| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 28/09/2012 : 22:02:53
I'll be checking under the tree everyday!! Or maybe I should wait for the mono box...yeah...or I can be greedy and ask for BOTH!!
This makes life a joy!! It's like 1964 all over again!
Studio Album Remasters Make Stereo Vinyl Debut
London – 27 September, 2012 – The Beatles’ acclaimed original studio album remasters, released on CD in 2009 and in 2010 for digital download exclusively on iTunes, will make their long-awaited stereo vinyl debut on 12th November (13th November in North America).
Manufactured on 180-gram, audiophile quality vinyl with replicated artwork, the 14 albums return to their original glory with details including the poster in The Beatles (The White Album), the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band’s cutouts, and special inner bags for some of the titles. Each album will be available individually, and accompanied by a stunning, elegantly designed 252-page hardbound book in a lavish boxed edition which is limited to 50,000 copies worldwide.
The book, exclusive to the boxed edition, is authored by award-winning radio producer Kevin Howlett and features a dedicated chapter for each of the albums, as well as insight into the creation of the remasters and how the vinyl albums were prepared. The 12”x12” book showcases a wealth of photographs spanning The Beatles’ recording career, including many images which were not included in the 2009 CD booklets.
The titles include The Beatles’ 12 original UK albums, first released between 1963 and 1970, the US-originated Magical Mystery Tour, now part of the group’s core catalogue, and Past Masters, Volumes One & Two, featuring non-album A-sides and B-sides, EP tracks and rarities. With this release, The Beatles’ first four albums make their North American stereo vinyl debuts. In 2013, the remastered albums will make their mono vinyl debuts.
Since it was recorded, The Beatles’ music has been heard on a variety of formats – from chunky reel-to-reel tapes and eight-track cartridges to invisible computer files. But there has never been a more romantic or thrilling medium for music than a long-playing twelve-inch disc. We ‘play’ records. The process of carefully slipping the disc out of the sleeve, cleaning it and lowering the stylus provides a personal involvement in the reproduction of the music.
When The Beatles’ albums were first released, the listener enjoyed a tangible relationship with the music in the grooves of a record. There was an emotional connection to the artifact carrying the sound, and this bond was strengthened by the LP sleeve. Rather than a merely functional object to protect the disc, it was elevated to a stylish accessory. Certainly, the cover of a Beatles album conveyed a message about the music it was wrapped around. For example, the dominant orange and brown hues and elongated faces on the front of Rubber Soul seem to embody the sound of the record. With the advent of the cassette tape in the seventies and the compact disc in the 1980s, album artwork was reduced in size and importance, losing much of its charm. That is partly why vinyl LPs have not, as predicted, been discarded.
None of that would really matter, were it not for the enduring power of The Beatles’ music. In September, 2009, The Beatles’ remastered albums on CD graced charts around the world. Seventeen million album sales within seven months was resounding evidence of the timeless relevance of their legacy. Through five decades, the music of The Beatles has captivated generation upon generation.
For producer Rick Rubin, surveying The Beatles’ recorded achievements is akin to witnessing a miracle. “If we look at it by today’s standards, whoever the most popular bands in the world are, they will typically put out an album every four years,” Rubin said in a 2009 radio series interview. “So, let’s say two albums as an eight year cycle. And think of the growth or change between those two albums. The idea that The Beatles made thirteen albums in seven years and went through that arc of change... it can’t be done. Truthfully, I think of it as proof of God, because it’s beyond man’s ability.”
The Stereo Albums
Available individually and collected in a boxed collection, accompanied by a beautiful 252-page hardbound book.
Please Please Me
“Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You” are presented in mono
(North American LP debut in stereo)
With The Beatles
(North American LP debut in stereo)
A Hard Day's Night
(North American LP debut in stereo)
Beatles For Sale
(North American LP debut in stereo)
Help!
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remix
Rubber Soul
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remix
Revolver
Original album
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Packaging includes replica psychedelic inner sleeve, cardboard cutout sheet and additional insert
Magical Mystery Tour
Packaging includes 24-page colour book
The Beatles (double album)
Packaging includes double-sided photo montage/lyric sheet and 4 solo colour photos
Yellow Submarine
“Only A Northern Song” is presented in mono. Additional insert includes original American liner notes.
Abbey Road
Original album
Let It Be
Original album
Past Masters, Volumes One & Two (double album)
“Love Me Do” (original single version), “She Loves You,” “I’ll Get You,” and “You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)” are presented in mono. Packaging, notes and photographic content is based on the 2009 CD release
the box is ready for preorder:
http://store.acousticsounds.com/index.cfm?get=results&artistID=3059&status=Pre%20Order&CategoryID=5&LabelID=553
________________________________________________
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
~ Cree Prophecy |
| 14 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| John9 |
Posted - 05/10/2012 : 20:47:04
There's going to be a lot more on The Beatles this weekend - including a brand new Arena special on the making of Magical Mystery Tour. It will feature previously unseen footage from the joyous, if perplexing movie...as well as interviews with Martin Scorcese and Peter Fonda. There will also be yet another documentary on Love Me Do...and it was fifty years ago this very day - 5 October 1962 - that the single appeared in the shops. This afternoon more than 1500 people (many of therm young children) gathered by the old docks in Liverpool for a choral rendition of the song that started it all. |
| rocker |
Posted - 05/10/2012 : 14:34:33
And that Pepper cover..check this out....Bobby Breens's on the cover..hey you know the heartache's comin'!!!..... ......and i've got to check out the comedians like Max Miller and Tommy Handley!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnnd_NkkX9A&feature=related |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 05/10/2012 : 13:29:34
quote:
Originally posted by Joe Morris
didn't the Fool cut an album for Apple ? 
