The Capitol Years (The Beach Boys album) explained
The Capitol Years |
Type: | box set |
Artist: | The Beach Boys |
Cover: | Capitol_Years_Album_Cover.jpg |
Released: | 1980 |
Recorded: | 1960–1969 |
Genre: | Pop |
Length: | 250:04 |
Label: | Capitol |
Producer: | Brian Wilson |
Prev Title: | Ultimate Christmas |
Prev Year: | 1998 |
Next Year: | 1999 |
The Capitol Years is a 4-CD box set which documents The Beach Boys' career with the Capitol Records label. It was originally released in 1980 through Reader's Digest as a 7-LP boxed set, which included a bonus LP of Brian Wilson's non-Beach Boys productions for Capitol. In 1988, EMI Records Australia released 4-CD and 6-cassette versions that excluded the bonus LP.
It features 106 tracks from their time with Capitol.
Track listing
- Summertime U.S.A.
- "Surfin'"
- "Surfin' Safari"
- "Ten Little Indians"
- "Surfin' U.S.A."
- "Catch a Wave"
- "Hawaii"
- "Surfers Rule"
- "Surfer Girl"
- "Don't Back Down"
- "Little Deuce Coupe"
- "409"
- "In the Parkin' Lot"
- "Car Crazy Cutie"
- "Spirit of America"
- "Shut Down"
- "Custom Machine"
- "Drive-In"
- "Cherry, Cherry Coupe"
- "Little Honda"
- California Dream
- "Be True to Your School"
- "Fun, Fun, Fun"
- "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"
- "All Summer Long"
- "I Get Around"
- "Wendy"
- "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)"
- "Little Saint Nick"
- "Christmas Day"
- "Auld Lang Syne"
- "Don't Worry Baby"
- "Your Summer Dream"
- "In My Room"
- "The Warmth of the Sun"
- "Keep an Eye on Summer"
- "Girls on the Beach"
- "Please Let Me Wonder"
- "Hushabye"
- "The Lord's Prayer"
- Sunshine Music
- "Dance, Dance, Dance"
- "The Little Girl I Once Knew"
- "Good to My Baby"
- "Help Me, Rhonda"
- "Do You Wanna Dance?"
- "You're So Good to Me"
- "Don't Hurt My Little Sister"
- "She Knows Me Too Well"
- "California Girls"
- "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena"
- "Graduation Day"
- "Monster Mash"
- "Johnny B. Goode"
- "Barbara Ann"
- "There's No Other (Like My Baby)"
- "Devoted to You"
- "Mountain of Love"
- "Aren't You Glad"
- "Their Hearts Were Full of Spring"
- Changes
- "Then I Kissed Her"
- "Kiss Me, Baby"
- "Let Him Run Wild"
- "Amusement Parks USA"
- "I'm So Young"
- "Girl Don't Tell Me"
- "Salt Lake City"
- "The Girl from New York City"
- "Sloop John B"
- "Here Today"
- "Caroline, No"
- "I'm Waiting for the Day"
- "You Still Believe in Me"
- "I Know There's an Answer"
- "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
- "God Only Knows"
- "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times"
- Timeless
- "Good Vibrations"
- "Wind Chimes"
- "Cabin Essence"
- "Vegetables"
- "Wonderful"
- "Our Prayer"
- "Heroes and Villains"
- "Darlin'"
- "Gettin' Hungry"
- "Here Comes the Night"
- "With Me Tonight"
- "Wake the World"
- "Country Air"
- "You're Welcome"
- "I'd Love Just Once to See You"
- "Wild Honey"
- Break Away
- "Do It Again"
- "Little Bird"
- "Let the Wind Blow"
- "Busy Doin' Nothin'"
- "Passing By"
- "Time to Get Alone"
- "Be Here in the Mornin'"
- "Friends"
- "I Can Hear Music"
- "Never Learn Not to Love"
- "Cotton Fields"
- "I Went to Sleep"
- "Bluebirds over the Mountain"
- "Celebrate the News"
- "Be with Me"
- "Break Away"