I can see why they don't want to release the Decca audition. The songs are so lacklustre, and not representative of them as a band. Compare it to Live at the Star Club, which has such urgency.
As a older man, I can see the younger generations quickly removing things like physical records, etc., from their needs...all electronic now - pull up the clip and on your way...my generation, or yours, may be the final ones to care about physical mediums and collections. Very nice work on this...but I didn't expect anything less!
I can totally understand why you would think that, it is certainly the case with a lot of young people. However, I am 26 and all my friends and social circle all love vinyl. I also play in bands and cassettes are actually hugely popular in younger underground/art circles. I’m a huge Beatles fanatic and have been all my life. From my point of view, I can see that the Beatles are still very relevant to young people and that physical media is still quite popular.
Wym it was your generation that switched everything from vinyl to digital in the first place, choosing convenience over quality which is typical of Boomers
24 year old here and I love collecting CDs and Vinyl. There’s a few of us left but it’s definitely rare amongst my generation. I think it’s lost amongst people younger than me. I was the last generation who remembers having to buy CDs as a kid. Honestly I liked it so much better because people had different collections which just led to more eclectic listening. Now everyone just streams and half the time they’re streaming the same like 10 artists as everyone else
@@aunch3dude I assume I’m like around your age and I gotta tell ya not to act like that. Technology improved and that’s why that happened. You’d have done the same thing if you were in their shoes. Also why blame an entire generation when it was just a select few ppl who invented iTunes Spotify and all of that. Plus those things were invented as a solution to online piracy.
Interesting ranking of our poll. The thing to keep in mind, that in each album, there is also Era Singles/EPS , so for instance, Rubber Soul, we are also getting outtakes of Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, and the unreleased 12-Bar Original, plus the alternate versions of This Bird Has Flown & I’m Looking Through You. For Beatles For Sale, there’s the sessions for I Feel Fine & She’s A Woman, plus the songs, Leave My Kitten Alone & You Know What To Do. All you have to do is consult The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions book by Mark Lewinsohn and see the sessionography for those albums.
I wish there was a new cut of the "Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years" film. They really missed the mark with that in the effort, and from what I understand a TON of stuff left on the cutting room floor. Plus I thought things like interviewing current celebs to try to make it relevant to today a dorky move. Not sure if it was Ron Howard who dropped the ball, or Apple giving direction and ignoring the current fan base to try to sell the Beatles to the casual fans by making it a "Beatles lite" film.
I was quite lucky to purchase an official copy on VHS when it came out in 1982. Malcolm McDowell was the perfect choice of narrator for it. A shame what Paul did to take it out of circulation, but there you go !
I'd love to see a box that covers the period after Sgt. Pepper but before they went to India. (The White Album box covered the Lady Madonna-era sessions, but in a very limited way.) IIRC, they were in the studio a lot but weren't necessarily working on a specific project. The songs ended up being spread across Magical Mystery Tour, the Yellow Submarine album, and various singles, and many weren't completed at that time (like Across the Universe). But I'd love to see them packaged together. I think that would work great.
I never cared for that stuff being on the White Album box set. They had plenty of room for other things missing from the WA sessions and somehow it was thought putting stuff on there from earlier in '68 was a better idea. The problem is none of that stuff has anything to do with the WA
I agree. Post Sgt Pepper the Beatles were riding a wave of popularity and spent the summer of 1967 garnering praises from everyone from Rolling Stone to Time Magazine. John brings Yoko in the studio for the first time in September, 1967. They record his most bizarre song "I am the Walrus". Paul is busy with MMT tunes. I find it interesting that after Brian's death, all decorum seems to go out the building. They hold the Lady Madanna and Bulldog session in February 1968. Incdentially, Bob Dylan's "John Wesley Harding" is released during the last week of 1967, and the Beatles were never the same.
