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For a long time since the beginning of recording technology, most recordings were monaural (reproduced on a single channel), in spite of explorations by Clément Ader starting in 1881, and in the 1930s at EMI under the direction of Alan Blumlein and Bell Laboratories under the direction of Harvey Fletcher. The first stereophonic disc was released by Audio Fidelity in November 1957 and the technology quickly took off, by 1969 all major record labels having stopped manufacturing monaural records. This all happened at the same time that rock music was rapidly becoming very psychedelic or garagey, and as a result many people in the studio probably couldn't resist the temptation to show off with their new technology. So, we got many albums from the mid-sixties up to the early-seventies (sometimes) that isolate various tracks on separate channels, or heavily employ fancy panning effects, as if avoiding the center was a matter of life and death. This description does not mean to imply in any way that this is a bad thing. There are often good reasons to use stereo separation, such as allowing instruments to be heard more clearly than the usual lump-everything-in-the-center approach. It is a sort of musical equivalent to Science Marches On and Zeerust as this sort of production tricks aren't as widespread anymore. Plus, if you're a producer who wants to sample a bit of a song, you'll probably pray for this sort of thing - easier to get a song where the drums are on the right and everything else is on the left, sample it and cut out the left channel, than one where everything is centered and you have to use the extraneous bits as well or break out the EQ. This is also used to great effect in motion picture sound. It allows sound to be matched to moving visuals. Theater and home surround sound systems have between five and eight channels to play with (and now with new technologies such as Dolby Atmos becoming mainstream, that adds even more overhead channels to muck around with); using multi-channel surround in music is still largely experimental, if only because headphones only have two channels. The intended effect can be altered by the playback equipment. Two speakers mounted side-by-side in a single cabinet have more crossover than two mounted in opposite corners of a room, and headphones have none at all. Historically, the decline of the "guitar on the right, bass on the left" type of mixing came about as albums started being recorded on 16 or more tracks, which makes it easy to double-track every instrument. When your mix already has two or more guitars playing the exact same part for the "fatness" this provides, the natural tendency is to spread them out over the stereo field. Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath were some of the early bands to do this, although not all the time as the examples below show. Likewise, when you have enough tracks to give each individual drum its own separate stereo position, its highly unlikely you're going to mix the entire drum kit to one side unless you're deliberately trying to invoke the 1960s. The visual equivalent of this is a Widescreen Shot. |
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Good luck trying to make sense of the first verse of Dream Theater's "The Glass Prison" if one of your speakers is messed up, on that note. The vocals alternate between the left and right channel, giving it a panicked, uneasy sound, which makes sense - the song is about the drummer's battle to recover from alcoholism. | |
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The second part of the song "A Man's Gotta Do" from Dr. Horrible has Penny on the right only, Billy on the left and Captain Hammer in both, so you can easily hear all three when they sing at the same time. | |
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"Ectobiology" from the Homestuck Volume 5 album, when it was released, originally had a panning effect added that made the song swoop from left to right and back again, rhythmically with the music for the entire length of the song. When people listening through headphones complained of headaches, the panning version was removed from the album and replaced with a much less gimmicky one. | |
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Big Fun has two extreme examples recorded shortly after Bitches Brew- "Great Expectations/Orange Lady" - On left is McLaughlin on guitar (though it has a delayed echo effect panned to center) an electric piano, Moreira on percussion, one bassist, Grossman on sax, and Cobham on drums (except his high-hat, which is panned to the right), in the center is Davis (though his trumpet has an echo that switches between all channels) and another electric piano, and on right is Sharma on tambura and tablas, Balakrishna on electric sitar, Maupin on Clarinet, and another bassist. "Go Ahead John" - DeJohnette's drums and McLaughlin's guitar switch between left and right channel randomly between beats, while everything else is mixed to center (until the bridge, where Davis's trumpet is mixed to center, with reverb mixed to the right and a very delayed echo to the left.) (Notably, this song was used by producer Teo Macero to test out an automatic channel switcher, which would he used increasingly throughout this period) |
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"Welcome To The Machine" from Wish You Were Here (1975) has a pulsating low synth drone throughout switching from left to right. | |
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Axis: Bold As Love - "If 6 Was 9" keeps the vocals on the right channel and the guitars on the left... mostly. "You Got Me Floatin'" separates the drums on the left channel. "Castles Made of Sand" puts the rhythm guitar on the right channel, and the reversed licks on the left. "She's So Fine" and "Little Miss Lover" keep the rhythm guitar on the right, before indulging in rapid panning of their own. | |
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On the Coraline soundtrack, the back up vocals move back and forth between the channels. The song? Exploration. | |
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Are You Experienced - "Foxy Lady" puts the vocals on the left channel, whereas "Purple Haze" favours the right. "Manic Depression" has all the guitars on the left. "Fire" separates the bass and guitars to the left and right, respectively. "Are You Experienced" does the same, but with the drums and guitars. "The Wind Cries Mary" does the same, but this time with the vocals and drums. | |
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Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is recorded with a "double quartet" - two separate jazz quartets improvising both as separate groups and together - panned entirely to one stereo channel each. | |
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The Sly and the Family Stone albums Life and Stand!! love putting the drums on the right channel. | |
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Paranoid (Album) mostly shoves the guitar on the right channel and the bass on the left channel, with the exception of "Hand of Doom", where their position is reversed, and "Fairies Wear Boots", "Rat Salad" and "Paranoid", which center both. | |
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A variation is used in the beatmania IIDX games: Any notes hit by player 1 play primarily on the left channel, and any notes hit by player 2 play on the right channel. In Double Mode, notes hit on the left half play on the left channel, and notes hit on the right half play on the right channel. Notes played on each side are faintly heard on the opposite channel, though. | |
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Machinae Supremacy's "Hero" has two guitar solos playing at once, one for each channel. They're written so that one track is shredding while the other plays more slowly and melodically, switching every once in a while. | |
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Speaking of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978), the original radio version had had the speech on middle channel on monologues. And not always then. Also on the radio version, the Vogon voice treatment for the first episode had the voice on the right, and the phasing effect that had been added to it on the left. Rather disconcerting if you take out your right earpiece... | |
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Children of Bodom's "Touch Like Angel of Death". Lead guitar pretty much completely on the right channel. | |
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In the breakdown at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive" from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the whole thing pans back and forth pretty fast to sound like the music is spinning around the listener. There's a reason most fans prefer the mono mix of the album. | |
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The original single version of The Germs' "Forming" has the vocals panned hard left and everything else hard right. It was recorded to two track and all of the instruments other than the vocals were recorded at once with one microphone, so to be fair really any attempt at giving it a "stereo" effect would sound like gratuitous panning to some extent. | |
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The Muppet Show song "Mah Na Mah Na" (incidentally adapted from a song in a Swedish porno) has the monster singing in the opposite speaker to the backup singers, and during the chorus he switches between the two. | |
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Master of Reality: "Sweet Leaf" begins with a tape loop of Tony Iommi coughing panned from left to center. "Embryo" uses subtle panning. "Children of the Grave" uses panning on the spooky feedback-drenched coda. Outside of these, the album largely centers everything. | |
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The self-titled album by the Ramones consistently placed guitar in the left speaker, bass in the right, and vocals and drums in the center. When Screeching Weasel did a song-for-song Cover Album of Ramones, they had their version mixed the same way. | |
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Parodied by Spinal Tap with their 1965 single "Gimme Some Money", the drums being entirely on the left channel and the clapping on the right. | |
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Part of "Any Colour You Like" from The Dark Side of the Moon features the guitar switching between left and right constantly. | |
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Son of Cliché: Aired in the early-middle 1980's when the BBC first experimented with stereo radio broadcasting, the radio precursor of Red Dwarf once opened with a parody of The Outer Limits (1963). If you listened on stereo headphones the joke was enhanced. | |
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The album mix of "Elenore" by The Turtles uses gratuitous panning as part of its pastiche of mainstream pop. Though it's a justified use, many fans nevertheless prefer the mono single mix instead. | |
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Most songs on the The White Album and some on Abbey Road separate the drums on one of the channels, and sometimes most of the instrumentation as well. | |
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Led Zeppelin II: "Whole Lotta Love" keeps the driving riff on the left channel, and furiously twiddles during the middle freakout and was made specifically to be appreciated with headphones. "The Lemon Song" keeps the guitars mostly on the left, "Thank You" does the same but on the right channel, and "Bring It On Home" alternates. | |
