2008 is turning out to be a great year for Beach Boys fans, with Brian, Al, and Dennis' CD's in the pipeline, and now also David Marks.

from smileysmile.net:

The Lost Years - Now Available
David Marks Add comments Per David Mark's web site:

The Lost Years 3 CD Special Edition collection of nearly 3 hours of music spanning the 40 years from David Marks & The Marksmen through to David’s latest solo release, I Think About You Often.

We ended up with more than 2 CDs worth of material so David decided to shuffle things around and add a few more tracks and ended up with just under 3 hours of music on 3 CDs instead.

Disc One features 17 tracks worth of David Marks & the Marksmen! The CD features a wide variety of recordings…including never-before-heard songs and studio out-takes.

Disc Two includes recordings from the real “Lost Years” With over an hours worth of unreleased recordings, historic jams, demos, alternate versions and studio out-takes from the Moon to Warren Zevon and the Flies, to David’s unreleased “Low key Intensity” tracks featuring his own arrangements of his favorite Beach Boys songs.

Disc Three is a bonus compilation CD of nearly 2 dozen of David’s favorite tracks from his released solo catalog. Starting with Gary Montgomery’s Angie by the Colours and closing with the full I Think About You Often CD from last year…this is a great CD that highlights David’s evolution as singer, songwriter and musician.

For anyone who has read The Lost Beach Boy, this collection is basically your audio guide to the book and includes most of the songs Jon Stebbins details during the story. For those of you who haven’t read the book yet, the CD and book (both signed) are available through DavidLeeMarks.com... bought together, they are a great way to unravel the mystery of the Lost Beach Boy.

4 tracks from the collection are currently available on David’s MySpace page at MySpace.com/DavidMarks

Continue reading for the track listing:

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Disc One - David Marks & the Marksmen

1. Sheriff of Noddingham (studio out-take)
2. Travelin’
3. Cruisin’ (basic track - Richie Podolor track)
4. Cruisin’ (studio out-take - Chuck Britz track)
5. Kustom Kar Show
6. Food Fair
7. I Wanna Cry
8. I Could Make You Mine
9. Let’s Dance (unreleased)
10. Do You Know What Lover’s Say
11. I Heard You Cryin’ (unreleased)
12. Don’t Cry For Me (unreleased)
13. In My Lonely World (unreleased)
14. Lazy Sunday Morning (unreleased)
15. Don’t Weep (unreleased)
16. That’s Why (unreleased)
17. Baby The Rain Must Fall (unreleased)

Disc Two - The Lost Tracks

* 1. John Automaton (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 2. Lebanon (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 3. Transporting Machine (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 4. Not To Know (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 5. Softly (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 6. Life is a Season (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 7. The Good Side (The Moon - studio out-take)
* 8. Chilly, Chilly (GD Crocker & Dirty Dog Dave demo)
* 9. Rock & Roll Music (The Flies - jam)
* 10. Prelude (Instrumental)
* 11. Steppin; Out (Silvermine Session)
* 12. Still Life in Motion (Silvermine Session)
* 13. The Rehearsal (Instrumental)
* 14. Mixed Drinks & Mixed Emotions (Something Funny Goin’ On)
* 15. You Can’t Talk To Me (Something Funny Goin’ On)
* 16. Steppin’ Out (unreleased)
* 17. Land of Opportunity (Something Funny Goin’ On)
* 18. Hawaii (Low key Intensity)
* 19. Big Wave (Low key Intensity)
* 20. I Ain’t Goin’ Surfin’ (Low key Intensity)
* 21. Touch (Low key Intensity)
* 22. Light of the Spirit (Low key Intensity)
* 23. Love & Mercy (Low key Intensity)

Disc Three - Bonus “Best of” Compilation

1. Angie (The Cloours)
2. Ocean Liner
3. Light of the Spirit
4. Dr. of Love
5. You Can’t Talk to Me
6. Steppin’ Out
7. Early in the Morning
8. Siren Song
9. Over My Head
10. Fool’s Guarantee
11. Bamboo Shack
12. Stowaway
13. You & I
14. Long Promised Road
15. I Think About You Often
16. Light of the Spirit
17. Big Wave
18. I Ain’t Goin’ Surfin’
19. Pretty Eyes
20. Have You Ever Been Duped
21. I’m So Clever
22. Dancin’ in the Mirror
23. Like 1969

What is his stuff like? Beach Boys soundalikes? I never heard any of his stuff.

You know that with the release of the Dennis Wilson deluxe edition and this, that Mike Love has got to be seething. Didn't he hold back the release of The Pet Sounds Sessions by a year so the liners could be rewritten to be less reverential to Brian Wilson, without whom that album never would have happened??

Love has got to be wondering where his solo retrospective is!

First Love/Country Love is scheduled to be the next Legacy Edition

Googa,

Is Brian working on a new album? Do you have any details? I'm not a huge Beach Boys fan, but I'm somewhat enthused about the new releases from Al and Dennis. However, a new album from Brian would be very welcome news for me.

(Sorry about hijacking the D. Marks thread; my enthusiasm kicked in before the medicine did! )

Jim

I haven't anything he's done in the past couple of decades stuff, but a lot of what I have heard - especially the stuff as "The Moon" is really tremendous.

I haven't read any official confirmation, but rumor had it that Brian was about to enter the studio to record THAT LUCKY OLD SUN, the song cycle/cantata/album he premiered in London last fall. It's really wonderful and a definite spiritual successor to SMiLE, so here's hoping..."Midnight's Another Day" has to be one of the strongest compositions of Brian's in a long time.

Jim,

Brian and band were supposed to record this month, but it's been postponed. They will record TLOS this year, and having attended the London premieres, I can tell you that BRIAN'S BACK!

Thanks for the great news! There's some good stuff to look forward to this year.