I strongly suggest buying it, its an outstanding box set! Great liner notes by
David Leaf and the remastering job is great, featuring all the 60's hits in
thier original 45 versions with Brian's supervised mono mixes.

I still dont know why they included the cover of The Crystals "Then I Kissed
Her" (which was released as a stop-gap 45 in Britian in 1967 while everyone
was
waiting for "Smile") while they left off "Girl Don't Tell Me'. "She Knows Me
too Well" is about Brian's first wife Marilyn and he asked to remove it for
personal reasons. 

The Smile material is a must listen to if you havent heard it before. It
inlcudes 4 songs from "Love You". The 5th bonus disc has with demos, split
vocal/instrumental mixes, radio spots, live tracks and alternate takes. 

Billy


>3) I've noticed that the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" box set is available  
>in the rewards program for my credit card, and I have enough points for it
if 
>I  wish. Now, I realize that asking for BB advice here is going to net me a 
>lot of  "buy the entire catalog, except the last 3!" responses. But here's
the

>thing...  I'm something of a casual fan. I have the two best-ofs that came
out

>in the  mid-90s and that's it. I know that some albums of theirs are much 
>stronger than  others, and pretty much know what those are, but my
question is
how 
>good of a  job does this compilation do of summing up their career? I saw 
>that it's missing  "Girl Don't Tell Me", which I adore, and that was one
major

>strike against it,  but the fact that it includes a lot of original "Smile" 
>demos is a mark in its  favor. Also, does it cover their 70s material--things
like 
>"Love You" that fans  like--well, or no? I see it has "You Need A Mess of 
>Help To Stand Alone" which  is good. Basically I'm just trying to gauge if
it's a 
>good set for someone who  doesn't want all the albums or if I should frankly 
>just try and pick up a few of  the proper albums and leave it at that.

Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio