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« Reply #160 on: December 17, 2013, 02:24:05 PM » |
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In other news, the US albums are now listed individually on Amazon, totally overpriced at £14.99 each and with completely the wrong track listings in several cases.  I expected the unfriendly prices. Always the way with The Fabs. Bootleg Recordings 1963 is back up on iTunes. Oh, and look, it's had a price hike too:- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/beatles-bootleg-recordings/id778642269  Guess I'll be getting it unofficially after all. Jules |
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« Reply #161 on: December 17, 2013, 02:25:53 PM » |
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It's there now and £35 for the equivalent of a double album.
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« Reply #162 on: December 17, 2013, 02:30:32 PM » |
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I'll wait and see if it is still there when I get home and then decide.
I suspect that Apple/Universal underestimated the demand, pulled the original product and then stirred up a fever so that they could increase the price and make a quick killing. It is all a bit shoddy.
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« Reply #163 on: December 17, 2013, 02:31:18 PM » |
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Anyone noticed the copyright? Not Apple intriguingly - "℗ 2013 The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group)."
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« Reply #164 on: December 17, 2013, 02:32:48 PM » |
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It's there now and £35 for the equivalent of a double album.
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« Reply #165 on: December 17, 2013, 02:38:14 PM » |
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It has apparently just disappeared again from the US site. Little chance of it still being available in the UK in two hours then.
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« Reply #166 on: December 17, 2013, 02:46:05 PM » |
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There's supposed to be a similar Beach Boys collection today - any sightings?
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« Reply #167 on: December 17, 2013, 03:00:30 PM » |
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There's supposed to be a similar Beach Boys collection today - any sightings?
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« Reply #168 on: December 17, 2013, 06:35:16 PM » |
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Well, predictably, The Beatles collection is now available where it shouldn't be!
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« Reply #169 on: December 17, 2013, 07:49:09 PM » |
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So, it's not about the music then? Wot a surprise...
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« Reply #170 on: December 17, 2013, 10:53:00 PM » |
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OK, so I succumbed and am now listening. Clearly this was not designed as just some throwaway to preserve the copyright. It sounds gorgeous, has been remastered with great care and the studio outtakes have been mixed into stereo which would not have been how they were recorded. It does however raise a number of questions.
For example, the collection contains Misery takes 1 & 7. A further take is the definitive version which appears on the Please Please Me album. That leaves at least four further takes. If this was intended as a shelf clearing exercise to preserve the copyright and prevent exploitation of the unreleased material by any old Tom, Dick or Harry in the public domain, shouldn't all of the unreleased takes have been included? Just a thought.
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« Reply #171 on: December 17, 2013, 11:19:57 PM » |
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It's there now and £35 for the equivalent of a double album.
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« Reply #172 on: December 18, 2013, 07:21:23 AM » |
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It's there now and £35 for the equivalent of a double album.
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« Reply #173 on: December 18, 2013, 07:22:39 AM » |
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OK, so I succumbed and am now listening. Clearly this was not designed as just some throwaway to preserve the copyright. It sounds gorgeous, has been remastered with great care and the studio outtakes have been mixed into stereo which would not have been how they were recorded. It does however raise a number of questions.
For example, the collection contains Misery takes 1 & 7. A further take is the definitive version which appears on the Please Please Me album. That leaves at least four further takes. If this was intended as a shelf clearing exercise to preserve the copyright and prevent exploitation of the unreleased material by any old Tom, Dick or Harry in the public domain, shouldn't all of the unreleased takes have been included? Just a thought.
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« Reply #174 on: December 18, 2013, 07:54:55 AM » |
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OK, so I succumbed and am now listening. Clearly this was not designed as just some throwaway to preserve the copyright. It sounds gorgeous, has been remastered with great care and the studio outtakes have been mixed into stereo which would not have been how they were recorded. It does however raise a number of questions.
For example, the collection contains Misery takes 1 & 7. A further take is the definitive version which appears on the Please Please Me album. That leaves at least four further takes. If this was intended as a shelf clearing exercise to preserve the copyright and prevent exploitation of the unreleased material by any old Tom, Dick or Harry in the public domain, shouldn't all of the unreleased takes have been included? Just a thought.
My theory is that they only used the takes already in the hands of the bootleggers. Jules Yes, that would make sense. I guess we can probably look forward to one of these sets per year for the next 6 years. I just hope they make less of a shambles of issuing them than they did with this one yesterday. |
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« Reply #175 on: December 18, 2013, 10:29:53 AM » |
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My theory is that they only used the takes already in the hands of the bootleggers.
Yes, that would make sense. It would if I was right. Here's a list of all the 1963 tracks that have been bootlegged that weren't included:- http://wogew.blogspot.de/2013/12/more-bootleg-recordings-1963.htmlJules |
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« Reply #176 on: December 18, 2013, 10:38:51 AM » |
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Blimey! Volume 2 on the way then.  |
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« Reply #177 on: December 18, 2013, 09:43:53 PM » |
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Not that this sort of thing should be regarded as "collectable". As tattoos go, it's pretty special, but it's something I wont aspire to. More images can be found by image searching your preferred search engine.
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« Reply #178 on: January 06, 2014, 03:54:11 PM » |
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Spin have the American Beatles CDs for £9.99 a pop. I just pre-ordered the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack, and "Yesterday"... And Today. Couldn't help myself. Jules |
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« Reply #179 on: January 16, 2014, 06:30:23 PM » |
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Beatles' US albums CDs set to majorly disappoint by not using all available US mix variants. Even allowing for the wish not to use fake stereo versions or "Dexterized" reverb-added versions, they should still have used all alternate pukka mixes. All they needed to do was do a little research on the internet. Next time, they should let the fans have a voice. Jules |
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