Synthesizer Patel

If the farmer has no silo Then his fuel cost runs up very high Well, that's just how much I would love you If you'd just only let me try

yeah, depending on the levels and how far things were panned in the first place, you could end up with, for example, the backing vocals acutally being louder than the lead. also, what would happen normally is that everything would be distorted and too loud.

they were all in mono originally (apart from abbey road & maybe let it be - don't for sure about that), even sgt pepper - or at least the album the beatles made was mono. the beatles only worked on the mono recordings and then others mixed them for stereo afterwards, but the point is that the versions the beatles actually made entirely themselves were the mono mixes - all the levels of the vocals, backing vocals, instruments were all worked out in mono by them. so if you actually want the albums how they wanted them to sound back when they were released, then you need the mono mixes. some

this should really be the last word on this: The problem: Dave Davies seems to want no part of a reunion, having posted on his Web site earlier this year that "it would be like a poor remake of 'Night of the Livin (sic) Dead' " and declaring that Ray has been doing "Karaoke Kinks shows since 1996." it probably will end up happening though - rust never sleeps, and all that...

your link just takes you to a viachicago "new post" page. are you trying to force people to post in this thread now? i can't wait to have the white album remastered with the same mixes from the mono version - they are just so much better than the stereo one - it does mean lossing the "i've got blisters on my fingers!" from helter skelter, but you get a much better drum roll instead. it's incredible just how many variations there actually are on this album - on pretty much every single song.

a politician that's in touch with the masses. that's a first.

issues of race and religion, from an outsiders point of view, seem to be fundamental to your culture - personally i do equate that a level of racisim on both sides, and i can't see you ever getting round that positive or negative discrimination. people just don't talk about race in the same terms within the uk. for example, watch this clip of dizzy rascal from newsnight last night: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PFLQf3hM8Vw&...feature=related and it puts into perspective how important skin-colour is most young people within this country, and this is the same day obama made history. i can't

good luck everyone. i remember when everyone was optimistic about Tony Blair and New Labour way back in 1997. they had a landslide victory over The Tories, because people were fed up with the sleaze that surrounded The Tory Party (upper class twats!) - they wanted a change in politics and Tony was the man to do it. labour were going to redress the balance of power amongst the working masses. the class system was to be smashed by the fist of commerce. we would never have it so good. the end of boom and bust! rock stars came to no. 10 to be wined and dined; everything was cool again - cool br

yeah, i guess so. it's not like i thought it was bad or anything, i'd happily watch it again. i think the thing was that at roughly the same time the bbc also ran about 5 or 6 episodes of a series about quantum mechanics and all that jazz, which i really found interesting, and this didn't quite appeal to me in the same way. i never even quite understood what his theory was besides "parallel worlds"; when they talked about it they talked about 'schrodinger's cat' to explain it and other such things which he was not a part of - and i would have liked to understand just what it was he did scienti

yeah, it's been on the bbc a few times. i thought it was ok, but didn't really reveal enough either about his father, on the one hand, or quantum mechanics, on the other. the music was good!

you'd probably like it. i actually thought ashes to ashes was slightly better, but most people prefer life on mars - either way, they're both the best comedy/drama/cop show the bbc has ever made. gene hunt - 'the gene genie' is just a brilliant character. i had no idea the us made their own version - i would have thought that was really necessary. that's a good show. dave berry voices my favourite tv ad at the moment: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G63uNdyE3kk&...feature=related the spin-off show of garth marenghi is "man to man with dean learner": http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H_SCV

i'm not feeling that song at all. it sounds like something they made up in the green room. i think it would have been fun if they'd all swapped instruments, or tried playing it in some interesting new style, but i just feel like they've lost their groove at the moment, and by that i mean they're not groovy anymore - it's not a metaphor.

it's harry rag (cockney slang for cigarette - "harry rag - fag" - a fag being a cigarette, not a bender, a bender being a homosexual) i know it's only a typo, but hairy rag sounds dirty. for me, i immediately thought of the jackson 5, especially this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bB2RPWZ6qKc and this http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9mvyC5iOoZw

i've got all the original pressings apart from Abbey Road, but's that's only cos i stole them from my parents collection. it's not so much that the mono versions sound better because they are mono, but that the beatles only over-saw the mono versions when they were released, so the levels are how they intended. i'd be more than happy to just have stereo if the levels were mixed as well as they were with the mono releases.

a couple of those songs, at least, are played on piano - so i'm expecting the album to be far less orchestrated and a bit more 1970s, laid back, than ys. ribbon bows does sound great, almost gospel sounding at times, her singing is just so liquid and versatile at the moment.

i have no idea. you'd have thought so, though; otherwise why would anyone want to buy them? like i said, they remastered Yellow Submarine (which wasn't the real soundtrack album) when the film was rereleased a few years back, but i think they did a very bad job with that - so some stuff has had the remastered treatment. i've never even heard Love, but i don't really think i want to that much.

i didn't think it was snarky at all, i just thought you knew something i didn't about it, and then i thought maybe you were referring to how the uk versions are different than the us versions of the albums (but i thought about that after i posted anyway, so ignore that). mine was a sincere question too, is what i'm getting at, not snarky. . . . damn it, i bet i'm sounding snarky now, aren't i?

that will not happen! these are going to be full price cds, of that i am sure. i hope they do them like the recent Bee Gees remasters of their first 3 albums, mono & stereo albums all on 1 disc, with a second disc of alternate takes & outtakes etc,... but i doubt it. maybe mono on 1 disc and stereo on the other. i also doubt these will ever come down in price like happens with any other artists reissues after a couple of months.

what does that mean? i don't follow you. finally, i'll get to have these on cd rather than my scratched up parents vinyl copies. as long as they don't remaster them as badly as they did with yellow submarine it'll all be good; and having the mono versions makes me hopeful they're going to do the job right this time.

i've not really got any news on anything, but i've just been listening to a couple of the new songs she's been playing and it's made me slightly desperate to hear of any news on a new release. anyone know anything? post it here. i've got this link to ribbon bows (a new song with her piano which sounds great) and apparently there are these new songs being played in concert: Esme Ribbon Bows Baby Birch California Love You Again anyone got any info?

well it could've been the plane. see, you must always look on the bright side.

and then

just found out this is finally getting a cd reissue next week, so i'm giving my crappy vinyl-ripped mp3 version another play in anticipation of how good this is going to sound all cleaned up and remastered:

you should get the water curses ep from this year. i think it's the best thing they've done so far. also, for anyone interested, you can download the new album as bootlegged live tracks here: http://onethirtybpm.com/2008/10/12/animal-...n-live-preview/ the sound quality is very good, cos it's from various sources. brother sport, for one, sounds incredible.

and me! let's hope it leaks soon. i'm predicting this to be amazing - if it's anything like as good as the live versions & the water curses ep. shame it's not released this year, cos i've got virtually nothing to put on my "what i liked in 2008 list".