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Sounds cool. But also show what a great lead Mike did on this.

My favorite PS song!  Well done on the mix, thanks for sharing!

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Nice mix! But agreed with Rocker that it really shows how good Mike's lead is. Had Brian double tracked this vocal it would sound a lot better.

Here's my Til I Die mix - my most popular fanmix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS34TZR3SNY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS34TZR3SNY)

Here's my mix of the 'Don't Talk' vocal snippet and the string section mashed together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBZEhUuIc0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBZEhUuIc0)

Here's my favorite moment of any mix I've made. I edited in the "ooooh yeah yeah" vocal to the a cappella break in Sloop John B:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J-zMJIgxUM&feature=player_detailpage#t=110s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J-zMJIgxUM&feature=player_detailpage#t=110s)

My multi-layered mix of Wouldn't It Be Nice (with vocals only, background vocals only, instrumentals only sections): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T94mq3vsiZo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T94mq3vsiZo)

I didn't make a bunch cool SMiLE songs if anyone's interested, don't PM me.

Years ago someone 'released' an absolutely awesome mix of WIBN...similar to your version rab2591, but less 'educational' I guess.

I don't know who did it, maybe they are among us?  It goes by the name of BarricklowSummers Remix.

That's amazing, I made the exact same mix for myself awhile back.  Same musical choices, and everything!  As much as I love both the original and Desper mixes, my blend of the two has become my preferred "'Till I Die" listening experience.

The only differences between our mixes (and they are small, indeed) is that when the group re-enters for the coda, the voices are heard a tad louder at the beginning of the fade-in on my version.  That, and my copy runs 3:33 (just an extra second or two of silence before the end, I suppose).

Small world, huh?  :h5

Wow that mix of "Till I Die" is dare I say better than the Surf's Up original.
More dynamics and feels completely natural at the same time.
Great stuff!

Yeah, I loved the additions that the Desper mix alt. brought to the song, but I just felt that musically, it went on a bit long in some places.  I can't speak for rab, of course, but I'm guessing he was thinking something similar.

Thanks guys! Yeah, I loved the feel of the Desper mix (far more creative), but I did find it too long in places. Crazy we both thought of the same mix!

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Nice! I wonder if they flew in those ending vocals on the MIC version.

Here's the best I could do with "Little Girl I Once Knew" in stereo: http://limelinx.com/bkva4 (Green download button)

I'm seeing like four green download buttons, lol.

Oops. The non-spammy looking little one in the center.

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Thanks man! It was a tough one. Had to pull a lot of trickery and fake the funk in certain spots. The bridge + choruses were tough to extract since there are so many harmonies. And the backing track source is substandard. But the verses are pretty clean.

 I hope the version of sherry on  mic is similar to this one but maybe with the beach boy vocals  coming in only on the tag. great job. 

Some great mixes here! I'm a dreadful mixer myself, but I sometimes do it for fun.

Guess I'll share some crap:
Cool Cool Water/ Little Pad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3ueDEsVAI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3ueDEsVAI)
TM Song mono mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMlHydXcTM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMlHydXcTM)
Sumahama without Japanese vocals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSp85H8K-k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSp85H8K-k)

Excellent work! Thank you very much. :)

Holy shite! You made it sound like a full on symphony....Great work!

Hey Seltaeb, that was really good, man!  :)

Woah, considering the sources you used, this sounds fantastic!!! I've heard a bunch of attempts of a stereo TLGIOK and this is by far the best. Great stereo isolation of certain instruments.

Thanks man, glad u dig it. I remember u requesting it a while back. It's a bit of a hot mess, but enjoyable.


Thanks Mikie!

Thanks Doc!


Well I'll give Brian that credit ha. But thanks man, I know what you mean. I went back and listened to the mono mix. It's crazy how buried the saxes + stuff are. Very drum / bass / vocal heavy mix. The vocals are more "in" the track here, rather than on top of it, for better or worse.

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Of course not, I love talking about this crap.

The bulk of the backing track is from SOT, but it was missing bass & guitar.

The bass is extracted from the mono mix.

The guitar is also extracted from the mono mix (intro and before outtro).

The vocals are extracted from the mono mix.

I don't wanna be the one to give away the Strawberry Field Forever edit (My Dad STILL doesn't know where it is ha.) but..

The 1st and 2nd choruses are the same. Too time consuming for me to extract both choruses. (sidenote.. the 1st chorus fit into the space for the 2nd chorus PERFECTLY. didn't need to move anything around. just goes to show you how dead on the Wrecking Crew guys were.)

Also the part in D after the "La doo day" part is from the chorus with a tricky little edit that brings it back into the real section.

Then I added some distortion to glue it all together. Kind of makes it sound a little more focused, and hides some of the phase issues.

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Shouting out some great Smile mixes:

If anyone here hasn't heard it yet, I implore you to get a copy of AlternateBrianWilsonPresents Smile - the most creative/cohesive Smile mix out there.

JMZ's Smile mix is my second favorite - every song on there is mixed perfectly. It's got the best sounding Do You Like Worms version I've heard, as well as a dubbed vocal 'lead' over Look.

@Seltaeb: If you have any other mixes like TLGIOK please share them! Also, could you post or PM me a link to your Stereo Smile mix? - I never got a chance to listen to fully listen to that, and I lost my copy.

Izotope RX. Tedious as hell, but u can basically erase the unwanted frequencies visually.

I have Extra Boy too.  In fact I think I used it as a plug in on the vocal track! Takes away just a little bit more of the unwanted backing track.


+1 on those SMiLE mixes. I hadn't even heard them until I got done doing my mix.. so good. Especially considering the sources. I was wrong to claim to be the first to do "Look" with stereo vocals.

And yeah definitely. I have a version of This Whole World with the backing track continuing over the fade at the end, a stereo extraction mix of the alternate vocal version 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'.. and a few others..

Will post everything later!

My favourite Smile mixes would be:

Tygerbug's 3971 edit - This might be purely for personal reasons since it's the first Smile edit I ever heard, but it mixes the 1967 and 2004 versions together remarkably seamlessly, creating the most complete Smile I ever heard. Definitely deserves more attention than it got.

Soniclovenoize's 1967 mix - While I adore the 2004 version's sequencing, it's good to hear a nice honest mix of what the sequencing probably would have been had the project been completed. This edit is great, despite one or two minor mixing flaws ("Great Shape" could have been better done).

OMG...on the Desper mix, i can hear a RMI electric piano on the harpischord setting. ew :). I had one of those.  Course it works great in that context.  It
crops up on other 70's stuff, like the Spinners One Of A Kind Love Affair (i think) but Gawd, don't use it in the solo!!!!! :) and BS&T uses it on one of their
hits.  just some trivia. :) 

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Hopefully this may be of interest to some of you here, even though I was just sort of goofing around with it. I was playing with Acid Pro 7 and thought it might be fun to do a dance remix of a Beach Boys song, but the only one I could come up with that had any sort of a real dance groove to it was Dennis's "Pacific Ocean Blues". So here's my attempt to do a vintage '77 disco remix of that song. Apologies in advance!  :afro

https://soundcloud.com/j-pinnacle/pacific-ocean-blues-disco

Holy sh*t, that's so good! I think I prefer it to the original. Nice editing work. I'd love to hear more BB's stuff remixed like this. Where did you pull the drums from?

Awh, thanks mate! Appreciate your kind words. No secret on the drums, really-- I just knicked the breakdown from this classic bit of disco funk and tweaked it a bit for listenability purposes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2PoMAC0b7A

Wow. Very creative. I didn't even notice all the extra instruments in there at first.

There's gotta be a ton of BB's songs that can be remixed like that. A "Don't Worry Baby" remix would be pretty sweet.

