August 2009
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July 2009
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Pre-order club update
Once again, I hear about a pre-order update not from the club itself, but from the plain old internet.
Today’s update featured yet another screenshot (from The Cavern doing I Saw Her Standing There) and the conclusion of the interview with Giles and Alex. Highlights commence after this colon and carriage return:
Giles: It was easy because it was in 4 track and 8 track, but the material we...
20 more songs to be announced soon? →
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WatchHarmonix guys demo and explain vocal training. The heading says this is for Wii, but I’d love to know for sure since I still wonder if the stupid Wiimote is going to ruin the look of the guitars.
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Great photo gallery of Rock Band screenshots →
Includes a shot of vocal training for And Your Bird Can Sing.
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Venues for new songs
PC World and others managed to find the venues for the newly revealed songs even though they’re not on the new trailer.
Twist And Shout / Cavern Club Do You Want To Know A Secret / Cavern Club Can’t Buy Me Love / Ed Sullivan Theater I Wanna Be Your Man / Ed Sullivan Theater Eight Days A Week / Shea Stadium Paperback Writer / Budokan And Your Bird Can Sing / Budokan Yellow Submarine /...
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Paul reveals another BRB song?
According to SPIN and others, Paul’s show at the new Mets stadium showed Rock Band video while they played Got to Get You Into My Life.
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Official Mono Past Masters tracklist, finally →
It’s the same as stereo Past Masters. Whoop-dee-doo. I didn’t know there were mono versions of those later songs…I’m a bit suspicious.
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Follow Beatles Rock Band on Twitter and Facebook
@thebeatlesrb
http://www.facebook.com/TheBeatlesRockBand
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P.S. I Love You remastered clip →
It’s the first song in the audio player under the video player.
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WatchNew trailer featuring 8 of the newly revealed songs!
“Twist & Shout” - Cavern
“Can’t Buy Me Love” - Ed Sullivan
“Eight Days A Week” - Shea (historically inaccurate)
“Paperback Writer” - Budokan (but luckily not using audio from there - ha)
“Yellow Submarine” - Dreamscape (Ringo looks eerily accurate here)
“Sgt....
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Ok, I need to read more before I post next time
So, 15 more songs were revealed today. Way to email the preorder club, Beatles. But thanks, Joystiq.
“Twist And Shout” *
“Do You Want To Know A Secret”
“Can’t Buy me Love” *
“I Wanna Be Your Man” (Can’t believe I missed this one in my last picks)
“Eight Days A Week” (I had this in at one point but removed it cuz the...
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BRB song predictions, part 2
Just for fun, thought I’d try to get the tracklist perfect, based on recent interviews with Giles Martin.
I’m only doing 35 songs since we know 10 already.
A Hard Day’s Night
Can’t Buy Me Love
You Can’t Do That
Baby’s in Black
I’m a Loser
Help!
Ticket to Ride
Dig a Pony
I’ve Got a Feeling
For You Blue
Hello, Goodbye
She’s a Woman
...
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Great recap of remasters first listen →
Some lucky UK journalists got to hear the remasters and play some Rock Band at Abbey Road Studio 2 recently.
“The tracks are clearer and cleaner. In the case of Can’t Buy Me Love, in particular, a very distracting fuzziness to the intro has disappeared,” he says. He compared the remastering process to “a little like removing the lint and allowing the performances to shine...
I Will remastered
Maybe I’d just never noticed it before, but the bass on I Will sounds amazing. Is it Paul’s voice or an acoustic bass?
White Album clips from Amazon Beatles store →
Fast forward through Revolver songs on the media player under the pic of John to get to White Album tracks.
So far, I hear even less of a difference than Revolver. So hard to tell with lossy though.
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Pre-order club update
An interview with Alex Rigopulos and Giles Martin provides insight into the song selection. Highlights:
Giles: So we chose songs, really, based around the fact that it’s all four of them playing.
Alex: [We chose] some songs that were incredible songs that weren’t number one hits, that maybe some people wouldn’t know as well, but that we would have an opportunity to introduce to the...
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Listen to remastered Revolver snippets →
Media player is in upper right, under the banner logo.
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album. With that said, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it with headphones or streaming online, so this mini-review isn’t worth much.
I feel like I hear more left/right separation in the first couple songs. Bass strings in Eleanor Rigby stick out more. Background vocals are stronger on...
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More proof that the mini-documentaries will suck
As I suspected a couple posts ago, the mini-documentaries that come with the remastered stereo albums are comprised of content from The Anthology.
You can see a snippet of the Revolve doc on thebeatles.com now.
That fake 3-D photo thing is used to the extreme. The only interesting part was zooming out from a cut-out of Paul’s head from the Revolver cover to show the original whole picture....
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Amazon's Beatles Store →
Amazon has done a great job with promoting all the Beatles stuff coming out this year. The site includes questions from Beatles Trivial Pursuit, one-stop shopping for all Beatles stuff, plus a video from Sgt Pepper’s remastered mini documentary.
The mini documentary appears to be completely taken from Anthology, maybe even some from the Anthology Director’s Cut. Anyway, I doubt any of...
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Pre-ordering BRB
I’m finally pre-ordering Beatles Rock Band bundle for Wii from GameStop since Best Buy still doesn’t offer in-store pickup for that game.
I am still concerned that I will not get the game on the morning of 09/09/09. It says that the product ships on 09/09/09. Pre-order is explained as such on the GameStop site:
Pre-order This product has not yet been released. Pre-ordering a...
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Pre-order club update
An email from thebeatlesrockband.com today tells me that pre-order club members can have access to a new screenshot, “plus a few downloadable bonuses.”
Since I don’t want to preorder this game and have to wait a few days to have it delivered, I have to do some investigating.
The new screenshot is of I Feel Fine at Shea, similar to this picture.
The downloadable bonuses are...
