Dumb Angel (Olorin Edition)

New Smile mix from Mujan. Always a decent way of kicking off the new year.

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Brian Wilson Sessions (FLAC)

Here's a lovely boxset from 1994 of Brian Wilson tidbits, mostly Landy-era. Some of these tracks aren't as great-sounding as you'd find on more recent boots (especially the case with Sweet Insanity), but this is worth having for anyone wanting to hear this stuff in flac.

Disc 1: Sweet Insanity + more Landy productions
Disc 2: Sweet Insanity outtakes
Disc 3: Outtakes (incl. alternate versions and Adult/Child tracks)
Disc 4: Demos + London '77 and LA '85 live tracks
Disc 5: Still I Dream of You: The Rare Works of Brian Wilson
Disc 6: Radio interview + more BW productions
Disc 7: 'Words and Music' promo CD + radio and TV interviews

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Brian: The Complete Productions

Happy holidays! Here's an attempt at a collection of Brian Wilson productions. I was mostly going off this nice list here. I tried for the best quality I could get (stereo used where it sounded good) - Pet Projects, The Big Beat 1963, Still I Dream of You, and the lovely Visions 2CD set were the main sources. Come to think of it, this is pretty much just a rip-off of Visions. Oh well.
Also, the "Guess I'm Dumb" used here is a stereo remix by runnersdialzero. It's amaaaazing.

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Disc 1:
01. The Honeys - Surfin' Down The Swanee River
02. The Honeys - Shoot The Curl
03. The Honeys - Pray For Surf
04. The Honeys - Hide Go Seek
05. The Honeys - Rabbit's Foot
06. The Honeys - The One You Can't Have
07. The Honeys - From Jimmy With Tears
08. The Honeys - Funny Boy
09. The Honeys - You Brought It All On Yourself
10. The Honeys - Make The Night A Little Longer
11. The Honeys - In The Still Of The Night
12. The Honeys - Raindrops
13. The Honeys - He's A Doll
14. The Honeys - The Love Of A Boy And Girl
15. The Honeys - I Can See Right Through You
16. The Honeys - Tonight You Belong To Me
17. The Honeys - Goodnight My Love
18. Brian and the Honeys - Marie
19. Kenny and the Cadets - Barbie
20. Kenny and the Cadets - What Is A Young Girl Made Of
21. Rachel and the Revolvers - The Revo-Lution
22. Rachel and the Revolvers - Number One
23. Bob and Sheri - The Surfer Moon
24. Bob and Sheri - Humpty Dumpty
25. Bob and Sheri - The Big Beat
26. Bob and Sheri - Ride Away
27. The Survivors - Pamela Jean
28. The Survivors - After The Game
29. Sharon Marie - Run-Around Lover
30. Sharon Marie - Summertime
31. Sharon Marie - Thinkin' 'Bout You Baby
32. Sharon Marie - Story Of My Life
33. Glen Campbell - Malibu Sunset
34. Tri-5 - Come And Get It
35. Tri-5 - Like Chop

urgh this is painful
Disc 2:
01. The Sunsets - My Surfin' Little Woodie
02. Ron Wilson - If It Can't Be You
03. The Castells - I Do
04. Gary Usher - My Only Alibi
05. Gary Usher - One Way Road To Love
06. Gary Usher - Sacramento
07. Gary Usher - That's The Way I Feel
08. Larry Denton - Endless Sleep
09. Paul Petersen - She Rides With Me
10. The Hondells - My Buddy Seat
11. Glen Campbell - Guess I'm Dumb
12. Dick Reynolds - How Deep Is The Ocean
13. Dick Reynolds - Stella By Starlight
14. Bob and Bobby - Twelve-O-Four
15. Bob and Bobby - Baby, What You Want Me To Do
16. Ron Wilson - I'll Keep On Loving You
17. Ron Wilson - As Tears Go By
18. The Laughing Gravy - Vegetables
19. Redwood - Time To Get Alone
20. Dino, Desi and Billy - Lady Love
21. The Honeys - Come To Me
22. The Honeys - Slip On Through
23. The Honeys - Snowflakes
24. The Honeys - Shyin' Away
25. The Honeys - Fallin' In Love
26. The Honeys - Don't Be Cruel
27. The Honeys - Sweet Sunday Kinda Love
28. The Honeys - She's Just Out To Get You
29. The Honeys - Do Ya
30. The Honeys - It's Like Heaven
31. The Honeys - Had To Phone Ya

Sweet Insanity (deluxe edition?)

I thought I'd make my own Sweet Insanity disc - there are a countless amount of them about already and it's horrifically confusing, so here's another one. I like this album, I'm sorry to say. The obligatory defensive paragraph follows:

Sweet Insanity is more of a mixed bag than Brian Wilson '88, and definitely 'poppier' than its predecessor. There's certainly nothing here that scales the heights of "Melt Away", but it's a different beast altogether - the lead-off track, "Someone to Love", is an utterly infectious pop tune (with a chord progression inspired by Dennis Wilson's excellent "San Miguel"), and most everything else here has a similar sense of hook-filled fun. What lets this album down are the lyrics; where 1988 saw the presence of Andy Paley and David Leaf to prevent Landy's timeless words of "love attacks" from sabotaging the songs, this time around there was no-one to stop him, and as a result we must endure Brian singing of the "crazy beatings" he received from his father, ruining what is otherwise a fine composition ("Brian"). Two versions of this album exist (both were rejected by the label); this is the superior revised cut.

