Beatles will release new album to mark opening of Las Vegas extravaganza
An album by the Beatles featuring "completely new music" is in production and will be released to coincide with the first authorised theatrical show of the group's work.
After decades of wariness about how to handle their hit legacy on stage, a summer opening in Las Vegas is planned for the extravaganza, with the acrobats of the Cirque du Soleil interpreting the songs.
Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, said the show was an ambitious project with "a huge investment". "It involves the creation, by the re-mixing and re-mastering of the Beatles' recorded performances, of completely new music, which will be featured in the show, and which should lead to the release of the show album." The producers will have the pick of the Beatles' catalogue, which has long been protected.
Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the surviving members of the group, are helping to shape the production, but will not appear on stage.
Sir George Martin, the producer of the Beatles' records, is overseeing the music. He said that after spending "40 years of my life" working with the Beatles, he was thrilled to be involved in what he imagined would be "a unique and magical experience".
However, care is being taken not to make the show a nostalgic run through of the band's number ones, but to reflect their "uniqueness" as a rock phenomenon. The project was initially the idea of George Harrison two years before his death from cancer in 2001. He met Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque, at a party and, after an impromptu rock jam, they became friends. Harrison then saw the Cirque show "O", and became excited about a joint stage production.
Laliberte, originally a fire-breathing street performer, said that the Beatles "did with words what we do with images". In the theatre he wanted to mix the magic of his acrobats with the "spirit and passion" of the band to create a "single statement of delight".
The 90-minute show, at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip, will be a homecoming of sorts. The band was paid £15,000, with no percentage of the gross, for their last visit, during their 1964 US tour. They performed twice at the Las Vegas convention centre, on a bill with The Righteous Brothers and Jackie De Shannon.
Now, their music is back, with the production set for a casino with a volcano that belches fire every 15 minutes after dark. But Apple Corps, formed in 1968 to manage the creative affairs of the band, is keen to avoid tackiness.
The company has long refused offers of stage productions. However, this deal was considered too good an opportunity to pass up, with punters willing to pay £143 per ticket for a show.
The producers will have access to unreleased archival material, including 200 hours of recorded conversations between the Beatles in the recording studio.
Mamma Mia, based on the songs of Abba, is already playing in Las Vegas, as is the Queen musical, We Will Rock You.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../10/nbeat10.xml
Full Version: New Beatles album
Without the source cited, I would swear this was a late April Fool's joke. 
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Without the source cited, I would swear this was a late April Fool's joke.
let's just hope it is a joke.
I don't think it's a joke. When the founder of Cirque was on 20/20 a while back he mentioned that one of their upcoming major Vegas projects was a Beatles show.
Yeah, I've heard this talked about for a while.
I think Aftershock's working at the Mirage these days...regardless, he is connected to the Vegas scene, so he'd know.
Sounds interesting. Can't really go wrong when Cirque gets involved, quite honestly.
Sounds interesting. Can't really go wrong when Cirque gets involved, quite honestly.
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Sounds interesting. Can't really go wrong when Cirque gets involved, quite honestly.
Hickman's clearly a big fan of gay clowns
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Maybe this will be more "Free As A Bird"-ELO crap.
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Sounds interesting. Can't really go wrong when Cirque gets involved, quite honestly.
Hickman's clearly a big fan of gay clowns
Your missing the best part of the Donk wrestling gimmic...DINK!
From What Goes On
Beatles to be remastered soon and then available online
According to Neil Aspinall, Managing director of Apple Records, the Beatles' entire back catalog will soon be available for download, but only after each track has been digitally remastered for new CD releases. Up until now, the Beatles are one of the few groups to have resisted making their work available at the iTunes Music Store and other online music services. They were similarly among the last artists to release their albums onto CD.
Mr. Aspinall said, "We're remastering the whole Beatles catalog, just to make it sound brighter and better and getting proper booklets to go with each of the packages. I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters. It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc."
Neil Aspinall revealed these plans in London's High Court, where the company is currently battling Apple Computer over the use of the Apple logo.
This is good news for casual Beatles fans, who have been wanting to see downloadable Beatles music, and also for die-hard Beatles fans, who will be excited to be hearing the remastered catalog on CD.
Beatles to be remastered soon and then available online
According to Neil Aspinall, Managing director of Apple Records, the Beatles' entire back catalog will soon be available for download, but only after each track has been digitally remastered for new CD releases. Up until now, the Beatles are one of the few groups to have resisted making their work available at the iTunes Music Store and other online music services. They were similarly among the last artists to release their albums onto CD.
