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Post by carllove on Nov 21, 2022 0:06:48 GMT
So you know - I was never a big fan of Smiley Smile - but wanting to add to my collection of Capitol Green labels - I found a NM vinyl of Smiley Smile for $17 on eBay. This version totally changed my mind about Smiley Smile. Mono and Lo Fi to the max - this release sounds 10 times better than the version of Smiley Smile on Apple Music. It just sounds cool. Don’t even know how to describe it, This vinyl just matches the intended vibe. It’s a match made in Heaven. Who knew? If you don’t have the Capitol Green label 1980’s vinyl version of Smiley Smile - go find one now.
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Post by carllove on Nov 21, 2022 0:23:07 GMT
Surfin' Safari - omitted "Cuckoo Clock" and "Surfin'"Surfin' USA - omitted "Stoked" and "Surf Jam" Surfer Girl - omitted "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Our Car Club" Little Deuce Coupe - omitted "Car Crazy Cutie" Do not agree with these bolded omissions at all… Then again - I do have “Little Deuce Coupe” on that reissue. Still…
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Post by jk on Nov 21, 2022 8:34:59 GMT
My only confrontation with a budget album was with Beefheart's debut (a Pye cheapo, I think), which omitted "I'm So Glad" and "Grown So Ugly". This being 1969, I had no knowledge of the track list and thought it was complete! Still, friends at the youth club (they were all raging Beefheart fans) kept going on about this doo-wop ballad, which I swore blind wasn't on there. It was another five years before I first heard "I'm So Glad"... So presumably, BB fans were just as thrown by the removal of tracks. Such information was scant, even in 1980. It took the internet to change all that.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 21, 2022 13:01:22 GMT
Here's one of the first Beach Boys' albums I ever bought. Pickwick! Surfin' Safari wasn't available at the time so this one had to do. As I recall, the sound quality of the vinyl was fine, but I do remember that the album came without a paper inner sleeve. No "Surfin'", "Surfin' Safari", "409", "The Shift", or "Little Girl (You're My Miss America)" but instead, "Farmer's Daughter", "Lana", and "Honky Tonk"...
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Post by kds on Nov 21, 2022 13:48:27 GMT
I'll have to look up the name, but I know there was a Beach Boys Christmas CD out there that only had eight or nine tracks from the Christmas Album. I don't remember if it was the same one you are referring to, but many years I picked up a Beach Boys' Christmas Album that had a shortened version of "Merry Christmas, Baby". I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. The album clocks in at only 27:37. What possible reason would they have for cutting it?
I first heard that version last year when I listened to the Christmas Album on Spotify. There's a mono and stereo version, and the mono version fades out sooner.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 21, 2022 14:38:10 GMT
I found this last night. I think it’s an original mono LP.:
I just find this pretty fascinating. I had known about the original mono mix being shorter—and was interested in hearing it—but I still hadn’t heard it until yesterday! Mono went from being definitive to obsolete so quickly, and at such a critical point in time, musically-speaking. It’s kinda crazy how unfamiliar we can be with the original albums of these legendary groups. It wasn’t until The Beatles in Mono box set that I heard their albums as they were intended (which I didn’t pick up until a few years ago).
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Post by lonelysummer on Nov 23, 2022 2:45:20 GMT
I have a bunch of the green label reissues; but I avoided the ones that omitted songs. I used to have a couple of the Pickwick albums, but gave them away when I got the Capitol versions. Attachments:
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