New Beatles song released

M Gaudino said:
its cos of how old it is. stereo was a new thing and those mixes were an afterthought.

if you want to hear what they sounded like back then you have to get a mono record player and a uk pressing from one of the first few runs.

anyway if you’re streaming i’ve told you how to get the mono versions or just listen to the recent anniversary editions of the albums from revolver onwards
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I was looking at the resale price of ‘Please please me‘ album mono £100. and thousands for a perfect album, most of it used to be on YouTube but I can’t find anything decent
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
I was looking at the resale price of ‘Please please me‘ album mono £100. and thousands for a perfect album, most of it used to be on YouTube but I can’t find anything decent
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for godssake dont gondown the rabbit hole of classic vinyl record collecting. its insane especially for the beatles

the original Please Please Me pressings on the black and red label go for thousands. i have my mum’s Please please me and with the Beatles records that are earlyish pressings but i have no intention of trying to play them. check out the you tube channel Parlagram Auctions which basically just covers beatles vinyl through the years from various countries and record labels that was issued and reissued over the decades. they analyse the sound quality, the dynamic range etc. its so mental
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
I was looking at the resale price of ‘Please please me‘ album mono £100. and thousands for a perfect album, most of it used to be on YouTube but I can’t find anything decent
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I collected them all on vinyl about 25 years ago, got a White Album signed by John Lennon. Haven’t looked how much it must be worth now!

As an aside, just watched the Beatles on the BBC thing, which was great. Did make me think with Real Love in particular how good it would be if they redid that to the techniques they used in Now and Then.
 
M Gaudino said:
for godssake dont gondown the rabbit hole of classic vinyl record collecting. its insane especially for the beatles

the original Please Please Me pressings on the black and red label go for thousands. i have my mum’s Please please me and with the Beatles records that are earlyish pressings but i have no intention of trying to play them. check out the you tube channel Parlagram Auctions which basically just covers beatles vinyl through the years from various countries and record labels that was issued and reissued over the decades. they analyse the sound quality, the dynamic range etc. its so mental
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Well that’s made me think I might have to get mine valued!
 
MCFCTrick said:
Even though my favourite band ever, are clearly huge fans and it clearly shows in their whole back catalogue, I appreciate the love for them, and how they changed popular music forever. I respect them for that.

But I just don't enjoy them. I know exactly why too. As a child between say three and ten, (1963 - 70) I was regularly babysat by my two older girl cousins. During which times, they played Beatles records over and over and over and sodding over again. They even took me to see them (at Belle Vue?) in 66. The buggers brainwashed me with them.

So as I grew into a teen and discovered 'my own' music (Sweet, T.Rex, Mott The Hoople, early Queen) I did all I could to distance myself from the Beatles ... I even gave away (or worse) binned much Beatles memorabilla I had got from them ... cups, coins, plates, handkerchiefs, etc.

Maybe my love of Cheap Trick is subliminally linked to my early exposure to them ...
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So basically you don't like the Beatles because your cousins wanked you off.
 
crublue1 said:
Yep he belts that fucker out I'll give him that.
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They recorded that whole album in one day and that’s the last song they did, his voice was gone by that stage so it was the last take they could do. You can hear Paul shout “yeah!” at the end of the song as he absolutely nailed it.
 
Paul was absolutely awesome last night here on the Gold Coast. Had a brilliant night.........Gotta say the guy is an inspiration, 81 years old and leads a 3 hour show, didn't even drop the key of the songs to make them easier.
Best big gig I've been too by far and very fair prices, $100 (£50) for 3 hours of great entertainment. I've actually paid more to see a tribute band or two.
Wonder how long he can keep going for. I'd guess 2 more years .

