Sunflower/Surf's Up

The Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surf's Up

Sunflower/Surf's Up
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Artist: The Beach Boys
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-07-18
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
  1. Slip on Through - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
  2. This Whole World - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
  3. Add Some Music to Your Day - The Beach Boys, Knott, Joe
  4. Got to Know the Woman - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
  5. Deirdre - The Beach Boys, Johnston, Bruce
  6. It's About Time - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
  7. Tears in the Morning - The Beach Boys, Johnston, Bruce
  8. All I Wanna Do - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
  9. Forever - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Dennis [1]
  10. Our Sweet Love - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
  11. At My Window - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
  12. Cool, Cool Water - The Beach Boys, Love, Mike
  13. Don't Go Near the Water - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
  14. Long Promised Road - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Carl [1]
  15. Take a Load off Your Feet - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
  16. Disney Girls 1957"
  17. Student Demonstration Time - The Beach Boys, Leiber, Jerry
  18. Feel Flows - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Carl [1]
  19. Lookin' at Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) - The Beach Boys, Jardine, Alan
  20. A Day in the Life of a Tree - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
  21. 'Til I Die - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian
  22. Surf's Up - The Beach Boys, Wilson, Brian

Free Music Notes for Sunflower/Surf's Up

Free Music Review: A Post-Brian Twofer to Die For
Hit: 5 Stars

Finally, as Capitol buddies-up the Beach Boys catalogue for re-release, a twofer that, for the most part, matches up to the band's best early work.

"Sunflower" has a load of pop gems - democratically written and performed by the band's various members and "Surf's Up" - thanks in large part to Brian's album-ending contributions ('Til I Die & the title track) ranks as one of the Beach Boys most artistic and poignant releases ever.

Littered with more-than-listenable music over the course of the disc, Beach Boys fanatics have known about these two albums for years. With awesome sound and neat packaging, this is a great twofer for anyone curious about the Boys' best work minus Bian's domination.

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After an acrimonious split with their original record label at the end of the 1960s, the Beach Boys moved over to Warner Bros., ostensibly to capitalize on their phenomenal early successes. But the move also coincided with band founder/creative genius Brian Wilson's burgeoning health problems and subsequent artistic abdication. That the boys were able to come up with what remain two of their more interesting albums is an enduring testament to the band's willpower. Sunflower, originally released in 1970, was a drastically revamped version of an unreleased album called Landlocked, and has an upbeat consistency that both built on the band's vocal strengths and somehow overcame schmaltzy pop and even the embarrassing, halting espanole of "At My Window." Perhaps the album's greatest revelation is the brief flowering of Dennis Wilson as a writing and singing talent, especially on the lovely "Forever." With Dennis largely succumbing to older brother Brian's demons, '71's Surf's Up is marred by cloddish efforts at agit-prop hipsterism (Mike Love's "Student Demonstration Time") and a nascent environmentalism that ranges from the na?ve ("Don't Go Near the Water") to the bizarre ("A Day in the Life of a Tree"). Carl Wilson rescues the collection somewhat with "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows," but the album's twin jewels are both salvaged Brian Wilson efforts--the title track was one of the centerpieces of the unreleased Smile (cowritten by lyricist Van Dyke Parks and here given that album's "Child Is Father to the Man" as a glorious coda), while "Til I Die" hails from the scrapped Landlocked and remains one of Brian's most hauntingly introspective works. Both albums have been remastered on a single disc and include new liner notes by Wilson biographer Timothy White. --Jerry McCulley

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