https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsEuEZLTZHI
Sam Sacks has all of these guys beat.

It's a real shame The Turtles (other than Happy Together) aren't more popular. The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands and Turtle Soup are both criminally underrated pop masterpieces.

Arrrrh, now there be pirates off the coast of old blighty! 

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BEACH-BOYS-The-Surfer-Girl-remastered-180-gram-vinyl-LP-/181687928033?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a4d71c4e1

(well, they got the back photo right!)

"Surfer's Tule"

Ever the trooper, Al carried on undeterred as Mike attempted to upstage his audition for the role of Torgo in the musical adaptation of Manos: The Hands Of Fate.

The master would not approve.

Speaking of "Country Air", I have a question about an odd, interference-like noise that shows up in all versions of the song that I've heard. It starts at about 1:17, during a short time when there's no singing. It get's the most audible at about 1:22 or so. Almost sounds like what happens when your cell phone gets too close to your computer speakers. Do you happen to know what this is, Mr. Desper?

That would be a messed up cable distorting the Chamberlin's output.

For real though, this is the greatest day on the Smiley board since BarryDavidThompson said:

My first Manson wrote listen a very beutifull song sung by one Willium Axl Rose . A song called look at your game girl. Axl in fact became completley obsessed with manson. He wore a shirt very often with various masnon themed frazes, ie charlie dont surf!

Fair enough, he was very fkd up.

But, he did have a very eatherel sence of song. A song that only, in my mind, has no fear. He, and in every sence of the word had balls. His was a world of confusion, but his lyrics speak out to me.

Bottom line though, FUM HIM THE MOURDOROUS BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Praise him and you are as bad as I am!

Im in no way religious, infact I hate the whole god fad. But I still feel like Ive sined for praising MANSON.



Cheers


Barry










PS     http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=424310

O' course, I say that purely out of jest. Obviously, Loren is Dennyschild.

Wow, did Loren Darro disappear at exactly the right moment or what?

 

Maybe  "Loren" was Brian the whole time, and he was just putting us on.

 
I've been waiting for this day...
All I can say is:

Would the key be a deal breaker? Wasn't it labeled as "Wonderful (insert)"?

I think you're thinking of something else, I think.

That's the "mama mama mama" bit, right?

Here's a little more info on the reissues:

http://www.analogplanet.com/content/beach-boys-reissues-master-tapes-ready-ship

This video makes me really hopeful for the sound of these reissues, but it also makes me sad that Wild Honey and Friends weren't included.

I have to say, I am very excited for these releases. It's quite unfortunate that Wild Honey, Friends, and 20/20 aren't included, though I can understand the business sense behind that.

But, given Acoustic Sounds' reputation (I was just reading amazing reviews of their transfer and new release of Duke Ellington's 1951 Masterpieces album, for instance), these hold promise of finally representing these records the way they're supposed to sound. I'll wait to see Stephen Desper's response, but I hope they will manage to capture, for instance, more of the original intended sound of Sunflower .

The last pressing that I bought a few years ago was a definite improvement in sound over any CD release so far. Can it really sound even better?

Yes. I am relatively new to the audiophile world, but I have discovered that there is a big difference between an average consumer release and what a label geared to audiophiles does. Half-speed mastering and other techniques which take great care to capture as much sonic information on the original master tape as possible are the norm with these specialty labels (MOFI, Acoustic Sounds, etc.).

I would be very surprised if this release of Sunflower, for instance, doesn't sound significantly better than the 2009 vinyl release. You will likely hear increased separation and clarity of individual instruments and an increased sense of presence. And I suspect the difference between this and the 2009 vinyl will be bigger than the difference you heard between that and the CD.

I could be wrong, but I suspect (and hope) I'm not.

I sure hope they tone down the massive treble on Sunflower and give it a more natural tone.

But I repeat - unless I'm missing something - even if you buy it through Amazon, it's STILL THE SAME LOSSY COMPRESSED FILES.

So all you're doing by choosing Amazon over iTunes is avoiding paying Apple, which might be satisfactory to you on some level.

Nope, iTunes has their own lackluster encoding. It will not be the same files.

Actually 256kbps AAC files = 320 kpbs mp3s.

256kbps AAC files actually retain more audio information than 320 kpbs mp3s.

Holy sh*t... This makes me super excited for a 1965 comp.

It makes ME super excited for the 1966/1967 comps!  

Before those get here, may I be the first one to beg, plead etc..Mark & Alan to give us that version of Barnyard with the backing vocals on it that was included on the 2011 SMiLE Sessions review streams. PLEASE.

Also, Any other SMiLE material that you guys wanted to include on the 2011 release but ran out of disc space for.

P.S. No more Good Vibrations unless you found the vocal multitracks or succeed in reversing the polarity of the hit single's backing track and can use it to isolate the vocals from the mono single.

Pretty Please!  

The 66/67 comps are gonna be a ball. We need more Smiley era recordings of The Boys getting stoned.

Holy sh*t... This makes me super excited for a 1965 comp.

I wonder if Brian was able to sneak some hash coins.

The SHM-SACDs should be HEAVENLY sounding, not so much so the SHMs.

How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin beats all the other suggestions in this thread. Except MAYBE Agharta and Live At Leeds.

[a very dysfunctional board that does not tolerate veering too far from the consensus]

thanks agd, this board is indeed very special. i am humbled by the vast knowlege on display, and i lke the friendliness of the board. just clicked over here from a very dysfunctional board that does not tolerate veering too far from the consensus, and it's a relief to see how harmonious smileysmile.net is.

What, the Steve Hoffman board?

Adolescents, Angry Samoans, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat: where are they?

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That instrument in the left channel sounds like a Mellotron/Chamberlin preset, which could date this section to the post-Friends/pre-20/20 sessions for the song.

Disney on acid (think Fantasia)

Ah, maybe more like Disney On Hash; we ain't splitting hairs, though 

Ah, maybe more like Disney on hash, speed, and Reddi-Whip.

"Pink Floyd can confirm that they are releasing a new album, The Endless River, in October 2014. It is an album of mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions. The album is produced by David Gilmour with Phil Manzanera, Youth and recording engineer Andy Jackson. Work is still in progress, but more details to come at the end of the summer."


So, it seems that "leaked" composer sheet is likely a fake.

Totally fake.

I'm pretty sad that they didn't get Rog to appear on the album. It would have been a fitting tribute to the man who defined Pink Floyd's sound more than any other.