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15 March 2017
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I don’t lose sleep over the Capital albums but it does bother me from an artistic standpoint that the albums were “butchered” but it is what it is.
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15 November 2018
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Elementary Penguin said
I don’t lose sleep over the Capital albums but it does bother me from an artistic standpoint that the albums were “butchered” but it is what it is.
LITERALLY
(they all look so uncomfortable 
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15 March 2017
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Elementary Penguin said
I don’t lose sleep over the Capital albums but it does bother me from an artistic standpoint that the albums were “butchered” but it is what it is.
LITERALLY
(they all look so uncomfortable
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This is why I used the word “butchered”
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8.15am
28 March 2014
Offline I get why Capitol put the singles on the 1st 2 albums as they were trying to promote them in the USA, and why not have great songs like “She Loves You ” & “I Want To Hold Your Hand ” on them. But they did butcher some of them by doing so.
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7.57pm
15 March 2017
Offline The most important thing is that these albums were successful in America.
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8.01pm
15 November 2018
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Very true.
Although I’m sure the UK albums would have been just as successful, if not more so…
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14 December 2009
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Elementary Penguin said
I don’t lose sleep over the Capital albums but it does bother me from an artistic standpoint that the albums were “butchered“
LITERALLY
(they all look so uncomfortable
I thought John and George looked enthusiastic! Plus Paul kinda overdoing it, characteristically
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8.33pm
15 November 2018
Offline Well, sure, they’re all smiling, but if you look at their eyes you can see that they’re freaked out. Particularly Ringo.
Edit: they look even more creeped out in the outtakes from the session. George looks like he would rather be anywhere else.
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8.57pm
15 March 2017
Offline Didn’t they approve of this photo session because of how they felt about the Capital versions of their albums?
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12.43am
14 December 2009
Offline No, that’s actually a legend. Neither they nor Whitaker knew that one photo was destined for a Capitol album cover.
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9.53am
15 November 2018
Offline In the Anthology they say that thought it was really disturbing, George and Ringo in particular.
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5.58pm
15 March 2017
Offline I must have been buying into the legend then because I was sure that they were in on it.
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15 November 2018
Offline I wonder whose idea it was…
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9.18am
28 March 2014
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The most important thing is that these albums were successful in America.
That they were. I just feel sorry for the Capitol record buyers that:
a) Had to buy 18 studio albums vs. the 12 UK studio LPs 
b) Had to put up with that horrible Dexterized dual (fake) stereo sound during the Beatlemania era. 
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11.34am
14 December 2009
Offline c) Also missed out on the gorgeous album art, particularly of BFS. Most of those Capitol album covers, especially Second Album and VI, are stunningly unimaginative; and the font utilized on the former (probably done by a four-year-old Dave Dexter III with his first pair of scissors) actually makes me angry!
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11.49am
15 November 2018
Offline Whatcha talkin’ about? Look how… um… exciting these are!
um… yay… 10/10…
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10.17am
10 March 2017
Offline I’ll give you that, the US covers suck. Hell, even Magical Mystery Tour ‘s cover is better in the UK.
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28 March 2014
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I’ll give you that, the US covers suck. Hell, even Magical Mystery Tour ‘s cover is better in the UK.
Not to mention the nice Glossy UK covers, like Rubber Soul vs it’s US counterpart. 
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2.15pm
12 December 2019
Offline Well, first (I suppose?), being on the Yank side of the pond would make me biased toward the Capitols…however (speaking from also the perspective of a second-generation fan): they (due to my father’s collection) WERE how I was even “introduced” to the band’s existence to begin with (around 1981; the two earliest Beatles’ records I have memories of hearing are the HELP soundtrack and the 1962-1966 “Red” album).
The American record industry pre-1967 didn’t even recognize nor care about Rock being an “Art form” or thinking a collection of tracks were “album oriented”. It was all come lately business to ALL the labels across-the-board during that era (not a “conspiracy” solely on Capitol’s part). What sold “Pop”/”Teen Beat” in the U.S. was the strength of 45 singles played on AM radio (which, only made it normal for them to be included later on albums). This infrastructure may not have existed as broadly outside the U.S. at the time of the entire ’60s musical Revolution (like it did in America)…just like, conversely, the EP format never made an impact in the U.S. vs. how it (otherwise) did internationally. So, in the long run: the differing royalties’ guidelines of the RIAA actually made more music available *cheaper* to American kids buying records back then…79 cents for singles and $3.98 for (mono) albums. What everybody holds-up today as having been the “superior”/”as intended” releases, turns out; in fact: would’ve been MORE EXPENSIVE (at the time) for essentially the same quantity of product.
Anyhow, my favorites (to least) of the U.S. releases:
Beatles ’65
Yesterday & Today
A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack
Meet the Beatles
Help soundtrack
Second Album
Beatles VI
The Early Beatles
Something New
Beatles’ Story
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