Concord Music Group gets Paul McCartney Back Catalogue

woot!!! Maybe eventually we'll get a decent sounding MAF out of this. However I'm gonna go postal if the entire catalog ends up sounding like MAF.

 

But that is what today's kids want!

 

I also mentioned he/they need to get a real fan involved so they/he puts out what we/the fan wants.

I'll buy the darn things anyway, I just hope I get a return for helping make Paul a gazillionaire.

 

I abandoned those threads a long time ago. I'm buying it no matter what, and I'm tired of all the moaning. Just let me own it and be happy!

Man, you were nice to me about my dog, now you're agreeing with me - who are you, and what have you done to Driver 8???

 

Dude, Driver 8's two favorite things in life are dogs and Paul McCartney.

Which I guess would make "Martha My Dear" my favorite thing ever.

 

Okay, but I'm still freaked out. You gonna have to be extra kooky and oppositional to compensate...

 

Good luck with THAT wish...

 

Maybe they can remove the tape hiss from MAF and make it LOUDER.

 

Macca-Fabs are due to lead me to bankruptcy

 

C'mon guys...let's get it from the begining. If the remasters will be like the Fabs, I'm happy.

 

I have every single cut and album by the man. I'm interested on the bonus stuff and re-packaging, that I'm sure will be top. Of course, the remastering counts. But hey, I'm excited. Thank you Macca!

 

I like your attitude, Claudio.

 

I like Claudio's attitude too. I really want these to turn out well. I'm just pessimistic because of the twenty years of disappointments in remastering.

Let's hope for the best.

 

EXACTLY!

This is great news. Has 9-9-09 not given ANYONE hope?

Too bad there was no Beatles-esque press released with more details.

 

Well aside from the special collector's edition of BOTR (which along with his 1970 solo debut offers the least number of usable session outtakes/era appropriate live material etc) there's actually nothing in that press release (that I noticed anyway) mentioning we'd be getting bonus tracks/special editions etc of any of the other albums.

No mention of multimedia (ie video releases either standalone or as a bonus dvd with the albums), no mention of bonus tracks, no mention of expanded booklets with extensive liner notes etc etc etc.....

What I got out of that press release is "we'll cobble together *something* for an expanded edition of his top catalog seller, and just rerelease the rest pretty much as is."

Yawn.

I'd consider it a minor miracle if they go so far as adding ALL the relevant non-album single sides (eg - Rainclouds, Ill Give You A Ring, Give Ireland Back II, Coming Up live at Glasgow etc) to the correct era-appropriate discs, unlike the 1993 discs:

Wings' Goodnight Tonight on McCartney II?
McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime on Wings' Back To The Egg?



I'd like to be optimistic but the content of that press release is VERY underwhelming, telling us almost nothing of their plans (if any) for making these truly worthy of a repurchase.

 

All The Best and Wingspan are now up on Emusic Canada.

 

Of course, but I highly doubt they'll be using the same team of engineers who did the Beatles remasters since they are, after all, EMI employees working in an EMI facility.

Unless EMI does do mastering work for their competitors, which I guess IS possible but probably not likely. Nor is Concord, who I'm sure employs their own engineers on staff, likely to ask.

Not that its impossible that someone else could do as good a job, but it probably comes down to the mastering engineers Concord employs and the type of mastering Concord is interested in releasing.

So its really up in the air, whereas if the same team who did the Beatles remasters were employed I'd feel pretty safe that they wouldn't let us down.

 

This is very exciting news! The last reissue campaign was back in 1993 and the timing seems perfect with 40th anniversary of his first solo record and a year after the fabulous Fab reissues. Now one has to only hope for good remastering and added bonuses.

For one, we could see some remixing (stereo/surround) from the master tapes with the latest digital technology as used in the Beatles remasters (I love the 5.1 remixes done by Paul Hicks for the McCartney Years DVD!). There also has to be lot of demo/outtake material in the vaults with Sir Paul not having released most/all of it as yet.

I'm a bit disappointed that they are starting the reissue campaign with BOTR. If it was to me, I would have worked chronologically starting with McCartney, Ram.....giving each album the deluxe treatment that they deserve. It would be really be big shame if they reissued the 1999 double CD again but something tells me that they won't.

C'mon Concord/MPL, please give us more information soon!! A Fab-like press release would be so fab........

 

I see your dillema. But I bet they won't simply repeat what EMI did in 1993. Though Capitol didn't put them out at the time, the discs are all out there. Let's not forget Paul's people have unearthed all the leftovers for the archival project. And now that the complete discography is due to relaunch, I'm begining to feel hope again for the McCartney anthology. If they build, it'll come!

 

Me too.The guys who thought BOTR 25 lame can't be feeling right. Anyway, I'll stick with the theory that they won't simply repackage the EMI issues. So what's the point? I think Paul moved from EMI to aim for more challenging stuff with promotion and marketing. Let the discs come!

 

thanks John!

 

My initial reaction was Band on the run sounds like the 30th aniversay edition, i will be @#$%#$ to the max if this new reissue series just uses the 1993 mixes.

Greg.

 

I wonder what is going to happen with the much-rumored McCartney box set that EMI was supposedly putting together?