Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Discussion. What Can We Expect?

Well thank you. But i've gotta say, in general terms, as far as Beatles secrets revealed...that's about 1.7 on the Beatles Richter Scale

 

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Then it seems that George Harrison is unlikely to buy it.

 

You've told us this twice. You are bummed but happy but bummed but happy but... Try this approach. RELAX. Remember prior to 2017 when you didn't have these nice remixed box sets with all these tracks? Now you have them. Pretty cool huh? In addition, it's very likely that in the future many more of these outtakes you want will be in your possession. You already said so yourself - in perhaps an updated Anthology box set. Enjoy the ride.

 

Well, yes but a standalone Blu-ray would sell for arounfd $20 and that includes everything you mentioned, the "parts and pieces" cost a dollar or two, everything else is covered in the regular selling price.

 

I‘m sure his family still retain his values.

 

Got my copy last night and pressed play. Come Together began it's march across my eardrums until a neighborhood dog started barking and woke me up.

 

I too hate the blue ray being so skimpy, particularly not including the original mix. I'm still getting it, but I don't understand the ommision.

 

The kind of price we wouldn't even dare dreaming about in old Europe, where we pay at least twice as much.

 

I think the Yellow Submarine album should only include the songs featured in the movie (that were not found on other albums):
Yellow Submarine (you have to include this one even though it was on an earlier album)
All Together Now
Only a Northern Song
All You Need Is Love
Baby You’re Rich Man
Hey Bulldog
It's All Too Much

Then Magical Mystery Tour should only include the songs featured in that movie. The remaining songs from the MMT album should be bonus tracks on the other albums or on Past Masters.

 

So I just listened to the new Something mix on youtube.

I guess I should say that when I first heard the remixed Back In The USSR on youtube, I freaked out. Then I heard the WA blu ray, and all was forgiven.

This is a highly interpretive remix. I can't even say whether I like it or not, because it's almost a new song. The gentle strings and fat tom toms have been reversed. The strings are loud, the moog even louder. The drums as a result fall into the background. Where things were highly integrated before, the remix feels more like a slide show, highlighting more than synthesizing each new element.

...but then again, it's a VERY compressed youtube file...

 

So it seems we have reached a split-the-difference compromise on The Great "Come Together" Drums Remix Controversy Of 2019: the toms and hi-hat will be mixed right; the snare and crash will be mixed center. IS EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW????

 

There is no Moog on Something. Do you mean the organ?

 

I use an Amazon credit card which rewards me with "points". I try to accumulate the points and use them for larger ticket items. I applied points to my pre-order. Fortunately I had enough to cover the entire cost. I thank all of those tanks of gas, hard cover books and haircuts for gifting me an Abbey Road Deluxe.

 

Try in Brazil!

 

So, all in all are folk more impressed with what their getting compared to Sgt Pepper/White Album 50th anniversaries?

 

There's Moog as well as organ. Check out the exposed bass note at the end of the new mix 2' 53'':

 

I pay $45 for a tank of gas here in CA.

 

You are correct:

Atlantis (Donovan song) - Wikipedia

I still have it, never had Mellow Yellow, but Atlantis must have been for my 11th birthday then. Maybe I should amend what I wrote - every day was significant in the 1960s, but what you think you remember may not be correct. Summers were all bright and sunny, though.

 

Yes, I got the same. I wondered if it was because I didn’t order till gone 5pm and the first day deliveries were all sold by then, so pleasing to hear others with the same date.

 

Somehow I doubt it. From the interviews with Giles, there doesn’t seem to a Lewisohn type involved with the project, advising on tracks. Giles and Sam seem to be reviewing the tapes and selecting anew.

I remember Giles saying when he was asked about the Esher Demos, he didn’t realise what they were (but he heard them anyway). That can have its own benefits as it’s a fresh take on the material, but it means that the big check list Beatle-nerd tracks will fall through the cracks if they’re not deemed commercial enough.

 

Beatles Reissue Producer Giles Martin: “Paul And Ringo Have To Be Happy”

Explaining the production process, Martin says of his colleagues: “Mike Heatley and Kevin Howlett go and listen to everything and they make notes. But then I go and listen to everything and make notes. Their list is much bigger than mine because I’m much meaner than they are.

“But also there has to be a story to be told. The whole thing with a mix project like this is that (a) I want the tracks to sound good and make you feel a certain way but also (b) I want it to be a window into the world that I’m so privileged to be in, where I can get a tape from the vaults and listen to it and enjoy it.

“I want people to feel what it’s like to be in the creative process, and there’s a beauty in the flawed quality of the performance that ends in the masterpiece that is ‘The White Album.’”

 

No

 

Funny.... Abbey Road's arguably my favorite album of all time, and I'm still gaga over the White Album box.... And yet this one's not really getting me out of my seat. Go figure. "Goodbye" is a nice inclusion, but I have it in nice quality; and a "Ballad of John & Yoko" alt take doth intrigue, but....I think the 2CD is looking sufficient for me, surprised to say.

Assuming they do a Let It Be box, hope it includes one of the Twickenham stabs at "Bathroom Window," since this doesn't. Whole different feel ~ indeed, that of the Let It Be Beatles (or maybe The Band with Levon singing) ~ from the polished (and brilliant) Abbey Road arrangement.

 

I do the same. That Amazon card is excellent.