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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 3, 2011 4:52:23 GMT -5
67-70 gone. These left.
With The Beatles (and Meet The Beatles US) Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road
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Post by Blackguard on Nov 3, 2011 9:49:20 GMT -5
This time I think I'll vote against Rubber Soul, British Version. The orangey title logo stands out a little too much. The Brownish green one of the American Version matches the colour scheme much more.
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Post by JCV on Nov 3, 2011 11:56:34 GMT -5
Abbey RoadJCV
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Post by coachbk on Nov 3, 2011 21:03:36 GMT -5
Gonna knock off RUBBER SOUL C;ever pun with the rubber and the stretched out faces, but it's a one joke cover
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 3, 2011 22:08:03 GMT -5
Whew, vectis is going fast and I am late! Here are the remaining covers for Round 20! With The Beatles or Rubber Soul or Revolver Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 3, 2011 22:11:29 GMT -5
Revolver
I like the sketches of the four but I don't like the photos strewn throughout their hair.
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Post by wooltonian on Nov 4, 2011 4:31:49 GMT -5
I think 'Meet the Beatles' should go. It's the same as 'With the Beatles', save for the tacky lettering and the cheesy strapline. Classic photo -- everything else hideous.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 4, 2011 4:48:40 GMT -5
This time I think I'll vote against Rubber Soul, British Version. The orangey title logo stands out a little too much. The Brownish green one of the American Version matches the colour scheme much more. By gum, you are storing up black marks! The orange logo - on the correct version of the album, with all the tracks on it - is DAR superior than the muddy khaki on the US version! I'm voting Abbey Road again.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 4, 2011 6:55:38 GMT -5
By gum, you are storing up black marks! The orange logo - on the correct version of the album, with all the tracks on it - is DAR superior than the muddy khaki on the US version! Sez you. I agree that the orangey/reddish version of the words RUBBER SOUL do not compliment the cover as well as the brownish one from the U.S. I really don't care what was the "correct" version of the cover or the LP; the Beatles weren't always the best at their choices. What's more, the songs on the U.S. version of the album kick ass over the UK one. We don't need DRIVE MY CAR and WHAT GOES ON on RS, but we do need I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE and IT'S ONLY LOVE. While you say that the UK version is "DAR superior", I maintain that the US one is FAR superior! ;D I'll vote to get rid of REVOLVER -- it's nice but it's sketchy, and I prefer real pics.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 4, 2011 9:42:10 GMT -5
Sigh, they got the US releases wrong! It is dar more obvious than the nose on your dace!
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Post by wooltonian on Nov 4, 2011 12:54:09 GMT -5
Sigh, they got the US releases wrong! It is dar more obvious than the nose on your dace! The Dab Dour have always been my davourite doursome!
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 4, 2011 13:07:59 GMT -5
By gum, you are storing up black marks! The orange logo - on the correct version of the album, with all the tracks on it - is DAR superior than the muddy khaki on the US version! Sez you. I agree that the orangey/reddish version of the words RUBBER SOUL do not compliment the cover as well as the brownish one from the U.S. I really don't care what was the "correct" version of the cover or the LP; the Beatles weren't always the best at their choices. What's more, the songs on the U.S. version of the album kick ass over the UK one. We don't need DRIVE MY CAR and WHAT GOES ON on RS, but we do need I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE and IT'S ONLY LOVE. While you say that the UK version is "DAR superior", I maintain that the US one is FAR superior! ;D I'll vote to get rid of REVOLVER -- it's nice but it's sketchy, and I prefer real pics. Joe and I agree this Round on album covers but disagree on U.K. versus U.S. albums. I think Meet The Beatles is awesome and With The Beatles is lacking badly without "Hand." But U.K. Rubber Soul is superior to the so-called folkie U.S. RS. I grew up on the U.S. versions too(that dates me for the relic I am and I am not even a Firstie although I was a small child in the Beatles years) but once I bought vinyl of the U.K. RS and Revolver, I truly realized how amazing that band was. All of those short U.S. Capitol albums watered down the legacy. It helped that my second book on The Beatles was Tyler and Carr's which reviewed the U.K. albums. The U.K. problem was not including singles on the albums with some exceptions like "Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine." Before I am deemed a traitor to my country, I am not trying to change minds but just stating my opinion. The Yanks got "Meet The Beatles" and "Band On The Run" right though!
