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Finally got my hands on the Beatles remastered box set, totally worth even though this will be like the 4th or 5th copy of Beatles songs I’ve bought (tapes, records, CDs, greatest hits, etc). I think I will stop buying copies until they come out with the super-duper, hi-fidelity, supertronic bitrate version that is beamed directly into your brain.

I got the stereo version but I get the feeling that the mono version would sound better. A couple of the songs on Please Please Me were in mono and they sounded better than the stereo tracks. Had a hard time getting use to the tracks coming completely out of one speaker or the other, it was a bit distracting. The later albums were mixed closer to the stereo we are used to now. But in the end it doesn’t really matter as the remastered songs sound amazing.

Now that you can hear the bass, I would like to make the case for Paul McCartney being one of the most under-rated bass players ever. Ringo’s playing isn’t bad either.

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Incredibad is one of the best albums I’ve heard in a while.  The album was made by the guys that do the songs on the Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts, which they should just make into a whole hour and replace SNL itself.  Featuring classics like Natalie Raps and Dick In A Box, the songs are well written, performed and produced, but most of all they are still funny as hell.  Even without the videos the songs totally stand on their own.

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The new Death Cab for Cutie album is really good and the first single has got to be catchiest stalker song I’ve heard since the Police’s “Every Breath You Take“. Oh yeah, this song also has one of the longest instrumental intros since anything that Pink Floyd has done.

Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me
It’s like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can’t read – just yet
You gotta spend some time–love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you’ll find–love, I will possess your heart (x2)

There are days when outside your window, I see my reflection as I slowly pass
And I long for this mirrored perspective, when we’ll be lovers, lovers at last
You gotta spend some time–love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you’ll find–love, I will possess your heart(x2)

I will possess your heart (x2)

You reject my advances and desperate pleas
I won’t let you, let me down so easily, so easily

You gotta spend some time–love, you gotta spend some time with me
And I know that you’ll find–love, I will possess your heart (x3)

I will possess your heart (x2)

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The new Nine Inch Nails album is available for a free download!  Other than having to give your email address, there are no tricks or gimmicks.  The best part?  In addition to a high quality MP3 option there are options for better sounding files, all the way up to a 1.5 gig option that is suppose to sound better than even CDs!  So I downloaded the MP3s for my iPhone and the mega-download for my home system.  There will be a real CD release in July if you are into that sort of thing.

http://dl.nin.com/theslip/

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Radiohead has just released their new album, In Rainbows, on the internet.  You can pay whatever you want for the download or pay nothing at all, its up to you.  Even if you only pay a buck or two, its about what the band would have made anyway had the album been release through a major record label.  Is this the beginning of the end for the labels?  Probably not, but its exciting to see a band like Radiohead taking chances with their music.

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Stevie Wonder is bad ass on the drums.

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