Would someone please PM me? I would love to stick Vega tables on my mp3 player for an intense listening session...please someone? 

Unfortunately Good Vibes isn't on it. Still a great compilation though. I did notice that that my copy sounds slightly duller than some other records I played on my Friday night vinyl session. Especially compared to Beach Boys Love You unless that is a particularly bright sounding record. 

I've revised my opinion. The processed tracks no longer sound processed. They are mono. I think they sounded different cos I'd been listening to the tracks in question on my MP3 player on my way home from work and now I'm hearing them in their full vinyl analogue glory.

I definitely recommend buying this re-issue.

Cheers

Shane

I've just had a quick listen with headphones on. There are some true stereo mixes, some definite mono mixes and then some...well...gee...i dunno...the rest sound a little "processed". It's definitely not got any of those bloody awful extra echoey duophonic mixes anyway. The true mono and stereo mixes sound lovely. The (in my opinion) "processed" tracks lack the clarity of the others. There may be some extra reverb on them.

Anyway it's a great album. I'm dead pleased with it. And record 1 has sides 1 and 4 on it and record 2 has sides 2 and 3. And it's got the album versions of "Be True To Your School" and "Help Me Ronda" on it as AGD noted earlier.

I'm off to give it a "proper" listen now.

Thanks for indulging my ramblings


Shane

I've ordered the Endless Summer vinyl. I'll let you all know if it includes the vintage duophonic mixes. I hope it doesn't! I 've got loads of duophonic Beach Boys tracks including a mono duophonic fold down of Pet Sounds! Ikid you not! I've done comparison listenings against my mono Pet Sounds/Carl And The Passions edition and a proper duophonic Pet Sounds and the duophonic  mono fold down sounds the worst of the lot! I've also got Today! album under the name of Do You Wanna Dance in glorious duophonic. I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THOSE PESKY MIXES I've got a lovely mono smiley smile though...

Thanks for the replies so far

Shane
BTW didn't Steve Hoffman remix Endless Summer for CD at some point?

Hi all.

I'm thinking of buying the limited edition 2008 vinyl re-issue of "Endless Summer". Does anybody have it? And does it have those awful duophonic mixes on it or the original mono mixes?

Thanks

arnoldfringe

Hi everybody!
I've posted some songs on myspace and would like your opinion on them. They range from alt rock to pop. Most of the songs are about 2 minutes long so they shouldn't take up too much of your time.

www.myspace.com/arnoldfringemusic

Thanks

Shane
 

 :-DHurrah! I'm not going mad! Thank you harveyw for putting my mind at rest.
Now for some world peace...(Well, at least peace in the head of arnoldfringe.)

Cheers

Shane (AKA arnoldfringe)

Well, I listened to my mono Pet Sounds through headphones and it's definately mono but sounds like a duophonic mix mixed to mono. Why would anyone want to do that?! Oh well...thanks for your thoughts and comments!

arnoldfringe

The label says "Capitol Records" to the left of the hole, "Long Playing High-Fidelity" also to the left of the hole, the trackilsting to the right of the hole broken up by T2458 in the middle, and "Sold in U.K subject to resale price conditions, see price list" on the left hand side of the label. Does this help?
I wish I could upload a track to show exactly what I mean but of course thats a no-no on this site!

Hello everybody!
I've got Pet Sounds in mono on vinyl that I bought from a second hand record shop quite a few years ago. What I've always noticed about it is that it sounds like EVERYTHING is double tracked. Everything sounds doubled. Now when I first started listening to the Beach Boys when I was a nipper the only compilation I had was the "20 Golden Greats" album that had a lot of that wierd fake stereo effect where you get one channel in mono and then the other channel slightly delayed. I think AGD mentions this on his wonderful info site. My mono Pet Sounds album sounds like the fake stereo effect but collapsed into mono. Could this be possible? Did Capitol do this? The album is definately mono (T2458) and is on the black Capitol label with what can only be described as like a  rainbow colour effect on the edges of the label. It sounds different  to all the mono CD editions of Pet Sounds too including the 40th anniversary edition. Anybody else got this? Or notice this?

Thanks

arnoldfringe