Andy re. the 'Beatles for Sale' album, to hell with the having the arbritary policy of no singles on albums bull***. Help, Please Please Me, A Hard Days Night , Revolver anyone? My new tracklist and running order would be: Side A: 1. I Feel Fine 2. Eight Days A Week 3. I'm A Loser 4 I'll Follow The Sun 5. No Reply 6. Every Little Thing 7. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (George vocal) Side B: 1. What You're Doing 2. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party 3. Baby's In Black 4. Honey Don't (Ringo vocal) 5. She's A Woman 6. Rock And Roll Music 7. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey (the words 'Bye, Bye' are apt as a closer and give it that rocking finale feel). Listening to this as a playlist elevates this album and it hangs together better than Help IMO, give it a go. And yes the UK Stereo mix kicks butt, no excessive panning and is better than the Mono mix. P.S. If the Beatles were controlled by Capitol and Dave Dexter , the reverb button was broken and these were the only tracks available he would have done something similar, maybe
The 2014 Beatles US Albums CD set is better than many realize. They do have a number of true American Capitol mixes that are unique. The "I Feel Fine" / "Shes a Woman" & "I'll Be Back" mono are the US mono mixes that has George Martin's & Dave Dexter's added reverb. ""I'm Only Sleeping", "Dr. Robert", & " We Can Work It Out" are from the Capitol US mono mixes. They even have the "I'm Looking Through You" from the US stereo Rubber Soul with the mistake opening. They used the 2009 mixes to remove the fake Duophonic stereo mixes that were present on the Capitol releases that were/are horrible.
They are upon reflection Dennis you're right, especially the mixes prepared specifically by George for Capitol so at least they are here. The false start Looking Through good. However "horrible" the aka Duophonic Stereo was/is it is something that 1st Generation fans grew up with and loved. (Despite it being trash) and if you're going to faithfully reproduce them then they should be done warts and all. Just my take.
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Andy re. the 'Beatles for Sale' album, to hell with the having the arbritary policy of no singles on albums bull***. Help, Please Please Me, A Hard Days Night , Revolver anyone?
My new tracklist and running order would be:
Side A: 1. I Feel Fine 2. Eight Days A Week 3. I'm A Loser 4 I'll Follow The Sun 5. No Reply 6. Every Little Thing 7. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby (George vocal)
Side B: 1. What You're Doing 2. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party 3. Baby's In Black 4. Honey Don't (Ringo vocal) 5. She's A Woman 6. Rock And Roll Music 7. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey (the words 'Bye, Bye' are apt as a closer and give it that rocking finale feel).
Listening to this as a playlist elevates this album and it hangs together better than Help IMO, give it a go. And yes the UK Stereo mix kicks butt, no excessive panning and is better than the Mono mix.
P.S. If the Beatles were controlled by Capitol and Dave Dexter , the reverb button was broken and these were the only tracks available he would have done something similar, maybe
The 2014 Beatles US Albums CD set is better than many realize. They do have a number of true American Capitol mixes that are unique. The "I Feel Fine" / "Shes a Woman" & "I'll Be Back" mono are the US mono mixes that has George Martin's & Dave Dexter's added reverb. ""I'm Only Sleeping", "Dr. Robert", & " We Can Work It Out" are from the Capitol US mono mixes. They even have the "I'm Looking Through You" from the US stereo Rubber Soul with the mistake opening. They used the 2009 mixes to remove the fake Duophonic stereo mixes that were present on the Capitol releases that were/are horrible.
They are upon reflection Dennis you're right, especially the mixes prepared specifically by George for Capitol so at least they are here. The false start Looking Through good. However "horrible" the aka Duophonic Stereo was/is it is something that 1st Generation fans grew up with and loved. (Despite it being trash) and if you're going to faithfully reproduce them then they should be done warts and all. Just my take.