![]() ![]() One potential problem exists because of the delays: piracy. Though Billboard has twice had to reschedule special tribute sections focusing on "Pet Sounds," White diplomatically points out that "the anniversary is for a whole year," which allows some leeway. It's a very complex organism, an endlessly complex little tea party." White says that "the Beach Boys operate as an entity within a committee framework, as opposed to Brian doing things on his own." As a result, the Beach Boys are both a band and a family in which "everyone has their own raft of concerns. "The Beach Boys apparently didn't get the track selections until late in the production phase, and they all had misgivings about how Capitol envisioned it," says Timothy White, managing editor of Billboard magazine and author of the Beach Boys biography "The Nearest Faraway Place." Phil Sandhaus, Capitol's vice president of strategic marketing (a k a "catalogue sales") said Friday that the label would decide "in the next two weeks if it will come out this year." An October release, close to the crucial holiday season, is the most likely.īeach Boys manager Elliott Lott concedes that the set is an intricate project that was rushed and ran late, but points out that it's also a "Beach Boys project" that ran into problems "in areas where to be as identical to the mono tracks as possible." Capitol will be issuing a remastered version of the original mono mix separately the stereo mix would be available only as part of the box set. The Capitol set, which was to have been released May 15 - the 30th anniversary of the original release - was suddenly postponed until late June and has now been taken off the schedule completely. Unfortunately, what Brian Wilson may be feeling in his heart right now is. Indeed, the box set devoted to what has been hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time will likely include the original mono mix, a first-time stereo mix, and tons of session tracks showing the work in progress, as well as one "Pet Sounds" featuring the instrumental tracks without vocals, and one of vocal tracks without instrumentals. Of all the things we could be doing in the whole darn world, we're here, kinda like, slowly, just getting this Pet Sounds' thing to come into being, you know, and it's really quite amazing." It's like, right on time, you know what I mean. I haven't heard it for a while.In the original liner notes to the Beach Boys' four-CD set, "Pet Sounds - The Pet Sounds Sessions," Brian Wilson writes: "Now, this new repackaging and box set of Pet Sounds' - it feels good in my heart. I will go back to the stereo Pet Sounds soon. I only like them when there are real problems with the original mix, such as the 1995 The Who Sell Out remix fixing a horrible edit or the Steven Wilson remix of Jethro Tull - Aqualung finally giving that album some bass that it had previously lacked. I don't like revisionism or remixes generally anyway. It all blends together beautifully in mono. Yeah, it lacks the separation and it's not as open or clear sounding. That is and always will be Pet Sounds to me and is almost always the version I go to when I want to hear Pet Sounds. For all its perceived faults (I don't think it has any) I prefer the mono mix. I still think it's only an alternative way to listen to Pet Sounds though. I loved hearing it for the first time with headphones. It's superb, opens up the sound more, has great clarity and you can hear individual instruments more clearly. I didn't hear the stereo mix until about 5 years ago, after only having the mono for many years, like many of us. ![]()
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