Rating: 2/5
Review:
Oh, dear...
I have loved the Beach Boys for half a century and more, but
this really is stretching my loyalty.
It's a collection of outtakes, rejected takes and odd bits of banter
from 1961-2 before the band signed with Capitol Records; nine songs are represented
here, over 63 tracks. That's seven, yes
seven, versions of each track on average including the master of each. They're the sort of thing it might be
interesting to hear once (and certainly not all together) but as an album
release? Come on!
Frankly, there's an air of desperation about this release,
especially after the pretty poor Live In Chicago 1965 from last year. That was made into a commercial album purely
for copyright reasons, and one wonders whether the same applies here. Certainly, I
can't think of any other plausible reason for making this commercially
available in this form. Serious
completists may want to have it in their collections, but my advice to anyone
else is just to get out your old Beach Boys albums and give this a miss.
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