The one thing still missing:

[The Shift]

Am I missing something?

1 new Brian Wilson album
12 albums re-released variously in SACD/stereo and mono vinyl by AP
5 albums re-released on 180gm vinyl by Capitol
New big screen movie biopic on BW's life
New semi-autobiography by Brian
New biography on Carl
New worthy tome on the early days by Jim
Pet Sounds getting two separate Blu-Ray releases (in addition to the three AP issues alluded to above)
Soundstage Blu-Ray/DVD
BW guest appearances on albums by Mini Mansions and Emile Hainey
(Comparatively) major tours by both the touring Beach Boys and by Brian Wilson…



But where, among all these riches, is the one thing we really need: a Beach Boys Greatest Hits package for the summer. Anyone?

[CenturyDeprived]

Am I missing something?

1 new Brian Wilson album
12 albums re-released variously in SACD/stereo and mono vinyl by AP
5 albums re-released on 180gm vinyl by Capitol
New big screen movie biopic on BW's life
New semi-autobiography by Brian
New biography on Carl
New worthy tome on the early days by Jim
Pet Sounds getting two separate Blu-Ray releases (in addition to the three AP issues alluded to above)
Soundstage Blu-Ray/DVD
BW guest appearances on albums by Mini Mansions and Emile Hainey
(Comparatively) major tours by both the touring Beach Boys and by Brian Wilson…

But where, among all these riches, is the one thing we really need: a Beach Boys Greatest Hits package for the summer. Anyone?

Could we officially be done with newly-repackaged (and newly-named) BB Greatest Hits CDs for the summer? There always used to be a new stereo remix or two, but now that the entire mono catalog (sans just Wild Honey?) has been reissued in stereo, would they dig into a really, really deep cut to put as a bonus track to entice buyers to buy yet another BB Greatest Hits CD?

[Lonely Summer]

I'm sure there will be another GH set before the year is through; would really prefer a rarities set, though.

[ArchStanton]

I'll tell you what, I have been jonesing to buy "Help Me Rhonda" again.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Fun/dp/B0092IVCVW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1429149970&sr=1-1&keywords=beach+boys

[The Cincinnati Kid]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Fun/dp/B0092IVCVW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1429149970&sr=1-1&keywords=beach+boys

What is the point of releasing a new compilation every year?  Wouldn't it be cheaper to just promote what is already popular like Sounds of Summer or 50 Big Ones? 

[Lee Marshall]

Is Brian's 'Wanderlust' on 'The Art of McCartney' too olde to count?

Rarities and unreleased material...that's all I want.

But I do understand the need to offer new fans something typical at least every other year.  Check the set lists from Mike and Brian and release something that coincides with what they're touring...hits/lp tracks.

And try to insinuate something which suggests that the band [and Brian] are still doing something.

[Just took a look at what's coming out in May.  Really?  Why bother?  How disinterested can they be that THAT is the best they can come up with?  It isn't for new fans.  Better choices already exist.  (and for less money) It must be just to 'ding' collectors. ]

[Wirestone]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Fun/dp/B0092IVCVW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1429149970&sr=1-1&keywords=beach+boys

What is the point of releasing a new compilation every year?  Wouldn't it be cheaper to just promote what is already popular like Sounds of Summer or 50 Big Ones? 

Copyright notice on the back says that one comes from 2011.

[SamMcK]

I will say one thing though, The Beach Boys are one of the greatest singles bands of all time and these comps continue to sell like crazy. It's too bad so many of them don't have always have the best song selections or covers.

[Bedroom Tapes]

Rarities and unreleased material...that's all I want.

Seconded.

[The Shift]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Fun/dp/B0092IVCVW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1429149970&sr=1-1&keywords=beach+boys

Copyright notice on the back says that one comes from 2011.

Oooh so close Bubba, but looks like a retread. I think this comp was the first official CD product other than TSS to use the Smile lettering of the BBs name. That makes it a curio, to me, at least.

[The Shift]

… and just in case anyone with the power to make this happen is tuning in, I'm joshing – enough assault on our collective wallet alread this summer!!!

[debonbon]

Love and Mercy soundtrack?

[KDS]

It's been almost three years since a Beach Boys greatest hits compilation was released. 

With the buzz from the movie and Brian's new album, I'm sure the fine folks at Capitol are going to find another way to package the hits. 

