Mademoiselle Kitty >^..^< said
You mean like 1+, @Ron Nasty? I have, and they’re incredible.

 

Edit: you probably don’t. Anyway, I’m sure they are!   

The stereo mixes on the 2015 versions of 1 and 1+ are REMIXED, not just remastered.  This goes against what Apple said their intention was for the 2009 remasters campaign, unless they intended to first cash in on remastering the catalog and then years later finally remix the catalog where things would sound closer to the Yellow Submarine Songtrack (1999), the Anthology DVDs, or last years 1 and 1+ re-issue.  So if that is the plan, they are going to remix every album from the master multis and put them all out again.  They could have also easily given us mono and stereo on the same disc, but they wanted maximum profit.  And I can’t blame them – it’s easy money and the oldest trick in the book.  Put out the remasters first (not the remixes).  Put the stereo on their own, and a separate box for mono.  Years later they can release everything remixed and cash in again.

As to mono or stereo, I still prefer stereo, though there have been some tracks in mono that I prefer.  I have not heard the new 2014 mono vinyl, but I do not buy vinyl anymore. 

I always preferred Paperback Writer in mono.  The main guitar is far louder (Lennon’s downstroked tremeloed chords have always been kind of relegated to the back), the bass is punchier and it just rocks harder.  However, the new remix on the 2015 “1” album brings everything together.  The new remixed stereo version has all the power of the mono version that I loved with the separation and clarity of a stereo version.  There won’t always be tracks that can be remixed this way, and the earlier tracks with drums right or left may be tough to fix – but technology is catching up!

Bongo said

The Void said

I wish I hadn’t found out about this dexterisation whatnot because my curiosity is at some point going to lead me to spend even more time obsessing over tiny details! I imagine it was done because the originals sounded too primitivly recorded compared to what US studios are capable of then? 

Pretty well what Dave Dexter was thinking @ Capitol Records USA.

You can check out Capitol versions on YouTube, but the most striking dexterized songs on the top of my head right now is “She’s A Woman ” & “I Feel Fine ”.  See if you can find them on YouTube.  It’s just so much Treblier & echoey, that it’s noticeable right from the first note. Not all the dexterized versions are as prominent, but noticeable.

  

In 1986 I bought Beatles ’65.  I had been a fan around 40 years ago, but there were a few albums I had not heard.  Two of the tracks on it of course were the dexterized She’s A Woman and I Feel Fine .  I had the dexterized I Feel Fine for years as it was on 1962-1966 so I was used to the reverb and I loved it.  She’s A Woman was a track I had never heard.  For some reason, I absolutely couldn’t get enough of She’s A Woman – the reverbed to death stereo dexterized version.  For months it was my top played Beatles song.  I went to Beatlefest that summer (August 1986) here in Chicago and there I heard the real mix of She’s A Woman .  I thought it sucked!  It was so limp and weak with no bite at all.  And I could hear piano clearly.  What was going on?  Well eventually I realized that the US version was the fraud and had been tampered with. 

Well, as far as I can say there are two US Capitol tracks that I will always listen to over the UK versions.  One is the stereo mix of I’m Looking Through You with the false start (that always feels missed when listening to the UK version) and the other is the US stereo mix of She’s A Woman .  The mono mix of She’s A Woman is similar, but with even more reverb.

Bongo mentioned this on page 1 – I noticed a while ago on the 2014 Capitol US Albums box that the stereo mix of She’s A Woman and I Feel Fine on Beatles ’65 are incorrect – they are the UK versions.  The mono mixes are correct – reverb city.  But on my Capitol Years Volume 1 box, they are definitely correct all the way.

Hi, thanks for the welcome!  Yeah, I always felt the US Rubber Soul was the one album that worked.  By taking away Drive My Car , Nowhere Man , If I Needed Someone and What Goes On and substituting I’ve Just Seen A Face and It’s Only Love , the US version has a much more acoustic feel which was nice if you wanted the laid back feel.  The UK version is still stellar although What Goes On is probably the weak track (though I do love it) and doesn’t quite fit.  Funny thing is it was the US version that Brian Wilson loved that motivated him to try and do something better – which became Pet Sounds.