Excellent video, as always. My main gripe about Apple is that whatever timetable they might be following (if any) for their releases, they seem to show not the slightest consideration for us first-generation fans who, after all, were the ones who gave the Beatles their first taste of success during those all-important early years of 1963 and '64. I am a 70 year-old first generation fan whose hearing and health are certainly not improving with each passing year. I yearn for deluxe box set releases of all the early albums...the ones that take me back to that innocent period of the mid-1960s. But there is no guarantee I will ever see or hear those releases in my lifetime...or that I'll still be in control of my mental and physical faculties even if they are released before I die. I can only say how thankful I am that I've been able to afford and acquire some really elaborate, high-quality bootleg sets that address much of what fans are begging for. Apple could learn SO much about what we want if only they would look at what has already been released without their consent or participation. It's kind of sad (for them) that they're not making a dime off any of it.
Great point about first generation fans. It seems that Apple should take care of those fans first. It's ok to release multiple releases per year as well.
The Let It Be super deluxe box could have been so much better, if they had included songs like Suzy Parker, Commonwealth, Get Back ( sung in German ) the list goes on.
@@Tom-hk6ub Oh, I KNOW - I hate that version. I've gotten bootlegs with "Dig It" on it and it turned out to be Heather. Just hated it. The good version is on the Glyn Johns mix (disc 4) of the box
Also think the Let It Be movie should be reissued, on DVD and Blu-ray. Besides the 1965 Shea Stadium concert, the 1966 Tokyo Shows and '64 and '65 Hollywood Bowl Shows could also be released. Could also see a DVD of the Beatles Press Conferences between '64 through '66. Surprised it wasn't mentioned for CD release, the September 1969 Apple meeting between John, Paul and George, which John recorded for Ringo's benefit. Could also see a Beatles "Oldies" CD release of songs by others, which they played around with in January 1969. Thanks, Matt, for reaching out to your viewers and asking us about things Beatles related!
How about a "Beatles Live Anthology" with Star Club, Sullivan performances, Washington DC '64 concert, Hollywood Bowl & Shea Stadium re-done with the crowd minimized, Japan (Budokan) and the rooftop without the cuts to the street. It could be done as a deluxe box with records, CD's and Bluray......now there's a nice package!
I’ve kind of made my own “box set” along these lines with all of the performances you listed, plus Sweden 1963 and Australia 1964. When I saw Eight Days a Week in the theater, they showed a restored Shea Stadium film following the movie. It looked and sounded spectacular! So disappointed that this hasn’t been officially released yet on Blu-ray.
I agree, but I'm not sure about "the crowd minimized". One of the most electrifying experiences I have had listening to Beatles music is listening to the original rough mono of Hollywood Bowl '64. It's pure adrenalin. Listen to what George Martin made of it on the official release: it's sterile. Eliminating or reducing the crowd noise (at least with conventional technology) introduces all sorts of artifacts and changes to the sound of the music. The original 3-track line recording captures the music in all its power, and still you have that live feeling of tenthousands of teenagers dragging you into their shared experience of pure rapture. Priceless.
20:55 The Compleat Beatles is an underrated doc. Really great interviews by Gerry Marsden and others of the period providing some actual context of where the Beatles came from. There are a lot (A LOT) of crappy Beatles documentaries out there with like stock music recorded in the 90s (but in the 60s style so it sounds bad because Casio keyboard)... I'm thinking mostly the one with Alf (their driver) standing around and mumbling about how John ask him to drive him somewhere, but as far as documentaries that the Beatles themselves don't really appear in, Compleat is one of the best. Malcom McDowell narrates and does a good job, there's actual clips of the music, and all around it's just a solid doc.
As a kid I had The Compleat Beatles on LaserDisc and watched it countless times. It's probably what made me a big fan. I think it's fantastic. McCartney owns it. He bought it at the time of the Anthology so there wouldn't be a competing project in print.
I LOVE The Compleat Beatles, as well, and have also seen it countless times, including within the past few months. I still have my original large box vhs version i bought in the late '80s. I also bought a very good quality bootleg dvd online a few years ago that's still available. I'm actually quite surprised that Matt doesn't know that MPL (or Apple?) bought the rights during the production of Anthology.
I missed the original poll, but I’d like to see the Washington concert get the Peter Jackson AI treatment and also a full demixing of the original Star Club tapes.
Hi Robb, the clamour for a 'fixed' Star Club Tapes grows ever more insistent however, I'm not one who's calling for that. I'm more than happy with the decent quality double album of it that I have on the German Bellaphon label because I don't play it often and have it filed, mentally, as an inessential curio. That doesn't mean I'm right of course, but I can't get excited by an Apple release of the recording.
Yes, BFS has some of my favorite tracks like Every Little Thing, What You’re Doing, Spoil the Party, Follow the Sun, etc. I really don’t see why this album ranks so low on most people’s list. Even the much maligned Mr. Moonlight has stunning vocals which make it a great listen.
Beatlemania used to be such a well-taken care of fandom, but boy have they fell off the wagon- i want ALL of these items to come out while I can still enjoy them!!! Thanks Matt for all you do. 🎉🎉
The Beatles at Shea Stadium. If I'd thought about that at the time I took the survey, I would put it in the comments. So, yeah, put me down for that one. It's a great idea as a package with a picture book as Matt suggests. Great Christmas gift for sure! Also, funny thing about the Beatles cartoons. I recall vividly as a kid one time when my parents went shopping in the department store, the Beatles cartoon was on the color TV displays. My dad wouldn't let me sit and watch it 😔. I only ever saw them in black and white on our own TV.
12:35 The entire Shea Stadium gig (essentially the 1 hour movie that had been put together for a limited release in 1966 so the Beatles wouldn't have to put out a 'proper' movie that year) was released in theatres with Ron Howards' Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, cleaned up and everything. It was a theatre exclusive shown after the main documentary I went and saw with my Dad. Kinda criminal that they released that only in theatres 7 years ago. They're sitting on it... in full HD.
I like the Shea Stadium idea. My brother who was a musician had a bootleg copy of it. If I remember right it was a green vynl . I used to listen to that to listen to Help. The bootleg copy was fair sound quality although I was just getting into the Beatles at the time and did not know how to distinguish sound as I was young and in high school.
Let it be has studio performances of at least three songs and that’s why I think people were annoyed with get back that they did not include the studio version of let it be and the long and winding road
One of the mixes he made in 1969 was released on the Let It Be super deluxe. But IIRC, he made a later mix that included Across the Universe (since it was featured in the final cut of the Let It Be film), and I'd love to hear that version.
@@JordanSeal Yea, he did another mix in 1970, as there are two tracks on the "EP" of the Let it Be box-set. To me, there's not a hell of a difference between '69 and '70.
@@JordanSeal I'm not sure which ones it is, but I mean the ones in the youtube playlist of the complete album titled, "BEATLES - GET BACK (GLYN JOHNS MIX)"
My biggest Beatle regret in recent years was not buying the re-released Xmas discs several years ago. The package was $70 and I remember trying to decide if I wanted to spend $70 on it. Now it’s hard to believe I didn’t just buy it right away. I buy all their box sets without giving it a thought. By the time I decided to buy the Xmas discs, they were sold out. I think they were only available for 2 weeks or less. After that they were selling for twice that amount (or more) on Amazon and EBay.
The one thing I want from the Let it Be/Get Back project is a newly edited rooftop session, complete beginning to end, starts, stops, repeats. ALSO there were a whole lot of cameras filming it. While they for sure spent the majority of their time pointed at the Fabs, there simply must be more footage of Billy Preston than what we saw in the original. I would like more BP footage in an expanded, complete rooftop video.
You REALLY need to get to Vegas to see LOVE. The show is great, but sitting in the theater with its killer sound system, especially on nights when the sound techs turn the volume up, is worth the price the admission.
Your right about the Yellow Submarine remix Matt. The version of Eleanor Rigby is phenomenal. I remember Harrison remarking how good it was when it came out.
The Ready Steady Go appearance from 1964 would be a great re-release as it was a fantastic TV performance. Also the Peter Sellers tape rough mixes of White Album tracks that Ringo had given him would have been a great addition to the deluxe White Album box.
