Where is that %^&$@#&* MIC Box Set @#$%^&*(!!!

[The Heartical Don]

I am in a state! Chronic stress induces major depressive disorder!

I need a drink!

DO YOU HEAR ME CAPITOL?

 

[Shady]

We hear ya

[The Shift]

I am in a state! Chronic stress induces major depressive disorder!

I need a drink!

DO YOU HEAR ME CAPITOL?

 

Capt Don, Anytime you fancy a drink I'd be delighted to buy you one in the Craven Heifer in Stainforth. It's Thwaites, admittedly, but it goes down the same way.

I share your anticipatory mood.

[rab2591]

We'll all be around to pick up the pieces when Capitol breaks our hearts.

[Lowbacca]

It won't be as beautiful as this one, anyway:




 

[southbay]

It won't be as beautiful as this one, anyway:




 

according to Mark London it will be

[bgas]

I am in a state! Chronic stress induces major depressive disorder!

I need a drink!

DO YOU HEAR ME CAPITOL?

 

Capt Don, Anytime you fancy a drink I'd be delighted to buy you one in the Craven Heifer in Stainforth. It's Thwaites, admittedly, but it goes down the same way.

I share your anticipatory mood.

are you thinking Nutty Black?

[Generation42]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the band missing the oportunity for a release timed to coincide with the holiday shopping season.  I don't know if this is a function of a decision they made or if the matter was taken out of their hands entirely.  If the latter, you'd think the band and their representatives might be pretty bummed, no?  January just seems like such a queer time to put out as sizeable a release as this is purported to be (as opposed to just a few weeks sooner when folks are more flush with cash and are actively shopping for gifts).

Like everyone else here, I'm hoping the delay is the result of an effort by the compilers to turn up more unheard product and prepare it for public consumption.  My gut, though, tells me it's likely to be for reasons unrelated.  Heck, I'm still drinking the kool-aid and holding out hope for more of the 'My Life / Summer's Gone' suite to make an appearance.

Either way, here we are Capitol, waving our ca$h in the direction of the tower.

[The Heartical Don]

I am in a state! Chronic stress induces major depressive disorder!

I need a drink!

DO YOU HEAR ME CAPITOL?

 

Capt Don, Anytime you fancy a drink I'd be delighted to buy you one in the Craven Heifer in Stainforth. It's Thwaites, admittedly, but it goes down the same way.

I share your anticipatory mood.

Thank you John, mucho appreciated!

I have a feeling we'll meet some day, to realise your idea.

[Matt Bielewicz]

I know NOTHING - no, really, it's true, I don't have any AGD-style 'in' of any kind - but I just wonder whether there might be a good reason why this box is late, and weirdly, missing the crucial Christmas sales period. Like - what if it's because they found something SOOO cool, the box just HAD to be delayed to include it? I mean, it's not going to be this, *obviously* but imagine they were preparing a career-spanning box set in time to be out at Christmas, and a 1967 acetate of a Brian-mixed-and-mastered first side of SMiLE turned up in a vault somewhere. You'd HAVE to delay the box until you had it cleaned up and ready for inclusion, until you had rejigged the tracklists to allow its inclusion, and redesigned the sleeve notes and printed tracklistings to include it, wouldn't you? And even if that pushed the release date beyond Christmas, you absolutely would NOT let the box go without making sure that was included.

OK, so maybe it's actually just the usual boring legal setbacks that are pushing it into the new year. But I have a funny feeling that we might be glad this sucker was pushed back in the long run.

And really, really - I honestly don't know anything. I just have a indefinible, weird feeling, based on a couple of things that have happened with other landmark archival projects in the past...

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I know NOTHING - no, really, it's true, I don't have any AGD-style 'in' of any kind - but I just wonder whether there might be a good reason why this box is late,

How can something which was never officially given a street date be considered "late"?

Personally, I've already spent enough money this season, so they can go ahead and wait for next Spring. Fine by me.

