[bomp] beatles mono mixes, especially "rubber soul"

[Rob Branigin <euphorik6@xxxxxxxxx>]

drunken observation: i usually try, as far as is possible, to sort of see around fanboy
chliches about the kind of music we all dig, and to listen to stuff as much as possible
with my own ears, and to make my own decisions about what sounds good and what doesn't.
ok, it's sort of accepted conventional fanboy wisdom that the beatles mono mixes sound
better than the stereo mixes, and i even wrote a dead flowers review a couple of years
ago attesting to the fact that, in the case of "rubber soul," i couldn't hear THAT much
difference between the two seperate LP mixes.

ok, granted, i have been....uh...drinking a little, but i don't know what the fuck kind
of crack i was smoking when i wrote that review a while back, because i have been sitting
here, buzzed, and crackin los beatles on the headphones, doing the fanboy two-step, i.e.
a-&-b-ing the mono and stereo mixes, and jesus h christ...i mean, it is just NO
COMPARISON. it's so obvious that the stereo mixes were done as an afterthought...the main
thing that strikes me is that the vocals are ALWAYS on the left channel, and are sort of
too loud. if you listen to the mono and stereo mixes of "michelle" and/or "girl," you can
see  what i am talking about...remember that ugly things a while back, when kugelberg
said something about "bass and drums to the right, vocals and guitars to the right" -?
man, that guy was dead on. dead fucking on.

so, at the risk of sounding like...uh.....a....drunken fanboy...the difference between
the beatles' mono mixes and the commercially available stereo mixes is like the
difference between night and day.

and no matter what the rest of you say, "michelle" is still the best song on that album. ;)

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rob

"...it is often a mark of talent to be useless."
- allan pinkerton, 1878.

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