Rocky Raccoon
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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2013, 12:24:10 AM » |
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For track list, I'm going to have to go with Good Vibrations. While MIC has all the great unreleased stuff, Good Vibrations works better as an altogether sampler of the band's career and gives a better overview to the band in the 70s. As for sequencing, both sets are more or less chronological which works. As for unreleased tracks, I think it's about a tie. Both sets have songs exclusive respectively that I think are essential for fans of The Beach Boys. Sound quality and packaging are no-brainers, MIC all the way. But overall, I give the edge to Good Vibrations just because it seemed more practical at the time. CD career spanning box sets for big in the early 1990s as vinyl was on its way out and those boxes were a convenient way of having all these songs on CD. Even though I wouldn't become a fan until years later, I can look at it objectively. The Capitol twofers had come out but nearly all of the Brother/Warner/Reprise/Caribou albums were out of print so a lot of fans were getting these songs on CD for the first time. Now times have changed, it's easier to get music, digitally or on CD and this sort of box set isn't really necessary, even though it's definitely welcome. I totally get the criticism that there was no reason to repackage the hits again, I don't mind it because I'm still relatively new to the band (I've been a fan for maybe seven years) and I don't own all of the albums yet but I can imagine some of the longtime collectors are a little bit peeved, especially after all the money fans spent the last couple of years on reissues, concert tickets, DVDs, the Smile box, TWGMTR, and the live album.
Good Vibrations in my opinion was the first cohesive look at the Beach Boys catalog as a body of work. While MIC is a fantastic package, its concept is old hat and I think it should have maybe been a three disc set of all rarities instead. But it's still great.
Track Listing: Good Vibrations Sequencing: Tie Unreleased Tracks: Tie Sound quality: MIC Packaging: MIC Overall Impact: Good Vibrations
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