Spread it out a little. There will be a time when we will return to the Beach Boys famine we once knew.  We just got a new DVD. A month ago we got 12 remasters and a new hits package. It's ok to spread it out a little. Lighten up, Francis.

[The Shift]

I am in a state! Chronic stress induces major depressive disorder!

I need a drink!

DO YOU HEAR ME CAPITOL?

 

Capt Don, Anytime you fancy a drink I'd be delighted to buy you one in the Craven Heifer in Stainforth. It's Thwaites, admittedly, but it goes down the same way.

I share your anticipatory mood.

are you thinking Nutty Black?

Ah, you seducer you…

[Matt Bielewicz]

How can something which was never officially given a street date be considered "late"?  ... It's ok to spread it out a little. Lighten up, Francis.

Fair call, Bubba. And I'm one of the people who was telling people to cool it and have patience back in Spring 2011, when all that was known was that the SMiLE Sessions was coming out... sometime soon!

Like you, I'm actually totally cool with this coming out... whenever it comes out. As long as it does. And I believe it will.

I was just pointing out that it was *thought* to be coming out sooner, and it now seems that it's not going to be out in time for Christmas, which, if true, is an odd commercial decision. And I wanted to throw my two penn'orth in that any supposed delay... might actually be for a good reason. And, one day, make total sense to us all.

Or perhaps not. But I'm absolutely not a Cassandra-like Cohenista, nor indeed one of these people who are constantly hitting Refresh on this board, 24 hours a day, to see if the MIC track list is up yet. I call back in a couple of times a week, nose through the other threads, and check out the MIC thread most, but not every time I visit. It's not worth stressing about it. It's only some CDs. And they'll tell us when they're good and ready...

I think the Don needs a drink. And I will happily get them in. What's your poison? Mine's a nice cold Moretti...

[The Heartical Don]

How can something which was never officially given a street date be considered "late"?  ... It's ok to spread it out a little. Lighten up, Francis.

Fair call, Bubba. And I'm one of the people who was telling people to cool it and have patience back in Spring 2011, when all that was known was that the SMiLE Sessions was coming out... sometime soon!

Like you, I'm actually totally cool with this coming out... whenever it comes out. As long as it does. And I believe it will.

I was just pointing out that it was *thought* to be coming out sooner, and it now seems that it's not going to be out in time for Christmas, which, if true, is an odd commercial decision. And I wanted to throw my two penn'orth in that any supposed delay... might actually be for a good reason. And, one day, make total sense to us all.

Or perhaps not. But I'm absolutely not a Cassandra-like Cohenista, nor indeed one of these people who are constantly hitting Refresh on this board, 24 hours a day, to see if the MIC track list is up yet. I call back in a couple of times a week, nose through the other threads, and check out the MIC thread most, but not every time I visit. It's not worth stressing about it. It's only some CDs. And they'll tell us when they're good and ready...

I think the Don needs a drink. And I will happily get them in. What's your poison? Mine's a nice cold Moretti...

Ah, help is at hand! Mine will be a Cutty Sark, please.

[The Shift]

How can something which was never officially given a street date be considered "late"?  ... It's ok to spread it out a little. Lighten up, Francis.

Fair call, Bubba. And I'm one of the people who was telling people to cool it and have patience back in Spring 2011, when all that was known was that the SMiLE Sessions was coming out... sometime soon!

Like you, I'm actually totally cool with this coming out... whenever it comes out. As long as it does. And I believe it will.

I was just pointing out that it was *thought* to be coming out sooner, and it now seems that it's not going to be out in time for Christmas, which, if true, is an odd commercial decision. And I wanted to throw my two penn'orth in that any supposed delay... might actually be for a good reason. And, one day, make total sense to us all.

Or perhaps not. But I'm absolutely not a Cassandra-like Cohenista, nor indeed one of these people who are constantly hitting Refresh on this board, 24 hours a day, to see if the MIC track list is up yet. I call back in a couple of times a week, nose through the other threads, and check out the MIC thread most, but not every time I visit. It's not worth stressing about it. It's only some CDs. And they'll tell us when they're good and ready...

I think the Don needs a drink. And I will happily get them in. What's your poison? Mine's a nice cold Moretti...

Ah, help is at hand! Mine will be a Cutty Sark, please.

At the risk of having the thread walk the plank into the Sandbox, please reconsider your choice of poison. Ardbeg, Laphroig, Macallan perhaps, but Cutty Sark??

I don't mind the box set being delayed at all. My earnings are at an all-time low and the year's been expensive enough for BBs fans as it is.

And as long as I have good company to while away the weeks… whose round is it again?

[Ziggy Stardust]

It won't be as beautiful as this one, anyway:




 

Not sure "beautiful" is the right word, those cds covers are quite freaking ugly.

[Lowbacca]

It won't be as beautiful as this one, anyway:




 

Not sure "beautiful" is the right word, those cds covers are quite freaking ugly.

The exact opposite is true for me - apart from the hotrod cover I find all of them beautifully designed.

Also, I was talking about the box as a whole: packaging, booklet et cetera.

[The Heartical Don]

It won't be as beautiful as this one, anyway:




 

Not sure "beautiful" is the right word, those cds covers are quite freaking ugly.

I must agree with you. Very much of their time is the best I can say about them. The first Byrds box suffered from the same problem.

[joshferrell]

well the biggest question I have is ,are you Qbert?

[The Heartical Don]

well the biggest question I have is ,are you Qbert?

That is me after half a bottle of Cutty Sark, yes. Striking, the resemblance.

(Oh, the Sark ain't the best in the world, but is decent and inexpensive. Manning's preferences immediately clarify why his spending power is at an all tme low.)

[The Shift]

Aye, Don, I've been spoiling the kids… 

The 93 box was so good at the time that I really overlooked the packaging. Aye the disc covers were clichéd and generic, and saccharine in style, but the contents of those discs was mind-blowing.

As, I trust, will be the contents of MiC.

[punkinhead]

I'm surprised with all this speculation, there's not been any "proposed" dream tracklistings posted around here. I would had I have the time to.

[Banana]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the band missing the oportunity for a release timed to coincide with the holiday shopping season.  I don't know if this is a function of a decision they made or if the matter was taken out of their hands entirely.  If the latter, you'd think the band and their representatives might be pretty bummed, no?  January just seems like such a queer time to put out as sizeable a release as this is purported to be (as opposed to just a few weeks sooner when folks are more flush with cash and are actively shopping for gifts).

I made the same point a couple of months ago.  Why would they want to miss out on the holiday shopping season?  Let's release it in January when everyone is tapped out...

[The Shift]

I'm surprised with all this speculation, there's not been any "proposed" dream tracklistings posted around here. I would had I have the time to.

Same here…  I think if someone was to trawl through all related posts, there'd probably be in excess of 100 tracks mentioned by Smiley folk over the last few months.  Like you say, time… time…

[Andrew G. Doe]

I know NOTHING - no, really, it's true, I don't have any AGD-style 'in' of any kind - but I just wonder whether there might be a good reason why this box is late, and weirdly, missing the crucial Christmas sales period. Like - what if it's because they found something SOOO cool, the box just HAD to be delayed to include it? I mean, it's not going to be this, *obviously* but imagine they were preparing a career-spanning box set in time to be out at Christmas, and a 1967 acetate of a Brian-mixed-and-mastered first side of SMiLE turned up in a vault somewhere. You'd HAVE to delay the box until you had it cleaned up and ready for inclusion, until you had rejigged the tracklists to allow its inclusion, and redesigned the sleeve notes and printed tracklistings to include it, wouldn't you? And even if that pushed the release date beyond Christmas, you absolutely would NOT let the box go without making sure that was included.

OK, so maybe it's actually just the usual boring legal setbacks that are pushing it into the new year. But I have a funny feeling that we might be glad this sucker was pushed back in the long run.

And really, really - I honestly don't know anything. I just have a indefinible, weird feeling, based on a couple of things that have happened with other landmark archival projects in the past...

I admire the breadth of your imagination, however misdirected it might be.