As an added bonus, the mono "Help!" and "Rubber Soul" discs also include the original 1965 stereo mixes

Why not just use the original stereo mixes on the FIRST stereo box set???!!! 

Veeery surprised to see they're coming out on CD only. With the advent of Blu-Ray, I expected to see a Blu-Ray release akin to Neil Young's Archives series (if that ever arrives!).

The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release

... says the release. But it would appear the sound could be even better with Blu-Ray.

Anyone expert enough to offer enlightenment? Maybe there'll be a Blu-Ray release a few months later?

!Sarcasm Alert! So what are you trying to say? 

I am saving $ for just this summer. Remastered box set PLUS the Rock Band game.

Got this email today...

We are delighted to announce the release of the original Beatles catalogue, which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time, for worldwide CD release on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 (09-09-09), the same date as the release of the widely anticipated "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game.

Each of the CDs is packaged with replicated original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. On the same date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released.

The albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the catalogue has seen since its original release.

The collection comprises all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track listings and artwork as originally released in the UK, and 'Magical Mystery Tour,' which became part of The Beatles' core catalogue when the CDs were first released in 1987. In addition, the collections 'Past Masters Vol. I and II' are now combined as one title, for a total of 14 titles over 16 discs. This will mark the first time that the first four Beatles albums will be available in stereo in their entirety on compact disc. These 14 albums, along with a DVD collection of the documentaries, will also be available for purchase together in a stereo boxed set.

Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. With the exception of the 'Past Masters' set, newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.

A second boxed set has been created with the collector in mind. 'The Beatles in Mono' gathers together, in one place, all of the Beatles recordings that were mixed for a mono release. It will contain 10 of the albums with their original mono mixes, plus two further discs of mono masters (covering similar ground to the stereo tracks on 'Past Masters'). As an added bonus, the mono "Help!" and "Rubber Soul" discs also include the original 1965 stereo mixes, which have not been previously released on CD. These albums will be packaged in mini-vinyl CD replicas of the original sleeves with all original inserts and label designs retained.

Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time.

http://www.thebeatles.com/newsletters/issue_044/images/catalogueimage.jpg

No "She a Rainbow"? That was quite possibly the Stones' finest hour!

I felt "She's A Rainbow" was too wide known for what I was going for. "2000 Man", which I prefer over "Rainbow", was on the list until some trimming needed to be done.

This is my "So You Think You Know The Stones" compilation playlist. My purpose is to showcase a more mellow side of The Rolling Stones. There are a couple of hits here but not too much. All these are top notch Stones songs. Great vocals, great melodies, great emotion.

01. Saint Of Me - A song that sums up the Stones' attitude.
02. Fingerprint File - A very under appreciated riff.
03. No Expectations
04. This Place Is Empty - 1st Keith song on this comp. Very moving.
05. Loving Cup
06. Out Of Tears
07. Love In Vain
08. 100 Years Ago - "Dontcha think it's sometimes wise not to grow up?" Great line!
09. The Worst
10. Indian Girl
11. Shine A Light - One of my favorites. Gotten a little popular since the concert film.
12. Worried About You
13. You Got The Silver
14. Memory Motel
15. Already Over Me
16. Moonlight Mile - Their most epic song. A perfect closer.

Thanks a ton guys! Any more?

Led Zeppelin's "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper." Only for the fact that "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?" was left off the album instead.

I saw him at Austin City Limits... I was front row. He played by two favorite songs "Workingman's Blues #2" and "I Shall Be Released". The best night of my life.

P.J., care to share anymore on the Austin City Limits show?

Well, like I said he played those two songs. I was really into "Workingman" at the time and had been keeping up with his setlists for that year. You know, to get a feel for what songs he'd possibly play. I remember thinking that "Cat's in the Well" was the for-sure opener and that "Workingman" was taken off his setlist (pretty bummed out for that). I made a CD comp for my girlfriend and a couple of friends for the road trip up to Austin. Man, I was surprised. I kept on calling out for "Workingman's Blues #2". I'd like to think he heard me, and played it (my own little fantasy). He played a great set. His voice was pretty ragged in the beginning for "Rainy Day Women" and "Hard Rain" but by the end we was killing. "It Ain't Me, Babe" was a total transformation. I think I loved that new version over the original! "Nettie Moore" was chilling.

Me and my girlfriend had been standing out in that front row since 9 or 10 in the morning. Dylan's set wasn't until the evening. We were both so tired from standing in all those people. When Dylan came out for his encore she clutched onto my hand. She was ready to go but stayed for me. She knew I wanted to see this encore. He played "I Shall Be Released" for his finale. Being a huge Basement Tapes fan I was floored. According to my cataloging he hadn't played that song in a couple of years I believe. It was a real treat for me. When me and my girlfriend first started dating I was in a band. She came to see me and that was the first song I ever "sang to her". Not a "love song" per say but it's very pretty with a nice sentiment when sung to a woman. She remembered and we danced on tired legs until the crowd dissipated.

