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Wow. Since the album came out it's basically stayed in my car until today. A friend of mine who is a casual BB fan asked me to burn a copy of the new album because he's really broke. Anyway, I put it into my computer and ripped it to iTunes. Using expensive studio headphones I listened to the entire album, hearing things I didn't notice in the car. Hell, I was even listening to things I've already heard but it was fresh and intimate, given the different situations. I say relaxing and really honing in on all the sounds is the best way to listen to it. The suite is almost addicting to listen to now. My buddy doesn't know what he's in for.

What is your favorite way to listen to TWGMTR?

The 78 RPM edition, cranked up on a Victrola.

I'd LOVE to hear that.

Someone, somewhere said it made all the difference when he listened through headphones.  Funny I had Al's album sitting around for a while, and had given it a few casual listens.  Then one day I put on the headphones and listened to it from start to finish..totally blew me away.

As for TWGMTR, I have been mainly listening to it in the car.  It gets better and better.  At first I thought it started and ended strong with a bit of a sag in the middle.  That gap has closed with repeated listens, and some of the songs I wasn't crazy about to start with (Shelter, Biil and Sue), I quite enjoy now.

I would listen it to the car if it would actually play.  I get an odd ticking on it for some reason.  Works fine at home through great headphones though, so I'll stick with that as the definitive way to listen to it for the moment. :hat

Headphones first, car second.

Definitely headphones. When I first bought the album, I listened to it casually with speakers. The sound quality was nothing special although it does have that compressed sound which I eventually ignored. Then I listened to it through headphones and immediately noticed a difference in sound quality. The sound was more fuller and less compressed (still is, but not as much). I'm no audiophile but I'm a stickler for high quality sound when it comes to music.

At any beach mentioned in surfin usa and/or on PCH. I am on hawthorne blvd as i write this post. We in LA are spoiled to hear the album in its native setting.

The car listen is indeed a great experience! Especially if you're anywhere like the professor over here. The wood's of PA do the album good for me. Still, the things I'm still hearing after two days of listening through headphones are miraculous! I love this album.

I have listened in the car, and with headphones, but nothing beats hearing the album played on my home system, through my big old speakers.

I use my ears.

There's another way, I don't want to know about it.

Big speakers at home, or headphones on the beach.

I play it mostly in the car, but man, it sounds great on my home audio system. Voted "Big Speakers".

Naked. In my living room. While wearing a hat.

Sounds like Mike when we was writing the lyrics to Kokomo.

Sometimes I put one Earbud in and do the "Brian Wilson" experience. Only for mono recordings of course.

Mike lets his twig fly in the wind :'(

Sonic vibrating rectal probe.

On a boat in the sun, beer in hand, diving in and out of the water.

Can I get one of these at BestBuy?! TWGMTR duo-anal 5.Feces surround-sh*t.

I a car. Late summer night, sun going down, empty road.

Victrola?  PPFFFFTTT!! 

WURLITZER, BABY!!!! You ain't Live 'till you're Jukin'!

 As with all BB Stuff I listen mostly through headphones, I find I don't hear everything through my speakers.
 Maybe I need better speakers or a hearing test.

By proxy.

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Don't miss all the (bonus track) fun over at my thread . . .

Re: The Stephen Desper Thread
« Reply #1120 on: Monday, August 13, 2012, 04:13:19 PM »

~swd

Large studio speakers or in the car. I've got an outright good stereo system in regard to the latter.

Live!  With the video wall!  :lol

Then, in the car!  ;)

Nice!   ;)

Sennheiser HD 595 headphones (on Amazon for $150 used) - CMoy headphone amp ($60) - Download 24-bit version on hdtracks.com ($18) - Burn audio-only DVD with DVD2One - play with DVD player, with the CMoy plugged in to the analog audio output of the DVD player.

This is about the cheapest audiophile setup I can imagine.  The album sounds incredible with this setup.  I think it was mixed with headphones in mind, since so many listeners today use iPhones and iPods.

In the dark, naked, covered in houmus...

Favorite way:

On a big ol' stereo, smokin' a doobie!

 :hat

Stoned.

 :hat

And in my car.

Que Al: "In my caaaaaaar...."

This is kind of a strange album to listen in that 'state of mind'. Tried it more than once....  :)

(and...can't resist to share...my new favorite combo - tested - is SMiLE in your favorite configuration when you start to get high, and then come down listening to Friends. It is the most blissful thing ever).

This really is an album meant for car listening. Most of my car trips while I was in New Jersey over the summer were spent with TWGMTR in the CD player.

I agree entirely! This was a mainstay through both my trips to northeastern PA this summer, along with Lucky Old Sun.
Of course there was also Taking Back Sunday and a couple other non-Beach Boyish artists. But, hey, my musical musings are probably an aquired taste for most.  ;D

We play it in our minivan all the time. All my 5 and 3 year want to hear is the "beach boys" and by that they mean TWGMTR. Funny enough the three songs that they always ask me to repeat are TPLOBAS, Shelter and Daybreak - my 3 least favorite tracks on the album! But all in all it gives me a tremendous amount of joy to know that they're growing up with not only the Beach Boys, but a NEW Beach Boys album! good stuff... now if they'd only ask me to repeat From Here to Back Again....