Unknown remix of "California Girls" by The Beach Boys on Amazon Echo? So bad my kid stopped it..

Sounds like a chip off the old block

 

So Bad My Kid Stoped It.
Might be best thread title ever.

 

Alexa doesn't like girls from California, she's from Seattle.

 

I tried this just now here. The Alexa app on my phone says it's playing the version from Fifty Big Ones: Greatest Hits, which has the stereo remix. Make mine mono for this one please, Alexa.

 

Be proud of your son, Steve.

 

The stereo remix on the first Endless Harmony, from 1998, is very well done.

The 2nd remix, on the 2000 reissue of the Endless Harmony disc, is not nearly as good.

 

When I played it on my Echo a minute ago, Alexa said it was the 2001 Stereo Remix from The Very Best Of The Beach Boys: Sounds Of Summer. I'm an Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber if it matters.

 

Where did the right song go
Where is the tune I used to know
How could you lose that great mono
Oh, Alexa no

 

Doesn’t Alexa live in Paris? That’s what Prince said.

 

Yo,that Alexa ain't so smart. Asked her to play some Mummers at a relatives' home around New Years- the Mummers are a bunch of string band music clubs who perform in an annual New Years Parade in Philly-there are tons of LPs recorded and at least two CDs. Alexa knew of none of it. Won't ask her where to get a good hoagie,either. Probably thinks they are subs. Alexa was also probably rooting for the Pats last week,too. And,no joking, Alexa will never be heard on my Kindle Fire.

 

If you think that one's bad, you should hear some of Linnet's other remixes from the "Summer Days" era. No audiophile mastering can make them sound good.

 

Maybe play your "Endless Summer" version instead? That's my go-to. I'm sure you can make that a playlist that Alexa can access.

 

He didn't "say" anything. The song is an instrumental!

 

That's what I would think it would be too....but without being able to hear it, it could be something from
one of the bootleg 'Sea Of Tunes' box sets..??....

 

This thread - and it's title - are amazing for so many reasons !!!!

 

Just wondering, does Alexa EVER feature "lifelike warmth" and not sound compressed? I've only heard voice commands through it, not music. Ron

 

The music sounds fine to me and apparently the speaker on the 2nd Generation Echos are better. Then again I'm not a very picky listener so your milage may vary.

 

My 6 year old daughter did the same thing recently when an alternate-vocal version of her favorite Monkees tune came on. She flipped that it didn’t “sound right.” Made this dad proud.

 

Ugh - just listened on my Echo. App shows a photo of "Summer Days" lp, but I think that might have nothing to do with what version it's playing - just grabbing the song title from whatever.

 

That sounds really bad, sorry for your ears. Though, at first I thought you meant it was some mutated, electronic dance mix by Skrillex or something.

 

My 4-year-old is a Sgt Pepper fanatic esp. the title song (first month he discovered it, had to play it, and only it, 15 times on the way to his pre-school which is a 30 minute drive; ditto ride back so that is 30 times a day, 150 times a week for a month; he was obsessed) but the stereo panning in car drives me nuts so I was optimistic when 50th anniversary remix came out, thinking it would be panned better for car... we'd barely popped in the disc before he began complaining how loud it was... end result: needle dropped my mono LP for car...

 

This forum is going to be full of new members in 15 or 20 years still complaining about the same old things...

 

The 50 Big Ones mastering is awful - harsh and loud. Agree that if you want a stereo remix the first EH is the way to go.

 

I’ve not heard the 50 Big Ones. I shall avoid.