Now, I\u2019m not an audiologist, and having a hearing issue anyway, I have no opinion on the mono vs. stereo battle. I just know this is yet another reissue of one of the greatest albums ever made. Presenting the songs in two different ways is okay only if you\u2019re an audio geek\u2026otherwise, it seems pointless to me. Mono lets you hear all the nuances and everything else\u2026but for me, I really don\u2019t care. I just know \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and the genius and beauty of Carl Wilson\u2019s voice can be heard here in all its lush glory.<\/p>\n
This is about the umpteenth different reissue of this record, and while some of the instrumental mixes are alright and you get to hear all the musicality that was present in Brian\u2019s mind, the live tracks are nothing but frustrating. The live version of \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d from 1966 is breathtaking, however, once again showing us how great Carl really was and how much harder it to know that he is no longer with us.<\/p>\n
There are also some tracks here that are just okay, like \u201cThat\u2019s Not Me\u201d and the two instrumentals, but they aren\u2019t as deserving of legendary status as \u201cWouldn\u2019t It Be Nice\u201d and \u201cGood Vibrations.\u201d Elsewhere on the disc, the vocals on \u201cDon\u2019t Talk\u201d are so great they almost transcend the whole song. It\u2019s things like this that cemented the album\u2019s reputation in the first place, but other than hearing these amazing songs in whichever audio form that you choose, there\u2019s not much else to recommend. As far as I know, the instrumental stereo mixes haven\u2019t been released before, but the live tracks careen all over the place. They start off grand and magical in 1966, but as the years go on, the quality gets poorer and poorer until it gets to 1989 at some random festival in Jamaica!<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the album still maintains its legendary status, but this collection is for ultimate diehard Beach Boys fans ONLY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7136],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-44562","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-beach-boys","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44562"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}