Alternate Remastered Albums Selection

[Disney Boy (1985)]

The remastered albums will be 1963′s Surfin’ U.S.A., Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe; 1964′s Shut Down Volume 2 and All Summer Long; 1965′s The Beach Boys Today!, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) and Beach Boys Party!; 1966′s Pet Sounds; 1967′s Smiley Smile; 1970′s Sunflower; and 1971′s Surf’s Up.

Now i love all these albums and am happy they're getting reissued (yep, even Party!), but i'd dispute that they give the most accurate and definitive over-view of the groups catalogue. Perhaps that wasn't even the intention, however given the choice which twelve Beach Boys albums would you have picked for the remaster/reissue treatment (and you can only pick twelve, ok, no cheating). My choices would've been:

1. Surfin' USA
2. Surfer Girl
3. All Summer Long
4. Today!
5. Summer Days...
6. Smiley Smile
7. Wild Honey
8. Friends
9. Sunflower
10. Surf's Up
11. Holland
12. Love You

After all, do we really need yet another version of Pet Sounds...??
Holland is a masterpiece and deserves far more recognition that it gets.
Oh, and apologises to Shut Down Vol 2, which i adore, but i think in the grand scheme of things Surfin' USA is probably the more important album, so it won out.

[The Shift]

No 20/20? No Catp? I'll fight for 'em!

[Disney Boy (1985)]

Well i certainly thought this thread would get more of a response than it has done... Oh well. Am i the only the one disappointed by their choice of reissued albums?

[hypehat]

It makes sense - they all have big singles on them, even the otherwise insane Smiley Smile has GV, Party has Barbara Ann etc and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the angle EMI Japan were going for.

The rest will probably follow. Depends how well the first bunch sell!

[runnersdialzero]

The correct answer is...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All. Not sure why they've limited it to twelve and had the strange omissions. I'm sure we'll see them all (sans SIP, which as much as I'm not into it, was a properly released album. Can't rewrite history, folks), but still.

[sockittome]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

[runnersdialzero]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

Those 25 minutes are worth more to me than 70 minutes of St.Anger or whatever. I don't mind paying for a decent CD reproduction of the original album as long as it's not compressed and limited all to hell.

[EgoHanger1966]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

Friends (original 1968 stereo mix) + mono 45 rpm mixes + unreleased tracks from the sessions + some remixes.
I would buy it.

[sockittome]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

Friends (original 1968 stereo mix) + mono 45 rpm mixes + unreleased tracks from the sessions + some remixes.
I would buy it.

Now THAT would be worthwhile, and I could see a similar format for everything after FRIENDS (although the 45 mixes wouldn't be mono after Do it Again, but you get the idea).  Sadly, though it looks like SUNFLOWER and SU have already sailed....

[Disney Boy (1985)]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

What's wrong with short? There's nothing worse than some hour+ album that doesn't know when to call it a day... Besides, Wild Honey was shorter, and Surf's Up - which has been reissued is only five or so minutes longer...

[Lonely Summer]

I don't see any point in reissuing FRIENDS unless there's a dedicated mono mix floating around that nobody knows about.  A stereo only issue would make for one very short cd.

Not dissing on FRIENDS.  Just sayin'......

What's wrong with short? There's nothing worse than some hour+ album that doesn't know when to call it a day... Besides, Wild Honey was shorter, and Surf's Up - which has been reissued is only five or so minutes longer...

You got that right!