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Post by beatleroadie on Aug 12, 2010 14:16:51 GMT -5
Check it out: undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=11597_The_Beatles_Red_and_Blue_Collections_RemasteredI am a little surprised by this. It's a compilation, so why not remix them as well? Are any of these different mixes than what's already out there in remastered 2009 form? I guess A Day in the Life is different because its without the fade-in/crowd noises from the Sgt. Pepper reprise... Don't get me wrong, these albums hold a special place in my heart because they were my first Beatles purchases as a teenager, but in hindsight, the tracklists are a little off in places IMO. For instance, from The White album we get: 15. Back in the U.S.S.R (The Beatles 1967-1970) 16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles 1967-1970) 17. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles 1967-1970) I'm not sure ANY of those 3 would be on my list if I had 3 White Album tracks to choose. 6 Tracks from Rubber Soul but only 2 from Revolver? And ONLY 1 track from BFS?
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Aug 12, 2010 15:42:15 GMT -5
Check it out: undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=11597_The_Beatles_Red_and_Blue_Collections_RemasteredI am a little surprised by this. It's a compilation, so why not remix them as well? Are any of these different mixes than what's already out there in remastered 2009 form? I guess A Day in the Life is different because its without the fade-in/crowd noises from the Sgt. Pepper reprise... Don't get me wrong, these albums hold a special place in my heart because they were my first Beatles purchases as a teenager, but in hindsight, the tracklists are a little off in places IMO. For instance, from The White album we get: 15. Back in the U.S.S.R (The Beatles 1967-1970) 16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles 1967-1970) 17. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles 1967-1970) I'm not sure ANY of those 3 would be on my list if I had 3 White Album tracks to choose. 6 Tracks from Rubber Soul but only 2 from Revolver? And ONLY 1 track from BFS? I wrote about this too: abbeyrd.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=examiner&action=display&thread=2018(Maybe I need to have my links in a different place?)
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Post by brothermichael on Aug 26, 2010 20:47:23 GMT -5
I guess A Day in the Life is different because its without the fade-in/crowd noises from the Sgt. Pepper reprise... Not sure if this reissue will have the Imagine John Lennon/1993 Blue set intro to "A Day in the Life." There are also other issues with some mixes on the Red set -- wide stereo, I think? It will be interesting to see what comes out: 2009 remasters all around, the 1993 mixes remastered, or a return to the 1973 mixes in some form, i.e. James Bond "Help" intro -- but doubtful on the last of three, really.
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Post by jellyzero79 on Sept 25, 2010 1:22:37 GMT -5
I think they missed a perfect opportunity to fix the mistakes they made the first time around. If you are still going to keep it a 4 cd package for only 2 hours worth of music why not add a few songs to make it a more complete product? I'Ve Just Seen A Face, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Here There & Everywhere, Tomorrow Never Knows, Got To Get You Into My Life, I'm A Loser, etc?
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 25, 2010 10:20:05 GMT -5
I think they missed a perfect opportunity to fix the mistakes they made the first time around. If you are still going to keep it a 4 cd package for only 2 hours worth of music why not add a few songs to make it a more complete product? I'Ve Just Seen A Face, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Here There & Everywhere, Tomorrow Never Knows, Got To Get You Into My Life, I'm A Loser, etc? Exactly and I'll throw in "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" so we'd have remasters of those in a convenient place. There is so much unused time on the two Red Album discs.
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Post by glenn1966 on Sept 27, 2010 8:13:31 GMT -5
I think they missed a perfect opportunity to fix the mistakes they made the first time around. If you are still going to keep it a 4 cd package for only 2 hours worth of music why not add a few songs to make it a more complete product? I'Ve Just Seen A Face, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Here There & Everywhere, Tomorrow Never Knows, Got To Get You Into My Life, I'm A Loser, etc? Exactly and I'll throw in "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" so we'd have remasters of those in a convenient place. There is so much unused time on the two Red Album discs. Delete all the non-singles from Red and Blue and you get a comprehensive, 2 disc (about 45-50 minutes each) greatest hits collection that covers what "1" missed.
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Post by beatleroadie on Sept 27, 2010 13:08:26 GMT -5
I don't see why it would be so hard for Apple to release a remixed BEATLES SINGLES collection with every A-side released in the U.S. and UK between 1962 - 1970, then tack on Free As a Bird and Real Love. Seems like a no-brainer #1 double-CD album.
If they were really insidious, they'd include one unreleased bonus track (alternate version of Hey Jude or Revolution or something to get the diehard fans to bite), but I hope they don't do that.
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 27, 2010 15:28:13 GMT -5
And the movie medley.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 27, 2010 20:50:50 GMT -5
LOL! Are you joking vectis?
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Post by glenn1966 on Sept 28, 2010 6:05:19 GMT -5
LOL! Are you joking vectis? I seriously want a remastered version of the Movie Medley. ;D
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Post by mikev on Sept 28, 2010 9:36:35 GMT -5
LOL! Are you joking vectis? I seriously want a remastered version of the Movie Medley. ;D While we're at it, why not a remastered "Stars on 45"?? Oh that's right...it wasn't the Beatles ;D
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 28, 2010 13:59:48 GMT -5
The movie medley is an official single featuring Beatles recordings in a format not available anywhere else.
