Well, I didn't see where anyone else has posted this yet, so here goes nothing. The Beach Boys are putting out:

--a 20 cut Greatest Hits CD on 10-09-12

--a 50 cut double CD Greatest Hits on 10-09-12

--12 studio albums: 10 in mono + stereo, 2 in stereo only, on 09-25-12 (these have already come out in Japan)

--an upcoming box by the end of the year

Some of the links are already up on Amazon, I'm too tired to fiddle with them right now, just wanted to get this headline out into the open...

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THE BEACH BOYS CONTINUE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

August 8, 2012

THE BEACH BOYS CONTINUE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION WITH
TWO NEW HITS COLLECTIONS AND 12 REMASTERED STUDIO ALBUMS
TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE BY CAPITOL/EMI

Legendary Band’s 50th Anniversary Tour Rolls On with International Dates

Hollywood, California – August 8, 2012 – Celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year, The Beach Boys have performed more than 50 concerts since April and had their highest-ever debut on Billboard’s albums chart in June with their critically acclaimed new studio release, That’s Why God Made The Radio. The Beach Boys’ 50th Anniversary Tour recently concluded its North American run and is now underway in Europe, and the legendary band is pleased to announce plans for the CD and digital release of two new commemorative hits collections by Capitol/EMI on September 24th outside of North America and on October 9th in North America. 12 remastered Beach Boys studio albums will also be released by Capitol/EMI on September 24th outside of North America and on September 25th in North America.

The Beach Boys’ new 50th Anniversary Greatest Hits collection features 20 of the band’s most popular songs, including “California Girls,” “Good Vibrations,” “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “God Only Knows,” “Kokomo,” their latest single “That’s Why God Made The Radio,” and many more.

A deluxe, career-spanning 2CD box and digital collection titled Greatest Hits: 50 Big Ones will also be released, featuring 50 Beach Boys favorites, including two songs from the band’s new album — the title track “That’s Why God Made The Radio” and a new single version of “Isn’t It Time,” which will be serviced to radio in September. The 2CD lift-top box package also includes an expanded booklet with newly written liner notes by Rolling Stone contributing editor David Wild and seven postcards.

The 12 Beach Boys studio albums have been digitally remastered by Mark Linett and will be released on CD and digitally, most featuring mono and stereo mixes. The albums are: Surfin’ U.S.A.; Surfer Girl; Little Deuce Coupe; Shut Down, Volume 2; All Summer Long; The Beach Boys Today!; Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!); Beach Boys Party!; Pet Sounds; Smiley Smile; Sunflower (stereo mix only); and Surf’s Up (stereo mix only). These releases mark the stereo debut of Smiley Smile and Beach Boys Party!, while The Beach Boys Today! and Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) are being released in stereo for the first time in their entirety. The new releases include the first-ever stereo mixes of several key Beach Boys classics, including “Good Vibrations,” “Help Me, Rhonda,” “I Get Around,” and “409,” among others.

On September 18th, The GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles will launch a special Beach Boys 50th Anniversary exhibit with ‘An Evening With The Beach Boys,’ a public event featuring a Q&A and acoustic performance by Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks (http://www.grammymuseum.org).

A career-spanning Beach Boys 50th Anniversary box set is planned for release later this year by Capitol/EMI. Details about the special commemorative release will be announced soon.

Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks have reunited this year for a major, international 50th Anniversary Tour and That’s Why God Made The Radio, the first studio album of new, original Beach Boys songs to feature all of the band’s surviving original members since 1989’s Still Cruisin’. Produced by Brian Wilson and executive produced by Mike Love, the album debuted at #3 on Billboard’s Albums chart and has been received with great excitement and praise from the world’s leading media outlets and fans old and new. In recent reviews, Rolling Stone hailed the album as “a breezy nostalgia trip” and “deeply touching work,” People magazine praised its “intricately layered, swoon-worthy harmonies,” and the Associated Press said, “The songs harken back to a simpler time when people wore Huarache sandals, polished their surfboards, and raced their hot rods.”

For five decades, America’s first pop band to reach the 50 year milestone has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenaged Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.