Mr. Aspinall said, "We're remastering the whole Beatles catalog, just to make it sound brighter and better and getting proper booklets to go with each of the packages. I think it would be wrong to offer downloads of the old masters when I am making new masters. It would be better to wait and try to do them both simultaneously so that you then get the publicity of the new masters and the downloading, rather than just doing it ad hoc."
Neil Aspinall revealed these plans in London's High Court, where the company is currently battling Apple Computer over the use of the Apple logo.
This is good news for casual Beatles fans, who have been wanting to see downloadable Beatles music, and also for die-hard Beatles fans, who will be excited to be hearing the remastered catalog on CD.
Unheard Beatles album 'planned'
Unreleased Beatles tracks are to be reworked for a Las Vegas circus show soundtrack, with an accompanying album reported to be lined up for release.
Producer Sir George Martin is making background music for the forthcoming Cirque du Soleil show by remastering unheard recordings by the band.
Variety says the band's label Apple Corps plans to release an album of "completely new music" from the show.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to be overseeing the project.
The families of George Harrison and John Lennon have also been involved.
Announced in 2004, the Cirque du Soleil show is expected to open at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas this summer.
Remastered singles
Sir George's son Giles Martin, who is working on the project, told Variety they were trying to "achieve the same intimacy we get when listening to the master tapes at Abbey Road".
"I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music," he said.
"The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band."
The Beatles remastered the unfinished tracks Free as a Bird and Real Love for release as singles in the mid-1990s.
The singles were taken from the band's Anthology sets of demos and rarities.
An album of the band's number one singles, entitled 1, was a chart-topper around the world in 2000.
Box sets such as the Capitol Albums collections of the US versions of the band's albums have also been released in recent years.
Unreleased Beatles tracks are to be reworked for a Las Vegas circus show soundtrack, with an accompanying album reported to be lined up for release.
Producer Sir George Martin is making background music for the forthcoming Cirque du Soleil show by remastering unheard recordings by the band.
Variety says the band's label Apple Corps plans to release an album of "completely new music" from the show.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are said to be overseeing the project.
The families of George Harrison and John Lennon have also been involved.
Announced in 2004, the Cirque du Soleil show is expected to open at the Mirage resort in Las Vegas this summer.
Remastered singles
Sir George's son Giles Martin, who is working on the project, told Variety they were trying to "achieve the same intimacy we get when listening to the master tapes at Abbey Road".
"I think we will achieve a real sense of drama with the music," he said.
"The audience will feel as though they are actually in the room with the band."
The Beatles remastered the unfinished tracks Free as a Bird and Real Love for release as singles in the mid-1990s.
The singles were taken from the band's Anthology sets of demos and rarities.
An album of the band's number one singles, entitled 1, was a chart-topper around the world in 2000.
Box sets such as the Capitol Albums collections of the US versions of the band's albums have also been released in recent years.
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Mr. Aspinall said, "We're remastering the whole Beatles catalog,
just to make it sound brighter and better...
An unfortunate choice of words.
Here's hoping they don't fuck it up like what happened to The Who's catalog.
First Beatles sanctioned stage show opens in Vegas
Friday June 30, 11:16 AM
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Lucy swoops on a trapeze across a sky twinkling with diamonds, Mr Kite presides over a psychedelic circus of stiltwalkers and acrobats, and the unmistakable voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo fill the surround sound-equipped arena.
With a little help from a lot of friends, The Beatles are brought back to life in a Cirque du Soleil spectacular that marks the band's first
(Advertisement)
agreement to collaborate on a stage show.
In the desert gambling city of Las Vegas, the Canadian acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil on Friday opens its "Love" celebration of the musical legacy of The Beatles that was almost five years in the making.
"Love" was born of a friendship between the late George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. It was blessed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, supported by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, and masterminded musically by legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin.
McCartney, Starr, Yoko Ono, Martin and Harrison's widow Olivia are expected to attend Friday night's premiere along with Lennon's sons Julian and Sean, his first wife Cynthia and Harrison's children Blair and Dhani.
Played in a custom-built, 2,000-seat theatre at the Mirage hotel, "Love" takes its audience on a part-chronological, part-fantasy journey through the life and times of the four young men from Liverpool who inspired a worldwide Beatlemania that continues 40 years after their first hit record.
