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  • Thanks so much for uploading these, but the dead spaces are really irritating on interconnected songs likes the ones featured here. It's very jarring and just doesn't sound right.

  • musicalnine To be continued ... the seventeenth century, but remained in English and Irish Folkmusic. I think it´s unusual with the longs notes with glissando. It reminds of the Irish Folksong Donall Og. And similar to some Arabian Folk Music.

    When I Get Home=An Explosion of Variation of Melody and Time in the the same note: "When i come home to you, I´m gonna hold you thight...

  • musicalnine Thank you for comments. Some innovations: I Should Have Known Better=Instead of relaxing, the middle part increases the excitement! with change from short to long notes, and with change of key not even when entering the middle, part but i n the part.

    If I Fell=An explosive intro with four modulations. The song after that reminds a little of John Dunstable´s Quam pulchra es from 1400s.

    A Hard Day´s Night=Albert Goldman sais it´s in a mixolydic key, a key which was abandoned in

  • brevkurt Tell me one reason. It would be interesting to hear more of your points of views.

    As I said before, some arrangements in "Peppar" are perhaps innovative in popular music, but not the melodies, except perhaps "Lucy" and "A Day in the Life". . There are more innovative m e l o d i e s in ( the Lennon compositions) i the album "A Hard Day´s Night".

  • @Johan93888 hes right, a hard days night has alot more innovative melody's and chord changes. it may be raw but there is alot more to "a hard days night"

  • mono is more has the singer has a echo. pretty cool (ps:first time listining to the beatles in mono)

  • I want somebody to love :(

  • Smoke a Blunt to this. I LOVE THE BEATLES HOLY SHIT

  • @ggc74 wangster pussys smoke blunts, me paul john and goerge drop acid

  • @musicalnine my bad my bad

  • jdenicholls Interesting to hear. Which melodies are innovative? Even George Harrison thought the songs, except "Lucy" and "A Day in the Life", were just ordinary songs (the Beatles Athology, 2000, page 252). "She´s Leaving Home" is beautiful, but conventional, very alike Mendelsohn´s violin consert second movement.

    Recently I studied a little Music History. Paradigm today is Chord, Chord and Chord or Harmony. In 1,5 years I never heard the word "Melody". It has no status, it´s just for the publ

  • Thye mono mix of 'Pepper's' sounds quite a bit tougher than the stereo mix. It's likely that the band (or at least some of them) were present at the (main) mono mix and then buggered off to let the engineer sort out the stereo which, at the time, was considered less important. This why some consider mono mixes to be more representative of the ban'd wishes (if, indeed, they had any choice - which the Fabs possibly did...).

  • A very overrated album. It has just ordinary songs for example the titelsong and "Lovely Rita". But "A Day in the Life" and "Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds" are really good.The album got it´s popularity because the establishment liked it -- after they had heard "Yesterday". It´s innovative just because of some arrangements, but not innovative in melodies. Album "A Hard Da´s Night" is more innovative.

  • @Johan93888 Pretty sure most people agree that the songs on Peppers aren't the Beatles strongest. But it still kicks arse. And to be honest with you most of the Beatles songs had innovative chord choices and melodies.

  • @Johan93888

    Sorry mate, you are wrong. The character limit is to low for me to explain the many reasons why.

  • whats the diferences between mono and stereo? Thanks

  • @lennonelproteston listen this song with your left ear then listen the stereo with your left ear.

  • j'arrive pas à croire que cette chanson soit satanique.... des recherches sur l'image de la disquette plus une étude approfondie de chercheurs musicaux sont choqués par les visées de cette chansons, je le suis désormais d'autant plus....

  • The 4 people who hate this are probably justin bieber fangirls

  • Love Lucy in the Skies because the Beatles sound more Physicadelic.

  • Just buy or download the mono box set, and you're all set. Beatles in Mono.

    I'd then grab the White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be in stereo.

  • The audio doesn't work right! The first two songs are supposed to segue into each other! Extracting that ruins the effect!

