Paul McCartney Archive Collection
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Michelley:
david mitchelson:
God, this is sooo slow it's bordering on torture. Surely there's something in international law that states this sort of behaviour is illegal. I'll be seeking advice from my lawyer, once he is sober and upright, to discern whether action can be taken. Jack Bauer ain't got nothing on this lot....
: The only reason they can be taking soooo long is they're remastering as they go. You'd think they'd have got a good start on the project a couple of years ago and be releasing them in bigger bunches every couple of months up until Paul's 70th next summer..
It's been incredibly s-l-o-o-o-o-w. Especially if you're an idiot like me and make a personal vow not to listen to your favorite Paul album (say, Ram) until the reissue comes out. Maybe Paul has been changing his mind about what to include. Maybe there were problems with the remastering. Who knows? But I think he and Concord took a lesson from the Lennon reissues. Yoko reissued everything at once last September and it was too much. None of the Lennon reissues made it into the top 20, despite the huge publicity linking the reissues to his 70th. Only a few of them sold well, and some of them got completely lost. Perhaps Concord thinks that parcelling out Paul's reissues out more slowly will bring each work a little more attention. I'm just glad Ram is next, and that they're smart enough to reissue the album in the year of its 40th anniversary.
but it is complete torture on all of us waiting!
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Fascinating stuff !! Is this the thread where "double" cd song listings for "Flowers in the Dirt" are given, stating that "Flowers" was originally meant to be a 2 cd release? Fascinated to discover that, as there was so much variety, so many songs on "Flowers" anyway.
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I don't think Flowers in the Dirt was ever intended as a two disc set. The the second disc of the Japanese 2 CD version is clearly a bonus, up to and including an intro from Paul saying hi to his Japanese fans. There's several rehearsals, an old 'Cold Cuts' track, and a couple of songs that ended up as b-sides on the Flowers related singles. There's no way that album was conceived to include that second CD with the original album (not saying there were no plans for some form of a double disc, as I don't know that for sure - but definitely not as constituted by this Japanese double disc)
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Michelley:
Maybe Paul has been changing his mind about what to include. Maybe there were problems with the remastering. Who knows? But I think he and Concord took a lesson from the Lennon reissues. Yoko reissued everything at once last September and it was too much.
I know I'll get thirty lashes for being negative with my criticism again, but the Lennon reissues were poorly done. Many who bought the LENNON SIGNATURE BOX have complained about the poor packaging; no one thought to protect the discs with anti-static sleeves (a la the Beatles remasters) and there are no pins to hold the cd's in place, resulting in scratched discs galore. The covers themselves are flimsy, and no attempt was made to remain consistent with the original album art. Also, with a title like THE JOHN LENNON SIGNATURE BOX, doesn't it follow to use a reproduction of Lennon's actual signature, as opposed to commissioning some artist in Europe to create an approximation of it?
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I'm probably in the minority but I do wish Paul had reissued at least some parts of his catalogue as box sets. Albums like "Wild Life", "London Town" and "Back To The Egg" aren't going to set the charts on fire anyway and would IMO have benefitted from being included in a Wings box set containing all the studio albums, B-sides and rarities, Wings Over America, videos and a comprehensive book about the band. This would also have been a great opportunity for Paul to promote Wings as a group in its own right. A box like this would probably have been quite expensive but I would have preferred spending a few extra $ to this seemingly directionless reissue campaign that we are getting. It's been almost a year since Paul announced his switch to Concord and so far we have only gotten one reissue. That sucks. If I were Paul I would have done it like this: Autumn/Christmas 2010: Wings reissue campaign (replacing just Band On The Run) that would have included individual releases for each album (just to have them all in print at a cheap price) and a comprehensive box set. Winter 2011: McCartney and McCartney II special editions Spring 2011: RAM 40 years anniversary edition Summer 2011: New studio album Then from autumn 2011 start to reissue 3 albums at a time every 2 or so months. Whether we like it or not the majority of these reissues aren't going to be big sellers, and I doubt Paul will do much promotion anyway, so he might as well get on with it to keep his catalogue in print and so he can focus completely on future projects.
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Probably issue them in parts let us revisit each album one at a time.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Fascinating stuff !! Is this the thread where "double" cd song listings for "Flowers in the Dirt" are given, stating that "Flowers" was originally meant to be a 2 cd release? Fascinated to discover that, as there was so much variety, so many songs on "Flowers" anyway.
I think they mean Off The Ground. There was enough material recorded for that album for a two disc set, and there are some two-disc versions. Very rare to find now. Flowers could have been a double too, mainly because there were the leftover tracks from the discarded Return to Pepperland project between Press to Play and Flowers. Most of those have still never seen official release. The Paul McCartney Anthology awaits!
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LP_Quagmire:
Michelley:
Maybe Paul has been changing his mind about what to include. Maybe there were problems with the remastering. Who knows? But I think he and Concord took a lesson from the Lennon reissues. Yoko reissued everything at once last September and it was too much.
