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« Reply #80 on: May 23, 2013, 06:27:25 PM »


Here we go again. Yet more re-releases for you to collect. And all for £18 quid. This time the re-release is the film HELP, but on blu-ray. Better picture quality is guaranteed, as will be sound. An hours worth of extras too. Anybody going for this one?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Help-Blu-ray-US-Beatles/dp/B00CRVZRUS/ref=sr_1_3?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1369325389&sr=1-3&keywords=help+blu+ray


Nope.  They still can't turn sh!t into gold.  It was always a stinker of a movie, a few fun scenes notwithstanding.

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« Reply #81 on: May 23, 2013, 08:29:00 PM »

My money will not be heading that way.
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« Reply #82 on: May 23, 2013, 09:21:40 PM »

An hour's worth of extra's would doubtless lure me in a better economic climate. Doubtless will show up on You Tube or local library, the extra bits may even be on You Tube now, though possibly not in polished up form. Will always love John, seeming to speak very much in character, when he says, Careful Paulie, she'll deceive you with her filthy eastern way. Something like that or maybe those precise words.
If one likes or loves the Beatles the songs of course are not the problem with any of their movies. And I believe Help to be the top of the heap in that regard. In fact left to pick only one, it is my favorite of their albums, of course referering to the version that only has Beatles tracks on it, not the one we got on Capitol.
I recall on my ninth birthday my Father put it to a vote between my friends and I between the then new movie or a University of Illinois football game. Mine was the only vote for the Beatles, maybe I had a fit, not sure, but we did go to see the Beatles.
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« Reply #83 on: May 24, 2013, 11:34:03 AM »

Kahleesii be praised,what was wrong with Help? 4 nice young lads whose fame never went to their heads, Rumpole, the jewish lad out of never mind the quality and the dad off father dear father, Eleanor Bron and a clutch of songs to die for, otr at least have your finger cut off for>
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« Reply #84 on: May 24, 2013, 12:21:43 PM »


Kahleesii be praised, what was wrong with Help?


Well, for one thing, the Indian characters seem increasingly silly and borderline offensive as the years go by.  Oh and what passes as a plot is paper thin.  It isn't fit to stand side-by-side with A Hard Day's Night, that's for sure.

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« Reply #85 on: May 24, 2013, 02:49:53 PM »



Kahleesii be praised, what was wrong with Help?


Well, for one thing, the Indian characters seem increasingly silly and borderline offensive as the years go by.  Oh and what passes as a plot is paper thin.  It isn't fit to stand side-by-side with A Hard Day's Night, that's for sure.

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All true. But it is shot beautifully. The musical sequences are great. The songs are of course fab. And...well... its The Beatles isn't it!
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« Reply #86 on: May 24, 2013, 02:58:42 PM »


All true. But it is shot beautifully. The musical sequences are great. The songs are of course fab. And...well... its The Beatles isn't it!


That's all true as well.  And the house with four doors is, of course, iconic.  Plus John lights up the screen several times with his own brand of sarcastic daftness.

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« Reply #87 on: May 25, 2013, 08:01:14 PM »

Unlikely I shall be adding this to the collection. I already have the video that will never be watched again. And two copies of the DVD (one being an unwanted family chrismas pressie). The LP (original copy), the CD, and the mastered CD. Enough is enough... Even if it is The Beatles.
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« Reply #88 on: August 29, 2013, 07:08:49 AM »

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beatles-plan-second-volume-of-bbc-recordings-20130828

Home recordings this time...
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« Reply #89 on: August 29, 2013, 07:55:08 AM »



Thanks for the info, terrrrrrrr.

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« Reply #90 on: August 29, 2013, 08:46:01 AM »

It will be interesting to see what this is like. The similarly sourced material on the Fairport BBC box for example is interesting in an archival sort of way but does not bear repeated listening for purely pleasurable purposes. I hope we don't end up with a disc of muffled and distorted Beatle performances. That would do their legacy no good at all and if I wanted to hear that I would listen to the Star Club recordings.
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« Reply #91 on: August 29, 2013, 10:08:21 AM »


It will be interesting to see what this is like. The similarly sourced material on the Fairport BBC box for example is interesting in an archival sort of way but does not bear repeated listening for purely pleasurable purposes. I hope we don't end up with a disc of muffled and distorted Beatle performances. That would do their legacy no good at all and if I wanted to hear that I would listen to the Star Club recordings.


Yeah, similar thoughts.  But if any group can afford the best engineers to apply the requisite amount of spit and polish, it's the Fabs.

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« Reply #92 on: August 29, 2013, 10:59:59 AM »

The BBC Beatles Live at The Beeb recordings (Saturday Club etc) are not of a wonderful quality, and thats from the Beebs record vaults. If the new sources are from home reel to reels, I can imagine the quality, even given all the technical wizardry at the Fabs disposal, I'm not holding out a lot of hope.
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« Reply #93 on: August 29, 2013, 06:21:19 PM »

http://www.mojo4music.com/6163/paul-mccartney-new/

Sounds like his voice is finally admitting it's age. Which to me at least, is a sad day.
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http://www.mojo4music.com/6163/paul-mccartney-new/

Sounds like his voice is finally admitting it's age. Which to me at least, is a sad day.


Voice doesn't sound too bad to me but I'm not sure about the song.
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« Reply #95 on: August 29, 2013, 08:53:07 PM »


http://www.mojo4music.com/6163/paul-mccartney-new/

Sounds like his voice is finally admitting it's age. Which to me at least, is a sad day.


It has been for a good few years now, alas.

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« Reply #96 on: August 29, 2013, 09:24:57 PM »

Appalling.
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« Reply #97 on: August 29, 2013, 09:48:51 PM »

That's really sad but at least we know  where the Penny Lane outtakes went. Wink and the drum track.....
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« Reply #98 on: August 30, 2013, 12:43:48 PM »

I'm prepared to forgive a lot of what Macca does (and over the years there's been some proper dross). Maybe this should be a call to him to consider calling it a day. But I'll be sad whenever he does.
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« Reply #99 on: August 30, 2013, 02:05:09 PM »

Is it not possible to sue Macca for plagiarism?
 That song is a gruesome distortion of beatles music
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