Pet Sounds 50 track listing

[remy13127]

Hi everyone,
I just went through the Box Set and I love the package. It makes me want to start a collection of books/music. Imagine the same kind of box set for Friends, Sunflower, Surf's Up, Holland or Love You (with 5 discs of content (highlights from sessions, live, backing tracks, a capella, alternates mixes...) for each album, I'm sure there is enough material) ! It would look so great on a shelf !

[PetSmile]

'Good Vibrations (Partial Vocal) is a little disappointing: they omitted the 'hum-dee-daa' section. Still a track worth having, I'd say.

[Ebb and Flow]

The previously unreleased track 'Good Vibrations (Partial Vocal) is no doubt a great disappointment. Up until the vocal bridge, I felt it was an absolute revelation, since it's in stereo, but they omitted the 'hum-dee-daa' section. Such a shame. It shows that the extended vocal bridge is neglected by the people in charge. I hope future releases will include it, as for me it's not GV without that heavenly part.

Those vocals are not on the original single mix, nor the 1st stage vocal overdub reel that that new mix uses.

[PetSmile]

Could they not have inserted it?

[HeyJude]

Wasn't the whole point of including that "Partial Vocal" tape to essentially just plop down into the set the in-progress "working version" of the song up to that point?

I think inserting something else into it that wasn't there would have defeated the whole purpose of including the track. It's a tape with only partial lead vocals that I assume is being included mainly because interest in that partial vocal tape was piqued when it was used in the "Love & Mercy" film; it's not supposed to be a top-tier "finished" presentation.

The "Hum-be-dum" stuff is available elsewhere, I don't see why they would have or should have shoehorned it into this particular tape.

[PetSmile]

.

[Jim V.]

Still, hum-dee-daa sounds extraordinary in stereo. It is available on the Smile Sessions GV track, which is in poor quality, so it should have been released with the stereo partial vocal track. I think the whole point of GV (Partial Vocal) was to release Good Vibrations in stereo as far as possible.

I don't get your point. The version of "Good Vibrations" is not the "hum-be-da" version. If you like it, awesome, but obviously they are focusing on the the original classic single version (albeit in stereo), not an alternate version.

[The Shift]

There's also the GV anniversary release to come later this year. Why throw all their eggs away in one premature basket? Patience is a virtue!

[PetSmile]

Ah yes, I heard about the commemorative GV release. I know this seems unlikely, but the GV material should be part of a 50th Anniversary Smile reissue (Disk 1) in true stereo.