I agree with David, only if they sell some previously unreleased stuff. Besides that, it should be a cash cow for the Beatles.

jonny185

OASIS!

The last great album the Beatles put out was One. Since then, everything has been garbage.

I think it’s about time Ringo goes into the studio to remaster some of the older stuff (I wanna hold your hand, strawberry lane, etc.). Paul has been going down the shoots since his day with the Wings.

It’s about time that someone else gets control.

I think that Michael McDonald, Yoko Ono and Courtney Love single handedly ruined rock ‘n roll.

Thanks.

Beatles, if you read this please release new material. I’m tired of the older stuff. Thanks. Maybe a box set?

Ok, thanks.

Picked up Rubber Soul on vinyl just the other day at a Thrift Shop for a quarter. It’s the Capitol Records mono format catalogue T 2442. After I gently cleaned the album, I took it for a spin on my turntable. It’s nice to know that I’m listening to the album as it was originally intended by the artists. In addition, I’m listening to the same version that had some influence on Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds. I have some Beatles’ on CD, and I must admit it sounds good all trumped-up. But iTunes? That’s laughable! I guess there is a market out there for it somewhere, but you won’t find me plugging that “noise” into my ears.

Um…why would I buy crappy 128 kpbs mp3’s ripped from the awful 20 year old CD masters, encoded so that Apple can tell me where and how I can listen to the music that I supposedly own?

How is this even an issue?

Penispenispenis paul McCartney and yoko can bite my apples Penispenispenis.

More penispenis money? For what, Penispenis? And what penispenispenis is this “download” penispenispenis thing anyways? Penis?

all i want is a day in the life

I’m tired of The Beatles. It’s 2006, fer cryin’ out loud! Stop playing that tired crap all the time and try something your square ass has never heard before like The Buzzcocks or Guided By Voices. Jesus!

Three words for our legendary lads:ONE MORE TOUR(I heard Paul’s son is a good guitar player)!By the way Jizz,whatchu thinkin’…or puffin’?

Beatles are turds.

not only do I already own all of the cds, but I have already downloaded them all too. why buy the milk when you can get the cow for free (or something like that)

I’m a Beatle fan from way back…I own the entire catalogue on vinyl & also CD (let’s not talk about 8-tracks), & I must say that after listening to both the Yellow Submarine soundtrack & …Naked, that it is high time for the Fab Four to remaster, not unlike The Stones did a few years ago. I’m not much of a downloader, as I really enjoy going to a “record” store to shop for my music, but if this is a way to get another generation turned on to some of the greatest music of a generation, the by all means, go to it i-tunes!

you can’t just start changing what songs are on what album. The albumcame out in 1967, so let me buy the songs that came out on it in 1967. Shit….your like George Lucas or Speilberg tryinf to change out classics…ass hole.

There are surely songs I would buy, especially if the release the b-sides to all those singles.

what they NEED to do is remaster their catalogue and package stray singles with their albums. for example, strawberry fields and penny lane should get added to sgt. pepper. man…i’d sell blood to buy that album!

Why do people even use iTunes when those awesome Russians have much cheaper sites? I refuse to give in to the apple dynasty.However, if releasing The Beatles catalog on iTunes will help get more people to listen to The Beatles than rock on! No band will ever come close to the them..I already have all The Beatles stuff including the new Love album…Man, I’m 23…anything new of The Beatles is exciting since I was there to live with it back in “the day”. Quite hating on that album you “negative nancies”

Happy Christmas, War is Over (if you want it)

russians are selling them already….
i renewed the whole collection with a help of www.lavamus.com.

well they bhavent released “carnival of light” which was recorded during the same sesions of penny lane, and is said to bea pyschedelic amelstrom like revolution 9, but by all 4 beatles. it owuld of been on anthology 2, but George vetoed it,
beatles love is a soundtrack for the cirque de soleio

Don’t care how the remasters sound the boys are alright with me.

Waste of time!

The Beatles’ catalogue must be up to the standards of Yellow Submarine Songtrack, Let It Be…Naked and Love. I’m talking about the remixing as well as remastering. The 1 album was nothing I’d already heard before.