High-wire acrobats, break dancers, trampoline artists and skaters bring life to characters like Sgt. Pepper, Lady Madonna and the sea world of Octopus's Garden in a visual feast of colour, light and adventure.
Audio clips from decades-old Beatles recording sessions and interviews, photo montages and footage from their famed last concert on the rooftops of central London play in huge back projections.
BORN-AGAIN MUSIC
But for avid Beatles fans, the real star of the show is the music -- some 130 songs remixed, mashed up and born again with a clarity never heard before.
"We wanted to make sure there are enough good, solid hit songs in the show but we didn't want it to be a catalogue of 'best ofs'. We also wanted to put in some interesting and not well-known Beatles music and use fragments of songs," said Sir George Martin.
Martin, who worked on every Beatles album except "Let It Be," and his son Giles Martin spent two years working from the original master tapes of The Beatles sessions to produce a 90- minute soundtrack that is played through six speakers in the back of each seat as well as a panoramic sound system.
McCartney's "Yesterday" feels so close you can hear the strings of his acoustic guitar snapping on the neck. "Because," the show's spellbinding opener, features simply the band's harmony vocals interspersed with birdsong.
Well-known songs like "Revolution" and "Come Together" are remixed with snippets from other Beatles hits while tracks like "Get Back" and "Within you, Without You" are intermingled.
"The last thing we wanted to create was a retrospective or a tribute show," said Giles Martin.
McCartney, who has already seen the show in preview, and Starr were closely involved in the project as were Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono.
The idea of teaming up with Cirque du Soleil first came from Harrison before his death in 2001. It was pursued by his widow and got the go-ahead from Apple Corps Ltd, the English company that administers The Beatles' interests, in 2002.
Friday June 30, 11:16 AM
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Lucy swoops on a trapeze across a sky twinkling with diamonds, Mr Kite presides over a psychedelic circus of stiltwalkers and acrobats, and the unmistakable voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo fill the surround sound-equipped arena.
With a little help from a lot of friends, The Beatles are brought back to life in a Cirque du Soleil spectacular that marks the band's first
(Advertisement)
agreement to collaborate on a stage show.
In the desert gambling city of Las Vegas, the Canadian acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil on Friday opens its "Love" celebration of the musical legacy of The Beatles that was almost five years in the making.
"Love" was born of a friendship between the late George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. It was blessed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, supported by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, and masterminded musically by legendary Beatles producer Sir George Martin.
McCartney, Starr, Yoko Ono, Martin and Harrison's widow Olivia are expected to attend Friday night's premiere along with Lennon's sons Julian and Sean, his first wife Cynthia and Harrison's children Blair and Dhani.
Played in a custom-built, 2,000-seat theatre at the Mirage hotel, "Love" takes its audience on a part-chronological, part-fantasy journey through the life and times of the four young men from Liverpool who inspired a worldwide Beatlemania that continues 40 years after their first hit record.
High-wire acrobats, break dancers, trampoline artists and skaters bring life to characters like Sgt. Pepper, Lady Madonna and the sea world of Octopus's Garden in a visual feast of colour, light and adventure.
Audio clips from decades-old Beatles recording sessions and interviews, photo montages and footage from their famed last concert on the rooftops of central London play in huge back projections.
BORN-AGAIN MUSIC
But for avid Beatles fans, the real star of the show is the music -- some 130 songs remixed, mashed up and born again with a clarity never heard before.
"We wanted to make sure there are enough good, solid hit songs in the show but we didn't want it to be a catalogue of 'best ofs'. We also wanted to put in some interesting and not well-known Beatles music and use fragments of songs," said Sir George Martin.
Martin, who worked on every Beatles album except "Let It Be," and his son Giles Martin spent two years working from the original master tapes of The Beatles sessions to produce a 90- minute soundtrack that is played through six speakers in the back of each seat as well as a panoramic sound system.
McCartney's "Yesterday" feels so close you can hear the strings of his acoustic guitar snapping on the neck. "Because," the show's spellbinding opener, features simply the band's harmony vocals interspersed with birdsong.
Well-known songs like "Revolution" and "Come Together" are remixed with snippets from other Beatles hits while tracks like "Get Back" and "Within you, Without You" are intermingled.
"The last thing we wanted to create was a retrospective or a tribute show," said Giles Martin.
McCartney, who has already seen the show in preview, and Starr were closely involved in the project as were Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono.
The idea of teaming up with Cirque du Soleil first came from Harrison before his death in 2001. It was pursued by his widow and got the go-ahead from Apple Corps Ltd, the English company that administers The Beatles' interests, in 2002.
