There’s no escape from folded mono sound. This morning, Boss Radio 66 played the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time”, a song that’s used very effectively in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
The song was taken from the indifferently produced Metamorphosis album that ABKCO put out in ’75. Stereo elements were added to the original mono track that was given the worst sound treatment ever devised, re-channeled stereo.
As heard on the mono speaker of my Logitech Squeezebox Radio in the kitchen, the sound had the distant, hollow effect that’s typical of fake stereo when out-of-phase channels cancel each other out. On YouTube, the official copy of the recording is called the “Strings Version.”