September 9th is circled on this Ogden's calendar...

[KD]

Spector may deserve angel wings for sifting through the Let It Be tapes, but he's right back down into hell for nearly destroying All Things Must Pass with that horrific production.

On its own, the album is a giant. The best solo Beatle album. But to overcome Spector's knob(s)? Legendary.

[Quality Start Machine]

Spector may deserve angel wings for sifting through the Let It Be tapes, but he's right back down into hell for nearly destroying All Things Must Pass with that horrific production.

On its own, the album is a giant. The best solo Beatle album. But to overcome Spector's knob(s)? Legendary.

Guess it depends on taste. "Wah-Wah" is a chaotic mess, but I kind of dig it. And his bulding orchestration of "What Is Life" never ceases to amaze me, esp. the strings playing the guitar riff near the end.

[Oleg]

I prefer the beatles like this. I hate the "wall of sound" crap.

They sound better simplified in my opinion.

THIS.

Well, the part I understand at least, being not very musically inclined.
This seems like a ploy to sell more albums more than it sounds like a big improvement on the original product.

I think the "original" product is without all the horns and crap.. the guitars sounded like guitars, you could just hear the bass, the drums and the guitars..
and the vocals.. this is how i typically prefer music..

[start Rant]
I like listening to a record and thinking how live it sounds, no studio tricks, no overdubs or major edits..
old recordings are the best, they used tape to record albums.. it was hard to change the takes.
no pro-tools bs.. I like hearing mistakes bands make when they play, adds character.
My main issue with "new" rock or country is that it's too polished.. for example, they have voice tools now where TDubbs could sing and he'd sound just like John Mayer, even though everyone knows his voice sounds like Joey Lauren Adams in real life.

I've been in major recording studios watching big time bands record and literally a guitar player will play 10 sec of a song 50+ times, then they'll spend the next 6 hrs cutting seconds from one to the other to pick the perfect 10 sec to add to the song.. it's crazy.

Screw fall out boy and bands like that.
[end rant]

A great old-school producer, like Phil Spector, Norman Whitfield or Brian Wilson, could make great records that could never translate live. But there wasn't really much trickery they could do, the technology wasn't there.

But, yeah, there are a lot of people making a lot of money (Jennifer Lopez and Ashlee Simpson are the best example) who can't perform live, simply because they can't carry a tune in a bucket.

Fork's right. There' a difference between cheating or hiding mistakes/lack of talent, and the creative use of the studio to make music that couldn't or doesn't need to be played live. But I get what you're saying BH.

May I present the great Nigel Godrich for consideration amongst the great producers of our time.  I think you'll all know with whom he has worked the most.

[BH]

May I present the great Nigel Godrich for consideration amongst the great producers of our time.  I think you'll all know with whom he has worked the most.

You referring to Big Country's 1993 album Buffalo Skinners or Natalie Imbruglia's Left of the Middle album?

[Oleg]

May I present the great Nigel Godrich for consideration amongst the great producers of our time.  I think you'll all know with whom he has worked the most.

You referring to Big Country's 1993 album Buffalo Skinners or Natalie Imbruglia's Left of the Middle album?

Yes.

[Quality Start Machine]

bump.

Still undecided between mono and stereo. Anyone hear either Beatles' remasters yet?

Why couldn't they simply remaster the ones that were mono as mono, the stereo ones as stereo, and leave it at that?

[Jon]

bump.

Still undecided between mono and stereo. Anyone hear either Beatles' remasters yet?

Why couldn't they simply remaster the ones that were mono as mono, the stereo ones as stereo, and leave it at that?

Because completists have money, and it would be a sin not to take it from them.

[Quality Start Machine]

The way to go, it turns out, is to buy the mono box, and then just buy the stereo remasters of Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be - the only 3 Beatles' albums with original masters in stereo.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

http://whitewhine.tumblr.com/post/190998067/complaint-504

Complaint #504

OMG - Does Pitchfork have to review EVERY Beatles album re-issue separately?

-Whine by Nate

[Quality Start Machine]

LFork got me the Mono set for Jebus' B-day.

Ho. Lee. Shit - this is the fucking goods.