The BEATLES (Official Thread)

[Big Ears]

I've got a Yellow Dog boot of the rooftop concert. While the sound is okay, it's a bit messy with people calling out take numbers. The performances are strong, especially Paul McCartney's and George Harrison's, although the instruments fade. It is crying out for an official cleanup and would be preferable to the unsatisfactory Naked album. I am aware of the studio chit-chat which has leaked out, but it is tedious and of little interest to me.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Sweet

 

[LG]

I'm "Beatled Out" when it comes to all this stuff, rather than spend a couple hours watching a documentary or listening to endless studio sessions while they knock an album together I'd rather play a couple of their records.

I do think the Documentary Sunny mentioned will be creditable, considering it's their secretary who's shedding light on the workings of the band but I'm not sure I'm interested enough to bother watching it...

I love the Beatles music, but I draw the line at being consumed by them especially 40+ years since they were a ground breaking band.

 

[Big Ears]

I have mixed feelings about bootlegs, soundboards, outtakes and bonus tracks. Sometimes they can be as good as the original official material, if not better. In other cases, it is clear why the band rejected them in the first place. Abbey Road is one of my favourite albums, with few faults, so I cannot bring myself to listen to the alternative takes.

 

[LG]

^^Abbey Road is on my "Elite" album list 10/10.

I have tried many times to slog through all the extras they put on CD's to fill up the empty space, but rarely do any of the tracks get my attention except to highlight how good the tracks that made it on the original album were in the first place.(Talking about old albums that were around 40 minutes in length obviously there have been tons of really good CD's done in the 90's to now that fill up the CD with good quality songs.)

Now if you're talking about "B sides" or songs that they never released, I have been pleasantly surprised a few times by those. One of the rare examples of a song I really liked was ELO's demo version of "Fire On High", it's an instrumental to begin with but the demo version was excellent, almost as good as the album cut.

 

[Big Ears]

The Deep Purple extras are very good too. They consist of Roger Glover remixes and tracks which should've been on the abums, but were left off through lack of space.

 

[METALPRIEST]

What about this???

The Beatles’ ‘BBC Volume 2′ Coming in November



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Another two-disc set of the Beatles‘ radio recordings from their native England will be released on Nov. 11. ‘On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2′ will feature 40 performances by the band, recorded in 1963-64 for broadcast on various BBC programs.

A sequel to 1994′s ‘Live at the BBC,’ which reached No. 3, ‘Volume 2′ of the Beatles’ BBC sessions will include all previously unreleased recordings. Even though most of the songs and studio banter have found their way onto various bootleg records over the years, this marks their first official release.

In addition to Beatles classics like ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ and ‘I Saw Here Standing There,’ ’On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2′ will include covers of songs by some of the group’s musical heroes, like Chuck Berry (‘Memphis, Tennessee’), Ray Charles (‘I Got a Woman’) and Little Richard (‘Lucille’). The album will also feature covers of Berry’s ‘I’m Talking About You’ and the standard ‘Beautiful Dreamer,’ neither of which has ever appeared on any official Beatles record in any form.

The Beatles performed more than 275 songs for the BBC between March 1962 and June 1965. Recorded with no overdubs and live in the studio, the sessions showed off what a great live band the Beatles were before they moved on to their more ambitious studio ventures later in the decade. The new volume, like its predecessor, will also feature chats between the Fab Four and the station hosts.

‘On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2′ will also be released on vinyl in addition to the CD and digital formats. The original ‘Live at the BBC’ album will be reissued on the same day in a newly remastered edition, just in case you need to complete your collection.



The Beatles ’On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2′ Track Listing

CD ONE
1. ’And Here We Are Again (Speech)’
2. ’Words of Love’
3. ’How About It, Gorgeous? (Speech)’
4. ’Do You Want to Know a Secret’
5. ‘Lucille’
6. ‘Hey, Paul … (Speech)’
7. ‘Anna (Go to Him)’
8. ’Hello! (Speech)’
9. ’Please Please Me’
10. ‘Misery’
11. ‘I’m Talking About You’
12. ‘A Real Treat (Speech)’
13. ‘Boys’
14. ’Absolutely Fab (Speech)’
15. ‘Chains’
16. ‘Ask Me Why’
17. ‘Till There Was You’
18. ’Lend Me Your Comb’
19. ’Lower 5E (Speech)’
20. ‘The Hippy Hippy Shake’
21. ‘Roll Over Beethoven’
22. ‘There’s a Place’
23. ‘Bumper Bundle (Speech)’
24. ‘P.S. I Love You’
25. ’Please Mister Postman’
26. ‘Beautiful Dreamer’
27. ’Devil in Her Heart’
28. ‘The 49 Weeks (Speech)’
29. ’Sure to Fall (In Love With You)’
30. ‘Never Mind, Eh? (Speech)’
31. ‘Twist and Shout’
32. ‘Bye, Bye (speech)’
33. ‘John – Pop Profile (Speech)’
34. ‘George – Pop Profile (Speech)’

CD TWO
1. ‘I Saw Her Standing There’
2. ‘Glad All Over’
3. ‘Lift Lid Again (Speech)’
4. ‘I’ll Get You’
5. ‘She Loves You’
6. ‘Memphis, Tennessee’
7. ’Happy Birthday Dear Saturday Club’
8. ’Now Hush, Hush (Speech)’
9. ‘From Me to You’
10. ‘Money (That’s What I Want)’
11. ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’
12. ‘Brian Bathtubes (Speech)’
13. ‘This Boy’
14. ‘If I Wasn’t in America (Speech)’
15. ‘I Got a Woman’
16. ‘Long Tall Sally’
17. ‘If I Fell’
18. ’A Hard Job Writing Them (Speech)’
19. ‘And I Love Her’
20. ‘Oh, Can’t We? Yes We Can (Speech)’
21. ‘You Can’t Do That’
22. ‘Honey Don’t’
23. ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
24. ‘Green With Black Shutters (Speech)’
25. ’Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!’
26. ‘That’s What We’re Here For (Speech)’
27. ‘I Feel Fine (Studio Outtakes)’
28. ‘Paul – Pop Profile (Speech)’
29. ‘Ringo – Pop Profile (Speech)’
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[LG]

^^Sorry MP not interested...having been part of music forums for a long time now the fixation on certain bands mystifies me at times. I mean I love the Beatles, but playing their studio albums fills my need. To go and collect/investigate everything they've done to the point of identifying what brand of 'dunny paper' they used in the studio has never been my thing.

A collection of "B Sides Rarities" that have been gathering dust should be rounded up and put on ONE massive collectors edition. Interviews with them don't interest me, after all they dissolved the band in 1969, that's 44 years ago by my reckoning and I have moved on.

 

[Big Ears]

BBC sessions are nearly always good because the bands performed their tracks live in the studio on the back of touring, but The Beatles' BBC tracks have never interested me (like the Hollywood Bowl material). For me, The Beatles' best work was yet to come, starting with A Hard Day's Night (consisting of all original songs) and finishing with Abbey Road. The interviews are interesting because The Beatles were very witty and they usually had a laugh at the often unprepared interviewers' expense, but ownership of the interviews is for completists.

 

[Mr. Bob Dobolina]

BBC Vol 2...Can't Wait!