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The Rolling Stones In Mono - Ltd Colored Vinyl Boxset
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• The entirety of the band's studio output in the 1960s, pressed in a different colour for each title! Original 14 mono albums plus special collection - Stray Cats. Stray Cats (2-LPs of single A & B sides plus the 1964 The Rolling Stones E.P. tracks), incorporating every 1960s Rolling Stones track that isn't found on the other 14 albums (an additional 24 tracks). This limited edition numbered box set includes a 48-page lie-flat booklet with a 5,000-word essay by Rolling Stone writer David Fricke and colour photos. Mastered in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) from the original mono master recordings by acclaimed Grammy award-winning mastering engineer Bob Ludwig. Lacquer cutting by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios. Features both UK and US versions of Out Of Our Heads (1965) and Aftermath (1966), as well as the UK versions of the first LP - The Rolling Stones and Between The Buttons (1967).
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- Product dimensions : 37.5 x 36 x 16.5 cm; 294.84 Grams
- Manufacturer : Universal Uk
- Manufacturer reference : 0018771208112
- Original Release Date : 2023
- Label : Universal Uk
- ASIN : B0B4BVP93L
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 6,627 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- 3,060 in Rock Music (Music)
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Don’t normally like coloured vinyl but the the records are all dead flat with one fairly minor exception.
This is a remarkable achievement given how many lps come dished or warped these day.
Sound quality is as good as all the reviews.See Michael Fremer’s review on the net.
Had looked at this box set a lot, but the price was a deterrent.
Amazon’s price was too good to pass up.
Really a first class package.
Now for a mono cartridge…..
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I got lucky, because my set arrived with the records and packaging in excellent condition.
THE PACKAGING: The 16 albums/17 L.P.'s are housed in a reasonably sturdy outer box; not as sturdy as the two Beatles vinyl boxes, but acceptable. a large,folded flap folds over the top then covers the entirety of the box's front, where it is held in place by a magnetic clasp. Therefore, when picking up this boxed set, grab it by the bottom and rear. Grabbing the set by the front will cause the front flap to pull loose from the magnetic clasp. The album covers are well printed with an attractive,glossy finish on both front and back. Be cautioned that they don't have the cellophane lamination of the original UK 1960's edition. There is no longer any print house capable to manufacturing the celleophane laminated covers. ABKCO has licensed the use of the "London" & British "Decca" names for the labels of these records, but not for use on the album covers, which is OK with me. The album covers are reasonable, but not exact reproductions of the original artwork. Since the original black vinyl edition of this boxed set,which featured pale, severely cropped artwork images for "Aftermath(UK)" and "Their Satanic Majesties Request", ABKCO has found much better, uncropped artwork images and they are used in this set, though "Their Satanic Majesties Request" lacks the 3-D "Lenticular" image found on the original release, and the red "Smoked" inner sleeve. All of the albums in this set feature white hard card inner sleeves, except "Let It Bleed" which has a red printed inner sleeve similar to that found in the original. I know many people would have prefered poly lined inner sleeves.
THE PRESSINGS: All of the grooves were on center, and excepting a few ticks in the song "Ruby Tuesday", the surfaces were dead quiet. As for warps, 15 of the 17 records were flat, but the 2-L.P. "Stray Cats" did have some mild warpage, but they weren't dish warps and had no audible effect on playback. I know that some "Audiophiles" think that color vinyl means higher surface noise or inferior sound, but that is not true, and I would know, I started collecting vinyl in 1968. I would know. There is also the issue of analog mastered vinyl(such as The Beatles in Mono box) versus the DSD Digital mastering used in this Stones box. For most of these songs, it makes no difference, but the place where a difference is on some of the most primitively recorded songs here, digital mastering does sound different when reproducing distortions found in the original recordings. Digitally reproduced distortion is an oxymoron, but since neither you nor I have ever listened to the original master tapes, we can't be sure if DSD's reproductions of these distortion(as on the song "She Said Yeah") are actually closer to how the tapes actually sound.
UK/U.S.A. album differences: As with the 1964-1966 Beatles albums, there differences between the Uk & U.S.A. versions of the albums, but unlike The Beatles, who had no control over the song contents of the American albums, The Stones had indirect control over the contents of their U.S.A. album, which were compiled by their producer Andrew Loog Oldham. As with Capitol's U.s.A. Beatles albums, the Rolling Stones albums, they reflected the U.S.A. music biz view that the inclusion of the recent hit singles helped sell the albums. Capitol cut UK Beatles albums down to 11 songs (versus the 14 songs UK album), to save money on song publishing royalties, but this issue was usually nopt a factor in compiling U.S.A. Stones albums, since only one UK 1960's Stones album ('Aftermath(UK)") had 14 songs. Also, The U.S.A.(where albums cost less than in the UK) would support albums more, so the U.S.A-only albums could be created using non-L.P. UK Singles, E.P. tracks, and, in a number of cases, songs that would not see UK release until after The Stones left Decca & London.
