While listening to the Beatles' new mono box set, I started thinking it might be nice to list the differences between the mono set recordings and the stereo recordings.
I read somewhere that most likely people will begin listening to the tracks and hearing things that they did not hear before, even things that were already there. I've heard one instance of this already. In a Beatles Remixers Group, someone said that in the mono Taxman, Paul bass starts going nuts starting at the line "If you drive a car ...". Suprise, it's on your eighties version too.
The most obvious difference is there is no return from the fadeout on Helter Skelter and no "I've got blisters on my fingers!" That doesn't hardly seem right.
The first time I heard the mono "She's Leaving Home" I was suprised at how diferent it sounded, much faster. The whole Sgt Pepper album itself was the most different. The transition from the title track to "With a Little Help From My Friends" seems awkward, not as smooth and you can barely hear the "Billy Shears ..." line. The Sgt Pepper Reprise chicken sound that starts the song is different. The crowd noises fade in and out.
The mono versions were supposed to be the versions we grew up with, but for Americans, they are not. That would be the Capitol Albums releases. But I got so used to listening to the UK versions on CD that the Capitol Album sound strange to me.
I'm ready for the remixes now. I just hope they don't go nuts with it. Actually I'm more ready for Let it Be, the Delux Blu-ray edition. Or, Magical Mystery Tour, the Delux Blu-ray edition. Or, at least, give me Beatles 1, the promotional videos.
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