Isn't there a "Matchpoint Of Our Love" remix floating around? I can't remember if they added to it, or if it was just slowed down a bit...

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Beach Boys disco remixes... this should definitely be a thing

Thanks! Maybe I'll try my hand at "Matchpoint" in the next couple of days.

Oh my god. I demand a 12 inch mix!   ;D

The Avalanches used a speeded up version in their Breezeblock mix:

http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_89277/the-avalanches/tpx_22047565 (http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_89277/the-avalanches/tpx_22047565)

Wow, this is so cool! Brian did fantastic lead vocal! Not better or worse than Mike's original, but cool on its own. And all these 2 years of BBs fandom I didn't know about such a gem? Unbelievable. Anyway, Zach, would you mind sharing the download link of your HT mix? I definitely like it more than the Pet Sounds cut. Which says sth. if consider that it's in my Top-5 of the whole record. Thanks in advance & don't care about thinking if it's legal or not, because there are lots of fan mixes around YT & they're OK, nothing's got deleted.

Marvelous! An already magical song turned into sth. even more mesmerizing! I love the echoing atmosphere of it & that all the voices are being as one sonic cacophony. No wonder why stereo rules.
Major thanks for stepping in & posting here, seltaeb!

Wow, thank you for that. The Avalanches are HUGE in my list of influences, and I've never actually heard this mix before. Makes total sense that they're Beach Boys freaks though. (Who else would sample "Match Point" but died in the wool fanboys?)

Funny to come across this sub-thread of Beach Boys disco mixes, I was going through songs Brian was involved in in the 70s looking for killer tags a few weeks back, and fell in love with this tag to Spring's Thinkin' Bout You Baby and looped it up.

https://soundcloud.com/davesegal/spring-ooh-baby-loop-demo (https://soundcloud.com/davesegal/spring-ooh-baby-loop-demo)

That is just mind-rotting. But in a good way!

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Hi,

I read you every day but I don't post very often. I just wanted to tell you that I've done an Element Suite from SMiLE. I don't know if it has been done before but here is the description of the track :

I tried to do this suite as final part to SMiLE. I used several sound effects of nature (wind, rain, stream, thunderbolt). It starts with the tag to Wind Chimes as "The Elements:Air" with a wind sound surrounding the multi-piano track. Then the wind gets stronger and we can hear the sound of a forest fire, "The Elements:Fire" starts. By the end of "Fire" it starts to rain, "Fire" fades out and "Cool, Cool Water" from the GV box set comes. A thunderbolt is the introduction to the vocal intro to "I Love To Say Dada". "Cool Water" and this represents "The Elements:Water". Then comes "Dada".

I used my favorite stereo bootleg for "Fire" and "Dada", the SMiLE Sessions for "Wind" and the GV box set for "Cool Water".

Here is the link to Soundcloud :
https://soundcloud.com/r-my-torro/the-elements-suite-air-fire

I'm planning to do my own SMiLE with my previous work (the long version of H&V, but I think that instead of expanding the track H&V I'll use the H&V sections as transitions to the tracks). I've also done a "Surf's Up" / "George Fell Into His French Horn" mix and a "Wonderful" mix with the intro of CIFOTM as an intro to "Wonderful" and the "Rock With Me Henry" tag.

Have a nice day !

Just listened to your mix of HT again & my opinion remains the same - it's awesome! Many thanks for the download link!

Here's a rather pointless thing I did a few months ago:
http://anotherbeachboysblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/smiley-smile-refurbished-edition.html (http://anotherbeachboysblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/smiley-smile-refurbished-edition.html)

I've always liked certain elements of "Here She Comes" but I generally lack the focus to hang on for more than 4 minutes. This is my 3:59 edit which helps me not getting bored. I've shortened the intro, cut the second verse, sped the song a little and removed a few of the "rolling down the road" refrains. I also took Blondie moaning under the second "giving to you can you dig me?" section and relocated it to just before the outro. https://soundcloud.com/james-stockwell-2/here-she-comes-alternative-mix