The Fool were a Dutch design collective. They came over to London in 1966 and opened a shop. Their psychedelic clothes designs were a sensation--the Beatles really wanted them to work more on Peppers, but I'm so happy we got the iconic cover we did!
They recorded a psychedelic folk album in 1968 produced by Graham Nash, still of the Hollies. They recored a total of three albums-the last with a hit single in the Netherlands.
________________________________________________
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
~ Cree Prophecy |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 05/10/2012 : 02:44:34
didn't the Fool cut an album for Apple ? |
| John9 |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 21:38:22
Thanks for this, Rocker. The interesting thing is that George Martin told the band that if they passed on this one then they would be turning down a number one record....and of course, Gerry and the Pacemakers delivered on the promise! George has in fact given an interview on BBC today...it is so good to see that the old boy is still going strong. |
| rocker |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 21:00:46
and get this!...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY5x7nQ4_UY&feature=related
now this cover is a bit different!...;-)... |
| rocker |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 20:56:42
Gerry & The Pacemakers were the FIRST act to reach NUMBER ONE on the UK singles chart on their first THREE singles--a feat unequalled for another twenty years!
Incredible, eh? The talent in that seaport town during that time was just overflowing. No wonder the Beatles worked their butts off. They were some musically competitive guys hanging 'round town....;-)... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 14:59:37
quote:
Originally posted by rocker
Good ole' Gerry..little did I know I would be humming that 'Carousel' tune of his (well it's really Rodgers and Hammerstein's!) all these years on...and I kind of always liked that peppy sound he had with his Pacemakers.....he had a great band there...
Interesting that Gerry's version of that Carousel tune became & still IS the Liverpool Football Club's anthem, which is, to this day, associated with Gerry's cover & not the Musical's original arrangement.
Gerry & The Pacemakers were the FIRST act to reach NUMBER ONE on the UK singles chart on their first THREE singles--a feat unequalled for another twenty years!
They were very fine, though their attempt at their own film version of "Hard Days Night" was not quite so successful....but a comparison to the Beatles is unfair to any band.
...I must admit when I saw the film at our small town movie house in 1964 that I thoroughly enjoyed it.
________________________________________________
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
~ Cree Prophecy |
| rocker |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 14:21:49
Good ole' Gerry..little did I know I would be humming that 'Carousel' tune of his (well it's really Rodgers and Hammerstein's!) all these years on...and I kind of always liked that peppy sound he had with his Pacemakers.....he had a great band there... |
| John9 |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 00:54:06
Also - this very week has seen the 50th anniversary of the first release of Love Me Do. It was of course their first single and reached I think, number 17. There was, on Monday evening, a wonderful new documentary screened here in the North-West...it included fascinating interviews with Gerry Marsden, Andy White (the drummer on the single) and the hapless Pete Best. |
| rocker |
Posted - 03/10/2012 : 21:38:37
Things are gonna be g-r-o-o-v-y once again, eh????????....
Bammmmm*************.........
It's been hard day's night and I've been workin' like a dog......you said it John..and yer still workin'!..... |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 03/10/2012 : 20:43:45
Sure, LR...
I think my favorite part of having the first pressing Sgt. Peppers (Capitol) is that cool inner sleeve with the psychedelic art by The Fool...and the MONO mix, of course!
For those that never had the chance to get this brilliant and wonderful package...get it now and revel in the glory of holding the 12" gatefold Peppers in your hands!! Smell the new vinyl and newly opened cover, while playing that masterpiece on your TT!!
This is unused artwork for Peppers inner sleeve by the Fool...I wonder if they'll include it, as there is mention of an additional insert beyond the "cutouts"; or just the standard inner sleeve?
________________________________________________
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.
~ Cree Prophecy |
| LeeRob |
Posted - 03/10/2012 : 16:05:47
L.K.,
Thanks for the heads-up!
It's all the same day. |
| rocker |
Posted - 01/10/2012 : 17:53:16
For producer Rick Rubin, surveying The Beatles’ recorded achievements is akin to witnessing a miracle. “If we look at it by today’s standards, whoever the most popular bands in the world are, they will typically put out an album every four years,” Rubin said in a 2009 radio series interview. “So, let’s say two albums as an eight year cycle. And think of the growth or change between those two albums. The idea that The Beatles made thirteen albums in seven years and went through that arc of change... it can’t be done. Truthfully, I think of it as proof of God, because it’s beyond man’s ability.”
Talk about the "workingman", eh? One thing they had was tremendous energy..and all to make us happy!......Interesting....I could understand them going about and making a living 9and it was a nice one too!) but you get the impression that they weren't in it "only for the money". It was their drive that got them making all those albums in a relatively hsort period of time. |
|
|
