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The Pop Go The Beatles shows he recorded sound incredible. He was recording them as if he was recording a jazz band - capturing clearly what was sounding in the studio. Unfortunately it was 1963 when all the pop musicians were still contaminated by the malodorous stench of Phil Spector - witness the...

Good Lord! That's incredible. The Beatles didn't make too many errors in judgement (at least when deciding upon which material to release), but unless publishing rights and royalty rates somehow factored into the decision, on no planet could anyone suggest they made the right decision in choosing t...

Fun 4 None wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 3:45 pm
People say it's Jeff making different decisions than Neil but I think it's one of the four core parties who made the change.

Given that one of the main guidelines for expanding the tracklist of the Red Album seems to have been "more George", I wouldn't be surprised if it was Olivia.

There's a review today, in Variety I think, that says the exact same thing: that seen today It feels more joyful and less gloomy. I don't know, but maybe originally It was seen as gloomier even than It was because people were on a collective downer because the Beatles had broken up.

IIRC in the stereo TYG the last harmonica riff (not counting the onr in the coda) enters a bit earlier than in the mono, creating a bit of a syncopation.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Paul messed up on both vocal tracks - on one his voice cracked on ' 'vain', on the other he came in too early with 'was in...' The mono mix fixed that by using only the vocal track with the better 'was in...' before switching to the other vocal track for 'vain...

I think the stereo mix of AHDN is ok, considering everything. Though most of the work on the stereo PPM and WTB albums was already done during the actual recordings, AHDN was no more rushed than those. And Martin and Smith had already made stereo mixes of I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy (as w...

IIRC, the Brennan Variations claimed they were slightly recentered transfers.

This makes me realise more than ever than the myth that the stereo mixes were more hastily done and the stereo wasn't given attention rests solely on the shoulders of one album. ONE. And that's A Hard Day's Night, which was mixed entirely in a single day and with some extra sloppiness which I attrib...

Not an expert, but if there's ATRAC I suspect a Transfer to MiniDisc was involved at some point.