the Beatles: Abbey Road

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  • willbarclay
    willbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298

    Im also interested in this.

    I loved the White Album anniversary release.

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    willbarclay said:

    Im also interested in this.

    I loved the White Album anniversary release.

    Sgt Peppers 2017 mix blew me away, more than White Album last year.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • willbarclay
    willbarclay Ottawa, Canada Posts: 3,298
    I just really liked the White album release for all the extras. Demos and such. It just had a lot more than the Sgt Peppers release
  • Horos
    Horos Posts: 4,518
    I've heard a few cuts on the Beatles XM channel. An organ heavy I Want You(She's So Heavy) was really good. Looking forward to hearing more.
    #FHP
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Mr negativity Anthony Fantano did a review on YouTube, he said the only thing that is different is it is louder, more compressed.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Mr negativity Anthony Fantano did a review on YouTube, he said the only thing that is different is it is louder, more compressed.
    Nope, lots of differences.. fun to pick out... and if you really want a great listen.. get the set with the Blu-ray.
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,439
    edited October 2019
    I Want You (She's so heavy) is one of my all time favorite songs. I love the guitar mixed with the synth. Side B is amazing, but Side A has Harrison's best song ever, Something, and the great songs Come Together and Oh Darling. Briefly listened to the new mix last week, but need to give it a full spin. Probably do that tomorrow on the way to work.

    I doubt it will match the White Album release quality for me. That one was amazing. Plus those Esher demos.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    MedozK said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    Mr negativity Anthony Fantano did a review on YouTube, he said the only thing that is different is it is louder, more compressed.
    Nope, lots of differences.. fun to pick out... and if you really want a great listen.. get the set with the Blu-ray.
    What is on the blu ray?
    I kind of cannot afford it now, just the standard single CD will do.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    tbergs said:
    I Want You (She's so heavy) is one of my all time favorite songs. I love the guitar mixed with the synth. Side B is amazing, but Side A has Harrison's best song ever, Something, and the great songs Come Together and Oh Darling. Briefly listened to the new mix last week, but need to give it a full spin. Probably do that tomorrow on the way to work.

    I doubt it will match the White Album release quality for me. That one was amazing. Plus those Esher demos.
    Here comes the sun makes me cry almost every time.
    Yeah I love I Want You (She's so heavy) and Oh Darling.
    I also really love Because. 
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  • ComeToTX
    ComeToTX Austin Posts: 8,071
    i wish i had had the string/instrumental version of Something for my wedding.  would had been cool to have my wife walk down the aisle to that.
    This show, another show, a show here and a show there.
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    DOSW said:
    I think Magical Mystery Tour is a better album than Abbey Road...
    Not sure if it's a better album but it does have the better singles. I love 1967 Beatles!
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    Cropduster84 said:
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Maxwells Silver Hammer is still a million times better than Octopus Garden

    At least Octopus' Garden KNOWS its a bit shit.....

    I love Macca's earlier Beatles stuff, but not the later stuff.....

    Sgt. Pepper is very overated....and im a HUGE Beatles fan.....
    I've recently grown to reappreciate Sgt. Pepper. I too was a bit down on it (probably due to its lack of great singles) but it really works well as a whole - even Paul's "granny songs!"
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    willbarclay said:

    Im also interested in this.

    I loved the White Album anniversary release.

    Sgt Peppers 2017 mix blew me away, more than White Album last year.
    It's really good. Nice that the vocals a "centered" in the new stereo mixes.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,995
    rummy said:
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    willbarclay said:

    Im also interested in this.

    I loved the White Album anniversary release.

    Sgt Peppers 2017 mix blew me away, more than White Album last year.
    It's really good. Nice that the vocals a "centered" in the new stereo mixes.
    Amen. That's what I liked most about all three of these remixed albums. They actually did this in 1999 when they remixed the songs on Yellow Submarine. For example, on that record, they centered the lead vocal on Elanor Rigby. I don't know how in the hell they didn't have it centered before. So with these recent anniversary releases, it was great to hear songs like Mr. Kite with the vocals centered. Now I don't have to listen to it in Mono (which is what I've always done with Beatles songs that didn't have the lead vocal centered).

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Yes, I love this mix. Listened to it last night and today.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • rummy
    rummy British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,466
    I'm hoping they (Giles Martin & Co.) get around to doing a few more reissues...maybe take a year or two off with Peter Jackson's Let It Be/Get Back film coming out and then start thinking about 60th anniversaries for the earlier albums...or better still, do a proper Beatles UK Singles release (US version, too?) where they put together all of the A-Sides and B-Sides in one two-disc (or 4-LP) set.
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,332
    edited October 2019
    Abbey Road is amazing.  I still remember the first time I heard "I Want You"...the way that song trails off and then fades back in still blows my mind.  

    "Something" might be the greatest love song ever written.

    Side Two is just perfect.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I love Because. 
    Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry.
    Far out John was such an awesome songwriter. 

    I learned how to play that lead part in 'I want you' that copies the way it is sung. It is easy and fun.
    I just don't know how to play those chords. Had a look on Youtube, it seems hard.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    As a depression sufferer, Here Comes The Sun hits my heart.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    edited October 2019
    Thoughts_Arrive said:
    I love Because. 
    Because the sky is blue, it makes me cry.
    Far out John was such an awesome songwriter. 

    I learned how to play that lead part in 'I want you' that copies the way it is sung. It is easy and fun.
    I just don't know how to play those chords. Had a look on Youtube, it seems hard.
    That repeated d minor walk can be a little twisty but not too bad and the chords that counter the lead that follows the vocal is dead simple.

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