Can't Buy Me Beatles?

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I can tell you this already -- it's the "classic" mixes again, with all
their primitive stereo panning--as opposed to the sonic clarity of the
remixed Love CD or what I've already heard from the Rock Band soundtrack.
They need to hand the keys to Giles Martin, is my humble opinion, and bring
the Beatles into the 21st century. What they recorded deserves better.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:02 AM, tbeshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:

>
> Funny, I recall similar hype about the wonderfulness of the sound quality
> on the late '80s Beatle CDs. Hype is hype. I'll wait till I find out what
> some audiophiles I trust have to say about the new ones.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Carvill" <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:33 AM
> Subject: Can't Buy Me Beatles?
>
>
>
>  For anyone anticipating the forthcoming Beatles remasters, here's the
>> first 'proper' review I've seen, from UK muso mag MOJO:
>>
>> "EVER SINCE THE BEATLES first emerged on CD in 1987, there have been
>> complaints about the sound. Back then the convenience of storage and
>> cue-ing, the miraculous dearth of surface noise, plus the erroneous
>> predictions of the format's longevity ("You can gouge 'em! Put jam on
>> 'em! They'll last for ever!") made naysayers look like ridiculous
>> luddites. But in 2009 CD is the beleaguered format, dissatisfaction
>> with Beatle CDs is not the crank's preserve, and anyone lucky enough
>> to own original vinyl copies of the Beatles singles and albums will
>> appreciate the advantages in clarity and dynamism they enjoy over
>> owners of the corresponding CDs. Compare Paperback Writer/Rain on
>> crackly 45, with its weedy Past Masters CD version, and the case is
>> closed.
>>
>> It's a payoff, of course. Vinyl noise or CD murk? You pays your money
>> and you takes your choice. Only now you don't have to. Because here
>> are the Beatles CD Remasters, four and a half years in the development
>> and bursting onto a market prepped and tweaked by the hoopla
>> surrounding Beatles: Rock Band.
>>
>> "You're in for a shock," Abbey Road sound legend Alan Rouse had
>> promised MOJO back in July, when we were first allowed some ear-time
>> with the still-unpackaged discs. Brilliantly, that's still how it
>> feels a month later...."
>>
>> http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/08/beatles_remasters_reviewed.html
>>
>
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