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[Heretix]

In 40 years we will realize how insignificant this album was in relation to the scope and influence of a real masterpiece, Chinese Democracy.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Was listening to "Dear Prudence" a couple days ago and noticed that the guitar in the left speaker does some truly wonderful things throughout the second half. Song is full of awesome guitars.

[Simakos]

was the White Album ever released in mono, or was it always a stereo mix? i need to upload my copy of The Acoustic White Album sessions... shit i downloaded a ton of rare Beatles stuff during the Napster years.

[Heretix]

was the White Album ever released in mono, or was it always a stereo mix?

i need to upload my copy of The Acoustic White Album sessions... shit i downloaded a ton of rare Beatles stuff during the Napster years.

There's a mono version, and it's a dedicated mono mix (but released only in UK and Japan), and it's pretty damn awesome. There are some striking differences.

..oh god. don't tempt me to to a beatles 'epic thread.'

[Simakos]

http://www.npr.org/t...p...1032&ps=bb1

An hour special on the White Album on NPR

thanks for this... i always forget to listen to this show.

[Undercooked Sausage]

I can post the mono version.

[Undercooked Sausage]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OT1FRDQ8

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PWYBO8CV

Tracklist (huge):

The Beatles (White Album) - Deluxe Edition
Purple Chick

DISKS 1 & 2 - stereo
DISKS 3 & 4 - mono

DISK 1:
single

1: Hey Jude
2: Revolution

The Beatles - record 1

3: Back In The U.S.S.R.
4: Dear Prudence
5: Glass Onion
6: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
7: Wild Honey Pie
8: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
9: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
11: Martha My Dear
12: I'm So Tired
13: Blackbird
14: Piggies
15: Rocky Raccoon
16: Don't Pass Me By
17: Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
18: I Will
19: Julia

outtakes

20: Not Guilty
21: What's The New Mary Jane
22: Sour Milk Sea (outfake)

DISK 2:
The Beatles - record 2

1: Birthday
2: Yer Blues
3: Mother Nature's Son
4: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5: Sexy Sadie
6: Helter Skelter
7: Long, Long, Long
8: Revolution 1
9: Honey Pie
10: Savoy Truffle
11: Cry Baby Cry
12: Revolution 9
13: Good Night

outtake

14: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (demo)

alternate mixes

15: Revolution (Love - complete)
16: Back in the USSR (Love - complete)
17: Revolution (Past Masters)

DISK 3:
single

1: Hey Jude
2: Revolution

The Beatles - record 1

3: Back In The U.S.S.R.
4: Dear Prudence
5: Glass Onion
6: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
7: Wild Honey Pie
8: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
9: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
11: Martha My Dear
12: I'm So Tired
13: Blackbird
14: Piggies
15: Rocky Raccoon
16: Don't Pass Me By
17: Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
18: I Will
19: Julia

outtakes

20: Not Guilty
21: What's The New Mary Jane
22: Sour Milk Sea (outfake)

DISK 4:
The Beatles - record 2

1: Birthday
2: Yer Blues
3: Mother Nature's Son
4: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5: Sexy Sadie
6: Helter Skelter
7: Long, Long, Long
8: Revolution 1
9: Honey Pie
10: Savoy Truffle
11: Cry Baby Cry
12: Revolution 9
13: Good Night

outtake

14: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (demo)

alternate mix

15: Don't Pass Me By (original speed)

DISK 5: - DEMOS

1: Julia
2: Blackbird
3: Rocky Raccoon
4: Back In The U.S.S.R.
5: Honey Pie
6: Mother Nature's Son
7: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
8: Junk
9: Dear Prudence
10: Sexy Sadie
11: Cry Baby Cry
12: Child Of Nature
13: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
14: I'm So Tired
15: Yer Blues
16: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
17: What's The New Mary Jane
18: Revolution
19: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
20: Circles
21: Sour Milk Sea
22: Not Guilty
23: Piggies
24: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
25: Mean Mr. Mustard
26: Polythene Pam
27: Glass Onion
28: Junk (anthology mix)
29: Honey Pie (anthology mix)

