Fabsbox Rant 'n Roll

[posted to news:rec.music.beatles]

I can't understand it. Where is all the tittilating new discussion on the Capitol Albums Vol 2 box??

Naysayers, go away! Forever! Die! You're all out of context, off topic if you cannot hear & praise this improved fidelity. Goddammit, I'm so sick of this common modern resistance to the greatest rock band of all
time. During their highest developmental period newborn.

This is a monumental time in Beatles listening. Forget all the Capitol bashing, these new discs explode! I been having a blast comparing, A/B'ing with the 80s Parlophone, loving the MONO mixes too, rediscovering this oh so boring lame twee music that we've all heard a million times. NEVER has it sounded so potent! So tis like experiencing it for the first time. Again.

And I don't care about ranking one version over the other (UK vs US, M vs ST, etc). These are 24-bit and it sounds it. They're also 2006, peak those meters! Kick ass frequency response, like my speakers never heard before.

Perhaps if Aspinall and the Applebrits had already provided the world with EMI's best mastertape sound, best orignal sequences, best value (stereo & mono versions), best singles bonus tracks, best packaging, best everything, then the Capitol thing wouldn't even be an issue. But this is what we've got. OK? And I am grateful to high heaven.

Let's talk RUBBER SOUL! This is phenomenal, people! Arguably their best, consistently favorite groundbreaking album ever. It can't get remastered much better than this.

Please cease the sarcasm, the flames, the newbie idiocy, the
condescending yawns, the wax in your ears inaccurate opinions as facts, etc etc ad nauseum. I know what I'm hearing here and it's nothing short of cathartic.

The Beatles changed the world. Remember???? It's not mere nostalgia oldies..... this is our special newsgroup, and we oughta fucking know by now how to share in the aural delight. Take advantage of the rare opportunity: you got good ears, so gimme thoughts! Let's trade observations. But why oh why will this 100% approving post of mine
automatically get attacked by false jokester know-it-alls? What's the point of that?

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This RS in mono (SK1 corrected) is truly wonderful. Dry, simple, in your face, realistic, unadorned, human. But how does it compare with the orig UK mono LP? Same exact mix? And what is this I read somewhere about an alternate stereo Capitol RS LP with extra reverb? An early pressing plant anomaly?

And the 1980's Geo Martin stereo remix: how different is that to this new Capitol US stereo version? I'm in the process now of checking song by song. Great fun. Still seems to be a lot of drastic separation (vocals on the right). I thought GM loathed that L/R "imbalance"??
Wasn't his point to always bring things more to the center (ld vcls, etc)?

HELP! too, is fantastic to rediscover, both stereo AND mono. One can scoff all he wishes about the incidental Ken Thorne stuff - to me, that soundtrack music is absolutely essential in the Fabs' canon. Doesn't matter a whit that it ain't them! It IS them! It's all part of the overall scope of things. Memorized it as a teenager. I was there then. I
am here now. It is grand.

(Did you know Thorne also did sndtrk work on Monkees' Head? And even Magic Christian??)

I'm even enjoying burning new DVD-R's of my Help! Criterion CAV Laserdisc for friends, and am suddenly hearing much much more superb forgotten background score in the film which obviously was NOT on the Capitol LP. Sixties Bond jazz, gorgeous orch strings & lots of Indian touches throughout. Beatles. Remember???

Man oh man, this is all such a trip. Pinch me, please tell me it is NOT 2006 and MariahCareyville!

It takes splendid packages like this boxset to get me right smack dab in the middle of it all again. Decades of rediscovery and re-rediscovery. Bring it on. Historic genius art can only improve with age.

I'm way gushing. And it drives you cybergeeks crazy? Why?

Melt the guns, soldier-
RS moo re
age 54, NJ

BEATLES CAPITOL65BOXED

AM GOING NUTTY CRAZY FRESH ECSTATIC OVER THE NEW BOXSET - ALL ALONE AND PRIVATELY, THANKUVERYYMUCH. THIS IS THE MUSIC THAT OVERPOWERS EVERYTHING ELSE IN MY LONG LIFE -IT WILL NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE. NOTHING COMPARES, THEN AND EVEN NOW. THE BULLSHIT BACK 'N FORTH OPINIONS OVER THE PROS 'N CONS OF 'THE PRODUCT' MAKE ME CRINGE WITH ODOROUS BILE. NEVER HAVE THESE WONDERFUL MID-PERIOD TUNES SOUNDED SO EXPLOSIVE, VIBRANT AND HIGHDECIBEL. IF YOU CAN'T HEAR IT, I DON'T WANNA KNOW YOU!

BREET IGNORES THE BOXSET'S IMPORTANCE, SAID THE HELP! INSTRUMENTALS WERE DUMB AND SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN INCLUDED. AND HE HAS NO USE FOR 'THE EARLY BEATLES' ALBUM.

WRONG WRONG LORDYMAMA OH SO VERY WRONG.

BREAKS MY FUCKING HEART THAT I'M NOT ABLE TO SHARE IT ALL WITH ANYONE RIGHT NOW. CAN YOU IMAGINE: THE LEGEND RSTEVIE'S GOT ZERO FRIENDS????

Twin Logb (Doublemince words?)

Dear adult friends, just to let you know of our other SISTER BLOG for when you might have too much frog time on your hands for this little new one right here. Slog. Someday very soon, both brother and sister will have a-plenty good cerebral shit to cram down yer greasy throat! Cloggers, take notes! Say we put both bloogs together? Or would you prefer each retain their separate identities? Glog. As long as the world preserves its organically eternal LINKAGE. Flog the Plog, dog.

Ist Or Mas

Friday April 23, 1976: the 8 minute drone instrumental IST OR MAS was recorded 30 years ago today, a day before Uncle Harry Palmer visited Nashville from NJ to finalize the PHONOGRAPHY album project. Its melancholy aquatic style lead it to be subtitled "Lochness". Originally appearing on the 7 inch tape reel "Instrumentality", IOM later was chosen as the B-side of the vinyl 12" 45 e.p. "STANCE". It has long been considered one of Moore's all-time classics.

Happy hippie anniversary.

POST ONE: mind of a teen, body of a grampa

quiet, class. it's time to begin the beguine. take your seats. today's lesson is called Stop the Growth. it won't get you anywhere. don't be fooled by the myths. strive to reach your eventual destination, but beware speeding off the course. middle-age brings you nothing more than regretfully wishing you could turn back a year, 5 years, 20 years. mark my words, this is indeed what happens. so stress that pregnant pause button NOW, cease the hands of the clock, don't you dare move forward. do absolutely nothing, and it will reward you similarly. you'll thank me later.