The Beach Boys - Friends

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Sep 10, 2015 Sold Date

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Article name: Friends
Genre: Pop/Rock Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: Capitol Number of tracks: 12 Duration: 24:59

Tracklist LP - 1

1. The Beach Boys - Meant For You 0:37 2. The Beach Boys - Friends 2:30 3. The Beach Boys - Wake the World 1:28 4. The Beach Boys - Be Here in the Mornin' 2:16 5. The Beach Boys - When a Man Needs a Woman 2:06 6. The Beach Boys - Passing By 2:23 7. The Beach Boys - Anna Lee, The Healer 1:51 8. The Beach Boys - Little Bird 1:57 9. The Beach Boys - Be Still 1:22 10. The Beach Boys - Busy Doin' Nothin' 3:04 11. The Beach Boys - Diamond Head 3:37 12. The Beach Boys - Transcendental Meditation 1:48

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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. [Friends/20/20, a Capitol two-fer CD, combines this and the follow-up 20/20 onto one disc, adding five bonus tracks also cut in the late '60s, highlighted by the minor hit "Break Away," Dennis Wilson's oddly spacy "Celebrate the News," and a cover of "Walk On By."] ~ Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger