Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Surfin' U.S.A. - (previously unreleased, demo)
2. Little Surfer Girl - (previously unreleased)
3. Surfin' - (previously unreleased, rehearsal)
4. Surfin'
5. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring - (previously unreleased, demo)
6. Surfin' Safari
7. 409
8. Punchline - (previously unreleased)
9. Surfin' U.S.A.
10. Shut Down
11. Surfer Girl
12. Little Deuce Coupe
13. In My Room
14. Catch a Wave
15. Surfer Moon, The
16. Be True to Your School
17. Spirit of America
18. Little Saint Nick - (45 version)
19. Things We Did Last Summer - (previously unreleased)
20. Fun, Fun, Fun
21. Don't Worry Baby
22. Why Do Fools Fall in Love
23. Warmth of the Sun, The
24. I Get Around
25. All Summer Long
26. Little Honda
27. Wendy
28. Don't Back Down
29. Do You Wanna Dance
30. When I Grow up (To Be a Man)
31. Dance, Dance, Dance
32. Please Let Me Wonder
33. She Knows Me Too Well
34. Radio Station Jingles - (previously unreleased)
35. Concert Promo / Hushabye - (previously unreleased, live)
DISC 2:
1. California Girls
2. Help Me Rhonda
3. Then I Kissed Her
4. And Your Dream Comes True
5. Little Girl I Once Knew, The - (45 version)
6. Barbara Ann - (45 version)
7. Ruby Baby - (previously unreleased, party LP outtake)
8. Koma - (previously unreleased, radio promo spot)
9. Sloop John B
10. Wouldn't It Be Nice
11. You Still Believe in Me
12. God Only Knows
13. Hang on to Your Ego - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
14. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
15. Pet Sounds
16. Caroline, No
17. Good Vibrations - (45 version)
18. Our Prayer - (previously unreleased)
19. Heroes and Villains - (alternate version)
20. Heroes and Villains - (previously unreleased, sections)
21. Wonderful - (previously unreleased)
22. Cabinessence
23. Wind Chimes - (previously unreleased)
24. Heroes and Villians - (previously unreleased, intro)
25. Do You Like Worms - (previously unreleased)
26. Vegetables - (previously unreleased)
27. I Love to Say da Da - (previously unreleased)
28. Surf's Up - (previously unreleased)
29. With Me Tonight
DISC 3:
1. Heroes and Villains - (45 version)
2. Darlin'
3. Wild Honey
4. Let the Wind Blow
5. Can't Wait Too Long - (previously unreleased)
6. Cool Cool Water - (previously unreleased)
7. Meant For You
8. Friends
9. Little Bird
10. Busy Doin' Nothin'
11. Do It Again
12. I Can Hear Music
13. I Went to Sleep
14. Time to Get Alone
15. Breakaway
16. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) - (45 version)
17. San Miguel
18. Games Two Can Play - (previously unreleased)
19. I Just Got My Pay - (previously unreleased)
20. This Whole World
21. Add Some Music
22. Forever
23. Our Sweet Love
24. H.E.L.P. Is on the Way - (previously unreleased)
25. 4th of July - (previously unreleased)
26. Long Promised Road
27. Disney Girls
28. Surf's Up
29. Til I Die
DISC 4:
1. Sail on Sailor
2. California
3. Trader
4. Funky Pretty
5. Fairy Tale Music
6. You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone - (previously unreleased)
7. Marcella
8. All This Is That
9. Rock and Roll Music
10. It's OK
11. Had to Phone Ya
12. That Same Song
13. It's Over Now - (previously unreleased)
14. Still I Dream of It - (previously unreleased)
15. Let Us Go on This Way
16. Night Was So Young, The
17. I'll Bet He's Nice
18. Airplane
19. Come Go With Me
20. Our Team - (previously unreleased)
21. Baby Blue
22. Good Timin'
23. Goin' On
24. Getcha Back
25. Kokomo
DISC 5:
1. In My Room - (previously unreleased, demo)
2. Radio Spot #1 - (previously unreleased)
3. I Get Around - (previously unreleased, backing track)
4. Radio Spot #2 - (previously unreleased)
5. Dance, Dance, Dance - (previously unreleased, tracking session)
6. Hang on to Your Ego - (previously unreleased, session excerpt)
7. God Only Knows - (previously unreleased, tracking session)
8. Good Vibrations - (previously unreleased, session excerpt)
9. Heroes and Villians - (previously unreleased, backing track)
10. Cabinessence - (previously unreleased, backing track)
11. Surf's Up - (previously unreleased, backing track)
12. Radio Spot #3 - (previously unreleased)
13. All Summer Long - (previously unreleased, vocals)
14. Wendy - (previously unreleased, vocals)
15. Hushabye - (previously unreleased, vocals)
16. When I Grow up (To Be a Man) - (previously unreleased, vocals)
17. Wouldn't It Be Nice - (previously unreleased, vocals)
18. California Girls - (previously unreleased, vocals)
19. Radio Spot #4 - (previously unreleased)
20. Concert Intro / Surfin' U.S.A. - (previously unreleased, 1964 live version)
21. Surfer Girl - (previously unreleased, 1964 live version)
22. Be True to Your School - (previously unreleased, 1964 live version)
23. Good Vibrations - (previously unreleased, 1966 live version)
24. Surfer Girl - (previously unreleased, 1967 live version)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Barney Kessel, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Tommy Tedesco | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This 5-CD box set contains 142 tracks with complete chart information and an introduction by Brian Wilson. Also included is a 60-page color booklet with extensive liner notes and a commemorative Beach Boys 30th Anniversary water decal. Four of the five discs are packaged in jewel boxes. The fifth comes in a special bootleg wrapping. The "bootleg" disc is composed entirely of previously-unreleased material. All songs originally released in mono are presented in their original form.
The Beach Boys: Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston.
Additional personnel includes: Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco, Jerry Cole, Barney Kessel, Billy Strange (guitar); Tommy Morgan (harmonica); Carl Fortina, Frank Marocco (accordion); Steve Douglas, Jay Migliori, Roy Caton, Lou Blackburn (horns); Al De Lory, Don Randi, Leon Russell (piano); Ray Pohlman, Carole Kaye, Lyle Ritz, Julius Wechter, Bill Pitman (bass); Hal Blaine (drums); Gene Estes, Frank Capp, Jim Gordon (percussion); The Sid Sharpe Strings.
Producers include: The Beach Boys, Hite Morgan, Dorinda Morgan, Nick Venet, Murry Wilson, Brian Wilson.
Compilation producers: Mark Linett, David Leaf, Andy Paley.
Engineers include: Larry Levine, Dave Hassinger, Armen Steiner.
Recorded between 1961 & 1988. Includes liner notes by David Leaf.
From a previously unreleased 1961 recording of their first single "Surfin" to their 1988 #1, "Kokomo," GOOD VIBRATIONS collects everything anyone would want to hear by The Beach Boys. The first disc in this 5-disc set collects the sun and surf hits like "Barbara Ann" and "Fun, Fun, Fun" that summed up the mythical California dream for generations of Americans. While The Beach Boys certainly created some wonderful rock and roll in their 1962-1966 heyday, it's for the brilliant music on discs two and three that they have become rock legends.
These two CDs capture Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson at the peak of his powers, creating still-astounding singles like "Good Vibrations" and the incomparable, otherworldly PET SOUNDS album. One of the real highlights of GOOD VIBRATIONS is that it features many of the fascinating, previously unreleased songs recorded for the aborted SMILE--the legendary unreleased album that allegedly drove Brian Wilson to his 1967 nervous breakdown. Though The Beach Boys were never quite the same after SMILE, this near-perfect box set contains plenty of songs that prove there was much more to the band than Brian Wilson's fragile genius.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good
Q (10/01/1993)
...this is the first collection to give shape to the band's entire career. It's still easy to be awed by the warm vocal massage and impeccable studio care....Collectors alone will drool at the slew of rarities... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/23/1993)
10 Stars - Classic - ...finally, all the bases that make up the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys story have been covered....a heart-fluttering insight into just what made Brian Wilson tick....GOOD VIBRATIONS tells you everything you need to know about the Beach Boys...
NME (07/10/1993)
...There's plenty of buffs...with lots of out-takes, alternate version, radio commercials and rare recordings....the most wonderful pop group of all time; in practice, the most beautifully flawed and poignantly uneasy...
Melody Maker (07/31/1993)
...the awe-inspiring music in this collection leaves the listener with a bittersweet taste, wondering what might have been...
Musician (09/01/1993)
Five Stars - Classic - ...a collection of essential and enduring music that has aged with a grace denied to its creators....puts the hits in a broader context, capturing the group's powerful ascent and painful fall...
Rolling Stone (08/19/1993)
Ranked #1 in the Village Voice's list of the 10 Best Reissues Of 1993.
Village Voice (03/01/1994)
...this is the first collection to give shape to the band's entire career. It's still easy to be awed by the warm vocal massage and impeccable studio care....Collectors alone will drool at the slew of rarities... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (07/23/1993)
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