Icky.
Having read a few articles about this, I am led to believe that the show is really dumb, but the music is most likely incredible.
Pavs says what all right thinking people were going to,
Hope soundtrack will be available elsewhere.
Apprently it will be made available for download. My guess not on iTunes but on The Beatles home page.
My co-worker is going to see this next weekend, I told her to use her camera-phone to sneak a couple of quick videos.
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She refused.<br>
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but there is always youtube
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<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3o6CIkNxI8Y"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3o6CIkNxI8Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>or<br>
<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TnC2UrzzlQ
<br><br>
She refused.<br>
<br>
but there is always youtube
<BR>
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3o6CIkNxI8Y"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3o6CIkNxI8Y" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br>or<br>
<br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TnC2UrzzlQ
We should start a stage show using Radiohead music.
Should we use Blue Man Group, Stomp or De La Guarda?
Should we use Blue Man Group, Stomp or De La Guarda?
smashing pumpkins
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jessie white tumblers
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jessie white tumblers
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smashing pumpkins
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jessie white tumblers
Beatles' lane to nowhere?
Penny Lane, made famous by the Beatles' song, faces being wiped from the map if councillors in Liverpool go ahead with plans to change all streets named after people linked to slavery. Penny Lane is thought to have been named after James Penny, an 18th-century slave ship owner.
Penny Lane, made famous by the Beatles' song, faces being wiped from the map if councillors in Liverpool go ahead with plans to change all streets named after people linked to slavery. Penny Lane is thought to have been named after James Penny, an 18th-century slave ship owner.
APPLE CORPS LTD/CAPITOL RECORDS TO RELEASE THE BEATLES “LOVE” ALBUM IN STEREO AND 5.1 ON NOVEMBER 21, 2006
Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol Records are to release the Beatles LOVE album in stereo and 5.1 November 21st. This will be the first Beatles album available in 5.1
The stereo CD will contain 78 minutes of music. The DVD surround sound version on DVD disc album will be a slightly extended version with 81 minutes of music.
After being asked by the remaining Beatles, Ringo and Paul, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, to make experimental mixes from their master tapes for a collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, Sir George Martin, The Beatles legendary producer, and his son Giles Martin have been working with the entire archive of Beatles recordings to create LOVE. The result is an unprecedented approach to the music. Using the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, Sir George and Giles have created a unique soundscape. The release of this album, which is also featured in the Cirque du Soleil/Apple Corps collaborative production of the same name at The Mirage in Las Vegas, has been much anticipated.
“This album puts the Beatles back together again, because suddenly there’s John and George with me and Ringo,” said Paul McCartney. “It’s kind of magical.”
“George and Giles did such a great job combining these tracks. It’s really powerful for me and I even heard things I’d forgotten we’d recorded.” commented Ringo Starr.
“The album has the feeling of love and that’s why the title is Beatles LOVE,“ added Yoko Ono Lennon, "They have let everything that is beautiful and daring come out.”
“The music is stunning. I think the most amazing thing about it is that you can pull it apart and find that all the elements carry with it the essence of the entire song,” said Olivia Harrison.
Andrew Slater, President & CEO, Capitol Records said, "The Beatles and George Martin invented everything we love about modern recorded rock music. It is only fitting that they now shake things up and create the new blueprint for rediscovering and falling in love again with the soundtracks to our lives."
The 5.1 disc is a DVD-Audio/DVD-Video hybrid. The audio is presented in high-resolution 96/24 5.1 surround on the DVD-Audio part of the disc. The DVD-Video part carries 5.1 surround in DTS and Dolby Digital as well as a PCM stereo mix. This DVD album is designed to be played on DVD video equipment but will carry no video component.
www.thebeatles.com
The “LOVE” CD and DVD track listing is:
1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You’re Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She’s So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus’s Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love
Apple Corps Ltd/Capitol Records are to release the Beatles LOVE album in stereo and 5.1 November 21st. This will be the first Beatles album available in 5.1
The stereo CD will contain 78 minutes of music. The DVD surround sound version on DVD disc album will be a slightly extended version with 81 minutes of music.
After being asked by the remaining Beatles, Ringo and Paul, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, to make experimental mixes from their master tapes for a collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, Sir George Martin, The Beatles legendary producer, and his son Giles Martin have been working with the entire archive of Beatles recordings to create LOVE. The result is an unprecedented approach to the music. Using the master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, Sir George and Giles have created a unique soundscape. The release of this album, which is also featured in the Cirque du Soleil/Apple Corps collaborative production of the same name at The Mirage in Las Vegas, has been much anticipated.