DISK 6: - SESSIONS

1: Revolution - take 20 (composite created from From Kinfauns To Chaos)
2: Don't Pass Me By - take 3 (Anthology DVD series)
3: Don't Pass Me By - takes 3+5 (Anthology 3)
4: Blackbird/Congratulations - a (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
5: Blackbird - b (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
6: Blackbird - c (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
7: Helter Skelter/Blackbird/Gone Tomorrow Here Today - d (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
8: Blackbird - e (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
9: tuning (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
10: Blackbird - r (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
11: Blackbird - g (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
12: Blackbird - h (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
13: Blackbird/Mother Natures Son - i (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
14: Blackbird - j (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
15: Blackbird - k (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
16: Blackbird - l (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
17: Blackbird - m (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
18: Blackbird - n (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
19: Blackbird - o (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
20: Blackbird - p (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
21: Blackbird - q (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
22: Blackbird - r (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
23: dialogue (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
24: dialogue (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
25: Blackbird - s (Gone Tomorrow, Here Today)
26: Blackbird take 4 (Anthology 3)
27: Blackbird - take unknown (Anthology DVD series)
28: Blackbird - take 32 RM6 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
29: Good Night - rehearsal (created from Anthology 3)
30: Good Night - unknown take (Anthology DVD series)
31: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - take 5 (The Abbey Road Tape vol 1)
32: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - take 21 (Anthology video + Anthology 3)
33: Revolution - take 15 (Revolution)
34: Don't Pass Me By - take 7 RM4 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
35: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - take 23 RM21 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
36: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da-ish - studio chat (Love (audience tape + TV Special))

DISK 7: - SESSIONS

1: Cry Baby Cry - take 1 (Anthology 3)
2: Helter Skelter - take 2 (Anthology 3)
3: Sexy Sadie - take 6 (Anthology 3)
4: Sexy Sadie - take unknown + chat (Anthology Video series)
5: Fuck A Duckie (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
6: Sexy Sadie - take unknown (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
7: Brian Epstein's Blues (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
8: Sexy Sadie - take unknown (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
9: Sexy Sadie - take unknown (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
10: Sexy Sadie - take unknown (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
11: Good Night - take 34 RM6 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
12: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey - take 12 RM5 (Primal Colors)
13: Sexy Sadie - take 28 (Anthology Video series)
14: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - take 1 (A Day In The Life + ARVS)
15: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - take 1 + overdub (Anthology DVD series)
16: When I Was A Robber (Anthology 3)
17: Hey Jude - take 2 (Anthology 3)
18: Hey Jude - rehearsal a (Experiment In Television)
19: St Louis Blues - a (Experiment In Television)
20: Hey Jude - rehearsal b (Experiment In Television)
21: Hey Jude - take unknown (1983 Abbey Road Show)
22: Hey Jude - take 7 (Unsurpassed Masters volume 4)
23: Las Vegas Tune (Unsurpassed Masters volume 4)
24: St Louis Blues - b (Unsurpassed Masters volume 4)
25: St Louis Blues - c (Unsurpassed Masters volume 4 + Experiment In Television)
26: Hey Jude - rehearsal c (Experiment In Television)
27: Hey Jude - take 8 (A Day In The Life)
29: Hey Jude - take 9 (A Day In The Life + Experiment In Television)
29: Hey Jude - take ?? RS1 (Gone Tomorrow Here Today)
30: Hey Jude-ish studio chat (from Love)
31: Mother Nature's Son - take 2 (Anthology 3)
32: Mother Nature's Son - take unknown (Anthology DVD series)
33: Not Guilty - take 102 RM1 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
34: Jam (Down In Havana)
35: What's The New Mary Jane - take 2 (Anthology DVD series)
36: Rocky Raccoon - take 8 (Anthology 3)
37: Rocky Raccoon - take 9 (Anthology DVD series)
38: Rocky Raccoon - RM1 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
39: Yer Blues - RM3 (Primal Colors)

DISK 8: - SESSIONS

1: Mother Nature's Son - RM8 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
2: Wild Honey Pie - RM6 (The Peter Sellers Tape)
3: Sexy Sadie RM5 unedited (The Peter Sellers Tape)
4: Back In The U.S.S.R. - RM1 (Primal Colors)
5: Dear Prudence - backing vocal fragment (White Sessions)
6: Dear Prudence - take 1 - mix a (Gone Tomorrow Here Today + Lost Lennon Tapes 88-24)
7: Dear Prudence - take 1 - mix b (Gone Tomorrow Here Today)
8: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - studio chat (Love)
9: Lady Madonna - rehearsal (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
10: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - rehearsal (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
11: Helter Skelter - vocal fragment (love tv special)
12: Helter Skelter - take 21 RM1 (Primal Colors)
13: I Will - take 1 (Anthology DVD series)
14: I Will - take 1 (Anthology DVD + Anthology 3)
15: Can You Take Me Back - take 19 (Down In Havana + Turn Me On, Dead Man)
16: Down In Havana - I Will take 30 (Down In Havana)
17: Step Inside Love - I Will take 34 (Turn Me On, Dead Man)
18: Los Paranoias - I Will take 35 (Turn Me On, Dead Man)
19: The Way You Look Tonight - I Will take 36 (Turn Me On, Dead Man)
20: Birthday - RM1 (Primal Colors)
21: Piggies - take unknown (Anthology DVD series)
22: Piggies - unused overdub (LOVE TV Special)
23: Happiness Is A Warm Gun - overdub track (Arrive Without Aging)
24: Happiness Is A Warm Gun - stereo with overdub track (remixed from DESS + Arrive Without Aging)
25: Glass Onion - take 33 RM2 (Anthology 3)
26: I'm So Tired - takes 3+6+9 (Anthology 3)
27: I'm So Tired - take 14 (Anthology DVD series)
28: I'm So Tired - a (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)
29: I'm So Tired - (remixed from DESS + Control Room Monitor Mixes)
30: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - take 4 (Anthology 3)
31: Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - take 4+5 (Anthology DVD series)
32: Julia - take 2 (Anthology 3)
33: Julia - take 3 (Anthology DVD series)
34: How Do You Do (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
35: Blackbird (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
36: The Unicorn (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
37: Lalena (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
38: Heather (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
39: Mr Wind (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
40: The Walrus And The Carpenter (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))
41: Land Of Gisch (Abbey Road NW8 (Darthdisc))

