You may not have even heard the news that a Norwegian broadcaster was offering up the entire Beatles catalog, previously unavailable in any digital form, Read the full post.
Jan 8
2009
02:00 PM ET
The Beatles catalog is finally downloadable!...Oh wait, no it isn't.
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It’s not surprising. Do you remember the process of releasing the Beatles’ catalogue on CD in the mid ’80s? It took forever for the whole collection to be made available.
http://www.piratebay.org
Search ‘Beatles Discography’ – one download, everything they ever recorded.
You’re welcome.
This article misses the bigger point: not only is the music not available in digital form, the (UK) albums haven’t been remastered in over 20 years. The technology that digitizes analog music (particularly AD converters) has come so far in the last 20 years that what you’d find in a consumer PC’s stock sound card is superior to what actually digitized The Beatles catalog. Yes, in terms of quality and fidelty consumer-grade digital converters have far surpassed the professional AD converters of 20 years ago.
In short: the current UK Beatles catalog sounds much worse than it otherwise could. I’m fine with them arguing about how to get it out in a digital format, but we know the catalog has already been remastered. So get the remastered CD’s out! I’d repurchase them all on day one.
All this ranting over something that just comes down to your personal convenience. If you don’t care any more for an artist than that, why bother . . . I’m 56 years old and in all these years since I first heard The Beatles, no one has come along who can compare. They started it all, and they are gods.
I think the lack of ability gets commonly overstated because we can go to an iTunes and just click and download. True Beatles fans already made the CD purchase years ago when we set aside our LP’s. An easy upload to our managed iTunes keeps the Fab 4 alive in our ear buds.
i totally agree. The brillance of The Beatles needs to be shared for all generations to come.
How can anyone say that just because their material isn’t available for download their irrelevant? As long as artists are using their studio innovations when recording, or covering their songs, or claiming them as a major influence on their music The Beatles will always be relevant.
To me The Beatles can’t be defined by singles, but only by full albums which I will always gladly allow to fill my shelves, and I can’t say that about every artist. I’m only 25, but I am aware of the importance they have on almost, if not all music I listen to. I don’t personally care if they ever get their music available digitally, I’ll always have the cd’s, and if given the chance I would try to snatch up the vinyls to hear it the way it was initially heard.
WOW. I saw The Beatles at dogger stadium In 1965. For thoes who ” Dont get it” The Beatles wer’nt an F ing Boy band. They were songwriters and great ones.Yes they actualy wrote there own songs, I teach guitar and bass and I use alot of there songs becuse the stuff that is out on the radio now is so simple is defies what really great songwriting Is.I do Beleave there are great musicians and songwriters out there ,I might need to expline that back in the day there were no computers that recorded Music No home studios no 128 track No apple or Mac recording consoles. They recorded sargent pepers on 4 tracks thats it.so you how “Dont get it” may never” get It’ Let Me just end saying without the Beatles some forms of modern Music would NOT BE!Oh google “the NAMM show” if your boored.
Goo goo ga Choo
I wasn’t around when Beatle Mania hit but I grew up listening to them as well as other groups/musicians that defined that era of music…I only hope that when I start to have children, years from now, that growing up listening to the Beatles will have the same impact on them that it did to me. Music these days isn’t that great…back when the Beatles came out, it was real music, and you just can’t get that anymore, artists today don’t make good music…they make beats and rap to it…not very creative or artistic.
The Beatles are influential and will never be forgotten…wow, talk about stating the obvious!!
None of you know ANYTHING of truly great music if The Beatles is your main basis. What about King Crimson, The Byrds, Magma, and the dozens and dozens of other godlike groups that emerged in the late 60′s through the 70′s?
I disagree vehementaly. Why? The CDs (with the exception of Abbey Road and maybe Let it Be) are lousy transfers of the originals. There is constant talk that they’re going to be transferred from the mono and reissued. Until that happens, there’s no reason to release the (inferior) versions in digital format.
I actually agree when someone says that even the Beatles can become irrelevant if they obstanantly refuse to get with the 21st century. Young people these days see the Beatles as just some old people their parents liked. The radio plays only their early stuff, which sounds just as dated as it is. The kids these days aren’t aware of the truly innovative music from their later days. And they won’t discover that music if they can’t sample it on itunes. Sorry, that’s just the way the music industry works these days. If the Beatles stubbornly refuse to participate in it, then they have only themselves to blame when the lose their relevency. And it could happen. I mean, in the 1940′s nobody would have said that the Andrews Sisters would ever become irrelevant. More recently, 90′s supergroups like Screaming Trees and Soundgarden are barely remembered. The biggest groups in history can and do become footnotes in history when they fail to keep up with the times.
Isn’t the Beatles catalogue owned by Michael Jackson? (Which was a crock from the start!) Does that mean he has to also give permission to release the music?
A lot of music from the 60′s and 70′s is considered overrated by today’s youth. It is not just the Beatles who are considered overrated. Musical tastes change. Most of today’s youth are more interested in music for their generation – not for an earlier generation. Other musicians will not allow their musci to be downloaded. The Beatles should not be berated because they refuse to. The iPOD is not the be-all and end-all of music. It is quite possible that the iPOD will be obsolete in years to come. Give the Beatles and other musicians like them a break. Stop demanding that they follow what you think is a great distribution model.
If someone is so quick to dismiss trying to get music by any band just because it’s not available at the click of the mouse, then maybe they aren’t really a fan in the first place. I have all of my favorite bands, The Beatles included on my ipod-where they were uploaded from a CD. Too many people who want something instantly without any effort. It’s out there people-if you are too cheap to actually buy the CD, borrow it from a friend!