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Track Listing
1. Surfin' U.S.A. - (demo version)
2. Little Surfer Girl
3. Surfin' - (rehearsal)
4. Surfin'
5. Their Hearts Were Full - (demo)
6. Surfin' Safari
7. 409
8. Punchline
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 RPM)
19. Things We Did Last Summer
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
35. Concert Promo Hushabye - (live)
36. California Girls
37. Help Me Rhonda
38. Then I Kissed Her
39. And Your Dreams Come True
40. Little Girl I Once Knew, The - (45 version)
41. Barbara Ann - (45 version)
42. Ruby Baby - (Out Take)
43. Koma - (Radio promo spot)
44. Sloop John B
45. Wouldn't It Be Nice
46. You Still Believe in Me
47. God Only Knows
48. Hang on to Your Ego - (Alternate version)
49. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
50. Pet Sounds
51. Caroline No
52. Good Vibrations - (45 version)
53. Our Prayer
54. Heroes and Villians - (Alternate version)
55. Heroes and Villians (Sections)
56. Wonderful
57. Cabinessence
58. Wind Chimes
59. Heroes and Villians (Intro)
60. Do You Like Worms
61. Vegetables
62. I Love to Say da Da
63. Surf's Up
64. With Me Tonight
65. Heroes and Villians - (45 version)
66. Darlin'
67. Wild Honey
68. Let the Wind Blow
69. Can't Wait Too Long - (Alternate Version)
70. Cool Cool Water
71. Meant For You
72. Friends
73. Little Bird
74. Busy Doin' Nothin'
75. Do It Again
76. I Can Hear Music
77. I Went to Sleep
78. Time to Get Alone
79. Breakaway
80. Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) - (45 version)
81. San Miguel
82. Games Two Can Play
83. I Just Got My Pay
84. This Whole World
85. Add Some Music
86. Forever
87. Our Sweet Love
88. Help Is on the Way
89. 4th of July
90. Long Promised Road
91. Disney Girls
92. Surf's Up
93. Til I Die
94. Sail on Sailor
95. California
96. Trader
97. Funky Pretty
98. Fairy Tale Music
99. You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone
100. Marcella
101. All This Is That
102. Rock and Roll Music
103. It's OK
104. Had to Phone Ya
105. That Same Song
106. It's Over Now
107. Still I Dream of It
108. Let Us Go on This Way
109. Night Was So Young, The
110. I'll Bet He's Nice
111. Airplane
112. Come Go With Me
113. Our Team
114. Baby Blue
115. Good Timin'
116. Goin' On
117. Getcha Back
118. Kokomo
119. In My Room (bonus track - demo)
120. Radio Spot - (bonus track)
121. I Get Around (bonus track - track only)
122. Radio Spot - (bonus track)
123. Dance Dance Dance (bonus track - tracking session)
124. Hang on to Your Ego (bonus track - session)
125. God Only Knows (bonus track - tracking session)
126. Good Vibrations (bonus track - session)
127. Heroes and Villians (bonus track - track only)
128. Cabinessence (bonus track - track only)
129. Surf's Up (bonus track - track only)
130. Radio Spot - (bonus track)
131. All Summer Long (bonus track - vocal)
132. Wendy (bonus track - vocal)
133. Hushabye (bonus track - vocal)
134. When I Grow up to Be a Man (bonus track - vocal)
135. Wouldn't It Be Nice (bonus track - vocal)
136. California Girls (bonus track - vocal)
137. Radio Spot - (bonus track)
138. Concert Intro Surfin' U.S.A. (live, bonus track - live 1964)
139. Surfer Girl (live, bonus track - live 1964)
140. Be True to Your School (live, bonus track - live 1964)
141. Good Vibrations (live, bonus track - live 1966)
142. Surfer Girl (live, bonus track - Live in Hawaii Rehearsals 1967)
143. Bluebirds Over the Mountain - (bonus CD)
144. Tears in the Morning - (bonus CD)
145. Here Comes the Night - (bonus CD)
146. Lady Lynda - (bonus CD)
147. Sumahama - (bonus CD)
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.
The 2003 Japanese version features an additional sixth disc with five tracks.
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.
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good
Q (10/01/1991)
...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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