any other album) ?

They do, they were used for LOVE, Rock Band et al.

and Yellow Sub Songtrack remixes

Nice article indeed.
Lol at Paul being a dick about George. Again !

great article

finish the fucking book Mark!

New video for Here Comes the Sun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQetemT1sWc

How DARE they, that's a master-volume Twin Reverb which means it's post-1972.

And Ringo’s drums didn’t have isolation mounts, largely because isolation mounts wouldn’t exist for at least another 10 years.

Box set is up on Spotify, if anyone cares. Remixes of "She's so Heavy" and "Sun King" are nice.

xp maybe thats meant to be the studio in the present day... set up with fresh gear and waiting for The Masters to return, like how scientology churches keep an office ready & waiting for L Ron Hubbard

the bonus tracks are cool including the early mix of the side two suite with her majesty moved to it's original place.

lol One Eye Open

Have to say that "Here Comes the Sun" mix is really good.

Holy shit, that Ballad Of John And Yoko outtake is the keeper from the sessions stuff.

both the most pointless and most enjoyable remix so far lol

i really enjoy what the remix has done to the balance of elements in "maxwell's silver hammer" without being able to pinpoint exactly why

ok one concrete thing: amazing drumming all over this record and the remix really brings it out

Fun little surprise at the end of a “Maxwell’s” outtake on one of the Sessions discs:

George: “‘Kick Out The Jams,’ take 8!”
Ringo: “Brothers and sisters!”

Wow!

that is awesome

Just playing the new mix in the background while I do stuff, but I think I take back everything. Abbey Road was the Beatles' '70s album - might as well make it sound as good as you can. Sounds like they did quite a job on the whole thing.

Brad is right - the drumming is awesome.
there's a really nice subtle moog tone underpinning one of the verses in Maxwells which is really endearing. I never could bring myself to hate it