Label: Capitol Records (Japan), CP21-6014
Style: Rock, Pop
Country: Hawthorne, California, U.S.
Time: 25:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 128 Mb
Friends
is the fourteenth studio album by the American rock band the Beach
Boys, released on June 24, 1968, through Capitol Records. The album is
characterized by its calm and peaceful atmosphere, which contrasted the
prevailing music trends of the time, and by its brevity, with five of
its 12 tracks running less than two minutes long. It sold poorly,
peaking at number 126 on the Billboard charts, the group's lowest U.S.
chart performance to date, although it reached number 13 in the UK. Fans
generally came to regard the album as one of the band's finest.
As
with their two previous albums, Friends was recorded primarily at Brian
Wilson's home with a lo-fi production style. The album's sessions lasted
from February to April 1968 at a time when the band's finances were
rapidly diminishing. Despite crediting production to "the Beach Boys",
Wilson actively led the entire project, later referring to it as his
second unofficial solo album (the first being 1966's Pet Sounds). Some
of the songs were inspired by the group's recent involvement with
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation practice. It was
the first album to feature songs from Dennis Wilson.
One single was
issued from the album: "Friends", a waltz that reached number 47 in the
U.S. and number 25 in the UK. Its B-side was the Dennis co-write "Little
Bird". In May, the group scheduled a national tour with the Maharishi,
but it was canceled after five shows due to low ticket sales and the
Maharishi's subsequent withdrawal. A standalone single, "Do It Again",
was released in July. It reached the U.S. top twenty, became their
second number one hit in the UK, and was included in foreign pressings
of Friends.
Friends received favorable reviews in the music press,
but like their records since Smiley Smile (1967), the album's simplicity
divided critics and fans. Despite the failure of a collaborative tour
with the Maharishi, the group remained supporters of him and his
teachings. Dennis contributed more songs on later Beach Boys albums,
eventually culminating in a solo record, 1977's Pacific Ocean Blue. In
2018, session highlights, outtakes, and alternate takes were released
for the compilation Wake the World: The Friends Sessions.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_(The_Beach_Boys_album))
01. Meant For You (00:41)
02. Friends (02:33)
03. Wake The World (01:31)
04. Be Here In The Morning (02:19)
05. When A Man Needs A Woman (02:09)
06. Passing By (02:26)
07. Anna Lee, The Healer (01:55)
08. Little Bird (02:00)
09. Be Still (01:25)
10. Busy Doin' Nothin' (03:06)
11. Diamond Head (03:42)
12. Transcendental Meditation (01:48)
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