  • When Jonh sings "flowers" (7:16) his voice is kinda strange

  • i so born in the wrong generation i used to eat acid and listen to this in my room full blast and my dad knew i was fucked up outta my mind he kaughed one day and said do u know how many tmes i trippied to this album he was like u r def my daughter i would go from this to ten years after this was early 2000's

  • Now that is the way Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is supposed to sound.

    My stereo CD version always sounded a bit clunky in parts, especially listening to it on headphones, the sounds separated out to left and right too much.

  • why are both the top rated comments basically doing the same thing? stoooopid.

  • Mono Is The Best! Not The Kind That Makes You Skinny xP

  • I don't know if anyone has brought this up, but I'm really impressed by the mono version of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". WOW! It sounds heavily flanged or phased compared to the stereo.!

  • @skeletonkey6

    yeah, there is an echo to the song

    somehow, makes it even more of an acid trip

  • 2 people didnt learn from sgt pepper 20 yrs ago

  • My grandma gave me some albums that belonged to my mom that had been there long before I was born. Saw Pepper in the pile and it was so cool...so much bigger than the CD I always had. Popped it on my new turntable and it sounded somewhat different than the version I always knew. Had more detail and punch to the sound. Turned out to be the mono version. Now, when I hear my old Pepper CD, it's sounds real "off" or something. Sticking with the mono.

  • The stereo version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds almost ruins it!

  • i would like to compare, i own both mono and stereo vinyl copies of this album, they both sound great in my opinion

  • Fucking great, isnt it ?

  • This song is much better in mono.

  • @Greenames which of the three songs?

  • @tomasahlin Sorry.. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

  • George Martin was right. You havent heard Pepper till youve heard it in mono!!!

  • @bevsface take your vile language and semi literate views and retreat to your slum.

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  • @bevsface Someone should remind you that you are hearing these songs for free. If you have such a problem with the way it was done... do it yourself. No one owes you anything here.

  • @bevsface uMaD?

  • @dualead I disagree Eric Clapton didn't write most of his famous songs. He actually is one of the best guitarist. That is why he made it so far with his career, even after most artist his age didn't.

  • I've just been listening to this and comparing it with the stereo version. I was surprsed 'cause I thought the mono version's were the ones where you can hear the different instruments only through one side or the other of the headphones and the stereo was the version which made it sound like everything was going into ears from both sides. This sounds more sophisticated than stereo. V.strange.

  • @Stube437 I can´t understand it too, I thought it worked like you said too...

  • @Stube437 Mono means you hear the exact same sound from both speakers. Originally it was meant for one speaker, but if you listen from two speakers it's the same sound from both.

    Stereo has different sound from both speakers. Most stereo these days has the same instruments in both speakers, but each has a subtly different volume level.

    60's stereo mixes sucked until 1968 for albums, and 1969 for singles.

  • stereo is great if they record it right...unfortunately they somehow completely fucked up the stereo version of anything beatles

  • Here. I'll do here, what I did on your Revolver [mono] vids and help people skip past the dead spaces between songs:

    0:00 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

    2:28 With a Little Help From My Friends

    5:49 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

    Please thumb up so it stays up where people can see it. Thanks.

  • @Billinois78

    It's a sin to hear silence between those first two songs.

  • @BaronM ...and if you keep doing it, you'll go blind...

  • wow lucy in the sky with diamonds sounds MUCH more psychedelic in mono! I must have it now :D

  • @ohfizzle agreed i have the original mono album so much better than this new age digital rape

  • @BeholdaFuckingwakeup the remasters aren't all bad, just mono in general for this album is great!

  • that flanging stuff or double tracking is that done by youtube or padfoot ?

    you can hear this in all the songs (even with a little help from my friends)

  • greatest album then dark side of the moon comes next

  • greatest album ever sgt pepper everyone try to emulate cant be done

  • Eric Clapton played the lead for George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" song in the White Album.

  • is the background supposed to be moving, or is that the drink?

  • It's Sgt Pepper motherfuckers! Pow!

  • If anyone is on the fence about buying the 2009 Mono Remasters Box Set, don't think about it...BUY IT!! I've had it for a week now and it's phenominal....If you have the extra cash, I recommend getting the stereo remasters too (at least for everything after the first 5 albums). George Martin was right!! "You haven't heard Sgt. Pepper's until you've heard it in mono...." However, I personally prefer Mr. Kite in stereo...The mono version of "She's Leaving Home" is my absolute fav Beatles tune!

  • @tmasonmi5 you do know John, Paul, and George all were a part of the guitar solo in "the end"? Or were you only talking about his part of the solo?

  • this album gets me stoned. love it!

  • Hey guys, I've got a great drummer joke....What's the last thing the band's old drummer said before he got kicked out of the band?

    "Can we work on one of my songs now....?"

  • I'm sorry, I know I'm going to piss a lot of people off by saying this, but Eric Clapton is one of the most OVER-RATED guitarist of all time....He's a great player, I love the soul he puts into his music, but he's a much better songwriter than instrumentalist. There's nothing to write home about his technical ability that sets him apart IMHO. That's coming from being a guitarist/pianist myself....Take it of leave it....

  • @DuaLeaD - I reckon he was superb in the sixties, among the best of the day but over the decades has been by those old standards less than superb if that's what you are getting at.

  • @DuaLeaD im not even a clapton fan but he's a phenomenal guitarist

  • My Three Favorite songs...

  • this is serious rock and roll and George Harrison's opening lead guitar represents what it is to play lead guitar (yes it is George Harrison and not Paul Mccartney). From the 60's  only Jeff Beck and Hendrix (of course all the black blues players that made up rock and roll guitar) could match this. Well The End by the Beatles with George's insane guitar lead is also a bench mark for how to play lead guitar.

  • @tmasonmi5 It's well-established that Eric Clapton played many of the leads once attributed to George Harrison. Harrison had a good sound but simply isn't in the same league as the other "guitar gods." And he knew it, to his credit.

  • @Talcupp

    Sorry to burst you bubble, only While My Guitar Gently Weeps Clapton played on. As a serious and successful guitarist Clapton is not the greatest, his theory is adequate at best. In Cream he was great but fact of the matter time has shown Claptons limitations, blues scales is all he knows and those are really not on key when you are playing in major keys. Prime example Badge, great song, solo is in a minor key, song is in G. He is playing blue notes like F. Really off key!

  • @tmasonmi5

    I thought he played on other Beatles tunes as well but I can't point to the exact citations right now. Maybe not. And I wasn't claiming Clapton was the greatest, by any means. He's a limited player. That Badge solo, though, is one of the all-time greats in a short rock song. No, not for technique, but for passion and effect. In any case, it's all subjective. Love what you love and skip the rest.

  • The mono is the one that the beatles created, and the stero was made after without the beatles present.

  • 2:29 With a Little Help From My Friends

    and

    5:49 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

    stupid gaps, thumbs up this comment.

  • Onehunderdnintysixth comment! :DDDDDDDDD

  • This is my all-time favorite Beatles album without a doubt

  • Thanks for the post, but i recomend you get rid of the gaps.

  • Some of the mono mixes have very different mixes than the stereo versions, featuring things that can't be heard on the stereo one. The ending of Sgt. Pepper reprise has Paul yelling something different than the stereo, and I've heard that She's Leaving Home is slower. Not sure about the rest of the album.

  • @thrash5409 the beatles she leaving home mono is a bit faster in tempo.and the vocals are pitched higher. beatles forever.

  • store i meant :)

  • OMG i need 2 find the MONO version of this album ASAP in a sore! :D

  • @101gamelover the mono Sgt. Peppers is superior to the stereo. It is in a store on CD in the mono box set. ITs worth every dime. Much easier and enjoyable headphone listening in mono also.

  • I was listening to this with the volume on MAX, and singing along also very loudly; at the end of "Sgt. Pepper", I went "BIIIIIIILLYYYYYYY SHEEEEEEAAAAARS"..., but didn't know about the gap between the songs! So the entire building has heard me calling Billy Shears! *bluuuuuushes*

  • Este es el primer disco original que compré!!!!

