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The Beach Boys Album: “Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 20 (1968-1969)”

Album Information :

Title:

Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 20 (1968-1969)

Release Date:1999-01-01

Type:Unknown

Genre:Pop, Surf Rock, Powerpop

Label:Sea Of Tunes

Explicit Lyrics:Yes

UPC:5419990560572

Track Listing :
1 - 1	Friends (Takes 1 & 2)
1 - 2	Friends (Take Unknown)
1 - 3	Friends (1st Vocal Overdub)
1 - 4	Friends (2nd Vocal Overdub)
1 - 5	Friends (3rd Vocal Overdub)
1 - 6	Friends (Alternate Version)
1 - 7	Do It Again (Track & Vocals)
1 - 8	Do It Again (Backing Vocals Overdub)
1 - 9	Do It Again (Stereo Mix)
1 - 10	Do It Again (Track & Vocals)
1 - 11	Do It Again (Vocal Overdub)
1 - 12	Do It Again (Instrumental Insert)
1 - 13	Do It Again (Backing Vocals Overdub)
1 - 14	Do It Again (Instrumental Insert)
1 - 15	We're Together Again (Tracking Session)
1 - 16	We're Together Again (Track and Vocals)
1 - 17	We're Together Again (Vocal Overdub)
1 - 18	We're Together Again (String Overdub)
1 - 19	We're Together Again (Overdub Attempt)
1 - 20	Walk on By (Rehearsals)
1 - 21	Walk on By (Rehearsals)
1 - 22	Walk on By (Track & Vocals)
1 - 23	Walk on By (1st Vocal Overdub)
1 - 24	Walk on By (2nd Vocal Overdub)
2 - 25	I Can Hear Music (Track & Vocals)
2 - 26	I Can Hear Music (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 27	I Can Hear Music (Overdub Attempts)
2 - 28	I Can Hear Music (Track & Vocals)
2 - 29	I Can Hear Music (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 30	I Can Hear Music (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 31	I Can Hear Music (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 32	I Can Hear Music (Insert Rehearsals)
2 - 33	Unknown Instrumental (Rehearsals)
2 - 34	Unknown Instrumental (Rehearsals)
2 - 35	Time to Get Alone (Rehearsal)
2 - 36	Time to Get Alone (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 37	Time to Get Alone (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 38	Sherry, She Needs Me (Track & Vocal)
2 - 39	Break Away (Track & Vocal)
2 - 40	Break Away (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 41	Break Away (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 42	Break Away (Alternate Mono Mix)
2 - 43	Ode to Betty Joe
2 - 44	It's Time (Takes 1 & 2)
2 - 45	It's Time (Take 8)
2 - 46	It's Time (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 47	It's Time (Vocal Overdub)
2 - 48	It's Time (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 49	It's Time (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 50	It's Time (Instrumental Insert)
2 - 51	America, I Know You (Take 1)
2 - 52	America, I Know You

Review - :

By this time (circa 1968), the band were primarily recording at {$Brian Wilson}'s home studio. The sole delegate from the {^Friends} album, on this collection, also happens to be the title track. In deference to the information given on the rear tray card, instead of various vocal overdubs, each cut represents one of the four-tracks used for the master take. Various points of reference as well as the stellar sonics allow for a virtual 5.1 experience as layer upon layer of instrumentation and vocals are presented here in widely separated stereo. {^20/20} -- the final {$Beach Boys} original long player for {@Capitol Records} -- is represented by alternate and separated multi-track mixes for {&"Do It Again"}, {&"I Can Hear Music"} and {&"Time To Get Alone"}. {$"We're Together Again"} and the incomplete {&"Walk On By"} are leftover from {^20/20} and were first issued in 1990 on the legit {^Friends 20/20} CD two-fer as "bonus tracks". Although the sound is impeccable, the limited variance between the various "overdub" tracks makes for redundant listening. The "Odds & Ends" which fill out Disc Two are among the more interesting items in this volume. {&"Unknown Instrumental"} is a short composition that features {$Brian Wilson} on piano with muted strings -- giving the effect of a child's toy keyboard. {&"Sherry, She Needs Me"} is a track that dates back nearly half-a-decade during the sessions for {^Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!} when it was called {&"Sandy"}. The song was revived and new vocals were overdubbed onto the existing instrumental track -- which can be heard on {^Unsurpassed Masters, Vol. 9 (1965): The Alternate "Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!!)"}. In 1976 {&"Sherry, She Needs Me"} was again revived and again left unreleased. Many {$Beach Boys} scholars have proclaimed the version on this package to be from 1976. Incidentally, {$Wilson} released the song as {&"She Says That She Needs Me"} on his 1998 album {^Imagination}. The history of {&"Breakaway"} is equally as interesting. The tune is credited to both {$Brian Wilson} and his father {$Murry} and was released only as a contractual obligation. {&"Ode To Betty Joe"} and {&"It's Time"} are actually not {$Beach Boys} recordings. At some point in the late ‘60s the group hired a musical/comedy group called the {$Pickle Brothers} as a support act for their live performances. These two songs were recorded, pressed and presumably vended at said concerts. The final work is a spoken-word recitation titled {&"America, I Know You"}. Author {$Steve Kalinich} reads his work, which was to have been included on {^A World Of Peace Must Come} -- a completed but never issued full-length album of {$Kalinich}'s poetry. ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide