I take back what I said about Roger not being a masterpiece especially now that I have some of these in superior mono version

also having a certain variety is probably a key aspect and makes it distinct from jazz/blues/country/folk albums that obviously have a consistent aural aesthetic but its just because theres less stylistic variety. and in the case of jazz especially it just feels like the albums are entire works much more than single songs for the whole genre in general. thats why its harder to single out individual jazz highlights for the best of year list

and even though those 65-66 Dylan albums have less variety than the Beatles, Mothers, VU. Kinks etc etc switching back and forth between wildly different sounds I still hear enough of the variety and changes in them to place them in that category instead. but they have a lot of qualities of both styles of albums and are right between in a way, which is cool and definitely a sort of central placement within the spectrum of popular musics

crine at you now coming around to the mono superiority for a lot of this stuff after some years of me trying to convince you. knew i wasnt mistaken in thinking you totally stanned roger as well

but yeah i could not imagine listening to the Yardbirds in stereo, just feels like a mismatch for the sound. a***ogous to how hearing a lot of 70s+ rock in mono would seem, it would just feel off

Half these are still better in stereo I told you I went through the Kinks and Small Faces song for song years ago to decide which versions I liked better between mono and stereo. I was aware mono can be better.

ok i might have spoke too soon then. yeah gonna need you to eventually realize that there is no point in listening to pre-Arthur Kinks in anything but glorious mono. hope it wasnt just a case of you falling in love with the stereo first then quickly comparing to mono and wrongly disregarding it due to the slight differences not accustomed to

ive never even heard any small faces in stereo though

13th floor elevators mono tho

I thought you'd be able to tell by my acknowledgment of paperback writer mono that I have no problem admitting when the stereo version is inferior

I can't find a good digital mono version can you send me yours please

yeah The Yardbirds heard the sonic variety on Rubber Soul alright needs more wobble board

There's also quite a bit of eye rolling and backhanded compliments about how much time the Beatles had begun to start spending on their music in the studio but I don't think people at the time realized Rubber Soul only took them 2 weeks

@Elric You get to this yet

check pm

you really need to get on soulseek though i promise its not that hard

No sorry I've been working obscene 12 hour days for nearly 2 weeks to get this job done on time I'll check it out later

I know I've just been spreading myself so thin with other s*** right now

I got some good s*** for you bro

it really is all I had to was update my OS for mac and share a couple files. Soulseek literally has EVERYTHING f***ing godsend

the speed is crazy too

kinks - sunny afternoon

yea at first I was like "is this s*** foreal"
then went on a 3 hour downloading spree

wow trying to make an actual ranked list for 66 is actually f***ing impossible i guess this is how hard its gonna be from now on. might have to limit it to 1 song per artist

i definitely have more 10/10 songs from 66 than 65 tbh

I was going to say if you pull up with a measly list of 10 songs again please PLEASE don't puss out and limit yourself to one song by any artist I want to see a fully fleshed out list with a bunch of songs by a bunch of goats

its already hard enough to rank the top Beatles, VU, Beach Boys songs among themselves and even harder to try to mix them together for a proper ranking

ranking albums is a lot easier than ranking songs too tbh. but yeah list will be bigger regardless because there are too many that cant be left out