Didn't say I liked it.
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Post by beatleroadie on Sept 30, 2010 12:16:24 GMT -5
Anyone have a link to this "Movie Medley"? I've never heard it...What about George Martin's instrumentals for AHDN and Help! Those should be made available in some form...not on this though!
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Post by stavros on Sept 30, 2010 15:17:00 GMT -5
Anyone have a link to this "Movie Medley"? I've never heard it...What about George Martin's instrumentals for AHDN and Help! Those should be made available in some form...not on this though! It was a single back when I were still a lad in the early 80s.
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Post by beatleroadie on Oct 2, 2010 10:48:49 GMT -5
Wow, THAT was a single, as in it was played on the radio? The 80s were weirder than I thought!
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Post by vectisfabber on Oct 2, 2010 11:20:21 GMT -5
It was released as a single as a direct response to the Stars on 45 single/album, which comprised a load of song snippets recorded by a Dutch soundalike band to a disco beat. It was very successful, and the vocal impersonators were good, especially the Lennon one, who was VERY good. EMI spotted an opportunity and went for it, and followed it up with the Movies album.
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Post by glenn1966 on Oct 20, 2010 22:10:52 GMT -5
Did anyone on the board purchase the remastered Red and Blue CDs? How much better were the booklets? Does "A Day In The Life" still have the clean intro?
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 20, 2010 22:21:06 GMT -5
Did anyone on the board purchase the remastered Red and Blue CDs? How much better were the booklets? Does "A Day In The Life" still have the clean intro? Oh Lord, they were released yesterday? I missed that.
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Post by glenn1966 on Oct 21, 2010 9:45:07 GMT -5
Did anyone on the board purchase the remastered Red and Blue CDs? How much better were the booklets? Does "A Day In The Life" still have the clean intro? Oh Lord, they were released yesterday? I missed that. I just asked out of curiousity. I saw them in Wal-Mart yesterday. Usually, I get everything, but I couldn't see shelling out more money just for photos, liner notes and one track. Plus, I already have the Red and Blue from '93.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 21, 2010 16:12:15 GMT -5
Oh Lord, they were released yesterday? I missed that. I just asked out of curiousity. I saw them in Wal-Mart yesterday. Usually, I get everything, but I couldn't see shelling out more money just for photos, liner notes and one track. Plus, I already have the Red and Blue from '93. Me too, I buy all of these things(says the guy who hasn't boughten all the 2010 Lennon reissues and new comps yet). I may mosey down to Megla-Mart and see what the frequency is on these things.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 21, 2010 21:45:20 GMT -5
Our brand, stinking new Super Wal-Mart doesn't have the new Red and Blue albums and though that store of false values and self-righteous morality will kill all other merchants in our small town, it won't get my money for these compilations I have over and over, on black vinyl, on red and blue vinyl, on 1993 "remastered" compact discs where the absurdly short Red Album became almost embarrassing whereas it once seemed glorious on two vinyl records.
But I am now listening to fantastic acoustic music from Bob Dylan called The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 which is part of The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 whose musical selections, packaging, booklets and cost make anything released post-1970 by The Beatles look like shoddy, overpriced shit.
I got this Dylan comp from amazon.com with its faceless, soon to revolt robots. No more Mom & Pop music stores in Logansport, Super Wal-Mart made sure of that.
Wal-Mart.com says it won't stock the Red and Blue c.d.'s in stores but on its website you can buy each for just $19.99. All for the new booklet that ain't a third of the Bob Dylan book I'm trying to read in its c.d. booklet small print.
Next to buy is the Dylan Mono Boxset of his first nine albums in "glorious" mono. I'll be damned if we won't all be going back to mono and vinyl. We come the full circle before we kill each other off.
Well, as Bobby says, we're, "bound to lose, bound to win."
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Post by joeyself on Oct 21, 2010 22:24:36 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever owned either of these sets; I gave the Blue one to a girlfriend in 1975, and I think my brother had the Red one on 8-track that I borrowed and forgot to return. Given I have a full set of Beatle CDs (twice), why would I need/want them?
JcS
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Post by darkhorse67 on Oct 21, 2010 23:29:13 GMT -5
horses for courses...I'll go back to vinyl but never to mono........I know I'll be in the minority that does not care for mono, which was meant to be listened to on cheap one speaker players....
as far as Beatles post 1970 releases........I think Red & Blue have their place as an intro....I think that 13 dollars is not overpriced....they are great compilations....if you have the 93 versions, or even the stereo box, or an ipod where you can arrange these comps as a play list, there is no need to pick them up.
....this has been a year of redundant releases, there really is no urge to pick up Lennon remasters except stripped or for that matter band on the run....also been remastered previously, and now all things must pass on vinyl again....i understand the frustration as we have bought this music over the years, the same music...
