Grab it while you can
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/686326271

Okay, so what is this supposed to be?

Slightly off topic:
I was listening to this on apple music and it had a link to The Many Moods Of Murry Wilson which I'd never listened to before, so i listened and the whole thing is instrumental? I always assumed it was him singing on it...was he not a singer? You'd think he'd be a good singer, just genetically since this 3 kids were all incredible singers...

Also, did he expect the Many Moods album to sell? An instrumental album? I know tastes were different back then but, still...

The only recorded example of Murry singing that I know of is the infamous Help Me Rhonda vocal session, and judging by that, it's a good thing he made an instrumental album. (Allegedly, he contributed some backing vocals on Friends, but I don't really hear them.)
Many Moods could have sold - even in the heady days of 1967 there was a market for easy listening music, since older people were buying records too. Maybe it just didn't sell because it's not a very good record.

Possibly, yes, but in that same year (2015) they put out 2 CD's worth of Party! session material. So I just wonder what makes three mockery versions of Laugh At Me more saleable than something like the backing track of The Little Girl I Once Knew, or Sandy, a song that is still officially unreleased in its original form.

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It's weird how BRI / Capitol / Universal let stuff like this get released and do nothing about it, while themselves couldn't be bothered to release a single note from the Summer Days sessions in 2015.

I can't believe they finally nominated Todd R.

Pet Sounds in September 2000 at the age of 20. It was the 1999 mono/stereo edition with Brad Elliott's liner notes. I really loved it.

Next thing I bought was Smiley Smile/Wild Honey in February next year. I was like WTF. It also made me realise the Beach Boys were so much more than the early hits and Pet Sounds.

Then I bought Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long in April, bu it was my fourth BBs purchase, the GV box set in July that really made me a fan. I still think that set is the greatest Beach Boys release ever and the best introduction to any newcomers.

1. Pet Sounds
2. Friends
3. Smiley Smile
4. The SMiLE Sessions
5. Surf's Up
6. Pacific Ocean Blue
7. The Beach Boys Love You
8. The Beach Boys Today!
9. Sunflower
10. 20/20

1. Surf's Up
2. Heroes and Villains
3. 'Til I Die
4. Can't Wait Too Long
5. Cabinessence
6. Caroline, No
7. Don't Worry Baby
8. Good Vibrations
9. Still I Dream Of It
10. God Only Knows

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He also wrote a song called Mike's Love Xexagon.

Probably the most insignificant question of the year, but why are some of the back covers of the 60s Beach Boys albums reprinted in such an awful quality in the booklet of virtually every CD reissue? For an example, this is what the original back cover of Shut Down Vol. 2 looks like, and this is how it looks like in the booklet of the 2001 two-fer. I checked some other reissues and almost all of them have these ugly, darkened pictures, even Japanese ones, though Japanese usually pay meticulous attention to the artwork of their CD releases.

It seems as though right now YouTube is indeed the best place to get a good scope of what's out there. All the old blogs seem to be gone/dead. But man,  the early 2000's were a great time for a fan new to bootlegs like I was. Those blogs were a God send.

There used to be a Yahoo group called BBMP3, members had access to FTP servers and tons of bootlegs (some folks may remember). And, wow, listening to all 18 discs of the Dumb Angel Rarities collection, for me as a relative newbie, that was like a complete alternate history of my favourite band. Of course, many of those tracks have been released officially since then, but in 2002 the market wasn't exactly saturated with archival Beach Boys releases as it is today. And I think Dumb Angel Rarities still has quite a lot of interesting officially unreleased stuff for the curious: Stevie, Carry Me Home, the Adult Child album, Landlocked, mid-70s BW demos... everything from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I hope it'll be titled '1968 - When The Two Get Together Oh Oh Ho Ho Oh Ho'

Would be a perfect compilation without California Dreamin' on it. Also, this one has the best sounding Surf's Up I've heard on CD.

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Could someone tell me the exact release date of the UK CD issue of American Spring (the one that was released on See For Miles Records as Spring...Plus)? I know the year is 1989, but for the life of me I can't find a release date, the month at least, anywhere on the web. Any help would be apppreciated.

 

Quite an unusual list with some surprising entries (and a few factual errors in the song descriptions). I never thought anything off Sweet Insanity would ever appear on a best of Brian Wilson list. www.popmatters.com/post/193278-the-12-best-brian-wilson-songs/

Here. Quite a predictable list, also seems like a straight copy of the list they compiled in 2012.

1966 I guess, and for me it sounds like a Brian solo piece, with all vocal tracks done by him. Just my two cents.

Todd fans: Global and No Pier pressure are both scheduled for release on April 7th. If you got them both at the same time Which would you listen to first? It would be Todd for me.

Todd for me as well. With a new Brian album, you more or less know what kind of music to expect. With Todd, you never can tell: it could be either one of the best albums of the year, or a total disaster. He's always been an unpredictable guy, but that's why I like him!

They became successful.