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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 8 reviews)
Sales Rank: 655
Category: Music
Artist: The Beach Boys
Publisher: Capitol
Studio: Capitol
Manufacturer: Capitol
Label: Capitol
Format: Box Set, Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.9 x 3.6
EAN: 5099921579523
ASIN: B0018BWTSG
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Surfin' Safari | | • | 409 | | • | 409 |
Disc 2
| • | Ten Little Indians | | • | County Fair | | • | Punchline |
Disc 3
| • | Surfin' USA | | • | Shut Down | | • | Surfin' USA | | • | Shut Down |
Disc 4
| • | Surfer Girl | | • | Little Deuce Coup | | • | Surfer Girl | | • | Little Deuce Coup |
Disc 5
| • | Be True To Your School | | • | In My Room | | • | Be True To Your School | | • | In My Room |
Disc 6
| • | Little Saint Nick | | • | The Lord's Prayer | | • | Little Saint Nick | | • | The Lord's Prayer |
Disc 7
| • | Fun, Fun, Fun | | • | Why Do Fools Fall In Love? | | • | Fun, Fun, Fun | | • | Why Do Fools Fall In Love? |
Disc 8
| • | I Get Around | | • | Don't Worry Baby | | • | I Get Around | | • | Don't Worry Baby |
Disc 9
| • | When I Grow Up To Be a Man | | • | She Knows Me Too Well | | • | When I Grow Up To Be a Man | | • | She Knows Me Too Well |
Disc 10
| • | Wendy | | • | Don't Back Down | | • | Little Honda | | • | Hushabye | | • | Wendy | | • | Don't Back Down | | • | Little Honda | | • | Hushabye |
Disc 11
| • | Dance, Dance, Dance | | • | The Warmth of the Sun | | • | Dance, Dance, Dance | | • | The Warmth of the Sun |
Disc 12
| • | The Man With All the Toys | | • | Blue Christmas | | • | The Man With All the Toys | | • | Blue Christmas |
Disc 13
| • | Do You Wanna Dance? | | • | Please Let Me Wander | | • | Do You Wanna Dance? | | • | Please Let Me Wander |
Disc 14
| • | Help Me Rhonda | | • | Kiss Me, Baby | | • | Help Me Rhonda | | • | Kiss Me Baby |
Disc 15
| • | California Girls | | • | Let Him Run Wild | | • | California Girls | | • | Let Him Run Wild |
Disc 16
| • | All Dressed Up For School | | • | I'm So Young | | • | Help Me Rhonda | | • | Graduation Day |
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Album Description
Super Deluxe Edition features recreations of the 1st 16 singles of the Beach Boys Catalog (1962-65), including accurate reproductions of the original sleeves and labels. Packaged in a board-wrapped, telescoping box featuring a retro chrome appliance sticker, and a variety of textures including gloss & rubber coatings, inlaid wood veneer and a foil stamp. 48 -page casebound photo book with 8 vellum pages is wrapped in mock sand. Accordion-folding credits folder. C-shaped card with titles, legal lines and barcode wraps over top, back and bottom of box under shrinkwrap. EMI. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 same old crap in a cool new package July 29, 2008
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
how many times can the same material be re-packaged and sold? any beach boys fan has all of the material here, most likely several times over. the packaging is way cool but contains, once again, the same old tunes. please, give it up already. ENOUGH!!!!!
 As Close to Time Travel as We Are Now Capable . . . July 18, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
The merits of this set as laid out in strictly musical terms already have been discussed. This is essential pop music and would be an awesome addition to any collection. Beautiful package, cool book and the sounds . . . well, let's just say that they are as fresh and innovative today as they were way back when.
For many of us, however, this set is much more than the temporal sounds that emanate from the tiny, round aluminum circles contained herein. Within this box is the sound of a different America and a different world; a sound from a time that saw everything as a possibility, and the future as some sure-to-be-terrific adventure. The Beach Boys represent this time, this America, maybe better than any band in the history of popular music. With 40-odd years of hindsight, however, we now see how much both America and the Beach Boys have changed - and lost. Never a band to hide its (sad) emotions, the poignancy this reverse view of time elicits is staggering when you hear the music literally jump out of this box and into your ears. Packaged as updated 45 singles, the set further removes the listener to a more innocent time; a time before albums were 40-minute statements and taken as whole works of art. Once upon a time the Song was the Thing, and the Beach Boys ruled that very magical universe.
The Beach Boys traveled many diffcult roads during the years that followed their heydey as chronicled in this collection. Brian went nuts. Dennis lost the fight of his life, succumbing to the evils of excess. Carl lost to an even more insidious enemy, as cancer removed his angelic voice from this world and carried it to its most logical venue. Thankfully, then, we have this music to remind us just how talent, heart, desire and true love of craft can translate into the finest canon of popular music ever committed to tape. I say this with no apologies to the Beatles, the Stones - or anyone else.
So, the Beach Boys (despite both Mike Love's & Al Jardine's most pathetic attempts) are no more. And neither is America - at least not the one we once knew, or the one we once dreamed of. Buy this box, load your multi-disc tray and shut your eyes, however, and you are quickly transferred - if only temporarily - to a time when for both the Beach Boys and America, anything was possible.
Presumably - and hopefully - there will be a second collection of Beach Boys singles, none of which will be as celebrated as the songs contained in this set. Nevertheless, some great songs followed, and many of them had very little to do with the Genius of Brian Wilson. When/if that set appears, we can then discuss its merits as the soundtrack to the Downfall of America, the End of Innocence and the withering-on-the-vine of America's most important and influential band.
 great July 10, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For a contemporary comparison try Nick Worrall's debut album, it has been compared to the classic 'Friends' album and is FREE to download.
Enough already! July 5, 2008
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
It's absolutely disgraceful how Capitol treats its Beach Boys fans regarding the release of their stereo mixes. Every few years we have to purchase yet another redundant collection of songs just to get a few new songs in stereo. Last year it was "The Warmth of the Sun" (You're So Good To Me, All Summer Long), in 2001 it was "Hawthorne,CA" (Heroes and Villains, Dance Dance Dance), in 1998 it was "Endless Harmony" (California Girls), in 1996 it was "Pet Sounds", and on and on. This latest collection is the most absurd yet: $132.98 for two new stereo mixes (When I Grow Up To Be A Man and She Knows Me Too Well). At this rate the stereo Good Vibrations will cost $10,000 in 2025!! There's no reason (other than greed) why they couldn't have included "I Get Around" and "Help Me Rhonda" in stereo here as well. Bootlegs of these recordings exist with just one or two overdubs missing. There are many good homemade stereo versions of Good Vibrations out there on the web. PLEASE, Capitol, release these recordings while we are all still alive to buy them!!
Nice package. Long Overdue. June 25, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
If you're a serious Beach Boys fan, then this Singles box set if for you. I've struggled a long time to assemble my own set of the mono Beach Boys singles and it's not easy. This set makes it all perfect. The original mono mixes for the singles (and one EP) and then bonus tracks of stereo mixes or other rarities. Plus reproductions of all the single picture sleeves. I do wish they had included The Beach Boys first single on the Candix label as a bonus disc. I can't wait for Volume 2 which should include Caroline No as released by Brian Wilson.
Also I can only hope that this set is a template for a possible release of The Beatles' singles on Capital Records.
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