The sped up "Surfin'" has period, AM radio sounding charm, though its brittle sound occasionally does hurt to listen to, which is why I sought to create a cleaner mix. To achieve this I sped up the Hoffman Lost and Found remaster to digitally emulate what was achieved for the Surfin' Safari LP. I think this results in a punchy, more natural sounding mix. https://soundcloud.com/james-stockwell-2/surfin-sped-up

Haha this got some grooooove!  ;D

btw here is a River Song edit I made a few days ago:
https://soundcloud.com/alexander-t-king/river-song-alternate-mix

Has anyone attempted a fan mix of "Lady Lynda"? I always felt the song dragged a bit. Maybe it could fade out like the "Lady Liberty" version?

The link to "Surfin'" appears to be down...

Did this a while back and forgot to post! Extracted the mono vocals from the early vocal version of WIBN and put it over the stereo backing track.

http://limelinx.com/bapss

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Nice! Great sync job.

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Hey there everyone... Since in the wake of the positive reaction of my Dennis POB remix, one or two of you asked me to mix up "Match Point". I didn't want to have to do it, on account of the fact that my heroes The Avalanches beat me to the punch. However, I just cut a mix where I worked it in unintentionally, but it fit. I love that song, and if you guys want to hear the finished product, you can check it here:

http://alti2de.bandcamp.com/track/lakeshore-avenue

The "Match Point" sample kicks in at about 1:55 and dominates the fade.

If you all like what you hear, please go ahead and listen to the demo mix of the album I'm creating. Influences are many, but let's just say the main ones are artists like The Avalanches, Miami Horror, Air and Glass Candy... Please note I like very trippy music, and it may take a few minutes to get where I'm coming from, so please let it play through for a good 5-10 minutes, and I think if you give it that much of a chance you might dig where I'm coming from. It's a hugely diverse LP, let's just say that. Headphones or a really good stereo system are recommended. Thanks, and indulge yer selves if you dare!

The Whole Thing (start with track 1 and let it play through):

http://alti2de.bandcamp.com/

Thanks again!

My fan-mix of an alternate 1974 LP release

https://soundcloud.com/gabriel-lamarche/bboyscaribou1974v3

Good one.

very nice! I'm hoping to make such a mix myself. Cool idea to use the POB reissue version with Taylor Hawkins vocals. They really work for Dennis in that period.

i hear you used my Good Timin' mix with the more prominent guitar because of the edit at the end of the first verse was bad by me. I redid it though so feel free to use this one: https://soundcloud.com/alexander-t-king/good-timin-mix1

also did an alternative for River Song if you're interested:
https://soundcloud.com/alexander-t-king

It's a huge, huge shame Out In The Country and Carry Me Home have nothing better in terms of quality for us to listen to. In my mix I'll use the Goldberg version of Out In The Country if only for the improved audio quality, not arrangement.

What's the difference between this "alternate River Song" compared to the one ShangaijoeBB used? I don't hear anything that's obviously different.

I mixed both, if you hear the at the end of the first verse the two tracks that were mixed get out of sync before a sudden correction. Also, the backing vocals during the chorus are not done well in the first one.

Thanks for the kind words and many many thanks Cabinessenceking for your version of Good Timin'! I'll remix V4 with your upgrade :)

Pardon if I've missed it, but has anyone created an all-instrumental SMiLE before?  I wanna say yes, but I can't remember... 

I found this pretty cool remix of ''Oh Lord'' (not my work btw) :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj8Ihj70kb4

my mix of "Adult/Child" is now online! :)

https://soundcloud.com/gabriel-lamarche/bboysadultchild1977

(yes I used the ''Millenium'' version of Life is for the living because the sound quality was better and IMO that horn intro kick ass! ;))

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Has anyone ever mixed "God Only Knows" using the 1996 stereo remix with the extended a capella ending? Seems like a natural fit.

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This is the coolest thing EVER.

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