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John

5 (22.7%)

Paul

4 (18.2%)

George

6 (27.3%)

Ringo

4 (18.2%)

Other (specify)

3 (13.6%)

Total Members Voted: 21

[greenkoolayd]

what i like most about the fab four is that they made acceptible, music that rocked pretty hard, but at the same, was catchy and fun and palatable to different peer groups.  even now, a lot of young people share a love, or even an enjoyment of the tunes of those dudes with their parents.

[theinevitable]

"Helter Skelter" is still abrasive enough that my mom asks me to go to the next song.

and Revolution #9.
and"Happiness is a Warm Gun" is so weird...

Damn, John's songs on that album are so fuck*ng awesome and weird.

[jaydub]

To me the Beatles were kind of "there", somehow... But never really got around to really know what I'm talking about when I talk about the Beatles. They were kind of like Radiohead back then is that right?

According to Bono, they were the U2 of their time.

[miles]

Heh, and to Chris Martin...

[KeithHernandez]

mono remasters are tits, looking forward to checking out stereo.

since they are rich as fuck i can post the rapidshare links if it is cool or wanted?

[Mr Trout]

Did anyone else read the Onion AV review by Klosterman? Amazingly funny stuff: http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560/

Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes.

[miles]

mono remasters are tits, looking forward to checking out stereo.

I have a question for any audiophiles here. What is the benefit of mono over stereo? I know that most Beatles albums were originally mono mixes so is it just preserving the original mix or is there another reason to prefer mono over stereo?

[Choop]

i can't stand klosterman. he's ironic and apathetic and complains about people who are ironic and apathetic. which is ironic, and i don't fuck*ng care. he's a hipster and he hates himself, or he should because he hates hipsters, and if the editors of esquire keep turning the magazine into Maxim circa '97 then klosterman won't be the only thing i stop reading.


miles, from what i hear, the stereo mixes weren't overseen by any band members or associated producers, but in-house studio producers that arbitrarily decided which tracks went where for the stereo cut. the mono mixes were the ones that epstein and martin and the four actually worked on themselves and called "good." when i was a kid one of my headphones died, and good lord the half of that stereo mix i heard of past masters was just unlistenable.

[miles]

I see. But I imagine these new stereo mixes should be better? Basically I'm trying to decide whether buying both the mono box and the stereo box is even worth considering, or if I should just settle on deciding whether to buy one or the other. I think the mono box doesn't include Abbey Road because that was originally mixed in stereo (I think Let it Be and Yellow Submarine too). Which is kind of obnoxious that they just wouldn't throw the stereo mixes for those albums into the mono box.

[miles]

Did anyone else read the Onion AV review by Klosterman? Amazingly funny stuff: http://www.avclub.com/articles/chuck-klosterman-repeats-the-beatles,32560/

Klosterman kinda bugs me too but the article will be worth it for the replies it inspires. Just scanning the top few there is already one complaining about him calling "Rain" a boring song. It reminds me of this satirical column (like, satire is actually in the subtitle of the column) in the local alternative weekly, and this being Utah it naturally pokes fun at mormons and mormon culture. I really don't enjoy the column at all, except that every once in a while there will be a letter to the editor that's all "Orrin Hatch actually isn't a polygamist in fact the LDS church stopped the practice of polygamy over a century ago you should really check your facts before publishing this garbage" which makes it worth it.

[theinevitable]

I hate Chuck Klosterman. he is not funny.

also he made some statement about Punk Rock, i forget exactly what, that made me very mad.

[Victoria Waterfield]

I see. But I imagine these new stereo mixes should be better? Basically I'm trying to decide whether buying both the mono box and the stereo box is even worth considering, or if I should just settle on deciding whether to buy one or the other. I think the mono box doesn't include Abbey Road because that was originally mixed in stereo (I think Let it Be and Yellow Submarine too). Which is kind of obnoxious that they just wouldn't throw the stereo mixes for those albums into the mono box.

They aren't new mixes, but new masters of the original sixties mixes. They apparently sound much better because the technology to transfer analogue tape to digital has vastly improved since 1987, but they're still the same mixes with the same odd track placement Choopernickel complains about. (Personally, I love the way those sound through headphones, at least when both channels are working.)

[miles]

They aren't new mixes, but new masters of the original sixties mixes.

That's right. I've read some bitching about it not being remixed (and if it was, there'd probably be bitching about that). Anyway, I'll probably end up buying neither. That's a lot of money.

[Victoria Waterfield]

So I'm listening to the remasters this evening (disc two of the mono Past Masters, mono Sgt. Pepper's, stereo Abbey Road, stereo Revolver, and now I think I'll give the stereo Sgt. Pepper a spin), and all I can say is

I THINK MY MY HEART'S EXPLODIN'! THESE REMASTERS!

[linnea]

Ringo was my favorite when I was a kid, probably because he was the littlest and also because he had the rockingest mustache. So I had to vote for Ringo.