The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and under Brian Wilson’s musical leadership, the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes, making The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s.

In 1966, The Beach Boys were one of the first bands to found its own record label with the launch of Brother Records, Inc. (BRI), with the band’s members as its shareholders and Capitol Records as its distribution partner. BRI continues to manage The Beach Boys’ intellectual property, including the band’s catalog with Capitol/EMI and other label partners, as well as its name, logos, image and likeness.

The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status, and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in November, was heralded as 2011’s #1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, The Beach Boys are an American institution that is iconic around the world.

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The Beach Boys: Greatest Hits [CD, digital]
1. That’s Why God Made The Radio
2. California Girls
3. Sloop John B
4. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
5. Surfer Girl
6. Do It Again
7. Surfin’ Safari
8. Surfin’ U.S.A.
9. Don’t Worry Baby
10. Little Deuce Coupe
11. I Get Around
12. Fun, Fun, Fun
13. Be True to Your School
14. Dance, Dance, Dance
15. All Summer Long
16. Help Me, Rhonda
17. Rock And Roll Music
18. God Only Knows
19. Good Vibrations
20. Kokomo



The Beach Boys ‘Greatest Hits: 50 Big Ones’ [2CD, digital]
Disc 1
1. California Girls [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
2. Do It Again [20/20]
3. Surfin’ Safari [Surfin' Safari]
4. Catch a Wave [Surfer Girl]
5. Little Honda [All Summer Long]
6. Surfin’ U.S.A. [Surfin’ USA]
7. Surfer Girl [Surfer Girl]
8. Don’t Worry Baby [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
9. Little Deuce Coupe [Surfer Girl]
10. Shut Down [Surfin' USA]
11. I Get Around [All Summer Long]
12. The Warmth of the Sun [Shut Down, Vol. 2]
13. Please Let Me Wonder [The Beach Boys Today!]
14. Wendy [All Summer Long]
15. Getcha Back [The Beach Boys]
16. The Little Girl I Once Knew [non-LP single, 1965]
17. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)[The Beach Boys Today!]
18. It’s OK [15 Big Ones]
19. Dance, Dance, Dance [The Beach Boys Today!]
20. Do You Wanna Dance [The Beach Boys Today!]
21. Rock And Roll Music [15 Big Ones]
22. Barbara Ann [Beach Boys Party!]
23. All Summer Long [All Summer Long]
24. Help Me, Rhonda [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
25. Fun, Fun, Fun [Shut Down, Vol. 2]

Disc 2
1. Kokomo [‘Cocktail’ Motion Picture Soundtrack]
2. You’re So Good To Me [Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)]
3. Wild Honey [Wild Honey]
4. Darlin’ [Wild Honey]
5. In My Room [Surfer Girl]
6. All This Is That [Carl and the Passions “So Tough”]
7. This Whole World [Sunflower]
8. Add Some Music To Your Day [Sunflower]
9. Cotton Fields [non-LP single, 1970]
10. I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times [Pet Sounds]
11. Sail on, Sailor [Holland]
12. Surf’s Up [Surf's Up]
13. Friends [Friends]
14. Heroes and Villains [Smiley Smile]
15. I Can Hear Music [20/20]
16. Good Timin’ [L.A. (Light Album)]
17. California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-I-A) [Holland]
18. Isn’t It Time (single version) [That’s Why God Made The Radio]
19. Kiss Me, Baby [The Beach Boys Today!]
20. That’s Why God Made The Radio [That’s Why God Made The Radio]
21. Forever [Sunflower]
22. God Only Knows [Pet Sounds]
23. Sloop John B [Pet Sounds]
24. Wouldn’t It Be Nice [Pet Sounds]
25. Good Vibrations [Smiley Smile]

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Bump: Added pre-order links to the first post. There's also going to be a holiday CD in this series, entitled Christmas Harmonies.

I like the 2 CD GH's, especially disc 2. Looking forward what the box will be like. Also, why are they stopping at "Surf's Up"?

Also, no Wild Honey, Friends or 20/20. These stereo mixes have been rumored for years, and I was really looking forward to Wild Honey in stereo. I'm also waiting for a stereo mix of SMiLE, even though they say it's not possible. I hope the box set is well done...

