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This evening, from what I can remember:

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Alt-J - An Awesome Wave**
The Fugs - It Crawled into My Hand, Honest
The Righteous Brothers - Just Once in My Life …
The Beatles - Abbey Road
George Winston - Piano Solos**
Von Karajan - Wagner Overtures

**not my selection

At work listening to Bill Evans’ Sunday At The Village Vanguard and had to click around for a bit before I found a version that didn’t have this dumb ass stereo spread where Bill was hard panned to the left with the rhythm section on the right.

Granted, I am on headphones but this was pretty bad, though odd production choices don’t usually bother me. Judging by the year of release I guess it was just a failed experiment in applying stereo to mono records in a slapdash fashion, but why upload such a piece of shit 65 years later?

Went looking for mono but found a less egregious stereo version with a red cover that is a big improvement.

Kind of reminds me of the constant stream of Bowie and Beatles rejiggerings - I get a record will need to be remastered for digital release, but they can’t they at least clearly denote remixes so that listeners can hear something close to what was originally released?

It’s one thing to “fix” issues of tape generation loss and another for somebody’s middle aged heir to go through and add plugins everywhere so that it might, what? Connect with kids? Be as loud as the Liberty Mutual commercial you couldn’t skip fast enough?

"My Wave" by Soundgarden which manages to perfectly synthesize Sabbath, Fugazi and the Beatles.