LaserCat

A mono record can be mixed to sound great even though it's mono. Pet Sounds was mixed in mono and is fantastic.

lol I remember hearing AYE on MTV back in the day when they were "in stereo".. and for some reason all you could hear was the hard left side which had no guitar, just the monotonous piano chord. It sounded horrible (try it yourself and see). If that was anyone's first "experience" hearing him, I can't imagine they would have thought it was any good.

Huge Jimi fan here btw. More than most would expect

Those wide pans of

"fake stereo" can rob a song of the energy that and driving momentum that the mono mix has.