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Endemic in Big Finish Doctor Who, to the point that sometimes trying to visualise the scene based on where characters' voices are coming from can distract the listener from what they're actually saying. | |
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For Pokémon Gold and Silver, the stereo option now included proper mixing that sounds a bit more natural, and thus this trope is played more traditionally. For example, the opening of Cherrygrove City quickly introduces its layers in the right ear, then the middle, then the left ear. Violet City's piece pans one of its background layers from right to left and then back again throughout, while Rock Tunnel is perhaps the most creative use where the left ear is used for a literal echo of the right ear! | |
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"Taxman" from Revolver used the "I Feel Free" method, bundling everything on the left channel, leaving tambourine and cowbell on the right, and filling the center with vocals. | |
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You could use "Go Straight" from Streets of Rage 2 to test your speakers. The first few bars bounce from left to right every note. | |
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An interesting example in "Hemispheres" by Rush: on the singing of the word "hemispheres", it's played once in the left channel before rapidly coming in on the right as well, making it sound like two Geddy Lees standing on either side of the singer. | |
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In Generation 1, stereo audio was available only in the later Pokémon Yellow via the headphone jack and tweaking the options menu. All this did was apply each of the audio channels to either the left, right, or both ears, with only the new Yellow-exclusive music getting bespoke mixes that actually moved the channels around. This can sound rather bizarre if you're used to the mono versions that came out of the Game Boy's single speaker, but since this option was so obscure most people didn't even know to critique it. | |
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"Behind Blue Eyes" sticks the acoustic guitar on the right channel, and its reverb on the left. | |
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DVD example: The stereo remix of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) TV series places the narration of the Guide entries completely in one speaker, and the background music in the other. | |
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Good luck trying to hear the vocals on "Norwegian Wood" from Rubber Soul if your right channel/speaker/ear is broken. | |
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In the 2007 Goofy short "How to Hook up Your Home Theater", when the narrator rattles off the various speakers any true home entertainment buff needs, the soundtrack adds instruments coming from the directions indicated in the picture until both Goofy and the home audience are completely surrounded. | |
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The Who: "I Can See for Miles" piles the drums on the right channel and the guitars on the left. "Magic Bus" throws the backing vocals of "Ride on the magic bus!" on the right channel, and the guitars on the left. Then proceeds to bounce the vocals between left and right. The vocals of "I'm a Boy" are exclusively on the left channel. "Armenia City in the Sky" and "Odorono" stack the guitars and drums on the left channel. "Our Love Was", "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "The Real Me" restrict the drums to the left channel. "Behind Blue Eyes" sticks the acoustic guitar on the right channel, and its reverb on the left. So does "Pinball Wizard". "Young Man Blues" (studio version) puts the guitars on the right channel and the bass on the left. Live At Leeds separates the bass to the left channel and the guitar to the right. As the bass is played with distortion and lots of middle it sounds almost like a guitar. "Who Are You" separates the acoustic guitar into the left channel and the lead guitar into the right channel, with the vocals, bass, drums, and piano in the centre. The synthesiser, meanwhile, is alternately panned left and right on each note. "Eminence Front" puts the lead vocal in the left channel. |
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Dark Magus has Cosey's guitar, synthesizer, and percussion all mixed to the left channel; Davis's trumpet and organ and Liebman and Lawrence's saxophones all in center (which makes it difficult to tell which sax is playing) as well as Foster's drums and Henderson's bass, and on the right are Lucas and Gaumont on guitar (and meanwhile, Mtume's percussion switches between channels) (Agharta and Pangea are mixed the same, but omit Lawrence and Gaumont, and replace Liebman with Fortune) | |
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Collective Soul used this on a few songs. "Heavy" puts the distorted guitar intro so that it alternates channels between riffs, and "Energy" did the same with the vocals right before the chorus. The same song also put the vocals for the first verse on the right channel and everything else on the left. | |
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Occurs in the first two generations of Pokémon: In Generation 1, stereo audio was available only in the later Pokémon Yellow via the headphone jack and tweaking the options menu. All this did was apply each of the audio channels to either the left, right, or both ears, with only the new Yellow-exclusive music getting bespoke mixes that actually moved the channels around. This can sound rather bizarre if you're used to the mono versions that came out of the Game Boy's single speaker, but since this option was so obscure most people didn't even know to critique it. For Pokémon Gold and Silver, the stereo option now included proper mixing that sounds a bit more natural, and thus this trope is played more traditionally. For example, the opening of Cherrygrove City quickly introduces its layers in the right ear, then the middle, then the left ear. Violet City's piece pans one of its background layers from right to left and then back again throughout, while Rock Tunnel is perhaps the most creative use where the left ear is used for a literal echo of the right ear! |
