| Non Album Tracks? | | | | people listened back on mono record players at |
| These days bands tend to put all of their best | | | | the time. So The Beatles actually spent a lot |
| songs on their albums so when you hear about | | | | more time perfecting their mono mixes than they |
| the non album compilations for The Beatles (Past | | | | did the stereo. Because of this many people |
| Masters in stereo and Mono Masters in mono | | | | consider the mono versions of their songs to be |
| respectively) you may think that it's just a | | | | definitive. |
| collection of underwhelming B-Sides that weren't | | | | The Beatles Mono Box Set (which is the only way |
| good enough to make it on the band's classic | | | | to get the Mono Masters compilation as it is not |
| albums such as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club | | | | sold seperately) features The Beatles albums in |
| Band & Abbey Road. | | | | mono on CD for the very first time. |
| But in actuality, nothing could be further from the | | | | Previously Unreleased Mixes (Yellow Submarine) |
| truth! Many of the band's most famous songs | | | | Because the original Yellow Submarine album |
| were never included on their albums. The Beatles | | | | (1969) was released only in stereo (their first |
| actually liked to keep their singles and their albums | | | | album released only in stereo) the mono mixes |
| as seperate as possible so songs like "Day | | | | that were made for the four new mono mixes |
| Tripper" & "Hey Jude" were never included | | | | included on the album were shelved until now. |
| on an album and likewise albums like The White | | | | This means that the Mono Masters set includes |
| Album & Sgt. Pepper's had no songs released | | | | the very first release (in any format) of "Hey |
| as singles. | | | | Bulldog," "All Together Now," "It's All Too Much," |
| Mono? | | | | & "Only A Northern Song" in mono. |
| The Mono Masters double CD compilation includes | | | | They were included on the "non-album" set |
| the original mono mixes of all of The Beatles | | | | because the entire Yellow Submarine album could |
| non-album tracks (and the four new Beatles | | | | not be included because the instrumentals that |
| songs on Yellow Submarine, more on that below.) | | | | make up most of the album were never mixed in |
| But why should you care about mono mixes? Well | | | | mono, thus it made more sense to include these |
| back then stereo wasn't seen as nearly as | | | | four tracks on the Mono Masters set. |
| important as the mono mixes because most | | | | |