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Good Vibrations: 40th Anniversary Edition EP

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Capitol could have just ignored this anniversary just like Apple has done with most of the Beatles. Instead, they give us this nicely priced, limited edition HDCD. It inlcudes, for the first time, the original backing track in stereo!!! Plus some other stuff that have been released before, but scattered around in box sets, and imports. Its nice to have it all in one place, for a good price, in a limited edition that one day will go for twice the price. If you are a beach boys fan, run and get it.

If you are a diehard Beach Boys fan, its very important to have this if only for the memento it is. If you enjoy listening to outakes and want to get a feel of the whole production I highly recommend this wonderful little package. Its the Boys and all the studio musicians giving their all to perhaps the most complex piece of music Brian Wilson ever wrote.

Last time anyone heard of the GV vocal multitracks was when Brian mixed the single down to mono, fall 1966. You think if anyone knew where they were, we wouldn't have had it in stereo by now ?

Nice little release. Now can we have THE SMILE SESSIONS 1966-67 box set, please ?

Listening to this single, and the fascinating bonus material coupled with it, one can't help but be struck by the majesty of it. Beach Boys biographers have long noted shock by members of the band when first hearing this track - given the terrain of 1966 rock, should this come as any sort of surprise?
The audio equivalent of an Escher painting, it's impossible to get to the bottom of this one.
Pure genius here.

This is one of the best songs I have ever heard. The Beach Boys are at there best.Buy it you can not go wrong with this cd.

Hi Mark, I really appreciate all you do for the remixes-but I have to tell you that Dick Bartley plays a stereo version of Good Vibrations on his National radio show, and I recorded his Beach Boys show last year and have it.It IS the 45 version,IN STEREO.Where did he get it from?(Of course he talks over the beginning and end,) but it IS stereo-the Cellos are in one channel.It is not "stereoized" with reverb or something.Also please tell Darian S.that I am still waiting for an email about the live Chickering sound...

1965: 'Yesterday' and 'Help' by the Beatles on top of the charts...

1966: Brian Wilson creates his 'pocket symphony' dubbed 'Good Vibrations' - a song that is STILL years ahead of its time...

Listen to the complexity of this song - you have flutes, cellos, fender-bass, mouth-harp, trombones, electric guitars, and God Only Knows what other instruments (pardon the pun) playing in the four minute span.

This collection is dedicated to the song 'Good Vibrations' - the studio session is fun to listen to - Brian guiding the session musicians along - as well as an alternate end to the song at the end of the track. The alternate take is nothing spectacular, but it shows the many alterations that 'Good Vibrations' went through. The '2006 re-master' is an instrumental of the song...a great re-master which continues to show how revolutionary this song was. The live rendition is spot on - Brian Wilson's vocals are top-notch. The album ends with 'Let's Go Away For Awhile' - a perfect mellow ending to the greatest psychedelic hit ever made.

No song since has come ever come close to the sheer complexity of 'Good Vibrations' - own a piece of musical history and get this collection.

5/5

Track 3 claims to be "alternate take previously unreleased in the U.S." but it was in fact on the Beach Boys Rarities LP/Cassette in the USA in 1983. It is on CD in the U.S. for the first time, though. The various sessions and instrumental (stereo) are on the 1993 box set, although the instrumental here is a new all-stereo mix. The live concert rehearsal is on the Hawthorne, CA 2CD set. The single version (mono) and Let's Go Away For Awhile (stereo) are on other CD's as well. Nice artwork and mastering as usual from Mark Linett and Capitol.

I can still hear some hiss and tape imperfections on good vibrations. It did'nt matter to me Vibrations still sounded loud and clear and for the best part cleaned up from the original master tapes. I like the extra tracks alot. This cd is simple and sweet and sounds great despite old original tape defects. I dont believe there ever was a stereo recording for vibrations. I enjoyed this cleaned up mono version of good vibrations and besides if their was a genuine stereo original recording of vibrations from circa early to mid-1966 I think it would have surfaced by now. Besides I think mono recordings sounded better to Brian Wilson because I beleive he is deaf in one ear. Enjoy this cd ep it may one day go double or triple what it costs now. Produced for a then staggering $100,000 Good Vibrations was the exclamation point to Pet Sounds in the fall of 1966 as the Beach Boys really stuck it to the Beatles. Due to these Beach Boy releases in 1966 the Beatles would have their greatest year creativity wise in 1967 as they would answer there well armed rivals with Pennylane, Strawberry fields, and of course Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles created masterpieces from Revolver to their last magnum opus Abbey Road. My honest opinion (and this might offend Beatle and rock fans in general) 'Pet Sounds" and "Good Virations" were the blueprints to all Beatle recordings from 1966 through 1969. I respect the Beatles for their writing and musical creativity. I really feel that the Beatles were so amazed by "Pet Sounds" and "Good Vibrations" that with their releases from 1966- 1969 the Beatles really tried to capture the sound of "Pet Sounds" and "Good Vibrations". There is no argument from me, the Beatles did create masterpices from 66-69 but honestly, never matched the sound of "Pet Sounds" and Good Vibrations". If it were'nt for Brians over indulgences post Pet Sounds as the song goes God Only Knows what the Beach Boys could have accomplished for the rest of the psychedelic 1960s. Man I'll tell you there has been nothing before or after that sounds like "Good Vibrations". Brian Wilson is the man, the one man who made the Beatles and Sir George Martin realize that they to could be surpassed in talent, let alone by one man and that one man is BRIAN WILSON................

CAPITAL DID A GREAT JOB ON THIS KEEP RELEASING THE CLASSIC BEACH BOYS ALBUM. CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT THEY DO IN 2011. 50 YEARS OF THE BEACH BOYS

THANK YOU BRIAN WILSON!!!!!!