just wonderin if anyone is gonna get ahold of the beatles rock band and also the remastered cd boxset?

I saw Dhani Harrison on the tonight show with Conan O'Brien, man! he looks just like his dad George! spittin image! gotta check out his music!

I have Rock Band: Beatles ...just the game, not the entire set. I already had all the instruments, seemed like a waste to rebuy them just because they were specially branded. Picked it up at midnight at my local GameStop. They had it set up there at the store and me and a couple of guys did the vocals together, which is the part I was excited for more than anything else. It'll be great to get with my friends on Live to do this. Huzzah!

I do have the remastered box set on its way...should arrive tomorrow I imagine. I forgot to ask for overnight shipping when I pre-ordered it. Oops.

~ Amanda

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I'm listening to the Stereo Remasters right now just as I happened upon this thread!

The internet is raving about them, but I have to admit I haven't noticed a huge difference. But then I haven't really turned up the volume yet, or listened on a really good hi-fi, and maybe I just don't have the best ears! Regardless, it's just great having another excuse to listen to the greatest band ever (probably)...

What I'm really waiting for is the Mono box. The early albums should sound better than ever in properly remastered mono.

Oh, I also found a fun list from worst to best, of all the Beatles songs, made by a dedicated fan with too much time on their hands... : http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/05/playing-the-beatles-backwards-the-ultimate-countdown/

 Btw, Amanda, I've always been a fan of your avatar, but when I went searching for Winona pics on the net a few days ago (after finding her more beautiful than ever when watching Edward Scissorhands) I had surprising difficulty finding any good ones. Any specific source? Oh, and is it just me, or is there a pic of a bawling Lara Flynn-Boyle amidst the Winona pics in your avatar!?

I've heard a number of people say the same thing about the stereo set. So you're not alone. :D I too am looking forward to the mono set as well. I have all their albums on original vinyl (my dad gave me his record collection when I was a kid) and you just cannot beat that good proper mono sound.

I got all my avatar images from a Winona Ryder fansite back in like 2003. Mostly because I was too lazy to make my own screen captures. lol And the photo that I think you're talking about is actually Winona as Dinky Bossetti in Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael which is believe it or not my favorite Winona film. :)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

I'll probably slowly collect the remastered albums. My excuse is that, technically, my mother has ownership of our Beatles CDs, and Sharpie-labeled copies aren't gonna cut it forever. Also, I kind of intend to be a minor audiophile when I start making the big bucks. So "remastered" = hell yeah. (I can definitely tell how out of date the old CDs are when ripped tracks are played next to recent releases on a shuffled iPod. Lot of volume control going on in those situations.)

As for B:RB... considering how big I've gotten into these music-simulator games (well, what do you call them?) this last year, I'm pretty damn excited to give it a shot. Once I've found someone who actually shelled out the dough, and I go over to their place to play it, of course. (Don't have to hop a flight to Cali, I am on a college campus, ya know.)

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 I have to admit I've never seen that film, but if you place it above Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice and The Age of Innocence then I've got to watch it! Oh, and I thought I'd just share this great picture that I did find when searching:

In terms of Winona's performance, I don't know that it's her best work, but it's the character of hers that spoke the most to me (plus I just really like that film), followed closely by Veronica Sawyer in Heathers. Most people I know have never seen Roxy Carmichael and it's rare I find someone who actually knows the film. Oh well. :)

Funny enough, Edward Scissorhands is my favorite film of all time. I'm just not all that enamored with Winona's role in it so much as I am with the rest of the film, so on the Winona scale, it doesn't rank high. But on the Manda scale, it's at the top. :)

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

amanda, what did you think of 'a scanner darkly'?
also, ive got a winona question thats been bugging me.
what exactly happened with that whole shoplifting thing?
did the truth ever come out?
and i definitely second the vote for roxy carmichael and heathers. my sister went through a winona phase in her early teens and sometimes she would let me choose the movie, as long as ryder was in it. i usually went with heathers or beetlejuice(mermaids is pretty good too), but roxy has its charm as well. weirdly i just bought edward scissorhands yesterday in a bargin bin for $5. i was impressed with how well that has held up. ed wood will always be my favorite burton film, but edward(and yes, pee-wee too) arent far behind.

JFK, I was about to mention A Scanner Darkly. I love that film, mainly because I love the book so much, but it's definitely the most sincere Philip K Dick adaptation. Winona Ryder does a good job in it, but she doesn't exactly stand out, especially with Robert Downey Jr. in prime twitchy odd-ball mode. Keanu Reeves is also perfect for the film. His acting is always mechanical and a bit wooden (funny how those two words go together) but that's what you need to play a guy whose mind is falling apart. He's a bit harder to deal with in The Matrix, where he's meant to represent humanity but acts more like a machine than the characters who are actually meant to be machines...

(Maybe, we should change the thread title btw...)

I love Winona in Heathers, but Roxy Carmicheal is a great movie.  I forget completely she was in A Scanner Darkly.  Robert Downey Jr.  definitely stole the show in that one.

For the Beatles, I have alot of LPs so I don't feel driven to buy the sets or whatever.  I am kinda weirded out by the Beatles Rock Band thing but I don't play video games so that's that.  No hand eye coordination here.

Is Guitar Hero and Rock Band kinda like glorified karaoke or something?  I don't get it.

Guitar Hero and Rock Band are basically games for people who are too lazy to actually learn how to play guitar. :D You'd die if you saw how many people honestly think they're "rocking out" when they play that game simply because they can hit a general sequence of colored buttons.

I don't play the guitar on that game. I do drums and vocals. I play a real guitar in real life. I don't need to fake it otherwise.

Yes. I am a music/gaming snob. :D

~ Amanda

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1. "Martha, My Dear"

3. And, of course, Eric Clapton, who wrote "Layla" to woo Patti Boyd. He was there when her "old man had let [her] down". When Eric got Patti, he was inspired to write "Wonderful Tonight". Whew, this chick musta really had "something" going for her*

*I can pun with the best (worst) of 'em!

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As for the bonus Q, at a guess, Roll Over Beethoven?

#1 DELBERT MCCLINTON

#2 MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER

 "Joan was quizzical-Studied pataphysical science in the home..."

Pataphysics being the philosopy Jarry invented in which every event is seen as extraordinary.

what conversation inspired lennon to write  "he said, he said"?

what sound did lennon want on "tomorrow never knows" but was deemed unpractical by martin?

what was strawberry fields?

what beatles song is a parody of the beach boys?

what songs on "the white album" are recorded with just paul?

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Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in a suburb of Liverpool, England. John grew up near there, and he his aunt Mimi went to festivals held there every year.  There was a wooded area behind the home that Lennon nicknamed "Strawberry Fields".  (And there is a memorial to Lennon in Central Park, N.Y.C., named Strawberry Fields.)

And I would guess Back in the U.S.S.R. as the Beach Boys parody.