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Battle of the Digital Reissues
« on: June 13, 2004, 10:40:53 AM »

So far, The Beatles have fixed three areas of their catalogue. First, there was the Yellow Submarine Songtrack, which helped give the fans a Beatles album rather than a few songs with orchestral music attached to the end. The next problem in the band's catalogue was the lack of a decent hits release as the red and blue albums could have more songs and such.....in comes a full length CD, 1. And then of course, the band fixed in my opinion their weakest album, Let It Be, with LIB...Naked. So, of these three releases, which was the most substantial improvement on a previous release?

For me, the biggest improvement was undoubledly the new version of Let It Be. The improved sound quality and stronger sounding mixes made it feel like a Beatles album rather than the rough patchwork full of "Dig Its" and "Maggies" that we had earlier. Plus, we were finally rid of that awful orchestral score on "The Long and Winding Road".
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2004, 01:45:16 PM »

out of those I like the Yellow Submarine Soundtrack the best.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2004, 03:41:11 PM »

YS.  It was 'new' in its approach to the mixes, much clearer (tho there were some very bad mixing errors).

1 sounded like crap.

LIBN was impressive for the improved sound, yes, but there again too many missing elements.  And LAWR never suffered from Spector's production...it was the kind of song that just begged for the bathos approach.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2004, 11:35:28 PM »

I havent heard the reissue of YS yet, but '1' and Naked didnt impress me.

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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2004, 10:30:04 AM »

[quote by=tkitna link=Blah.pl?b=albums,m=1087123253,s=3 date=1087256128]I havent heard the reissue of YS yet, but '1' and Naked didnt impress me.[/quote]

What about the "Fly on the Wall" bonus disc? That was truly an amazing listen....I mean, wow!.......


yeah, I've only listened to it once.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2004, 10:38:24 AM »

It was ok, but i've got christmas cd's and such that are far better.

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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2004, 04:07:57 PM »

I don't know, I've always had this slight dislike of Let it Be, which I'm trying to correct by listening to ...Naked - it did help a bit, I think. I now find I'm able to tolerate The long and winding road, and the songs sounds crisper to my ears. Not to mention I think the design for Naked is much better (I'm a Media student, so these things influence me) So all in all, it's an improvement :)
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2004, 06:54:45 PM »

Yes to YS.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2004, 04:41:03 PM »

[quote by=misterchaz link=Blah.pl?b=albums,m=1087123253,s=2 date=1087141271]YS.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2004, 10:49:53 PM »

Let it be...Naked
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2004, 09:41:31 PM »

I like Let it Be Naked.. merely because Im in the Mccartney Camp in reference to the Spector input issues.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2004, 10:12:20 PM »

Yellow Sub, I don't really like Let it Be Naked... meh.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #12 on: December 07, 2004, 04:49:10 AM »

LIBN....it just sounds incredible, i cant get enough of it.  Huge improvement imo
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2004, 02:28:16 AM »

Hmm. Yellow Submarine was really well-done. Except for I miss John's little "...igh,ah,igh..." mess-up in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. And Baby, You're a Rich Man is fantastic there, too. It sounds full and...right.

And the Long and Winding Road from Let it Be...Naked is a REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLY great improvement. Some of the weird things Paul does when he's singing...it actually makes sense without that grotty orchestra packed in. Not that i'm against orchestras, it just didn't fit in very well with -that- song.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2004, 03:49:22 AM »

Tough one....

1 was poorly done, which I think we all agree on.

Let It Be (Naked) featured the Long & Winding Road as its composer intended, so that was a big plus, however, I liked the live feel of the orginal album, which the new version loses.  On the strength of the correction of the torture that Spector put us through, I voted for Let It Be - Naked.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2004, 02:12:38 PM »

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This is my first post but I was very impressed with YSS, particularly with the technology that allows the individual elements of the original recordings to be seperated and then re-mixed. IMHO the results are a significant improvement on the original mixes and I cannot help wanting to hear all the Beatles albums, particularly the early four track recordings, being given the same treatment. I know that this is a controversial point of view and many consider the original mixes should not be altered.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2004, 10:04:31 AM »

[quote by=Rowdy link=Blah.pl?b=albums,m=1087123253,s=0 date=1087123253]For me, the biggest improvement was undoubledly the new version of Let It Be. The improved sound quality and stronger sounding mixes made it feel like a Beatles album rather than the rough patchwork full of "Dig Its" and "Maggies" that we had earlier. Plus, we were finally rid of that awful orchestral score on "The Long and Winding Road".[/quote]

Hey.... I like "Dig It"!


But... even though I've never seen the Yellow Submarine Songtrack CD, I've heard of it, and I think it's a brilliant idea. That's my idea of what the LP should have been. Instead of those tiring instrumental tracks. With all due respect to the great George Martin, they don't really have place on a Beatles' album.

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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2005, 09:31:18 PM »

I liked Let it Be naked, it just sounds better, on the original you get a production which is just sickly, in my opinion far to too much. The original versions of things like across the universe just sound wrong compared to the "new version"
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2005, 07:11:50 PM »

Yellow Submarine Songtrack

I'm a little suprised to see Let It Be Naked in the lead.  I'm still a bit burned with the exclusion of previous songs from that one.  I also liked the orchestration on the...never mind, that's probably a whole different subject.
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Re: Battle of the Digital Reissues
« Reply #19 on: January 01, 2006, 09:08:12 PM »

Let It Be...Naked
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