  • the beatles are the greatest band ever. istill play their music and now my kids are big fans.

  • It might sound stupid, but this whole album reminds me of the beautiful summers at my grandparents (And I am a "rain-guy"). Especially "With a Little Help ..." reminds me of their house in the countryside. I love the countryside...

  • @Ventasmentos Not a stupid comment at all--I know just what you mean: some of these songs evoke surprisingly powerful memories.

  • @marcusliviusdrusus True. Music (and especially Beatles) is wonderful ;-)

  • @niclucianosr haha i agree, never really listened to them til recently, and there amazing

  • Wow, this is better in mono.

  • i'd never heard that guitar cresendo at the end of sgt peppers right befor it goes into with a little help, i have the sterio remix and i dont think it comes through as good as the mono

  • they should have stopped paul from making those broadway musical songs...but then again...thats where they got it from...

  • the beatles were way ahead of their time, what other band in that time would have thought of being so experimental with the fear of losing fans? but it only made the beatles better cause honestly just singing about love had to be annoying lol.

  • lucy in the sky with diamonds is a lot better in mono

  • Beatles<3

  • It's very sad that ONLY Paul and Ringo are still kickin' it. But it IS awesome that Paul was honored at the White House last night! Obama, YOU KNOW HOW TO ROCK!

  • @mjhher3394 Yeah, how to rock the next generation into becoming tax slaves.

  • JUNE 1ST 2010: 43 YEARS AGO SGT PEPPER WAS RELEASED, THE REST IS HISTORY.

  • When I looked, 2 people disliked this. All I ask is...WHYYYYYYYY????

  • i've said this on another video, but hearing this in mono is like hearing this for the first time. it's an entirely different album. i feel like i've been robbed all these years.

  • 0:00 to 9:53 epic

  • stereo is better than mono

  • @MultiOgar That is true. But back then was a different story. Back then stereo was not standard and they would also have to mix the tracks separately. It is said that all the Beatles tracks before white onion were better as mono.

  • 3:43-4:00. OMG. Beatles essence

  • The Beatles sound better on vinyl. Fact.

  • I preffer the 1999 Lucy in the sky version from Yellow Submarine Songtrack.

  • All the tracks sound better in mono, but did any one else notice the HUGE difference in Lucy in the Sky? I'm outraged that the stereo version was released in the first place. This is so much better. The Beatles actually helped do the mono mixes and left the stereo mixes for George Martin to do. I always though that St. Peppers sounded a bit empty, now I know why. My old stereo CD is a piece of shit.

  • @apeshitdig yeah it sounds more disoreited

  • @apeshitdig You are so right! The Beatles were present during the mono mixdowns. Stereo was an after thought.

  • @beaurain82, i've seen your comment on a number of posts now, and you really don't seem to know what you are talking about. ALL of the Beatles' music was recorded on analogue tapes and there are always new ways of improving their quality, the Beatles didn't use an 8 track until 'Hey Jude' in 1968; meaning Sgt. Pepper is in 'compressed' stereo on the bounced down tracks, whereas mono doesn't comprimise on sound quality. Vinyl is the best way to listen to them, but vinyl is high quite mainainance

  • music is meant to be listened to, portability is just a luxury that comes at a cost. Most people who listen to music today couldnt tell a bad recording from a good recording. For my money, nothing compares to the whole pepper era in mono and on vinyl, exactly the way the beatles intended it.

  • great record...great record

  • thank you for this. only one of my ears is Deaf so i can't hear the songs peoperly on my ipod or with earphones.

  • who's sgt. pepper

  • mean mr mustard seeds arch enemy

  • thank you

  • whats the deal with remastering a mono mix? and even though these albums have all but been remastered. why bother most if not all were originally recorded on analog single track by this time 8 track stereo recording but really how much better can we be remastering old recordings? after all id rather still today hear the beatles as they were intended to be heard. via vinyl

  • vinyl isn't portable or practical

  • i don't want to bring a phonograph every time i leave the house...

    there's this thing called 'inconvenience'

  • Sing it Ringo!!!!!!