Regarding the bonus tracks, obviously not everything could be squeezed into one disc, so I ensured the stuff I left out was really the material that absolutely no-one should ever be forced to listen to (i.e. "Living Doll", "Spirit of the Forest" - you can find all that elsewhere...) - and trust me, I would've loved to have "Smart Girls" wiped, but since it's part of the 'official' tracklist I couldn't do that. Ah well.

01. Concert Tonight
02. Someone to Love
03. Water Builds Up
04. Don't Let Her Know (She's an Angel)
05. Do You Have Any Regrets (I Do)
06. Brian (Thank You)
07. The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll (with Bob Dylan)
08. Rainbow Eyes
09. Love Ya
10. Make a Wish
11. Smart Girls

Bonus tracks:
12. Hotter
13. Country Feelin'
14. Daddy's Little Girl
15. Metal Beach
16. Goodnight Irene
17. Turning Point
18. Heavenly Bodies
19. Fantasy is Reality/ Belles of Madness
20. Concert Tonight (First Version)
21. Someone to Love (First Version)
22. Don't Let Her Know (She's an Angel) (Demo)
23. Sweetie (Demo)
24. Black Widow (Demo)
25. Harmonies

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Come Back, Brian!

I'm sorry you had to see that cover.

This is a Vigotone boot from 1994. It's got alternate versions of Brian Wilson '88 tracks (including the horrendous Landy-penned 'love attack' version of one of my absolute favourites from that album, "Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight"), a few highlights from the first version of Sweet Insanity, and other assorted live performances, outtakes, and demos (plus a very underrated Brian demo, "Black Widow").

01. Intro

02. Turning Point

03. Heavenly Bodies

04. Black Widow

05. In The Nighttime

06. Love and Mercy (live)

07. Walkin' the Line (live)

08. Melt Away (live)

09. Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long

10. Little Children

11. One for the Boys

12. Up in the Sky

13. Meet Me in My Dreams Tonight

14. He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body to Move

15. Don't Let Her Know She's an Angel (demo)

16. Someone to Love

17. Water Builds Up

18. Don't Let Her Know She's an Angel

19. Let's Get Together

20. Smart Girls

21. We Love You

22. Fantasy is Reality/ Belles of Madness

23. Outro

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Still I Dream of You: Rare Works of Brian Wilson

An out-of-print collection of early Brian Wilson productions, including lesser-known versions of Beach Boy-related tracks (including "I Do" by the Castells, "Thinkin' Bout You Baby" by Sharon Marie, and "Vegetables" by Laughing Gravy), the excellent Glen Campbell track "Guess I'm Dumb", and a few cases of Brian singing lead (as in "Pamela Jean" by the Survivors and "Barbie" by Kenny & the Cadets, the latter of which features the man struggling to pull off the falsetto).

01. Kenny & the Cadets - Barbie
02. Kenny & the Cadets - What is a Young Girl Made Of
03. Rachel & the Revolvers - The Revo-Lution
04. Rachel & the Revolvers - Number One
05. Bob & Sheri - The Surfer Moon
06. Bob & Sheri - Humpty Dumpty
07. Timers - No-Go Showboat
08. Sharon Marie - Run-Around Lover
09. The Survivors - Pamela Jean
10. The Castells - I Do
11. Paul Peterson - She Rides with Me
12. Nodaens - Beach Girl
13. The Honeys - He's a Doll
14. Gary Usher - Sacramento
15. Gary Usher - That's Just the Way I Feel
16. Sharon Marie - Thinkin' 'Bout You Baby
17. Sharon Marie - The Story of My Life
18. Hale & the Hushabyes - Yes Sir, That's My Baby
19. Basil Swift & the Seegrams - The Farmer's Daughter
20. Annette Funicello - The Monkey's Uncle
21. Glen Campbell - Guess I'm Dumb
22. The Blossoms - Things are Changing
23. Bob & Bobby - Twelve-O-Four
24. Bob & Bobby - Baby, What You Want Me to Do
25. Laughing Gravy - Vegetables
26. Ron Wilson - I'll Keep on Loving You
27. Ron Wilson - As Tears Go By
28. Dino, Desi & Billy - Lady Love

Bonus tracks:
29. Kenny & the Cadets - Barbie (Take 2)
30. Dante & His Friends - Miss America
31. Joey & the Continentals - She Rides with Me
32. The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari (ARIOLA Version)
33. Various Artists - Karen

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Our Favorite Recordings: For Collectors Only (FLAC)

A range of great-sounding recordings over two discs, from the very good ("We Got Love"), to the pretty good ("Monkey's Uncle"), to the bad ("Problem Child"), to the baaaaaad ("Crocodile Rock", "Fun Fun Fun" with Status Quo, whatever the hell "Howdy from Maui" is oh god maybe you shouldn't get this

Also included are several backing tracks and alternate versions, as well as a few live cuts from (I think) 1993.

CD1
01. Surfin' Safari
02. Karen
03. What'd I Say
04. The Monkey's Uncle
05. Wouldn't It Be Nice
06. We Got Love
07. Here Comes the Night (instrumental)
08. California Dreamin'
09. Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue
10. Rock 'n' Roll to the Rescue (instrumental)
11. Back in the USSR
12. Come Go with Me
13. Surfer Girl
14. Barbara Ann
15. Happy Birthday America

CD2
01. Runaway
02. California Girls
03. Don't Worry Baby
04. Problem Child (instrumental)
05. Problem Child
06. Crocodile Rock
07. Forever w/ John Stamos
08. Forever (instrumental)
09. Fun Fun Fun w/ Status Quo
10. Fun Fun Fun w/ Status Quo (extended)
11. Hawdi from Maui
12. The Beach Boys Medley

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