His last gig in Oz, he's playing Mexico City next week.

 
crublue1 said:
Can you elaborate on that melty? Genuinely interested
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Just going back to that, there was a doc tonight on BBC2 with Howard Goodall breaking down a few of the songs off Sgt Peppers and he starts with Strawberry Fields as it was part of the same recording session. Definitely worth a watch to see how revolutionary what they were doing at the time was and why that song (and Penny Lane as the double A side) are so revered by musicians in particular.

Edit - the whole things worth a watch, the bit on Lucy in the sky with diamonds is a prime example of how ridiculously talented they were as composers.
 
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Bill Walker said:
Paul was absolutely awesome last night here on the Gold Coast. Had a brilliant night.........Gotta say the guy is an inspiration, 81 years old and leads a 3 hour show, didn't even drop the key of the songs to make them easier.
Best big gig I've been too by far and very fair prices, $100 (£50) for 3 hours of great entertainment. I've actually paid more to see a tribute band or two.
Wonder how long he can keep going for. I'd guess 2 more years .

His last gig in Oz, he's playing Mexico City next week.

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Bill I’ll use your post to set my record straight.
Me saying I don get the adulation of everything Beatles probably needs qualification.
I mean they were brilliant by any standard you care to apply.
For me it’s the fact they wrote great songs and the lyrics to their later stuff in particular were innovative compared to the poppy earlier stuff that I really think was of it’s time. Not bad stuff just totally outdated even by the seventies when I was listening to it.
They were prolific at a very high standard and they definitely were experimental towards the end of the sixties and probably broke a lot of modes.

I played a lot of their stuff especially Sgt. Peppers. and really was into it, but I saw a lot of other people’s experimentation as equally or perhaps more important to the changes in music that came in the seventies.

I suppose the crux is, I think they were of their time. They definitely wrote tunes that have spanned the decades but ultimately they are not a band I have on playlists. They are not a band I go back to. They are everywhere. They are on radio still but I don’t seek them out.

Music is subjective. I can appreciate their brilliance without wanting to listen to them now.
 
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mancity2012_eamo said:
Bill I’ll use your post to set my record straight.
Me saying I don get the adulation of everything Beatles probably needs qualification.
I mean they were brilliant by any standard you care to apply.
For me it’s the fact they wrote great songs and the lyrics to their later stuff in particular were innovative compared to the poppy earlier stuff that I really think was of it’s time. Not bad stuff just totally outdated even by the seventies when I was listening to it.
They were prolific at a very high standard and they definitely were experimental towards the end of the sixties and probably broke a lot of modes.

I played a lot of their stuff especially Sgt. Peppers. and really was into it, but I saw a lot of other people’s experimentation as equally or perhaps more important to the changes in music that came in the seventies.

I suppose the crux is, I think they were of their time. They definitely wrote tunes that have spanned the decades but ultimately they are not a band I have on playlists. They are not a band I go back to. They are everywhere. They are on radio still but I don’t seek them out.

Music is subject. I can appreciate their brilliance without wanting to listen to them now.
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Liking their music is absolutely subjective, all music is. I’d be interested to know who you think was experimentally equally more important to changes in music to the seventies or further though, I can’t think of anyone that pushed the dial forward to anywhere near the same amount either with studio advances or musically, particularly in the mainstream.

Their chord progressions and manipulations even now amaze me.
 
meltonblue said:
Liking their music is absolutely subjective, all music is. I’d be interested to know who you think was experimentally equally more important to changes in music to the seventies or further though, I can’t think of anyone that pushed the dial forward to anywhere near the same amount either with studio advances or musically, particularly in the mainstream.

Their chord progressions and manipulations even now amaze me.
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I’m watching BBC tonight and there’s a guy dissecting the Sgt.Pepper album and explaining it’s innovativeness. I get all the modal scales and all that, the world music, but to be honest that wasn’t a forethought for MacCartney and Lennon. It was instinctive. That’s probably what is so great about it. It was the sum total of everything they had consumed. Not a musical 3rd level education.

