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

Enough to fill the Albert Hall

The whole version of It Was Twenty Years Ago Today is embedded on a vimeo link on this page, but I don't know how to link to the vimeo page directly

http://www.diggers.org/it_was_twenty.htm

I still impressed by how heavy the remix version of "good morning" is.
from the first kickdrum it's so in your face. I think it might be the heaviest track on the album now which, finally, gives it a purpose !
it might have even been better if they had played on a key allowing Lennon to scream/sing more aggressively...

yeah that has become one of my favorite songs on this album in the past few years. really benefits from the remix.

Not blown away by this, but it's all right. I like fresh takes on old classics while they're still fresh.

I don't like hearing the studio chatter during the reprise intro. Also a couple other places where it gets cute, like boosting the fuck up on that WYWY laugh.

a beatles maniac who works at a local library ran an evening program on the 50th ann., where he played a handful of tracks in 5.1 surround. they were spectacular, in a gosh-wow sort of way, with that calliope in mr. kite spiraling every which way. but with all that clarity and detail, it was almost like there was too much to focus on. i'm not sure it really helped the songs qua songs. first impressions and all that, but who knows if i'll ever hear the 5.1 mixes again.

Wow @ rhythm section on Pepper remaster

that richard goldstein review is interesting. like, maybe the beatles intended there only to be one song on that album, and nicely bookended all the others between the two versions of sgt pepper, as prelude and pastiche. going with that for a moment, maybe they left off "penny lane" & "strawberry fields" so as not to divert attention.

Yeah, I mean, achieving one really 'profound' moment on a pop record seems like a pretty solid accomplishment to me.

For me the audience laugh at the end of the line "we're sorry but it's time to go.. " in the Reprise is the 'Han Shot First' moment in this whole remix caper. What the hell is a *laugh* doing there?? Makes no sense and isn't present on the Mono or the Stereo. Why would an audience laugh at that?? Seems typical of the 'hey you can't hear it in the original.. so let's have it in this new version!' thinking that blights the project.

I think, speaking of Star Wars, that in much the same way as the 1997 special editions of those movies were initially greeted with praise and approval ("It's just like the original Star Wars .. but with loads of extra stuff that wasn't there before! Fantastic!") there will ultimately be a realization that we've been had and the clamour for the preservation of the originals will begin in earnest in about 10 years' time.

I say again, a *laugh* at the end of that line!? Jesus tap-dancing Christ.

ah I haven't noticed that. but was it in the original recording or did they add it ? if it was there all the time but you couldn't really hear it, I don't have a problem and it's fun to discover new things (it's different from adding new stuff, like the awful star wars re-editions !).
I haven't listened to the album much since the release but I found they did a great job. And for people who don't like the new remix, the old ones are still there...

OK, I listened to it and to the "old" mix and although you can hear that crowd noise clearer in the new mix, it's also there in the old one...

Truly the final frontier...(of previously released stuff)

https://beatlesblogger.com/2017/11/04/the-beatles-christmas-records-box-set/

https://beatlesblogger.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/2017-beatles-christmas.jpg

I just realized while trying to make up some sleep this morning that Day Tripper is about getting high

xp great news

Do Not Feed The Turrican when he inevitably shows up

I've already eaten, mate.

please die

Anyway, I love 'Day Tripper' and think it's up there with their best singles, particularly when you factor in 'We Can Work It Out' on the flip. As big as they were by that stage, they still sound hungry and excited by what they're doing.

Wow, you're a charmer... even I would stop short of coming out with something like that, even at my most annoyed.

1967 Xmas Record is great

i love those album covers, especially the bottom 3

I don’t have the patience to go upthread and learn why you guys have a beef but life is very short

The short answer is that he doesn't like my opinions on The Beatles, and this obviously (according to him) deserves being told to "please die", which in turn doesn't really change my perception of the Beatle hardcore.

The thing about the Christmas records is listening to the bands attitude towards them change with each one. By the late '60s, they've gone from merely recording greetings, to little jingles to out-and-out pissing about.

Don't know if they specified it in some way as Double A-side, but the catalog number of "We Can Work It Out" is lower, indicating that if they didn't it was the A-side.