  • Having both a mono and stereo vinyl (and the remastered stereo set), the mono mix of this album is better, without a doubt.

  • I want the Mono Box Set now haha

  • i love the chorus of lucy in the sky

    it sounds so psychedelic!!!

  • Mono or stereo, it's an amazing album. I prefer stereo because I like to sometimes listen to hear one side of the mix and hear how certain instruments are isolated. You hear things you never knew were there hiding in the full mix. Same with Zeppelin.

  • I GOT THE STEREO  BOX SET FOR CHRISTMAS

  • I really feel like an idiot for not asking for the Mono set for Christmas.

  • just return and buy the better one??

  • the best album for history

  • lucy sounds ACTUALLY psychedelic in mono! the stereo version doesn't compare anymore, it's too clean and plain. i can't wait to get the mono box!!!

  • @theocean1973 It's a whole different song in mono!

  • shit fuck mono rocks!

  • the gaps between songs are fucking annoying

  • this album on my channel has no gaps between songs that belong together

  • No se trata de la remasterización. En la mezcla mono (que llevó muchas mas horas que la stereo) ellos incluyeron a lot of things que nunca figuraron en la maldita mezcla stereo.

  • 1:55-1:57

    is it me, or did they add a little guitar solo on the remaster?

  • No, you can just hear it alot better. It's drowned out by cheering on the original.

  • @sk8erguy011  Yes, Good ear.

  • Great find!

  • my favorite album

  • Wide stereo is a thing of the past in pop/rock music. In most cases it's hard to tell if a 2009 pop/rock recording is stereo since everything is centered in the mix.  It's been that way for quite some time. The best recordings today are layered with tracks hard right/left, then gradually focused towards the center. However, the reason these mono masters are appreciated so much is the above. Go back to Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie.." album. There is no true seperation until the vocals.

  • it says you posted this on september 6, but didnt the cds come out on the 9ths

  • best album ever made

  • tOGUETER WITH ABBEY ROAD.

  • I fully agree

  • @mecaesare I think The Beatles' Revolver is their best album. But my favourite Beatles song, A Day In The Life, is in this album.

  • @Xmenfan246 I agree with you 100 percent.

  • I love the way this mono remaster sounds, but i think the stereo is just as good, even though different sounding. but this doesn't go for all the albums. for example, i think that A HARD DAY'S NIGHT sounds much better in stereo and so does BEATLES FOR SALE, inspite of the extreme paneling.

  • @theo9952 i guess the monoremasters are better from a speaker such as your computer and the stereo for ipods. Im sticking with the stereo for my iPod

  • actually, i always play the cds on my stereo system when i make a comparison between mono and stereo.

    i've never used an iPod, and i don't think that computer speakers even good quality ones, can give you more than a rough idea about the quality of a recording

  • Teach those born 1990 and after how stereo was done in the raw!

    Of course, there's alway "coincident-pair" miking, and binaural, but that's for another thread altogether. . .

  • Continuing from my first reply here...

    Totally MESS UP "Empire State Of Mind":

    Have Alicia and her piano pan back & forth during her refrains. Phase the heck out of Jay Z's backing track. George Martin would be proud! :D :)

  • If I were a mixng engineer I'd mix some of today's artists in the same stereo layout as those of the 60s.

    I'd flange Rihanna so that her voice would surround the listener, slightly ahead of time in one channel, a tad behind on the other. Listen to "Tomorrow never knows"(stereo) for what I mean.

    Kanye? Pan him to one side and his rhythm track to the other. Bleed some echo from west into the center, along with echo from the rhythm track.

    That's my taste in stereo, even if primitive!

  • al diablo todos, fuck!!!!!!!! porque se debaten entre sai el mono es mejor que el stereo, son los beatles solo escuchen la musica y callense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!! i love the beatles forever from mexico city

  • quién eres tú para mandar callar a los demás. Precisamente si eres un fan de los beatles sabrás que algunas mezclas suenan mejor q otras

  • I have read about the superiority of these mono mixes, but NOW I''m a believer. The phasing on the vocals is much heavier. VERY groundbreaking sounds.

