Archive for the 'Beatles' Category
I would make no great claims for my ears. I’m no audiophile and I’m sure that teenage headphone abuse has had its effect on my hearing. So what I’m about to say is entirely subjective.
Here’s how I set things up. I imported the 2009 stereo remaster of Rubber Soul into iTunes as an AIFF file [...]
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So I bought three of the Beatles stereo remasters and , frankly, I wish I hadn’t. I feel like the most stupid gullible consumer in the world. Of course they don’t sound any better or different. Of course it was a load of overblown marketing hype and all those glowing reviews (note: most of the [...]
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This fly-on-the-wall documentary was one of about three programmes that made up the BBC Four so-called Beatles Week. It was filmed by Albert and David Maysles, and is a reworking of an 81-minute film they made in 1964 called What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA.
Some of the footage is familiar from the Anthology series, [...]
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Can’t pay, won’t pay
Beatles Day tomorrow. I guess there was some original thought that releasing this stuff in September would make Festivus shopping easier for any number of people. In reality, most people are so insane about credit and self-indulgent that they’ll just go out and buy it, so you’ll still have the conundrum about what to buy [...]
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Tags: Dollhouse, Whedon
This long article in the New York Times Magazine goes into a lot more depth and detail than the preview in the Guardian.
Like everything involving the Beatles, this is going to be astonishingly expensive for those who partake, especially if this inspires you to buy your first games console. Sweet revenge for the band, I [...]
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Fucking Hell! £200?
I see that the perfect christmas gift this year for a Guardian reader is The Beatles’ remastered box set in mono, a snip at just £200 (less 2p). That’s only £15.38 per disc, fact fans, a mere 200% of the standard price for an album on iTunes. For the privilege of hearing the mono versions [...]
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Tags: EMI
Best Ever Chorus?
FiveLive Breakfast have been having a phone vote for the best chorus ever over the past few weeks. I missed the bit where they asked for nominations, which they whittled down to a final 9, and then did a 4-day vote for the best, which turned out to be “Delilah”, written by Les Reed and [...]
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It’s old news by now that the iPod’s shuffle algorithm doesn’t seem to be random so much as all-knowing and quite sly. On my recent seasonal trip to France, I experienced this for the first time as I tested out my Golf’s “iPod preparation” properly.
First of all, big disappointment: the Golf features the same standard [...]
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Tags: random, shuffle
Cluster Pluck
In the great tradition of superb session players, Brad Paisley has released an album of mostly instrumentals, showcasing his extraordinary fingers’n’tone. There are a few vocals on the record, but the main reason for listening is to marvel at the technique.
The token hit single on Play is “Start a Band”, a duet with that other [...]
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Tags: brad paisley, guitarists, Telecaster
I’m following the Olympics, of course, hoping for something exciting to happen, like a raised fist of protest, or a slogan scrawled on a teeshirt. So far there has only been a small war in Georgia, and a presidential resignation. To coin a paraphrase, the Olympics is a good seventeen days on which to bury [...]
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Tags: events, news, olympics, politics
