The Beatles finally on iTunes: Discuss

[DarthTrafford]

I think it's great that The Beatles are on iTunes at last.
I just have one question though.
Will The Beatles,dead and living,see any of the money from this?
Doesn't the estate of michael jackson own the rights to The Beatles music catalog?
Did The Beatles get around that by using "McCartney & Lennon" instead of "Lennon & McCartney" as song writers?

 

[The Mike]

I really wasn't aware that this was so monumental. I have a boxed set from The Beatles that I transferred into iTunes via CD a while ago

 

[pixletwin]

Don't care. I had their original CD from the early 90's and the restored/remastered Stereo and Mono boxes. Couldn't care less about iTunes story carrying their catalog.

 

[EVILFACE]

And ?

 

[Kabukiman]

This is probably Apple's biggest marketing fail ever. Yesterday, on Apple's web site, they teased an announcement "you'll never forget". Well, they were right. Now whenever they try to hype up an announcement I'll just think "meh, it's probably just another ____ty band getting added to iTunes."

 

[pixletwin]

I think it's great that The Beatles are on iTunes at last.
I just have one question though.
Will The Beatles,dead and living,see any of the money from this?
Doesn't the estate of michael jackson own the rights to The Beatles music catalog?
Did The Beatles get around that by using "McCartney & Lennon" instead of "Lennon & McCartney" as song writers?

1. Yes.
2. The MJ estate own some of them. MJ sold many of the songs to Sony Corp to pay for his legal woes.
3. No. Only two Beatle song were credited as Mcartney/Lennon (Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You) and it was long before anyone heard about MJ.

 

[Kamandi]

Besides a bit of corporate pride for Apple (computer) I doubt this means much to most Beatles fans. I think most of us had The Beatles albums on our ipods a long time ago.

I seem to recall Micheal Jackson sold his Beatles song catalog rights to Sony when he was having debt problems.

 

[The Mike]

I was hoping that their announcement had the updates to iPad, I want multitasking and air printing already.

 

[The Mike]

Besides a bit of corporate pride for Apple (computer) I doubt this means much to most Beatles fans. I think most of us had The Beatles albums on our ipods a long time ago.

Those are my thoughts too. Who is this for? People were already _____ing about having to buy them on CD a couple of times would fans really want another set on digital formatting? I'm happy with my CDs even though they are pretty much outdated.

 

[Kamandi]

3. No. Only two Beatle song were credited as Mcartney/Lennon (Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You) and it was long before anyone heard about MJ.

McCartney has asked Yoko Ono for years if she would flip the credits on two songs in particular: "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude". Legally it would (supposedly) mean very little, but McCartney says he would like due credit as they are truly his work.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Besides a bit of corporate pride for Apple (computer) I doubt this means much to most Beatles fans. I think most of us had The Beatles albums on our ipods a long time ago.

I seem to recall Micheal Jackson sold his Beatles song catalog rights to Sony when he was having debt problems.

If you're a true Beatles fan you'd already have their music in another form...or probably in every media that's already available. I read about this "surprise" on Saturday on another Apple forum, and someone guessed what it would be. I hate to sound old, but I doubt anyone under 30 really gives a damn. The full box set costs $149!!??

 

[karamazov80]

Yeah, I've had all their CDs for 10 years or so. Doesn't mean anything to me.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

The full box set costs $149!!??

 

[Darthrazz]

As it's already been posted. If you are a Beatles fan, you've had this stuff for years.

 

[Kamandi]

The real gem from the recent Beatles re-issues is the Mono stuff. The stereo and mono version of many Beatles songs were quite different as the stereo mixes of their early albums had different engineers. The band started taking an interest in the mixing process around the time of Rubber Soul and not so coincidentally this is when their style became more adventurous.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

Itunes pisses me off. Actually, Mr. Steve Job does. I bought music from the Itunes store in the past, but, since I have to authorize every single one of my Macs to play it, I don't buy there any more. It is non of Steve Jobs' business, on which computer I play the music I payed for. A CD doesn't give me that kind of trouble. That being said, Beatles are great. I still enjoy my vinyls.

 

[Kamandi]

Everything on my ipod is MP3. I've never used the istore. I like to buy stuff off Amazon. Everything is MP3, no DRM protection.

As for the Beatles I sampled my CDs to MP3 a long time ago.

 

[EVILFACE]

Just convert them from m4p to mp3.

 

[cokebabies]

The real gem from the recent Beatles re-issues is the Mono stuff. The stereo and mono version of many Beatles songs were quite different as the stereo mixes of their early albums had different engineers. The band started taking an interest in the mixing process around the time of Rubber Soul and not so coincidentally this is when their style became more adventurous.

You obviously can't go with just mono, since it doesn't have them all and some of the later albums are better in stereo. But for albums where both exist, the mono kills it. Rain's bassline in mono is so nice.

As for itunes, I couldn't care less. I've bought them on vinyl, cassette, about five different versions on CD, got them tattooed on my arm, and spent an assload on merch. I don't need to get them from itunes.

 

[Alice Adrenochrome]

Ah, didn't know that. Should be easy to find converters for Mac online.