It was a very meaningful experience to me and Jessica. I loved that night.

2007-09-16 ACL Setlist:
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; It Ain't Me, Babe; Watching The River Flow; Spirit On The Water; The Levee's Gonna Break; Tangled Up In Blue; Things Have Changed; Workingman's Blues #2; Highway 61 Revisited; Nettie Moore; Summer Days; Ballad Of A Thin Man.
Encore: Thunder On The Mountain; Like A Rolling Stone; I Shall Be Released.

OH YEAH! This just in...



Bob Dylan Talks About His New Album with Bill Flanagan

Man, I am looking forward to this album big time. Love & Theft and Modern Times were such big records for me these past years.

Yeah, "'Cross the Green Mountain" is on my playlist a lot these days.

Dylan Convert Playlist:
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Workingman's Blues #2
- Forever Young
- Mississippi
- You're a Big Girl Now
- Most of the Time
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Can I extend this to 'quadrilogy' (Time Out of Mind) and throw in the 'Things Have Changed' single too? Thanks.

I know that Time Out of Mind/Love and Theft/Modern Times was suppose to be Dylan's new trilogy like Bringing it All Back Home/Highway 61 Revisited/Blonde on Blonde but I feel that Time Out of Mind, although a masterpiece in its own right, has a different production to the other two... and am guessing the new album.

I am looking for some docs or movies about album covers. Looking for something like in the Beatles Anthology when Paul talks about the Rubber Soul cover... or in Spinal Tap... the cover for Smell the Glove.

Great news for every Dylan nut:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26445175/dylan_records_surprise_modern_times_followup

 

YES! The description sound incredible. I'm thinking this is gonna be the final chapter in his trilogy of kick-a$$ albums.... Love & Theft/Modern Times/"New Album"

I am a huge Dylan fan. I ate up the 3CD Bootleg Series, Vol. 9 the day it came out. All the versions of "Mississippi"... I'm in heaven.

I am only Live at Buddokan and MTV Unplugged away from owning all the official Dylan albums... except of course the countless soundtrack songs.

I saw him at Austin City Limits... I was front row. He played by two favorite songs "Workingman's Blues #2" and "I Shall Be Released". The best night of my life.

I am a big fan of his country & western period between "The Basement Tapes" and Pat Garrett. I also went through a phase of his "born again" period. The harmonica solo in "What Can I Do For You?" is Dylan at his best.

Wow, it's been a long time since I heard any news on the lost Inside Pop reels. The next "holy grail" needs some more steam behind it!

[Pet Sounds]

I'd love to have access to the multis and create my own mix. 

See, now THAT is what they should have done for the 40th Anniversary.  We already have enough mixes done by others, but allowing fans to remix the album to their liking would be incredibly innovative.

I'd vote for that! Big box sets of Pet Sounds (and SMiLE [wishful thinking, I know]) multitracks.

To me it all comes down to the tag of "God Only Knows" the original mono mix is as close to emotional perfection as there will ever be in pop music.

C-man is sitting on an excellent analysis of this subject, maybe if we all smile and say please he will share. 

Really? Dude, bring it on brotha!

Ok, so officially we got:
Good Vibrations (Sections) (Stereo & Mono)
Good Vibrations (Rarities Version) (Mono)
Good Vibrations (Early Version; "She's Already Working On My Brain") (Mono)
Good Vibrations (Single/Smiley Smile Version) (Mono)

What are the dates credited to the different mixes/versions? Which came first, second, third?

Is there a date breakdown for the different pieces of the Sections Version?

P.S. I for one, still love all the fan mixes and hope everyone takes a crack at their own Smile. I know I'm alway perfecting mine.

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This article is pretty interesting. I don't know much about musical theory, however I feel that the point that Brian was really just "feeling" his way through this period ('65-'67) is correct. If it sounded heatfelt, powerful or original Brian went with it.

Surf's Up

As I recall I think most of the other mixes on the box set are Brian mixes...I'm almost positive that "Heroes and Villaains" (cantina mix), "Wonderful", "Wind Chimes", "Worms" and "Dada" were all mixed by Brian during the Smile sessions.  Obviously Cabinessence and Prayer are the released versions. 

I think "Vega-Tables" was the only track where they took some liberties with the editing, and even then (as others have said) Linett was just following what was probably Brian's intended sequence anyways.  I actually kinda like the crossfade into the fade, even though I agree that Brian wouldn't have done it that way.  I can't really picture a hard edit working there, but I'm sure he would have made it work.

"Do You Like Worms" and "I Love To Say Da Da" are Mark Linett mixes as well. "Do You Like Worms" has a lot of background/studio noise cleaned up and "I Love To Say Da Da" is basically Part 1 and 2 edited together. Basically what a Brian mix would have been. "Our Prayer" is the original '66 take, without the 1968 overdubs. Also, I may be wrong, but "Wind Chimes" is an edit too. I don't think Brian ever got around to editing out the count-in between the verses and the chorus, but, again, basically what Brian would have done.

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