I came away thinking that this new one from "Analogue Productions was overall the very best, though in a few small ways the Carl and the Passions "twofer" was at least as good in some ways, better in some and not as good in others. I went into this listening session believing that the Carl and the Passions "twofer" offered the best sound. Wilson spent almost a half-million 2015 dollars producing the record to his definition of musical and sonic perfection, mixing it to mono, his preferred format, in part due to his hearing in mono. The album is "psychedelic" only because of its eclectic mix of acoustic and electric instruments, sound effects and musical structures that roam from Martin Denny exotica to rock to jazz-you name it. So, I spent the better part of last evening comparing this latest mono mastering by Kevin Gray at his Cohearent Audio mastering facility, with: 1) a mint original Capitol issue, 2) the Brothers Records "twofer" with Carl and The Passions' So Tough (2MS 2083), 3) The Brothers Records stand-alone reissue (MS 2197), 4) The DCC Compact Classics reissue mastered by Steve Hoffman (cut by Kevin Gray) and the Capitol reissue of a few years ago.įortunately, this is a record I never tire of listening to! The track upon which I concentrated was "Let's Go Away For Awhile." Why? Because it has monumental bass, a thunderous, reedy bass saxophone, wood blocks and other elements that add up to a sonic spectacular difficult to musically pin down, and even more difficult to master and reproduce at home. This record has so often been written about and reviewed that all I want to do here is get to the sound of this recent reissue mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog tape, and compare it to previous issues. I highly recommend that movie to anyone who is a Wilson or Beach Boy fan. This record was the lynch pin around which the recent Brian Wilson bio-pic "Love and Mercy" spun. The best album with one of the worst covers ever (well, at least of that era), has only grown in stature since it was first released in the Spring of 1966.
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