Yep, and if you want to know why, listen to the Amazon.com clip of it! Sounds terrible. I believe Trent heard KROQ play a pre-release copy of the song in mono and was so disappointed that he added the disclaimer to the liner notes.
Yeah, I have a Royal Guardsmen CD that has one track with instruments on one side and vocals on the other.
*in the same 1966 interview he said of his own band, “If you steer clear of quality, you’re alright.”
A stereo oddity due to separation…on a Casey Kelly album, there is a song called Escaping Reality. There is a single vocal throughout (Kelly), centered in the stereo mix as usual, but at the chorus, the vocal’s left & right tracks are 180 degrees out of phase. Not the instruments, just the vocal.
It was an attempt to match the topic in the lyrics, as if you listen with headphones or a speaker system with good separation, the voice sounds “disembodied”, or unreal, and you can’t place the singer in the middle or anywhere else. It’s a neat effect.
However, the liner notes had a warning, “do not play this on AM broadcast radio”, because, if you listen to the song in mono, the out of phase parts cancel out the entire vocal during the chorus!