Friends [Japan Bonus Tracks]
Beach Boys, The Beach Boys - CD
- Artist: Beach Boys, The Beach Boys
- Format: CD
- Year: 2001
- UPC: 4988006863637
- Item Number: MSI686363
- Release date: 06/17/2008
- 1. Meant for You
- 2. Friends
- 3. Wake the World
- 4. Be Here in the Mornin'
- 5. When a Man Needs a Women
- 6. Passing By
- 7. Anna Lee, The Healer
- 8. Little Bird
- 9. Be Still
- 10. Busy Doin' Nothin'
- 11. Diamond Head
- 12. Transcendental Meditation
- 13. We're Together Again [Bonus Track]
- 14. Walk on By [Bonus Track]
- 15. Old Folks at Home/Ol' Man River [Bonus Track]
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Friends [Japan Bonus Tracks] by Beach Boys on CD
Released when Cream and Jimi Hendrix were at their apex, the low-key pleasantries of Friends seemed downright irrelevant in mid-1968. Today it sounds better, but it's certainly one of the group's more minor efforts, as the members started to divide the songwriting more or less evenly among themselves, rather than letting Brian Wilson provide most of the material. The title track was a charming, if innocuous, minor hit. The bossa nova "Busy Doin' Nothin'" was a subtly subversive piece of rock Muzak, though hindsight reveals a rather worrisome indolence in the lyrics, as penned by Wilson, who was starting to withdraw into his own world. The production and harmonies remained pleasantly idiosyncratic, but there was little substance at the heart of most of the songs. The irony was that Smile had collapsed, in part, because some of the Beach Boys felt that Wilson's increasingly avant-garde leanings would lose their pop audience; yet by the time of Friends, the Beach Boys had done a pretty good job of losing most of their audience by retreating to a less experimental, more group-based approach. [A Japanese version included bonus tracks.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
- Artist: Beach Boys, The Beach Boys
- Format: CD
- Year: 2001
- UPC: 4988006863637
- Item Number: MSI686363
- Release date: 06/17/2008
- Label: EMI Japan, EMI Music Distribution, Toshiba EMI
- Genre: Rock
- Style: AM Pop, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Early Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Pop, Rock & Roll, Sunshine Pop
- Album Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Group Member: Alan Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Ricky Fataar
- Group Formed: 1961 in Hawthorne, CA
- Group Disbanded: 1996
- 10 Great Songs
- 15 Big Ones
- 15 Big Ones/Love You
- 20/20
- 20/20
- 20/20 [2 Bonus Tracks]
- All Summer Long [Bonus Tracks]
- All Summer Long [Japan]
- Beach Boys & Friends
- Beach Boys '69
- Beach Boys 69 (Live in London) [Bonus Track]
- Beach Boys Instrumental Hits
- Beach Boys' Party!
- Beach Boys' Party!
- Beach Boys' Party!/Stack-O-Tracks
- Best of the Beach Boys [Capitol]
- Carl and the Passions - So Tough
- Carl and the Passions - So Tough/Holland
- Christmas Harmonies
- Classics: Selected by Brian Wilson
- Concert
- Concert
- Concert/Live in London
- Covered by the Beach Boys
- Endless Harmony
- Endless Harmony [Soundtrack]
- Endless Summer
- Endless Summer [St. Clair]
- Forever Beach Boys
- Friends
- Friends [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Friends/20/20
- Good Timin: Live at Knebworth, England 1980
- Greatest Car Songs
- Greatest Car Songs (Collectables)
- Greatest Hits 1961-1965, Vol. 1
- Greatest Hits V.3 (1970-1986)
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3: Best of the Brother Years
- Greatest Surfing Songs! [Capitol Special Markets]
- Hawthorne, CA
- Hits of the Beach Boys
- Hits of the Beach Boys
- Holland
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Little Deuce Coupe
- Little Deuce Coupe [Bonus Track]
- Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long
- Live at Knebworth
- Live at Knebworth
- Live at Knebworth
- Live in London
- Love You
- M.I.U. Album
- M.I.U. Album/L.A. (Light Album)
- Pet Sounds
- Pet Sounds
- Pet Sounds (LP)
- Pet Sounds [40th Anniversary]
- Pet Sounds [Japan 2007]
- Pet Sounds [Japan 2007]
- Pet Sounds [Japan 2007]
- Pet Sounds [Japan]
- Platinum Collection: Sounds of Summer Edition (Import)
- Shut Down, Vol. 2
- Shut Down, Vol. 2
- Shut Down, Vol. 2 [Bonus Track]
- Smiley Smile
- Smiley Smile [France Bonus Tracks]
- Smiley Smile [Japan]
- Smiley Smile/Wild Honey
- Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys
- Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys [Holiday Gift Pack]
- Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys [Japan Version]
- Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys [Japan Version]
- Stack-o-Tracks
- Stack-o-Tracks
- Stack-O-Tracks [Bonus Tracks]
- Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1
- Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
- Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
- Summer Love Songs
- Sunflower
- Sunflower/Surf's Up
- Surfer Girl [Japan Bonus Tracks]
- Surfer Girl/Shut Down, Vol. 2
- Surfin' [Varése]
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfin' Safari
- Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A.
- Surfin' U.S.A. [Bonus Track]
- The Beach Boys [Japan]
- The Beach Boys in Concert
- The Beach Boys in Concert
- The Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: 20 More Good Vibrations
- The Pet Sounds Sessions
- The Warmth of the Sun
- The Warmth of the Sun
- Today!
- Today!
- Today!/Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
- U.S. Singles Collection: The Capitol Years 1962-1965
- Ultimate Christmas [Japan] (Import)
- US Singles Collection Box: The Capitol Years 1962-1965
- Wild Honey
- Wild Honey
- Wild Honey [Bonus Track]
- Performers:
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Credits:
- Alan Jardine - Vocals
- Andy Paley - Research
- Brad Benedict - Photo Research
- Brian Wilson - Liner Notes
- Brian Wilson - Vocals
- Chuck Ames - Design
- David Leaf - Liner Notes
- David McMacken - Cover Illustration
- Dennis Quartet Wilson - Vocals
- George Whiteman - Photography
- Joe Gastwirt - Remastering
- Mark Linett - Liner Notes
- Mark Linett - Mixing
- Mark Linett - Reissue Coordination
- Mark Linett - Reissue Producer
- Mark Linett - Supervisor
- The Beach Boys - Producer
- Tommy Steele - Art Direction
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