What Are you Listening to Right Now?
- Heston
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Mono is best for 60s stuff in general.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
- WestwayKid
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I'm not sure a true stereo version was ever done of that album (or many of their early albums). I agree - the stereo mix is awful. Crummy processed fake stereo. I don't have the 2002 remaster - but I'm guessing it wasn't good. Finally hearing it in mono was mind blowing.coffeepotman wrote: ↑15 Dec 2017, 3:33pmGreat album! They really screwed up on the stereo version, mono is the way to go with that one
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Yup. I agree 110%! ...heck, 120%!
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- Marky Dread
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Yeah the stereo processing of mono recordings in general is not great. The Kinks and The Who maybe the exception but as Townshend says it's really mono deluxe on The Who tracks.
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- Heston
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
One of my favourite ever albums is Village Green and I much prefer it in mono.Marky Dread wrote: ↑17 Dec 2017, 7:40amYeah the stereo processing of mono recordings in general is not great. The Kinks and The Who maybe the exception but as Townshend says it's really mono deluxe on The Who tracks.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Oh yeah I can't really think of any 60's album that was improved by it's stereo counterpart. Just that some were better than others. And yes that is a brilliant album.Heston wrote: ↑17 Dec 2017, 9:07amOne of my favourite ever albums is Village Green and I much prefer it in mono.Marky Dread wrote: ↑17 Dec 2017, 7:40amYeah the stereo processing of mono recordings in general is not great. The Kinks and The Who maybe the exception but as Townshend says it's really mono deluxe on The Who tracks.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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coffeepotman
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I actually like Face to Face, Something Else and Village Green in Stereo as well as the Beatles and Stones in Stereo. I'm in the minority but not a big fan of mono
- Dr. Medulla
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- Flex
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
That's one of the best rock n roll songs Cheap Trick ever put out, indo
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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coffeepotman
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Cheap Trick rules, one of the greatest American bands
- tepista
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I got it and I LOVE IT!!!! Roll Over Fucking Beethoven by the Stones? I my jaw hit the floor!muppet hi fi wrote: ↑10 Dec 2017, 5:37pmOh you'll dig it, man. Only a couple tracks have the screaming chicks, and they're not too loud (like on 'Got Live If You Want It'); Brian's guitar is often louder than Keef's but you can more fully appreciate what a taut rhythmic force they were back then. And Bill's witty rumble and Charlie's barbaric clatter (hey, the man didn't even know how to play rock n' roll back then!) super charge the whole thing.tepista wrote: ↑10 Dec 2017, 5:28pmI'll grab that very soonmuppet hi fi wrote: ↑08 Dec 2017, 10:21pmJust picked this up at an actual record store. The Rolling Stones, 'On Air' [live at the BBC 1963-65] (2017).
The sound is all over the place, very raw. And it's a beast. Further documentation as to why they were a far better R&B band then any of their contemporaries (Beatles, Kinks, Who, Small Faces, Animals, etc.). And the never recorded cover of Bo Diddley's proto-rap "Cops and Robbers" is hilarious. Jagger was 20, middle class, English, had never been to the US, and he nails the patois of urban black American dudes. How'd he do that???
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I agree with this statement.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
In Color never leaves my regular rotation.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak