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Track Listings
| 1. Meant For You | |||
| 2. Friends | |||
| 3. Wake The World | |||
| 4. Be Here In The Morning | |||
| 5. When A Man Needs A Woman | |||
| 6. Passing By | |||
| 7. Anna Lee The Healer | |||
| 8. Little Bird | |||
| 9. Be Still | |||
| 10. Busy Doing Nothing | |||
| 11. Diamond Head | |||
| 12. Transcendental Meditation | |||
| 13. Do It Again | |||
| 14. I Can Hear Music | |||
| 15. Bluebirds Over The Mountain | |||
| 16. Be With Me | |||
| 17. All I Want To Do | |||
| 18. Nearest Faraway Place | |||
| 19. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) | |||
| 20. I Went To Sleep | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
This single disc gathers two Beach Boys albums--Friends and 20/20--with the addition of remastering and bonus tracks. By 1968 and the recording of Friends, Brian Wilson's pivotal position as head Beach Boy was gradually crumbling. True, he was still the principal contributor, but songwriting duties were now evenly shared among the group. The results were predictably patchy. For every Brian-sculpted pocket symphony ("Passing By", "Busy Doin' Nothin" and "Wake the World") there's an inconsequential oddity ("Transcendental Meditation", "Anna Lee, The Healer" and "Little Bird"). Originally released in 1969, 20/20 was not a Beach Boys album proper, but rather a collection of odds and sods to fulfil their contract with Capital Records. Ironically, it's actually one of their finest and most coherent post-Pet Sounds albums. Hit singles include the playfully nostalgic "Do It Again" and a superb Carl-produced cover of The Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music". Brother Dennis also gives notice of his maturing compositional skills with the broodily spectral "Be With Me". Not to be outdone, Brian chips in with the mind-boggling "Cabinessence"--culled from the Smile sessions--and the truly transcendent "Time Alone". Also included is the notorious "Never Learn To Love", an underwhelming ditty, which, according to legend, was penned by none other than Charles Manson. Far better are the five bonus tracks, especially the dazzling "Breakaway". --Chris King
Description
Utterly ignored at the time of their release, the Beach Boys' final two albums for Capitol Records, 1968's FRIENDS and 1969's 20/20, are now recognised as minor masterpieces. FRIENDS is, in modern terms, the Beach Boys' chill-out album, their first release with none of the R&B-laced rockers preferred by Mike Love. The 12 brief tracks (nearly half of them don't even hit the two-minute mark) are deeply influenced by the group's newfound interest in spirituality, with Dennis Wilson's "Little Bird" and "Be Still" among the peaceful highlights. The two key tracks are "Busy Doin' Nothin'", a peculiar bossa nova with some of Brian Wilson's oddest lyrics, and"Diamond Head", a temporary return to the pictorial soundscapes of SMILE. The more varied 20/20 goes FRIENDS one betterby ending with the spine-tingling wordless a cappella exercise "Our Prayer" and the glorious "Cabinessence", two re-recordings of SMILE outtakes. Of the new material, the hit single "Do It Again", the glorious "I Can Hear Music", and BruceJohnston's instrumental homage to Brian "The Nearest Faraway Place" are the best, and the genuinely spooky "Never LearnNot To Love", Dennis' slightly rewritten cover of "Cease ToExist" by his soon-to-be-infamous buddy Charles Manson, is the most notorious.
This single disc gathers two Beach Boys albums--Friends and 20/20--with the addition of remastering and bonus tracks. By 1968 and the recording of Friends, Brian Wilson's pivotal position as head Beach Boy was gradually crumbling. True, he was still the principal contributor, but songwriting duties were now evenly shared among the group. The results were predictably patchy. For every Brian-sculpted pocket symphony ("Passing By", "Busy Doin' Nothin" and "Wake the World") there's an inconsequential oddity ("Transcendental Meditation", "Anna Lee, The Healer" and "Little Bird"). Originally released in 1969, 20/20 was not a Beach Boys album proper, but rather a collection of odds and sods to fulfil their contract with Capital Records. Ironically, it's actually one of their finest and most coherent post-Pet Sounds albums. Hit singles include the playfully nostalgic "Do It Again" and a superb Carl-produced cover of The Ronettes' "I Can Hear Music". Brother Dennis also gives notice of his maturing compositional skills with the broodily spectral "Be With Me". Not to be outdone, Brian chips in with the mind-boggling "Cabinessence"--culled from the Smile sessions--and the truly transcendent "Time Alone". Also included is the notorious "Never Learn To Love", an underwhelming ditty, which, according to legend, was penned by none other than Charles Manson. Far better are the five bonus tracks, especially the dazzling "Breakaway". --Chris King
Description
Utterly ignored at the time of their release, the Beach Boys' final two albums for Capitol Records, 1968's FRIENDS and 1969's 20/20, are now recognised as minor masterpieces. FRIENDS is, in modern terms, the Beach Boys' chill-out album, their first release with none of the R&B-laced rockers preferred by Mike Love. The 12 brief tracks (nearly half of them don't even hit the two-minute mark) are deeply influenced by the group's newfound interest in spirituality, with Dennis Wilson's "Little Bird" and "Be Still" among the peaceful highlights. The two key tracks are "Busy Doin' Nothin'", a peculiar bossa nova with some of Brian Wilson's oddest lyrics, and"Diamond Head", a temporary return to the pictorial soundscapes of SMILE. The more varied 20/20 goes FRIENDS one betterby ending with the spine-tingling wordless a cappella exercise "Our Prayer" and the glorious "Cabinessence", two re-recordings of SMILE outtakes. Of the new material, the hit single "Do It Again", the glorious "I Can Hear Music", and BruceJohnston's instrumental homage to Brian "The Nearest Faraway Place" are the best, and the genuinely spooky "Never LearnNot To Love", Dennis' slightly rewritten cover of "Cease ToExist" by his soon-to-be-infamous buddy Charles Manson, is the most notorious.