  • While mono sounds better in some cases with the beatles because some of the stereo mixes are kinda terrible (which I thought they'd change with the remixes!!!). Yellow Submarine (the movie) is even more trippy in 5.1 especially its only a northern song!!

  • cuales discos tienes?ponlos en un post en formato flac te lo pedimos todos

  • anyway, it is great

  • I have a question -- My old stereo receiver (from 1978) has a switchable option stereo/mono mode. So, if I'd buy the stereo remasters and select the mono mode in my receiver, would it be the same as buying the mono remasters? I've tried with stereo and it really works, but I don't know whether there's any difference, cause I've never heard the mono mixes. But in theory, there shouldn't have. What do you think?

  • im not sure but I doubt it. Since people have asked me about playing stereo mixes and changing the headphones to "mono" ad that definitely doesn't work.

  • This definitely wouldn't work. The mono mixes are completely different from the stereo mixes. Even the tempos are different in some of them. According to their engineer, Geoff Emerick, much more time was spent on the mono mixes than the stereo ones since hardly anyone even had stereo technology in 1967. He claims the stereo ones were made more for novelty's sake....you should definitely get the mono versions

  • yes, I'm aware of she's leaving home being sped up and everything. But apart from the overdubs and effects, in a general context, concentrating more in the frequencies, for example, if I would play stereo mixes in mono, why wouldn't they deliever the same "punch" like they claim mono has? I'm more into the idea of getting the mono, but I'd like to know what I'd be buying, out of listener's curiosity. I mean, what exactly would change - sonically speaking (low end, top end) - from one to another?

  • As far as the high end and low end goes there's probably not much difference. What I find interesting are the different choices they made in the two mixes: Different instruments are louder or quieter in the two mixes etc. I still love the stereo mix too, it's just that apparently much more effort was spent on the mono (at this point in their career) and that the people involved in the mixing process Geoff Emerick/George Martin) claim the mono mixes to be the definitive ones.

  • Great, thanks for the quick feedback!

  • Either way, it's awesome that we have two versions of all these songs.

  • Yes, I would buy the two versions if I could... but - who knows? Maybe the mono right now and stereo later (since it'll still be around).

  • @marcelcruzeiro it won't work, because some parts of the song, such as the guitar, could be on a certain channel and could be lost. Also, the Mono masters are different in some ways.

  • @marcelcruzeiro In I am the Walrus the isn't a drum beat at one point and that sounds better that way.

  • @marcelcruzeiro

    Dude! They made TWO different mixes!!!!....one in MONO and one in STEREO!!!!

    Listening to the STEREO mix in MONO doesn't make it the same as the MONO MIX because they were DIFFERENT MIXES!!!!!!!!!

  • @marcelcruzeiro it should sound right in stereo mode, but i'm not sure

  • @marcelcruzeiro

    it wont work, if you play the stereo mixes in mono it wont sound like this. It wil sound like the stereo version but the same thing will come out of both speakers

  • @marcelcruzeiro That would depend on how big of a Beatles fan you were. If you really like the Beatles' catalog, the mono remasters are definitely worth an investment, as the mixes, vocals, sound effects and/or musical backings are, in many instances, completely different takes. There are enough little differences to warrant the investment, if you can spare the money. They've repeatedly said they put the most effort int the mono mixes, as the were still the standard of that era. Food for thought

  • @marcelcruzeiro To the casual listener, switching a stereo mix to mono with your mono switch will sound acceptable. The commercial mono mixes are carefully balanced, which are much better sounding. The early "wide stereo" mixes are better candidates for switching to mono with the switch, but still a serious listen to an actual mono mix will be more satisfying!

  • @marcelcruzeiro The stereo mixes are totally different than de mono mixes, sometimes they used even different vocal tracks (such as in "If i fell", where in the stereo mix Paul makes a mistake and in mono he does not), or different tracks for the instruments, and the volume of each one is totally changed, just compare Sgt Peppers Mono vs Stereo and you will see. I like the mono version better, is more powerful.