Chug-A-Lug

MIC and TSS are really the only major archival releases I've experienced since I became a fan, and I've noticed that I don't always prefer the official versions to the lower quality bootlegs I'm used to listening to. I can't bring myself to delete my booted stereo Country Air for example because I like the little noise at the beginning of it, and this got my wondering, are there any old fogeys here who kept listening to something like Leggo My Ego even after stereo Pet Sounds was released? Just curious.

I actually listened to Leggo My Ego yesterday and it's not something I'll listen to again anytime soon. It's still a decent collection, especially the alternate album they put together, but it's redundant now with the SOT sets and the official box set. I also gave the old Pet Sounds Rehearsals boot a quick listen. Could hardly stand it. I guess we're spoilt.

I wonder when we'll get to 15 Big Ones or KTSA... Around April 2018? 

Thanks for the link. Some interesting stuff there, particularly this little bit:

In addition, Mark Linett still hopes to complete a stereo version of 1967′s Wild Honey, although technological challenges stand in the way such as missing multitracks for “Mama Says,” in particular, that have yet to be located.

Is that the only *important* tape missing? Why not do one of those "extraction" stereo mixes or just keep that track in mono? I don't think anyone is expecting Mama Says to be some kind of epic stereophonic wonder anyway...

Good lord... Haven't really paid much attention to the Live at Knebworth 1980 CD but listened to "Do It Again" yesterday. What a complete mess of auto tune wankery... Is this also on the DVD? I guess the answer is somewhere in this thread but I don't feel like looking for it. 

The Shift

It seems to be available in all countries now, at least in mine. It showed up this morning.

Any chance someone might be able to capture these two? 

Isn't that some kind of Italian grey market release? Seems like it originally was released in 1995. 

I'm not sure what I think about the new remix of "Sail Plane Song". I appreciate the idea of making it sound more psychedelic, but it sounds a bit too much "ProTools 2013" and not enough "LSD 1968", if you know what I mean...

Complete ending meaning not a fade out?

Its a complete ending followed by Bruce, I think, saying "Goodnight". It does sound like a woman though.

I will have to listen to Rarities to compare.

The version on Rarities faded out before the song was over. I think the story was that the tape ran out. So I'm curios if this is the same concert performance, but just from an alternate(complete) source. Or was the tape running out story another one of those myths that everybody believed for all these years? Or is the recording on MIC from a completely different concert than the Rarities one?

Here's some info from Brad Elliott:

[During the vault search] we went up to the second floor [of the Capitol Records building] to this little room where some special project tapes were stashed, and the first thing we pulled out were all the tapes of four British concerts from December 1968 – two at the London Palladium and two a week later at Finsbury Park. It turned out the second Finsbury Park show was put out as the live concert album that everyone always thought was recorded at the Palladium in 1969. But here we are with three other shows, so I start comparing the track lineups and noticed that Aren't You Glad was on the Finsbury tapes, but there was a different song in its place on the Palladium tapes. The song was marked something like I Wanna Make Love To You.

[It turned out to] be All I Want to Do. When we played it, we found the version from the first show was really sad. Vocally, they miss all their cues. After one verse, Mike Love says, “This is a song we really don't know yet, so bear with us.” The second show was better and that's the one we used, but you'll notice that it fades out before the end of the song. The reason for that is because while they were recording it, they actually ran out of (eight-track) tape. We tried to splice in the ending of the other version, but it was just too sloppy.

I got it to work perfectly on Mac.

Just make sure you log in on spotify.com and change country to the Netherlands in your profile settings. Then log out, re-start Spotify and log in if necessary. "MIC" should appear doing a regular search.

I don't want to rain on your parade, but the thread starter bought a physical copy of the box back in June (see above).

It's still good info, mind you. Thanks for posting!

What's the story on "Why"? Sounds like it was recorded in the 00's or something...

"Friends" and "Little Bird" live in 1968 is pretty much awesome.

We need a live box set.

Just got to these, Little Bird really picks up! VERY GREAT!

I'm really knocked out by these performances. I'd never heard any live recordings from 1968 prior to this but they really do these songs justice. They even have the banjo on "Little Bird"... Great stuff.

"Friends" and "Little Bird" live in 1968 is pretty much awesome.

We need a live box set.

Soul searchin'.... one of the best Beach Boys Songs ever?

Having Soul Searchin' and You're Still a Mystery officially released is one of the greatest things about MIC.

Still a Mystery is a classic for the ages.

Oh, and you might resume your MIC talk...

Start a free account here: openvpn.net/‎

Download the Private Tunnel software. Log in through the Netherlands. Open Spotify and look up the album.

Enjoy!

Good lord... You are a genius! It's working.

I think I'm in love with you. 

Can't we all just stop discussing MIC? I've been desperately trying to hear the new stuff all day long without success. Proxies, VPNs, creating new Spotify accounts, bribing people in the know, etc. etc. Nothing works!

Where's the crying smiley?!

I know this is a long shot but does anyone have this interview?  It would seem that I missed it when it was originally posted! 

I second that request. The original link is down...

How the hell could they keep stuff like WIBNTLA in the vaults and not issue it until now. Compare this with another popular band called The Beatles. What did they pull out of their archives for the Anthology series? Subpar material such as You Know What To Do, If You've Got Trouble, 12-Bar Original and Los Paranoias...

Conclusion: The Beach Boys are better than the Beatles. 

sh*t does indeed look great. I may have to get a physical copy of this after all...

Some parts are very similar to "Cuddle Up", aren't they?

Someone just put up a link to an mp3 of WIBNTLA on the Hoffman forums... I'm sure it'll be gone soon.

(Did they auto tune Dennis' vocals? It's probably just the transcoding that's the culprit.)