Road Trip - The Canon
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 12:11 am
I'm going out to visit a friend over Labor Day weekend. 9-10 hour drive each way. By myself. So for the first time in years, I'm going to get to take "The Canon" (i.e. all of the accepted commercial Beatles albums, primarily as Parlophone initially released them, and the singles collections) with me and have uninterrupted listening pleasure, everything in order from the Decca records, both as themselves and with Tony Sheridan, through to Let It Be.
Yes, the other recordings are wonderful in their own way as well, from my vinyl of the Star Club tapes (the one that has now been buried - but I got one back then before it was) to Anthology, Let It Be Naked, etc., and the various greatest hits compilations, but not this trip. I will have lots of time for that later on.
Oh - and just so everyone will know - I don't have all the Capital rainbow label vinyl; but I do have the "second generation" Apple vinyl, including a numbered White Album (purchased new, of course); Moreover, all of my CD's, which is what I'm taking, were purchased new by me the first month of release on CD of each album in 1987-8, including a numbered CD White Album, and the compilations of the singles that didn't make it on to albums, when the collections were first issued as well on CD.
Should I get the remastered 2009 editions? Maybe. On the original CD's, do I miss, among other things, the omission of the first chord on "I'm Looking Through You," and some other details, and the general airiness and natural dynamic expansion? Yes. But I do have the vinyl.
On this trip, it is the Canon on original CD issue. Happy Labor Day to everyone!
Yes, the other recordings are wonderful in their own way as well, from my vinyl of the Star Club tapes (the one that has now been buried - but I got one back then before it was) to Anthology, Let It Be Naked, etc., and the various greatest hits compilations, but not this trip. I will have lots of time for that later on.
Oh - and just so everyone will know - I don't have all the Capital rainbow label vinyl; but I do have the "second generation" Apple vinyl, including a numbered White Album (purchased new, of course); Moreover, all of my CD's, which is what I'm taking, were purchased new by me the first month of release on CD of each album in 1987-8, including a numbered CD White Album, and the compilations of the singles that didn't make it on to albums, when the collections were first issued as well on CD.
Should I get the remastered 2009 editions? Maybe. On the original CD's, do I miss, among other things, the omission of the first chord on "I'm Looking Through You," and some other details, and the general airiness and natural dynamic expansion? Yes. But I do have the vinyl.
On this trip, it is the Canon on original CD issue. Happy Labor Day to everyone!