mjzee Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 Wow, I sure was not ready for that crazy little bit of voices at the end of Pepper's! THAT is not on my lp. That was on the outmost track (the track that circles the label) on the original British release of Pepper's. If you played it backwards with your finger on the label, they're singing what sounds like "We're gonna fuck you like Supermen." (Really, I'm not making this up...I've heard it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 I believe you. Wild! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 I bought an import LP in the 70s just to have that runoff mess...if you didn't have an automatic turntable it would go on forever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 12, 2009 Report Share Posted September 12, 2009 They did a great job with this one, at least. Does not seem compressed, certainly not in the way we're used to, and very warm and clear. I am finding the same, while much louder but also warm and clear. I am hearing not so much isolation but space (in floating surrounded by air quality) in the instruments if that make sense. Believe it or not but Revolution #9 was also a blast. Maybe I am older now and have gone through a electronica/ DJ and experimental music phase but I having a hard time on why people hate on it so much. I listened to it last week on an old copy and, man, it's just weird. However, I can't get out of my head the words "Number 9, Number 9, Number 9......" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Wow, I sure was not ready for that crazy little bit of voices at the end of Pepper's! THAT is not on my lp. That was on the outmost track (the track that circles the label) on the original British release of Pepper's. If you played it backwards with your finger on the label, they're singing what sounds like "We're gonna fuck you like Supermen." (Really, I'm not making this up...I've heard it.) In the Bio I just finished that was obviously unintentional but when it was brought up to them Paul's reaction in trying to keep their image was along the lines of I guess you can hear all kinds of stuff if you play anything backwards where as of course John loved it. It's been a fun week, I can't get over how great Abbey Road sounds on these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I listened to The White Album last night. Sounds better than it ever has. I heard things, honestly, that I'd never heard before (not on my LP or the old CD). "Long, Long, Long" is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the new version. I'd never realized what a really beautiful composition it was. Up there with George's best. "Revolution 9" revealed some subtleties I'd never noticed before. The little bit of studio chatter (between George Martin and another man) had always been too quiet for me to hear (except for "Can you forgive me?" "Yes."). This time I heard more of the conversation, including a quiet "Bitch" after Martin's "Yes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 This time I heard more of the conversation, including a quiet "Bitch" after Martin's "Yes." Paul could not have been the bitch you heard, because from all reports he was a whiny bitch and not a quiet one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 (edited) Wow, I sure was not ready for that crazy little bit of voices at the end of Pepper's! THAT is not on my lp. That was on the outmost track (the track that circles the label) on the original British release of Pepper's. If you played it backwards with your finger on the label, they're singing what sounds like "We're gonna fuck you like Supermen." (Really, I'm not making this up...I've heard it.) In the Bio I just finished that was obviously unintentional but when it was brought up to them Paul's reaction in trying to keep their image was along the lines of I guess you can hear all kinds of stuff if you play anything backwards where as of course John loved it. It's been a fun week, I can't get over how great Abbey Road sounds on these. May I ask which biography you read? Last week I checked out Bob Spitz's The Beatles: A Biography, Peter Brown's The Love You Make from the library but have not begun either; I also placed reserves for A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles by Mark Hertsgaard and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording with the Beatles by Geoff Emerick (the latter two are currently checked out by other library patrons). I'm not going to have time to make it through all of these but if you or anyone else can recommend one or two, that would be great. Edited September 13, 2009 by Norm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Use3D Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Wish I could afford the mono set. There was always Beatles in our house on some level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 So, we are still talkin' 'bout that old English group? Still have a bunch of Capitol/Parlophone/Apple lps from "back in the day". Have not played them in 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The Beatles in my house were always on the basement level, where I had a room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The Beatles in my house were always on the basement level, where I had a room. Yeah - my Dad still hates them. I'm sure it rubbed off on me. :rsmile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 In my room too but my parents didn't hate them. However, I remember going on a vacation with some of my parents friends and their kids (about my age) and their father wouldn't let them play the Beatles: "none of that yeah, yeah music!" I still laugh about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 My Dad always hated pop/rock music (he's a songs from the shows/light classics/MOR sort of chap - did the 'that's not music/is that a boy or a girl?' responses to TV pop quite naturally) but he liked the Beatles. He'd be hard pressed to name many of their songs but they did enough melodic things and had that amiable image in the early 60s to make them loveable to the pre-rock generation. One of their great achievements was to reference - however fleetingly - such a broad range of styles and genres that most people could get drawn in by something - r'n b, country, music hall, kiddy songs, psychedelia, Dylanesque folky (and electric) stuff, eastern exoticism, avant-garde experimentalism, slushy love songs etc..... And there was never too much of the novelty stuff on one album to alienate the core audience. Makes me wonder how far they were a significant cause, how far just a symptom of the late-20thC (and beyond) taste for musical diversity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 May I ask which biography you read? Last week I checked out Bob Spitz's The Beatles: A Biography, Peter Brown's The Love You Make from the library but have not begun either; I also placed reserves for A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles by Mark Hertsgaard and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording with the Beatles by Geoff Emerick (the latter two are currently checked out by other library patrons). I'm not going to have time to make it through all of these but if you or anyone else can recommend one or two, that would be great. The Bob Spitz. A friend loaned it to me a couple years ago. At around thousand pages and having thought I knew everything or wanted to know about the Beatles I never got around to it till a couple weeks ago. Once you get to when Beatlemania starts to pick up it's a great page tuner which really takes you right there with what was going on. The early part while not as fun does give you insight into their personality traits/issues. The book’s intent is not to mythologize or slander anybody but I will say after finishing it probably the only Beatle I would have wanted to “have a beer with” would have been Ringo. More on the Abbey Road re-master. She’s So Heavy just rocks the house down now, on Here Comes The Sun when Paul’s bass comes in it is now a wow moment. I had forgot that song even had bass on it. On You Never Give Me Your Money the reverb on the little guitar solo is so luscious. The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. Listening to the suite that closes Abbey Road I found myself chuckling in disbelief at how good it is and the flood of happy memories it brought back. Ok, time for the Grant Green to get the same remaster box and Rock Band treatment. ☺ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. I thought that was all Paul. No? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. I thought that was all Paul. No? One each, George, John, Paul. Forgetting the order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. I thought that was all Paul. No? One each, George, John, Paul. Forgetting the order. John is the one with all the distortion. George is using the slide. That's how I identify them. I believe the order is Paul, George, John... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I can finally hear the swear word on "Hey Jude"! For years I had heard OF it, but I couldn't make out what was said. Now I can make out "Fuckin' hell." At least that's what sounds like on headphones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Lark Ascending Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 (edited) I'm looking forward to getting to 'The End' so I can finally work out what make of strings each one was using. Edited September 13, 2009 by Bev Stapleton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 The three guitar solos on The End you can really pick up on who is playing which solo now. I thought that was all Paul. No? One each, George, John, Paul. Forgetting the order. Wow...for years that tune was hyped as an all-McCartney solo effort. When did this new info come out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldB3 Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 I'm looking forward to getting to 'The End' so I can finally work out what make of strings each one was using. Maybe they could have kept their group together if they had used Rotosound stings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMP Posted September 13, 2009 Report Share Posted September 13, 2009 Let me see if I have this straight. You have the mono versions, several of which also include a stereo version from 1965, then you have stereo versions based on an '80's mix, and all these versions have slight vocal and instrumental variations... Is Phil Schaap involved in this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AllenLowe Posted September 14, 2009 Report Share Posted September 14, 2009 see my previous post - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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