I don't know and I'm not particularly bothered about whether it was intended to be a double A side or what was intended to be the A or B side... ultimately it doesn't matter since they're both great tracks regardless. 'Day Tripper' was probably the more popular of the two generally, and the riff has a lot to do with that, but I personally love both equally and think it's a great single in terms of the whole package.

Fucking hell, someone has actually said on BBC Four... "this is how The Beatles helped to destroy communism" in the intro to a documentary about The Beatles in Russia. For fucks sake, people.

he probably stole that idea from paul

I had (have) the 1966 one, there are a few ideas that could have been some good full-size versions: Felpin Mansions, Podgy and Jasper, um that's it.

This is sweet, May purchase.

lol
SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR FROM john paul george & ringo
it's like having an office christmas card as a Christmas single

ease up on the christmas cheer boys jeez

have you seen the price?
£64.99 is all

Nine quid per disc

I like those christmas records, listening to them (by myself) has been a x-mas tradition for as long as I've had digital copies of them all. Nice to see them finally get a reissue though a 12 inch would have been more efficient, it's really cool to see the 7" covers.

1LP + booklet, $25, done.

one of my favorite bits is Tiny Tim singing "Nowhere Man". it's so strange and beautiful. George puts together a really nice intro for him as well. which makes it funny when George shows up in the next one sounding like he just got out of bed and is smoking a huge joint.

I first heard these as a kid and our cat was named Jasper so I've always pictured the Jasper of Podgey and Jasper to be him.

1LP + booklet, $25, done.

Maybe that'll be coming later? I have a feeling part of doing them as an expensive box vs. a cheaper individual record/disc is less-informed consumers buying the latter and getting pissed that it's not actually an album of the Beatles doing X-Mas songs.

I suppose I could google this but I don't wanna wade through the results and I'm sure someone here knows the answer:

What exactly happened with the ownership of the Beatles catalog following the 80s Revolution/Nike ad (which, iirc was the result of MJ purchasing majority share, or something?) But then MJ went bankrupt, right, and Sony got it back? Or did the Beatles (Paul, Ringo, George + Yoko) get back controlling interest at some point? fwiw this is prompted by my recent re-watching of the Mad Men episode with "Tomorrow Never Knows" in it, (the appearance of which is preceded by a clever on-screen acknowledgment that "no one gets the Beatles") that made me wonder why, if the Beatles don't control it, their shit was not licensed more often. The Nike thing seems like a real outlier, and their stuff seems to only very selectively appear in other media (like, say, Rock Band), often with the direct involvement of surviving Beatles.

looks like Paul got the rights back in 2017? here is some history:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7662519/beatles-catalog-paul-mccartney-brief-history-ownership

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/paul-mccartney-beatles-rights-win/

reading that history - kinda mystifying that Jackson and Sony didn't cash in with licensing Beatles songs throughout the 90s and into the 00s, when presumably they could have made a shit-ton.

Get the impression that MJ was so rich and spendthrift and impulsive it was more about accumulating/collecting things, spending money over making money. Which, of course, is a pretty poor business model.

I think that's an accurate take on it

I'm not a lawyer, so

How did Nike get the rights to the actual recording of "Revolution" then? In other words, how is owning a published copyright to a song the same as owning the recording? I would've assumed EMI would own the recordings of that one or "Tomorrow Never Knows."

kinda mystifying that Jackson and Sony didn't cash in with licensing Beatles songs throughout the 90s and into the 00s, when presumably they could have made a shit-ton.

They sort of did, they just couldn't use the original recordings (which--iirc--they were blocked from doing after the Nike ad). I remember the Posies or some band like them doing a version of "Getting Better" for an ad.

Nike wouldn't have had publishing rights - they would have had a licence to use it.

Song publishing/copyright holder of the recording/licensing are all different things.

Gomez did a cover of 'Getting Better' for some ad... I can't remember who for! I want to say Philips, but...

So Nike used the original recording under license by the owner of the recording. What did Michael Jackson have to do with that then? (Serious question!)

He allowed them to use the actual song. After the Beatles had EMI block use of the original recording, he licensed other songs for use via covers.

Here's the original ad, for the curious...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAI8eUtwJzo