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Rocky Dijon
The account on Youtube is still there. Stereo Classics does great work. No, it isn't a true stereo remix, but he has good equipment and makes some interesting choices to hear slight differences in songs we love. Well worth checking out and not just for Stones.
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edit: And now I see ABKCO removed all his Stones tracks.
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The Worst.
The songs you mention were originally recorded mono, and even if they were released as “stereo” by DECCA – it was not really stereo, but duophonic sound (also known as fake stereo). This was a way of making a mono record resemble stereo sound in the 60s. With all kinds of software programs and plug-ins these days, it’s become easier to split a mono recording and make it sound like real stereo. And there was a guy a few years ago releasing stereo versions of Satisfaction etc. on Youtube. I suspect this is what you’ve heard, and my guess is that this guy used modern technology to make 60s mono recordings sound stereo – hence the enhanced sound you are talking about. On Satisfaction, I remember the riff in one channel and the acoustic guitar in the other. Very interesting, but the sheer power of the riff makes Satisfaction sound best in mono IMO. But this is just my guess! If these uploads are no longer there, it’s probably due to copyright reasons.
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DGA35
As many on this board know, the 85 London CD Hot Rocks release was mastered by Mobile Fidelity and has stereo versions of Play With Fire, Satisfaction, Mothers Little Helper and Get Off of My Cloud. Very wide stereo versions which actually don't sound too good apart from Play With Fire. At least on Satisfaction you can clearly hear the acoustic guitar and piano.
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DGA35
As many on this board know, the 85 London CD Hot Rocks release was mastered by Mobile Fidelity and has stereo versions of Play With Fire, Satisfaction, Mothers Little Helper and Get Off of My Cloud. Very wide stereo versions which actually don't sound too good apart from Play With Fire. At least on Satisfaction you can clearly hear the acoustic guitar and piano.
So I bought Hot Rocks on CD in 1987, would that have been this one?
Stupidly I traded this for something else in 1989 when I bought the Singles Collection on CD. I thought there wasn't any point in keeping it.
It was before the days when I had caught the disease of having duplicates ad nauseum of everything.
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DGA35
As many on this board know, the 85 London CD Hot Rocks release was mastered by Mobile Fidelity and has stereo versions of Play With Fire, Satisfaction, Mothers Little Helper and Get Off of My Cloud. Very wide stereo versions which actually don't sound too good apart from Play With Fire. At least on Satisfaction you can clearly hear the acoustic guitar and piano.
So I bought Hot Rocks on CD in 1987, would that have been this one?
Stupidly I traded this for something else in 1989 when I bought the Singles Collection on CD. I thought there wasn't any point in keeping it.
It was before the days when I had caught the disease of having duplicates ad nauseum of everything.
It was actually sold as 2 separate CD's Hot Rocks 1 and 2. These weren't the ABKCO releases from 87 and not available domestically in Canada. I bought mine in early 86 at A&A Records on Seymour a few doors down from A&B. I bought all of the London Mobile Fidelity CD's there as imports although they didn't have all of them.