The Beatles In Mono

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When you listen to stereo music today, and lots of older stereo music too, you don't normally feel like half the elements of the track are on one side and the other on another. Naturally, this kind of added complexity to music wasn't really possible to the same extent with mono, which just has a single channel, so whatever sound you're hearing come out of your left earbud/speaker will be identical to the sound coming out of your right earbud/speaker, meaning you're taking less advantage of humans having two ears. When it comes to the music of the Fab Four, particularly for the group's earlier records, I think the mono mixes sound great while stereo, unfortunately, sounds comparatively disappointing. The same holds true for the songs " The Ballad of John and Yoko", " Old Brown Shoe" and the single mix of " Let It Be", which were also omitted. What I would like to see are 2xLP and 2xCD sets where the original mono and stereo mixes are each on their own discs, so fans can enjoy both without having to shell out for boxsets or limited run editions.

The Beatles (commonly referred to as The White Album) was originally released in mono and stereo in the UK and several other countries, but in the United States, it was released only in stereo. Where exactly the stereo mixes of The Beatles become 'good' is argued by some (OK, many), but by the time of Sgt. And my favorite experience, overall, is listening to stereo records with a wide and deep stereo presentation.I don't have it in front of me, but I think the one I bought many years ago is the 2 CD Lingasong Records release that is the same as the Lingasong LP version that came out in 1977.

In his spare time, you can find Ruben cooking something delicious or, more likely, lying in bed consuming content. I was amazed at the number of differences I could hear; not just mixing differences, but really big differences, like missing backing vocals on the stereo Fixing A Hole and of course a whole lot of missing special effects from the stereo Lucy. The set debuted at number 40 on Billboard's Top 200 chart and the magazine reported that 12,000 copies were sold in its first week of release. My opinion is they should not have tried to make them stereo in the first place as it did not work well at all. Your ears are getting more auditory information than you get with mono, but more information does not as a rule make for a better listening experience or even better audio quality.The Yellow Submarine album, included in the set, is the only original UK mono Beatles LP without a dedicated mono mix. All of the USA albums were released individually on CDs containing both the mono and original stereo mixes; this is the only other way to acquire the mono mixes on CD.