Rolling Stones In Mono (Box)

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There are some fantastic computer speakers out there. There are also the cheap, awful kind. But don't lump them all into one. Fremer, Michael (29 October 2016). " The Rolling Stones in Mono Box Set Reviewed". Analog Planet . Retrieved 18 December 2016.

To hear how some of it can sound, the 12" 45 rpm single reissue last year of "Satisfaction" with "Under Assistant promo guy" and "Spider and the Fly" shows that this stuff can sound pretty good, though you can't get away from the fact that Satisfaction just is not a good recording. That chopped off "RCA sound"... If you’re wondering why The Rolling Stones in Mono box set was sourced from the original analog tapes transferred to DSD (single bit, 2.8224 MHz sampling rate digital) and not produced like The Beatles mono box¬—put up the tapes, cut lacquers all-analog— you’ve probably not carefully considered the differences between the two catalogs. I bought the mono Beatles box and hoped the mono stones box would be similar. I wish that is how they were done, all as mini LP replicas. This feels a bit cheap, the covers are wide and there’s nothing to hold the CDs in place, you’d have to store all of them on the side so the CDs could literally fall out if you take an album out. Actually, as a matter of fact my box had some flaps unglued. I understand the issues with Decca, but it could’ve at least been a shrunken version of the vinyl box right? Shame because all of these CDs are IMO probably the best you’ll hear the Stones in mono, the original vinyl records sound great but admittedly I think these CDs sound better. I hate to be that guy who compares Beatles to Stones, but the Beatles mono box feels like a gem to own, this one doesn’t and I actually paid more for this than for the Beatles box. Music of course makes up for it, as I mentioned. Love me some Stones, especially in Mono. Really loving the US Out of Our Heads, as well as the many great singles on Stray Cats. ABKCO Records have shared plans to release The Rolling Stones in Mono boxset on coloured vinyl next January. The entirety of the band’s studio output in the 1960s, pressed in a different colour for each title.

Tracklist

I've Been Loving You Too Long (from Got Live If You Want It! - London Records LL 3493 (U.S.), 1966)

Jones did participate in both the Beggars Banquet (included here with the original “toilet cover”) and the final Let it Bleed, albeit sporadically. By this time, his drug habit and emotional problems became too troublesome for the recording sessions. Glyn Johns, suggests that both these last albums from this era of the Stones were the coming of age for the group, “…signalled The Rolling Stones' coming of age.... I think that the material was far better than anything they'd ever done before. The whole mood of the record was far stronger to me musically.” As such, when Jones did finally come into work, Johns would isolate him in a booth, let him play what he liked, and never include the recording in the mix. Exasperated, both Jagger and Richards told Johns to “Just tell him to piss off and get the hell out of here!”. Yes, the sound is wildly inconsistent. It's part of the charm though. Just match the levels and live with it. You can't compare the beautiful full dynamic range of the Chess sound with the chopped off bottom and top of the RCA stuff. So put it on in all it's flawed glory. There’s really no comparison that favors the originals, unless you are hopelessly nostalgic. When people used to describe these recordings—particularly the early ones—as “dirty”, they were describing more how they were mastered than how they actually sound.theme_alert": "Due to global production & fulfillment delays some customers may experience longer wait times for deliveries on this store. We thank you for your patience & customer care is here to help if you have any concerns.", Of course if you’ve not done so I invite you to listen to the Analog Planet Stones Comparison Radio Show. Finally there is the double Stray Cats, which has early and alternative tunes plus singles versions of “Street Fighting Man” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” plus the Italian version of “As Tears Go By”, “I Wanna Be Your Man” written by The Beatles for The Stones, “Not Fade Away” (left off the UK first album) and other items of interest for Stones completists. Because the Stones were recording on both sides of the Atlantic, things get complicated. Hence, some sources I had had to be second generation masters because they were the best masters available.

Photography By – David Bailey (5), Gered Mankowitz, Guy Webster, Jerrold Schatzberg*, Michael Cooper (8), Nicholas Wright (2) That is one of the reasons original mono pressings of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and other groups have increased in value. That said, bass had to be seriously attenuated (“rolled off) and dynamics compressed on those early records so they wouldn’t skip on “kiddie phonographs” of the day. In fact EMI had an employee whose only job was to play test pressings on all of the “kiddie phonographs” of the day to be sure they would play without skipping. Those that did were labeled (for obvious reasons) “kangaroo cuts” and new lacquers had to be cut with less bass and perhaps less dynamic range. A decent sound card and good speakers designed for near field listening CAN convey good sound. My speakers, designed by the guy behind Eminent Technologies, are pretty good at relative accuracy. It's a shame they are not being made anymore.

I just want to give a bit of clarification for people confused about BB and LIB in mono. Those two LPs were released in both mono and stereo editions in the UK on the red Decca label.