1962–1966

Baby, you can drive my car.

And we talked about this in last week's episode, but my notes are, are these the same mixes as Red Album 2023? This is before, you know, all the digging I did.

I read all 900 pages of the Steve Hoffman form.

Quite the sniffer.

I don't know.

I dig this mix, even though, yeah, I think these are pretty much the 2023 mixes used for the majority of this record.

At least the stuff that was on the Red album.

It's sure what it sounds like.

The new mix is great, and before we really get into things, you addressed something I think we need to address first and foremost.

The 2023 and 2026 mixes, from what I understand in the limited research I have done, is every song that is included on the 2023 remix of the Red Album that is from Rubber Soul that appears on this iteration of Rubber Soul, even if it says 2026 remix, it is the exact same remix as the masters used in 2023.

[buzzer] The only true, quote-unquote, 2026 remixes are the songs left off the Red Album, and it's amazing to think that r- [laughs] the expanded Red Album left songs off.

Apparently it did.

[laughs]

How come Come Give Me Thine Hand ain't on the Red Album remix? What about Germany?

[laughs]

How come Hogan's Heroes ain't on Channel 9 no more? [laughs] But, uh, we-

Could be

... may have been Ringo's part, but I've got the, um, 2023 mix of the Red Album here.

Let me pull from that, the final right channel.

And I think, again, here you can hear very strong snare backbeat without a hi-hat wash that you can hear bleeding onto [laughs] onto the, uh, guitar mics in the basic track.

I was originally not expecting to like this new remix.

I, I think because Revolver was the first rollout of the MAL technology, and then the remixes on the Red Album, and I found them such a mixed bag.

To this day, I'll go back and I'll listen to them h- hoping that they will sound better to me, [laughs] and they still don't.

And so I'm like, ugh.

So that's beautiful.

I think the mixes sound better in context.

On the Red Album, it's a little bit bitty, even though it's more or less the same mix.

And we have confirmed that they are basically the same mixes.

So My escape was the Beatles.

I found the Red Album and the Blue Album in a jumble sale.

What do you call that in America?

Like a yard sale? A