Now that the iPhone is officially announced, it s time to queue the next round of Apple rumors. You may recall way I wrote about the Beatles potential jaunt into iTunes. Yea the same one were I slighted the Pogue for his Zune-slander.
According to Macworld, the Beatles on iTunes is close to fruition. The rumor is compounded by the fact that Steve Jobs chose to play a Beatles track during his iPhone announcement.
Macworld speculates that the Beatles could appear on the Online music store by Feb.
14. Could we have Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band for Valentine s Day?
Pat,
I disagree. I think that the sound quality on the 1987 CDs are far superior to the sound on any of the newer Beatle releases. I don t care for the remastering on 1 , Yellow Submarine Songtracks , Let It Be Naked or The Capitol Box Sets.
Modern remastering just isn t that good. Everything sounds louder, more separated and tinny. Just my taste of course.
A lot of people like yourself are excited about this, so I guess I m happy that it s happening.
I ll stick to my Vinyl and old CDs. I don t want to re-buy my Beatles collection all over again.
It s just to expensive for me.
Enjoy the remasters!
The Beatles early tapes from Hamburg are already on iTunes and have been for years!
You can already buy Ain t She Sweet , Cry For a Shadow and My Bonnie along with the all of the other Beatles/Sheridan recordings. Ain t She Sweet (#29) and My Bonnie (#48) were huge hits at the height of Beatlemania in 1964. These recordings feature the original Beatles drummer Pete Best and are quite good.
It just goes to show you how shoddy the press is today. I have not seen a single article that mentions this fact. Every reporter does absolutely NO research when they write about this subject and all of them have said the exact same thing, There are No Beatles songs available from the iTunes music store .
This is absolutely false!
Of course, the Parlophone albums are not there, but for the life of me I can t understand why the Polydor recordings are never mentioned. A simple search of the iTunes music store would ensure more accuracy from any news outlet.
Good Lord, what IMPORTANT stuff are they missing if they can t even get an innocuous Beatles story written correctly?!!
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As it happens, I ve just recently purchased a portable turntable, so naturally the first LPs I had to grab were Beatles - Sgt. Pepper s, Abbey Road, Revolver. These are my absolute favorite albums, so I have a degree of experience and affection for them.
My first experience - and I mean that in the full 60s psychedelic sense - with Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band on vinyl was beyond astonishing. It was transcendent.
Like falling in love for the first time all over again, or seeing the face of God. The leap in quality from the CD is probably the biggest shock for me. It s almost like going from mono sound to stereo.
I never guessed that the CD versions have missed so much sound.
And this is essential for Sgt. Pepper s, which is loaded with little snippets and fragments buried in the mix.
The influence from Pet Sounds is far more apparant and obvious. There s so much more life, so much more warmth, on the vinyl record. And, of course, it goes without saying that it s a great feeling to hold that large album cover in your hands.
Album covers have been greatly diminished in the age of compact disc, and the evolution into pure digital music - computers and iPods - may make album covers disappear entirely.
Perhaps this is one reason why more of the younger generation are turning to vinyl. It really is a superior medium for sound, at least as far as the old analog recordings are concerned.
We ve lost something vital by turning everything into zeros and ones. There s more to life than this. There s something dangerously wrong with the world today.
We ve become so mechanized that we re believing that we re nothing more than soulless machines ourselves.
I hold out hope for the younger kids. These things go in cycles.
I would expect to see properly mastered Beatles albums sometime soon, a 40th anniversary event. And, cough, another chance to make us pay yet more money for the same thing. Cough.
I ll hope that they d do as good a job as the brilliant Dylan CD remasters in 2003, which were a tremendous leap in quality over, again, earlier CDs that were poor.
Of course, I should also say that the new Dylan CD s are still no match for the original vinyls. They come very close, but there are inherent limitations with digital that cannot be overcome.
So, anyway, my advice to everyone is, simply, sit down with a pair of headphones and listen to The Beatles on vinyl. Especially Sgt. Pepper s.
It s an absolutely crucial milestone. The albums are still being manufactured, so you can buy them new. Good luck and happy record hunting!
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