The music does sound tighter and more aggressive without unnecessarily extreme seperation. Most stereo mixes at this time adhered to a strict formula of having the rhythmn section in one channel, guitars and keyboards in the other, and vocals in the centre, without considering whether or not individual records benefitted from such treatment.
There are also mono mixes of "Strange Days" and "Waiting for the Sun", but a search of the archive at my workplace only produced the stereo versions.
Another album that sounds vastly - and noticeably - better in mono is the Stones "Their Satanic Majesties Request". With all the instruments piled up in the centre it sounds almost like a garage-punk album (albeit more expansive and recorded with ten times the budget that most garage- punk bands would have been allotted by btheir record labels.
I think "Safe as Milk" and "the Velvet Underground & Nico" both sound better in mono as well, although the differences aren't as major as they are with "TSMR".