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Friends [Japan Bonus Tracks]

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  • Artist: The Beach Boys
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2001
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 4988006793866
  • Item Number: MSI679386
  • Release date: 06/27/2001
  • 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 The 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, Rovi
  • Artist: The Beach Boys
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2001
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 4988006793866
  • Item Number: MSI679386
  • Release date: 06/27/2001
  • Label: EMI Music Distribution
  • Genre: Pop/Rock
  • Style: Rock & Roll, Psychedelic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Sunshine Pop, AM Pop
  • Album Time: 31:02

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  • Friends The Beach Boys CD
Friends The Beach Boys CD