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Rumors of The Beatles Coming to iTunes Renewed Yet Again
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oh no it's not on itunes - i guess you'll never hear them? p
well any crafty kid would download the torrents or borrow a cd from a friend or library.
itunes isn't stopping anyone from listening to the beatles.
Did you accidentally pop in a Nirvana CD or something? Do you actually own any Beatles vinyls, you fanboy?
Everything they've done has sucked. SGT PEPPER? Are you KIDDING ME? That has to be the absolute worst complete album to ever hit store shelves. I've heard and own free releases that blow that garbage away. It's intolerable trash, which belongs in just that.
Their whole catalogue is subpar. Don't kid yourself. You obviously meant to say The White Stripes and Velvet Revolver up top there...
lol - i'm with you on this but i have a problem with one piece.
YOU ARE LISTENING TO IT ON AN MP3 PLAYER! lol - u can kick quality out the door - it's compressed and certainly not in the caliber of vinyl or cds
honestly - i think people who don't even like the beatles but are apple fanatics will buy the albums just because of steve jobs. it's sad really
Hmmm... read the EMI press release on the remastered CDs
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2009/press52.htm
Brand new mini documentaries (in QuickTime format), studio chat clips, historic photos, etc. all embedded into the CDs.
Seems to fall nicely inline with these rumors...
"Cocktail" anyone?
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2009/press52.htm
Brand new mini documentaries (in QuickTime format), studio chat clips, historic photos, etc. all embedded into the CDs.
Seems to fall nicely inline with these rumors...
"Cocktail" anyone?
Plus we all know that Ringo stopped caring a long time ago.
Did he ever really get fanmail, or was he just getting old? I wonder.
Ugh! Enough with these rumours!
Really, who is still pining for The Beatles on iTunes? Those that really care for The Beatles will buy the remastered CD's or the box set.
Really, who is still pining for The Beatles on iTunes? Those that really care for The Beatles will buy the remastered CD's or the box set.
You just undermined whatever credibility you had right there, kiddo. If you think Paul McC has had anything important to say in the last, I dunno, 30 years, then you are either too old, or too young to know what music is really about.
Nope. Not listening to it on an MP3 player. Listening to it on either studio monitors (for critical evaluation) or a very good home stereo system (or sometimes in the car).
The 1987 Beatles CDs are of poor sonic quality, by today's standards. Played on a good system, the original vinyl is much, much better.
What I'm hoping for is a good quality remaster, with a smidge of limiting to normalize levels (but not so much that things get squashed like 99% of today's CD releases), and maybe some remixing to fix some 'anomolies' of circa-mid-sixties mixes (esp. pre-1966, where bass frequencies were heavily reduced in the mix, ostensibly to avoid causing problems with the stylus jumping off the vinyl, though American studios of the same era seemingly did not suffer from the same problem with their mixes as did the mixes coming out of Abbey Road).
I would assume that every fan of this band already has the Music on CD. Who would iTunes sell the downloads to -- non-fans?
Why is it that just because someone defends something they're instantly a "fanboy"? Apple fanboy, Microsoft fanboy, Beatles fanboy...
Anyway, I actually agree with you on some points and with Don on others.
I'm a Beatles fan, own all their albums and several of them are on vinyl. However, I personally cannot stand ANYTHING they put out before Rubber Soul (or most of Rubber Soul, in fact, aside from Norwegian Wood and In My Life). I just dislike love songs in general, and their first five albums were literally nothing but. I also dislike Sgt. Pepper's a lot - I can understand how it may have been considered 'influential' back then, as many of the recording techniques were a first, but in the end I find it overproduced and in places to be downright cruddy (Lovely Rita, anyone?). However, in saying that, it does have my favourite Beatles track - A Day In The Life. The rest of the album can get shoved away (except maybe Lucy In The Sky...depends on my mood)
The White Album is hit and miss, some good songs, many mediocre, a few that are downright terrible (Revolution 9, though that's fairly obvious). The one thing I will agree fully with Don over is Revolver. It's clearly not their most "revolutionary" album - that's clearly Sgt Pepper - but it's where they started experimenting more with things that ended up becoming somewhat mainstream for a lot of artists (and my use of revolutionary is purely in technical terms, by no means do I condone the mess that is ultimately contained within Pepper). It's my favourite album, not just by The Beatles but out of every artist I listen to. On their other albums, there are a few tracks here and there that are really outstanding (Come Together and Something on Abbey Road, for example), and they had some great singles (Hey Jude)... I do consider myself a fan and can honestly listen to most of their stuff without being bored, but in saying that I fully understand how somebody simply cannot appreciate their work - a lot of their music really is the stuff that you either love or absolutely despise.I'm still going to pick up all the remasters, if only for the fact that my current CDs are starting to really wear out (started getting them almost a decade ago, and 9 year olds don't go well with treating discs carefully
), plus I agree with anyone that says the 1987 'remasters' are of poor quality - what I own on vinyl blows them out of the water. Plus I hate how George Martin remixed Help! and Rubber Soul when they did the CDs anyway, apparently the original 1965 pressings sounded way better... but meh, regardless, even if The Beatles came to iTunes I wouldnt bother buying them. Like has been mentioned, most people that'd be interested will already have the CDs or would be planning on buying the remasters as soon as theyre released.
Oh well. That's a lot of missed sales. And a lot of exposure they're not getting with a younger generation of kids, who instead are listening to disposable junk.
Do they really think most people who listen to music on their iPods are going to run out to a store, buy a ton of cd's, and individually rip them themselves?
I'll continue to download them illegally until they figure it out.
Do they really think most people who listen to music on their iPods are going to run out to a store, buy a ton of cd's, and individually rip them themselves?
I'll continue to download them illegally until they figure it out.
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i wouldn't buy the beatles on itunes anyways! i have my cd's ripped into itunes and a very small part of me is wanting the digitally remastered set... but i'm not sure why???? since i have all of their albums on cd (and in my itunes) already!
beatles rock band? ya.... i'm ALL OVER that! just wish i didn't already have the complete set of instruments from rock band and rock band 2 so that i could get the special edition set! *sigh*
Ah Let It Be. All I want is for the Beatles and Apple to Come Together. Tell Me Why this hasn't happened yet. I really will enjoy this Rock and Roll Music
I'll even listen to it Eight Days A Week.
But I've Got A Feeling that I've someone will say "You Can't Do That" and I'll Cry Instead.
I'll even listen to it Eight Days A Week.
But I've Got A Feeling that I've someone will say "You Can't Do That" and I'll Cry Instead.
Well "they" are only two. One has to wonder how John Lennon would feel about being turned into a game character.
Anything involving The Beatles will be big news (just watch how long this thread grows). But most fans like me already ripped the CDs long ago, so whether or not Beatles music is on iTunes is basically ho-hum.
It could be worse... They could release the game and completely stomp out the memory of an original member like Van Halen is going to do with Guitar Hero.
Beatles on iTunes
My prediction is that when they post the Beatles catalog, especially if there is a special one time fee to purchase the entire catalog it will be the biggest sales day ever for iTunes.
Many of us all or some of the CD's, but to download in lossless format all at once would be really nice.
I predict that network activity generated from that day will affect the entire internet just like the day the iPhone 3G was first sold.
My prediction is that when they post the Beatles catalog, especially if there is a special one time fee to purchase the entire catalog it will be the biggest sales day ever for iTunes.
Many of us all or some of the CD's, but to download in lossless format all at once would be really nice.
I predict that network activity generated from that day will affect the entire internet just like the day the iPhone 3G was first sold.