BEAUTIFUL CLEAN 1970 ORIG THE BEACH BOYS = SUNFLOWER = UNDERRATED DENNIS WILSON
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STILL IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE
BEAUTIFUL MINTY TOP COPY!
UNDERRATED 1970 ORIGINAL
..|/\|...............................................|/\|.. THE BEACH BOYS
" Sunflower "
..|/\|...............................................|/\|..USA - BROTHER RECORDS - 6382
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***due to traveling hauling back records for the weekly listings, the remainder, or "other half" of this weeks listings will appear this THURSDAY March 28, please see !)
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STILL IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE ... 48 years of age! (see full details below)
Original 1970 first pressing in thick gatefold cover...a vastly underestimated Beach Boys album:
Sunflower marked a fresh start for the band as they left Capitol and established their own label with Reprise, eager to capitalize on the arrangement and recapture an audience that had deserted them. Perhaps the strongest album they released post-Pet Sounds, the group dynamic (no longer as Brian Wilson-focused) reinvigorated the production and songwriting remarkably. The thematic and lyrical content is suitably eccentric and cheesy at times, but that element is as much a part of the work of the Beach Boys as musical innovation. Dennis Wilson demonstrates impressive songwriting range from rockers "Slip On Through" and "It's About Time" to beaut-ballad "Forever" and the oddity "Got to Know the Woman," where his lasciviousness gets a bit unruly. Brian Wilson hadn't become completely marginalized at this point, however. He still makes most of the songwriting contributions here, standouts of which are the proto-shoegazer "All I Wanna Do," the driving "This Whole World," and "Add Some Music to Your Day." Thus on the one hand we have "It's About Time" and "Slip on Through," hints of the soft hard rock that marked "I Get Around," "Help Me Rhonda," etc., transferred to the domain of contemporary Motown. Dennis even pulls off a rib-tickling imitation of Barry Melton imitating James Brown on "Got to Know the Woman." All of these tracks are executed with a certain aplomb that often was lacking in post-"Good Vibrations" Beach Boy music, as if the self-consciousness of such homogenizing enterprise as making a new Beach Boy record has been again overcome. As a result, the naivete of the group is more astounding than ever — I mean, good Christ, it was 1970 and there was a new, excellent Beach Boys' epic. In any case, Brian's new stuff is great, especially "This Whole World" and "All I Wanna Do." Which brings up the engineering and production work on this album: it's flawless, especially in view of the number of overdubs. There is a warmth, a floating quality to the stereo that far surpasses the mixing on, say, Abbey Road. The effects are subtle, except for the outrageous echo on "All I Wanna Do" that makes the song such a mind — wrenching experience. And then there is "Cool, Cool Water," Brian's exquisite ode to water in all its manifestations, which, like "Add Some Music," is encyclopedic in its trivial catalogue of the subject at hand. "Cool, Cool Water" pulls off a Smiley Smile far better than most of the material on that disappointing venture. The inevitable saccharine ballads are present in abundance. "Deirdre" and particularly Brian's "Our Sweet Love" rejoin the ongoing tradition of "Surfer Girl," although "Our Sweet Love" is most reminiscent of the mood of Pet Sounds. Of course there is some lesser stuff here, like "At My Window." No matter: as a whole, Sunflower is without doubt the best Beach Boys album in recent memory, a stylistically coherent tour de force.A:
Slip On Through
This Whole World
Add Some Music to Your Day
Got to Know the Woman
Deirdre
It's About Time
B:
Tears in the Morning
All I Wanna Do
Forever
Our Sweet Love
At My Window
Cool, Cool Water
CONDITION: The cover: rated: The Thick gatefold cover is MINT CLEAN = snow white no usual wear or soil IF found... looks like a TOP COPY all over with no delete marks, no bends, no split seams and no writing the gatefold cover never has been opened up from the middle.
The vinyl: Rated: "EX" (excellent) both sides are clean and play M- audio while visually a couple of nothing soft scuff lines like that from a fingernail. ... actually plays very enjoyable start to finish...and both Brother Records label are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people... EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING All imperfections are noted both cover & record NOTE: All Items backed by money back guarantee! IF you have a problem PLEASE let us solve for you BEFORE leaving ANY negative feedback. Thanks! GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean VG+ a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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