New albums from five different Beach Boys this year?

[Eric Aniversario]

I know it's a long shot, but there is a possibility that we could get new releases from five different Beach Boys this year.  Dave Marks has already released his new 3-CD compilation.  Dennis' POB/Bambu will hopefully be released in the spring.  That Lucky Old Sun looks like it will probably be released this year, although no release date has been specified.  I really do have faith that Al's album will be released this year...there are too many guest artists involved for it to not be released soon.  The one super long-shot is Mike's solo album.  It is ready for release, but has not been talked about much in the past year or so.  I asked a band member about it last summer and he said that it hadn't been mentioned in a while, but had high praises for the album. 

That would be cool if all 5 were released this year, but I'd say that there's about a one in a thousand chance that will happen.  I'm pretty confident that we'll get at least 3 of them this year, if not 4.

[chris.metcalfe]

Time for everyone on this forum to stop being nasty about 'Looking Back With Love'?
I don't know, I really quite like that album... It'd kind of cheery, which is more than can be said for POB, and that was important during the early 1980s UK recession!

[SloopJohnB]

There's also Bruce's polka album - any news about that one? 

[SurfRiderHawaii]

Bruce did post on the BBB that he is in fact working on a little album.  Sounded pretty minimalistic - old demos, new demos. He didn't give too many details.

In my "Solo Sampler" idea thread, I mentioned all these albums.  A new Beach Boys album could be created with 2 new solo songs each from Brian, Al, Mike, Bruce and David plus a some unreleased songs from Dennis ("I'm Going Your Way", "Carry Me Home", "I've Got a Friend" - LIVE, "Wouldn't It Be Nice to Live Again" and "Ecology" would do QUITE nicely!)