Life's A Beach and CITOP: What, Where, Why, How, and When?

[The Heartical Don]

This, friends, is a most sensitive topic. It has come to my attention that some people released several recordings of a certain group, and said recordings are, as we scientists say, in statu nascendi, so: not finalised.

Disclaimer: I, the Don, am not in the slightest interested in these recordings, and moreover, I wish that the above people would be given a strong whipping in public and on live TV for the despicable act described above.

For purely academical reasons, I would like to know something about the provenance of the recordings in question, and about their historical and entertainment value.

I am certainly not requiring anyone to send me an example of said recordings, and should someone announce him/herself at my front door, with such an unwanted example, my well-trained dog will perform a finely-tuned assault on that offender.

[Jason]

For what it's worth, they're basically Andrew Doe's timeline in audio form. And not pulled off too well. Errors all over. Shoddy packaging. Great music. Don't find it. Don't like it. Don't listen to it, lest ye be gutted, decapitated, castrated, and violated by the PTB.

[The Heartical Don]

For what it's worth, they're basically Andrew Doe's timeline in audio form. And not pulled off too well. Errors all over. Shoddy packaging. Great music. Don't find it. Don't like it. Don't listen to it, lest ye be gutted, decapitated, castrated, and violated by the PTB.

Hehe... nicely phrased! Of course I will abstain totally, just like I abstain from sex.

[Paulos]

I asked about Life's A Beach the other day and as Mr Moderator has said it's an attempt to put all Beach Boys music, be it sessions, unreleased songs and offically released songs, in a coherent timeline. From what AGD has confirmed the guy putting them out is using SOT, Dumb Angel and anything else he can lay his hands on. I'm really enjoying the series but I cannot vouch for how accurate the timeline is. As for shoddy packaging that's just unfair, I think the packaging is great!

DISCLAIMER

All the above is of course a lie as I would never listen to or download music of dubios origin nor would I print off the artwork and stack all the releases nicely together with my offical Beach Boys stuff.

[Jason]

I've been working on my own little "Life's a Beach" set for the better part of six years and it's been a bitch of a thing to put together, thanks to new bits of info and/or music coming out seemingly every day. The Life's a Beach set is very haphazard, very thrown together, no rhyme or reason. When I say I could do a better job, I mean it. And I did do a better job.

[Dunderhead]

Does anyone else feel like organizing your collection is a full time job

[Mikie]

If you have the SOT and Dumb Angel series, you already have the "Life's a Bitch" series. My first thoughts about the later are that there are holes in it. Good stuff missing that shoulda been included, i.e. the "I Do" sessions.

The guy who put his own impressive series together was/is Jason Pennick. The Beach Boys Complete - Deluxe Editions of each Beach Boys album/era. He hasn't put out a new one lately - I think he's up to the Party! album. Outstanding job on that.

[Jay]

A little birdy once told me that the Life's A Beach series is in mp3 only. Um..., no thank you. Think I'll pass 

[rogerlancelot]

A little birdy once told me that the Life's A Beach series is in mp3 only. Um..., no thank you. Think I'll pass 

You have learned well, young Jedi Master. 

[Jay]

Why did I just get an image of Arlo Guthrie at Woodstock, saying "I was rapping to the fuzz"?