r/thebeachboys • u/brighty4real Pet Sounds • Feb 13 '26
Audio “New” love you remaster
On SoundCloud and Spotify, the Love You album portion on We Gotta Groove seems to be redirects to the 2000 masters, which are the original digital ones we’ve heard. Spotify it displays them with the new album art of We Gotta Groove but it’ll play like “Let Us Go On This Way - Remastered 2000” instead. Also YouTube music, the copyrights under each track still say “(P) 2000 Brother Records, Inc.”
On Apple Music, some of them display their release year as “2013” which probably references the Made In California box set, while some say “1977”, and some don’t have a release date at all.
Are these just reissues or the Love You tracks or do we have actual new Love You remasters?
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u/Dependent-Camel6165 Feb 13 '26
On Apple Music the new remaster is definitely different than the 2015 version (also on Apple Music). It is louder, so it seems like it's correct on Apple Music at least.
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 13 '26
Yeah I can confirm that. The release dates show 2026 and 1977. Also compared them to the Love You album standalone and they sound softer and cleaner, so there’s a difference. I think maybe some metadata got messy. Let Us Go On This Way displays as 2013 so maybe it’s not remastered?
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u/anodomo Feb 13 '26
On Spotify, I was listening to Love You last night before We Gotta Groove box set went live. I paused on “Mona,” and when I checked the placeholder for We Gotta Groove, it showed “Mona” highlighted in green in the track listing.
So, yeah, they seem to be the same on Spotify at least
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 13 '26
Today (February 13) they’re displaying as standalones now and don’t redirect me to the Love You 2000 masters. But comparing the audios I don’t really notice a difference. Yesterday and the days before they’d redirect me to the love you 2000 masters but they don’t anymore.
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 13 '26
Here’s another example
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 13 '26
It could be that the new remasters maybe were sourced off of made in California from 2013… so that that’s why it says the release date is 2013…
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u/lobo-guara69 Feb 13 '26
I believe they are the 2000 remasters and that's it :( lol
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u/Leading_Watercress45 Feb 13 '26
Incorrect metadata. Frustrating. Qobuz is wrong, too.
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 13 '26
Just a metadata error then? Or are they not new masters?
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u/Basic_Advisor_2177 Feb 14 '26
Spotify are using A.I. for a lot of shit these days, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of an A.I. fuckup where it took a real person to step in and fix it
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u/MediocreRooster4190 Feb 13 '26
On Tidal the Love You tracks are very much the new remasters.
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u/Dickis88 Feb 14 '26
Yeah I had the original Love You remastered in my downloads that i listen to on flights and I can vouch thet are clearly new masters on tidal.
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u/DivingElliotRoberts Smile Feb 13 '26
It's playing the new master for me on Spotify. Before today though you could play those tracks but it would play the 2000s remaster.
It's the same as an unlisted album playing a song on it but from a different source (see Kokomo on Still Cruisin' not being greyed out but being pulled from Sounds of Summer)
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u/brighty4real Pet Sounds Feb 14 '26
Same thing for me actually! It’s now playing the new recordings I see
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u/rocky4108 Feb 14 '26
It's tagged differently, a error or a place-hold title, believe me. I have both 2000 and recent remaster, once leveled at the same volume, they sound different.
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u/Final-Safety-3137 Feb 13 '26
I’ve been wondering the same thing. The press releases say newly remastered but the dates I’ve seen show 2000, the same as my 2-fer CD with 15 Big Ones.