Genre: Pop Rock
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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The Beach Boys Surf's Up (Analogue Productions) 180g LP

The Beach Boys

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APLP070B
UPC:
753088007019

180g Vinyl LP Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the Original Master Tapes or Best Sources Available!

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A musical legacy that began in Hawthorne, California and went on to conquer the world. Analogue Productions presents the ultimate pressings of 14 essential Beach Boys albums! Mastered by Kevin Gray, most from the original master tapes, and plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings, the finest LP pressing facility in the world, these are awesome recordings to experience. And the look of each album befits its sonic superiority! Presented in "old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets, these time honored favorites shine brighter than the originals!

Worth noting on Surf's Up is Stephen Desper's engineering work - the entire album was mixed to a center channel quad matrix that he was developing at the time.

Surf's Up hit the Top 30 on its first release, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard LP charts - the highest chart placement the group had had since 1967. At the time of its release, Surf's Up was hailed by many as a comeback for The Beach Boys, who were beginning to attract raves for their live performances, including highly acclaimed sets at New York's legendary Carnegie Hall.

Carl Wilson makes solid contributions on Surf's Up with "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows", and the album also features stellar tracks by Al Jardine and Mike Love, as well as Bruce Johnston's most enduring composition, the gently nostalgic "Disney Girls (1957)", but the album's twin jewels are both from Brian Wilson - "Til I Die" and the title track - one of the centerpieces of the then-unreleased Smile (cowritten by lyricist Van Dyke Parks and here given that album's "Child Is Father To The Man" as a glorious coda.)

Surf's Up track "A Day In The Life Of A Tree" is the first in a series of Brian's songs that close the album. It's simultaneously one of Brian Wilson's most deeply touching and unusual compositions; he is the narrator and object of the song (though not the vocalist; co-writer Jack Rieley lends a hand), lamenting his long life amid the pollution and grime of a city park while the somber tones of a pipe organ build atmosphere. "Til I Die" isn't the love song the title suggests; it's a haunting, fatalistic piece of pop surrealism that appeared to signal Brian's retirement from active life.

Features

  • 180g Vinyl
  • Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, from the original master tapes or best sources available
  • Lacquer plating by Gary Salstrom
  • Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
  • Stereo
  • Stereo mixes produced by Mark Linett & Alan Boyd
  • Mixed by Mark Linett
  • "Old school" Stoughton tip-on jackets
  • Audio Production - Mark Linett
  • For Brother Records - Elliott Lott
  • Gatefold Jacket

Selections

  1. Don't Go Near The Water
  2. Long Promised Road
  3. Take A Load Off Your Feet
  4. Disney Girls (1957)
  5. Student Demonstration Time
  6. Feel Flows
  7. Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
  8. A Day In The Life Of A Tree
  9. 'Til I Die
  10. Surf's Up

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