The Original Mono Recordings

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest The Original Mono Recordings Product DescriptionThis box collects Bob Dylans first eight 12-inch LPs, his albums from Bob Dylan in 1962 to John Wesley Harding in 1968 and a 60 page, full color book with new liner notes, rare photos, memorabilia, discographical information and more. Each CD is housed in a digipak, matching previous Bob Dylan reissues with a rigid slipcase to hold the 8 digipaks and book. Bob Dylans first 8 studio albums in mono are: Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan The Time They Are A-Changin' Another Side Of Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde On Blonde and John Wesley Harding.ReviewWho on earth would be interested in a set collecting the mono mixes of Bob Dylans first eight albumsWell, as the success of The Beatles similar venture The Beatles in Mono demonstrates, quite a lot of people. And with good reason. Dylanlike the Fab Four and all of their contemporariesdidn't start treating stereo mixes as anything other than a sop to an elite part of the record buying market until the end of the 1960s. Mono mixes were supervised and approved by the artist, stereo mixes done as an afterthought by third parties. The albums Bob Dylan (1962) through John Wesley Harding (1967), then, are being presented here in the way the artist intended you to hear them. As Dylans mono albums were deleted unusually quickly, this is the first opportunity to experience such directors cuts for four decades.Its the early, acoustic albums that benefit most: stereo versions brutally divided up the elements of voice, guitar and harmonica on the debut, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin and Another Side of Bob Dylan. As for the electric material, Blonde on Blondes epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands sounds significantly sweeter and more focused in mono, while Bringing It All Back Home sounds bolder and punchier throughout, with the excellence of the bass-playing on Its All Over Now, Baby Blue particularly brought into focus. However, surprisingly it is not all one-way traffic, as illustrated by Like a Rolling Stone, which here sounds dismayingly sterile compared to the powerful stereo mix that has become far more familiar down the years. Meanwhile, the mono mixes on Stones parent album Highway 61 Revisited are sometimes shorter by half a minutenot a good thing when were talking about one of historys all-time classics. John Wesley Harding sounds sharper and harder, but its noticeable how much less eerie is the monaural The Wicked Messenger.The set is beautifully packaged, a handsome slipcase housing a lavish booklet and CDs in card facsimiles of the original album sleeves, with detail accurate enough to incorporate the original rough texture of the Times jacket and the trashy, advert-adorned inner bag of the debut. This will all presumably be some compensation for those purist audiophiles shocked to discover that mixing and matching between stereo and mono releases will be necessary to obtain the best listening experience.(A single-disc best of of these mono recordings is availableits tracklisting is to the left.)--Sean EganFind more music at the BBC This link will take you offin a new window Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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