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"Runaway" from Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy pans the accusation 'who got you?' from left to right, as though the listener is being accosted from every direction. | |
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The opening notes of the Chill Penguin stage music in Mega Man X bounce between the left and right speakers a couple of times before transitioning into the main part of the track. | |
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Krallice's albums are usually mixed with Mick Barr's guitar in one channel and Colin Marston's in the other, which helps listeners parse their complex instrumental interplay more easily. | |
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The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" has a similar effect to "Before the Storm"; the song contains electronic beeping that alternates channels. | |
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Giorgio Moroder combined stereophonic panning with synthesisers in many of his recordings between the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among the most notable examples are Donna Summer's I Feel Love and the Chase theme from Midnight Express. | |
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Electric Ladyland - "Crosstown Traffic" twiddles the panning knobs like crazy (curiously keeping the rhythm guitars on the right channel). "Voodoo Chile" keeps the organ on the left channel. "Little Miss Strange", "Long Hot Summer Night" and "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" do the same to the drums. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" pushes the harpsichord to the left and the wah'ed guitar to the right. "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" too engages in heavy knob-twiddling throughout its 13 minute length. The slide guitar solo in "All Along the Watchtower" is slightly panned from left to right. | |
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The heavily distorted outro to Charli XCX's "Click" features this, along with the intro to "Shake It". | |
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The beginning of Slipknot's "Psychosocial" and "Sulfur" | |
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On the Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco DeLucia live album Friday Night in San Francisco, the tracks with two guitarists would confine one to the left channel and the other to the right. The remaining tracks added the third guitarist in the center channel. Mind you, these guitarists were the only musicians on the album. | |
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Foo Fighters' "Stacked Actors" starts with the guitar and drums panned all the way to the left and right respectively. | |
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"Run Like Hell" from The Wall has the vocals switch from left to right with every line Roger sings. | |
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While producing Fresh Cream, Robert Stigwood decided to put all the drums on the right channel. Then he went overboard on "I Feel Free", where all the instruments are on the right channel, the tambourine on the left, and the vocals filling the gaps. Felix Pappalardi applied the drums on the right technique to Disraeli Gears as well, and restricted the reverb on the vocals to the right channel on "Mother's Lament". |
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The title track from the cast album of Man of La Mancha has Don Quixote and Sancho talking while they ride from one side of your head to the other. | |
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"White Light/White Heat" keeps the drums on the right channel, and separates the two vocalists (Reed, Cale). | |
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Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath (album) mostly pans the guitar towards the left channel, either obviously ("Black Sabbath", "Sleeping Village") or more subtly (exception being "Evil Woman"). "Black Sabbath" also pans the the bass to the right channel, "The Warning" puts the guitar solo on the right channel, and "Wicked World" reverses the guitar-left-bass-right panning of "Black Sabbath". Paranoid (Album) mostly shoves the guitar on the right channel and the bass on the left channel, with the exception of "Hand of Doom", where their position is reversed, and "Fairies Wear Boots", "Rat Salad" and "Paranoid", which center both. Master of Reality: "Sweet Leaf" begins with a tape loop of Tony Iommi coughing panned from left to center. "Embryo" uses subtle panning. "Children of the Grave" uses panning on the spooky feedback-drenched coda. Outside of these, the album largely centers everything. Volume 4 continues the trend of centering everything, with the exception of "FX" and "Laguna Sunrise". |
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Early stereo recordings of opera, most famously Georg Solti's 1950s/1960s recordings of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, made the characters' voices move around to suggest the effect of people moving around a stage; this was accomplished by actually making the singers move from one microphone to another, with a numbered grid on the floor and notes in their scores showing where they were supposed to be standing at any given time. The staging plans could lead to awkward placement of the voices, like having someone sing an aria entirely from the left or right speaker, and eventually this type of staging became restricted to entrances, exits and other important movements with most of the singing placed at or near the middle. | |
