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Yeah, but I think the best option is to download the mono ones and just buy Let It Be & Abbey Road - which is what I'm doing now. They're definately going to release the mono seperately in a year or so, and I'm also certain that they'll release another batch of box sets which will be sold for much cheaper. Another bit of information I've found out about the differences in the new mono and stereo is that only the stereo remasters have been subjected to limiting (which is what they do to make music artificially louder, and it clips the sound) - the mono versions have been untouched, presum

That's a very cool, but weird film - if that's what you saw.

i'm surprised the stereo box sets have sold out. it's cheaper to buy the discs seperately - by my calculations - and box sets are annoying things to find places for on shelves anyway.

anyone else ever seen Bad Boy Bubby?

this gives an idea why they are still so good - Huw Bunford looks so unbelievably stoned, and they are just laughing at his playing. not many bands have this much fun in the studio.

they don't get that much attention really in the uk either. to me they are better than any of the britpop bands - all the other bands sound dated now (besides maybe supergrass, and some of the blur stuff) - i'd say their albums actually stand up to the very best of british music from any period of time. maybe not quite revolver or village green standard, but only a little below that - and especially when you look at their whole back catalogue, they are as inovative and progressive as the top bands need to be. the good thing is that they are still doing it - gruff can basically do no wrong, he

That's a brilliant song. I don't think there is anything corny about that at all - it's just got some humour to it - like The Bonzo Dog Band or something. He has definately written some corny songs though - which i like (silly love songs, and even wonderful christmas time). At some point, however, his corny songs just became 'corny' and nothing more.

i have heard it, but i didn't like it. i just think he's well past his best - and with the way he lives his life, i can't see him ever being any good again.

they are definately not on purpose. why would they purposely have drop offs in sound, harsh edits, background noise etc? and, not only that, why would they only put them on the stereo mixes and not on the mono mixes? read the last few links i've added with geoff emerick talking, and the anomolies website - and you'll understand that they are definately, without doubt, not done on purpose - they are mistakes, and they are mainly on the stereo mixes. because they mixed the stereo versions very quickly - without the band or george martin around to correct them, and also it wasn't regarded as a bi

M and Freaks are great films. I don't find them very creepy though. A few of the shots in Nosferatu are pretty creepy, but the creepiest film I've seen is The Haunting. It's only really scary though if you watch it in a house on your own late at night - maybe on a rainy night. You never see anything - just loud noises etc... that's what is creepy - cos it's left to your imagination to guess what's on the other side of the door! waaaah! http://www.youtube.c...h?v=xq74oz6mf3w that's the trailer. white zombie (the band sampled some of it - so that means it must be scary, right!) EDIT: Chec

hmm. well, i don't think paul has made a good album in many many years (flowers in the dirt is alright - but nothing overly special - and that's where it ends as far as making goodish music is concerned). so when the general public discuss paul today, it's all about his public life. you'd be hard pressed to find anything cool or good about that. he's a figure of fun for marrying heather mills and turning up to the opening of a letter if he thinks it'll make him look cool. saying all this - i prefer paul in the beatles, and also prefer his solo career up until the mid to late 70s - eventhough p

It's the album that non-fans should like. It's very simple in terms of the instruments used - nothing too flashy - and the weirder elements of their music are more subtly used. I personally think it's one of the best albums of the year. I also like the fact that the two (they are brother and sister) are going to make the album again, both, seperately - so there'll be three versions of the album eventually.

98% is the exact figure. I made it up myself! If you look at the errors - they tend to say, "noise is left channel", or "guitar pans across channels" etc... that can only happen in stereo, so when it talks like that it is talking about the stereo mixes. example: Most of those errors are from the stereo version. Where it doesn't say "left", or "right" etc... still doesn't mean it's not just the stereo version that has the error on it. Hence 98%

this was discussed way back near the start of this whole thread. if you switched it to mono from stereo it would sound terrible - it would also be really distorted, and it wouldn't even be the mono mix anyway - as the two mixes are entirely different. read the article i linked to a few posts back (from geoff emerick - the person that mixed both). the mono mixes were done with george martin and the beatles present, and they do these mixes "live" - so they'd fade instruments in, remove foot tappings etc... live to make the mix. they'd spend ages doing this to get everything right. then they'd do

Every time i see this thread title i end up singing the chorus to "dreadlock holiday" by 10cc. I must stop doing this.

they were remixed; and i personally think they were remixed badly. the backing singing is almost louder than the lead on the tracks.

just to go on about mono one last time, this is interesting: Geoff Emerick talking about mixing: So, out of 21 days (if they worked every day) it took 18 days to mix the album in mono, and 3 for stereo. And an interesting point about the American Capitol Versions, with echo - which also "echoes" what some of you said about the stereo versions being how you've grown up with the beatles: Read the whole article here

Yeah, I'd never recommend anyone buy it, either . I just wanted to point out that Kevin Ayers is really good.

I think so anyway. I've definately read that they've re-tranfered it all again to digital. Well the mono mix is the one that George Martin did, I don't think he actually did the stereo one - that was Geoff Emerick and the other engineers, so I've read.

I think the songs on the album are fine - it's just very badly recorded, so sounds awful to listen to. Anyway, besides that Kevin Ayers is worth checking out - he's actually quite similar to early Brian Eno, but without synths - and obviously he was in Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt (who Eno worked with a lot), so I think all these guys were inspired and liked each others music to some degree or other. And the Canterbury Scene (which Ayers was a big part of) played a huge roll in British rock music up until the mid to late 70s.

they have been digitally transfered again. that's partly why they will sound so much better (because the transfer process is so much better than in the 80s). the beatles master tapes are guarded like the crown jewels, if reports are to be believed - they are therefore as good as the day they were made.

kevin ayers has a huge catalogue of great music. for anyone interested, listen to these: Oh My The Clarietta Rag Singing A Song In The Morning (note Syd Barret only plays on the outtakes of the song - this version) Eleanor's Cake He's got 5 albums, at least, that are the very finest examples of British prog rock in the 1970s. Maybe you need a British sense of humour to like him, though - it's normally music made with a big smile on the players faces.

I'll be happy to have a bet with you on that. They've done all the hard work - all they need to do is remove the box they keep them in. But, before that happens they'll do another run of the box set (which won't be numbered - they've made it clear that it's only limited in regard to the fact that the first batch of box sets are numbered) and this will be half the price. Actually, talking about box sets coming down in price. Anyone else seen that you can buy the bee gees (first 3 albums) box set from rhino for only £14.99 here That used to be about £70 to buy - and contains the mono and ster

good. then i'll say it again "Unremastered! Unremastered! I'm mad as hell, and I'm unremastered!"