Release Date: 27 August 2021
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£29.99
The Beach Boys Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 Limited Vinyl 2LP Set
Overview:
"In honor of 50 years of The Beach Boys’ timeless and often underappreciated albums, Capitol/UMC will release an expansive 5CD box set titled Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 on Aug 27 that chronicles and explores in depth this metamorphic and highly influential 1969-1971 period of the band’s legendary career. Assembled by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd, the team behind 2013’s GRAMMY® Award-winning SMiLE Sessions, the expansive collection features newly remastered versions of Sunflower and Surf’s Up and boasts 135 tracks, including 108 previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, radio promos, alternate versions, alternate mixes, isolated backing tracks and a capella versions, culled from the album sessions.
Housed in a book style package, the set is rounded out with a 48-page book loaded with unreleased and rare photos, lyric sheets, tape box images, recording artifacts, insightful new liner notes by noted radio veteran and Beach Boys afficionado Howie Edelson, and new and archival interviews from Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and others. Feel Flows will also be released in abbreviated versions including 4LP on black vinyl, 2LP black vinyl and 2CD editions.
Feel Flows is heralded today with the streaming debut of the unreleased gem, “Big Sur,” A beautiful sonic love letter to the central California coastal town of Big Sur, the lilting, pastoral folk tune that was originally recorded for Surf’s Up and has remained unreleased for more than five decades.
Featured Tracks:
LP 1 SIDE A – SUNFLOWER Original Album
Slip On Through (2:19)
This Whole World (1:58)
Add Some Music To Your Day (3:36)
Got To Know The Woman (2:43)
Deirdre (3:30)
It’s About Time (2:57)
Bonus Tracks (previously unreleased)
Cotton Fields (2020 stereo mix) (3:16)
San Miguel (backing vocals excerpt) (0:35)
It’s About Time (backing vocals excerpt) (0:50)
LP 1 SIDE B – SUNFLOWER Original Album
Tears In The Morning (4:11)
All I Wanna Do (2:36)
Forever(2:42)
Our Sweet Love (2:41)
At My Window (2:32)
Cool, Cool Water (5:05)
Bonus Track (previously unreleased)
This Whole World (live 1988) (2:01)
LP 2 SIDE C – SURF’S UP Original Album
Don’t Go Near The Water (2:41)
Long Promised Road (3:32)
Take A Load Off Your Feet (2:32)
Disney Girls (4:11)
Student Demonstration Time (3:59) (based on “Riot In Cell Block 9”)
Bonus Tracks (previously unreleased)
Disney Girls (live 1982) (4:19)
Feel Flows (backing vocals excerpt) (0:33)
LP 2 SIDE D – SURF’S UP Original Album
Feel Flows (4:48)
Lookin’ At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) (1:59)
A Day In The Life Of A Tree (3:09)
’Til I Die (2:33)
Surf’s Up (4:14)
Bonus Tracks
A Day In The Life Of A Tree (track & backing vocals) (2:54)
’Til I Die (a cappella) (2:11)
Release Date: 08 September 2023
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Capitol Records
£299.99
Release Date: 02 December 2022
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£37.99
Release Date: 02 December 2022
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: UMC / Virgin EMI
£144.99
Release Date: 17 June 2022
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£32.99
