I converted the 5.1 mix to stereo, and WOW! Everything is so clear! From the very clear keyboard I could barely hear before in "Over And Over" all the way through to the very distinct background vocals on "Never Forget". My problem with the album has always been that it sounds muffled to me, as if there were heavy blankets over the mics when it was recorded. Now, for example, I can hear every guitar in "Not That Funny".
Every song also seems to have something different about it also. I hear vocal lines at the end of "Storms" that I had previously only heard on outtakes before, I hear a keyboard on "You'll Never Make Me Cry", there's a guitar part on "Beautiful Child" that I had only heard on the outtakes before, and much, much more. Even "Tusk" seems more "dense"somehow.
I really don't know if I would ever listen to the album mix ever again.
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