I saw Love for the second time in May, after watching the All Together Now documentary. As we drove to Vegas, we listened to the Love soundtrack. I had notes about what got combined, and it was a blast identifying the elements. Wikipedia has details like this: "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" - The medley features the guitar solo from "Taxman" and the horn section from "Savoy Truffle".The Martins said they also remixed keyboards from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and backing vocals from "Helter Skelter" into the track. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter" - The track contains the whole of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", guitars from "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", and heavily delayed vocals from "Helter Skelter". It also includes horse sounds from "Good Morning, Good Morning", harmonium and other elements from "Cry Baby Cry" and laughter from "Piggies". "Strawberry Fields Forever" - This version builds from an acoustic demo to incorporate sections of take 1 of the song (including harmony vocals that were cut from the edit of take 1 issued on the 1996 Anthology 2 compilation) and take 26. At the end of the track, it includes the orchestral section from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", the piano solo from "In My Life", the brass included in "Penny Lane", the cello and harpsichord from "Piggies", and the coda of "Hello, Goodbye". According to author John Winn, part of "I'm Only Sleeping" also appears in the closing mashup. I also wanted to sit where I'd be covered (don't want to give away what happens). The first time I was above the action. I was happy to see the show again with a much better understanding of how it was created. There's a big Beatles store in the hotel. The new Revolver box set was on sale for much more than I paid on the Beatles website. There were lines at the cash registers. Lots of merch gets sold. To anyone planning to go - heavily discounted tickets are readily available.
Just catching up with this after returning from my first ever trip to the USA. Our New York tour guide made the first stop at the Dakota in West 72nd Street, so it was quite overwhelming for me!
14:20 Candlestick Park is near and dear to my heart because my Dad grew up in the Bay Area and while my aunt, who was 2 years older than my Dad, got to go, my grandma wouldn't let my then-12-year-old Dad go. And of course she said "they'll be back next year!" It's a minor point of contention in our family. :3 I believe my grandma apologized to my Dad later... In all honesty, my aunt told me it was like listening to a transistor radio about ten feet away and if you looked through your binoculars, there definitely were some Beatles down there... The show was taped on a cassette tape (when the format was in its infancy and used primarily for dictation) recorded at Paul's feet. Because Paul had the only tape, he had to have been the one to have slipped it out as a boot. It sounds lo-fi (I wouldn't say "awful" because I'm too much of a nerd to turn away lo-fi) and John and George really don't want to be there, but I've played around with MoisesAI (my more humble Peter Jackson-style audio robot) with it and gotten some neat results. "If I Needed Someone" is the best track.
Being old,, ( 69 ) I am also old fashioned. I see nothing wrong with the Beatles albums the way they were made back in the 60s . WHY CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT IT ! ! ! ! I also love the out takes they have. But in my opinion it was a better time in history then today, if it's quiet in my house and I listen to a Beatle record it can bring me RIGHT BACK IN TIME TO THOSE DAYS IN MY HEAD ! I don't want or need to change the old days .. THANK YOU FRANK FROM MONTANA...........
Nice segment. Really enjoyed the rundown of the survey results and the various possibilities of the different kinds of material that could be released. Actually motivated me to go out on a limb and to subscribe to the PATREON channel. First time doing that. However, have greatly enjoyed the content on this channel.
I yearn for MMT's outtakes: Jessie's Dream, Shirley's Wild Accordion, Ivor Cutler's song, the Bonzos' song. / It'd be nice to have a DVD with Beatles' TV interviews. / The October 1969 audio tape of the meeting of 3 Beatles. / Paul's Thingumybob.
Expanding on something you mentioned in passing - a boxed set of pre-EMI Beatles recordings - there's the full Decca tapes, the Cavern Club rehearsals, the full 1960 home recordings, In Spite of All The Danger and That'll Be The Day (cleaned up with Peter Jackson's AI) and throw in the Star Club as a bonus. I'd buy that!
