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Is YSS worth buying?

2 February 2013
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I want to know, does it really sound anything different or am I just buying songs I aleady have?

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2 February 2013
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You're just buying songs you have already.

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2 February 2013
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Its the normal regular versions remixed from the original tapes so there are differences in the songs, some work well (Eleanor Rigby) some not so much (Lucy In The Sky). I wouldnt go to the extreme of saying your missing out if you dont have it but then i dont play them that often anyway.

The best thing to come from it all were the 5.1 mixes that allowed for hearing isolated channels and therefore things you'd never otherwise get to hear – Pauls awful amateur trumpet blasts (Only A Northern Song), someone ringing the living daylights out of a bell (All Together Now) and the orchestral work of Eleanor Rigby which is far more interesting than the karaoke track on Anthology 2. I'd say hunt down the Kaleidoscope bootleg instead.

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10 February 2013
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I bought the YSS album last month – I'd never had it before. Some of the remixes sound a lot punchier than even the 2009 remasters. Hey Bulldog, for instance. I wish the Abbey Road guys would remix the whole back catalogue – they could do some amazing things with it.

By 'remixing' I mean bring out the instruments, make them shine; not add crappy drums and synths to ruin some perfectly good recordings, like those Love Me Do remixes.

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25 February 2013
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Joe said
I bought the YSS album last month – I'd never had it before. Some of the remixes sound a lot punchier than even the 2009 remasters. Hey Bulldog, for instance. I wish the Abbey Road guys would remix the whole back catalogue – they could do some amazing things with it.
By 'remixing' I mean bring out the instruments, make them shine; not add crappy drums and synths to ruin some perfectly good recordings, like those Love Me Do remixes.

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25 February 2013
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I get lost with the various versions.

There are two basic versions: the original (the one that's half orchestral music) and the Yellow Submarine 2.0 that includes all the songs in the movie minus the orchestral stuff.

Then there have been re-mixes and re-masterings of each, no?

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26 February 2013
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Does the Songtrack even exist for sale anymore? I thought it would've been allowed to go out of print when the remasters came out.

I've never owned the Songtrack myself, but it is worth hearing. Like Joe said, some of the remixes are better than the remasters of a decade later. (Also, didn't YSS provide the first-ever true stereo version of "Only a Northern Song"?)

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26 February 2013
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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 Yeah, they have reissued YSS with a soft cd case all the remasters came in. I got it for like four dollars at Half-Priced Books a couple years ago.

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28 February 2013
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Wow, definitely worth buying, especially at that price!

I'd certainly buy it for myself, anyways. It occurs to me that those four YS tracks are the only Beatles tracks I've never owned on CD. Well, not counting the Anthologies or the BBC sessions or any oddities like that.

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28 February 2013
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Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Then there have been re-mixes and re-masterings of each, no?

There was no remaster of Songtrack since one wasn't needed, as the original album was a remix from the original tapes. Much like LIB… Naked hasn't been remastered.

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28 February 2013
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mja6758 said

Into the Sky with Diamonds said
Then there have been re-mixes and re-masterings of each, no?

There was no remaster of Songtrack since one wasn't needed, as the original album was a remix from the original tapes. Much like LIB… Naked hasn't been remastered.

No reissue either. Are we just missing LIBN and Live At The BBC from having a complete download frenzy at itunes or have i missed something out?

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9 April 2013
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I would buy it as a collector, but other than that, I already have the songs (multiple versions of those on YSS and most Beatles songs, hence why I have 836 on my iPod) so I see no other point to buy it. If they were different versions of the songs, yeah I would definately get it. Oh, and as a side note, a few years ago when I first looked up YSS, I remember reading somewhere that the version of "Yellow Submarine" on YSS had the outtaked spoken intro on it, and I don't remember where I read it, because it's certainly not on the album.

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