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Post by chrislc on Dec 20, 2012 20:39:45 GMT -5
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Post by ronnie21 on Dec 22, 2012 16:07:37 GMT -5
brain wilson had a terrible song maybe like 10 years ago or more called YOUR IMAGINATION..
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Post by mga707 on Dec 22, 2012 16:29:19 GMT -5
Not sure whether it's 'urban legend' or true, but the story is that the Spector Christmas LP had the singular bad luck to be released on November 22, 1963.
Who the heck is 'brain' wilson?
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Post by chrislc on Dec 22, 2012 17:19:04 GMT -5
Not sure whether it's 'urban legend' or true, but the story is that the Spector Christmas LP had the singular bad luck to be released on November 22, 1963. Who the heck is 'brain' wilson? Both the Spector Christmas album and With The Beatles were released on 11/22/63. |
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Post by tarobe on Dec 23, 2012 7:19:48 GMT -5
But in different countries. A Christmas Gift to You was released here in America. With the Beatles was released in Britain. Here in America there was no With the Beatles until it was released as a CD in February 1987.
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Post by mga707 on Dec 23, 2012 19:07:03 GMT -5
But in different countries. A Christmas Gift to You was released here in America. With the Beatles was released in Britain. Here in America there was no With the Beatles until it was released as a CD in February 1987. "With the Beatles" shares nine tracks with "Meet the Beatles". Capitol always screwed with the British EMI/Parlophone LP releases in order to squeeze two LPs out of every British one. The remaining "With the Beatles" tracks showed up on Capitol's "The Beatles Second Album". Capitol added non-British LP tracks to both to round them out. |
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Post by tarobe on Dec 24, 2012 8:38:48 GMT -5
Compared to its British counterpart, Meet the Beatles is definitely the better album. Capitol wisely omitted five cover versions in favor of three Lennon and McCartney originals to produce an album that showcased the band's talents as songwriters. The one cover that was included, "Till There Was You," was left in to show people that the Beatles were not only rockers, but they could handle pop material as well.
The idea that Capitol "butchered" a cohesive, conceptual work is absurd. With the Beatles was just a collection of songs, bonus tracks to accompany the hit singles "She Loves You" (which was still riding high in the charts when the album was released) and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (which came out a week after the LP). It wouldn't be until a few years later that albums would be conceived as complete works within themselves. (Notice Capitol didn't "butcher" Sgt. Pepper.)
Meet the Beatles was just a collection of songs too. It was assembled to help sell the single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (and outsold it). I've always considered it something like an "I Want to Hold Your Hand" maxi-single with 11 bonus tracks. With the Beatles sounds incomplete without "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "I Saw Her Standing There" and "This Boy."
As for The Beatles' Second Album (which I think should have been called The Beatles' Other Album), it was assembled from scraps. The five leftover cover versions from With the Beatles, the single "She Loves You" (which it was meant to showcase, along with "Roll Over Beethoven" which Capitol intended to release as a single) and some B-sides. It also included two brand new tracks that weren't released in Britain (yet), rejects from the film A Hard Day's Night .
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