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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Oct 25, 2021 17:33:32 GMT
It is for sure a cash-grab and they've been doing it deliberately since stereo came out. I remember reading something to the effect of where Paul wanted their stereo mixes to have enough differences to the mono mixes (running times, etc) so people would buy the same albums twice. That seems pretty unlikely, given that - after 1967 at least - the only mono albums issued were outside the US, where fans were unlikely to have enough disposable cash to buy both. And it doesn’t sound like something Paul would say, or even think. |
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Oct 26, 2021 1:28:35 GMT
"I think I'm gonna head to Ell Lay and go hang out with StEve Hoffman. Yes, THAT SteVE Hoffman. I can sit on his couch and listen to Wings at the Speed of Sound."
Sounds like something Paul would say or even think.
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Post by antiram on Oct 29, 2021 23:06:41 GMT
No, Paulie would never think of making people buy the same album twice! It would never cross his mind. How dare that infidel Zinni suggest such a thing! Can we cancel Zinni or something?
Give the man a little credit. He's not a superhero for nothing. Why stop at making people buy the same album twice when you can make them buy it thirty times and without even having to do more mixes? Pink vinyl, red vinyl, green vinyl, white vinyl, black vinyl, cola vinyl, yellow vinyl, bubblegum vinyl, whirled vinyl, shitstained vinyl. Never mind suitcases and archives and reimaginings and B-sides and duluxes and all the other chicanery.
Beatards please note: McCartney III is quite possibly the most corrupt #2 Billboard album in history, and for all those versions sold, there isn't even one song that rises above doggerel. The most corrupt #1 Billboard album in history is a similarly unlistenable, variant-heavy affair called Egypt Station by some unbecomingly randy old croaker by the name of...lessee, it says here "Paul McCartney" on the jacket. In retrospect, those solo Kiss albums that were intentionally over-shipped as platinum were paradigms of integrity; people still had to buy Ace's album to get it to #26, and there was only one version to buy.
However, on the plus side, as Beatards are the first (and usually only) people to note, McCartney has always been at the very cutting edge of music since 1962. And he has revolutionized the record industry again: in 2021, there are dozens of performers releasing new rekkids in every color of the rainbow just to get their number ones and twos.
I would hope that Sir Paul has instructions in his will that his final release, to come out in the tragic days following his passing, will be a 12-album/CD Box Set of Complete Rarities and Outtakes, in which there are 12 versions of the box with completely different outtakes from one another, each coming in 20 color variants, with each color variant sporting one of four different handsome portraits of the fallen immortal as covers. Then, each of these 960 variants will come with enough playing card decks and suitcases and compasses and nose trimmers and the like that it is priced at about $500 apiece. How many Beatards would spend the remainder of their lives and what's left of their retirement money on tracking them all down? My guess: at least more than one, and the joke is on them.
If ya gotta go, why not go laughing?
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Post by daved on Oct 29, 2021 23:41:02 GMT
I’d take the Ace solo album any day over anything Sir Croak A Lot has put out in the last 40 years.
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Post by coddiwomple on Oct 30, 2021 7:38:26 GMT
No, Paulie would never think of making people buy the same album twice! It would never cross his mind. How dare that infidel Zinni suggest such a thing! Can we cancel Zinni or something? Give the man a little credit. He's not a superhero for nothing. Why stop at making people buy the same album twice when you can make them buy it thirty times and without even having to do more mixes? Pink vinyl, red vinyl, green vinyl, white vinyl, black vinyl, cola vinyl, yellow vinyl, bubblegum vinyl, whirled vinyl, shitstained vinyl. Never mind suitcases and archives and reimaginings and B-sides and duluxes and all the other chicanery. Beatards please note: McCartney III is quite possibly the most corrupt #2 Billboard album in history, and for all those versions sold, there isn't even one song that rises above doggerel. The most corrupt #1 Billboard album in history is a similarly unlistenable, variant-heavy affair called Egypt Station by some unbecomingly randy old croaker by the name of...lessee, it says here "Paul McCartney" on the jacket. In retrospect, those solo Kiss albums that were intentionally over-shipped as platinum were paradigms of integrity; people still had to buy Ace's album to get it to #26, and there was only one version to buy. However, on the plus side, as Beatards are the first (and usually only) people to note, McCartney has always been at the very cutting edge of music since 1962. And he has revolutionized the record industry again: in 2021, there are dozens of performers releasing new rekkids in every color of the rainbow just to get their number ones and twos. I would hope that Sir Paul has instructions in his will that his final release, to come out in the tragic days following his passing, will be a 12-album/CD Box Set of Complete Rarities and Outtakes, in which there are 12 versions of the box with completely different outtakes from one another, each coming in 20 color variants, with each color variant sporting one of four different handsome portraits of the fallen immortal as covers. Then, each of these 960 variants will come with enough playing card decks and suitcases and compasses and nose trimmers and the like that it is priced at about $500 apiece. How many Beatards would spend the remainder of their lives and what's left of their retirement money on tracking them all down? My guess: at least more than one, and the joke is on them. If ya gotta go, why not go laughing? In all fairness, bubblegum vinyl makes it sound like he’s right across the street. |
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Nov 1, 2021 15:11:07 GMT
I don't know what Paul did to Mr. Mayo, but I saw a video of his where he says he's boycotting Paul McCartney's Lyrics book. Who knows why. I'm sure he says why in his video but I don't watch him after watching those assholes going through Don's stuff. My guess is Mayo gave a handy to someone that said he was Paul's publicist that said he'd give him a free book, but it turned out to be a coupon for 50 cents off a Popeye's chicken sandwich. I'm sure Mayo used the coupon, but he's probably pissed that he got his hand all sticky and never did get a book.
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Nov 3, 2021 12:30:11 GMT
Looks like Mr. Mayo's resolve wasn't so strong after all. He bought Paul's book according to the thumbnail I see on my TV. I'm not interested in why, but even Rongo's stand up saw that one coming.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Nov 3, 2021 14:18:29 GMT
Looks like Mr. Mayo's resolve wasn't so strong after all. He bought Paul's book according to the thumbnail I see on my TV. I'm not interested in why, but even Rongo's stand up saw that one coming. That standee has seen a lot coming |
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 3, 2021 22:13:09 GMT
Looks like Mr. Mayo's resolve wasn't so strong after all. He bought Paul's book according to the thumbnail I see on my TV. I'm not interested in why, but even Rongo's stand up saw that one coming. That standee has seen a lot coming Isn’t the preferred spelling with a “u”? |
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Post by Chungus on Nov 10, 2021 4:49:20 GMT
 The horror film about a cursed videotape bootleg of Get Back session footage, that causes viewers to die of boredom seven minutes later. |
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Post by bradman on Nov 10, 2021 14:31:24 GMT
Rongo's Rotogravure Super Deluxe announced.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Nov 10, 2021 14:52:54 GMT
Rongo's Rotogravure Super Deluxe announced. The sad thing is that I would be interested in this (to download from... somewhere.) |
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