{"id":808,"date":"2007-08-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-13T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T12:34:25","slug":"penny-lane-in-true-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/penny-lane-in-true-stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Penny Lane&#8221;&#8230;In True Stereo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5noSCC3iypU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs I medidate on the beauty of unease that&#8217;s highlighted on the German true stereo release of <em>Magical Mystery Tour<\/em>, I&#8217;m finding that <strong>&#8220;Penny Lane&#8221;<\/strong> is one song that does <strong>not<\/strong> benefit from this mix. The song is too perfect, too much a product of the vibe that was at the mighty core of the <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s<\/em> sessions for which it was originally recorded. Here&#8217;s the German true stereo version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/09-Penny_Lane.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/09-Penny_Lane.mp3\"><strong>The Beatles, &#8220;Penny Lane&#8221; (German true stereo mix)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I prefer the <strong>crammed, fake stereo of the US release<\/strong> I grew up with. It&#8217;s totally in your face, like McCartney and like his airtight pop confection was meant to be.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>NOTE:<\/em> If the gratuitous clip that kicks off this video doesn&#8217;t convince you nerds that the film <em>Almost Famous<\/em> actually was the most contrived piece of prepubescent proto-porn ever produced by Hollywood, as I&#8217;ve felt since first watching it, I don&#8217;t know what to say.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I medidate on the beauty of unease that&#8217;s highlighted on the German true stereo release of Magical Mystery Tour, I&#8217;m finding that &#8220;Penny Lane&#8221; is one song that does not benefit from this mix. The song is too perfect, too much a product of the vibe that was at the mighty core of the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/penny-lane-in-true-stereo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}