Remember earlier this year when Pitchfork felt it necessary to actually review The Beatles' catalog? That was awesome. Is their any other website that could pull off such unfiltered pomposity in feeling they could actually say something new and worthwhile about The Beatles that nobody else had thought of in the past 40+ years? Just think, mankind once spent decades wandering the wasteland of a perplexing...
Number 7 - Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly Recorded in 1957, I first heard Buddy Holly on our old transistor radio tuned in to Radio Luxembourg before we left London. One of the early pioneers of the new rock and roll, he performed in 1955 with Elvis and Bill Haley. These influences contributed to him adapting to a more rockabilly style typified by his first hit That'll Be The Day earlier in 1957. Unlike...
The psychedelic trilogy -- Revolver , Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour -- stands as the artistic peak of a band that had retreated into the studio and found untold riches there. Revolver (1966) When they released their seventh album in August of 1966, the Beatles were distinctly restless. The rosy patina of Beatlemania was dulled, but its attendant expectations still weighed them down. Though their...
From December 1964 to December 1965 -- re-meet the Beatles as they made the transition from the world's best bar band to the forerunners of folk-rock. Has any band ever had such an astoundingly productive 12-months? Beatles for Sale (1964) Steve Earle was once asked what his “desert island pick” would be. “We're assuming I have a way to play records on the island'” he began...
TrackLists : 1. Please Please Me 2. With The Beatles 3. A Hard Day’s Night 4. Beatles For Sale 5. Help! 6. Rubber Soul 7. Revolver 8. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 9. The Beatles (The White Album) – 2 CD 10. Yellow Submarine 11. Abbey Road 12. Let It Be 13. Magical Mystery Tour 14. Past Masters – 2 CD Download : Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/284718208/Beatles2009.part1.rar...
EMI has confirmed that it is suing US digital music store BlueBeat for copyright infringement, following news broken by Music Ally last week that it was selling Beatles albums as MP3s without a licence. However, intriguingly, EMI has also announced plans for the first ever legitimate digital distribution of the Beatles back catalogue - via apple-shaped USB drives.
Every time Apple holds a new event, the speculation begins: will this announcement be the one in which The Beatles' music (legally) comes to the Internet? But it turns out that Apple was beaten to the punch by BlueBeat.com, which on October 30 began streaming unlimited plays from The Beatles' catalog (including the new remastered albums) and selling tracks for a quarter each. It's at this point that...
After that temporary hiatus, caused by my stereo breaking, and the CD drive in my computer breaking, and my external CD drive breaking, and my replacement stereo and replacement external CD drive breaking, which lesser men would have taken as a sign not to bother continuing with my inexplicably-mildly-popular series of reviews, I’m continuing with [...]
When is selling 595,000 copies of a game in three weeks a disappointment? When it’s the Beatles edition of Rock Band. The sales make it the third best-selling game of September, beating out fellow debutante Guitar Hero 5, which just fell short of the 500,000. The Beatles game was up in second place for total revenue [...] Related posts: The Beatles go digital with Rock Band-type video game Beatles...
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons - Vladimir Ashkenazy. Your choice: download September, October and November at iTunes or buy the whole damn collection. Glazunov: The Seasons - The autumn bacchanale awaits just around the corner. Autumn - George Winston. I keep recommending it for a reason. Má Vlast - Smetana. You'll see a dark river flowing through the fall forest. Honest. The Chill of an Early Fall...
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Help! - The Beatles ( Parlophone 1965, George Martin) Help! will always been an intriguing entry in the Beatles back catalogue. This album is so very important in so many different ways, and yet it is so oft overlooked for many of the same reason that make it so important in the first place. First of all, this was the last of the Beatles conventional pop records, this was the end of their power pop...
Daveportivo's Cultural EvaluationFacility (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Beatles For Sale - The Beatles ( Parlophone 1964, George Martin) So the Beatles forth album and their second of 1964 is without doubt their most frustrating. Listening to it now you can't help but feel that this was one of the biggest lost opportunities in music history. Reviewing these albums in order it's clear that Beatles For Sale was one giant step back, an undoubted throwaway. It's a real shame...
Capitol Records butchered the Beatles' recordings in the US until the group insisted "Sgt. Pepper's" could not be tampered with... With all the chatter about the Beatles, I offer you my own version of an ideal Beatles Compliation CD 1 - Cry For A Shadow (inst.) I wouldn't bother forcing anyone to listen to any of The Beatles old DECCA UK recordings, because they suck, especially "My...
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