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The Beach Boys - 1969 - 20/20

20/20 is the sole 1969 album release by The Beach Boys, and their last studio album to be released with Capitol Records for the next seventeen years. 20/20 got its name from its distinction of being The Beach Boys' 20th official album release (counting the three "Best of..." packages and Stack-O-Tracks). Brian Wilson poked fun at the title by hiding behind an eye examination chart inside the gatefold cover's photo. Otherwise, Wilson's involvement in the album was far less than perceived at the time. With increasing emotional problems, Brian Wilson began to withdraw from the band's recording sessions. He did participate on over half of the songs, but Wilson's only "new" contributions to 20/20 was a soothing waltz entitled (rather prophetically) "I Went to Sleep" and his and Mike Love's "Do It Again". It had been a hit in the summer of 1968, and was added on as commercial insurance, although a small snatch of the Smile-era "Workshop" session was hidden at the track's fade-out.

01 - Do It Again
02 - I Can Hear Music
03 - Bluebirds Over The Mountain
04 - Be With Me
05 - All I Want To Do
06 - The Nearest Faraway Place
07 - Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
08 - I Went To Sleep
09 - Time To Get Alone
10 - Never Learn Not To Love
11 - Our Prayer
12 - Cabin Essence

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