DISK 9: - THE BEATLES GO TOO FAR

Revolution 1:

1: take 20 playback
2: take 20 playback
3-4: jamming
5: tuning/dialogue
6: jamming/rehearsal
7: take 20 overdub
8: take 20 playback
9: take 20 playback
10-14: jamming
15: take 20 playback
16: take 20 playback
17: take 20 playback/overdub
18: take 20 playback
19: take 20 playback
20: take 20 playback
21-24: jamming
25: take 20 playback
26-28: dialogue
29: take 20 playback
30: take 20 playback
31: dialogue
32: dialogue/tape loop
33: tape loop
34: dialogue
35: RM1

36: Revolution 9 - RS1

DISK 10: - THE BEATLES GO TOO FAR

1: What's The New Mary Jane - RS4 (Acetates Collection)
2: What's The New Mary Jane - RS5 (Acetates Collection)
3: What's The New Mary Jane - RS6 (Acetates Collection)
4: What's The New Mary Jane (Another Sessions Plus)
5: What's The New Mary Jane (Misc Tracks 2005)

6-11: I'm So Tired b-g (Control Room Monitor Mixes)
12-15: While My Guitar Gently Weeps a-d (Complete Control Room Monitor Mixes)

Alternate mixes:

16: Don't Pass Me By - take 3 (Anthology Video series)
17: Goodnight - unknown take (Anthology Video series)
18: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Anthology 3)
19: Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - take 21 (Anthology DVD series)
20: Sexy Sadie - unknown take + chat (Anthology DVD series)
21: Good Night (Anthology 3)
22: Sexy Sadie - take 28 (Anthology DVD series)
23: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology 3)
24: While My Guitar Gently Weeps - take 1 harmonium (Anthology Video series)
25: Hey Jude - take 7 (Experiment In Television)
26: Hey Jude - take 7a (chat) (Experiment In Television)
27: Hey Jude - take 7b St Louis Blues (Unsurpassed Masters 4)
28: Hey Jude - take 9 partial (Abbey Road Video Show)
29: Hey Jude - take 9 (Experiment In Television)
30: Mother Nature's Son - take unknown (Anthology Video series)
31: Not Guilty (Anthology 3)
32: What's The New Mary Jane - take 2 (Anthology Video series)
33: Rocky Raccoon - take 9 (Anthology Video series)
34: I Will - take 1 (Anthology Video series)
35: Step Inside Love-Los Paranoias (Anthology 3)
36: Piggies - unknown take (Anthology DVD series)
37: I'm So Tired - take 14 (Anthology Video series)
38: Why Don't We Do It In The Road (Anthology Video series)
39: Julia - take 3 partial (Anthology Video series)

40: While My Guitar Gently Weeps orchestra session (LOVE TV Special)

DISK 11: - WHITECASTS

1: Not Guilty (Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 3)
John Barrett's stereo mix of this outtake was included in Volume 1. This is Roger Scott's mix.

PROMO FILMS - 4 September, 1968

2: By George! It's the David Frost Theme - take 1 / It's Now Or Never (White Sessions)
3: By George! It's the David Frost Theme - takes 2 and 3 (Anthology DVD)
4: Hey Jude - take 1 (Lost And Found)
5: Hey Jude - take 2 (Video 1)
6: Revolution - rehearsal (We'd Like To Carry On)
7: Revolution - take 1 (Anthology Video + Anthology Director's Cut)
8: Revolution - take 2 (Video 1)
9: Hey Jude - edit of takes take 1+3 (Revolution)
10: Hey Jude - edit of takes take 1+2+3 (Anthology Video + White Sessions)

ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS - 11 December, 1968

11: dialogue/Yer Blues - (Lost Lennon Tapes)
12: dialogue (Rock and Roll Circus)
13: Jam - take 1 (Lost Lennon Tapes)
14: Yer Blues - take 1 - mono, no vocals (Lost Lennon Tapes)
15: Yer Blues - rehearsal - mono, no vocals (Lost Lennon Tapes)
16: Yer Blues - take 2 - stereo (Rock and Roll Circus DVD + Sergent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: A History Of The Beatle Years)
17: Yer Blues - take 1 - stereo (plus take 2 applause!) (LLT+Rock and Roll Circus)
18: Her Blues - take 1 - stereo (Rock and Roll Circus)
19: Yer Blues - take 2 - mono acetate (The Dirty Mac Sessions)
20: Her Blues - take 1 - mono acetate (Dirty Mac Sessions)

DISK 12: - WHITECASTS

THE CILLA BLACK SHOW - 6 February, 1968

1: reading viewer mail (Vinyl To The Core)
2: ventriloquism/Nellie Dean (Vinyl To The Core)
3: Do You Like Me (Vinyl To The Core)

THE KENNY EVERETT SHOW - 6 June, 1968

4-11: Interview (Attack Of The Filler Beebs Ep. 3 + Acetates Collection)

THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR - 8 November, 1968

12: George's Cameo

ALTERNATE MIXES

13: By George! It's the David Frost Theme - takes 2 and 3 - (Anthology Video)
14: Hey Jude - edit of takes 1+2+3 (Anthology DVD)
15: Revolution - take 1 (Anthology DVD)
16: dialogue/Yer Blues - (Rock and Roll Circus DVD)
17: Yer Blues - take 2 wide stereo (Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 7 + SPLHCB:AHOTBY)
18: Her Blues - take 1 - wide stereo (Yer Blues (Library))
19: Yer Blues - take 2 (Rock and Roll Circus DVD)
20: Kenny Everett Interview (Attack Of The Filler Beebs Ep. 3)
(Part of the Broadcast version, featuring Everett's edits and sound effects.)
21: Yer Blues - take 2 - mono (Lost Lennon Tapes)
22: Her Blues - take 1 - partial mono (Lost Lennon Tapes

[Campaigner]

holy fuck

[Guy]

I like the Beatles as much as the next guy, but do I need 12 discs worth of alternate mixes and demos? Yes, I do. Thank you Mr Slap Nutz!

[Simakos]

12 discs worth of alternate mixes and demos?

is there really 12 discs worth of material in those 2 links? is that even possible?

[Sid Hartha]

12 discs worth of alternate mixes and demos?

is there really 12 discs worth of material in those 2 links? is that even possible?

Oh, it's real.

[Badger]

'Revolution in the head' reports that there were 67 takes of 'I will' - not that you'd know it from the relaxed atmos of the final cut - enough for a double album on its own.

[Undercooked Sausage]

I mean, I could've just posted the mono mix but where's the fun in that? My preferences are pretty much every pre-white album, I like the mono version more, white album and beyond i'm not really familiar with the mono versions enough to make the call, but I probably prefer the stereo.

[Sid Hartha]

Pretty much agree - everything up to Revolver is best heard in mono. With Pepper and White Album, it's a toss-up - the stereo versions are more polished, the monos are kind of sloppy and uneven, but have some awesome moments (like on Birthday and Yer Blues).

[Undercooked Sausage]

I've never heard Sgt Pepper in mono, actually! I should probably grab that.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

Listened to an amazing vinyl rip of the stereo Revolver and was blown away to the point where I might have to reconsider my thoughts on the "mono vs. stereo" issue surrounding that album, although the stereo mix is obviously a nightmare on headphones.

Pepper and The White Album have excellent stereo mixes, especially the latter. Getting to hear a mono Pepper is cool, though.

[Ogawa]

Love the take of "Sexy Sadie" with John singing, "Who the fuck do you think you are? Oh, you cunt."

[Sid Hartha]

Listened to an amazing vinyl rip of the stereo Revolver and was blown away to the point where I might have to reconsider my thoughts on the "mono vs. stereo" issue surrounding that album, although the stereo mix is obviously a nightmare on headphones...

Revolver was the first one with Geoff Emerick as engineer, who really changed the way they were recorded and mixed. A lot more bass on that, with the drums brought way up for a change (even more so on some of the stereo mixes - She Said for instance). You could almost pin the transition (stereo vs mono) on that guy's involvement.

[Badger]

Listened to an amazing vinyl rip of the stereo Revolver and was blown away to the point where I might have to reconsider my thoughts on the "mono vs. stereo" issue surrounding that album, although the stereo mix is obviously a nightmare on headphones...

Revolver was the first one with Geoff Emerick as engineer, who really changed the way they were recorded and mixed. A lot more bass on that, with the drums brought way up for a change (even more so on some of the stereo mixes - She Said for instance). You could almost pin the transition (stereo vs mono) on that guy's involvement.

Recruited for Costello's 'Imperial bedroom' for exactly this reason, ja?

[greekgoat91]

That Purple Chick White Album is incredible. If you have the bandwidth/patience, go download it immediately.