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- Record Label: Capitol
- Release Date: Feb 13, 2026
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- Summary: The six-disc box set features a remaster of The Beach Boys' 1977 album Love You, as well as demos, outtakes, and alternative mixes.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Rock, Pop/Rock
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UncutFeb 17, 2026The opportunity to behold such a comprehensive survey of Wilson’s artistry even in this compromised state can be both startling and staggering. That’s especially true of The Beach Boys Love You. .... The vocals-only versions of “The Night Was So Young” and “Let’s Put Our Hearts Together” and other demos emphasize the songs’ childlike spirit of joy and invention. [Mar 2026, p.42]
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Feb 17, 2026The remastering is bright and crisp, and it stands the test of time. .... The songs intended for 15 Big Ones are a bit of a mixed bag, with covers of songs like "Mony Mony" and "Running Bear" falling flat, due to the band's basic disinterest in what they were doing. On the other hand, the cover of the Righteous Brothers' "Just Once in My Life" is quite beautiful. .... Another reason to get excited about the collection is that tracks from the banished Adult/Child get a proper airing here.
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Feb 17, 2026What makes this combined reckoning of Brian's last, fully-engaged studio albums for The Beach Boys, with all of their peaks and flaws, such an enlightening, unexpected pleasure is the chance to hear the earnest dedication and breadth of inspiration in this brief window of renewal, long obscured by false promo and Brian's ongoing trials. [Apr 2026, p.96]
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Feb 17, 2026You’d have to be in a particularly loose frame of mind to listen to it top to tail; but there is enough of the Beach Boys’ singular genius—perhaps the expression in pop of a musical mind pulled to and fro by the heavy weathers of psychological torment—to deliver. This is the Beach Boys at their best, their worst, and most frustratingly human—just like we want them to be.
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Feb 17, 2026Wildly variable in quality, even at its best not in the same league as the stuff that made the Beach Boys famous; for fans only. But, filled with strange diversions and what proved to be dead ends, it’s seldom boring.