Fifty damn tracks on that 2-disc hits set and they still can't include "Here Comes the Night"? I'll stick with what I have.

If you like the sound of the 30-track Sounds of Summer comp from a few years back, there is a European version called Sounds of Summer: The Platinum Collection that expanded the set to 3 CDs, and included "Here Comes The Night", the Fat Boys and Status Quo collaborations, and even the "Beach Boys Medley" from the early '80s. Same mastering and stereo remixes as the single CD edition.

I might actually bite on these...having everything in STEREO is the hook for me. Can't wait to hear what they did with "Good Vibrations" to create a stereo version...

Once again..."It's A Beautiful Day" gets ignored.

That looks like a pretty good collection (apart from the Fat Boys track); thx for pointing it out.

I'm still pretty happy with my original two-fers but I might be in for Today and Summer Days, though not at the prices they're currently showing.

Why would "Here Comes the Night" be included????

I knew it would only be months before they would announce not only a 50th Anniversary collection but one that it included the new title song.

As for the reissues, I'll stick with the ones I have. It would be interesting some rarities or unreleased stuff from later years.

Any thoughts on whether this will continue into the latter day albums? I would kind of like L.A. (Light Album) on cd, but the 2-fer is OOP and way overpriced for an album that wasn't that good to begin with.

To Joe: This looks like the disco remake of "Here Comes the Night." It was released as a single.

Vince

Yeah I know that was a single, but not one that did well and frankly not worth taking up space

Logically:
Based on chart placement, the #44 peak of the 1979 version of "Here Comes the Night" would make it the Beach Boys' 34th biggest hit. If you've got 50 tracks you're billing as their greatest hits, why wouldn't that distinction earn it a spot?

Personally:
Because some of us who don't automatically dismiss a song that has a dance beat really like it. And I'll take the 10:52 full-on disco version over the 4 1/2-minute single edit or the original version that appears on "Wild Honey." I have great memories attached to this song. It was their current single the first time I saw them live (in a front row seat that I had waited all night on the pavement to buy when tickets went on sale), and they did every glorious second of it. That longest version is the one that stays on my car and gym iPods (where it resides alongside about 50 other Beach Boys tracks) and, after "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Good Vibrations," is probably my most played and favorite BB song.

Am I mistaken but aren't the 50 songs from the set list? Haven't we determined already?
They had to choose 50 so - am I wrong?

I like "Here Comes The Night" too. I once played it for a buddy of mine and before I could tell him who we were listening to he asked if it was Heaven 17. Sure enough, I realized there is one brief part of the song that really does sound like them.

But, hey, I even like "Wipe Out" with The Fat Boys. First and foremost The Beach Boys were supposed to be fun, and these two tracks have fun to spare.

Interesting that "Be True To Your School" is only on the single-disc comp. Conspicuous absentees: "409" & "Disney Girls" (not a single, I know, but still....) - plus their cover of "Come Go With Me" charted Top 20.

That's not even close to the set from the show I saw in June.

That song narrowly missed the Top 40. By that logic, why is "California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-I-A)" on there? That crawled to #84 in 1973 which is a flop. Or "Cottonfields" which bombed at #103 in 1970?
I'm glad they're there actually-both are highly underrated tunes. But I'm not sure I see your point in slamming "Here Comes The Night" from being a legit addition for this comp.
The Beach Boys have had 63 chart singles-I'd be curious to see how many discs that would take. I was really hoping for a nice new comp w/ "Here Comes The Night" on it. Even that 3 CD comp from Australia is missing things. I think all 63 would easily fit onto 3 CDs and album tracks could be included too.
I still think this is a pretty good collection-though the track order is not good.

I'm sure the additions of California Saga etc is that those songs represent quality parts of the catalog despite not performing well. I honestly I don't see much significance to including Here Comes the Night" We all differ in opinion of course and I can see how some might find that song fun, but I don't see it included over those other songs. If anything I would put Goin' On over some charting early 60s songs....

Right the f--k on!!!!