The Beach Boys 4 - The Second Disc

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Carly Simon, Charlie Parker, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Sid and Marty Krofft, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, The Rave-Ups

Surfin’ Is The Only Life: Omnivore Collects The Beach Boys’ Earliest Recordings, Unreleased Tracks

June 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 13 Comments

Before Pet Sounds, before SMiLE, heck, before “Surfin’ USA,” The Beach Boys were a scrappy family band with little but big dreams and tight harmonies. Things happened quickly for brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine; in September 1961, the quintet first captured their voices together, and by the following May, they had signed a seven-year contract with major Capitol Records. In the few months in between, The Beach Boys recorded nine songs including “Surfin’,” “Surfin’ Safari” and “Surfer Girl” for local music entrepreneurs Hite…

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Review: The Beach Boys, “Pet Sounds 50”

June 13, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

50 years have passed since the original release of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, yet it still stands alone in the rock canon. The talents of Brian Wilson, Tony Asher, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Bruce Johnston coalesced in one unforgettable place and time to create music’s most exquisite realization of both the exultant joy and beautiful melancholy of adolescence. It took until the compact disc era for Pet Sounds to be fully appreciated; the album wasn’t certified platinum until early 2000, and only rose as far as…

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Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach Boys’ landmark 1966 album Pet Sounds is turning 50, and Capitol/UMe is celebrating…

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Made For These Times: TRACK LISTING REVEALED For The Beach Boys ‘ “Pet Sounds 50”

March 23, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 19 Comments

On June 10, Capitol/UMe will reissue The Beach Boys’ 1966 masterwork Pet Sounds in a variety of formats to mark its 50th anniversary. If you haven’t read our previous story on the upcoming 4-CD/1-Blu-ray box set and more, do not pass go, do not collect $200…just go right here! Now, without further ado, here’s the complete, newly-confirmed track listing and pre-order links for the various iterations of Pet Sounds 50! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Capitol/UMe, 2016) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon…

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice: “Pet Sounds” 50th Anniversary Celebrated in June With Multiple Editions Including 4 CD/Blu-ray Box Set

March 18, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 18 Comments

On May 16, 1966, one of the most acclaimed albums in pop/rock history was released: The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of this landmark album and it is being commemorated in several ways. Brian Wilson is embarking on a concert tour in a little under a week in which he and his band will play the album in its entirety for what’s being billed as the last time. And it has just been revealed that a new box set is due to be released on June 10 by Capitol/UMe…

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You’re Welcome: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie Curates Mix Featuring Beach Boys, Byrds, Dion, More

January 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Among Ace Records’ recent releases is a collection that just might make you scream – make that “Primal Scream” – with elation. Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Morning Comin’ Down is a mix CD curated by Primal Scream founder/Jesus and Mary Chain drummer. The Glasgow-born singer/songwriter/musician has selected 20 of his favorite tracks for Ace, and the result is a set that not only illuminates Gillespie’s influences as an artist but stands on its own with thematic and sonic coherence. In Gillespie’s remarkable musical world, soundtracks sit alongside haunting psychedelia, California pop, Texas…

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Dion, John Barry, Kris Kristofferson, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Monkees, Various Artists

Fun, Fun, Fun: Two Unreleased Beach Boys Concerts from 1965 Released from the Vaults

December 14, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 23 Comments

Over the past several years since copyright laws were changed in the EU, it has become a tradition at the end of the year for record labels to release “copyright extension” releases featuring unreleased material from their biggest artists to protect their interests in said material. Hot off the heels of a compilation of Motown unreleased material from 1965 comes another release in this vein from a group who has made this a yearly tradition: The Beach Boys. This last Friday, Capitol put up quietly (as is the norm with these releases) on all…

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A Culture Factory Christmas: Label Reissues Beach Boys, James Brown, “Charlie Brown” and…Wookiees!

November 24, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 12 Comments

Beach Boys Christmas Album Culture Factory

The Culture Factory label, which reissues classic albums in limited edition mini-LP replica sleeves, has a trio of Christmas titles due this Friday likely to make spirits bright. The label has already released Vince Guaraldi’s oft-reissued soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas as an exclusive release for retailer FYE. It’s joined this week by straight reissues (no bonus material) of The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album and James Brown’s Soulful Christmas at general retail, as well as an Amazon-exclusive reissue of Meco’s Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album. All titles…

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Release Round-Up: Week of November 20

November 20, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Beach Boys Party Uncovered and Unplugged

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up which continues this autumn’s tradition of having each week packed with box sets from heavy hitters – in this case, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Queen, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, and they’re still not all! Plus: CD and vinyl reissues, anthologies, and much more! The Beach Boys, Beach Boys’ Party: Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the original 1965 Beach Boys Party! album as remixed in original, pre-overdubbed form and then…

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Carly Simon, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jo Jo Gunne, John Coltrane, Lee Michaels, Love, Queen, Roger Waters, The Beach Boys, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Timi Yuro, Weather Report

Let’s Get This Party Rolling: Capitol Readies “Beach Boys’ Party! Uncovered and Unplugged

October 22, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Following the release of The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) earlier in the year, Capitol Records was eager to make yet more Beach Boys music available for the 1965 holiday season. The label urged Brian and the Boys into the studio to record Beach Boys’ Party!, an album filled with loose versions of familiar favorites, complete with laughter and background talk. Now, that LP filled with freewheeling good vibrations is getting a surprise 2-CD deluxe, expanded edition to mark its 50th anniversary. Beach Boys’ Party! Uncovered and Unplugged is…

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Heaven: Iconoclassic Reissues Carl Wilson’s Solo Debut, Analogue Continues Beach Boys On SACD

September 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 12 Comments

Summer may now be over, but a number of Beach Boys-related releases aim to keep the summer alive. Our very own Second Disc Records label teamed with Real Gone Music in September for a newly remastered and expanded reissue of Ricci Martin’s Beached, the all-star album recorded by Dean Martin’s son Ricci with co-producers Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche. Now, Iconoclassic Records has announced next week’s first-ever U.S. CD reissue of Carl’s 1981 eponymous solo debut. And if that’s not enough, Analogue Productions has recently gotten its second wave of SACD releases…

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Keepin’ The Summer Alive: Ricci Martin’s “Beached” ARRIVES TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

September 10, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

“I was living up the street from Carl Wilson and his wife Annie,” Ricci Martin told me in July of this year. “I was over his house, playing his piano. And Carl said, ‘God, I really like that! Did you write that?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I wrote that!’ And he said, ‘How would you like to record that?’ And I said, ‘Of course, absolutely!’” The song Ricci was playing was “Stop, Look Around,” a shimmering slice of Southern California pop that would open his 1977 Epic Records album Beached. Carl Wilson…

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America, Carl Wilson, Chicago, Dennis Wilson, Ricci Martin, The Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks

Review: Various Artists, “Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson”

August 3, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The title of Ace Records’ recent collection is Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson, after one of those famous Wilson songs off The Beach Boys’ 1966 Pet Sounds. But the fact of the matter is – as this enjoyably diverse set proves over the course of its 25 tracks – Brian Wilson’s music is not only here today, but will be here for many tomorrows. Unlike Ace’s 2003 volume Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions, this anthology concentrates on Brian as songwriter. But there are a couple of cuts here with…

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Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Carmen McRae, Hugo Montenegro, Jan and Dean, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens, Three Dog Night, Various Artists

Catch a Wave! Second Disc Records Expands Ricci Martin’s All-Star “Beached” Featuring Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chicago Horns and More

July 21, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you’ve never heard? Well, they actually did! And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary “King of Cool” Dean Martin (and younger brother of Dino, Desi and Billy’s Dean-Paul Martin!), got…

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Ace Collects Good Vibrations On “Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson”

May 22, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

2015 has been a banner year for Brian Wilson. The Beach Boys legend has already released a new album, is currently preparing for a tour with Searching for Sugar Man cult hero Rodriguez, and will next month see the full release in theatres of his biopic Love and Mercy. Ace Records is joining the celebration with the June 29 U.K. release (July 10 in the U.S.) of Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson. One of Ace’s first releases in its Songwriters and Producers Series was 2003’s Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson…

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Bobby Vee, Brian Wilson, Bruce and Terry, Carmen McRae, Gary Usher, Hugo Montenegro, Jay and the Americans, Nick DeCaro, The Beach Boys, The Tokens

Let’s Go Away For Awhile: The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” Comes To Blu-ray Audio

