The Beach Boys Surf's Up 12" LP Stereo 33RPM 200gm Analogue Productions New Product Description


The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (Stereo)

Label: Analogue Productions
Genre: Pop/Rock
Product No.: AAPP 070
Format: 200 gram 33RPM Audiophile Vinyl LP
No. of Discs: 1
Grade: New & Factory Sealed

Surf's Up hit the Top 30 on its first release, reaching No. 29 on the Billboard LP charts the highest chart placement the group had had since 1967. At the time of its release, Surf's Up was hailed by many as a comeback for The Beach Boys, who were beginning to attract raves for their live performances, including highly acclaimed sets at New York's legendary Carnegie Hall.

Carl Wilson makes solid contributions on Surf's Up with "Long Promised Road" and "Feel Flows," and the album also features stellar tracks by Al Jardine and Mike Love, as well as Bruce Johnston's most enduring composition, the gently nostalgic "Disney Girls (1957)," but the album's twin jewels are both from Brian Wilson "Til I Die" and the title track one of the centerpieces of the then-unreleased Smile (cowritten by lyricist Van Dyke Parks and here given that album's "Child Is Father to the Man" as a glorious coda.) 

Surf's Up track "A Day in the Life of a Tree" is the first in a series of Brian's songs that close the album. It's simultaneously one of Brian Wilson's most deeply touching and unusual compositions; he is the narrator and object of the song (though not the vocalist; co-writer Jack Rieley lends a hand), lamenting his long life amid the pollution and grime of a city park while the somber tones of a pipe organ build atmosphere. "Til I Die," isn't the love song the title suggests; it's a haunting, fatalistic piece of pop surrealism that appeared to signal Brian's retirement from active life.

Track Listings

Don't Go Near The Water
Long Promised Road
Take A Load Off Your Feet
Disney Girls
Student Demonstration Time
Feel Flows
Lookin' At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)
A Day In The Life Of A Tree
'Til I Die
Surf's Up

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