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As the 60s drew to a close, The Beach Boys found themselves in a period of transition. Having moved their focus away from surf songs to take in an array of influences, songwriting duties were increasingly split between band members and external collaborators. Yet despite such internal shifts, their final album of the decade – 20/20 – was a cohesive work that featured some of the group’s most enduring music.

While 1968’s Friends found The Beach Boys all pulling in the same direction to produce an album of subtle, gentle beauty, 20/20 reflected the increasingly disparate interests of the individual bandmates. Nostalgic surf chuggers (the Brian Wilson and Mike Love co-write “Do It Again”) sit alongside blissful harmony pop (“I Can Hear Music”), while “Bluebirds Over The Mountain” marked the closest the group would come to folk-rock. Elsewhere, sumptuous romantic pleas (“Be With Me”) wrestle with wild barroom rockers (“All I Want To Do”), and Disney-sweet instrumental suites (“The Nearest Faraway Place”). And that’s just the first half of the record.

completely forgot about cotton fields

Al does nicely

Chill song

i went to sleep is the most lofi relaxed track on here

bluebirds??

Friends had featured Dennis’ first released songs, “Little Bird” and “Be Still.” Soulful and contemplative, Dennis’ writing gave The Beach Boys a whole other dimension, and on 20/20 he continued to develop: “Be With Me” was an almost overwhelmingly emotional tour de force, with Dennis the plaintive-voiced incurable romantic in the middle of swirling layers of lush orchestrations. In comparison, “All I Want To Do” might be a slight, randy, and ragged rocker, but it gave The Beach Boys credibility as a rock group. “Never Learn Not To Love,” meanwhile, attracts attention thanks to its original author (Dennis rewrote Charles Manson’s “Cease To Exist”) but Dennis’ lyrical tweaks and arrangement made The Beach Boys’ version virtually unrecognizable from Manson’s bedraggled and creepy original demo.

Apparently this song only went up to #103 on the pop charts in 1970

Hype

god i love i went to sleep

Not feeling Cotton

R eleased on February 10, 1969, 20/20 went some way towards reviving The Beach Boys’ commercial fortunes at the end of the 60s, thanks in part to the made-to-measure nostalgia of “Do It Again,” which provided the band with their first Top 20 single since “Heroes And Villains” in the US. And in Europe, the group were enjoying renewed success as a live act, especially in the UK. Most importantly, however, 20/20 changed people’s perception of The Beach Boys, preparing fans for the mature sound that resulted in landmark early 70s albums like Sunflower and Surf’s Up.

I want to sleep

the beach Boys really out here singing about Louisiana cotton fields

I wish that when I go to sleep, I'll wake up and ill be back in the days when the 60's

it's a cover of an old Lead Belly track iirc

their most rocking

sounds so 1969 like the soundtrack of that sexual hippie summer

The Beach Boys were easily the most b.a. band of 1969. It may actually be April 1 as I write this, but honest to Buddha, I’m not fooling. “What???” you say. “Those hopelessly unhip Pendleton-wearing bubble-gum vanilla ice cream toothless nerdy faux surfers who exuded all the danger and menace of your average Archies comic book? In 1969, the year of Woodstock and Altamont and “Easy Rider” and “Midnight Cowboy”, when The Rolling Stones crisscrossed America singing about 13 year old girls (which, let’s be clear, isn’t b.a. at all, it’s just creepy and revolting, and you all ought to burn any copy of Get Your Ya-Yas Out you might have in your possession), when everyone everywhere was freaking out and dropping acid, in a year when Jim Morrison was still alive and breathing you are going to tell me the friggin’ Beach Boys were the baddest band of 1969?”

Bluebirds over the mountain has amazing sound it’s my favourite one this listen as well. One of them for sure.

need the 10 hour remix of i went to sleep