TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Turq,
>>
>> Shame on you, BECAUSE you love music so much -- but there you are --
>> sigh -- paying attention to the words? Wha???
>>
>
> I haven't listened to the Beatles in years, and
> probably won't much in the future. Bad mix, dude.
>
> Really. Far too much treble, not enough bass, bad
> balance between the instruments. All George Martin's
> fault. It sounded good at the time, but that was
> because no one else had really done much with mixing
> at that point. Now that they have and we in the
> audience have heard what good mixes sound like, I'm
> sorry to say it but I find much of the Beatles' music
> nigh unto unlistenable.
They were mixed for AM radio. I believe some of the tracks have been
remixed. My first Beatles album was on reel-to-reel tape (back when you
could get albums that way) and sounded a world apart from the LP.
Martin was innovative and kept them from being just another also-ran.
