Good Vibrations (2021 Stereo Mix) + New SoundsOfSummer Info

Agree! Great first post. I was surprised to realize how patronizing that post was. Kind of like biting the hand that feeds you.

Welcome to the board!🙂

Sirfrankiecrisp, would you introduce yourself to the board members here please?  Thanks!

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This is where people come to discuss all things Beach Boys. I am really happy that some fans love the new sonics, but as you can see, there are many here who are not so enamored with those sounds. 

If you think we are some kind of crazy sect of dangerous people, then maybe you are in the wrong place.

I know opinions on this thread are based on a few SOS preview 'teaser' tracks. They're also based on some of the Feel Flows tracks released in the recent past. The final assessment on the new Sounds of Summer 2022 set will be made next week and the individual tracks will be evaluated. Either you'll like some or all of the mixes or you won't. As far as I can see, nobody's crazy or dangerous here. It's a free country and everyone is entitled to their opinions and nobody is forcing you to agree with them. Most of the opinions here have been honest and are backed up with good reasoning.  

But who are you to decide for everybody? Are you Brian's lawyer? The original music is available anywhere. It's written on the compilation that they are 2021 mixes. Who hells are you to decide what anyboddy can, or can't do with Beach Boys music. Only members of the band can do this. What a strange way of thinking. If it hurts you, don't listen to it! Let people who are intereted to listen to them a new way, do it. Let me tell you one thing. After having listening Marcella this way, you won't hear the classic mix anymore the same way. Because this mix, will reveal you things you never heard before in the song, and then, you will here them in the classic mix too, very far away, but you'll hear it,because you ear will be ready to hear them. So thanks to those mixes.

Definitely no hate from me either. They have every right to remix, remaster and/or even add auto tune and a thumping house beat to every song in the catalogue. I’m not planning on buying SoS and will shut up about the poor sound quality from now on. I’m just afraid that the upcoming CATP/Holland set will sound just as poor as this set but it is what it is. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best!

Its not😑
If it were simply just another greatest hits compilation sounding bad, no one would really care. The beach boys have put out all sorts of greatest hits compilations over the years, of extreme varying quality, some sounding absolutely fantastic and Some downright unlistenable.
The problem is that the sound quality of the actual new music that we’ve never gotten to here before or only have in terrible bootleg quality seems to be getting worse and worse, and this greatest hits compilation is just another example of the downgrade in Quality the groups catalog seems to have gone in the past four years or so.
If you like it, that’s cool. Clearly someone likes it, someone at the label, the people working on it, clearly they like it.
But from my point of view, as a member of this message board, other message boards, the Hoffman board, a member of several Beach boys discord servers, different Reddit pages, and a Random lurker in different Beach Boys Facebook groups (can you tell I like this band?), the reception has been overwhelmingly negative to the sound quality.
Obviously at this point it’s just kicking a dead horse, BRI has obviously seen the complaints and criticism, it’s just a matter of waiting for the next archive release to see if they truly care.
Also, simply saying “it’s Howie’s fault or it’s Linett’s fault” is far from the truth, politics and maneuvering on all sides is obviously involved to keep everyone satisfied when it comes to these sets.
I just hope next time they focus more on the satisfaction of the actual fans, the fans who stay up till midnight on release day to hear new things, the fans who intently comb through every alternate mix to hear every note that’s new.
My mind and ears are always opened and ready for cool stuff, I like remixes, alt mixes, I just want them to sound good.
And with that being said I think I’m all Beach Boys sound quality discussioned out for a while, I guess we’ll see what Friday brings.
My hopes are high, my expectations are low, let’s see if these teasers are exceptions or the norm

I love it because I always thought that Marcella was too flat and that the potential of the song was killed by the original mix. Just like imagining Little Honda without its crazy guitar. The only thing I agree, is that they should have called them "alternate". Do you thing the multiples alternates mixes we had on previous compilation of "break away", "little girl I once knew" or "time to get alone". Were originaly done by the Beach Boys. No. Mark linet played with the console, and created new versions, that didn't respect the original songs. Where were the complains? It's the same thing. All those alternates make me discover arrangements and instruments that are hidden behind other in the original mixes, and after having heard them, I'm really able to dicern them on the old mixes. That was the same effect with the sessions, at the time, on the SOT collection. It educate my ear to hear hidden things, and I love it. And... don't forget... the original mixes are still findable everywhere.

I don’t think people have a problem with remixes/alternate mixes. It’s the unnecessary tweaking and poor mastering that people complain about.

I am not deciding for everyone, never said I was. I’m speaking my own piece, which I hope you’re alright with because you’re doing the same. And I’ll tell you one thing as well, after hearing this Marcella mix I felt as if I’d have to check a mirror to make sure my ears weren’t bleeding. That’s the way it was for me, happy to hear it wasn’t that way for you. My ears were ready for a good new remix of my favorite Beach Boys song, that I did not get. I’ll stick to the original mix for now.

If you're going to remix a song because the multi-track contains previously unheard vocals or instruments, and you want to expose them - two things should be kept in mind. One is, as other people have posted, you should denote the mix as alternate. Just saying "2021 mix" is not enough to warn people that this is a radical new mix with unheard elements. Secondly, the new mix should sound like it was mixed that way on purpose, as if it could have been an original mix. For example, maybe there was an alternate background vocal or instrumental solo that, or even an alternate lead vocal that you want people to hear. It doesn't mean that you should just add every single element that exists into one hodgepodge of sound.