“This album puts the Beatles back together again, because suddenly there’s John and George with me and Ringo,” said Paul McCartney. “It’s kind of magical.”
“George and Giles did such a great job combining these tracks. It’s really powerful for me and I even heard things I’d forgotten we’d recorded.” commented Ringo Starr.
“The album has the feeling of love and that’s why the title is Beatles LOVE,“ added Yoko Ono Lennon, "They have let everything that is beautiful and daring come out.”
“The music is stunning. I think the most amazing thing about it is that you can pull it apart and find that all the elements carry with it the essence of the entire song,” said Olivia Harrison.
Andrew Slater, President & CEO, Capitol Records said, "The Beatles and George Martin invented everything we love about modern recorded rock music. It is only fitting that they now shake things up and create the new blueprint for rediscovering and falling in love again with the soundtracks to our lives."
The 5.1 disc is a DVD-Audio/DVD-Video hybrid. The audio is presented in high-resolution 96/24 5.1 surround on the DVD-Audio part of the disc. The DVD-Video part carries 5.1 surround in DTS and Dolby Digital as well as a PCM stereo mix. This DVD album is designed to be played on DVD video equipment but will carry no video component.
www.thebeatles.com
The “LOVE” CD and DVD track listing is:
1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You’re Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She’s So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus’s Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution
21. Back In The U.S.S.R.
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. A Day In The Life
24. Hey Jude
25. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
26. All You Need Is Love
I guess "Gnik Nus" is "Sun King" played backwards.
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High-wire acrobats, break dancers, trampoline artists and skaters bring life to characters like Sgt. Pepper, Lady Madonna and the sea world of Octopus's Garden in a visual feast of colour, light and adventure.
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APPLE CORPS LTD/CAPITOL RECORDS TO RELEASE THE BEATLES “LOVE” ALBUM IN STEREO AND 5.1 ON NOVEMBER 21, 2006
After being asked by the remaining Beatles, Ringo and Paul, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison, to make experimental mixes from their ....tapes...“
The Residents did this years ago!
(free download--but please donate on your honor--of The Residents Play The Beatles And The Beatles Play The Residents here...)
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The Residents did this years ago!
(free download--but please donate on your honor--of The Residents Play The Beatles And The Beatles Play The Residents here...)
I thought the Residents were the Beatles
The Cirque de Soleil ala Beatles LOVE show might travel, if successful. Watch for dates in other cities in the coming year or two. Like it or not.
So when will it leak?
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So when will it leak?
You're kidding, right?
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So when will it leak?
You're kidding, right?
I saw this posted on a torrent site this weekend. Didn't grab it cause I wasn't sure if it was for real and figured I'd get it when it came out.
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I saw this posted on a torrent site this weekend. Didn't grab it cause I wasn't sure if it was for real and figured I'd get it when it came out.
Well, if you must hear it - please steal it. Don't encourage this.
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Maybe this will be more "Free As A Bird"-ELO crap.
I'd rather hear the unreleased tracks and B-sides from the Paves disc than this dusty piece of commercial cash in!
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I saw this posted on a torrent site this weekend. Didn't grab it cause I wasn't sure if it was for real and figured I'd get it when it came out.
Well, if you must hear it - please steal it. Don't encourage this.
This is the first Beatles release since the Anthologies that intrigues me. Since they won't let a Christmas season pass without "new" product, I'll take this over a repackaging of stuff I already have.
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interesting
what'd they give the Anthology series?
what'd they give the Anthology series?
Can't remember/don't know but they do saw you'll probably dig this out more then them.
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[talk about the concept]...Starts off with "Because" it goes into the drum solo from "The End" then the riff from "A Hard Day's Night" and lurches into "Get Back" before you can say Stars on 45. From there it's a musical landscape of Beatlology ("Eleanor Rigby", "A Day In The Life" , "Here Comes The Sun"). all overlaid with snippets from their back catalogue.
So we get "Drive My Car"/"The Word"/"What You're Doing" as one continuous ebb-and-flow of mid period drugginess. "Come Together" / "Dear Prudence" as an acid-fried soundscape and best of all "Tomorrow Never Know" and "Within You, Without You" fitting like a glove. It resembles a [sonic i]Da Vinci Code[/i] for Beatle trainspotters, trying to decide if that snare is from "Paperback Writer" or "No Reply"
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Moptop Mash-up. Potential rubbish, actually fab.
