Made in California
| Made in California 1962–2012 |
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| Box set by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Released | August 27, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 1960–2012 | |||
| Genre | Rock, pop, surf rock, psychedelic rock | |||
| Length | 473:04 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Compiler | Alan Boyd, Mark Linett, Dennis Wolfe, Mike Love | |||
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Made in California (1962–2012) is a compilation box set by the Beach Boys, released on August 27, 2013. The set is released through Capitol Records and is packaged in a form emulating a high school yearbook. The set contains six CDs with tracks that span the band's entire career, including outtakes, demos, B-sides, rarities, alternate takes and versions, over 60 previously unreleased. It supersedes the theretofore career-spanning 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, which followed a similar premise.
Originally announced for a 2012 release, alongside the two-disc compilation album Fifty Big Ones, the box set was ultimately delayed. In Spring 2013 an August 27 release date was confirmed, and on June 11, the artwork and track list was revealed.
Much of the box set features unreleased work by the Wilson brothers Dennis and Carl, which the surviving members were said to have "pushed for." Dennis' song "(Wouldn't It Be Nice to) Live Again" was especially anticipated toward the release of the box set. It was rejected during the 1971 sessions for the Surf's Up album due to group conflicts.
Some previously bootlegged unreleased material was left off the compilation due to the group being uncomfortable with its contents. Of them, they were "Stevie" (a 1981 Brian Wilson composition allegedly written about Stevie Nicks), "My Solution" (a Halloween-themed recording made on October 31st, 1970 about a mad scientist), "Carry Me Home" (a Dennis Wilson song containing the lyrics "please God don't let me die"), "Thank Him" (a solo 1963 Brian Wilson demo), and "Walkin'" (a late-1960s Brian Wilson song with an abandoned vocal take).
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