Ok I found these 'backing tracks' recently....does anyone know if there is a better fan-made version out there??

This is such a tease!!

Night Was So Young: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AD_wTUeXw

More:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%22love+you%22+instrumental+beach+boys+youtube

The songs are better on Love You. Try playing them on the piano, or instrument of your choice.
In fact, by maligning the production as you are doing here, you are actually strengthening the case for a live or re-recorded Love You.

So true. I've studied many a brian songs and the love you compositions are complex and beautiful. More so than BW88 (which I also like)

Ok so people not really feeling the tour (i disagree) but understandable but how about BACKING TRACKS?!?!

I want a 20 minute ding dang encore jam!

I have a feeling Brian would be game for that!!!!

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.

No way! I love the moog!! Unlike the 80s stuff, Brian had complete control in deciding which synths to use...it was entirely his vision!

I think a full orchestra/band version of these songs would sound more like No Pier Pressure...which I like but is not in the same creative production realm as Love You!!!

I too sadly don't think this will happen. Then again, The Who toured Quadrophenia, Yes is touring selections from Tales From Topographic Oceans this year (along with another album I can't remember off the top of my head), and The Rolling Stones did that Sticky Fingers tour last year. None of those are the bands' most popular albums, so a Love You tour wouldn't be *impossible*, but Brian would probably tour albums like Sunflower, Friends, or some solo selections before Love You. As for a release, you never know! The Party set last year was kind of unexpected, at least to me. I don't think it was entirely due to that 50-year copyright thing, either, but more to do with the anniversary and it being a cool type of project to do.

Think about an ultra-limited edition of a late-70s Beach Boys box set with a hand-woven cross-stitched replica of the Love You album cover; 15 Big Ones, Group Therapy, Love You, New Album, Adult Child, MIU, and Merry Christmas From The Beach Boys LPs; CDs of backing tracks and vocals-only tracks; an entire "early mix" alternate 15 Big Ones; the lyrical versions of "We Gotta Groove" and "Short Skirts" and other Brother Rarities tracks; the debut of the apparently awful late-70s mix of "Child of Winter;" and who knows what else! What a treat that would be. Even if it only spanned 15 Big Ones to Love You, I'd be fine with it. They definitely have the material and manpower to do such a thing, and it's really only commercial viability in my mind that would limit such a project.

I disagree that those other albums are more likely...Brian loves Love You and his involvement in it was greater than those others you mentioned. I don't think it will happen though.

I will continue to pray for backing tracks however. It seems more reasonable.

Does anyone know if this will be acknowledged/celebrated by the Beach Boys?

Backing tracks??? Please?! I would do a number of ethically questionable things for an opportunity to listen to those sweet sweet synth tones.

And dare I ask....any remote chance of a Love You tour from Brian?!?!?! 

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This reminds me of another brilliant first post: http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,9139.msg155210.html#msg155210

Nobody/Ghost: have you returned!???1!

I would've liked to have heard Landy's fabled Life Suite. wonder what that would've been like

SORRY FOR LATE REPLY BUT I JUST READ THIS AND AGREE WITH IT 100%

BRIAN DID THINGS WITH SYNTHESIZERS THAT NO ONE HAS DONE SINCE.

IF HE EVER MADE LOVE YOU 2 IT WOULD BE THE A GREAT HIT AMONG DMT ALIENS.

To people who think this music is 'overrated' or 'not that good' you're all insane. This piece is incredible. It's a fully realized version of what he was trying to accomplish in Smile and (here comes the shocker) THE SONGWRITING IS JUST AS GOOD :O

PUT ANY OF THESE SEGMENTS (songwriting, not lyrics) ON THE SMILE OUTTAKES AND NONE OF YOU WOULD BAT AN EYE.

Anyway...

This suite is spiritual, and ADULT. I emphasize the last bit because Brian actually FINISHED IT and made it work rather than getting stoned and leaving behind a glimpse of perfection requiring the listener to fill in the gaps.

HERE'S MY LISTENING EXPERIENCE WITH THE SECTIONS:

The beginning...spiritual water wanderings....the bass comes in a with heavy RUMPH on the beginning of each measure. It's the heartbeat of the river. The melody overtop is the ripples of the waves, the lillies, the birds and fish. Go for a swim! RUMPH ba ba ba, ba ba ba, RUMPH ba ba ba, ba ba ba.... stop comparing it to smile and let the bass grab your soul and drown you in his weird majestic watery sounds.

Then we go to the old west/country theme. Again, the bass sets it in motion. Recognize the rhythm of the bass? California girls. And a billion other American songs. Brian shows how certain nuances in music travel across generations.  Here was have the old frontier rhythm (which goes back to Bach as the great Brian has said).  We got a yippy yi yay cowboy thing going on. "But wait, this isn't heroes and villains' yeah NO sh*t it's not a full song it's part of a larger thematic image and guess what the songwriting is GREAT BECAUSE IT'S BRIAN WILSON. Eugene Landy couldn't possibly write sh*t like this so dont give him credit.

Cherokee- trade (TRADE!) cartoon element with the coil noise and such...classic Brian...

Then we go to first 'big river' section.

Again we have a RUMPH 'and the great big river' ....same idea...but more complete. I listened and I WAS THE LITTLE MAN, AND BOY DID I UNDERSTAND that some things in life you dont have power over. This is an adult message that makes part of the music so brilliant.

This song is incredibly trippy. There's a whole 'hero's journey' thing going on, various forces of good and evil...and when the harmonies hit you know this music was composed by a sheer genius who had special access to a realm of divine musical beauty and scope.

Rain dance good, end of rain section BEAUTIFUL SWEET GRAND BRIAN WILSON music please enjoy this people, he made it for you to enjoy! It's so majestic. The river is deep and wide. Grandiose metaphors all over. Incredible and trippy.

Night bloomin is cool and perfectly wonderful music.

The end (recall to 2nd river section) is beautiful and circular...the song doesn't really 'end' the river goes on and on and he's painted a few pictures for you to witness life along the Rio Grande.

This is a beautiful and incredible piece of music that deserves to go down as an all-time great in the Brian Wilson catalog and the cultural history of the United States.

*And don't tell me Landy had too much influence he allegedly wanted to make it a family suite. Also just LISTEN TO THE MUSIC it's Brian through and through. Don't give Landy that kind of credit.