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Was in upstate NY this weekend, saw a Joe Cocker and Huey Lewis show at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (site of the original Woodstock festival but very high-end now), shopped in antique barns and record shops with my teenaged daughter (a new Joe Cocker fan), found:
A scuffed but very listenable Meet the Beatles!, the 1964 U.S. original Capitol mono (with the original sleeve, no less), and:
A very clean 1970 U.S. original Let It Be. (My daughter found this one in the bins.)
Very appropriate, since Cocker sang Come Together and With A Little Help From My Friends.
I don't care what you Parlophone/Vee-Jay/Please Please Me/Abbey Road/Beatles experts say, these will always be the first and last Beatles albums for me.
But I clearly remember listening to the 1988 Please Please Me CD for the first time and realizing how cr@ppy the sound was on the early U.S. Capitol Beatles LPs.
Edits: 08/07/12Follow Ups:
NT
On the original silver CD release explains exactly what's wrong with Redbook CD. It embodies the digital hash and earsplitting harshness that can ruin Redbook CD.I'm not saying that all Redbook CDs suck because some of the original AAD discs were great. Some ADD and some DDD discs are also fine. Its just the terrible harshness that can exist on Redbook and the subsequent loudness wars made them the problem medium they turned out to be.
Its a shame so many a$$holes have to ruin the potential of a new musical medium but we have what we have. Now thats its a forgotton medium there are more likely a larger number of quality releases.
I don't care because I stopped buying silver discs almost 20 years ago. Hell...a similar story is behind SACD and DVD-A. Too many people don't care about quality and produce the crap that they do to make a buck.
Nothing changes. Caveat emptor.
Forget all of the above. The reason so many people seek out the original Parlephone's and Apple pressings is true. They are very high quality and worth what is charged for them.
Try one...you'll understand.
Ed
We don't shush around here!
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof
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No doubt -- I wasn't putting down the Parlophone issues at all, I'm sure they're worth the big money they command, it's just that the American Capitol issues have great sentimental value for me.
IMHO, beginning in 1965, the American Beatles LPs began to sound much better. Maybe George Martin and the Beatles themselves found out about the low quality of their American product and demanded better.
I thought the late 80s CDs were good and the recent ones even better, though none of them are what would ordinarily be considered "audiophile" quality, again IMO. A Hard Day's Night sounds pretty bad in every version I've heard.
Were the later apple pressings of these iconic albums any better ? Norm
Meet the Beatles is arguably a Top 5 all time US debut album. The term iconic doesn't even begin to explain it.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
issued in the US. Sure it's a compilation of records previously released in the UK but it had a huge impact, not just in '64, but on the future music listening taste of several generations. My cousins copy at the time was a life changer for this 10 year old in '64.
And everyone remembers that great cover photo.
one used on the Beatles second UK release "With The Beatles". It wasn't until the release of the blue box that I knew its history.
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