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1. Soulful Old Man Sunshine (Writing Session Excerpt)	Listen
2. Soulful Old Man Sunshine	Listen	Listen
3. Radio Concert Promo 1	Listen
4. Medley: Surfin' Safari/Fun, Fun, Fun/Shut Down/Little Deuce Coupe/Surfin' U.S.A. (Live-1966)	Listen	Listen
5. Surfer Girl (Biaural Mix)	Listen	Listen
6. Help Me, Rhonda (Alternate Single Version)	Listen	Listen
7. Kiss Me, Baby (Stereo Mix)	Listen	Listen
8. California Girls (Stereo Remix)	Listen
9. Good Vibrations (Live-1968 Rehearsal)	Listen
10. Heroes And Villians (Demo)	Listen
11. Heroes And Villians (Live)	Listen
12. God Only Knows (Live-1967 Rehearsal)	Listen
13. Radio Concert Promo 2	Listen
14. Darlin' (Live-1980)	Listen
15. Wonderful/Don't Worry, Bill (Live-1972)	Listen
16. Do It Again (Early Version)	Listen
17. Break Away (Demo)	Listen
18. Sail Plane Song	Listen
19. Loop De Loop (Flip Flop Flyin' In An Aeroplane)	Listen
20. Barbara	Listen
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Those familiar with the Beach Boys' decades of familial squabbles and personal discord will find the title Endless Harmony almost too ironic. But this soundtrack from the band-sanctioned VH-1 television special wisely focuses on the band's undeniable vocal prowess and the vaunted composing/arranging/producing skills of its chief architect, Brian Wilson. It also manages a fresh take on one of the most over-exposed catalogs in pop, largely by raiding the vaults for some unexpected gems. Twenty-one of the 23 music tracks (two brief radio promos are also included) here are previously unreleased. Several Brian Wilson demos give insight in to his creative process. Worshippers of that grail of unreleased albums, Smile, will be excited to find that the piano demo of "Heroes and Villains" also includes snippets of "I'm in Great Shape" and "Barnyard," long-lost pieces of that legendary album/puzzle. Wilson's demo for "Breakaway" illustrates how he would arrange songs by recording each band member's vocal part himself--Wilson quite literally is the Beach Boys here. Also notable is "Surf's Up" engineer Steve Desper's radical (for 1970) remix of Wilson's fatalistic classic "Til I Die," early versions of "Do It Again," and "Help Me, Rhonda," and gorgeous (if heretical) stereo mixes of "California Girls" and "Kiss Me, Baby." The other band members' creative instincts are succinctly documented, but as always, it is the sound and vision of Brian Wilson that overshadows them. "Genius" might just be too weak an adjective. --Jerry McCulley

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