The Beatles - Revolver Part 1 (2009 Mono Remasters)

[HAM3TT]

Revolver was the second CD that I bought. I mean, the second CD of all discs I have.

[2012ondeckyadig]

Mono!!! It's like, Paul can play the hell out of a bass, can't he? Oh, guitar too.

[2012ondeckyadig]

Mono!!! It's like, Paul can play the hell out of a bass, can't he?

[RAF666100]

the guitar solo on taxman on the mono version sounds sloppier than the stereo version

[12thfloorelevator]

How did you upload these without being banned? It's fantastic!

[darkvaper2010]

This sounds new. they where way ahead of there time....

[gomudhen]

Jesus H Christ! listen to the guitar on Taxman! Wow.

[coltrainification]

The mono mix for this album seems to have more edge to them than the stereo mixes. I also notice that on elenor rigbey, the Artificial Double Tracking mistake in the first verse is fixed at 3:34

[cascade810]

i just remember learning about the beatles in 7th grade and having to listen to eleanor rigby and i want to hold your hand, ahh

if only i appreciated it more,

i would die for a class like that nowadays where we only listen to the beatles

so much better than math XD

[Billinois78]

Maybe this will help the people who want to skip past the dead space in between songs.

0:00 Taxman

3:25 Elenor Rigby

5:54 I'm Only Sleeping

Please thumb up so it stays on top where it can be seen.

[veemeow123]

@Billinois78 

[MrWarbells]

Love it. I'm in tears december 31st. 2010 thank you for mono

[Grikone]

I love the grainy effect of the picture on the video.. probably because you notice things like that when you've been smoking!!

[swordofconstantine1]

Always remember that when you file bankruptcy in the U.S.A, it doesn't get rid of your debt to the IRS. You will still owe the IRS. Dan O'Nealon

[tasteofmadness]

When in Mono, cowbell takes over.

[tasteofmadness]

I heard that Paul did the guitar for Taxman, and George did the bass on that same track.

Could anyone contribute to this?

[PanaceaSJBR]

@tasteofmadness

George Harrison - Rhythm Guitar and vocals

John Lennon - Backing vocals and cowbell

Paul McCartney - Bass, Lead guitar, backing vocals

Ringo Starr - Drums and tambourine

[tasteofmadness]

@PanaceaSJBR Oh, thank you!

[floopx]

they doesen´t sound like old music :D!

[Thursday196]

oh gosh...i'm only sleeping sounds so amazing in mono...john's haunting vocals, the echoing backwards guitar...just amazing.

[LinkThatLove]

why in part 1 in this is 2 minutes longer than the part 1revolver stereo you uploaded?

[VGLuigi9001]

@LinkThatLove Possibly because of the long breaks between each song.

[beatdamusic1]

i love the way bass and guitar sound on TaXMaN!!!!

it´s got to be my fav song from Revolver and also the opening song, wow!

[beatdamusic1]

i love the way the bass and guitar sound on this song!!!!

way ahead of its time

[ToxicTurquoise454]

Thank God for Mono. The stereo remasters are dreadful. Stereo remastered Taxman puts everything except George's vocals into one ear, and totally ruins it. Mono? Balances out everything perfectly. Hooray for Mono Masters!

[indeans48]

wow the sound quality of Eleanor Rigby is amazing in mono.... I love how the vocals arnt all paned to the right side which takes away its power. i just listened to the whole album in stereo and now im trying to do a comparision

[mikkabouzu]

@indeans48 I highly recommend the version from the remastered and reworked edition of the Yellow Submarine soundtrack that came out a few years back along with the home video release of the film. Apparently, the sound engineers who worked on it stopped jerking off and figured out that hard-panning the vocals way over in one channel sounds terrible. This album contains, in my opinion, the best stereo versions of Eleanor Rigby, Nowhere Man, and Think For Yourself, to name a few.

[pjrggrjp]

i just had an eargasm

[iGLGred]

Eleanor Rigby 's vocals are much more haunting in the mono mix. They always were - it's just that the stereo mix puts them over in the right channel and makes them compete with the instrumentals. When them come out of both channels the song is just amazing.

[theredapple94]

5:06

I can't believe I never noticed that full strings orchestra in my room before.

good god that was beautiful (just listened to eleanor rigby)!

[ambientgreg]

LOVE the bass line underneath the lines " if you get too cold" etc., I never heard that detail before.

Mono is good I think.

[thisisshane90]

Eric Bischoff

[Xargon42]

I think this definitely sounds better in mono. I just switched back and forth between the two versions, and this feels so much fuller...though I love how crisp it sounds remastered in both of them.

[dave8594]

I actually think that Eleneor Rigby sounds better in stereo. Sorry folks.

[bongusbrutus]

thanks padfoot :(

even I who doesn´t know these works that well and listening trough you tube can tell that mono is way better.

[ASR10MAN]

Half of the brilliant Beatles' brilliant magic was the brilliant lyrics that matched the brilliant music!!!! a

[bongusbrutus]

Please help: are these mono remasters also available individually in stores or only as a boxset?

[Padfoot333]

@bongusbrutus only as a boxset unfortunately :/

[debfrom]

@Padfoot333 no i got a mono remaster single at barnes and noble (abbey road). sounds great!

[Padfoot333]

@debfrom Actually Let It Be and Abbey Road are only available as a stereo remaster since it was only mixed in stereo. :)

[maccattack1970]

Eleanor Rigby reigns supreme in mono.

[GoodDaySunshine1001]

love this song! i love it when they say "ah ah, mr. wilson" and "ah, ah mr. heath"

[johnny10301968]

I Think Revolver is the preface to Sgt. Pepper.

[Xargon42]

I think rubber soul is the preface to revolver

[thisisshane90]

Eric Bischoff Ruthless Tycoon

[theredapple94]

who?

