The Beatles

WTDK · 12-13-2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Jedey

Geoff Emerick's book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is a must read for Beatle fans, it goes into pretty good detail on the mixing process.

It also reportedly has quite a few mistakes in it regarding events that occurred with the Fabs. IIRC Emerick states that Paul recorded "Blackbird" outside and the sound was a real blackbird-and neither is true.

It is a valuable tool though but evidently Emerick ticked off a lot of friends, associates, etc. that worked with him at Abbey Road including producer/engineer Ken Scott.

sadpanda · 12-14-2010, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

You mean the ones you can buy on iTunes? you can only get the stereo version digitally. You have to buy the Beatles In Mono to get the mono versions, but they are remastered like the stereo box set, it came out in 2009 with the rest of the remasters... not sure what you're asking.

I'm asking if there is a digital remaster of the mono in how you say. I have the mono and stereo versions but the only difference I can find is that the mono just doesn't have the last minute added on like the stereo.

Hitting_Singularity · 12-14-2010, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshMartin321

Is it me or is Rubber Soul (an awesome album of course) an album which is negative towards women. I realised it once, I mean it must have come around the time that Lennon's relationship to his former wife was deteriorating.

If you think of the tracks' meanings, for example Norwegian Wood can be interpreted as burning down a girl's flat for not staying up with him and having sex. Run for your Life is obviously negative, it does what it says.

Girl - "She was told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure, Did she understand it when they said, That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure, Will she still believe it when she's dead?"

What Goes On In Your Heart, If I Needed Someone, I'm Looking Through You, You Won't See Me, Think For Yourself... all not exactly filled with love towards someone, mostly they're about bitterness and anger towards a loved one. Even the opening song, Drive My Car, is kind of saying I'm going to be famous and I'm in charge, but if you want, you can **** me while I'm on the way to stardom.

I love it, great album. Does anyone agree/disagree with my views? One friend disagreed with me and said I'd read too far into the album. I agree that some tracks are clearly affectionate, eg In My Life, Michelle, The Word etc, but you can't deny the number of negative emotion songs!

hey I never realized that, but it's actually very true now that I think about it, thanks for pointing it out! I have to listen to the album with that in mind now lol.

Rubber soul used to be my favorite album, until I really listened to Abbey Road and sgt. Peppers.

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Originally Posted by sadpanda

I'm asking if there is a digital remaster of the mono in how you say. I have the mono and stereo versions but the only difference I can find is that the mono just doesn't have the last minute added on like the stereo.

oh, sorry I made a mistake there. I looked at it again, it's 'Don't pass me by' that is half a pitch higher, helter skelter just got cut off a minute earlier lol. My bad

Flyingpig437 · 12-14-2010, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Badlittlekitten

'Revolution In the Head' is also indispensable.

He says some stupd things in that book. The slagging off he gives Helter skelter is bizzare! He says something like it's heavy metal done by kids on toy instruments. Heavy metal didn't even exist then. You could even make a case that Helter skelter was the first heavy metal song.
He also says Glass Onion is unappealing. I love that song!

Badlittlekitten · 12-14-2010, 04:10 PM

I don't know. I think he does a good job of being level headed instead of bowing down and gushing like a lot of writers might do. I think some people overrate 'Helter Skelter', perhaps because of it's notoriety (Charles Manson connection). It certainly sounds nowhere near as heavy or viscous as anything on Electric Ladyland which came out the same year.

sadpanda · 12-14-2010, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

oh, sorry I made a mistake there. I looked at it again, it's 'Don't pass me by' that is half a pitch higher, helter skelter just got cut off a minute earlier lol. My bad

Oh okay, thank you! I'll look it up!

Batty · 12-14-2010, 08:35 PM

The first 2 albums I bought were Sgt. Peppers and Led Zep 1

musiclistsareus · 12-15-2010, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Son_of_Mr_Greengenes

I wouldn't even call The Beatles the greatest band of the 60's, let alone the greatest band ever.

So who is the greatest band of the '60s? My top 10, in order, are;

The Beatles
The Funk Brothers (Motown's Studio Band for The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, etc.)
The Beach Boys
The Band
The Who
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Kinks
The Byrds
Velvet Underground
The Rolling Stones
Love

Sorry that's 11--I couldn't stop

ngawethuu · 02-13-2011, 06:09 AM

You can find their lyrics on here: The Beatles Lyrics | The songs of the Beatles, the lyrics and all other stuff that you can find online.

~~RJMcDonnell~~ · 02-22-2011, 02:16 PM

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