Is the Beatles 1962-66 (the 'red' alb) the only record of theirs that you need?

One of my favorite bridges and one of my favorite Harrisolos.

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

YES!

I think there may be some personal investment for Paul in the song that George didn’t share, as it’s said that John’s last words with Paul by phone were reportedly “Think about me every now and then, old friend.”

"Don't think about pissy George"

lol

"and your bird can sing" is my favorite beatles song

yeah I wasn't implying that people don't like And Your Bird Can Sing. I just mean it doesn't get the attention I think it should given it's one of the best things they ever recorded.

the demo of now and then is definitely in rougher shape than Real Love and Free as a Bird, but I'm still pretty excited to hear what they were able to do with it now. I have no problem with McCartney basically using a cleaned up sample to construct a new song around it and that MAL demixing tech sounds pretty amazing. Purists might balk but I don't care.

i'm not expecting to be utterly blown away but if it's as good as the other two tracks I'll be happy. Those two songs have turned out to be major earworms for me; I don't think of them are core Beatles tracks, but I like them and they circle around my head an awful lot.

Circling back, it's sort of insane to me that "Tomorrow Never Knows" wasn't on Red's tracklist from the get-go

"Real Love" is a Good Song, "Free as a Bird" not so much.

Great video though

I guess it would have spoiled the vibe of the red album as the one your Daily Express reading uncle liked.

yeah, to be sure, it would feel way more of a place opening up the refigured Blue

I mean, if it were up to me I'd have Revolution 9 on blue as well.

Beatles compilations are weird, it feels like watching a CNN documentary or something. I just never listened to anything other than the albums + past masters

and anthologies, don’t know the bbc sessions well

The only Beatles albums you need are Ballads and A Collection of Beatles Oldies.

Forgot Hey Jude

And the Christmas records set

Has this being linked to https://people.com/the-beatles-announce-new-song-now-and-then-8382741

red and blue is how i got into the beatles, via cassettes in my family's ford taurus during road trips

i was 7, maybe 8

Mostly excited for the remixed Red album based on this: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/beatles-now-and-then-1234862777/

I have a longtime interest in the crazy world that is the Beatles' compilation discography.

They've almost never got it right, ever. '1' and Love are the two most obvious (conceptual) successes imo. They fucked up the roll-out of Anthology royally. But I love Real Love and even Free as a Bird, esp if paired with the videos.

I'm not sure what to make of more remixes tbh. I think my tolerance ran out after Abbey Road (I did hear Revolver and enjoyed Taxman but couldn't get too excited otherwise, especially given how terrible the She Said She Said mix was).

they were pretty good with Tony Sheridan but after that I kind of check out

I enjoyed You'll Be Mine and Cayenne but lost interest for years until they released Plastic Beetle and Peter Blake 2000. Although I did love the movie medley.

red and blue is how i got into the beatles, via cassettes in my family's ford taurus during road trips

― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili),

^^ This. These albums were public library staples.

I love that the RS article is so badly written that it implies the new track uses a vocal isolated by a microphone in a flower pot.

sure but there are causes for concern with some of the frantic ~legacy building~ going in recent years especially - paul and ringo have basically embalmed themselves already

it feels like they want to wrap the whole thing up and put it on a pedestal so that everyone worship it in the approved way - just at the point that new generations are finally starting to say interesting things about the beatles which trouble many aspects of the beatle party line. the whole thing feels a little reactionary

I mean I know it's all for holiday shopping purpose maximization, but I like to think the Beatles camp purposely waited until after the Stones album dropped in a, "no, fuck you, WE are getting the last word".

i like "oldies station Beatles".
when i hear that stuff on the radio it makes me think of the old display case at The Colony on 50th and Broadway with all the vtg Beatlemania merch next to bobblehead dolls of The Three Stooges.

John actually had a low opinion of "And Your Bird Can Sing" ("another of my throwaways ... fancy paper around an empty box") but I love it. (Elvis Costello's a fan - it was one of a handful of covers he did on his glorious 'The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook' tour.)

He didn't have a really high opinion of "Hey Bulldog" either, believing it was "a good sounding record that means nothing" and recalling his embarrassment that the first time Yoko ever saw him at work was recording that song. I think it's fine, a fun number that would wipe the floor with any kids' song of that era (and there's even a modern day children's animation video that covers it), but to me, it sounds really slight and inconsequential next to their best-known hits.

i can kinda get lennon not caring for "and your bird can sing" because what really makes it is the guitar line, which mccartney and harrison apparently wrote together

One thing I love about "Hey Bulldog" is the early 2000s clip where they realised the "Lady Madonna" promo was actually from footage of recording this song and recut it to match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vbJQ-MrKo
I can't think of any earlier clip of them actually making a song (aside from "All You Need Is Love", kinda).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdrb1vFTtJI

actually that's later

I mean, I wouldn't have Your Bird Can Sing either. If I had to rank Revolver it would be in the lower half. Fortunately I don't have to.

I still cannot get over the stupidity of the new Blue Album and how they've bound themselves to the same opening tracks as 50 years ago so they can't just shuffle most of those White Album cuts onto CD1 and evened out the track counts on both discs. No one in 2023 should be expected to care. Besides which, Beatles Oldies is in many ways the more important compilation anyway but it hasn't been seen since 1987.

Lennon said all kinds of dumb shit about his beatles work in that Wenner interview, I take it with a grain of salt.

the running order of the blue album on CD is one of the reasons why this entire release got delayed by several months, apparently. when they added tracks they didn't do it in a chronological way (which is how the LP is sequenced), but then changed their mind and went back to get the CDs fixed before they were produced. it was too late and too expensive to redo the LPs.

I'd like to hear this kind of sonic clean-up on the Beatles' contemporaries whose records weren't that well recorded in the first place - the Stones, the Kinks, even someone like the Pretty Things.

woah woah woah no way dogg

I have to say I’ve always found the album design for red/blue very lazy and hastily put together and wished they had re-designed it for this reissue.

Also not having all the songs in chronological order as the first time around irks the hell out of me.

they are chronological on the CDs I believe, that's part of why the whole thing got delayed.

I liked the red and blue covers - it does put the Get Back cover to good use instead of letting it go to waste.

Peter Jackson's documentary up of the making of Now and Then:

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

the quality of the isolated vocal is pretty amazing. I'm quite sure I'll love the finished product here, I'm very easy to please with Beatles material.

obv a missed opportunity to apply this same treatment to Free as a Bird and Real Love, though I understand why they didn't (not wanting to detract from the attention this song warrants). There are murmurs that Anthology is being looked at again so maybe as part of that. I suspect that by the time that gets finished, McCartney and Ringo may not be around anymore though

I get it, but still kinda lol at that NASA control center looking ass setup.