I think a 2 hour version - okay, make 2 and a half - of Get Back would make so much more sense, than a director's cut. I know plenty of people who aren't hard-core fans and will not sit through seven hours of band practice, but otherwise would be very interested in the story. ...okay, 3 hours 🙂
Why not both? I have friends who'd like a shorter cut, but I want every inch of tape or video I can have. A little obsessed, but it's a good addiction! 💙🎶🎶💿🎥🎸📯🎛🎶🎺💰💰💰
Great point about more music from Get Back. You did a great video on 10 George songs that we’re introduced during the sessions. I would have liked to have heard those on the 50th issue.
Hello Matt . My interest is for a double archive of Please Please me and With the Beatles . Grab whatever quality out takes available , rare live takes too . This period is not recognized , Lennon ruled the office , and it was a rich harvest .
The demo and outtakes of recordings are amazing to hear. You really get a sense of their creative process, and who was more dominant in the sessions--McCartney to the front on that. Beatles live at the Hollywood Bowl (the two years different years they performed) came out as a record in 1977 I believe. Sound not all that great as George Martin said in liner notes but did give you a sense of their live shows but Shea would be great on its own. Tokyo clips show how much you can hear the music, without the shouting as you mentioned. The Complete Beatles, narrated by Malcom McDowell, was interesting if half the story. A bit of a precursor to original "Let it Be." You left watching it with a sense of the Beatle image not so polished.
Thanks for the insight and results of this poll. I don't think it's any surprise that a box set of Rubber Soul had come out on top. I think that Apple/Beatles are thinking more along the lines that as there hasn't been a compilation album for more than 20 years that this is a good time for a new one. We have to accept that every now and then, no pun intended, there has to be a compilation release in order to make money and keep The Beatles alive, something that box sets don't do.
I take it you're referring to the vinyl edition. I had them all (bought them individually for about 20 to 25 a piece) and was idiot enough to SELL my Sgt pepper after thinking I didn't need it anymore because of the remix. Homer Simpson never had a D'OH like this.
I think having been in a studio four times myself and a lot of the recent film releases of The Beatles in the studio and also watching a two part documentary on Roku TV "A-Z" which was not the best quality but it was basically a chronological record of events from their childhood up to the final official break up of the band. And seeing that and within that for the first time seeing interviews of studio technicians talking about the "Sergeant Pepper" sessions (and a few photo shots of The Beatles working on that album) I think a compilation of studio films of that more experimental mid period (or what I call that) "Help up to Magical Mystery Tour" would be something I would watch. And maybe something like that is already available? A shame the Christmas Club recordings are no longer available. I no longer collect vinyl so they would have to be in digital format for me anyway if they were still available. I also agree that press conferences and interviews would be interesting films to release. They were very entertaining in that medium. Especially when they were dealing with difficult interviews and their sarcastic natures served them in good stead. John's sharp wit was especially helpful in that regard. Some of that was also in that "A-Z" documentary. It's free on Roku so I thought, "What the hell..." ;-)
They released the MMT film in a box set in 2013 with the standard mixes of the songs on vinyl. This was incredibly boneheaded, considering the entire soundtrack was remixed on the released Blu-ray. Would including a CD of those new remixes have been so hard? Also, I'd love to see the original Let It Be film released in a box set with the rooftop concert on CD and a bonus feature of the rooftop concert with no on the street footage interjected into it.
Thanks for doing this survey for us! I agree with you that they could do multiple releases in a year, not everything has to be a lavish box set. Personally I don't need all the trinkets give me the music, and a book (with text) and a DVD, something all of these box sets have gotten away from, I have a feeling (a feeling g deep inside) that they wanna milk everything they have, so we have something for the 75th year anniversary of these albums, if any of us our still around lol.
I don't know Matt, I want Anthology 4. I love the vault stuff! I didi pick up a great Rubber Soul Sessions cd from CDJapan. Thanks for the rundown of the Beatles survey. Be safe in Chicago!
I don’t think they need to include the movies in the sets with the albums. I do think however Help! needs a new film restoration. There is a blu-ray for it but it does not hold up very well. I would love to see Criterion take a crack at it since they’ve done a great job with A Hard Day’s Night.
