Good Vibrations (2021 Stereo Mix) + New SoundsOfSummer Info

Maybe, we’re more discerning? 😉

How to Gaslight and Diminish Someone Else's Opinion in 6 Easy Steps

Lesson 1) Language is Key

When coming up against unwelcome 'opinions' online, try to use reductive and diminishing language. Extra marks for using the words 'hate', 'haters' or 'hating'. See below for some effective examples:-

I really don't understand

makes me afraid

crazy discussion

what a hate I can feel here

So sad

If you feel particularly threatened  by an opinion due to your own feelings of insecurity, why not try framing that opinion as an attack on your freedom of opinion. This will effectively mask the fact that, due to your gaslighting language, this is exactly what YOU are doing to others. See below for an example:-

It makes me think of a sect of dangerous crazy people, who want everybody thinks the same and don't want other people are able to listen what they think is not good for them

I don't think anyone was attacked for having a differing opinion until the gaslighting started. This is a very tolerant board. I'm happy for anyone to like whatever they want. It's when words like 'hate' and 'haters' start being thrown around that I take umbridge. Language like that is used to shut down discussion and diminish people, and I WILL draw attention to it.

And as DrBeachBoy alluded to most delicately, there are other Beach Boy related sites that will  perhaps provide a more welcoming environment if gaslighting is your thing. 

This is not a personal attack. It is a controversy over the level of quality of a product that people are or have been monetarily invested in, for six decades, and a history that is being revised, by someone who is not articulating the actual events, contemporaneous to the music being released, with a production that may not be consistent with its original quality, to attract a potentially illusory niche market, in the future. I don’t believe in crystal balls. I believe that with all the crap generated, slamming them in the 60s, including and especially Brian, the work should be showcased in the best possible form. The stuff that made it hard to be a fan, among your own peer group, all the while knowing that the music and vocals were creatively superior, and would stand the test-of-time. They are being made to sound silly with their “striped shirts” which are now a loving brand of identification. As a 2nd gen fan, I only saw them once in those shirts and a few times in the white suits that apparently were inspired by Paul McCartney with a visit to their studio. (I mistakenly thought it was a visit to Carnaby St. that prompted the suits.)  

It is not a personal attack. It is, after listening to what a person had to say publicly, in the media, who is a media figure, a “check” or “disagreement” on those historic facts. In my opinion, even if he was hired to do liner notes, which will be there for posterity, perhaps not a good fit for the job based on concerns that he is not fully-versed in that era as he should be. That is all. I don’t generally even read the liner notes because of the small font that comes in a CD pack. I love The Beach Boys music but am not going blind (maybe deaf, blasting the music 🎶) for them. But they are not doing the graphics and font choices.  

And, the concept of indirectly, or directly, pressuring Grammy-winning sound people? Be the producer they never had? Weren’t Brian, and other band members involved in the production? Hello.   

I’ve met Howie and I agree he can be a little brash but his heart is in the right place. In broad terms-I think it is hard to disagree with his main point-which is that the BBs were for years dismissed by critics as has beens that collapsed after 1967 and never did anything good without Brian. But People like Howie have actively pushed a change in how the BBs are viewed-and this has had an important affect! Today more and more people understand that the BBs continued to make important music for at least five years after 1967 and that they are deserving of the same critical appreciation as The Who and Rolling Stones if not more (I don’t include the Beatles-as like Elvis they were a cultural and historical phenomenon that exists on its own). So yes Howie is a hype but as Brian said in 1973 “I’ve never been a hype “ and for the BBs that became a problem-if they are not going to sell their relevance than outsiders need to do it for them. So I applaud Howie for that. As to mixes-if you are a fan like me-than you still have the twofers, LPs and bootlegs and with digital platforms you can swap out any version you personally don’t like for the one you do-so ultimately it isn’t the end of the world if the mix of Seasons in the Sun sucks!

Well….I agree that box set was an important first step but it was still mainly preaching to the choir…and for the next seven years there was a lot more dysfunction and the main event became, as has often been the case, “the healing of brother Bri”. Again-I’ll put myself in the oldsters category that Howie mentioned-even though I’m only 50-I don’t buy much new music and i didn’t buy Sounds of Summer or the recent one-they want/need to attract a new generation of fans-that is who sounds of summer hopes to snag

One of my kids bought Sounds of Summer in his PX after finishing Basic Training. It was delightful to see that in a store in which I could not shop (because I was not military) but have my kid shop. It was a gift, even though I had all those tracks.  But, if you are looking to get both traditional fans and those who are looking for summer party music, it can be tailored to suit both groups, with live tracks and orphan tracks as well. When my kids’ friends were leaving for basic training, they couldn’t have electronics for that time, and I gave them a BB comp CD and never a studio album.

But it was first played, and by young-uns, gleefully once they had that freedom to have electronics, as the music of their country they were serving. So there is that market, somewhat driven by country pride (now reviled as “nationalism”) but the greatest hits are what they listen to. I’d use Best of The Brother years Volume 3, in the exceptions to that for me. I wore that out, along with Knebworth, and 72-3 in my car.  

But this other projected release is mainly CopEx and needs to be faithful as well to the contemporaneous events. It is all glued together; the times and the music.      

Perhaps they were being sarcastic with the overly large font in the Feel Flows box set booklet to accommodate older 1st generation fans’ vision loss and extra treble mastering to accommodate our assumed hearing loss.

Howie’s liners were fine but a legitimate gripe was the absence of a detailed track by track discussion by Craig or Alan B. A box that really gets into the minutiae needs liners that equally get into it!

Okay. Thanks. We're good now. I get your anger at what's happening with the releases. That much I understand (and appreciate)