The Capitol Albums Vol.1 consists of The Beatles' first four US albums: Meet The Beatles, The Beatles' Second Album, Something New and Beatles '65. In stereo. The LPs had different names from the British releases but the songs were mainly the same, except on different records with a few b-sides. Whether you want to spend £40 on this lot will depend on how much you love The Beatles, how great your CD player is and of course how good a shoplifter you are. It's Christmas - the odds are good.
Most people won't notice the difference between these and the nasty mono ones you already own, but these shiny new stereo-stereo recordings DO sound better. Not THX digital-in-Jurassic-Park-better obviously, but if a girlfriend or cable man (both happened to me) nabbed your last lots of Beatles purchases, this pack is the perfect replacement.
And 'Any Time At All' in stereo really does help ease the pain of Glasto Macca. Bring on Vol.2.
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You failed to mention that in most cases the mono versions of the Beatles albums are the original mixes, when the band were all present at the mixing sessions, the stereo mixes were produced days, sometimes months after the original mono versions, when only the principal engineers were present (i.e. no Beatles were there.)
Hate to be a nitpicker but the original mono mix of say Sgt Pepper knocks spots off the commercially available stereo version, why these versions aren't on CD i'll never know. I'm no pedantic audiophile, it's just the way it is.
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The Beatles never self-produced or engineered any of their material as far as credits went. Many bands do hand such duties fully over to other people, so whether they're present makes little difference in those cases.
Also, I didn't realise that Sgt Pepper's... was one of the first four LPs included here. But hey, that's what you get with being an eighties child!
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been done
1966, in fact.
called 'Revolver', you mighta heard of it.
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Shows how little you know then.
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Where someone has passed a task fully on to someone else, it is therefore passed on.
Make yourself look silly.
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The rest was great, mind.
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They're an amalgum of all these great new original bands. A mash up of Bloc Party and Biffy Clyro apparently.
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I nearly fell for it to be fair. Brilliant content ( as a major beatles fan) but you'd be better off buying the albums on their own.
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tend to find that most of their albums had good singles and the rest of album was mostly mindless drivel...bit like a blur record..
though macca at glastonbury was pretty good though....well better than Oasis anyway.
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You'd have no guitar based rock/pop whatsoever. If you find a good band who says they haven't been influenced by the Beatles they are either lying or theyre not rock n roll.
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And that is all.
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"Don't talk to me if you like the following: Guns n Roses Velvet waterpistol Slipknot Green Day Muse. Or if you think Kurt Cobain is a legend, because Craig Nicholls is far better. . .and he can handle the fame."
Bless you, child.
But seriously: The Vines better than Nirvana were? How can that be? To go back to your Beatles point, it's like saying Embrace's Danny is a better songwriter than John Lennon.
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The Beatles were a starting point for guitar pop. It's evolved since then... well, mostly, not Jet anyway.
Yeah of course they are hugely influential, But there have been other influential bands since the beatles, ya know?
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To draw a line above the Beatles and say that nothing that came before mattered is both, well, wrong and stupid.
Their influence is obvious, granted.
But what about the blues? What about country music? Has this not influenced today's artists? Look at Wilco, Sparklehorse, Ryan Adams, Lambchop... all excellent bands/acts, and all of whom have been influenced by acts other than the Beatles (although possibly as well as), and indeed by acts that came before them.
Meh.
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Bleh... Miles Davis and Robert Johnson are probably more influential than the Beatles.
And people like Muse are more influenced by classical composers like Beethoven.
Anyway, I'm bored of this now....