Stack-o-Tracks

[bgas]

The Beach Boys, Stack-O-Tracks, Capitol Records-EMI Music [Canada] #DKAO-2893 [Duophonic] (1968).[LP]  No Booklet?

The Beach Boys, Stack-O-Tracks, Capitol Records-EMI [UK] #E-ST 24009 (1968).[LP]  Interesting that you have this as it wasn't released until 1976. Must be a typo!

Nonetheless, Quite a nice collection!!  I suppose you have every CD issue to date? 

[Mikie]

Actually, I just removed that one from the list, as I had the correct info for the record on the line underneath it. Typo. It's the reissue from 1976.

[Rocker]

I haven't listened to it for a while but I remember always thinking that something was wrong with GOK's outro (except for the missing vocals of course ). At one time I even thought they edited parts of the intro in that place (probably nonsense). Dunno....



BTW it's been mentioned on this board and I would like to agree that the cover of the album is great. One of their best imo

[Mikie]

I always thought they coulda spent a little more time preventing the leakage. Don't think it was intentional but a mistake that got through.

[bgas]

Actually, I just removed that one from the list, as I had the correct info for the record on the line underneath it. Typo. It's the reissue from 1976.

OK, that makes sense!  And your Canadian issue does/doesn't have the booklet? 

Here's my collection of Stack-O-Tracks.  Beat this, mofos.....

The Beach Boys, Stack-O-Tracks, Capitol Records #DKAO-2893 [Duophonic] (1968).[Gatefold LP with Booklet]
The Beach Boys, Stack-O-Tracks, Capitol Records #DKAO-2893 (1968).[LP with no Booklet]

 I removed most  of your list( obviously) but I didn't realize you wanted everyone to list EVERY Copy we have.  As with many ( Most?) collectors, I have multiple copies of almost all their releases, in varying conditions. \
 I think in the case of this one, I have 4 or 5 of the USA stock and at least 3 of the Capitol Club. 
With the Club, the best reason to get it is the alternate photos, as everything else is the same.   

[Mikie]

OK, I'll come clean. I only have six of those items on that list. And that's really all I care to have at this point. I bought my original U.S. copies back in the 70's and didn't pay ridiculous prices for them. But the above list of U.S., UK, and Japanese pressings of the album is pretty comprehensive. It's what's out there, and I'm sure there are many more from other countries.

[bgas]

OK, I'll come clean. I only have six of those items on that list. And that's really all I care to have at this point. I bought my original U.S. copies back in the 70's and didn't pay ridiculous prices for them. But the above list of U.S., UK, and Japanese pressings of the album is pretty comprehensive. It's what's out there, and I'm sure there are many more from other countries.

Darn it all, Mikie!!  Here I was thinking you really DO have a collection. 
Since you're sure there are many more from other countries, I hope someone points them out. 
Figure if anyone here has other CDs not mentioned, it would be beachboys_fr 

[Mikie]

Darn it all, Mikie!!  Here I was thinking you really DO have a collection.

But I do have a collection, Bgas. I really do. It's a nice one and I'm happy with it. I just don't have that dire need for competition and for playing "one-upmanship" with others, that's all.

[bgas]

Darn it all, Mikie!!  Here I was thinking you really DO have a collection.

But I do have a collection, Bgas. I really do. It's a nice one and I'm happy with it. I just don't have that dire need for competition and to play "one-upmanship" with other collectors all the time, that's all.

WOW!  There are folks playing  "one-upmanship" ?  Who are they?

[Mitchell]

I have the EMI Canada '68 copy with booklet. In the corner on the back of the booklet it says "Printed in the USA."

And since we're at it, I also have a '76 UK issue and the 2001 Party twofer.

[bgas]

I have the EMI Canada '68 copy with booklet. In the corner on the back of the booklet it says "Printed in the USA."

Thanxx!

[Mitchell]

I imagine the Canadian copy may technically be "rarer" than the US copy. Any idea how many copies it sold in Canada compared to the US/elsewhere?

[branaa09]

I always thought they coulda spent a little more time preventing the leakage. Don't think it was intentional but a mistake that got through.

Are you referring to the quiet vocals on some of the Backing Tracks? It's most noticeable on Catch a Wave and Little Saint Nick. I think it was some to with how old tracks are, for example listen to the Backing Track for Surfin' USA and Fun, Fun, Fun on Hawthorne. There is still some slight bleed from vocals, even though the tracks were recorded first before vocals. Maybe only the finished master exists for a couple of early songs at the time, so the vocals have a bleed onto the basic tracks? Maybe someone can clear this up.

[stack-o-tracks]

My name is stack-o-tracks and I really never listen to this album. Catchy name though.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

[Mikie]

Are you referring to the quiet vocals on some of the Backing Tracks? It's most noticeable on Catch a Wave and Little Saint Nick.

