Depends on which mix you have. US and UK albums were mixed differently up to the White Album, plus there are true stereo and synthetic stereo. Compared with what we have now, the Beatles recorded on some some primitive equipment. Abbey Road Studios has some of the finest microphones ever made but the early recordings were limited to two or three and finally four track tape. Only on their last album did the Beatles ever have a 8-track master recording (24 was the later standard until digital recording made it meaningless). Those four-track tapes were mastered down to Mono and Stereo recordings. Here is the kicker. The first four albums were mastered down only in Mono. So any "Stereo " versions of those are artificial, made by applying band filters and gates to put pieces of the sound on different speakers. I tell people to buy the Mono versions because they sound better. Way better. Next the early true stereo mixes were pretty unsophisticated. They would put all of the vocals on one channel and all of the instruments on the other sometimes and you could cut out the vocals and sing it yourself like proto-Karaoke. On others they would split the instruments into different channels different ways and get the effect you describe. Sometime make a playlist with Revolution followed by Revolution I. It's the same tune but the single was a driving rocker while the White Album version is an entirely different recording and they changed it to a slower, laid back and very funky version with a horn section.
Springsteen's first three albums were great. Greetings From Asbury Park, The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle and Born to Run. After that its pretty much downhill. Dylan, while not being much of a singer, still wrote a lot of great songs, many of which were covered and made popular by other artists.
Zimmerman grows on you. Download Black Diamond Bay or Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts sometime. Dylan sings 'em just fine. But he's an acquired taste for some folks. Aretha Franklin is on everybody's top-10 all time artists list, but other than a couple of catchy singles, she never really moved me.
This is one of those things that you would have had to have been there. It's like trying to explain Tiger stadium without ever seen a game there. But when the Beatles came to the Ed Sullivan show, it transformed us all.
No, NO he doesn't. Guy is just flat out Charles Barkley swinging a golf club TURRRible behind a mic. I will give him his due with the pen but he should really just stop there.