I know I'll get thirty lashes for being negative with my criticism again, but the Lennon reissues were poorly done. Many who bought the LENNON SIGNATURE BOX have complained about the poor packaging; no one thought to protect the discs with anti-static sleeves (a la the Beatles remasters) and there are no pins to hold the cd's in place, resulting in scratched discs galore. The covers themselves are flimsy, and no attempt was made to remain consistent with the original album art. Also, with a title like THE JOHN LENNON SIGNATURE BOX, doesn't it follow to use a reproduction of Lennon's actual signature, as opposed to commissioning some artist in Europe to create an approximation of it?
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A very disappointing set, to be sure. I don't know what you mean by being negative with your criticism, LP. When something's naff, it's pretty close to trolling to make glowing pronouncements about it...
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LP_Quagmire:
Michelley:
Maybe Paul has been changing his mind about what to include. Maybe there were problems with the remastering. Who knows? But I think he and Concord took a lesson from the Lennon reissues. Yoko reissued everything at once last September and it was too much.
I know I'll get thirty lashes for being negative with my criticism again, but the Lennon reissues were poorly done. Many who bought the LENNON SIGNATURE BOX have complained about the poor packaging; no one thought to protect the discs with anti-static sleeves (a la the Beatles remasters) and there are no pins to hold the cd's in place, resulting in scratched discs galore. The covers themselves are flimsy, and no attempt was made to remain consistent with the original album art. Also, with a title like THE JOHN LENNON SIGNATURE BOX, doesn't it follow to use a reproduction of Lennon's actual signature, as opposed to commissioning some artist in Europe to create an approximation of it?
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I don't think Yoko had the patience to handle Lennon's reissues the way they should have been handled. So she threw it all out there at once. And EMI has not exactly been flush with cash lately so it's no surprise they went on the cheap for these issues. It was all about a final cash grab by Yoko and EMI before the CD market completely collapses. I'm not sure why you think you are the only person who offers criticism on these boards. I haven't been around here very long but all I had to do was read the past threads to see that there are plenty of people (including relative newbies like me) who are not shy about critiquing the aspects of Paul's work that they don't like. And there are others who are uncomfortable with such criticism. It's a mix here and always has been. Some of Paul's biggest fans here are also some of his biggest critics.
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http://www.examiner.com/beatles-in-national/exclusive-the-inside-story-on-what-s-coming-the-paul-mccartney-reissues The word is that "Ram" will be next. "Ram," released in 1971, was the followup album to "McCartney." It yielded the single "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," which became an AM favorite and topped the charts. There's no specific release date on the new "Ram" reissue, but it's likely we'll see it out by the end of 2011. After that, the source said, there will be more Wings reissues, though there's no specific albums or release dates known yet. The previous reports of "Chaos & Creation in the Backyard," "Driving Rain" "Press to Play," etc., being reissued were not correct. Reissues of these albums is not imminent.
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Release date for McCartney I & II, plus Chaos, Driving Rain and Run Devil Run officially confirmed: http://www.maccablog.com/en/n-remasteredalbums-mccartneyiandmccartneyii-tobereleasedon6thjune-8110.html
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Thank you for the news.
So, Chaos And Creation, Driving Rain & Run Devil Run are coming out first, two weeks ahead of McCartney & McCartney II. But if the former three albums have not been remastered and are the same as the previous versions, it begs the question why re-release them?
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Kestrel:
Thank you for the news.
So, Chaos And Creation, Driving Rain & Run Devil Run are coming out first, two weeks ahead of McCartney & McCartney II. But if the former three albums have not been remastered and are the same as the previous versions, it begs the question why re-release them?
Because they're no longer being released or sold under EMI. This is simply to put them out under the Concord label. That's all.
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Michelley:
Because they're no longer being released or sold under EMI. This is simply to put them out under the Concord label. That's all.
And their the three that won't be remastered or have additional recordings added? Ok, i see that now.
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Kestrel:
Michelley:
Because they're no longer being released or sold under EMI. This is simply to put them out under the Concord label. That's all.
And their the three that won't be remastered or have additional recordings added? Ok, i see that now.
I wonder if those 3 might get a vinyl release here in the US finally? only released on vinyl in the UK I think, right? I might buy all 3 if that happens.
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For the 3 albums, our source says it'll be a standard version like when released by EMI.
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well i hope they'll be in the nice case not those plastic cases. And they could have a few bonus tracks in each album
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I hope that they will release them all in 96/24 bit audio...not expecting it though. Love the way BOTR sounds....I'm guessing they might do it for the remasters at least.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCartney_II If You Go down a but its got the setlist if the reissues
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venus rockshow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCartney_II If You Go down a but its got the setlist if the reissues
It's just copying the post made by the person who leaked this info. Nothing is official as of now. Remember he said that tracklisting was how it stood as of this past February. Things will probably change before the release but I do hope most of what's listed there (if not all of it) will be on the final version.