Beatles Sgt. Pepper inner groove poll

Last option - play as long as possible as The Beatles intended

Was it omitted on the original US vinyl?

 

I didn't know about this until Rarities in the 1980s. One play-through at the end of a CD is good enough for me.

 

In principle, as was done on CD. But now that I can no longer hear the relevant frequencies, I typically spend those several seconds lamenting my hearing loss, and thus as I remove my Sgt. Pepper CD from the player I feel slightly sad, which I'm pretty sure isn't the effect the Beatles intended. So I almost wish the tone wasn't there...

 

I remember having heard the 13kHz tone in my 20s and 30s. I certainly cannot hear it in my 60s!

 

I like the James Gang: Side 1: Flip Me Over. Side 2: Play Me Again (or something like that).

 

Genesis had "Put Another Record On"

 

Ding, ding, ding! I think we’ve reached peak Beatles/Forum comment

 

I prefer it the way it was on the official CD releases. Long enough with fade out.

 

As the Inner Groove is my favorite Beatles track I have oft been offended by its treatment on CD players. They could have at least waited until the chorus.

 

I can remember being able to hear the frequency in my mid teens. I don't think I'd be able to now though. I don't think I've heard it in years.

Might check it out on 2014 mono later.

 

Play it once, but I wish it had been a separate track and not included on A Day in the Life

 

Well, we haven't started to compare mono/stereo differences in the inner groove track yet...

 

Other: As was done on cd, but played backwards.

 

I never could speak any other way ...

 

I too really think it should've been its own track, not part of 'A Day In The Life'.

Why were there no outtakes in the Pepper box?

Incidentally it would have fitted perfectly at the end of 'You Know My Name...'

 

You left off 'OMG, make it stop!'

 

Wow, good question! It would be fascinating to hear the larger bit of Beatle Babble that this snippet was excerpted from and put it in more context.

 

sorry if I am not completely understanding the topic here, but are we mainly voting on how that epic long piano note on "A Day In The Life" is to be recorded? if so, its still a world record holder and should be as it was originally. pardon me if im off topic

 

No, we are discussing the sounds after you stop hearing the last reverberations of that note.

 

If I could go back in a time machine and convince George, Geoff and Richard (and the other four fellows!) to listen to my idea of having rapturous audience applause/reactions as the inner groove instead (i.e., applause that goes on forever if you don't take the needle out of the groove) I would!
I'd also suggest taking a copy of the final chord and using varispeed to slow it down by 50% to take the chord down one octave and synch that copy to the final chord so we'd have an elongated decay on the final chord (I'm surprised that they didn't think of that back in the day).

 

I always wondered why they didn't put it in the runout groove on the US version of Rarities.

 

On the album Go Insane by Lindsey Buckingham, the song "Play In The Rain" ends Side 1 with a repeating chord in the run-out groove. On the cassette version, it was faded out after only a few seconds of repeating, just like the Pepper CD.

 

Yes, the longer version (i.e. plays once) is on the US rarities LP and the UK cassette (at least - I don't know about the 8-track cartridge).

It has what sounds like a bit of Ringo laughing, which isn't on the LP loop.

 

Question..... I was unaware it wasn't on the US version. Why was it cut from the US version, is there a reason? I know a lot of people in the US have said they can live without it, but it was conceived by The Beatles to be on the album, along with the high pitched sound for dogs.



Oh, and I voted Play as long as CD capacity allows and then end abruptly

 

I think the hippest use of an idea like this is what The Moody Blues did at the end of “On The Threshold Of A Dream”.

It was designed for a turntable that automatically lifts the needle at the end of the side.

They had this spaceship sound that ran passed the point where the needle would be lifted.

So it was a jarring end, like being awakened from a dream.

The CD fades out which isn’t nearly as effective.