Boxsets We Would Like To See Within The Next 5 Years

[Pretty Funky]

All this stuff should have been released over their 50th......

A comprehensive 2012 concert DVD should have come out by now. A complete show or best-of comp from the Wembley, ROH, Japan, and/or U.S. show(s). A 2-CD set at minimum.

....with minimal sweetening.

[Mikie]

With minimal sweetening and NO reverb and echo.  And that especially goes for the older material in the Beach Boys live box!

[runnersdialzero]

They should have a boxed set where they remix/remaster all the 60s and 70s albums and put bonus tracks on each disc. Or rerelease each one as a deluxe edition or something. It's been since 1990 that they really did any work on the albums. All they did in 2000 was rehash the same remasters right? I think the BB catalog could use some new remastering, since the newer albums they did remaster last year sound really good (Smiley Smile, Sunflower, Surfs Up, the stuff on MIC as well). They should nix the 2-fer sh*t too. Each album should be heard individually imo. The 2-fers were a huge value growing up first becoming a BB fan, but you can still get those used if you are just getting into the group.

The 2000 twofers were all newly remastered. The 60s stuff and the 70s and 80s stuff.

All the albums released last year were newly remastered too.

Stoney, it's like you didn't even read his post.

[zachrwolfe]

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[alf wiedersehen]

I'd love to have the the discrete tracks of the entire discography (or at least PS and Sunflower), but don't think that will happen for many years if at all (but in any case certainly not in five years).

More realistically, I'd really love a Sunflower set with a capella and instrumental mixes and session highlights, and a general vocal set with a capella mixes of other songs of note not already released. A stereo Today! and Wild Honey would also be excellent.

A stereo Today! has already been released.

[Mikie]

.....and I think we have all we're going to get as far as stereo tracks for Wild Honey.

[zachrwolfe]

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[Rotat]

After stereo Smiley Smile (with "Heroes and Villains" done right, with the damn Baldwin organ added!), Today, Summer Days and some of those really rare tracks on MIC, pretty much a stereo Wild Honey would do me right for awhile. I really hope that comes out sometime soon, then we'll finally have every officially released studio LP in stereo for once. Luckily there's a few songs that were remixed in stereo, but not a majority of it.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Your list omits Surfin' Safari. Still no stereo version of the whole album.

[Wirestone]

They should have a boxed set where they remix/remaster all the 60s and 70s albums and put bonus tracks on each disc. Or rerelease each one as a deluxe edition or something. It's been since 1990 that they really did any work on the albums. All they did in 2000 was rehash the same remasters right? I think the BB catalog could use some new remastering, since the newer albums they did remaster last year sound really good (Smiley Smile, Sunflower, Surfs Up, the stuff on MIC as well). They should nix the 2-fer sh*t too. Each album should be heard individually imo. The 2-fers were a huge value growing up first becoming a BB fan, but you can still get those used if you are just getting into the group.

The 2000 twofers were all newly remastered. The 60s stuff and the 70s and 80s stuff.

All the albums released last year were newly remastered too.

Stoney, it's like you didn't even read his post.

Sigh. Yes I did. Allow me to quote:

It's been since 1990 that they really did any work on the albums.

Which is incorrect. Given remasterings in 96 (Pet Sounds), 2000 (everything else) and 2012 (selected stereo/mono releases).

All they did in 2000 was rehash the same remasters right?

As I just stated, this is incorrect. You just have to look at the copyright notices on the releases to realize this.

since the newer albums they did remaster last year sound really good (Smiley Smile, Sunflower, Surfs Up, the stuff on MIC as well).

Which is just a bizarre thing to say, mainly because it contradicts something the poster had just written (either they did remasters post 90 or they didn't). Also, how is Smiley Smile, a 46-year-old record, a "newer album"?

The point is, the OP should take a moment to learn about these things. No one bothered to correct him, which is how misinformation gets spread.

[Niko]

I would love some really focused boxsets, based around specific things. MiC was career spanning, which was great because they got to release all kinds of things, but I think zeroing on a specific album, or series of albums, is the right way to go.

