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

yeah something like that, it's in that rolling stone interviews book that came out a couple years a go.

Jazzbo OTM

The Rolling Stones aren't wearing matching suits but they're playing the same fucking game.

Will they remaster these orgies in mono or stereo?

surround sound, hopefully. and will the orgies be one of the hidden features on the Rock Band game?

one of the most common words used by lennon in the (1970?) playboy/ rolling stone interviews if you listen to the audio recording of them is 'whores'. he says it repeatedly when talking about life on the road. 'whoo-ers' is how he pronounces it. he never makes it sound like much fun either.

The GTO's "Permanent Damage" has a spoken word bit by the legendary Rodney Bingenheimer and he talks about how just by being in the same picture with George Harrison in a pop magazine resulted in a line of girls outside his door for a week. Says it was just like a queue; "NEXT"! Then Rodney compares his bedding skills with Ringo's, saying "I'm a much better lay cos I haven't had as much".

I like how this thread is now "Does A Beatle Have Sexytime?"

It's all Geir's fault.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!

the whole mini-documentary thing with these is irritating.

If you have the Anthology DVDs, not to worry. From what I've seen/heard, the mini-docs are edits of the corresponding Anthology segments, with no new/original content.

Or was that what you meant by irritating (the redundancy aspect)?

yeah, basically, that and the quicktime format -- just seems like a kind of pointless add-on.

nvr frgt

http://www.rhymerecords.com/images/EnhancedCD.gif

those saved the music industry, didn't they?

there's definitely new content on the mini docs, it isnt (as i too feared it might be) regurgiatated ANTHOLOGY bits. or not JUST that.
mind you they're 4 minutes long each doc so hey.

When was the last time somebody included a quicktime file with a CD? I know Spandau Ballet did with their 2003 remaster of "True", and it seemed old-fashioned already then. :)

When the CD+ first appeared, I had the idea to do a "demo tape+" that would include some old TRS-80 program noise at the end... Never actually released it though.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!
Can I steal this for a lyric? It'll never get released - but if it did there'd be a CD and a credit for you in it, M@tt.

pretty surprised these haven't leaked yet.

It's The Beatles, man.

he's a scando melodic eunuch manchild with the hots on for jeff lynne, the boy can't help it!
Can I steal this for a lyric? It'll never get released - but if it did there'd be a CD and a credit for you in it, M@tt.

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lol it's all yours

and also no disrespect geir, glad to see you back on ILM on the real, i love your steez no lie.

When the CD+ first appeared, I had the idea to do a "demo tape+" that would include some old TRS-80 program noise at the end... Never actually released it though.

Pete Shelley did an LP+ in 1982, had a ZX Spectrum program with the lyrics

and also no disrespect geir, glad to see you back on ILM on the real
How do we know for sure who the real Geir is?

toss a JB beat at him and see how he reacts. ;)

How do we know for sure who the real Geir is?

Some ILM'ers have the real Geir as a contact on Facebook, and may have discovered he is this strange guy who writes a lot of incomprehensible status messages in Norwegian ;)

Pete Shelley did an LP+ in 1982, had a ZX Spectrum program with the lyrics

... and the cassette version of The Stranglers' Aural Sculpture album included an adventure game, again for the Spectrum.

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i found a mono copy of SPLHCB a while back, and i can say if you haven't heard this you havent properly heard that record. that said, this is kind of pathetic what they're doing to the catalog, imo - the Capitol boxes sounded great and are prolly dirt cheap now

Just heard the mono Mystery Tour for the first time. "I Am The Walrus" is a pretty different experience!

THE BRASS, OH MY GOD THE BRASS

I might have a little cry.

The guitar in Fixing A Hole!

Do you have the actual thing, or has it leaked?

The rain gets in.

Don't tease me, bro

So how's it sound compared to the bootleg vinyl rips (Ebbets, Purple Chick, Fabulous Sound Lab, etc.)?

I retract my excitement; what I've got is exactly the same as the 87 CDs now I'm A-B'ing them.

Which just goes to show that a; I've not listened to the 87 CDs in a while, and b; they sound better than I remember.

THE BRASS, OH MY GOD THE BRASS

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I might have a little cry.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 3 September 2009 10:44 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The guitar in Fixing A Hole!

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lol

Hang on, I may have made an elementary mistake called Sound Check.

I now haven't a fucking clue.

I think the version of Pepper that I've got IS real. Certainly wavelengths are different. But with Sound Check on, the difference on the stereo versions isn't much. I've not got the mono, which people have said is leaps and bounds away.

Never listen to anything at work, turn SoundCheck off, and don't A-B microsections of tracks. Listen to a whole album all the way through.

These are fucking ACE.

Am I an idiot for not knowing what A-B microsections of tracks means?

I thought you worked in a library xp? No wonder you can't hear them properly.

rumour has it that the 87 and the 2009 versions of the stereo CDs...are hardly different at all in many of the album's cases.

Wait has this leaked?

I've got hold of 3 - Abbey, Revolver, and Pepper.

It's very weird; I had a listen to Pepper at work on a cheapish pair of AKG (£35) and was really struck straight away. Came home and A-B (flitting directly from one to another) small sections of tracks on my big AKG K601s (£150, and running through all manor of DACs and headphone amps) and the difference was negligible. Then I realised Sound Check was on; turned it off, and the difference jumped back out at me, especially when Im played through a whole album rather than just 10-30 second snippets. So now I'm really intrigued as to wtf Sound Check in iTunes does, and I'm even more eager to get the actual CDs, so I can open them on on speakers, cos I have a sneaking suspicion that the K601s are gonna ring a level of detail and timbre out of the 87 releases that wouldn't be apparent on speakers, but that the new remasters are gonna fucking slay on speakers.

Here's some waveforms;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Screenshot2009-09-03at192942.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Screenshot2009-09-03at192942.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Screenshot2009-09-03at192606.png

John's vocals and the brass at the end of Got To get You Into My Life, fucking awesome.

The best way to appreciate these is going to be when you realise all of a sudden that tracks you've ignored for years are now amazing - I had that with Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite on the Love release.

Still loads of headroom.

paul's vocals surely?!