As a kid, my least favorites were Lucy and She's Leaving Home. A lot of people don't like Leaving because it's cloying or boring or slow, but for me it was straight traumatic, like I could imagine the girl's mother crying and all.
― fruitsbs (beachville), Saturday, 21 April 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
The guitar fill on GM, GM after "it's time for tea and 'Meet the Wife'" is 1,000x greater on the mono version than the stereo. I really do consider the mono the definitive version of this record and have zero interest in the stereo anymore.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 11:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
OTM re: that fill. Sounds like it's double-tracked on the mono. Who knew such a seemingly minor addition could add exponentially to the song's power.
― Waterloo? Oh, we've sunsetted that. (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 21 April 2012 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
> As a kid, my least favorites were Lucy and She's Leaving Home. A lot of people don't like Leaving because it's cloying or boring or slow, but for me it was straight traumatic
This was actually the one I most identified with as a teen because I fantasized about running away with my gf at the time
I need to hear the mono version ("You haven't heard Sgt. Pepper until you've heard it in mono" - John Lennon). I know "She's Leaving Home" is in a different key and speed - wonder why it was changed on the stereo mix.
― Lee626, Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is there a way to buy a new copy of the mono CD outside of the mono box set?
― Moodles, Saturday, 21 April 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I remember lying on the floor looking at the gatefold and fooling around with the cut-out inserts when I was six or seven. By then I already knew about the Beatles from their Saturday morning cartoon. My 1967 vote for worst song would have been "Mr. Kite," which kind of creeped me out. My favorites were probably "Lucy" and "Getting Better."
― Brad C., Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
man, I guess I need to seek out the mono version of Pepper.
re: GM, GM - I dig Lennon's stark early take here:
the sparse recording reinforces the suburban hellishness of the song imho
― Darin, Sunday, 22 April 2012 02:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
fwiw
― pplains, Sunday, 22 April 2012 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Everybody else sees the background pulsating in that cover, right?
Right?
― pplains, Sunday, 22 April 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink