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1 posted on 04/07/2009 11:04:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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A crew of engineers at London’s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve “the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings” and ensure “the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.”

It says something about CDs when it takes 4 years of work to get them to sound like the records did.

2 posted on 04/07/2009 11:06:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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Oh goodie. Something else I won’t buy which then will save me money. Waste of good coin, this.


3 posted on 04/07/2009 11:07:41 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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PS, there were 2 volumes of Beatle bootleg CDs (the ORIGINAL 2 volumes of Ultra Rare Trax) that exceeded the quality of the legit studio releases. And those came out in 1987.

So the bootlegger did NOT have 4 years to get the tapes to sound that way.


4 posted on 04/07/2009 11:09:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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Oh yeah, they’ll sell it it to ya again and again.

What I want to see are remastered first three Stones albums, as released in the UK, as well their BBC Sessions and demos. ABKlein owns all those masters, unfortunately.


5 posted on 04/07/2009 11:10:25 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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Seriously, how many times can the Beatles issue a “remastered” copy. More than anyone else the Beatles have milked every last ounce of commercial exploitation out of each album.

Sheesh.


6 posted on 04/07/2009 11:12:06 AM PDT by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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The Beatles’ Remastered Albums Due September 9, 2009

"Hey, let's milk this musical cow some more, whaddya say?"

7 posted on 04/07/2009 11:12:13 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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Those Parlophone (and Stones’ Decca) UK albums were originally pressed on heavy vinyl, which beat the quality of the later thin releases by a nautical mile.


9 posted on 04/07/2009 11:13:23 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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I’m a huge fan but every year they try to squeeze a little more out of it.


16 posted on 04/07/2009 11:18:32 AM PDT by exist
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I think I’ll pass on one after 9/09.


17 posted on 04/07/2009 11:19:47 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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Great marketing potential... “#9, #9, #9” ... LOL...


21 posted on 04/07/2009 11:22:06 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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Ummmm..., I’d like to see “The Pirate Bay” on 9/10/2009.... :-)

http://thepiratebay.org/


23 posted on 04/07/2009 11:24:03 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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i will stick with dr. ebbetts’ releases. besides, i’ve probably got at least five versions/copies of each album they put out. plus at least 250 discs worth of boots. and they’re not even my favorite.


26 posted on 04/07/2009 11:27:42 AM PDT by Brent Calvert 03969-030
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The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"

TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?

JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

http://beatlesnumber9.com/lostlennon.html

28 posted on 04/07/2009 11:32:38 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Good news IF quality re-mastering was done and noise reduction was NOT used - always a killer of the sonic quality. Eager to see the names involved in re-mastering - the ‘87 re-masters are horrible. Can’t wait to compare to my CDR’s burned direct from the master tapes...


29 posted on 04/07/2009 11:33:18 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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35 posted on 04/07/2009 11:40:22 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( “Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.”NYTimes Bill Kell)
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All that song and dance about being “revolutionaries” and “power to the people” and “the evils of wealth.” The Beatles’ estates are worth approximately $ 1.5B each. So, of course, they must re-issue their moldy old songs to make even more money. Disgusting hypocrites.


37 posted on 04/07/2009 11:47:24 AM PDT by pabianice
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I suppose this will make a lot of people happy.


42 posted on 04/07/2009 12:37:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior (We have to act now before people begin to realize we don't.)
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Choice of the date—”One After 909” or...
“number nine...number nine...” Hmm.


44 posted on 04/07/2009 1:35:12 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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Doesn't Michael Jackson have a piece of this pie?

Doesn't he own the Lennon-McCartney catalog?

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46 posted on 04/07/2009 1:46:10 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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What boring news. Never liked them and even if I did how many times can one buy the same tune and how many times has one heard it? I always liked the Stones but I’ve heard their stuff too many times by now. So I wouldn’t buy a super duper digital boxed set from them either


51 posted on 04/07/2009 5:59:39 PM PDT by dennisw (0gabe our very own Kenyan subprime president)
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