What I was admiring of a similar time, bearing in mind I came upon it in the seventies, was Hendrix, Zappa, to name just two.
I liked The Doors. Some of the early seventies stuff may not have been innovative but I found it, subjectively, more appealing.

That’s taste. Actually Taste were brilliant but very much ensconced in old blues converted to rock n roll.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
I’m watching BBC tonight and there’s a guy dissecting the Sgt.Pepper album and explaining it’s innovativeness. I get all the modal scales and all that, the world music, but to be honest that wasn’t a forethought for MacCartney and Lennon. It was instinctive. That’s probably what is so great about it. It was the sum total of everything they had consumed. Not a musical 3rd level education.

What I was admiring of a similar time, bearing in mind I came upon it in the seventies, was Hendrix, Zappa, to name just two.
I liked The Doors. Some of the early seventies stuff may not have been innovative but I found it, subjectively, more appealing.

That’s taste. Actually Taste were brilliant but very much ensconced in old blues converted to rock n roll.
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Yes I agree with that, that’s what made them so special. Not the education as such, the innovation they were able to do on top of it.

I don’t think any of what you’ve put is an argument about influence though, either in terms of experimentation musically or studio techniques. You admiring them I get, I love them all too. None of them influenced anywhere near to the same extent as the Beatles did though, nor could they compose music to the same level of complexity. Doesn’t mean it isn’t still equally brilliant if not more so to the ears of the beholder, but I was arguing your point about the changes in music. That stemmed more from them than anyone that I can think of.
 
meltonblue said:
Just going back to that, there was a doc tonight on BBC2 with Howard Goodall breaking down a few of the songs off Sgt Peppers and he starts with Strawberry Fields as it was part of the same recording session. Definitely worth a watch to see how revolutionary what they were doing at the time was and why that song (and Penny Lane as the double A side) are so revered by musicians in particular.

Edit - the whole things worth a watch, the bit on Lucy in the sky with diamonds is a prime example of how ridiculously talented they were as composers.
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I noticed that on I player earlier, thanks for the heads up.
 
Bill Walker said:
Paul was absolutely awesome last night here on the Gold Coast. Had a brilliant night.........Gotta say the guy is an inspiration, 81 years old and leads a 3 hour show, didn't even drop the key of the songs to make them easier.
Best big gig I've been too by far and very fair prices, $100 (£50) for 3 hours of great entertainment. I've actually paid more to see a tribute band or two.
Wonder how long he can keep going for. I'd guess 2 more years .

His last gig in Oz, he's playing Mexico City next week.

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What impresses me is it surely can't just be about the money, he is absolutely loaded and he is getting on now. He must really love performing. If I was him id be living out my years on an island somewhere with supermodels
 
CTID1988 said:
What impresses me is it surely can't just be about the money, he is absolutely loaded and he is getting on now. He must really love performing. If I was him id be living out my years on an island somewhere with supermodels
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Haha me too mate..He knows he can never spend the money he's got, his kids will get it, it's not about that....
He just loves playing music, you can tell that when you see him live. And as long as fans turn up I'm sure he will keep doing it. That's what I meant about him being an inspiration. Most blokes at 81 would have their feet up taking it easy.
 
Bill Walker said:
Paul was absolutely awesome last night here on the Gold Coast. Had a brilliant night.........Gotta say the guy is an inspiration, 81 years old and leads a 3 hour show, didn't even drop the key of the songs to make them easier.
Best big gig I've been too by far and very fair prices, $100 (£50) for 3 hours of great entertainment. I've actually paid more to see a tribute band or two.
Wonder how long he can keep going for. I'd guess 2 more years .

His last gig in Oz, he's playing Mexico City next week.

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I think this tour might be his last never seen him myself but if he played Manchester I’d definitely try and get a ticket. Just for the sing along alone it would be worth it



Watch the audience in this one some of them almost crying it brings back happy/sad memories of when the Beatles first burst onto the scene in the sixties.
 
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