By Marvin Marks on Nov 29, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
If you’re looking for Christmas gifts (or just for a great deal for something for yourself) then you should definitely check out Amazon’s “Cyber Monday” deals today. There’s a lot of great deals on all kinds of stuff, including music. For example you can get the Bob Dylan mono box set (his first 8 albums [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 24, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
The Beatles have 9 of the top 10 rock albums and 8 of the top 10 rock songs in the US iTunes rock charts. The Beatles music was made available to download through the iTunes store for the first time last week. But due to some great deals over at Amazon, it’s actually cheaper to [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 18, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
While there has been a lot of excitement about The Beatles music finally being available to download on iTunes (as you can see with the way The Beatles are dominating the iTunes charts) there are also still a lot of people purchasing The Beatles on CD. I’ve noticed that over on Amazon, The Beatles in [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 16, 2010 in Features | 5 Comments
As of right now (10:24 PM EST) The Beatles hold 16 of the top 40 albums on the iTunes music charts (CLICK HERE to buy The Beatles music on iTunes.) Here they are in order: #06 Abbey Road (1969) #09 The White Album (1968) #12 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) #14 The Beatles [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 15, 2010 in Music News | 1 Comment
After years of waiting, users of iTunes (and iPods) can rejoice: The Beatles are on iTunes!!! As of today the entire remastered stereo catalog of The Beatles is now available in the iTunes Store for immediate download. You can even download the entire Beatles in Stereo Remastered Box Set with a single click: This single [...]
By Marvin Marks on Oct 19, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
The 20 piece chamber orchestra group Alarm Will Sound performing “Revolution #9″ by The Beatles as arranged by Matt Marks: It’s really incredible to me that they managed to recreate a recording as insane as “Revolution #9″ (which is mostly tape loops) in a live setting with real instruments and voices. Amazing. I imagine that [...]
By Marvin Marks on Oct 9, 2010 in Music Trivia | 4 Comments
John Lennon was born 70 years ago today on October 9th of 1940. Celebrate his birthday by buying the new Lennon Signature Box which includes remastered versions of all of his solo work along with a disc of previously unreleased recordings and/or The Beatles in Stereo Box Set featuring remastered versions of all of The [...]
By Marvin Marks on Sep 27, 2010 in Features | 8 Comments
This is a game Beatles fans have been playing for many years. What would The Beatles albums of the ’70s have been like if they had stayed together instead of breaking up? This post is for the first imaginary Beatles album released in January 1971. It features songs that were released on John, Paul, & [...]
By Marvin Marks on Sep 27, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
As a follow-up to this post on the top 11 Beatles songs not included in Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 best Beatles songs and this post on the remastered versions of the Red & Blue compilations coming out on October 4th, I’m writing this post (the one you’re reading right now) on the best [...]
By Marvin Marks on Sep 19, 2010 in Features | 7 Comments
There’s a “special collectors edition” of Rolling Stone out now with a list of The Beatles 100 greatest songs (only original songs, no covers.) 100 songs is a lot. What other band/artist can you imagine making a top 100 list for and it not being absolutely ridiculous? What’s even more amazing is that there are [...]