Here's my wish list:

Beach Boys DVD Anthology featuring TV appearances, promo videos, etc (There's a good DVD set on the VOIO market called Long Promised Road).   ---------American Band & Endless Harmony feature some of these
Full Concert DVDs from late 60s / early 70s, and a FULL show from the C50 Tour
A full Brian Wilson concert DVD from the early 2000s.   If Live at the Roxy was filmed, that would be a great one
Al Jardine autobiography
A CD featuring only rarities not featured on the GV or MIC boxsets

[The Shift]

In all the recent excitement I almost forgot this:

9/4/09

BEACH BOYS ARCHIVE INCLUDES LEGENDARY 1972 CARNEGIE HALL TAPES

by Howie Edelson

The Beatles aren't the only '60s icons preserving their legendary catalogue and vault; the Beach Boys' team is hard at work cataloging the thousands of tapes which make up their archive. The team -- chief archivist Alan Boyd and producer/engineer Mark Linett -- has recently collected all of the known elements of the band's unfinished 1967 album Smile, and have now uncovered the multi-tracks for the Beach Boys' two historic concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 23rd, 1972.

For years, only half of one of the shows has been available in pristine stereo on the underground market. Boyd says that the band's company Brother Records is in possession of all of the multi-track masters of the shows, and is now collecting appropriate film and video footage which could be included on a potential project.

Elvis Costello saw the Beach Boys six months prior to the Carnegie Hall show in his then-hometown of Liverpool, and was amazed at how the band's current image and musicality transcended their iconic '60s image: "I saw the Beach Boys in Liverpool at the Liverpool Empire. That was a very different experience. They were in that... one of the periods, although Carl and Dennis (Wilson) were singing in the band, Brian (Wilson) wasn't with them, but the Surf's Up album and the beautiful Carl And The Passions album were out -- and Holland -- those records were out. Dennis sang an extraordinary version of "Cuddle Up" at that gig, which I'll never forget. That was an incredible thing to see; because although the main writer wasn't present, you realize that they had reclaimed themselves as a creative band away from the cliched idea of these guys that sing these car songs and dress in stripey shirts."

The songs performed by the Beach Boys at Carnegie Hall: "Sloop John B.," "You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone," "Leaving This Town," "Darlin'," "Only With You," "Heroes And Villains," "Long Promised Road," "Don't Worry Baby," "Student Demonstration Time," "I Get Around," "Marcella," "California Saga," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Medley: Wonderful/Don't Worry Bill," "God Only Knows," "Do It Again," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "Wild Honey," "Good Vibrations," "Surfin' U.S.A," "Fun, Fun, Fun," and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."

The official members of the Beach Boys at the time were Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, and Ricky Fataar.

Alan Boyd says that his and Linett's primary public duties for the Beach Boys are locating the masters to the band's earlier work, and remixing them into modern stereo mixes for the band's numerous career-spanning compilations: "The fans and the public at large really seem to like these new stereo mixes, and that was really apparent when Mark did Pet Sounds in 1997. And the reaction to that is so strong that he started looking at other albums and other tracks, so every time we have the opportunity -- we did a lot of this on the Hawthorne record -- we've been going back and doing that, 'cause there's so much pressure brought to bear, y'know, in the market, for things to be in stereo."

Boyd and Linett -- both Grammy nominees -- have collaborated on such recent Beach Boys collections as Endless Harmony, Hawthorne, CA, Good Timin': Live At Knebworth England 1980, The Warmth Of The Sun, The Original U.S. Singles Collection The Capitol Years 1962-1965 box set, and the recently released Summer Love Songs.

Linett is also known for his work with Brian Wilson over the past two decades -- including the revamping of the entire Beach Boys' catalogue beginning in the late 1980's. Linett's work on 2004's Brian Wilson Presents Smile was nominated for a Grammy for Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical).

The Beach Boys -- featuring Mike Love and Bruce Johnston -- perform tomorrow night (September 5th) in Saint Petersburg, Florida at Tropicana Field.

Beach Boys cofounder David Marks will join Southern California rock legends Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean and Billy Hinsche at Endless Summer Quarterly's East Coast Convention dubbed the "Pet Sounds Safari" on September 11th and 12th in Cornelius and Davidson, North Carolina -- which is just 20 minutes North of the Charlotte Metro area. Proceeds from the convention will benefit the Cornelius Animal Shelter. For ticket, schedule, and venue information, log on to endlesssummerquarterly.blogspot.com.

Brian Wilson kicks off his next series of solo dates on October 23rd in Mount Pleasant, Michigan at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort.

Wilson has just added a new date to his itinerary, and will play on November 12th in Lowell, Massachusetts at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium.

[job]

http://www.amazon.com/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Fun/dp/B0092IVCVW/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1429149970&sr=1-1&keywords=beach+boys

That's so old.