Things I think would be great:
Wild Honey - Smiley Smile - Friends triple box set, all things included.
Sunflower Seeds box set, just Sunflower material
Surf's Up set, with a possible release of Landlocked as it would have appeared had it been released back then.
CATP + Holland set, with extra Blondie + Ricky live material
A live box set - this would work as a career spanning set quite well. A CD for each decade, ending with a show from C50.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Surf's Up set, with a possible release of Landlocked as it would have appeared had it been released back then.

Le sigh.

OK, once more: Landlocked only ever existed as a working title for Surf's Up for maybe a few weeks. The list of titles commonly, and incorrectly, booted as Landlocked derives from a tape assembled 9/1/70, listed as "2nd Warner Brothers LP" on the tape box. The tracks on the tape (as noted on the box label) were:

Loop De Loop/Susie Cincinnati/San Miguel/H.E.L.P./Take A Load Off Your Feet/Carnival/I Just Got My Pay/Good Time/Big Sur/My Lady/When Girls Get Together/Lookin' At Tomorrow/How Deep Is The Ocean Surf's Up.

Also scrawled on the box is "GRILLO HIPE". The last title is "'Til I Die" minus Brian's lead.

[Niko]

Whatever. It would be a nice nod to fans, and would give some of those songs an official release. I'm looking at you Big Sur 4/4

[The Shift]

A Remember The Zoo sessions box, with repro stand-up store promo cut out, giraffe button and tour rehearsals disc. And the complete album on a triple mono/stereo/5.1 180g vinyl LP.

[Alan Smith]

A Remember The Zoo sessions box, with repro stand-up store promo cut out, giraffe button and tour rehearsals disc. And the complete album on a triple mono/stereo/5.1 180g vinyl LP.

John, not only are you being just plain silly, you are jepardising the chances of "The Fading Rock Group Revival" getting the iMAX release it truly deserves

[Niko]

Wooooo!

[Andrew G. Doe]

I don't personally remember the zoo, but given it was the 60s, does anyone ?

[Disney Boy (1985)]

.....and I think we have all we're going to get as far as stereo tracks for Wild Honey.

I'm utterly not concerned re hearing a stereo Wild Honey. I think the title track and, especially, Country Air sound far better in mono. Country Air on MIC just sounds to me like it's had all the soul stripped out of it - that gorgeous multi-harmony chorus kicks in and... oh, that sounded a bit more lame than I was anticipating. Much better in nice full-sounding mono.

Personally, I couldn't give a rats ass above hearing stereo this, mono that, etc. I'm not overly bothered about hearing live tracks either, although I appreciate they're often stunning (I'd certainly buy a live set, but I wouldn't be salivating in anticipation like some here...)

No, all I want is a) unreleased tracks, b) vocal-only tracks, and c) sessions. That's it.

If they released each album with a bonus CD (or two) consisting of the above, I'd be a very happy man.

[The Heartical Don]

Sunflower Sessions deluxe set - stereo/matrix mixes plus outtakes and vocal/instrmental tracks

Surf's Up ditto

Holland ditto

The Complete Brian Wilson Productions 1962-1997

"Rarities" box, collecting all of odd/one-off/non-album tracks.

Last Wilson Standing 1986-201? comprehensive BW solo box, 4CDs minimum.

Raiders of the Lost Archives - unreleased tracks 1962-2012

Last Wilson Standing is a superb idea IMHO. I would just love to hear Brian's best solo things lined up, so that the many, many pearls he did can shine in a proper context, and thus attain the status they deserve. I think there should be a book to go with that box, that outlines in detail what he was up to at any given point (recording-wise); what he had planned, and what got realised eventually. The story should be not sycophantic, just truthful. I think the people interested in such a project would not be happy with some glossy hagiography anyway. Perhaps a DVD with a well-chosen compilation of various documentaries (the Don Was film, Beautiful Dreamer) and live appearances (PS, SMiLE) could accompany it, but then that disk should have new, additional commentary by someone in the know.

Oh, and I bet our AGD would jump at the chance to be involved in such an enterprise.

[Jay]

I really hope that somebody in the near furture puts out a Beach Boys bootleg with the title Raiders Of The Lost Archives.  It would be nice to have a "warts and all"  50th Anniversary cd set, without the mountains of auto tune and studio fuckery that was added to the cd that was released of the tour. The mechanical version of Add Some MUsic To Your Day is just disgraceful, plain and simple. I realize that the shows had their occasional rough spots, but with some careful and tasteful editing they coould have come up with a MUCH better cd.