The Criterion Hard Day's Night is excellent. I found it in a thrift shop, still shrink-wrapped, for two dollars. It's a treasure. I'd love a Criterion Help!
The Compleat Beatles was distributed by MGM and released on video tape and laserdisc by MGM UA in the eighties. I watched it when it was new on videotape and really enjoyed it.
Both "Let It Be...Naked" and the 50th anniversary box of "Let It Be" were 'missed oopprtunities'. A LOT more stuff could have gone on both. "Suzy Parker"/"Suzi's Parlour" is an obvious omission that I love. And, yes, they could have included "...Naked" within the 50th box set. I'd also be in favour of a "Love Mk II" mash-up of Beatles' songs. "Love" is one of my most-played Beatle albums as both the remixing and the mash-up elements are superb.
I would think that they are already working on separating and remixing all the albums for which they have not already done so. I would kinda expect that Paul would want to have all those mono releases stereo-ized and remixed as one of the last truly valuable Beatles milestones left before his time here is done. I can understand them remixing the red and blue albums so that they have somewhere to put Now and Then, another of the last interesting and relevant Beatles issues to resolve
I like very much the George Martin orchestration of the Magical Mystery Tour album as for one thing it is of the time and for me has the atmosphere of 1967/1968 and the psychedelic era ❤️🤘🇬🇧
16:07 That would actually be interesting... I do have the book, which is essentially transcripts of the interviews, and there's a lot of things they said that didn't make it into the final cut. Nothing super revelatory, mind you, but still, it'd be neat. It would also be cool if Anthology was re-taken with the little bit more of hindsight we have now--like, for instance, adding in other Harrison interviews that happened earlier or later and maybe cutting in some new interviews with Paul and Ringo. It'd be a little weird to see 50 years of Beatles talking about... the Beatles, but if you want to go all out and do The Beatles Anthology II: The Return of the Son of the Anthology, that'd be the way to do it. With Anthology (assuming you'd want to preserve and expand the 1995 cut) and any of the archival footage that would've been shot for TV, it's a different problem of trying a robot's hand (AI) at upscaling the picture for HD. The tech is getting better for that all the time, but I think Apple's hesitant about that because it's not nearly as straightforward as just scanning an old film with a really really good scanner and POOF, HD!
Also, wanted to kindly add, I’m 28 yrs old now, been a big fan since I was 11, started seriously collecting there records when i was 18, as I working and earning my own money, parents did help get a few things along the way, and Christmas and birthday gifts as well from them. When I hear you mention the possibility of “aging out” and The Beatles going down in popularity or concern for newer generations of music listeners does bother me, I know there’s a ton of fans young and of course older everywhere, but I’ve found it hard finding people that like them and all the rest of the great bands and artists from that time period. It’s sad I feel, i appreciate stuff like this and the advances that Apple has made and everyone involved with new big releases over the recent years to try and help keep them mainstream and keep them relevant in todays time. I’m all for these potential physical releases, i appreciate and enjoy archival stuff, and the Beatles are number one for me, I don’t think I would seek everything out either, but of course all the essential stuff yes, and stuff that makes sense and if it’s interesting/different and significant, yes, all for it.
I'm always glad to hear younger generations being interested in older music. For example, the viewers in your age group that watch my channel (ages 25-34) make up only 3.8% of my viewers, so with regard to my channel, you are in a small group. I suspect the Beatles and 60s music in general will become niche markets like jazz is today. But maybe your generation will keep it alive.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thank you for commenting back, Matt. It means a lot, I do try my best to kindly suggest The Beatles and other amazing acts from the time period to others in my age group, I know it’s not right to try and force things on others, but always kindly suggest. I’m open to a lot of different music from all across the different periods. Jazz is something I’m getting curious about, I feel that it is definitely an acquired taste, but I respect a lot of the great jazz musicians. Question.? I’m sure you catch most comments, but did you by chance see the one I made a little while ago in regards to the Beatles staying together for a couple more years and possibly putting another album out or two and them also giving the fans one last proper tour before ending things and breaking up.? What are your thoughts on that idea.? Cheers friend
@@quinnspears3135 In a perfect world, well my perfect world anyway, I would have had the Beatles break up amicably at the end of 1970 (releasing an album or two during that year) and then do a final show at the Concert For Bangla Desh.