February 18, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

“I figure no one is educated musically ‘til they’ve heard [Pet Sounds],” Paul McCartney once said of The Beach Boys’ classic, released 45 years and one week ago on May 16, 1966. George Martin concurred: “Without Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper wouldn’t have happened.” Brian Wilson poured his musical heart into the album’s thirteen tracks; in less than thirty-five minutes, he delivered an entire spectrum of emotions in a song cycle of striking beauty and sensitivity. Pet Sounds may initially have been conceived by Wilson as an answer to The Beatles’ Rubber Soul,…

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Review: Chicago, “XXXIV: Live in ’75”

February 17, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

When they took the stage at Largo, Maryland’s Capital Centre in June, 1975, nostalgia was foremost on the minds of the members of Chicago. Early in the set preserved by Rhino on Chicago XXXIV: Live in ’75, comments are made from the stage with a great deal of surprise: “[Here’s] another blast from the past!” “Nostalgia is in nowadays.” “We would like to be nostalgic.” Would the Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow of 1975 been able to conceive that they’d be playing the very same songs in 2015 – a…

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The Beach Boys’ New Digital “Copyright Collections” Offer 1964 Rarities, Two Complete Concerts

December 3, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 24 Comments

With another year rapidly drawing to a close, many fans were wondering if 2014 would bring another round of “copyright extension collections,” i.e. releases designed to circumvent recent European Union copyright law. The answer, of course, is “yes.” To greatly simplify, E.U. law now holds that a recording is protected for 75 years under copyright in the E.U. (the period previously was 50 years) but only if that recording has been released. As a result of this change in law, the past couple of years have seen collections issuing rarities from…

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Five Sundazed Singles to Rock Your Record Store Day

March 20, 2014 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBogYK_40U] It’s like NFL draft day for music geeks*! Today’s the big announcement of the full Record Store Day 2014 exclusives list, to kick off with a press conference at Los Angeles’ Amoeba Music later today. While we’re positive there are some great surprises in store, a number of our favorite labels have already spilled the beans on their spreads for April 19. Sundazed Music, purveyors of great vintage rock on CD and vinyl, have five 45 RPM singles releasing on the big day, including big hits and rare rockin’ sides from…

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Link Wray, Ray Lanham, The Beach Boys, The Standells, The Who, Vinyl

Starbucks Goes Hip and Jazzy On Venti Release Slate

February 17, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

If you’re looking for a little music to go with your grande toffee nut latte, Starbucks has recently unveiled a number of new audio offerings to kick off 2014. In addition to its annual Sweetheart disc – an anthology of new(ish) artists playing old(ish) love songs including, this year, songs by John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Harry Nilsson – the coffee giant has curated a selection of Music for Little Hipsters, sets dedicated to Women of Jazz and When Jazz Meets Guitar, and an Opus Collection volume for the one and only…

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Lena Horne, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, The Beach Boys

The Beatles and The Beach Boys Beat The Boots On “The Big Beat 1963” and “Bootleg Recordings”

December 17, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

1963 was a landmark year for the favorite sons of Hawthorne, California. During those twelve months, The Beach Boys released three Top 10 studio albums (Surfin’ USA, Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe) and launched three Top 10 singles (“Surfin’ USA,” “Surfer Girl,” and “Be True to Your School”). Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, the outgoing David Marks and returning Al Jardine were perfecting their harmony-laden brand of surf rock and setting the stage for the next step in the band’s evolution. Within one year, The Beach Boys’ music…

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“Lethal Weapon” Box, “Superman Returns” and More Due from La-La Land

December 4, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

La-La Land never fails to amaze when it comes to Black Friday. The soundtrack label often saves some of its biggest and highest-profile titles for announcements on the shopping weekend (see 2010, 2011 and 2012) – and this year is no different, with two premiere releases of acclaimed scores, an expanded edition of a superhero sequel and a box set devoted to one of the biggest action film franchises of all time. First up: call them slobs, call them jerks, call them gross – just don’t call them when you’re in trouble!…

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Review: The Beach Boys, “Made in California”

August 27, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

If everybody had an ocean… Rarely have five simple words in pop music held such promise. The message at the time was an invitation squarely aimed at teens: “If everybody had an ocean, across the USA/Then everybody’d be surfin’ like Califor-ni-a…” But ultimately, the promise and California dream embodied by Hawthorne, CA’s native sons came to mean so much more than mere surfin’. The sound of The Beach Boys – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine, David Marks, Bruce Johnston, Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar – has crossed…

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