To agree with everyone: i have everything the Beatles ever released, so there’s no point in downloading for me. Also, they’re re-releasing the entire catalogue remastered on cd soon so i’ll be buying that.
And for all you “Love” haters: give it a chance! it’s worth it for the Lady Madonna track alone!

The Beatles were hardly “One of the first bands to have their music issued on CD”. Does no-one else remember how they held out for five years or so, long after many others had much of their work released, before engaging in a special release campaign in ‘87? Bah. Would I bother buying it from iTunes? Never. Why would you buy poor quality DRMd files locked into a proprietary system that sound like crap? Madness! Save your money. The remasters will probably come along next year, for the 30th anniversary. Buy ‘em in 5.1 and be happy. Otherwise, it’s all just a waste of time.

I am sticking with my CD’s. I own the entire catalog, plus the BEATLES ANTHOLOGY. As for the “new” (cough cough) “LOVE” CD, no thanks.

They need to remaster those bad-boys.

Honestly, I own Sgt. Peppers, #1 and…thats it. I guess most people of my generation need to catch up on the Beatles a bit. And anyways, the Beatles will sell wherever they are placed. It will be a shame if they don’t.

why remaster everything? it’s not gonna make any song better! it’s the words and the melodies that move us, not the digital brightness!

keep the vintage sound. i’ wouldn’t be interested in modern-sounding beatles songs.

As a die hard Beatles fan,why would I or anyone else buy the Beatles songs off of ITunes when I already have all their CD’s?I have everything from Please Please Me to Let It Be.I even have Past Masters 1 & 2,all three Anthologys,the new CD-”Love”.I have some Beatle imports and a CD called “The Abbey Road Companion” so,unless there a some songs that haven’t been released yet,I will just stick to the CD’s.

right. thats what i was trying to spit out. the cds are horribly outdated soundwise, they havent been touched since 1987! so i know aspinall had said recently they were working with the best digital technology at abbey road to bring the sound up to date so they could rerelease the entire catalogue. only then would the songs be available online

I wouldn’t be interested. I already own everything they’ve ever released. Maybe if they were going to offer something new instead of just “remastered” tracks, then there’s the issue of the, in my opinion, poor sound quality.

actually if you own the catalogue on cd right now, the quality is not good. If you want an idea of what the remastered Beatles albums will sound like, then buy “Love”

i believe neil aspinall has said that the beatles albums would go on i-tunes once the entire catalogue is remastered…in other words, the sound quality would of all the albums would match (or even better) the superior sound of the 1 album from a couple years ago. so then the cds would be reissued and repackaged as well. i’m guessing beatles fan will probably prefer the cds to the downloaded songs. i dont know about you, but i prefer to have something i can hold rather than data on my computer…its just a matter of personal ownership, one of the best aspects of being a music fan, especially a beatles fan! so hopefully the cds will be remastered within the next year or so.

Ermm… Magical Mystery Tour is one of their best albums. Strawberry Fields forever & Penny Lane are in the words of George Martin the best Beatles songs ever made.

lets see, itunes 128 bit encoding or apple lossless from ripping the albums?

One of the first bands to have their albums issued on CD? Not so much. Try a late holdout in the conversion to CD.

Haha, I think I’m just more excited to read all of the stuff they write about the Beatles than I am to actually hear the music coming from iTunes and not my CD player… and yes, if they have some rare tracks, that would be mega-sweet!

I own every album they’ve released except Let It Be…Naked, The Red and Blue Albums, and the new one, Love. That means I do own:
Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The White Album
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Past Masters, Vol. 1
Past Masters, Vol. 2
Anthology 1
Anthology 2
Anthology 3
The Beatles 1

Why would I buy anything from iTunes… and if you own less than all of the CDs I do… for shame, for shame.