Not a bad way to end it either. I’m always greedy and wishing for more, but looking at things and the history, perhaps the fact that they did end it when they did, creative wise they left on a high note, and with a perfect or almost perfect body of work that isn’t tarnished. A lot of groups kept going and going and the creative sparks wained for certain bands. I’m at least glad the Beatles didn’t experience that. But certainly could’ve had a last big show or set of shows and maybe another album or two. That definitely wouldn’t have hurt there reputation. I love there early individual solo works too, it would’ve been interesting to here some of those solo songs as possible Beatle tunes. These conversations and what if scenarios can keep on going can’t they.? LOL 😂
Greetings Matt ✌️ One album that Apple should release IMO is Every Song The Beatles Gave Away -With artists like Peter & Gordon, Cilla Black, Jackie Lomax, and many Others, I have this on a bootleg CD and Im sure this would be a big seller (if done right.)
Hey Matt, hope your doing good my friend, I’ve been enjoying your videos a lot recently, would you consider showing your Beatles record collection at some point soon.? I know that can be an undertaking, but I’m curious.! I Enjoyed taking part in this survey
Not that’s it commercially savvy, but I’d like to have this as a one disc album: Side A: Now and Then 12 Bar Original (full length) Revolution 1 (take 20) Side B: Flying (full length) Carnival of Light
Yellow Sub Songtrack really was THE one that had a "OMG" moment to it. The work done to eliminate all the reduction mixes and get back every track to be individually mixed was brilliant. "It's All Too Much" went from a compressed traffic jam to a clear, wonderfully layered, track. THey didn't go too far. They went just far enough and is the album I feel they had their finger on the pulse of the fanbase.
9:09 Let It Be Naked came out in 2003... so almost 20 years before the big box set. From my understanding Let It Be Naked only exists because George (this being one of the last Beatle projects he had anything personally to do with) and Paul (especially Paul) wanted an alternative remix out that was de-Spector-ized but also polished without any studio chatter. The trouble is, I think Paul's philosophy about that album and that time has changed since the early-2000s (I believe him and Ringo were genuinely surprised at how they'd been made to believe Let It Be was an unhappy time because of how long it took to get out with them breaking up in the meantime and also Michael Lindsey-Hogg's somewhat manipulative editing)... so I really doubt Naked is going to come out again. As for restoration work on Let It Be being done back in 2004... I have a feeling they'd have to do it all over again. HD was not very common in 2004 and we've gotten far and again a lot better at restoring old film. I think that and the fact that the Let It Be movie probably represents something of a lie to the Beatle camp now makes it less than likely to come out. Then again, perhaps they did go in and recut the film with the restored upgraded footage... and they're sitting on that too.
With the new technology I would love a good live box set.all diiferent years culminating on the roof top performance but really live without enhacements.
I believed the reason we weren't treated to the studio performances (i.e. the music videos of 'Let It Be' 'Two of Us' and "Long & Winding Rd") in their finished entirety in Peter Jackson's Get Back was because they were setting that up for a Let It Be film reissue, only to have them deny it to us yet again. I wonder if the film was edited and restored again since the 2003 one that was aborted
Based on your video, what about ‘The Beatles on 78’ for the gramophone player? Packaging and presentation as if the 78s were released in the 1930s. Thanks for your great show.
I was wondering: Why didn’t Apple release a DVD of the rooftop concert? Also, what was the original setlist, considering the concert was cut short by the police. Hard to believe what we saw is what they planned.