[The Shift]

The Sunflower Deluxe has to be a no-brainer. The material's exists in abundance, Mark and Boyd both seem eager to get one out , and there's been a clamouring on the board for, oooh, hours now.

Also a no-brainer is an early 70s live set.  The only thing we don't seem to agree on here is the format:

I say, dispense with the idea of an expanded In Concert set and instead release either a single box or a series of (Bob Dylan) Bootleg series sets – whichever, what I'd like is for every gig recorded in support of the original '73 In Concert release to come out in its own right, in its entirety. I don't even know how many gigs were recorded, but the 2xLP set was drawn from several gigs so I assume they're all in the vaults, for starters.

The period between 20/20 and Surf's Up represents the time the individual band members were each flowering creatively and the Sunflower set would epitomise that.  The early 70s live era was the band at its live peak (well, one of its live peaks) and is crying out for a release that reflects that and does it justice.  Look at what's been happening with live releases by The Band, and Humble Pie… concerts in full in all their glory; our band deserves and, for the early 70s, certainly justifies and warrants that kind of treatment.

The one set I'm surprised we didn't get in C50 was a proper Surfin' Safari re-release. Loads of stuff from grey market labels with multitudes of bonus tracks, but nothing from the band's own label.  That was where it all started, and augmented with bonus tracks like those used by the grey marketeers, or perhaps some of the stuff that appeared last year on Big Beat 63, and of course the Hite Morgan tracks (aye, First Wave again!), the occasion could have been even better marked, and fittingly.

The commercial realities? I suspect the Sunflower set and the Live releases would sell sufficiently well; the early stuff perhaps not-so, though it might appeal to the specialist rock and roll market as well as the hardcores…

[Jay]

I would LOVE to have a "super deluxe" box set(no less than, oh....20 cd's.  ) that would focus on the period between Wild Honey up to Sunflower. This is quickly becoming my favorite era for the band.

[shelter]

Sunflower Sessions deluxe set - stereo/matrix mixes plus outtakes and vocal/instrmental tracks

"Rarities" box, collecting all of odd/one-off/non-album tracks.

Raiders of the Lost Archives - unreleased tracks 1962-2012

This and some more late 60s/early 70s live material for me, please.

[Pet Sounder]

As long as a box set comes out that includes every existing take of the backing track for The Little Girl I Once Knew I'll be happy.  The Hawthorne release was a torturous tease.  We only got a take of the first part of the track.  The second half is where all the magic happens.  I still have yet to see this song get the attention it deserves on any of the BB/BW documentaries that I've seen, including (surprisingly) BW: Songwriter.  The song would have fit perfectly on Pet Sounds with more mature lyrics.  It was recorded closer to the main bulk of the Pet Sounds tracks than Sloop John B. 

[filledeplage]

As long as a box set comes out that includes every existing take of the backing track for The Little Girl I Once Knew I'll be happy.  The Hawthorne release was a torturous tease.  We only got a take of the first part of the track.  The second half is where all the magic happens.  I still have yet to see this song get the attention it deserves on any of the BB/BW documentaries that I've seen, including (surprisingly) BW: Songwriter.  The song would have fit perfectly on Pet Sounds with more mature lyrics.  It was recorded closer to the main bulk of the Pet Sounds tracks than Sloop John B. 

Yay! I love The Little Girl I Once Knew, my "coup de foudre" for my BB interest.  It wasn't a hit, it wasn't on an album (I think it should have been on the original Summer Days and Summer Nights!) and, for me it was like being struck by a meteor! I realize it was added on a later "remaster."

What I'd like to see is a downloadable CD (or cluster) of session tracks from the albums, "un-touched."I don't care about the gift-wrap.  My ears don't care what the artwork is.  I'd love Wild Honey, 20/20, and SDSN, for a starter (no, I'm not greedy  ) in simple format such as the Pet Sounds sessions box set. There is likely a limited market for these session tracks.  Most fans just want the hits, which is fine for them.