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Beatles For Sale
Posted by plumb1909 on 16 August 2009 - 6:02am.
With September 9th rapidly approaching, has anyone thought of a good excuse/story on how I can justify to the FPO that spending £200 on a Beatles box of cd's that you have already bought twice before, on vinyl and in 1987 on CD,is a good idea.
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Tell her that George Harrison visited you in a dream...
He was simultaneously playing the sitar and reading the latest Jeremy Clarkson book whilst sat astride a flying effigy of Ganesh and told you that the path to spiritual enlightenment involved spending £200 sovs on Beatles CDs.
Buy them now...
Stash them away somewhere & give them to her for Christmas.
"There you go darling, now we've got a matching collection."
Get them delivered
to you at work, then sneak them in. One by one if mono, two by two if stereo.
Promise her
that you will not play air sitar.
Tell her that you ordered a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes...
for her as a present but you were sent Beatles CDs by mistake. And that the box had been wrongly delivered to a neighbour and had sat in his house for a month before he took it round to your place, thereby making the option of returning them impossible.
An Investment Opportunity
Clearly the new boxed set will appreciate in value over the years and a collector will no doubt wish to pay much more than the original price in a few years time. In the meantime, you and the FPO can benefit by listening to the boxed set (or parts thereof) at regular intervals. But you much purchase the set now, because they are going fast!
Either:
(a) Tell her that you won them in a Word competition
(b) Don't tell her
(c) Wait until Christmas
No
If you're hell bent on spunking 200 quid away buy some stuff you don't have, support new and up and coming acts rather than being mugged by the beatles cash cow.
Show me something new and up coming as good as the Beatles
and I might.
Don't bother trying, there isn't anything that good. That's why I'm awaiting the mono reissues with bated breath.
No disrespect, but that's a very sad
and shallow mind set though?
Surely any music fan worth their salt would be on the look out for something new and exciting? Yes The Beatles back catologue is great, but they don't exist anymore. It's from along time ago, move on, live in the present, there's a great big exciting world out there. In stereo.
As I've said here several times
I haven't found much pop music released in the last 20 years worth listening to. It's all been done before.
My interests lie elsewhere these days - mainly in jazz and avant-garde/music concrete from the 40s, 50s and 60s. That's still new and exciting to me.
So...
Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, White Stripes, Raconteurs, Arctic Monkeys, Beck, Flaming Lips, Air, Beruit, Blur, Eels, Gorillaz etc etc, all been done before?
Surely taking the old and making it new and better and relevant?
Are you saying you prefer jazz mags to The Word?
New = better and relevant?
Not in my book. What does 'relevant' mean?
Beck's first couple of albums were interesting but The Raconteurs, Arctic Monkeys, Blur, Eels? Indie white boys with guitars... I've heard it all before.
At the moment, John Coltrane's Atlantic recordings excite me more than any pop music I've heard for a long time, and I'm just starting to really make an effort with Schoenberg's choral pieces.
Doesn't mean I've stopped listening to pop music; what I already know is sufficient for me though.
Wait until
they appear in the bargain bins.
This mono lark
I very rarely play the Beatles these days, but I've just double checked my early period cd's and the appear to be mono anyway. Please Please me sounds absolutely fine. Stereo ones sound awful on ipod to my ears at any rate.
Which speaker should I disconnect
so I can listen in the intended mono experience then?
I'm going with right - or should it be left?
gb
Marry me
I wouldn't mind.
Yeah,
Dolly warned me about you.
Blimey, There's An Offer
Could You Send A Picture
I am with your wife
its a waste of money. Will you ever play them? There is loads of new music out there worth investing your money in. I dont understand this fascination. I would dearly love a 3 OR 4 CD boxset compilation that has all of their best stuff (not just singles) but the problem is every single Beatles album has some rubbish on it.
" Every beatles album has some rubbish on it"
was listening to Beatles For Sale yesterday (mono copy from a car boot) and blimey there is some tired old playing on there. Particularly the covers sound like they are "take 1, that'll have to do" jobs.
However, whats the trash on Revolver for instance?
You're going to say Yellow Submarine aren't you? Well i hated that as a kida and I hate it now. I used to listen the the Fabs 'Red Album' religiously growing up and still get a tensing of the hackles when I hear the end of Eleanor Rigby cos that bloody song always came next
Beatles Albums
You don't like sitars or Ringo's singing then?
Revolver Rubbish
The problem with the Beatles is that now it is just one big nostalgia fest - some of the songs probably never started off as rubbish but I perceive them as rubbish now. Revolver examples? Got to get you into my life and Good Day Sunshine. There are inferior songs on the album that I like more because they havent been played to death. Its the familarity thing. I was at Summer Sundae in Leicester yesterday - great day out, chilled atmosphere, sun shining etc. There was a Reggae band playing - Easy Allstars - and they did a medley of Beatles songs. All the usual suspects were there - Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky, When I'M 64 etc. It was like a bloody karaoke party. Great for a summer festival but do I want to fork out £200 for some new remasters? Not likely.
Heathens The Lot of You !
I have just experienced something called Kate Nash ! I won't extrapolate this subject on principal. Never. Something lurks...
Er
...does that actually make sense?