Phil O'Keefe Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 In mono. Highly under-rated album IMHO. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6LdqXHM_Tw 01. 00:00 "Help!" 02. 02:23 "The Night Before" 03. 04:59 "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" 04. 07:11 "I Need You" 05. 09:43 "Another Girl" 06. 11:52 "You're Going to Lose That Girl" 07. 14:14 "Ticket to Ride" 08. 17:22 "Act Naturally" 09. 19:56 "It's Only Love" 10. 21:56 "I Like You Too Much" 11. 24:35 "Tell Me What You See" 12. 27:16 "I've Just Seen a Face" 13. 29:25 "Yesterday" 14. 31:34 "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pewtershmit Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Phil I love you, but to call any Beatles album underrated is just silly. They are all very highly acclaimed.Always will be one of my favorites, pot smoking Beatles > psychedelic BeatlesThe movie is so great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riff ie Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 08. 17:22 "Act Naturally" Ringo'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 TICKET TO RIDEJohn Lennon: "That was one of the earliest heavy-metal records made." The brief, but recognizable guitar solo was played by Paul McCartney, who was The Beatles bass player. This was used in the Beatles movie Help! in the scene where The Beatles ski... poorly. This was the first Beatles song that was over 3 minutes long.The Beatles played this on an episode of Ed Sullivan Show that aired September 12, 1965. It was the last Ed Sullivan show broadcast in black and white. The Beatles were in America for their big Shea stadium concert. The Carpenters covered this in 1969. It was their first single and also the name of their debut album.Don Short, who traveled with the Beatles in the '60s, recalled that John coined the phrase "Ticket to Ride" for another meaning - The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and the authorities would give them a card saying they were clean. Don later said that although he specifically recalls John telling him that, John could of been joking - you had to be careful with him like that. http://beatlesnumber9.com/fact.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 The alternative possibility for the reference is to Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. John and Paul once took a trip up there, hitchhiking part way, to see Paul's cousin, who owned a pub in Ryde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Pewtershmit Phil I love you, but to call any Beatles album underrated is just silly. They are all very highly acclaimed. Always will be one of my favorites, pot smoking Beatles > psychedelic Beatles The movie is so great I really like the movie a lot too. It's not quite as good as AHDN, but it's close. But I'm sticking by my opinion on the under-rated part. Please allow me to clarify: I consider it under-rated by Beatles album ranking and rating standards. It seems like people talk about this album a lot less than say, Rubber Soul, and they were released within a few months of each other, and IMO, are pretty equally brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members riff ie Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Phil O'Keefe The alternative possibility for the reference is to Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. John and Paul once took a trip up there, hitchhiking part way, to see Paul's cousin, who owned a pub in Ryde. Yes this is considered fanatical folks, awesome and inspirational, much . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Whenever I hear Mono Beatles recordings it makes me angry that they made them stereo at some point and thought it was better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Cirrus Whenever I hear Mono Beatles recordings it makes me angry that they made them stereo at some point and thought it was better. 1. They usually made the stereo mixes shortly after completing the mono mixes - often the same day or week. The Beatles were very interested in, and contributed to the mono mix sessions. 2. However, the stereo mixes were considered of much lesser importance, and the Beatles themselves largely left that task to George Martin and the engineers at EMI. By all accounts, they really weren't very interested in the stereo mixes, and almost never attended those mix sessions, which perplexes me a bit, since there are so many artistic possibilities and fun sonic things you can do with stereo, and they were always into new things, new sounds, doing something "different." 3. Some recordings were really only available in mono due to the way they were originally recorded. This is mainly very early material. Some of this was artificially "stereoized" with studio trickery later - in some cases, many years later. Other albums, that they used multitrack recording on (via four track decks), could be mixed in stereo (actually "panned mono"), but due to the limited amount of tracks, there is considerable "track sharing" on the tapes (multiple instruments, at different parts of the song, sharing a single tape track), and limited tracks and options available for panning - resulting in some of the "weird" panning you hear on mid-period stereo Beatles albums. 4. Some material is only available in stereo. For example, there is no mono version of Abbey Road. As you might imagine, this is only late period stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cirrus Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Phil O'Keefe *interesting things* I knew some of those, thanks to this, among other things: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members poolshark Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Probably my favorite Beatles album. Agree that moptop Beatles > psychedelic Beatles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sparkfriction Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 one of my favorites too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 9520575 Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 I was obsessed with the song help for a period of time. Um I'm better now, I enjoy it like a normal person now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orourke Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Good call Phil. Help! is my favorite Beatles album. Just about every song is brilliant and beautiful in a different way. My only gripe is that You Like Me Too Much and Tell Me What You See are just kind of crumby tunes. But you could chuck both of them and have a perfect twelve song album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GhostLunch Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Nice! I have always enjoyed Help more than Rubber Soul though I've heard John later said that he wished they had released both of those albums at the same time since they kind of went together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodhonk Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by Cirrus Whenever I hear Mono Beatles recordings it makes me angry that they made them stereo at some point and thought it was better. i picked up a mono (american version) rubber soul recently. rubber soul (british version in stereo) was always at the bottom of the list of enjoyable beatle albums for me. it has been an eye/ear opener listening to it in mono and also the selection/limited songs on the american version is superior to the british release. (yes, i understand the beatles were upset about it and thusly made the butcher cover to make a statement) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dparr Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Originally Posted by 9520575 I was obsessed with the song help for a period of time. Um I'm better now, I enjoy it like a normal person now. John thought that Help was one of the best Beatles songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GREC Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Yes, sometimes 60's records sound better in the original mono mix. And some of the stereo remastering thru the years have been disastrous.In the 80's when I was building up a Beatles vinyl collection I inadvertently bought some old mono copies -now I'm happy about it.Pink Floyd's 'Pipers' in mono is an ear orgy.St Peppers definitely sounds different in mono. Dig the hand flanging on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. 4:47 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oULZNUbuTMs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TravvyBear Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 Soooo good. I have the mono box set on my computer. Best way to listen! I've just seen a face is a great driving song with the windows rolled down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members macadood Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 good call phil. listening while at work now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BAXANDALL Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 My favorite Beatles maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 The alternative possibility for the reference is to Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. John and Paul once took a trip up there, hitchhiking part way, to see Paul's cousin, who owned a pub in Ryde.The land of Melx, who just had a birthday BTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members big_cat Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 great album, but george's contributions weaken it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted November 30, 2012 Members Share Posted November 30, 2012 great album, but george's contributions weaken it.Seriously? I love "I Need You", one of my favorite Harrison ditties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seajay Posted December 1, 2012 Members Share Posted December 1, 2012 It's nice to see some Help! love. It's always been one of my favorite Beatles records. I like both the US and UK versions, but I grew up on the US version so I'm used to those cool instrumentals that were on there. It was an original copy my Dad had so I don't know if that was mono or stereo. I listened to Sgt. Peppers in mono and though it was amazing. It really freshened that one up for me because I think that is one where the stereo version has that {censored}ed up panning going on. I always hated that {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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