Wow just heard about these collections being released. Really interesting stuff, being a huge BBs fan, its nice to hear new versions of these songs and bonus tracks! Some of this stuff makes me wonder a lot - Whats with "The Gong"? "When A Man Needs A Woman" had extra Brian vocals in the 2nd verse. The original "Transcendental Meditation" sounds a lot better. A more sophisticated produced version of "Be Here In The Morning"? Why all these were omitted or edited out is anyones guess..
Still a ton more stuff I have to get through but I didn't see a thread about these yet..
It might be a bit hard to find as the thread title doesn't specify the name of the release, but "1968 Copyright Extension Release Thread" works as the place for discuss these releases:
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,25653.375.html