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Black Sabbath (album) mostly pans the guitar towards the left channel, either obviously ("Black Sabbath", "Sleeping Village") or more subtly (exception being "Evil Woman"). "Black Sabbath" also pans the the bass to the right channel, "The Warning" puts the guitar solo on the right channel, and "Wicked World" reverses the guitar-left-bass-right panning of "Black Sabbath". | |
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The Magical Mystery Tour album puts almost everything on the left channel, brass on the right channel, and the vocals in the center. The exceptions: "The Fool on the Hill", "Your Mother Should Know", "I Am the Walrus". | |
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Queen: "Bohemian Rhapsody" from A Night at the Opera in particular — "Little high" the left speaker is followed by "Little low" in the right. Justified in the canon of "The Prophet's Song", where voices are separated to make the whole thing easier to listen. They actually mostly averted this trope; however, in "Who Needs You", the lead vocals are panned hard right, and in the beginning of "Millionaire Waltz", the bass is panned left and piano right with nearly no crosstalk. Played completely straight with the remixed 12" extended versions of many of their songs in the '80s. Most egregious example award probably goes to "The Invisible Man". Try to see how many times/how long you can listen to this before getting a headache. |
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"Trouble Come Running" by Spoon features the lead vocals and bass guitar in the center, with guitar and backing vocals panned hard right and drums panned hard left. | |
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Falling Up's Christmas album Silver City does this at the end of "Song in the Air". The keyboards rapidly switch back and forth between left and right channels as the song begins to fade out. It's either awesome or really distracting... or both. | |
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So does "Pinball Wizard". | |
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Glass Animals' debut album "ZABA" features this throughout, especially during interludes between tracks. | |
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Post-Brave New World Iron Maiden does it, since the number of guitarists jumped to 3 (example: in Rock in Rio, Dave Murray's guitar is in the left speaker, Janick Gers' is in the right one, and Adrian Smith is in the middle). | |
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L.A. Woman combines all these techniques. | |
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The Foundation Trilogy: This 1973 adaptation of Isaac Asimov's famous work starts with a computer voice speaking over the sound of a teleprinter. To imitate the effect of the machine printing, the voice pans slowly from left to right and then back at the end of each 'line'. | |
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"Bohemian Rhapsody" from A Night at the Opera in particular — "Little high" the left speaker is followed by "Little low" in the right. | |
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Played completely straight with the remixed 12" extended versions of many of their songs in the '80s. Most egregious example award probably goes to "The Invisible Man". Try to see how many times/how long you can listen to this before getting a headache. | |
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"Supper's Ready" by Genesis twiddles the vocals from left to right for 20 minutes. | |
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On Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits, the songs "The System is Down" and "I Think I Have a Chance With This Guy" both use this in parts, with Strong Bad's "DOOOOOOOJ"s in the former and What's Her Face's "Guy, guy, guy, guy" in the latter. | |
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The kazoo solos in "Corporal Clegg" from A Saucerful of Secrets pan from one side to the other and back a few times each. | |
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In the "finale" of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells Pt.1", each instrument makes its entrance as announced by Vivian Stanshall on the far left, then, as it plays the melody, it gradually moves across the soundstage - sometimes all the way to the far side, sometimes to somewhere in the middle - and stays there as the next instrument enters, so that by the time the title instruments make their entrance, the instruments that preceded them are all playing from different directions. (And if that's not elaborate enough for you, there's a quadraphonic version "for people with four ears", to quote the sleeve.note If you get one of the first 40,000 vinyl copies of the quadraphonic version, it has doctored stereo sound intended to simulate quadraphonic sound rather than true quadraphonic sound.) | |
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In the 1980s serials Earthsearch and Earthsearch II, whenever the two Angel computers are speaking to each other, one is on the left and the other on the right. (Originally, due to the limitations of FM stereo receivers, this tended to cause a slight distortion on the vacant channel. Now that the series is only re-run on the digital Radio 4 Extra, the problem no longer arises.) | |
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Led Zeppelin I: "Good Times, Bad Times" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" pan the drums to the right channel. "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" does the same to the acoustic guitar. | |
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"Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart does this with every keyboard note. | |
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