From: rlburger@nospam_wisc.edu   
      
   I appreciate your detailed and passionate response.   
      
   Well, I guess the mono-stereo issue for you is analogous to how I feel   
   about colorized movies.   I love B&W movies, and consider the   
   colorizing equivalent to defacing an oil painting.   All the cool   
   cinematography is lost.   
      
   Stereo sound is different for me, since I prefer it, I'm willing to   
   sacrifice some of the original artistic intent.    Recordings are not   
   really just one person's vision, they are a collaboration of about 20   
   people, from Brian Wilson to the recording engineers and graphic   
   designers.    So the stereo remix is just is an evolution with a   
   couple new artistic collaborators.   
      
   And keep in mind, the original decision to mix in mono was not an   
   artistic preference, it was a marketing neccessity.   They were tuning   
   their music to generate hits among car radio listeners.   
      
   I guess we agree to agree: there is value in both versions.   
      
   But I'm still ticked-off that the "Sounds of Summer" remastered hits   
   collection had so many mono versions.  I'm quite sure that stereo   
   sound will win-over new converts to the Beach Boys.  I'm only recently   
   a fan myself.   
      
   DB   
      
      
      
      
      
   On 17 Nov 2004 12:33:22 GMT, hcmcb4@aol.comnospam (HcMcB) wrote:   
      
   >>Why is Capitol continuing to put out mono versions of Beach Boy songs   
   >on their collections?>   
   >   
   >So they can sell two versions instead of one?  Was that a trick question?   
   >   
   >>Does anybody out there actually prefer the mono mix of Pet Sounds?>   
   >   
   >Yes.   
   >   
   >Yes, simply because it is the work that Brian Wilson, "the genius", intended.   
   >I've asked this before; If we intend to celebrate the brilliance of producers   
   >like Brian Wilson and George Martin, don't we have to hear what they actually   
   >produced?  Seems obvious to me.   
   >   
   >The stereo version reveals much and I'm glad to own it, but for me, there us   
   >one one official version of Pet Sounds.   
   >   
   >The stereo versions of music that became classics are interesting from a "how   
   >did they do that" point of view.  However, a stereo version is different from   
   >what was intended, what we all grew up with, what the artist at the time   
   >believed was his best work.   
   >   
   >It's great that, in many cases, both versions are available but, I think it is   
   >imperative that Capitol, before anything else, keep the mono versions   
   >available.  I'm excited when the stereo versions are actually different, as is   
   >the case with some Beatles and Who tracks, but for me, in most cases, the   
   >stereo versions are a nice gift cannot substitute for the main event.   
   >----   
   >On the CD-re-issue of the Buffalo Springfield's first album, it is stated the   
   >record company insisted on a stereo version of the album that the band had   
   >spent weeks painstakingly laboring over.  The stereo mix was done in two   
   nights   
   >by the groups managers who had never produced anything and had no idea what   
   >they were doing.  Both versions are on the disc, but, the band states in the   
   >liner notes that only one version, in mono, represents the group's vision.   
   >   
   >It is the same with Pet Sounds.  There is one version of Brian Wilson's   
   >masterwork and it is in mono.   
   >   
      
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