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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
demondude - I recall that when the Beatles were first mastered on CD (in an era that time forgot called "the eighties"), there was an uproar at how cold the sound was. Will the remastering rectify this? Has Macca given his 2 thumbs up seal of approval?
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Firstly, that's Sir James Paul McCartney MBE to you. Anyway, it seems that he has a bit of a weird attitude to the whole thing. It would appear from the article I linked that he refuses to let any previously unreleased Beatles stuff out until the original albums have been remastered. I'm not sure what the thinking is behind that, but if it means a sudden release of new stuff after the reissues, I'm hardly complaining.
The current CDs definitely sound quite different to a number of the original LPs. A proper vinyl reissue of Rubber Soul would be brilliant as the CD available at the moment definitely doesn't compare. Something like that might even encourage me to go out and buy a record player - that and the Francoise Hardy LP Noisereductions keeps teasing me with of course!
And regarding Noisereductions' point about the lo-fi-ness of 'Hide Your Love Away', spot on! Although have to take major issue with the thinly veiled Macca* hating regarding 'silly love songs'.
*I've listened to (and thoroughly enjoyed) Pipes of Peace enough times to call him whatever I want.