I disagree completely. I'm 26 and the Beatles are my favorite band. There are plenty of young people who still listen to and love this band. Having them on iTunes can only be a good thing in my honest opinion
I think your comments are pretty much on the money in all respects. It is a great shame that The Beatles (what was left of them) and their music copyright owners didn't jump on the iTunes shirt tails from the outset instead of being the largest hold out in the industry. I think the opportunity to have blockbuster sales has largely slipped them by. I could well be wrong but I suspect like Blu-Ray, they missed the magic moment to launch.
Agreed, the magic moment was when people first started to create their digital music collections. Right when iTunes first started surging in popularity was the moment to strike. As other posters said, most die-hard fans have long since put the Beatles in their iTunes. It's just sad that both the Beatles/Apple were too blinded by their arguments to just make an agreement and put them on iTunes so they could both have made a lot of money. Foolish companies. \
Whaaaat. Rubber Soul (the UK version) is one of their best albums, alongside Revolver and Let It Be.
(Obviously, I prefer the more natural-sounding Beatles, as opposed to the more heavily produced MMT/Sgt Pepper's stuff.)
Anyway, it's not about there necessarily being a huge demand; it's about having it available for teh kidz to buy a couple of tracks they heard on the radio and a fraction of those to freak out and buy everything. You don't need to sell a million albums to make a lot of money.
I think HELP! is the first album worth owning (and every subsequent release). Rubber Soul / Revolver is great.
I'm like others: I already own 10 Beatles albums. So this is not big news to me. But the Beatles still sell extremely well AFAIK
F*** off. I'm so sick of internet idiots flaunting their thieving ways.
I do find it strange that somebody who is happy to steal via Pirate Bay would pay for his MBP? why not steal it too?
I guess it's the effort involved in the act of the theft not the principle. With the amount of people who share his view, I guess I should be glad they're all so lazy!
Surely the key issue is that they are releasing digitally remastered versions of all the songs. So if you are big fan you will be tempted to re-buy the CDs to get the better sound quality or download them instead if they are on iTunes, even if you have already ripped all your Beatles CDs into iTunes like me. I can also imagine that this release will get a lot of publicity worldwide which will inevitably lead to big sales in the first few months.
Sorry I waisted time answering one of your previous posts, I thought you were a serious contributor here.
You're all too serious for my likey. This Beatles thing is gone beyond lame at this stage. It's like the build up for the second coming in digital form, only everyone has the analogue version.
True: but weren't they "digitally remastered" when they first came out in CD?
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Originally Posted by RollingStone.com
...A crew of engineers at London?s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve ?the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings? and ensure ?the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.?... ...Both Apple Corps. and Paul McCartney have expressed reluctance to release the Beatles? music digitally until all the albums had been remastered...
Does sound like this is a thourough job being done in the interest of quality, and the article also lists a bunch of interesting inclusions in the boxed sets that could tempt those 'true fans' with CD/vinyl to put hand in pocket again, albeit not for the digital downloads alone.
This Beatles thing has become a joke. Does anyone honestly care anymore. Any Beatles fan already has their stuff in their iTunes LONG LONG LONG ago. Yet, Steve and his big ego will try to tout it as if we couldn't have lived without this. Movin' on.
Ireland,
I work around a lot of teens, and a good few of them were actually into Beatles. I doubt they have the original vinyls. Remarketing is a great move to hit a new demographic. Not all of them steal music, too!
You're all too serious for my likey. This Beatles thing is gone beyond lame at this stage...
But LAME tops out at 640kps; are you saying they're going beyond this? would that be supported by iTunes? iPods? would Apple need to release new versions of iTunes and the entire iPod range?... Now that would be 'bigger than Jesus'!
The greatest thing about this is not that the Beatles are (supposedly) coming to iTunes, but that the entire catalog has finally been remastered. "The Yellow Submarine Songbook" was released with remastered songs several years ago, and if you listen to tunes on that CD (like Eleanor Rigby, etc.) and compare them to the regular CDs (Eleanor Rigby is on Revolver), it's amazing. The old ones sound like you're listening over the telephone in comparison.
There were a couple of problems with digital release of the Beatles catalog: one was apparently McCartney's divorce - the story is that they didn't want to release the remasters until that was settled.The other big problem was the dispute between EMI and the Beatles over how much in royalties the Beatles would get from online sales.
This is gonna be fun.
Somebody asked about the mono versions - in addition to the individual albums, you can buy a box set of all the stereo albums, or a box set of all the mono albums. I'm assuming the individual albums will be the original (UK) versions - the earlier ones in original mono, the rest stereo.
I was never a huge Beatles fan, much more a Stones fan - and I was around at the time of their arrival. The trouble with the kiddy commentards here who can see no reason for interest in the Beatles back catalogue being released in a very easily accessed and downloadable format, is that they have absolutely no sense of art or history.
Where do you think Noel Gallagher got his inspiration to form Oasis from? Curt Kobain? Or any other countless number of bands for that matter. The Stones (the most high-profile of amongst others) brought the blues to the UK, which in turn influenced hundreds of other bands. This is what it's like in the creative world of music and art.
The knob jockeys here who don't understand this need to be 're-educated'. In the meantime they should STFU.
give us: Beatles on iTunes, iPod touch 64GB, The Unicorn Tablet, iTunes 9 with Cocktail (nom nom) and Blu-ray all on 9/9/09. All on the same day with a live Stevenote while angels sing.
giveittomebaby (c) rick james rip.
Beatles Special Edition iPod touch.