THE ALBUMS:
"The Rolling Stones"(debut album)
(This is essentially the same as the U.S.A. album "Englands' Newest Hitmakers" but with "Mona" instead of "Not Fade Away")
12 x 5
(ABKCO considers this to be the group's 2nd album, since it was released 2 seasons before the group's second UK album. The five Chess Studio tracks released in England on the E.P. "5 x 5" are combined with some fairly primitively recorded tracks from Regent Sound and a few tracks that would not get released in England in the 1960's, includding an early inferior version of "Time is On My Side". By the way, when fitting 3 songs on one side of a 45RPM E.P., "2120 s.Michigan Ave" was faded out one mintue early, and, by mistake that shortened version was used on the original" "12 x 5" album. Here ABKCO wisely uses the uncut original on this record.)
"The Rolling Stones No.2"
(The group's 2nd UK album, using some songs from "12 x 5" and adding some previously unreleased selections)
"The Rolling Stones Now"
(The group's 3rd American album, providing the U.S.A. debut for most of the tracks that debuted on "The Rolling Stones No.2", plus singles tracks and a few tracks that were not at the time released in the UK, such as "Surprise,Surprise". By mistake this album opens with a rough demo of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". It was a record company error. The superior RCA/Hollywood version can be heard on "The Rolling Stones No.2")
"Out of Our Heads(UK)"
"Out of Our Heads(U.S.A.)
"Decembers Chidren (and Everybody's)"
("Out of Our Heads(UK) was the group's 3rd UK album, and a great album it was. Through the addition of hit singles, E.P. tracks and tracks that weren't released in the UK, this material was stretched out into two albums in the U.S.A.)
"Aftermath(UK)"
"Aftermath(U.S.A.)
(in this case, where the Uk album had 14 track, songs had to be dropped in the U.S.A., so "Out of Time", "Take it or Leave It" and the forgettable, bland "What To Do" were dropped, and the non-L.P. Uk single "Paint It Black" was added.
"Between The Buttons"(UK)
(This version of of "Between The Buttons" has "Please Go Home" & "Backstreet Girl". I would have much prefered the U.S.A. album, which featured "Ruby Tuesday" & "Let's Spend The Night Together". Besides the two songs exclusive to the UK "Between The Buttons" appear on "Flowers")
"Flowers"
"London Records" was impatient for new Stones product, so Andrew Loof Oldham compiled "Flowers" a sort of "Rolling Stones" equivalen of The Beatles' "Yesterday and Today", combining recent hit sings,songs that had been dropped from the U.S.A. versions of "Aftermath and "Between The Buttons" and some previously unreleased tracks such as "Sitting on a Fence", "My Girl" & "Ride on Baby". The version of "Out of Time" heard on "Flowers has been edited down approximately 2 minutes shorter than the version that appeared on :"Aftermath(UK)"
"Their Satanic Majesties Request"
(The Stones' attempt at Flower Power Psychedelia, some songs have stood the test of time, while others haven't. You'l not that in this set, generally, Albums that were exclusive to the Uk or were identical worldwide have been pressed with "Decca" labels, whilke U.S.A. albums have been pressed with "London" labels, so you may ask, why is "Their Satanic Majesties Request" been pressed with "London" labels. This is the reason why. The Uk mono L.P. of this album was a fold-down, but London Records in the U.S.A.. released a dedicated mono mix.For ABKCO to put "London Records" labels on this record is ABKCO's was of saying to the fans, "Yes fans, we know. We are giving you the real dedicated mono mix")
"Beggars Banquet"
(This mono version is mostly a fold-down, Except "Sympathy For The Deiveil", which is a dedicated mono mix. Why was a dedicated mono mix created for "Sympathy For the Devil"? Because, when Olympic Studios engineers tried to fold down the stereo mix of 'Sympathy For The Devil", there were phase issues, which caused some of the instruments to disappear.
"Let It Bleed"
(A fold-down of the stereo mix. This is supposedly being included in this set, for the sake of completeness or by public demand)
"Stray Cats"
(a 2 L.P. compilation, similar in concept to the "Mono Masters" collection in The Beatles' mono vinyl box.
This combines non-L.P. a-sides & B-sides and E.P. tracks. I heard something odd on "Honky Tonk Women", which causes Mick Taylor's guitar solo to be barely audible, as if it it has been copied from one channel of a stereo mix. All of the other tracks on this 2 L.P. set sound correct.
You'll note that the U.S.A. live album "Got Live if You Want It" is not included in the set, though a few of the songs from the live UK EP(coincidentally also titled "Got Live If You Want It") appear on "Decembers's Children" and "Out of Our Heads(U.S.A.)
So is this set the complete works of the studio tracks released in mono between 1963-1969? Almost, There was a alternate version of "Tell Me(You're Coming Back)" accidentally included with the first UK pressing of the group's debut album....for the first 2 weeks that the album was sold. Yes, it's inferior to the correct version. I'm not sure that ABKCO can legally reissue it.
Two more things, The reproduction of the photo used on the covers of "12 x 5" & "The Rolling Stones No.2" is poorly reproduced and makes The Stones look severely sunburned. And it would have been nice if the informative and attractive book of photos and liner notes had been a hardback book, because the type of glossy paper used becomes visibly creased very easily.
Overall, quite an enjoyable set.
You can't and shouldn't compare the quality of recordings made in the 1960's with todays standard. If you are willing to forgive that and you love the Stones this is a must have.
The box set itself exceeds expectations and I recommend the “Andrew from Polygram” video on YouTube which is 100% accurate.