I’m downloading LOVE off an overseas site as we speak..(see if it’s worth buying…of course I will buy it for real eventually)

I’d buy 5.1 mixes on CD or DVD but I already have all of this on LP and CD

I would buy things like the incredibly rare 27 minute and 11 second take of Helter Skelter. that would be a dream come true

mmt is sweet. and now it’s on itunes, maybe they’ll have some rare tracks like they did with dylan

I would buy them becasue the albums will be remastered and have great sound quality.Hopefully they will be like metallica and release unreleased songs that were recorded for an album but then disbanded. This is going to be awesome!!!!!

Fantastic! Apple belongs on Apple. And Beatles downloads are great for people who don’t get their music only from CD’s. As far as the Beatles are concerned, I own absolutely every CD that becomes available, and if higher-quality versions become available, I’ll buy them, too. And yes- I heartily agree with those who took issue with the stupid remark regarding Magical Mystery Tour- which contains some phenomenal, classic songs. I think Rolling Stone would be better off with less content than what we’re getting projectiled at us lately, especially online, from some of these smart-ass no-talent so-called writers. “Go back to school, man,” as Dylan used to say!

I’m waiting for the next box set in their US album series presented in both mono and stereo. It should have Revolver, Yesterday and Today, Sgt Pepper and yes, MMT, hopefully with all the original art work.

The Beatles are what made people go out and buy full length albums because every song was so great. I dont really think having them on ITunes is going to ruin that. If someone buys a song or two and enjoy it most likely they will buy the whole album. By the way how can you goof on an album that has Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, and I am the Walrus on it??

Magical Mystery Tour is fantastic. So what if it comes between Sgt. Peppers and the White Album? Still damn good.

I don’t really get it. Why Magical Mystery Tour? The album contains a lot of great songs that many people love.

I would only buy something if they had something I already didnt have. Which is un-bloody likely.

Magical Mystery Tour was alot better than Yellow Submarine

Well, maybe if they put some singles and b-sides or EP’s that aren’t available anywhere else or something. Or if they remastered their catalogue, which they haven’t done yet. Maybe then I’d buy online.

Oh, and I’d also buy some of the albums I don’t have yet, like Meet the Beatles.

If they are remastered and sound as good as the tracks on “LOVE” I’ll buy the lot (again)

F*** Rolling Stone for picking on Magical Mystery Tour. The movie sucked but the album is great.

hell titty fuckin yes since i am only 17 i do not have all the albums yet just revolver and abbey road so that would be great

why do people bother using itunes, the sound quality is crap and they still dont have other good artists. just buy the cds andput them on your computer

Regarding Magical Mystery Tour, I always though “Flying” was pretty great. Sounds like a Beck song.

I personally think it could go both ways. The full albums are, for me at least, what make the beatles so great. Selling the single songs will pretty much reinforce many kids’ ideas that the beatles are just ‘yellow submarine,’ and getting just the essential songs is sufficient. They wouldn’t then scour the albums and discover the gold that is nearly every beatles song. On the other hand though, it may encourage further listening. Eh.

beatles on itunes is fine, but why must Rolling Stone keep picking on Magical Mystery Tour? Yes, Flying and Blue Jay Way suck. But the rest of it is very well known and very well liked. so be nice to the tour.

I can only hope that the catalogue is properly remastered and available by individual songs.

It wouldn’t have the same effect if fans were forced to buy the same CD analogue version from the 80’s, and forced to buy an entire album if they only want a few songs (ex: Anthology series).

Still, this is good news for iTunes and Beatles fans.

Seeing as how The Beatles are one of the few acts whose near-entire catalogue is essential, and whose LP’s are true artistic statements, I’ll stick to the albums. Any reissuing would have to feature pretty significant remastering to interest me. One wonders if Paul & Ringo will complete “I Don’t Want To Lose You” (the abandoned Anthology reunion song) to promote the new era in Beatles distribution.

I agree with David, only if they sell some previously unreleased stuff. Besides that, it should be a cash cow for the Beatles.

it’s already on my computer, unless itunes puts out some exclusive material like it has done then i’m not buying anything

Big deal. iPods sound like shit anyway.

I would definatly get the few albums I don’t have like “Beatles for sale” and “Help!”

dumb question, who would repurchase music they already have? we’ve all obviously ripped the songs onto our cpu’s

Definitely not a single, I only roll with an entire album.