Best Beatles songs in mono

Might as well make this one as a companion to the stereo thread.
My picks:
"Money (That's What I Want)"
"Paperback Writer"
"Revolution (single)"
"Norwegian Wood"
"Michelle"
all of Revolver
all of Sgt Pepper's
all of The Beatles except "Revolution 9" (not a true mono mix)
The German single ("SLD", "KGMDH")

 

And Your Bird Can Sing. That's the first one I thought of.

 

Revolution
Paperback Writer
Get Back
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Sgt. Pepper's LHCB (title track)
Got to Get You into My Life
Taxman
I am the Walrus

Plus, almost everything pre-'66

 

Favorite mono "White album" mono tracks:

Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Don't Pass Me By
Yer Blues
Long, Long, Long
Savoy Truffle

I prefer the mono mixes above. Of course there are plenty of tracks on this album that I prefer both mixes equally and some that I prefer in stereo.

 

1st three albums

 

The entire "A Hard Day's Night" album

 

Love Me Do
I'll Get You
She Loves You
P.S. I Love You

 

With the exception of Tomorrow Never Knows, *The Chase, Baby In Black and The Word, I'd probably say just about everything up to, and including, Pepper.

Undisputed Mono Champ: Paperback Writer

*Yes, The Chase is not a real Beatles song, but it's mono version has some tape heavy tape flutter in the first 20 seconds.

 

This one doesn't often get mentioned as a mono standout, but I prefer Hey Jude in mono. There is some kind of bass didgeridoo-type thingy in the mix that stands out in mono.

 

I Want to Hold Your Hand

The stereo is SO WEAK. The mono sounds like a rock band. The mono shows you why people flipped for these guys.

 

I HAVE heard a fake stereo mix of She Loves You, btw

 

Taxman.

 

The vocal on Yesterday is stunning in mono, especially through some good cans.

 

Slow Down - brilliant in mono, unlistenable in stereo

 

Got to Get You Into My Life stands out. Different vocal in the fade. I saw LOVE two weeks back and before the show they featured a version with a completely unique guitar track

 

me too...but, I like the original mono singles on those...

 

talent, great public relations and amazingly slick publicity is what made the Beatles...Mono had nothing to do with it...most of the first generation fans heard them on a one inch speaker thorough a pocket AM Radio...or a small speaker on their TV sets while watching them on TV ...nothing was pumping trust me as I was there.

 

Savoy Truffle..

..was the first one that hit me years ago when I got my first (beat) copy of The Beatles album in mono. Never clocked it much before that, but it became one of my top Beatles tracks, and still is. It's great on the 2014, you can hear him really hacking into the guitar during the last verse, cool.

Hey Bulldog...

.. because the stereo mix is an absolute total disaster, especially for its era: what excuse was there for such a poor stereo mix that late in the 1960s! Was it mixed by someone in the canteen?

 

Unless it's simply my ears but the drums sound buried on the mono 'GTGYIML', in the case of that song the stereo is better.

 

I see where it's all heading.

 

The Abbey Road canteen had the first commercial Microwave oven in the UK, in 1967.
Oh dear, now we've reached the level of detail only beetles can hear

 

the only mono i will ever prefer is the Sgt Pepper reprise, first because it is longer, secondly amazingly for a mono mix you can hear more, there are more things in it....which would be the normal reason I prefer stereo, you can pick out more things, but this is not true on the pepper reprise......

 

Day Tripper

 

Ticket to Ride

 

You prefer the stereo mixes of I Want to Hold Your Hand and Paperback Writer? I knew there must be one person somewhere who did.