The Beatles

[Mook]

Let It Be box set track listing details etc...

 

https://www.badlands.co.uk/new-and-forthcoming/?search_query=&page=1&limit=42&sort=newest&Artist=The Beatles&category=20&is_category_page=1

[Sugar Ape]

I’ve been having a breakdown for ten minutes over the last bullet point. I need to read this book. 
 

 

[YorkshireRed]

3 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

I’ve been having a breakdown for ten minutes over the last bullet point. I need to read this book. 
 

 

Norwegian Would. 

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

I’ve been having a breakdown for ten minutes over the last bullet point. I need to read this book. 
 

 

Looks like John Bishop if he was an old Lesbian.

[Red74]

3 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

I’ve been having a breakdown for ten minutes over the last bullet point. I need to read this book. 
 

 

Hahahahaha what a find 

[Mook]

Pete Best beaten to the punch again with that book title.

[Total Longo]

She thought Lennon "was an overbearing bully and regarded McCartney as the smarter cookie, the one that had the staying power"... yeah i'm pretty sure Lennon didn't really have much choice about that, all things considered. 

[Sugar Ape]

John Harris in The Guardian who has wrote the book accompanying the Get Back documentary. 

Can’t wait for this now. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/26/beatles-final-days-get-back-let-it-be-john-harris-peter-jackson?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[johnsusername]

It's all gearing up nicely for Beatles stuff...

 

"Beatles ‘Let It Be’ Super Deluxe Box Set: 10 Best Outtakes and Demos – Rolling Stone"

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-let-it-be-special-edition-super-deluxe-1214774/amp/

 

 

[Sugar Ape]

Article is too big to post but worth a read if you’re looking to waste half an hour in work. 
 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show

[Bjornebye]

2 hours ago, Sugar Ape said:

Article is too big to post but worth a read if you’re looking to waste half an hour in work. 
 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/paul-mccartney-doesnt-really-want-to-stop-the-show

As a showman, McCartney likes to “please the average punter,” playing the hits and playing them precisely as recorded. But in the first few years after the breakup of the Beatles he avoided the songs he’d written with Lennon. You didn’t get “Day Tripper”; you got “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” You didn’t get “Ticket to Ride”; you got “Hi, Hi, Hi.” No matter. He sold tickets. He sold records. Mixed in with the music, however, were gestures of mockery––or, in Liverpudlian terms, taking the piss. Long before the hip-hop diss-track era, McCartney put out “Too Many People,” a song from the “Ram” album that scowled at Lennon: “You took your lucky break and broke it in two.” Not long afterward, Lennon lambasted McCartney on the “Imagine” album in a far more scathing song called “How Do You Sleep?” “The only thing you done was yesterday,” he sang at his old friend. “The sound you make is Muzak to my ears.” Lennon’s son Sean told me that his father eventually came to recognize that he was as upset with himself as he was with his friend. “Those were crabby moments, but people made too big a deal of it,” he added. “It didn’t reach the level of Tupac telling Biggie Smalls that he’d slept with his wife” in “Hit ’Em Up.”

[Bjornebye]

Great read that Rapey nice one 

[GR10 LFC]

Saw some vintage cars and a film crew outside Croxteth Hall on my run the other day. Turns out they were filming for a new movie called The Midas Man, about the life of Brian Epstein.

[Vincent Vega]

This looks like it will be brilliant, I’ll have to sign up to Disney+ once it comes out.

 

[stringvest]

can't watch these previews without welling up.  Fucking pathetic.  Need to sort meself out.

[Gnasher]

35 minutes ago, stringvest said:

can't watch these previews without welling up.  Fucking pathetic.  Need to sort meself out.

Nah its the people who don't well up who are the ones who need sorting out.

[Red74]

28 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Nah its the people who don't well up who are the ones who need sorting out.

This.

[johnsusername]

An eight minute version of It's All Too Much - one of the most underrated Beatles songs (even by themselves!)

 

 

 

[johnsusername]

This is brilliant. It sounds so clear. Macca's vocals on Let It Be (the song) sound like they were recorded yesterday. 

 

I'm not a bootleg collector so haven't really heard any of this. I know there's been some criticism by collectors saying loads of stuff has been left out, but it's all good to me.

 

This, the Abbey Road reissue and the White Album reissue have all been brilliant. 

 

Can't wait for Rubber Soul and Revolver which surely must be next up. 

[johnsusername]

And I know it's not the done thing, but Ive always enjoyed the Phil Spector production on Let It Be. I think the overblown strings and choirs give the songs some real oomph. 

 

There, I said it. 

[Mook]

Listening to the super deluxe Let It Be now, some real magic in there as you'd expect.

[Vincent Vega]

Hints are going to be getting dropped all over the place over the next few weeks. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

9 minutes ago, Mook said:

Listening to the super deluxe Let It Be now, some real magic in there as you'd expect.

You know what you are getting from the very opening of ‘Two of Us’ the difference is unreal. 

[Total Longo]

47 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

You know what you are getting from the very opening of ‘Two of Us’ the difference is unreal. 

The sound quality is ridiculously good, particularly on tracks such as "Let It Be" itself (check out the maracas in the final verse).

 

It's a shame the album as a whole is a bit of a mixed bag. Two of Us, Across the Universe, For You Blue, Let it Be and Get Back are all superb. The rest is scaping just above average at best, by their ridiculously high standards anyway.  

 

I just hope we don't have to wait until 2026 for a Revolver Super Deluxe. 

[johnsusername]

McCartney's voice on I've Got a Feeling is brilliant.