Thanks, Jon.

Appreciate these interesting posts. Cheers!

Same here! I have the lossy mp3 from Amazon. Great music, but always hoped for the flacs to become available.

Wonderful - this is really good. The sequencing and mix/edits used deserve to be heard on repeat play. Just love it!

Check out the "Teardrops On My Bed" section and try not to smile. Also "… I can't remember. I can't remember." Headphones recommended.

We have some really talented folk on this site.  Thank you.

Brilliant! An obvious labour of love, and great fun.

Listen on headphones as there is definitely a lot going on. Am on my 3rd play now and hearing new things each time.

Excellent and a worthy selection from the BBs. This deserves a wide audience.  Grab this folks!!!

Any chance of a lossless version later?

I feel sad for Mark Linett when so few can correctly spell his surname. Come on, gang, he's one of the good guys!

Forget to let the dogs out. Do not go to sandbox in the music room.

Thank you, sln. Like many here, I've really enjoyed listening to your great mixes. A whole new perspective and good fun!
Thanks again for the flac filess.

What would I have wished to see on MIC? That's easy: a lower price tag.
(I'm still saving ..... by Christmas maybe.)

Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll fetch my coat.

Another must-listen from a very tasty series. I appreciate the tape box picture and the cover artwork.
Another winner! Thank you.

Looking forward to the Adult Child mix.

Another fine piece of work. Thank you.
Any chance for a lossless flac option like your 2 new upgrade mixes (both of which are great!)?

A deserved thank-you. Enjoyed listening twice now on headphones and it really sounds great.

An interesting selection, although I'll be skipping Barbara Ann (as usual). Plenty of good things in the listing.

Assume that the 'hidden tracks' will include something with Zeppo -- otherwise it would look like he never existed.

I have always been fond of Judie Tzuke's version of God Only Knows. A great singer and songwriter, she supported Elton way back in his US touring days.

Popped into a branch of HMV to look at these new discs. Amazed to see that TWGMTR is in their CD sale display for only £3.
Buy it now folks!

The new discs are £10, so I'm going to have to wait on these. Patience. Patience.

Whatever happened to the themed collection of BB tracks that Zeppo put together in early 1965? The novel idea (which preceded Pet Sounds by months and just might have triggered Brian's studio activity) was inspired by the fun and frolics to be had at various lakes and water park locations in California. Zeppo persuaded the breakfast-time jock on K-ELLOG-FM to play an early acetate from the album during a phone-in that summer, where he said that Chuck Britz and Brian had bounced the 8 tracks down to a punchy 1-track mix for AM radio. The song played was the title track from the next album, "Back To Mono", and the lyrics mention taking woodies and boards from the beach to the hills somewhere. Unfortunately Wikipedia and Google have so far provided little further insight. "Back To Mono" was picked up by the music gurus and press but was seemingly lost in transit somewhere after a campaign to secure its release.

I am convinced that Zeppo was a genius too. Cannot wait to see what makes the box-set later this year. Fingers crossed.

[Note added: Phil Spector is said to have abandoned an experimental quadraphonic SQ-Q4 rework of his Christmas album on hearing this track and of the pioneering recording method. He was regularly seen wearing a lapel badge to show his high regard for Zeppo's music.]

In view of the recent discussion, how about "Brian Wilson Re-Imagines Zeppo" ?

There are supposed to be hidden tracks with demo songs from the short-lived Zeppo and the Z-Listers combo on disk 7 of the Good Vibrations (GV30) box set from 1993. Unfortunately, I have only been able to buy the regular US set that did not have this bonus disk. Did this only appear on the Japanese release? What were the tracks? One song, "Just Like The Stars (Your Teeth Come Out At Night)", is regularly claimed to rival WIBNTLA but few collectors (including me) seem to have heard it.

Update: Have been told that there were only 1000 copies of this particular box set, and that SOT editions were seized in a raid in Luxembourg in 2004.

This is all fascinating stuff and solves quite a few Beach Boy puzzles.

First, I notice that Zeppo's handwriting from the band name checklist is the same as that on the proposed list of track names for the anticipated SMiLE album that was used for the printed sleeves. Zeppo was clearly involved in the whole planning process.

Similarly, the written titles on the tape boxes shown in Zeppo's private vault collection - the plausiible source of the Sea Of Tunes boots here - are pretty obviously in his hand. How could we have missed this?

Next, will we now see a timely first release of the abandoned Remember The Zeppo album in the next wave of discs from Capitol? Mono or stereo is not important, but this release might just help set the record straight. AGD and Phil - any thoughts?

Simply glorious! Superb harmony and vocal overlay. You guys are genuinely gifted.

I'm listening to the Come To The Sunshine podcast 70th birthday tribute to Brian put together by Andrew Sandoval for his show on LuxuriaCom earlier this week.
The free 2-hour iTunes download is better quality sound-wise and has many interesting variants and surprises. A great listen ... thanks, Andrew!

www.cometothesunshine.com

CD here too, unless there's going to be a concert version packaged with a throwaway bra.

Thanks for posting the lossless flacs. I really like your mix, and particularly like the new Child mix. For me, there is also a freshness about both H&V and GV here s both tracks somehow seem to have more energy and pace. It all seems to flow so well - and (a big plus) it's all in stereo!! A success.

It's great to be able to hear this stuff.  Thank you. again.

How about an extended reprise version of Barbara Ann? If there's one surefire track guaranteed to light up any album that's the one. I can never reach the skip button on the CD player fast enough.

Have been enjoying your SMiLE mixes and the evolutionary process - a real ear opener! Will this interesting mix be available in FLAC so we can hear it at its lossless best?
Many thanks again for all your hard work.

Thanks, sln. Much appreciated!