Maybe the box set isn't releasing until next year, so this is a copyright dump to keep the 1970 material from going into public domain?

Another lurker pitching in here. I've been a fan since 2013 when a friend bought the 50 Big Ones album. The 70's are my favorite period of Beach Boys music, and Sunflower is one of my favorite albums of all time - I listen to it more than Pet Sounds if I'm being honest. When I first heard about the copyright releases in 2015 I realized that eventually unreleased and alternate material from the 1970's would probably come out. I've been looking forward to an archival release from Sunflower since then. I bought Sunshine Tomorrow and the 1968 session albums released a couple of years ago, and every year I look forward to the unearthing of unreleased material. This box set would make my year.

The bootleg cover for is better than the actual cover here.

I was thinking about how Bambu was released for Record Store Day this past weekend, and other Beach Boys rarities that could be released next year when I got an idea. What if Brother Records released a limited pressing of Adult Child next year? It isn't very commercially viable as a wide release, but could it be a possibility as a limited release? Record Store Day would do most of the marketing for them, so that wouldn't be as much of a concern either.

There's a version of It's Over Now that was on MIC that has the speed corrected, IIRC

The best possible scenario for fans is to piece together all of the soundboard recordings out there (the Japan TV broadcast is the main source, and then some tracks not included in that TV airing are on a few other recordings, including the UK radio broadcast), and then fill in the gaps with the best audience recordings (and a few tracks from the official live album if one is willing to fly those in).

The entire performance was taken off of Youtube, I think, but I'm sure some people around here have it saved to their hard drives

I like the idea of using that picture of Brian in the bathrobe holding a surfboard, but all the versions of that cover that have been done are terrible

setlist.fm lists a performance of Strange Things Happen at The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, MI, on November 22, 1993

I've been compiling my own deluxe versions, but I've been trying to keep it to just one 80 minute bonus disc per album

If for some reason, Capitol decided to put out a remixed version of this album with most of the pitch correction removed and some of the vocals mixed differently, I'd be first in line to buy it. Pretty good way to go out though. The first three and last three or four tracks on the album are all pretty good

I've said this before, but I'll say it again.  Imagine "Love You" performed or even re-recorded without all the dated synths.  Instead bring in Brian's band and a more complete production.  If I remember correctly, even Carl Wilson once remarked that the album was "unfinished" or something along those lines.

That would turn it from an album that is half loved and half hated by the fanbase into an album that's hated by the entire fanbase. The songs just wouldn't work with a mid-60's style backing band. The lyrics are childlike and silly, and the synths add to that feeling. Adding Brian's backing band would make the ridiculous lyrics stick out like a sore thumb.

Make of this what you will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWnhCj_5JRs

What did I just watch?

Don't Talk. The whole song is just so great.

It's not nearly as bad as Summer In Paradise. It's more like Brian's "L.A. Album" to me, because of the soft-rock adult contemporary sound it often has. Whenever I listen to this album I have it on a playlist minus the bonus tracks and minus "Don't Worry."

or Tears in the Morning?


ugh. the list goes on and on folks

Tears is schlock, but it's not embarassing

I have an alternate version of 20/20 as well:

BREAK AWAY (1970)
    Side One
1. Break Away
2. Soulful Old Man Sunshine
3. Do It Again
4. I Can Hear Music
5. Cottonfields (Album Version)
6. Back Home (1970 Version)
    Side Two
7. Mona Kana
8. Where Is She?
9. We're Together Again
10. Never Learn Not to Love (Single Version)
11. Time to Get Alone
12. The Nearest Faraway Place
13. Old Folks At Home/Ol' Man River

So kwebb, are you sticking with your above ^ track lineup/sequence, or did you do some tweaking?

I think I'm going to take out It's Just a Matter of Time and add There's So Many in there somewhere

12.  Don't Fight The Sea (a bit of a cheat, but...)

Don't Fight the Sea seems to be a bit of a wild card when people on here put together alternate albums, so it's fine. I'm using it for an 81 alternate album, but I've seen people use it for all kinds of things. Some people put it on TWGMTR or L.A, and I've even seen people make a 90's reunion album with Don't Fight the Sea on it.

I could see Bruce getting everyone to do a cover version of Silly Love Songs in the late 70's. Not an 11 minute Disco epic though.

[Catch a Wave (1963)]

Part One: 1962-66
I've always thought that the early albums had a lot of filler, so I've combined the following to make new albums:
Surfin' Safari, Surfin' USA and Surfer Girl have been combined to create Catch a Wave
Shut Down Vol. 2 and All Summer Long have been combined to create All Summer Long
The Beach Boys Today and Summer Days have been combined to create The Beach Boys Today!

Catch a Wave (1963)

SIDE ONE

Surfin' Safari
Surfin' U.S.A.
Catch a Wave
Surfer Girl
Farmer's Daughter
Little Deuce Coupe
Be True to Your School

SIDE TWO

In My Room
Hawaii
409
Surfer Moon
Our Car Club
Misirlou
Lonely Sea

All Summer Long (1964)

SIDE ONE

I Get Around
Don't Worry Baby
Fun, Fun, Fun
All Summer Long
Little Honda
The Warmth of the Sun

SIDE TWO

Wendy
We'll Run Away
Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
Don't Back Down
Girls On the Beach
Keep An Eye On Summer

The Beach Boys Today! (1965)

SIDE ONE

Do You Wanna Dance?
Good to My Baby
Then I Kissed Her
Help Me, Rhonda (Single Version)
When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
Dance, Dance, Dance
Girl Don't Tell Me
You're So Good to Me

SIDE TWO

California Girls
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Let Him Run Wild
Guess I'm Dumb
Please Let Me Wonder
Kiss Me, Baby
She Knows Me Too Well
In the Back of My Mind

Pet Sounds I would leave as is.

how about adding At The Hop or some other unreleased material from the early  mid 80s would have been better then some of the songs on that album

Because I'm using a lot of the early 80's stuff for an early 80's alternate album, and At the Hop makes California Calling look like Mozart.

While many people have tried making alternate tracklists blending BB85 and Still Cruisin', the idea never seemed to work for me. The production just sounded too different. The closes thing production-wise to BB85, at least to me, is Brian's 1988 solo album. It's tricky, but I think I've made a decent album out of the two albums:

Side 1
Getcha Back
It's Gettin' Late
Walkin' the Line
Melt Away
She Believes In Love Again
It's Just a Matter of Time
One For the Boys

It kind of works, but I think it could be better. I'm posting this because I want to see what other people on this board can come up with.
Side 2
Love and Mercy
Where I Belong
I Do Love You
Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
Rio Grande

The Beach Boys and Black Sabbath articles in Rolling Stone?   

How did the hipsters over there let that happen?

Hipsters practically worship the Beach Boys, and Rolling Stone is about as mainstream as you can get.

Radiohead is playing songs off their new album at this festival too

Literally anything is better than Full House