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Binding: Audio CD
Brand: Beach
EAN: 0724352569229
Format: Original recording remastered
Item Dimensions: 23
Label: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
MPN: 25692
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Capitol
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Studio: Capitol
Disc 1:- Slip on Through
- This Whole World
- Add Some Music to Your Day
- Got to Know the Woman
- Deirdre
- It's About Time
- Tears in the Morning
- All I Wanna Do
- Forever
- Our Sweet Love
- At My Window
- Cool, Cool Water
- Don't Go Near the Water
- Long Promised Road
- Take a Load off Your Feet
- Disney Girls 1957"
- Student Demonstration Time
- Feel Flows
- Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
- Day in the Life of a Tree
- 'Til I Die
- Surf's Up
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After an acrimonious split with their original record label at the end of the 1960s, the Beach Boys moved over to Warner Bros., ostensibly to capitalize on their phenomenal early successes. But the move also coincided with band founder/creative genius Brian Wilson's burgeoning health problems and subsequent artistic abdication. That the boys were able to come up with what remain two of their more interesting albums is an enduring testament to the band's willpower. Sunflower, originally released in 1970, was a drastically revamped version of an unreleased album called Landlocked, and has an upbeat consistency that both built on the band's vocal strengths and somehow overcame schmaltzy pop and even the embarrassing, halting espanole of "At My Window." Perhaps the album's greatest revelation is the brief flowering of Dennis Wilson as a writing and singing talent, especially on the lovely "Forever." With Dennis largely succumbing to older brother Brian's demons, '71's Surf's Up is marred by cloddish efforts at agit-prop hipsterism (Mike Love's "Student Demonstration Time") and a nascent environmentalism that ranges from the naïve ("Don't Go Near the Water") to the bizarre ("A Day in the Life of a Tree"). Carl Wilson rescues the collection somewhat with "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows," but the album's twin jewels are both salvaged Brian Wilson efforts--the title track was one of the centerpieces of the unreleased Smile (cowritten by lyricist Van Dyke Parks and here given that album's "Child Is Father to the Man" as a glorious coda), while "Til I Die" hails from the scrapped Landlocked and remains one of Brian's most hauntingly introspective works. Both albums have been remastered on a single disc and include new liner notes by Wilson biographer Timothy White. --Jerry McCulley
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the album sunflower originally released in 1970 is an incredible disc. only one of a handful of albums released by the bb's post 1970 to feature significant contribution from bb's resident musical genius, mr. brian wilson...add some music to your day, this whole world,all i wanna do & cool cool water are all standout tracks. also, the main difference between this disc and their other magnum opus, pet sounds, is that sunflower actually has significant contributions from the rest of the group especially ... Read More
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I like this one over Pet Sounds big time... the Boys were definitely in their groove for this one... I have a bootleg copy of Wild Honey with outtakes of the Boys smoking hash... it's a riot!
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In the years after Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys became the kings of an almost non-existent genre that may as well be called "post-sunshine pop." I just made that up, so don't bother trying to talk to your friends about it. Unless I'm a friend of yours, which is unlikely because I have many friends. In any case, by "post-sunshine," I mean sweet and innocent 60s pop, but with a sense of irony, a desire for lyrical depth, and a more complex approach to musical composition (or slightly longer songs. Whatever). ... Read More
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It's funny how the greatest of music can be overlooked because of popular stigma. Such is the music of The Beach Boys after 1966... and what a pity that is. After the meteoric crash of of unquestioned frontman and musical genius Brian Wilson, the band instantly fell into the category of 'culturally insignificant'. But the switch from Capitol Records to Warner Music in 1970 was supposed to help remedy that situation-- a new start with a fresh look. What followed were perhaps some of the most creative and ... Read More
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Finally, as Capitol buddies-up the Beach Boys catalogue for re-release, a twofer that, for the most part, matches up to the band's best early work.
"Sunflower" has a load of pop gems - democratically written and performed by the band's various members and "Surf's Up" - thanks in large part to Brian's album-ending contributions ('Til I Die & the title track) ranks as one of the Beach Boys most artistic and poignant releases ever.
Littered with more-than-listenable music over the course ... Read More
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