Yeah, the leakage was discussed before, but I forget where. It seems like somebody (Desper or Carl?) was in a hurry and at the ends of the songs the vocals appear. I don't believe this was on purpose (like a couple of songs from the Pet Sounds Box Set) where the vocals appear and disappear again in favor of hearing the backing track. I think it's a mistake, but if it was bleed-over from an adjacent track, you would have noticed it at the beginning or middle of the song too, right?

I know Steve Desper would have an explanation. This is the first Beach Boys album he worked on. Maybe it happened during the mixing or mastering; maybe it didn't. But I don't think it was intentional.

[c-man]

Are you referring to the quiet vocals on some of the Backing Tracks? It's most noticeable on Catch a Wave and Little Saint Nick.

Yeah, the leakage was discussed before, but I forget where. It seems like somebody (Desper or Carl?) was in a hurry and at the ends of the songs the vocals appear. I don't believe this was on purpose (like a couple of songs from the Pet Sounds Box Set) where the vocals appear and disappear again in favor of hearing the backing track. I think it's a mistake, but if it was bleed-over from an adjacent track, you would have noticed it at the beginning or middle of the song too, right?

I know Steve Desper would have an explanation. This is the first Beach Boys album he worked on. Maybe it happened during the mixing or mastering; maybe it didn't. But I don't think it was intentional.

To me, it seems the vocals at the end of the "Stack O' Tracks" mix of "Little Saint Nick" are endearingly deliberate. And Desper has stated that he worked on "Smiley" and "Friends", which predate "Stacks".

[metal flake paint]

Seems as though the Stack-o-Tracks version of "Little Saint Nick" released as part of the 1977 UK single (CL 15954) suffers from the same vocal leakage.

[Ebb and Flow]

The bleed through on Little St. Nick is there because they used the celesta/sleighbell track from the single version, which has "ghost" vocal leakage because it was overdubbed after the vocals had been recorded.

[c-man]

The bleed through on Little St. Nick is there because they used the celesta/sleighbell track from the single version, which has "ghost" vocal leakage because it was overdubbed after the vocals had been recorded.

And that's because they used a monitor speaker rather than headphones while adding that overdub. Which is also why you can hear "ghost" instruments on the a cappella mix of "Surfer Girl", for instance.

[Mikie]

Are you referring to the quiet vocals on some of the Backing Tracks? It's most noticeable on Catch a Wave and Little Saint Nick.

Yeah, the leakage was discussed before, but I forget where. It seems like somebody (Desper or Carl?) was in a hurry and at the ends of the songs the vocals appear. I don't believe this was on purpose (like a couple of songs from the Pet Sounds Box Set) where the vocals appear and disappear again in favor of hearing the backing track. I think it's a mistake, but if it was bleed-over from an adjacent track, you would have noticed it at the beginning or middle of the song too, right?

I know Steve Desper would have an explanation. This is the first Beach Boys album he worked on. Maybe it happened during the mixing or mastering; maybe it didn't. But I don't think it was intentional.

To me, it seems the vocals at the end of the "Stack O' Tracks" mix of "Little Saint Nick" are endearingly deliberate. And Desper has stated that he worked on "Smiley" and "Friends", which predate "Stacks".

Yeah, I distinctly remember Steve saying in a post one day that working with Carl on Stack-o-Tracks was when he first started working on Beach Boys recordings. Before I posted that, I looked up and down and around and couldn't find any credits for him on the Friends album, so I figured it was true. But he would know!

[Mikie]

Who else has an original Stack-O-Tracks album? It's considered a collectors item, and arguably/unarguably the hardest one to find, especially in very good condition with the booklet intact.

[gxios]

I've got an original.  In 1973 a box of sealed unsold ones showed up at an old Bethesda, MD store called Discount Book and Records.  Price- $3.99.  They also had a bunch of sealed duophonic "Party" albums for the same price- I bought both that day.  The next week they were gone.  Never seen or heard  of a mono "Stack".

[Andrew G. Doe]

Um... first BB album SWD worked on was Friends, which he mixed... or so he told me in 1985 (if you're being super picky, Smile was the first).

[Mikie]

Um... first BB album SWD worked on was Friends, which he mixed... or so he told me in 1985 (if you're being super picky, Smile was the first).

Funny. I just now did five (5) Google searches on the Friends album and on the various websites the name Jim Lockert came up under the "Engineer" credit. Mid-April '68, Badman has a musician named Vescovo coming into Brian's studio to play on Diamond Head with Lockert at the controls (I know, Badman stated it). And there's more references to Lockert for the album. Maybe both Desper and Lockert were working on various tracks for the album. Desper obviously worked on Do It Again in May, June '68.