New Beach Boys 2012 Remasters!

[drbeachboy]

did anyone catch that I got the Fifty Big Ones Hits package today?

Congrats! Let us know if Isn't It Time sounds better than the radio copy.

[EgoHanger1966]

did anyone catch that I got the Fifty Big Ones Hits package today?

Details on "Darlin'" and "Wild Honey, please!

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Woah nice man!!

[18thofMay]

walked into JBHiFi and there it was. IIT sounds better a lot better. Darlin and Wild Honey sound great.
I am really impressed with it!

[Billgoodman]

Take the intro of Amusement Parks U.S.A., I have never heard the percussion and organmelody on the mono mix. The stereo mix takes the song to a new level. And when I listen to the mono mix now, I DO hear those parts.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

US Amazon previews
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Days-Mono-Stereo-Remasters/dp/B008LA7REI/ref=pd_sim_m_1

[EgoHanger1966]

Take the intro of Amusement Parks U.S.A., I have never heard the percussion and organmelody on the mono mix. The stereo mix takes the song to a new level. And when I listen to the mono mix now, I DO hear those parts.

It's funny you say that, because the instrumental track sounds pretty 'locked' in mono in the center.

[Ziggy Stardust]

This probably means nothing, but at least if no one realized yet and might want to check it out:

Spotify added the Surf's Up remastered version on The Beach Boys albums, not the other ones yet (well this one ain't from the two-fers and it has the white thing on the side, so i guess it pretty much says it all).

But they added the albums Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, All Summer Long (doesn't have the white side), Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Love You, Light Album and Beach Boys 1985. All separately without no bonus or remastered stick or anything.

I don't know, since Spotify (like other legal websites that streams music) deals with labels(or someone who represents) to get the approval to put online such and such albums, i thought this could be some kind of hint, but i'm not getting any hopes up.

[EgoHanger1966]

This probably means nothing, but at least if no one realized yet and might want to check it out:

Spotify added the Surf's Up remastered version on The Beach Boys albums, not the other ones yet (well this one ain't from the two-fers and it has the white thing on the side, so i guess it pretty much says it all).

But they added the albums Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, All Summer Long (doesn't have the white side), Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Love You, Light Album and Beach Boys 1985. All separately without no bonus or remastered stick or anything.

I don't know, since Spotify (like other legal websites that streams music) deals with labels(or someone who represents) to get the approval to put online such and such albums, i thought this could be some kind of hint, but i'm not getting any hopes up.

Don't see them on my version of Spotify.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Love You, Light Album and Beach Boys 1985

add holland and you have a 2nd set of remasters

[EgoHanger1966]

Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Love You, Light Album and Beach Boys 1985

add holland and you have a 2nd set of remasters

Unless they add rarities, alternate takes or new stereo mixes, I don't see much need for the reissuing of the post-Wild Honey albums. The 70s twofers sound really good IMO.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

ehhhh Friends and 20/20 NEED remasters IMO

[EgoHanger1966]

I don't think the (slight, in my mind) improvement would warrant me purchasing those titles again if they were only straight issues of the albums.

[Awesoman]

You are both right. 9/24 for the UK, 10/9 for the US.

Success - We WIN AGAIN! 

(bragging over)

Damnit, Obama! Can't you do anything right?

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

I expect to be "hooked up" on the 25th, i have the 26th off, so yeahhhhhh

[hypehat]

This probably means nothing, but at least if no one realized yet and might want to check it out:

Spotify added the Surf's Up remastered version on The Beach Boys albums, not the other ones yet (well this one ain't from the two-fers and it has the white thing on the side, so i guess it pretty much says it all).

But they added the albums Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA, All Summer Long (doesn't have the white side), Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20, Love You, Light Album and Beach Boys 1985. All separately without no bonus or remastered stick or anything.

I don't know, since Spotify (like other legal websites that streams music) deals with labels(or someone who represents) to get the approval to put online such and such albums, i thought this could be some kind of hint, but i'm not getting any hopes up.

Don't see them on my version of Spotify.

Neither do I - Ziggy, could you do us a HTTP link to check?

[Freddie French-Pounce]

You are both right. 9/24 for the UK, 10/9 for the US.

Success - We WIN AGAIN! 

(bragging over)

Damnit, Obama! Can't you do anything right?

Yeah, all my remasters (the 4 previously mono albums) and 15BO should arrive tomorrow

[The Shift]

Yeah, all my remasters (the 4 previously mono albums) and 15BO should arrive tomorrow

They've remastered 15BOs?!?!?!?!?!   

[Freddie French-Pounce]

Yeah, all my remasters (the 4 previously mono albums) and 15BO should arrive tomorrow

They've remastered 15BOs?!?!?!?!?!   

Bugger.... Correction Noted I'd NEVER buy that album again...

[obscurereference]

I'm hoping they use the opportunity to include the 'hot mix' (or a new equivalent mix) of 15 big ones. I have nothing whatsoever that suggests this will actually happen except that some people  on this thread seem to think the 15 BO songs in the 50 BO set seemed to have a big improvement in sound quality. Just wishful thinking but it would provide an extra justification to buy one of the stereo only albums

[The Shift]

Yeah, all my remasters (the 4 previously mono albums) and 15BO should arrive tomorrow

They've remastered 15BOs?!?!?!?!?!   

Bugger.... Correction Noted I'd NEVER buy that album again...

Love that album: it was the first studio album I bought concurrent to its release, in 1976, though at the time I didn't know that. The first one I went out and bought cos I'd heard there was a new album out was LA.

Both will, I sincerely hope, be among the second trench of remastered reissues.

[Quzi]

Just heard the ad for 50 Big Ones play in the other room. It's a bit weird to hear Good Vibrations on the telly without being informed that if I pay cash, they'll slash the prices.

[debonbon]

The remasters are now on Australian Spotify.


Well, I'm pretty easy to please but I have to say I'm not over the moon with the use of digital reverb, you really can hear the difference and I'm not anywhere near an audiophile, it sounds a lot like the verb I use on my own music in Pro Tools. The stereo mixes are very cool to hear but I think I'm going to stick with the 2001 remasters and just load up Spotify if i want to hear the stereo mixes. Mono for life.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Yes!!! See Ya!

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

Damn it, it seems there's no way to change region...