by admin on January 3, 2010
It was 22 years ago (in 1987) that the Beatles albums first came out in the CD format. As vinyl and tape sales slowed significantly, CD became the standard way of listening to music and these versions of The Beatles albums have become those that people listen to. Unfortunately these versions of The Beatles albums aren’t actually the best they could be. The mastering job on that original CD release was less than perfect. And the packaging was pretty lame too!
On 9/9/9 all of that changes! Why? Because that’s the day that the newly remastered Beatles CDs become the new standard for The Beatles albums and from all reports these newly remastered Beatles albums sound amazing. There is new clarity and detail in the songs and nobody has reported any issues with over compression or a lack of warmth. On top of that, the packaging is a lot better too! Now the CDs will available in “vinyl replica” packaging which is a lot cooler than the old plastic cases that the CDs have been in.
The best way to buy all of these newly remastered Beatles CDs is with the new Beatles CD box sets. There’s a stereo box set which includes all 13 of The Beatles UK albums (yes, that includes Magical Mystery Tour even though it’s not really a real Beatles album) and the Past Masters set of non-album tracks so that it includes a newly remastered stereo version of every song The Beatles originally released from 1962 through 1970.
There’s also a mono box set which has the original mono mixes of The Beatles first 10 albums (along with the Mono Masters set which has mono mixes of all of their non-album songs) along with the original stereo mixes of Help! and Rubber Soul. This is the first time that these mixes have been available on CD.
Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, & Let It Be are not included in this mono box set because they were never mixed in mono. By 1969 mono was dead and stereo was the standard.
But prior to the switchover to stereo, mono was the standard. Most people listened to mono versions of the Beatles albums through most of the ’60s. And because of that the band and their producers spent almost all of their time and energy on mixing the mono mixes. In comparison the stereo mixes were not given significant thought. Stereo was thought by some at the time to be a “fad” or just an “experimental” thing. I know that seems crazy to us now, but that’s what people thought back then.
What this means is that these original mono mixes were really how the band intended their music to be heard and that’s why it’s so significant from a historical standpoint that these mixes are finally easily available on CD. Prior to this new CD release the only way to legally listen to these mono mixes would be to track down an original Beatles mono vinyl LP. As you can imagine that could be difficult & expensive to do. Plus you’d need a record player and most people don’t have one of those anymore.
You may think that these mono mixes are something only “Beatles historians” should be interested in but there are many people who claim that the mono albums are more than just “the way the albums were meant to be hard” but also flat out better sounding. John Lennon was known to say that he thought the mono Sgt. Pepper was vastly superior to the stereo Sgt. Pepper.
In many cases the mono versions of The Beatles song are significantly different sounding. It should be very interesting to hear those differences for Beatles fans.
While the new stereo Beatles CDs are available as a part of the stereo box set and individually (they will be the new standard Beatles albums available everywhere) the new mono CDs are only available as a part of the mono box set.
Click Here to find out how you can hear the new remastered versions of The Beatles songs to decide if you want to buy them or not. Both the Beatles Remastered Stereo Box Set and the Beatles Mono CD Box Set are recommended for serious Beatles fans.
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by admin on December 16, 2009
Few songs have sparked as much debate over lyrical meaning as the Beatles I Am The Walrus. Released in 1967 as the B-side to ‘Hello, Goodbye’, the track’s bizarre wordplay and pastiche of vocal and musical samples have confounded amateur rock scholars in cafeterias, basements and garages for decades. In addition to its single release, ‘I Am The Walrus’ was also featured on the album ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. The album was tied in with the television film of the same name, a rambling piece of cinema verite that never really left the ground.
Like many of the Beatles’ seemingly incomprehensible songs, ‘I Am The Walrus’ was a result of the amalgamation of three separate ideas that John Lennon had been working on. These random points of inspiration ranged from Lennon writing a verse to match the rise and fall of a police siren he heard driving past his house to a re-jiggering of a nursery rhyme he had sung as a child.
The catalyst for the fusion of these disparate ideas came when Lennon was contacted by a British student who explained to him in a letter that he and his classmates had been asked to analyze the lyrics of the Beatles in order to find their true meaning. It tickled Lennon to no end that a professor had decided to make his musical work the subject of such scrutiny, and he decided to try and create the most confusing set of verses he possibly could. He grabbed the bits and pieces of the songs that had been floating about in his head and pasted them together, creating the Beatles I Am The Walrus with a kind of malevolent glee.
Lennon went on to explain that the glue holding the strange elements of the song together was a series of acid trips that he had gone on prior to the final arrangement. Parts of the song are self-referential, including snatches of ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’, while others sampled monologues from Shakespearian plays. The entire track is arranged as a blustery, winding-up explosion of sound, layering vocals on top of strings on top of noise. The ‘walrus’ in the song had been derived from a Lewis Carroll poem recited in Alice in Wonderland, while the ‘Eggman’ was thought to be a reference the Eric Burdon, who was at the time the lead singer of the Animals. His nickname of ‘Eggman’ referred to one of his more bizarre sexual predilections.