[indeans48]

@Xargon42 well George Harrison once said that "I dont find that much differece in Rubber Soul and Revolver, they could be like volume 1 and 2"

[leaftechno]

@indeans48 I find a lot of differences between both. I´m sorry ´bout Rubber, but Revolver is quite better, more experimental and modern. I can´t find anything that sounds like Tomorrow Never Knows in Rubber Soul. They made a techno song in 1966, it´s incredible. I like Rubber Soul a lot, but I consider it just like a passage to the new fase of The Beatles

[StrawberryFields1421]

That Mono box set is sounding tastier than ever...

[bdwilder]

the backwards stuff on "I'm Only Sleeping" sounds way cooler here than I've ever heard it... awesome.

[BostonRocker51]

more cowbell...

damn, I love this band!

[spepper]

hahaha exactly...the Mono mix seems to have been supervised by THE Bruce Dickinson!

kidding aside, this version rocks!!!!

[frothferous]

Yep,their awsome!



[GamecubeLPs]

Im only sleeping: my favorite beatles song and even better sounding remastered

[llewesa100]

Why are the mono and stereo mixes so different on Beatle recordings?I'm not referring to the paramount difference but things and instruments that seem to differ; no definitive version of some songs.The 87 stereo mix of Paper back Writer/ Rain seems especially bad ;it sounds as though they're singing along to a backing track thats been played back through a cheap cassette player that's got a towel draped over it!

[barsch63]

The craft of multitrack mixing in stereo was not well developed in 1966. Stereo recordings were best for classical or "live" recordings such as Frank Sinatra in front of an orchestra where the "mixing" achieved by microphone placement. Multitrack mixes in this era are best in mono. That's why Beach Boys records were always in mono. The original stereo mix of Revolver is a mess, unlistenable in headphones and not at all true to the Beatles's intent.

[llewesa100]

I agree; I bought Revolver back in 87 and I was very disappointed.Indeed I felt the vinyl copy I had was better!The separation was really strange and one could hear where all the overdubs had been placed; they seemed to fade in and out rapidly.The onlu criticism of mono from that era is that it seems to lack a great deal of treble and occasionally sounds a little muddy.

[TailsSpain]

I just bought today Please Please Me in Stereo and it is a bit irritating on headphones, just as Revolver...I think that in the cases of old recordings, mono is superior (maybe in A Hard Day´s Night the Stereo is good as well), but I don´t want to waste all my money in the 2 boxes, Which do you think is better for each album?, more or less

[barsch63]

I'm relying on my memories of records as well as what I've heard of the recent mono releases on YouTube. Anything up to Revolver, definately mono. I thought Sgt. Peppers mono sounded good too. It was recorded in 4 track, believe it or not. But, the problems associated with the earlier stereo mixes don't occur in the stereo Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour and White Album. I just remember Rubber Soul & Revolver stereo as being god awful!

[TailsSpain]

Yeah but sometimes it i not like that. For instance, in songs like Help!, the mono version is QUITE different to the stereo ( I think it has different vocal track) and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in Stereo is a bit weird you can hear unnecesary sounds that ruin the song if you use headphones. And the version I heard of Rubber Soul in Stereo (87 and 09) are not, IMO, as bad as you say, specially on "The Word" where you cn here all instruments perfectly in harmony.

[barsch63]

Yeah, but songs like "Nowhere Man" don't sound good in the original stereo. Nowhere Man, Eleanor Rigby and others were remixed in stereo later for the deluxe Yellow Submarine Soundtrack and it is an immense improvement. The old stereo versions sound deconstructed-vocals on the left, instruments on the right. BTW, John Lennon himself complained about the same thing saying "I don't know why they hell they did that."

[joepulliam1]

Mono.

[mattal1958]

TAXMAN has more punch in mono...tight band, weren't they? Macca playing the guitar solo...and I can hear that SNL skit, "Give me more cowbell!" in the back of my mind...

[tasteofmadness]

@mattal1958 I KNEW Paul played the solo.

It sounded far too "Good Morning" and just too flashy for George to be playing, you know?

[evesheehan]

What's the difference between Mono & Stereo? :)

[TailsSpain]

What you hear on your left and on your right is exactly the same, that´s mono. Stereo put different instruments on each side and sometimes this makes some records a bit weird, if you hear it by headphones specially during this experimental period, so for that reason, the remasters are both in mono and stereo

[evesheehan]

Thanks :)

[dddpaul]

es la mejor contradiccion del mundo, 4 años y medio laburando con cintas orginales los mejores ingenieros de sonido de londres, logrando un sonido exquisito, para que luego se baje a MP3, videito de youtube y lo escuches por los parlantitos de la compu!!!!

vamos chicos...

[ThomasMorton99]

Padfoot, you're Aces for uploading all this.

[wmbrown6]

Because of the U.S. configurations "at the time," what I see in my mind when hearing "I'm Only Sleeping" is the black "rainbow band" Capitol "logo at 12:00" label - for "Yesterday . . . and Today." Alas, albeit with the backwards guitars at different places (i.e. not on the second verse but during the first part of the third).

[aaahscary]

7:21 why is the backwards guitar so prominent there? it breaks the flow of the song

[ArcticUnited1999]

Because they were experimenting: remember this was the first song in rock history to have backwards loops on it. If you were analysing the song you could argue that the blurred, unstable noise unique to a backwards guitar echoes the period of slipping in and out of consciousness when you are just being woken up by someone.

[PearlJammer07]

The guitar has more crunch here. Wish the mono CD releases were more wide spread.

[HotShotCMS]

Thank you champ for uploading Revolver in Mono.

[chriskoob]

i got a fever for more cowbell

[apeshitdig]

@chriskoob Listen to hard day's night!