Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The New Past Masters

Well, Apple Inc and Apple Corps finally settled their long-running
(like, since 1978) battle and the Beatles entire catalog is now
available on iTunes. The Fab Four collection promptly invaded the iTunes
sales charts like a virus...there was a pent up demand for it for sure.
Not sure what happened behind the scenes, but Apple Inc got their demand
for individual song sales, something Apple Corps was dead-set against.

I listened to a few of the new 2010 remasters and they sound absolutely
phenomenal. The four years spent remastering every single song has
really paid off. The Beatles have never sounded this good, it's a huge
improvement in sound quality over all previous masters.

The best quote attached to the press release was, as always, from Ringo
Starr:

"I am particularly glad to no longer be asked when the Beatles are
coming to iTunes"

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