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Track Listings
| 1. You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone | |||
| 2. Here She Comes | |||
| 3. He Came Down | |||
| 4. Marcella | |||
| 5. Hold On Dear Brother | |||
| 6. Make It Good | |||
| 7. All This Is That | |||
| 8. Cuddle Up | |||
| 9. Sail On Sailor | |||
| 10. Steamboat | |||
| 11. California Saga | |||
| 12. Trader | |||
| 13. Leaving This Town | |||
| 14. Only With You | |||
| 15. Funky Pretty | |||
| 16. Mt Vernon And Fairway (Theme) | |||
| 17. I'm The Pied Piper | |||
| 18. Better Get Back In Bed | |||
| 19. Magic Transistor Radio | |||
| 20. I'm The Pied Piper | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Married together as a 2-CD package for the first time, these two long-haired, counter-cultural Beach Boys albums (from 1972 and 1973 respectively) make strange bedfellows. For all the cherry-red warmth of the record sleeve, Carl and the Passions comes across as pallid, brittle, sullenly graceful and every bit as introspective as staying in with the lights-out and the curtains drawn on a Saturday night. Respect due, though, to Brian Wilsons' cunningly disguised rocker "Marcella" and Dennis Wilson's ultimate downer; the sparse and mournful "Cuddle Up". Holland, on the other hand, is the Beach Boys "Great Outdoors" record, beating the retreat from the sand and surf of yore to the redwood forests and mountains of "Calfornia Saga" (purists still prefer the unreleased waltz-time version of "Big Sur"), with evocative stories of fur-trappers, traders, Native-American rights and dreamlike, hazy summer afternoons on riverbanks shaded by paddle steamers. It was also their last great studio album. --Kevin Maidment
Description
These two albums, criminally underrated in their day (1972-3), make their long-overdue CD debuts in stunningly remastered versions. Even if you think you know this material, you'll still be picking up fresh instrumental and vocal details. Musically, this ranges from the merely charming to the seraphically beautiful, and the amazing thing is that Brian Wilson wrote so little of it and that the individual band membersproduced. Obviously there was more than enough talent in the band by this time to go around.
High points include "Make it Good" and "Cuddle Up", two stunning orchestral love songs from Dennis Wilson (liner note writer Scott McCaughey accurately compares them to Richard Strauss and Scott Walker);"Marcella", one of the band's all-time best and most infectious rockers; the semi-hit "Sail On Sailor", and Carl Wilson's astonishing "Trader", which begins as a chugging blue-eyed soul number ala "Wild Honey" before switching gears into ahaunting piece of minimalism with ravishing group harmonies. As a bonus, this also features the CD debut of Brian's charming little children's fairy tale "Mt. Vernon and Fairway" (originally packaged as a seven-inch bonus EP); it's deliberately slight, but the instrumental snippets that gird it have an undeniable magic.
Married together as a 2-CD package for the first time, these two long-haired, counter-cultural Beach Boys albums (from 1972 and 1973 respectively) make strange bedfellows. For all the cherry-red warmth of the record sleeve, Carl and the Passions comes across as pallid, brittle, sullenly graceful and every bit as introspective as staying in with the lights-out and the curtains drawn on a Saturday night. Respect due, though, to Brian Wilsons' cunningly disguised rocker "Marcella" and Dennis Wilson's ultimate downer; the sparse and mournful "Cuddle Up". Holland, on the other hand, is the Beach Boys "Great Outdoors" record, beating the retreat from the sand and surf of yore to the redwood forests and mountains of "Calfornia Saga" (purists still prefer the unreleased waltz-time version of "Big Sur"), with evocative stories of fur-trappers, traders, Native-American rights and dreamlike, hazy summer afternoons on riverbanks shaded by paddle steamers. It was also their last great studio album. --Kevin Maidment
Description
These two albums, criminally underrated in their day (1972-3), make their long-overdue CD debuts in stunningly remastered versions. Even if you think you know this material, you'll still be picking up fresh instrumental and vocal details. Musically, this ranges from the merely charming to the seraphically beautiful, and the amazing thing is that Brian Wilson wrote so little of it and that the individual band membersproduced. Obviously there was more than enough talent in the band by this time to go around.
High points include "Make it Good" and "Cuddle Up", two stunning orchestral love songs from Dennis Wilson (liner note writer Scott McCaughey accurately compares them to Richard Strauss and Scott Walker);"Marcella", one of the band's all-time best and most infectious rockers; the semi-hit "Sail On Sailor", and Carl Wilson's astonishing "Trader", which begins as a chugging blue-eyed soul number ala "Wild Honey" before switching gears into ahaunting piece of minimalism with ravishing group harmonies. As a bonus, this also features the CD debut of Brian's charming little children's fairy tale "Mt. Vernon and Fairway" (originally packaged as a seven-inch bonus EP); it's deliberately slight, but the instrumental snippets that gird it have an undeniable magic.