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by admin on November 13, 2009
The original Yellow Submarine album released in January 1969 is considered by most Beatles fans to be the worst album the band has ever released as it contained only six songs of the Beatles true Instrumentals (other tracks have been rather boring created by producer George Martin) and only four of these six songs were new. Two of the six were previously released songs "Yellow Submarine" 1966 and "All You Need Is Love" 1967.En 1999 a new album was released to coincide with a new version of the film Yellow Submarine on DVD. This new version includes all six songs from the 1969 album of original songs and nine others. The album was entitled Yellow Submarine. It is entitled "Songtrack" rather than "soundtrack" because it presents the songs played in the film rather than instrumental music that was presented in the original version. What was most remarkable about "Songtrack" published in 1999 was that each of the songs included have been remixed and remastered from original tapes, which is something that has not been done for the CD versions of their album (other than Rubber Soul & Help!) This gives songs sound very different from what one hears on the other versions and this is why I recommend that the Beatles fanatic buy this album, even if they already have 15 chansons.The Yellow Submarine is actually one of the 'Listening to the most psychedelic experience one can have with the music of the Beatles due not only to the sparkling new mix, but also because, for most songs on this album are among the works most Beatles psychédéliques.L 'album includes four new songs (new at the time, of course) "It's All Too Much", "Only a Northern Song," "All Together Now" and "Hey Bulldog" with songs from Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. The greatest thing about this album is that it saves four new songs that were released on the original album yellow submarine (where they have been largely ignored.) In particular, it is nice that " ; Hey Bulldog "and" It's All Too Much "is featured on this album as they are two of the best songs of the Beatles that many Beatles fans have never heard parler.De 1965's Rubber Soul album contains" Nowhere Man "&" Think for yourself. "From 1966 Revolver album contains" Yellow Submarine "(no surprise there!)," Eleanor Rigby "&" Love You To. "A From the 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album contains "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "When I'm 64," "With A Little Help From My Friends" and the title song, "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which sounds particularly different from the version we're used to. All songs on this album have been remixed and remastered from original tapes so they sound slightly different versions available on other albums of Beatles.De in 1967's Magical Mystery Tour album contains "Baby You're a Rich Man "(What a strange piece that is great) with" All You Need Is Love. "There are some reasons to get the Yellow Submarine. One is that the album is really enjoyable to listen because it is filled with great songs. Another is that it saves "Hey Bulldog", "Only a Northern Song" & "It's All Too Much" from the original album are mostly ignored yellow submarine. And another is that the songs included here are remixed and remastered from original tapes and they sound very different (and in most cases better) than the versions available on their official studio albums.
Marvin J. Markus recommends buying Beatles Magical Mystery Tour CD and The White Album Double CD online. Marvin said the White Album to be the greatest album of all time.
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by admin on November 7, 2009
The legacy of the Beatles, as a concert attraction, during their passage harassed nightclubs to baseball stadiums, is distinguished primarily by the deafening screams of female fans overcome by the appearance of the same group.
Consequently, the Beatles began to indulge their creative energy in the studio, a combination of sounds and crafting songs in a way nobody had tried before. The Beatles phenomenon did not really kick in until "Please Please Me", which has dominated the British charts in early 1963. This was the prototype British Invasion single: an infectious melody, charging guitars, and positively exuberant harmonies.
The Beatles are the best-selling music group in history. In the United Kingdom, The Beatles released more than 40 different singles, albums and EPs that reached number one, the more one earns more albums than any other group in UK Chart history.
The Beatles slid into each apartment Soviet cassettes, just as easily as they assumed their place on the world scene. They did something that was not within the power of Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: they helped a generation of young people free to grow in the Soviet Union. The Beatles have been placed at the forefront of the psychedelic movement, which is interesting because they really did a very psychedelic album. In fact, it's hardly an album in the purist sense as it in fact consists of two EPs turns together – the songs from their psychedelic romp "Magical Mystery Tour" and a collection of singles and B-sides the period surrounding.
Lennon began recording with his second wife, avant-garde conceptual artist Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney and Wings made successful soft-rock band with his wife, Linda. Harrison and Starr also recorded solo albums. Rumors that the Beatles meet persisted for a decade before Lennon was murdered in New York City in 1980. "Lennon" he said quietly, and shot Lennon. At that moment, Chapman fired five bullets into the rock star, hitting him in the chest, back and left arm.
Play John Lennon's Passover Plot showed him as culturally rich stories were strung sets of details. It follows therefore that the task of the artist is simply to give details, consumers of the art object can count on him to weave the narrative.
Lennon was often represented by artists in full costume hippie: long hair, jeans and wire-rimmed glasses. He sits cross-legged on a park bench with one arm on the armrest and the other on the back of the bench. Lennon released a corrosive set of songs with his new wife, Yoko Ono, and McCartney went on to form a group, Wings, which proved a good number of registrations of commercial success in the 1970s. Starr and Harrison, too, initially had some success as solo artists. Lennon and Ono Two Virgins (with its frontal and back nude photos of coverage) was published the same month as the Beatles and the outrage raised the point that the LP should be sold wrapped in brown paper.
The Beatles were an inspiration to those who take the long and winding road to freedom.
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