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Originally Posted by ngdawg
I only have the vinyl, but Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is 'split' in stereo, in that you can hear some of the music in one speaker, some in the other-does the CD do that? It's also a cool thing to hear The Mama's and the Papa's California Dreaming that way. Turn one speaker off and all you'll hear are vocals, no intrumentals at all. I know that it's that way with almost any recording made before the 80's...
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That was due to limitations in multi-tracking back in the 60's. Pretty much all Beatles stuff recorded in 66-67 are done that way -
Yellow Submarine, All You Need Is Love, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, Strawberry Fields, etc. All the vocals are smashed into one stereo channel and if you turn off that channel you lose the vocals completely.
Sidenote #1) For an unexpected treat-mistake, put the headphones on and listen to Mamas & Papas
Creeque Alley. All the vocals are in one channel (left, I think) and all the instruments are in the other. But the best part is near the end because you can tell that they completely re-recorded all the vocals directly onto the same track where they had recorded them previously but they stopped the recording before the end and a slight bit of the earlier vocal recording suddenly jumps in during the fadeout. If you listen all the way to the end you'll see what I'm talking about.
Sidenote #2) I usually have to go into a big explanation to my music classes about what stereo actually means and what it is. To be as simple as possible, "stereo" is an audio illusion. In order to have stereo, you must have two speakers (one speaker would be mono, which is what all the old transistor radios and record players used to be). In order to achieve the stereo effect, the listener should sit equi-distant between two speakers at least six-feet back. Then, if you close your eyes while listening to music recorded in stereo, you will be able to "hear" sounds coming from places directly in front of you where there is no actual speaker. I used to have students "map out" exactly where they heard each voice and instrument coming from in relation to the two speakers on each extreme left and right.
Fun stuff.
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Originally Posted by squeeeb
that's what i'm talking about...i would spend hours looking at the covers, seeking little inside jokes and such....
wierd....honestly, on mine she is topless....
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Sidenote #3) Give me
Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour and one hour and I'll have you totally convinced that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by an imposter. Hey, all the clues are right there on the album covers. Try that with a CD......
Sidenote #4) Led Zeppelin's
Houses of the Holy album and Blind Faith's only album are impossible to find anymore because they both have naked children on them. The
Houses of the Holy CD has fake stickers placed carefully around the cover art and the Blind Faith album is probably worth 5 years in prison if you're caught with it (just kidding, but it is rather unusual in today's times).