Queen in Mono

For reasons that go beyond the scope of this post, recently I’ve been listening to music in mono when I’m at my desk. This just resulted in a very enjoyable serendipity, described below.

The song I put on was Seaside Rendezvous by Queen. Again, for various technical (and very professional) reasons, I chose to play the song from Youtube. The video I picked was the one from Queen’s official Youtube channel, i.e. the official lyric video. At 0:55, the official lyrics go “the Mediterranean” - however, when played in mono, what you hear is “without the rain.”

I knew I couldn’t have possibly heard everything there is to hear in Queen’s opus, despite having listened to it so many times over the years (thirteen years, to be exact).

Thanks to the engineers (Mike Stone and Gary Lyons) for making the lead vocals mono-incompatible!