Beatles Album Production
Discussions focus on how The Beatles and other classic rock bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd created iconic albums using far less advanced recording technology than modern DAWs, often contrasting with contemporary music production debates.
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Those albums sound a bit different! :)
Beatles albums have a lot of hard pans on them as I recall.
At least they didn't force a U2 album on you this time
It's more like not listening to 'elevator music' covers back then.
Everything the Beatles, Sex Pistols, Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Lou Reed, Abba, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, and Miles Davis used to record with was infinitely less powerful than Ardour. Yet somehow they were able to cough up some acceptable music.
About as powerful a quote as "Even some Beatles fans think X album is 'style over substance'."Who cares? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to crank up Vordhobsn and write some code.
Some of the worlds best music albums were created in that way.
That's just a "works on my machine" type of comment. Or anecdata etc. pp.A hipster might tell you, that the songs that got removed and you didn't notice or knew where by bands that you never even have heard of. But wait, maybe you have heard of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell ..nah
>Half can't get off their knees praising them.The other half see them as bandwagon music.They are both right. OK Computer and Kid A deserve all their praise and more. They were like nothing else in popular music at the time. After those two records, they were rather bandwagonesque, although to their credit, they did create the bandwagon they have ridden on since then. Although the self-release they did for In Rainbows certainly changed the artist relationship with fans and media co
I grew up with their albums (my hippy mom had a few from their psychedelic period, my step father had some of their last few).If you listen to the albums, not what the DJ's spin in the radio, you got a much richer tapestry of songs, maybe a greater respect for their creativity, inventiveness.As an example, people unfamiliar with the Beatles complete catalog have of late been flipping over "Tomorrow Never Knows" [1] (from 1966!) and overlooked gems like [2] "Hey Bulldog&