Stop! What Your Doing! Another Dana Poll

[dana]

I prefer for some reason the British ones, yet The U.S.'s Rubber Soul Album has a cool fake start on I'm Looking Through You, and the classic start (James Bond Theme) on Help!

[djdave]

What I grew up on--the American versions. "Help" is MUCH better with the Bond intro!

[Dawn]

I went with American. The British albums are more complete, and are as the Beatles intended, but most of my collection is the US versions, and I still have a soft spot for those album line-ups.

[H2IZCOOL]

With me, Dana, it's the American version. It's my "heard it first rule". It's what I was familiar with first.

[Pete70s]

I could go on and on about this.. If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said British without even thinking about it. I always hated the fact that the American albums were so short and that we never got to grow up with the same albums the rest of the world did.

However, I recently got the Capitol albums box set and heard those first four American albums come to life in a way I hadn't heard them since the mid-80's. "Not A Second Time" is a perfect closer, rather than "Money"! "Roll Over Beethoven" is a great opener! Let's face it, those of us who bought Beatles albums between 1964-1986 bought those American versions!

Not just the sequencing, but the sound quality is so much closer to the way I remember those albums. I always wondered why the British CD's sounded so flat and unexciting. Well, it's because the American albums were mixed differently, for American tastes.

So now I can't wait for the next instalment of American albums! If Capitol is smart (which isn't always likely), then the next box will contain "The Early Beatles", "Beatles VI", "Help" and "Rubber Soul". Then a volume 3 box can contain "Yesterday & Today", "Revolver" "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Hey Jude (The Beatles Again)". The rest of the albums were exactly the same worldwide, so they can just individually remaster those.

If Capitol REALLY wanted to continue to milk the reissue cow, they could reissue the long forgotten "Rock 'N Roll Music", "Love Songs" and "Reel Music" compilations. But what about the ONE album fans really WANT on CD, "The Beatles At THe Hollywood Bowl"?

But... I still hate the fact that the best three songs on Revolver got cut for the American album. So I go with Either/or.

[Ken]

The American

[SAT-I need more room!!]

British-more Beatles for your buck!

[Pete70s]

Ken said:

The American

Hi Ken,
This might sound like a dumb question, and I should probably kick myself for asking it, but how were the albums released in Canada? British or American?

[beatles4ever]

SAT-Laney's said:

British-more Beatles for your buck!

Amen to that!

[dana]

Pete70s said:

I could go on and on about this.. If you'd asked me a year ago, I would have said British without even thinking about it. I always hated the fact that the American albums were so short and that we never got to grow up with the same albums the rest of the world did.

However, I recently got the Capitol albums box set and heard those first four American albums come to life in a way I hadn't heard them since the mid-80's. "Not A Second Time" is a perfect closer, rather than "Money"! "Roll Over Beethoven" is a great opener! Let's face it, those of us who bought Beatles albums between 1964-1986 bought those American versions!

Not just the sequencing, but the sound quality is so much closer to the way I remember those albums. I always wondered why the British CD's sounded so flat and unexciting. Well, it's because the American albums were mixed differently, for American tastes.

So now I can't wait for the next instalment of American albums! If Capitol is smart (which isn't always likely), then the next box will contain "The Early Beatles", "Beatles VI", "Help" and "Rubber Soul". Then a volume 3 box can contain "Yesterday & Today", "Revolver" "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Hey Jude (The Beatles Again)". The rest of the albums were exactly the same worldwide, so they can just individually remaster those.

If Capitol REALLY wanted to continue to milk the reissue cow, they could reissue the long forgotten "Rock 'N Roll Music", "Love Songs" and "Reel Music" compilations. But what about the ONE album fans really WANT on CD, "The Beatles At THe Hollywood Bowl"?

But... I still hate the fact that the best three songs on Revolver got cut for the American album. So I go with Either/or.

I have to aree there, I Want To Hold Your Hand was perfect opener of Meet The Beatles, while Beatles VI, I don't think Kansas City was a great opener but Every Little Thing was a great closer.

[Ken]

Pete70s said:

Hi Ken,
This might sound like a dumb question, and I should probably kick myself for asking it, but how were the albums released in Canada? British or American?

It's not a dumb question at all Pete The albums that were released here all corresponded with the
American starting with the Something New album in July of '64. Before that we had three albums of our own released by Capitol of Canada - These were:

1.Beatlemania - With The Beatles - November of 1963 -

www.beatlecollectors.com/images/203_beatlemaniaLP.JPG


The same track listing as the British With The Beatles LP

2.Twist & Shout

www.beatlecollectors.com/images/203_TWIST_AND_SHOUT.JPG

Basically the same track listing as the British Please Please Me album but omits I Saw Her Standing There and add's From Me To You.


3.Long Tall Sally - May, 1964


www.beatlecollectors.com/images/203_long_tall_sally.JPG


As you can see by the picture, this has exactly the same artwork (front and back) as the Second Album. It includes pretty well the same track listing. Except that I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Saw Her Standing There were added, and Roll Over Beethoven and Thank You Girl are omitted.

Now what's kind of odd is that both The Second Album and Meet The Beatles were both eventually released up here but I'm not sure of their release dates but I always thought it was sometime in the early 70's.

[Pete70s]

Wow! A couple of those I've never seen before! I know that Capitol Of Canada exported the "Roll Over Beethoven" and "All My Loving" 45's (that were not released by the American Capitol) into the States to keep up with the demands for Beatles product in 1964. So I was curious as to how they handled album releases. With Canada in such close proximity to the U.S., I never gave much thought to it before. After all, one can easily drive across the border to get American records.

Thanks for the info, Ken!

Here's something interesting I found out recently: In India, 78's were manufactured until the mid 60's. And early Beatles records appeared on shellac 78rpm discs there until around 1965.

[Ken]

Pete70s said:

Wow! A couple of those I've never seen before! I know that Capitol Of Canada exported the "Roll Over Beethoven" and "All My Loving" 45's (that were not released by the American Capitol) into the States to keep up with the demands for Beatles product in 1964. So I was curious as to how they handled album releases. With Canada in such close proximity to the U.S., I never gave much thought to it before. After all, one can easily drive across the border to get American records.

Thanks for the info, Ken!

Here's something interesting I found out recently: In India, 78's were manufactured until the mid 60's. And early Beatles records appeared on shellac 78rpm discs there until around 1965.

No problem Pete

I just found that out recently myself - very cool! it sounds like you read the article in Record Collector.

[Phoenixsong]

British, mate !

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