Post-Smile Beach Boys albums?

oh man... wow. do i need to listen to these?? i've barely scraped the surface of the Wild Honey one

listening to the Friends one now — sounds great! I love this period.

oh man I had no idea these were coming out

Is It True What They Say About Dixie (Audree Wilson) [recorded 1968] [Produced by Brian Wilson]

wtf is this

old al jolson number?

lol at the transcendental meditation backing track

lol at that track in general

I kinda want these right now but am so far behind the bootleg box set release schedule that I only just now finally copped a copy of the Dylan Cutting Edge box

i'm really curious to hear about that attempted remake of the "friends" album with tandyn almer but i guess that'll be coming along later...

eight minutes of sessions for "been way too long", i'm down with that!

Yeah that track is amazing

okay the Friends one is great. Some of these compositions are easily on a level with Pet Sounds once you listen to the arrangements.

LOL at the a capella Transcendental Meditation. Sounds like he's singing 'It's Cuuuunt, It's Cuuuunt'

gotta say charles manson's input is definitely an improvement on dennis wilson's "peaches" demo

it's great to hear the "passing by" demo with the original lyrics. great harmonies on the alt take too.

overall i think there's definitely more cool stuff on this than there was on "sunshine tomorrow", and i liked "sunshine tomorrow"

Xmas pressie sorted.

man, they've really dumped a lot of new recordings on Spotify. I've been enjoying show 2 of the Michigan University Live album. The way they pulled off Good Vibrations and God Only Knows is pretty impressive (although Love's stage banter is just as embarrassing as you think it's going to be).

Sadly I think most of the Friends remake stuff is lost. Why did it take place anyway?

this stuff is amazing

Never listened to the proper album apart from “I Can Hear Music”, which is a favorite, but this 20/20 Sessions thing is great

Of course I have also heard “Do It Again” several times, but it wasn’t always voluntary.

on no why is there no Busy Doin Nothing tracks on this friends one :(

uh, there is... track 14 on Wake The World

OH SWEET

THIS IS AWESOME

Yeah i gotta get these

hearing 'passing by' with lyrics is breaking my brain

some of these compositions are easily on a level with Pet Sounds once you listen to the arrangements.

damn this is amazing. incredible how deep the Boy's vaults go. Agree w the above, def hear some of these as a real (ignored and underrated) return to form for Brian in terms of the arrangements and melodies.

The next decade of copyright extension releases is going to be incredible, I hope the laws remain the same

Yes, I hadn't even thought of the road to 2024. So much new material possible.

man, I still really have no idea what Mike Love was thinking with this blasting atonal track about meditation. just... what

Think someone recently posted a video compilation of him holding a long nasal “note,” presumably related to his TM practice somehow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfilXmU4ReM

hey mike
hold that long nasal note
and let it float

The question really shouldn't be "Is there anything worth digging up after Smiley Smile?", more "Is there anything worth digging up after Holland?"

I mean, that run of albums from Wild Honey to Holland feature some very good to great stuff. I even prefer Sunflower to Pet Sounds on most days.

I think they were mostly done after Holland, the occasional great track aside. No, I'm not a fan of Love You.

"Love You" was a Brian album anyway. They were good for the occasional track after "Holland" but not much more.

as a whole unit, yeah I think that's generally true

Turrican OTM

Love You is a masterpiece

Love You is ridiculous but fun

15 Big Ones is absolutely dreadful. I don't mind 'Had To Phone Ya' and 'To Song' is silly in a similar way to the stuff on 'Love You' but apart from that it's practically unlistenable. funny that it was touted as a return to form at the time

Love You is moogifried free association craziness, like a totally burnt out Smiley Smile

MIU and LA both have their moments, quite sweet hotch potch albums really.

Keeping The Summer Alive is no masterpiece but it's got enough decent tunes on it to make me put it on occasionally. I like 'Goin' On', 'When Girls Get Together' and 'Endless Harmony'

looks like there's a ton of 1968 live stuff that came out today too ... which is less exciting but hey.

I'm on a Beach Boys Discord server (shut up) and they had a Q&A with Mark Linnett and Alan Boyd they other day. Mark revealed this super cool thing about the new "Great Shape" fragment that can be heard at the end of CITFOTM on the Wake The World set:

"its from the Drurrie Parks acetates which ended up with a record dealer who sold them for $10k and wouldn't allow us to have a copy. He played it for me once and I managed to get a part on my cellphone and added to the end of the CIFOTM acetate"

CITFOTM

ok lol this one took even me a second to figure out

That CITFOTM story is infuriating.