https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:46:37 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/paged/2/#post-325545 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:43:05 +0000 News Paul Hackett https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/paged/2/#post-325545 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/paged/2/#post-325512 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:55:54 +0000 News Musenfreund https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/paged/2/#post-325512 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-325509 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:18:47 +0000
"Number nine.....number nine....number nine....."

Better start saving those pennies - I've a feeling a lot of CD collections are going to be upgraded!

:D :D :D

Vic]]> News Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-325509 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-325508 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:06:56 +0000
It's spooky that they are choosing 09/09/09 for the roll out. John's least favourite number!

Go to this link for news

http://thebeatles.com/core/news/


Cheers,

Chris]]> News dogsbody https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-325508 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307771 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:28:56 +0000
Smokindog to the rescue! I feel a bit better about all this now. I'll wait and see how it all pans out in 2009.

Interesting perspectives from everyone ,thanks guys!

I must admit to being curious as to the sound quality that their first album "Please Please Me" will have when remastered as I love it's almost live atmosphere. It was originally recorded in just sixteen hours due to their heavy touring schedule

John Lennon was suffering from a bad cold which you can also hear on the tracks currently. Just listen to "Misery"

It was defining album for me even though it was a mixed bag of cover songs interspersed with early Lennon McCartney gems. Plus the two singles "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" added in for good measure. It pointed the way for things to come.

John never sang "Twist And Shout" better suffering with that cold as he was.

Chris]]> News dogsbody https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307771 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307720 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:02:55 +0000 Re mastering the Beatles is OK as long as They don't get carried away.]]> News smokindog https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307720 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307718 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:35:17 +0000
Sure, there are some lesser gems on it but I'd rather have some mediocre songs then no songs. The only thing I disagree with is the track order. IMHO it would have been much better to just make an 'A' and B side, with on A the classic, easy-listenable, tracks and on B the weirder stuff, for those who care. I have no idea what motivated them to do order the tracks the way they do now, it just makes no sense. R9 can be a great experience, but if you put it between some pop songs it just plain sucks, it doesn't belong there and requires a much too radical 'shift' in how I'm listening.

But all in all, if that would have been my album I wouldn't have been ashamed about it.

As for pretentious crap: the limit for me is reached with Unfinished Music No.1.]]> News Ignar Hillström https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307718 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307717 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:26:07 +0000 Chris Yes - he stated that quite clearly in the Anthology. He was not pleased with it either. I like the album. I like the variety. All kinds of different songs, rockers, country, blues. Sure, there are some clunkers in there, but so what ! It's the Beatles.

I remember being at my freinds house and we would play it over and over again, the funny thing is, when "Revolution 9" came on his mother would ask us to turn it off.

to this day, I still don't play that song if I listen to the album. (Sorry, CD..)

Bob Jessie]]> News clideguitar https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307717 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307714 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:43:33 +0000 As always, that's just MY opinion - other people seem to like it. I think it's a sprawling, bloated mess that could easily have been cut to a single album I think you will find Vic, that George Martin tended to agree with you as he apparently tried hard to convince the Beatles to make only a single album of it at the time. Perhaps he saw the writing on the wall eh!

John was said to be into Heroin during that period and the others were concerned for him as that was the one drug and the somewhere that they did not want to visit.

Chris]]> News dogsbody https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307714 https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307713 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:17:07 +0000
Just a matter of taste - I personally loathe most of that album. Yes, there are good tracks - While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Helter Skelter, the acoustic version of Revolution - but they're few and far between. IMO, all the good tracks could have been taken out and used as one side of a single album.

I know you're into experimental music, Arjen - but even you must find it hard to justify the existence of "Revolution #9!" To my mind, most of the album is turgid, self-indulgent, drug-addled rubbish. I just don't like it - this was supposed to be the greatest band in the world at the peak of their powers, instead it sounds like a bunch of stoned hippies playing around.

As always, that's just MY opinion - other people seem to like it. I think it's a sprawling, bloated mess that could easily have been cut to a single album. If ever there was a case of the Emperor's New Clothes......

(I blame Yoko!)

:D :D :D

Vic]]> News Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/news/the-beatles-remastered/#post-307713