.... Sacrilege? Anything but. More radically then the Anthology series this demands that the listener to reappraise The Beatles brilliance with fresh ears. A genuine revolution in the head.
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[talk about the concept]...Starts off with "Because" it goes into the drum solo from "The End" then the riff from "A Hard Day's Night" and lurches into "Get Back" before you can say Stars on 45. From there it's a musical landscape of Beatlology ("Eleanor Rigby", "A Day In The Life" , "Here Comes The Sun"). all overlaid with snippets from their back catalogue.
So we get "Drive My Car"/"The Word"/"What You're Doing" as one continuous ebb-and-flow of mid period drugginess. "Come Together" / "Dear Prudence" as an acid-fried soundscape and best of all "Tomorrow Never Know" and "Within You, Without You" fitting like a glove. It resembles a [sonic i]Da Vinci Code[/i] for Beatle trainspotters, trying to decide if that snare is from "Paperback Writer" or "No Reply"
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Moptop Mash-up. Potential rubbish, actually fab.
.... Sacrilege? Anything but. More radically then the Anthology series this demands that the listener to reappraise The Beatles brilliance with fresh ears. A genuine revolution in the head.
QUOTE(Pavement Ist Rad @ Apr 11 2006, 09:16 PM) [snapback]62692[/snapback]
Maybe this will be more "Free As A Bird"-ELO crap.
Haha, you wrote about ELO the other day.
Anyway, good band.
there was a 4 song sampler of this on yahtzee the other day
Here be the sampler, I'm downloading now. Not expecting too much.
Edit: Meh, it's alright. It's something I'd like to hear once or twice, but I doubt it would be something I'd go back to a lot. Interesting to spot the other songs that get mixed in with the main song, and there are a lot of Anthology stuff and I suppose other unreleased sound bits thrown in too. Strawberry Fields Forever starts off in the demo forms and builds up to the actual released version, with plenty of other bits tacked on. The full version will be fun to hear, then filed away I suspect. Haven't bought a "new" Beatles release since Anthology 3, though unfortunately received Let It Be...Naked for Christmas one year. I just don't see the point anymore.
Edit: Meh, it's alright. It's something I'd like to hear once or twice, but I doubt it would be something I'd go back to a lot. Interesting to spot the other songs that get mixed in with the main song, and there are a lot of Anthology stuff and I suppose other unreleased sound bits thrown in too. Strawberry Fields Forever starts off in the demo forms and builds up to the actual released version, with plenty of other bits tacked on. The full version will be fun to hear, then filed away I suspect. Haven't bought a "new" Beatles release since Anthology 3, though unfortunately received Let It Be...Naked for Christmas one year. I just don't see the point anymore.
This is stupid.
QUOTE(Music Saves @ Nov 3 2006, 03:57 PM) [snapback]235171[/snapback]
Meh
Exactly what my response is. I'm not even sure I want to hear the whole thing now.
Well you can't say that it doesn't sound good or it isn't well made. Is is pointless, maybe but what isn't really.
Does this count as a re-issue for year end?
Does this count as a re-issue for year end?
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Nov 4 2006, 04:57 AM) [snapback]235406[/snapback]
Well you can't say that it doesn't sound good or it isn't well made. Is is pointless, maybe but what isn't really.
Well you have a point there. But that would excuse alot of bad records/ideas.
Oh and Mitch, check out my Dylan thread. I think you will like it.
Already did, B&B isn't in my top 5 Dylan albums.
Now this is pretty cool - an acoustic version of " while my guitar gently weeps" from the "Love" compilation. I will probably by this single if it shows up on iTunes. Pretty awesome.
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Now this is pretty cool - an acoustic version of " while my guitar gently weeps" from the "Love" compilation.
That's on the sampler that was posted earlier.
This is all well-and-good, and I'll probably enjoy it, but it brings to attention the fact that the 'proper' Beatles albums (by proper I mean the original BRITISH albums, not the butchered US versions) sound absolutely crappy and are in desperate need of a remaster so we can all go and line the McCartney, Starr, Harrison and Ono pockets with more cash.
I know Neil Aspinall said they're being remastered, but it seems as though the 'Love' project would only distract Apple from getting the remasters done properly.
I know Neil Aspinall said they're being remastered, but it seems as though the 'Love' project would only distract Apple from getting the remasters done properly.
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