Comes with camera and a template of Sgt Pepper's cover so you take a picture of someone and it is placed next to Marilyn Monroe, James Dean or Humphrey Bogart on the cover.
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I disagree completely. I'm 26 and the Beatles are my favorite band. There are plenty of young people who still listen to and love this band. Having them on iTunes can only be a good thing in my honest opinion
Well that is good to hear
F*** this Beatles crap.
For everything else there is Pirate Bay.
F*** off. I'm so sick of internet idiots flaunting their thieving ways.
I think your comments are pretty much on the money in all respects. It is a great shame that The Beatles (what was left of them) and their music copyright owners didn't jump on the iTunes shirt tails from the outset instead of being the largest hold out in the industry. I think the opportunity to have blockbuster sales has largely slipped them by. I could well be wrong but I suspect like Blu-Ray, they missed the magic moment to launch.
Agreed, the magic moment was when people first started to create their digital music collections. Right when iTunes first started surging in popularity was the moment to strike. As other posters said, most die-hard fans have long since put the Beatles in their iTunes. It's just sad that both the Beatles/Apple were too blinded by their arguments to just make an agreement and put them on iTunes so they could both have made a lot of money. Foolish companies.
Nevermind
That's Nirvana, not Beatles.
Whaaaat. Rubber Soul (the UK version) is one of their best albums, alongside Revolver and Let It Be.
(Obviously, I prefer the more natural-sounding Beatles, as opposed to the more heavily produced MMT/Sgt Pepper's stuff.)
Anyway, it's not about there necessarily being a huge demand; it's about having it available for teh kidz to buy a couple of tracks they heard on the radio and a fraction of those to freak out and buy everything. You don't need to sell a million albums to make a lot of money.
I think HELP! is the first album worth owning (and every subsequent release). Rubber Soul / Revolver is great.
I'm like others: I already own 10 Beatles albums. So this is not big news to me. But the Beatles still sell extremely well AFAIK
F*** off. I'm so sick of internet idiots flaunting their thieving ways.
I do find it strange that somebody who is happy to steal via Pirate Bay would pay for his MBP? why not steal it too?
I guess it's the effort involved in the act of the theft not the principle. With the amount of people who share his view, I guess I should be glad they're all so lazy!
You're all too serious for my likey. This Beatles thing is gone beyond lame at this stage. It's like the build up for the second coming in digital form, only everyone has the analogue version.
True: but weren't they "digitally remastered" when they first came out in CD?
...A crew of engineers at London?s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve ?the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings? and ensure ?the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.?... ...Both Apple Corps. and Paul McCartney have expressed reluctance to release the Beatles? music digitally until all the albums had been remastered...
Does sound like this is a thourough job being done in the interest of quality, and the article also lists a bunch of interesting inclusions in the boxed sets that could tempt those 'true fans' with CD/vinyl to put hand in pocket again, albeit not for the digital downloads alone.
This Beatles thing has become a joke. Does anyone honestly care anymore. Any Beatles fan already has their stuff in their iTunes LONG LONG LONG ago. Yet, Steve and his big ego will try to tout it as if we couldn't have lived without this. Movin' on.
Ireland,
I work around a lot of teens, and a good few of them were actually into Beatles. I doubt they have the original vinyls. Remarketing is a great move to hit a new demographic. Not all of them steal music, too!
You're all too serious for my likey. This Beatles thing is gone beyond lame at this stage...
But LAME tops out at 640kps; are you saying they're going beyond this? would that be supported by iTunes? iPods? would Apple need to release new versions of iTunes and the entire iPod range?... Now that would be 'bigger than Jesus'!
Either way, it's a great time to be a fan of the fab four.
There were a couple of problems with digital release of the Beatles catalog: one was apparently McCartney's divorce - the story is that they didn't want to release the remasters until that was settled.The other big problem was the dispute between EMI and the Beatles over how much in royalties the Beatles would get from online sales.
This is gonna be fun.
Somebody asked about the mono versions - in addition to the individual albums, you can buy a box set of all the stereo albums, or a box set of all the mono albums. I'm assuming the individual albums will be the original (UK) versions - the earlier ones in original mono, the rest stereo.
(Amazon has good prices on pre-ordering the CDs).
Where do you think Noel Gallagher got his inspiration to form Oasis from? Curt Kobain? Or any other countless number of bands for that matter. The Stones (the most high-profile of amongst others) brought the blues to the UK, which in turn influenced hundreds of other bands. This is what it's like in the creative world of music and art.
The knob jockeys here who don't understand this need to be 're-educated'. In the meantime they should STFU.
That is all.
give it to us.
give us: Beatles on iTunes, iPod touch 64GB, The Unicorn Tablet, iTunes 9 with Cocktail (nom nom) and Blu-ray all on 9/9/09.
Don't think so. Part of the settlement between Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. was that iTunes would only transfer Beatles songs to a BeatleBox.
Watch this background video and the new ad.
give it to us.
give us: Beatles on iTunes, iPod touch 64GB, The Unicorn Tablet, iTunes 9 with Cocktail (nom nom) and Blu-ray all on 9/9/09. All on the same day with a live Stevenote while angels sing.
giveittomebaby (c) rick james rip.
Beatles Special Edition iPod touch.
Comes with camera and a template of Sgt Pepper's cover so you take a picture of someone and it is placed next to Marilyn Monroe, James Dean or Humphrey Bogart on the cover.
True: but weren't they "digitally remastered" when they first came out in CD?
No. They were simply copied to digital format.