Beatles Remasters - Announcement ?

I have to respectfully disagree with you on this...they are horrible!

 

Yes, in the September MOJO she said, "When The White Album comes out again,
I will buy a couple, keep one for myself, and send one to my musician son."

 

..."Beatles' remasters" threads like this would seem to be a bad rash caught from some other forum devoted to the Beatles.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

 

Nah... The first four are the original mono mixes and not futzed with. We all know the mastering itself isn't great, but they are the original mixes that most people back in 1987 didn't have. Now the next two, the digital remixes of Help and Rubber Soul ARE pretty bad. Needless remixes. The sound is too bright, bass-shy and obviously not original. Revolver sounds ok, not great, but certainly not bad. Pepper, MMT and White Album are all very nice. Abbey Road is decent, not great, but not bad. Let It Be is better than one would expect, far better than any US pressing for sure. For US fans, the early CDs (except Help and RS) are all better than the old Capitol LPs. Now if one was lucky to have certain imports back then that's another matter... but the CDs were definitely authentic. The two Past Masters CDs were better than expected, and in some cases, quite good indeed. The EP and Singles sets are, for the most part, authentic to the original mixes. Most were transferred well with no futzing (yes we know the first four songs have azimuth issues) but they are original stereo and mono mixes. The one truly horrible CD is Beatles 1. The epitomy of poor mastering, with a dollop of noise reduction smothered on top. But there's very few here who would consider the Beatles CDs en masse as horrible. Check out the current thread for further discussion. Ron

 

It would make marketing sense to kick off the remasters/downloads project starting with a 40th anniversary release of The Beatles. It's one of their best selling albums, and maybe their BEST selling album, if memory serves me.

So they would have a popular record to start the promo hoopla with and the release date would be almost perfect for the Christmas season ( Originally released November 22nd.)
But that's assuming that Apple approaches things logically, which they seldom do I'm afraid.

We'll get 'em...when we get 'em.

 

We know Apple didn't go the yearly anniversary route for Pepper... could it be this will be a 40th APPLE Anniversary project? Every remastered CD with a 40th Anniversary of Apple banner on it? We shall see. Ron

 

As opposed to her 'plumber' son????
"No 'White Album' for you!"

 

Yep. They missed the anniversary for Pepper, so this one is logical release date- wise and popularity- wise . It's a good second choice to launch the remasters project.

They add "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" and who knows what else on a bonus disc to help strengthen the promo value . By using these tracks throughout the reissues where they logically should be, they get rid of Past Masters 1 and 2 , which were kind of schizo listens and hodge podges in the first place.

 

Your spot on !

MOJO has a way of marketing that is very deceptive,to say the least . They seem to avoid using the Beatles own material at all costs and it is usually bad cover songs of the Beatles catalog .

You made a good point too in suggesting that it would have a little more cover space than the alotted pix of a disc . Someone should start a gaming pool and take bets on whether there is actually going to be any Beatles tracks on the forthcoming CD as pictured on the cover.

I just got a copy of the UK UNCUT mag and it has a Harrison CD called While My Guitar Gently Weeps ... It is all songs that they contenc inspired Georges writing and playing .Typical ...

Buyer beware ...

 

It's NOT a Beatles cd pictured on the cover. It's a tribute to The WHite Album (Part 2) by a bunch of C list bands.

 

Yeah, like Sean needs his mum to get a copy of this...

 

Beatles Remasters - Announcement ?
...they will be louder...

 

In 2008?

 

Maybe it's the iTunes downloads announcement. Apple is strongly rumored to be announcing new iPods in early September and a new version of iTunes. Maybe a Beatles iPod to boot.

 

What is on the CD?

 

http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2008/07/the_white_album_recovered_1.html

never mind...

 

The Second Coming of Queen, David Gilmour & the Last Shadow Puppets, thanks for posting this.

 

I don't think Apple would leave that for MOJO.

 

I'm sure Mojo could run an article on the remasters without announcing a release date. No such thing as bad publicity.

 

Or....."I think we pretty much resolved everything with Apple, the accountants, lawyers and internal auditors, so the remasters might be out in 2010."

 

Yeah.

 

If there is an actual announcement from Paul (which I doubt) I'm sure this would be it:

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=154131&highlight=beatles+ipod

 

They logically should remain as singles and on Past Masters and Greatest Hits/Singles comps IMO, I wouild hate to have Hey Jude added to the White Album!

 

I hope not!!