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

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

and yeah I never really noticed how prominently 70s this album feels.

both the most pointless and most enjoyable remix so far lol

― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, September 28, 2019 9:53 AM

OTM

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!”

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, September 28, 2019 1:30 PM

I love actual examples of those guys fucking with Paul.

Why? Because they were such better human beings? Was just reading this about "I Want You":

In the early morning hours of April 19th, 1969, after putting the final touches on “Old Brown Shoe” in EMI Studio Three the evening before, John and George, along with producer Chris Thomas and the engineering staff, entered EMI Studio Two at 1 am with the intention of performing overdubs on the Trident master tape of “I Want You.” “John and George went into the far left-hand corner of number two to overdub those guitars,” engineer Jeff Jarratt recalls. “They wanted a massive sound so they kept tracking and tracking, over and over...I was getting a bit of pick-up so I asked George to turn it down a little. He looked at me and said, dryly, 'You don't talk to a Beatle like that.'

At least Harrison played on the song (Lennon did not) and did a good job on it.

i think "dryly" is the operative word in that anecdote.

How can you not fuck with this guy?

https://d2s36jztkuk7aw.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/styles/media_responsive_widest/public/tile/image/original_51.jpg?itok=gaPRYVm_×tamp=1353506747

"...and it's all, 'Bang Bang Maxwell In Your Facehole Gents..."

"Hey guys? Could you not hang your jacket up on the patch cords?"

"You don't talk to a Beatle like that!"

John may have brought his girlfriend in, but Paul wore the vest.

lol @ this Maxwell's outtake, no wonder Lennon and Harrison reportedly hated these sessions. Macca's farting about is his cutesy worst.

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

finally listened to all these and damn this is otm. ppl who diss Ringo are insane, I would kill to have a drummer that heavy and fluid.

totally.

Thirded. It’s almost as if they are repeating something they heard somebody say and haven’t actually bothered to listen to the records.

Never trust a drummer who disses Ringo