....unless you are using them as an intro which I'm doing or my little Mica who is becoming a fan through these comps in the same way my mom intro'd me with red & blue when i was 13...
...now the best of Apple look interesting for next week....
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 22, 2010 6:03:20 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever owned either of these sets; I gave the Blue one to a girlfriend in 1975, and I think my brother had the Red one on 8-track that I borrowed and forgot to return. Given I have a full set of Beatle CDs (twice), why would I need/want them? JcS Same here. I mean, I had them on vinyl back in the day, but see no need for them on CD.
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Post by ursamajor on Oct 22, 2010 6:32:50 GMT -5
I bought the Blue Album CD set yesterday and the quality is great, the MMT songs sound better to me than on the 2009 remaster and The Long and Winding Road sounds squeaky clean, other than that a superb listen.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 22, 2010 7:59:14 GMT -5
horse for courses...I'll go back to vinyl but never to mono........I know I'll be in the minority that does not care for mono, which was meant to be listened to on cheap one speaker players.... as far as beatles post 1970 releases........I think Red & Blue have their place as an intro....I think that 13 dollars is not overpriced....they are great compilations....if you have the 93 versions, or the glorious stereo box set then there is no urge to pick these up-unless you are using them as an intro which i'm doing or my little one in the same way my mom intro'd me with red & blue when i was 13... while we are at it....there really is no urge to pick up Lennon remasters except stripped or for that matter band on the run....which ha also been remastered previously Oh I forgot, I bought two complete sets of Red and Blue for my two stepsons back in 1996 or so. I agree that Red and Blue are historically important as they made many in my generation Beatles' fans in that tidal wave of Beatles' longing from 1973 to 1976. I just don't think I need these again.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 25, 2010 21:09:27 GMT -5
Best Buy had Red and Blue at $22.99 each. No way! My 1993's sounds just fine. Also, amazon.con has the Blue Album at $14.99 which is a fair price. There is a lot of music on the Blue. But even amazon.com has the Red for $19.99 which is a lot for what, 40 minutes of music. I got some early birthday money and I was considering the 2010 John and Yoko STINYC but that sucker is $19.99! I am glad the freak-out Zappa stuff is reinstated but damn-it, STINYC is not a real double album. Hell, it is an album hated or forgotten by all but the stoutest Lennon fans. $19.99!? No way! I wouldn't pay $14.99 for 1 1/2 an album. This phony reissue Beatlemania has bitten the dust as far as I am concerned. I was just solicited for a $99.99 deluxe BOTR box. Where the heck is the unreleased stuff, pristine Beatles videos, restored Let It Be with bonus, Shea and Hollywood Bowl, etc., etc. Hell, throw us the restored film of MMT, just something besides reissues pf reissued albums of the same stuff.
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Post by darkhorse67 on Oct 26, 2010 19:47:30 GMT -5
wow bestbuy raised the prices on RED/BLUE so fast-both were at 13: I love them!!I have some Ebbets versions of these too...my daughter keeps trying to put Red I keep trying to put Blue in the car while my wife wants her latin musica : )....now time to put on the Capitol albums box sets....hey, amazon has the 2 CD remaster +I DVD for Band on the run remaster at 14-the price seems right...I can't picture anybody going for the deluxe....never got the HELP DVD deluxe...which sits bulkily on the best buy shelves... going for best of Apple:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 8:21:34 GMT -5
I think they missed a perfect opportunity to fix the mistakes they made the first time around. If you are still going to keep it a 4 cd package for only 2 hours worth of music why not add a few songs to make it a more complete product? I'Ve Just Seen A Face, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Blackbird, Here There & Everywhere, Tomorrow Never Knows, Got To Get You Into My Life, I'm A Loser, etc? Exactly and I'll throw in "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" so we'd have remasters of those in a convenient place. There is so much unused time on the two Red Album discs. I'm glad they left the Red and Blue albums as real Beatles compilation albums and left off the Anthology promotional gimmicks.....
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Post by brothermichael on Dec 22, 2010 9:37:46 GMT -5
First, "A Day in the Life" has the clean intro ala 1993 and the Lennon movie soundtrack. Also "Back in the USSR" ends as the 1993 does. Can't remember any other differences from the remasters, but essentially these are the 1993 sets remastered. But I am now listening to fantastic acoustic music from Bob Dylan called The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 which is part of The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 whose musical selections, packaging, booklets and cost make anything released post-1970 by The Beatles look like shoddy, overpriced shit. Next to buy is the Dylan Mono Boxset of his first nine albums in "glorious" mono. I'll be damned if we won't all be going back to mono and vinyl. We come the full circle before we kill each other off. Well, as Bobby says, we're, "bound to lose, bound to win." So true about the Dylan reissues. The Witmark stuff is amazing. Have you bought the mono box yet? If not, GET IT. These albums were meant to be heard in mono and you won't be disappointed. Borders or Amazon recently had it priced ridiculously low (I almost bought another for the hell of it -- $30!), but if the price has changed, wait for a Borders coupon to show up (40--50 % off) and buy it.
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