Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys
1993 box set by the Beach Boys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys is a box set by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released in 1993 by Capitol Records. It collects tracks spanning their entire career up to that point on four CDs. A fifth disc contains mostly studio session tracks, complete vocal and instrumental tracks, and rare live performances. The set also includes a car window decal. Though it never charted, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys went gold in the US just over four months after its release.
Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys | ||||
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Box set by | ||||
Released | July 29, 1993 (1993-07-29) | |||
Recorded | 1960–1988 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 382:27 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Compiler | Mark Linett, Andy Paley | |||
The Beach Boys chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Blender | [2] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Rolling Stone | [4] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
The first four discs anthologize the band with mostly mono single versions of their hits, but also several demos and unreleased songs; the tracks are organized essentially in chronological order. Disc 2 includes 30 minutes of music from the 1966/1967 Smile sessions, which had been heavily bootlegged for years but never officially released. In addition, there is a hidden recording at the end of Disc 1 of a young Brian Wilson singing "Happy Birthday Four Freshmen" to his favorite vocal group into his tape recorder in 1960.