Originally Posted by WTDK

Mono was the stanard at the time and as I'm sure you're aware The Beatles themselves would be around for mono mixing sessions later in their career whereas stereo was an after thought with less time devoted to it (and sometimes Martin himself wasn't around).

Some of the stereo mixes were done by Martin, Norman Smith, etc. with the idea that if someone wanted to listen to them on a mono set (for whatever reason) they would "fold down" into mono when played that way--although I want to point out that the mono mixes were not in anyway a fold down (in fact the only fold down I recall being done during that time was for "Revolution 9" and, some argue, that "Revolution 1" although I'm not a strong believer in that theory based on what I recall of the mixing history of the White Album).

Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

And the entire white album is very noticeably different between mono and stereo in actual aspects of the music not that its just one channel instead of two

Originally Posted by Jedey

Geoff Emerick's book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles is a must read for Beatle fans, it goes into pretty good detail on the mixing process.

Originally Posted by sadpanda

Do you know if it is like that with the digitally remastered albums? I would love to have both if I could.

Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

You mean the ones you can buy on iTunes? you can only get the stereo version digitally. You have to buy the Beatles In Mono to get the mono versions, but they are remastered like the stereo box set, it came out in 2009 with the rest of the remasters... not sure what you're asking.

Originally Posted by JoshMartin321

Is it me or is Rubber Soul (an awesome album of course) an album which is negative towards women. I realised it once, I mean it must have come around the time that Lennon's relationship to his former wife was deteriorating.

If you think of the tracks' meanings, for example Norwegian Wood can be interpreted as burning down a girl's flat for not staying up with him and having sex. Run for your Life is obviously negative, it does what it says.

Girl - "She was told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure, Did she understand it when they said, That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure, Will she still believe it when she's dead?"

What Goes On In Your Heart, If I Needed Someone, I'm Looking Through You, You Won't See Me, Think For Yourself... all not exactly filled with love towards someone, mostly they're about bitterness and anger towards a loved one. Even the opening song, Drive My Car, is kind of saying I'm going to be famous and I'm in charge, but if you want, you can **** me while I'm on the way to stardom.

I love it, great album. Does anyone agree/disagree with my views? One friend disagreed with me and said I'd read too far into the album. I agree that some tracks are clearly affectionate, eg In My Life, Michelle, The Word etc, but you can't deny the number of negative emotion songs!

Originally Posted by sadpanda

I'm asking if there is a digital remaster of the mono in how you say. I have the mono and stereo versions but the only difference I can find is that the mono just doesn't have the last minute added on like the stereo.

Originally Posted by Hitting_Singularity

oh, sorry I made a mistake there. I looked at it again, it's 'Don't pass me by' that is half a pitch higher, helter skelter just got cut off a minute earlier lol. My bad