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Friends/20-20 (Remaster) (CD)

By: The Beach Boys (Artist)

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The Beach Boys Artist Snapshot:

Admired for both their infectious surfer music and their sophisticated, multi-tracked pop productions, the Beach Boys created a lasting impression on popular music through their complex harmonies and Brian Wilson's genius for composition and arrangement. Their 1966 album, PET SOUNDS, is a baroque/psychedelic-pop masterpiece that easily ranks among the most influential albums of the rock era. Brian's emotional difficulties eventually prevented him from performing, but his brothers and buddies carried on without him, singing his songs and spreading that California sunshine all over the world. In 1999, Brian launched a solo world tour, showcasing his Beach Boys compositions, and has continued to perform live as well.

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DISC 1 for Friends/20-20 (Remaster) (CD) Album By The Beach Boys (Artist)
1   Meant For You
2   Friends
3   Wake The World
4   Be Here In The Mornin'
5   When A Man Needs A Woman
6   Passing By
7   Anna Lee, The Healer
8   Little Bird
9   Be Still
10   Busy Doin' Nothin'
11   Diamond Head
12   Transcendental Meditation
13   Do It Again
14   I Can Hear Music
15   Bluebirds Over The Mountain
16   Be With Me
17   All I Want To Do
18   Nearest Faraway Place, The
19   Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
20   I Went To Sleep
21   Time To Get Alone
22   Never Learn Not To Love
23   Our Prayer
24   Cabinessence
25   Break Away - (bonus track)
26   Celebrate The News - (bonus track)
27   We're Together Again - (bonus track)
28   Walk On By - (bonus track)
29   Old Folks Home / Ol' Man River - (bonus track)
 

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Review

Q (6/01, pp.126-7) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...FRIENDS is 1968's quiet masterpiece and Brian's favorite, while, 20-20 is a hodge-podge which astonishingly revives SMILE's 'Cabinessence'..."

Title Note

2 LPs on 1 CD: FRIENDS (1968)/20-20 (1969).

Includes liner notes by Brian Wilson and David Leaf.

Digitally remastered using HDCD technology.

Utterly ignored at the time of their release, the Beach Boys' final two albums for Capitol Records, 1968's FRIENDS and 1969's 20/20, are now recognized as minor masterpieces. FRIENDS is, in modern terms, the Beach Boys' chill-out album, their first release with none of the R&B-laced rockers preferred by Mike Love. The 12 brief tracks (nearly half of them don't even hit the two-minute mark) are deeply influenced by the group's newfound interest in spirituality, with Dennis Wilson's "Little Bird" and "Be Still" among the peaceful highlights. The two key tracks are "Busy Doin' Nothin'," a peculiar bossa nova with some of Brian Wilson's oddest lyrics, and "Diamond Head," a temporary return to the pictorial soundscapes of SMILE. The more varied 20/20 goes FRIENDS one better by ending with the spine-tingling wordless a cappella exercise "Our Prayer" and the glorious "Cabinessence," two re-recordings of SMILE outtakes. Of the new material, the hit single "Do It Again," the glorious "I Can Hear Music," and Bruce Johnston's instrumental homage to Brian "The Nearest Faraway Place" are the best, and the genuinely spooky "Never Learn Not To Love," Dennis' slightly rewritten cover of "Cease To Exist" by his soon-to-be-infamous buddy Charles Manson, is the most notorious.

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