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 5, 2011 9:57:42 GMT -5
I think Meet The Beatles is awesome and With The Beatles is lacking badly without "Hand." I think MEET THE BEATLES and THE BEATLES SECOND ALBUM deliver a solid, one-two punch - and they've got some great material on them. THE SECOND ALBUM still may be my favorite early Beatles album, rock-wise. Hold on, John. This little statement did not get past my radar. ;D I can't speak for you, but as I often say, I have finally come to consider myself a "Firstie" in a way, even though you and I were the same "small child" age in the Beatle Years. It has nothing to do with a requirement for a fan to be at least a 12 year old or teeenager, IMO, and everything to do with whether or not you liked and were somewhat aware of The Beatles at the time they were together and you were a fan who listened to their records... My mom wrote in my Baby Book about me loving the Beatles "at age 3" (1965), and running around singing "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah" and "Help!".... and there is a photo of me holding the Beatles' US HELP! Soundtrack LP in the '60s. I used to visit my mom's two cousins, Carol and Marie, who were real Beatlemaniacs, and who saw The Beatles at Shea Stadium; I would go to their home and admire their records, look at the LP and 45rpm photos, and play the music on their phonograph in their basement as a small child (I have a photo of one of these visits, which I wish I knew how to post here!). I watched and liked The Beatles' Cartoon in 1966/67 at age 4/5, had a Beatles Halloween mask (another photo shows this), had Beatles photos on my wall, and I had a collection of 45's and LPs which I played on my little toy Mickey Mouse record player. In 1968 at age 6 my mom got me out of bed so I could go downstairs and watch the beatles performing HEY JUDE on TV (it totally turned me off). This is not my ego trying to rationalize and convince myself ... it wouldn't matter to me at all if I hadn't become a fan until the 1970s... and I never used to think I qualified as a "First Generation Fan", until the 1980s, when an older Beatles fan born in 1955 made me realize: "But Joe, what are you talking about?? you WERE a First Generation Fan!" And when I thought about his point, he was right! What happened was, I eventually forgot about The Beatles all together (the HEY JUDE performance hadn't helped any, because the band freaked me out looking older and with Lennon's glasses and Ringo's moustache).. and I didn't go back to them until around 1974 or 1975 (age 12/13), when a friend across the street showed me HIS Beatles LP collection, and the memories of the great songs all came back to me. I'd say I was hooked by 1975, and by 1976 (14) I was a bonafide "Beatles Collector/Fanatic" who rode the nostalgia wave of the ROCK N ROLL MUSIC DOUBLE LP, etc...! Well, that's how I felt when I was a teenager trying to collect all the UK Imports. But in recent years I have returned to the Capitol US releases and I realize they were darn good albums on their own, even if the Beatles didn't plan them (pure semantics, that).
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 5, 2011 10:16:06 GMT -5
Joe, I was referring to me only as not being a Firstie even though I have some Beatles memories from the 60's, albeit just a few and they are in that far off memory-land. You had Beatles music at home, it was more in your life. I was the oldest child so I had no older siblings to play the music in our house and my parents were that last generation of pre-rock and rollers. I still feel old though to have grown up on the U.S. Capitol Albums.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 5, 2011 13:23:30 GMT -5
Joe, I was referring to me only as not being a Firstie even though I have some Beatles memories from the 60's, albeit just a few and they are in that far off memory-land. oops - sorry; I thought I remembered a thread on the subject once, talking about 'who qualifies as a Firstie', and so on! Well, I was the oldest too! I only had one sister who was a year and a half younger (I say "had" because she passed away only 2 months ago, sadly -- I still cannot believe that .. )... But I did have the music in my home -- somehow I got the records... I think an Uncle of mine bought me my first records in the '60s!
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Post by John S. Damm on Nov 5, 2011 14:35:21 GMT -5
If you had some Beatles records back then then I'd call you a Firstie! I had Beatles bubblebath, some Beatles trading cards and remember seeing them on tv(not the 1964 Ed Sullivans, I was too young) but had no records of theirs. I did watch the cartoons first run so that may be as close as I get to being a Firstie but the music didn't interest me in the cartoons, all the other zany stuff did. My older cousins all dug The Beatles but none of them lived in my home town so I only saw them twice a year. My cousin Rick showed me the SPLHCB cover when I was five so that was the Fall of 1967 but we didn't play the record. I was into the visual of the album cover, had no interest at five for the music inside. So for this Album Cover tourney, SPLHCB is my sentimental favorite as I actually remember it from the year it was released. I remember AR cover and again, a cousin showed it to me but I was a whole seven years old when that came out. A little too young for drugs and engaging in all of that free love of 1969. I would be about 12 for that to kick in.
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Post by Blackguard on Nov 5, 2011 14:53:04 GMT -5
I stand by my choices, it's my opinions that separate me from the pack and make me the unique, complex and multifaceted person that I am.
In the argument of what country released the better versions of the albums, I feel the argument is over. Nobody won. You see it was a toss up; The US version of Magical Mystery Tour was hands above the truncated British version. But, the British version of Let It Be blew the US version right out of the water. The British release came with a nice book while the American version was just an album in a sleeve.
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Post by glenn1966 on Nov 5, 2011 15:57:36 GMT -5
IMO, the UK versions are the better. Burning a copy of "With The Beatles" and adding IWTHYH and TB is sufficient for getting the "Meet The Beatles" experience.
I don't miss ISHST,as it belongs as the kick starter for the PPM lp.
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Post by vectisfabber on Nov 11, 2011 9:26:58 GMT -5
The End.
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