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Imserba Webstore - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remastered)
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: EMI
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094638241928
Format: Enhanced
Label: EMI
Manufacturer: EMI
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI
Release Date: 2009-09-09
Studio: EMI
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The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is the highest fidelity the Beatles catalogue has seen since its original release.
Within each CD's new packaging, booklets include detailed historical notes along with informative recording notes. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. The newly produced mini-documentaries on the making of each album, directed by Bob Smeaton, are included as QuickTime files on each album. The documentaries contain archival footage, rare photographs and never-before-heard studio chat from The Beatles, offering a unique and very personal insight into the studio atmosphere.
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Summary: rip off
Comment: these cd's were for a gift. I had to pay £11.50 "insurance and freight" and then another £12.74 in customs duty. This meant that each cd actually cost me £21.00 and I could have bought them much more cheaply in the HMV store. Penny Freeman
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Summary: THE ULTIMATE
Comment: YOU JUST CANNOT SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT THIS ALBUM.
IF IT'S MONO, STEREO OR THIS NEW REMASTERED EDITION.
THESE GUYS ARE TO MUSIC AS JACK NICKLAUS WAS TO GOLF.
THERE MAY BE MORE POPULAR ARTISTS OR GOLFERS, BUT NO ONE EVER WILL EVER CONTRIBUTE AS MUCH.
THERE MAY BE SOMEONE SELLING MORE MUSIC, OR WINNING MORE TITLES, BUT NO ONE WILL EVER CONTRIBUTE AS MUCH.
THEY SET THE STANDARD FOR EVERYTHING IN THEIR FIELDS TODAY.
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Summary: Beatles: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" remastered
Comment: If you are expecting this to sound like the Beatles have (in some cases risen from the grave) reunited, and re-recorded this album in Dolby Digital 7.1, fogetaboutit...but if you have a good system, a keen ear and are a Beatles fan, you will appreciate the magic that was performed on this 43 year old recording.
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Summary: Sgt. Pepper's!
Comment: It is an amazing CD, and I've been listening to it non-stop since I bought it!
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Summary: Classic
Comment: It comes to this. Ten years reviewing, and finally, I try to tackle the motherload, the crowned king. What is there to say? Why is it important?
Why is it important may be the entry point for discussing Sgt Pepper. So much time has passed since 1967 and so very much has developed in music, hearing this today may make one ask, what is the fuss? It's not easy in retrospect to understand if you were not there. I was not and it took me awhile.
Others who are my age or younger come up with counter-arugments, from the plausable (Freak Out, First Velvet Underground Album) to the insane (More of the Monkees) So, alright, let's get to it.
It is not so much the songs on Sgt. Pepper that make this album so important. The Beatles could do anything as writters, and anyone who belittles their ability in this area is just not facing reality. And if you think of it, all Pepper is on the most basic level is a great collection of really, really, great songs. Even Paul McCartney discribes the Beatles to this day as "a great little band.:
But if you listen to how the title track segues into "With A Little Help From My Frinds," this was new. No one thought an album could have links. "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" may have made a fantastic panio ballad, but the electronic keybords create a dreamy texture, and this texture is a blueprint for anyone who does space rock or ambient. Rock did not have to be about Bobby Vinton's puppy love. It could be about your sons painting, your first trip, your fever dream. This just had not been tried before.
"Getting Better" is only a rock song, but may be the first song where Paul said "you know, John, if I take my finger and slide down my bass neck instead of lifting my hand, I get the coolest sound." Maybe John said "try and match it with the vocacls, and not the drums, that may work.'
Little discoveries by a young man trying the untested becomes standard practice by the next year--only he does it ten times as good as anyone else.
And he does it while singing "I used to be cruel to my women/I beat her and kept her apart from the things she loved/man I was mean but I'm chagning my scene and I'm doing the best that I can." Rock songs did not talk about stuff like this in 1967--Vinton still had cupid songs on the charts--but here was Paul doing it, and man did it rock. Maybe he was getting better because he was fixing the hole where the rain got in--Two different songs, but the connection is iron clad.
For the first time you could speak the silent. It really was alright. Things were now, suddenly, different.
Such were the times, and the Beatles nailed it. Seeing the mop tops with sideburns, mustaches and neon garb let you know that no, you were not imagining that strange "shift" that you may have detected in 1967; it was tangable. Things WERE different. Pepper talks about it without talking about it. With little Beatle crib notes.
Listen to the heavy breathing that ends "Lovely Rita." Did Rita give it up for Paul? Is he puffing grass behind her back? Is he marching at a demonstation while she arrests him? The Beatles may not have said the words recreational sex, LSD, Vietnam, civil rights, but this was all in the subtext. It was almost in everyone's drinking water.
Either way, the breath made the musical dynamics of "Lovely Rita" just SIZZLE.
Need more: Hear how Paul snaps the words "had a smoke" on Day In The Life. He went into a dream, with all those holes John talks about. Artistically, the synergy is incredible, but this was really going on in the real world. The Beatles were just implying what was out there, but no one was talking about, on records.
I could spin countless more examples, but hopefully I have made my point. It is the little details, the little comments the words make, the buried noises that were not part of rock before Pepper that make it so important. The problem is that all these moves are now such standard practice that we forget that Sgt Pepper is where all these rules came from. Think you know all the rules, go back and hear Pepper again. Then again. Found something else? me too. Let's play it again. Wait..I heard something. Let's play it again
Forty two years on, we are still doing this. We will never stop doing this.
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