All of this is only going partway into the Beatles. What there really should be is a Total Emersion Beatles Trip. A place on the web where you see gathered EVERY photo ever taken from when they were children to now put into chronological order MIXED with the music and interviews and films. All appearing in order. Think about that. The photos taken by Astrid shown on the screen while we hear music from the Hamburg gigs. All the insanity of the touring years put into a daily order so we see photos of say, 1965 playing Cincinnati and hear the radio interviews and then see and hear the show. Anything other than this is compromise. Yes, it will take years to assemble and need editing as new material shows up but what have we got but time? It's not like the world is on fire or anything, right? An organized web experience that would take months to get through bit by bit. One could say, hey, I'd like to see what happened on the day they recorded Mr Kite and head right there. And the revenue from this gets split between the band, the many photographers, the film people, etc. THEN we build a website for the written material! The articles in papers, the appearance in Mad Magazine type items, the comic books and fan magazines. News clippings and gig posters. All in one place, all for one low fee. Act now.
The UK practically changed their copyright laws ten years ago just as the Beatles’ first LP was about to qualify for public domain (2013) to protect the British Invasion bands and allow them to keep profiting off of archival re-releases, I could see them really milking this time frame and ultimately pushing for the extension to 70 years that will expire in 2033 to by pushed to 100 years, I’m sure you can too! Too much money to be made still on the table!
You could make a video about all the Beatles songs that could have been released as singles. You could also make a video of songs they could have done in concert but never did.
Montreal 1964 show(s) with interviews pre show ect all in colour & with proper audio. Is out there. And rest of pete best early 62 to mid 62 including BBC/ radio stuff/ EMI June 6th whole session & July club full show with ONLY known song of him singing with beatles ( Matchbox)!
I love the recommendational vote for the release of the Shea Stadium TV Special from'65. Maybe that's still controlled by ABC, don't know. But when Lennon starts playing electric piano with his elbow and Harrison's cracking up with him shows the joy of them still playing live, a high point in their live touring career, that was hard to top!
I would really like to see the Shea Stadium show released; Let It Be released and The Complete Beatles released. I certainly would not like to see A Hard Days' Night colourized. Keep up the great work.
@@popgoesthe60s52 yeah I know they are “ bootlegs “ perse . They just seem to fall into that category of still being able to be released like a kind of Loophole ? It sounds pretty comparable to the versions on anthology ?
Great video Matt . The Shea Stadium gig is good to go , it was cleaned up for eight days a week , and they showed the entire thing at the end of the cinema premiere of eight days a week .
Hey Matt...."You don't waste tape on things that aren't musical"? Well, to my mind, that's exactly what the vast majority of the hours and hours of tape that rolled during the "Let it Be/Get Back" sessions contained....I personally don't understand all the remix attention...Part of my job as a producer is to mix ( I know that a lot of producers farm out the mixing to someone else, but I'm with my projects from beginning to end); In other words, you are taking part of George Martin's job away from him, and saying that's a good thing....And, in any case, history tells us what a record sounded like to the point where even the mistakes are built in...."Won't Get Fooled Again" is a good example of this....After the last synthesizer break, Keith Moon enters wrong....Even the band's subsequent drummers had to duplicate this mistake because even the band was expecting it....Anyway, entertaining as always... Peace and Love, Terry Tutor
Hey Terry, I would submit that the Get Back sessions were only rehearsals and recorded on cheap nagra tape. Look what that yeilded! Any of that type of stuff would be of interest to me. Thanks for the comments!
Some kind of release/package/album of the interviews is a really good shout. I'm not sure if there would be some difficulty copyright/rights-wise but as you say, Matt, a chronological telling of their story by a collection of these interviews would be fascinating. Perhaps, they could be packaged in conjunction with something else such as interspersing the cartoons with them. Admittedly, I'm (probably) on my own here, but I'd really like to see the interviews followed by relevant song cartoons as a serious/light relief kind of project.
The survey results were pretty much what I expected with Rubber Soul far ahead. The fans' suggestions were very interesting with so many great options that I can't imagine how Apple seems to be just sitting around doing nothing most of the time. Paul McCartney bought the negative and the rights to The Compleat Beatles in the early 90s so it wouldn't compete with the Beatles Anthology and still keeps it unavailable. That's a fabulous victrola you have to your left (around 1915?).
